part of "Communiti Fi 1,"
med t meeting the needs 0 t e bo need
it mo t defined by each p rticip ting
community.
The program i d 1811 d to imple ent local
community and human rvice id under tb
upervision of certain te agenci .
The only provi ions imposed by Gov. John
S U ITV,B4
. COQUllLARD
c plr.1 N.w. S.rvlc.
to Action," w held t the University of
Detroit Mercy Conference Center in Detroit It
w the second in sene of conferences to
help Detroit mini ters improve nelgbborhoods
by tarting churcb-ba ed community
development corporations (CDCs).
By organizing a CDC, churches become
S CHURCH,B4
LAN G-Highland P r and Benton
Harbor citizens are teaming up with th ir local
agencle to help prevent the homeless, hungry,
pregnant teens, drug addicts, unemployed and
other ufferers from falling between the crac •
Block clubs, enior citizens, and other
groups are working with the service agenci
"There i a great deal that the Blac church
can do to revitalize our community," said
W yne County Commi Ioner Ricardo
Solomon at a recent conference.
The conference, "Economic Empowerment
Through the African-American Churcb: A Call
Fulanl challenge debate :
Why rot,
and notm
?
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By AWSON JONES
IIlohl.n Cltan
How did Ross Perot get included
in the presidential debates when no
other independent or third party can­
didate can get near the tage? One
d �n
Jbc .. tiD!liela�.1DI lIdllid6D l
n 6, Iawye for p i-
dent!al candidate Lenora Futani
rued .ult against tbe Qunmiasion on
Presidential Debates (CDP) king
, that they be required to spell out tbe
Objective requirements (or inclusion
in the debates.
FulaDi, hi a press statement, said
tbe CPO wrote her on September 11
saying, "After careful consideration,
(we) have determined that no non­
major patty candidate currently
See. FULANI. Page s-e
Lenora Fulanl, N w Alliance
Party candidate for pre.l�
dent 18 suing theCbmmltt
on Pr ldentlal Debet •.
another on their flute • (Photo by Wanda Ro-
DUEUNG FLUTES -Gabrielle Grafton and Krl.ty Oliver,
member. of Spain Middle School Marching Sand, nJoy
White infant d ath
rate decline, but
not Black infants
Group charg Kenya, U
with neglecting refug . e
By DIDRIKKE SCHANCHE
A.MJcl.t«I Pr ••• Writ.,
in Mandera and EI Wak.
"While refugee camp in other
regions pf Kenya receive as i tance,
Kenyan authorities and U.N. offi­
cials regard refugee at Mandera and
EI Wak as opportunistic nomad and
an unwanted burden in a region
strugglingIo cope with drought,"
aid the group in a tatement ent to
news organizations in Nairobi.
It claimed the refugee were
denied tents, blankets, water con­
tainers, cooking utensils, plastic
sheeting, camp sanitation and
regular food distribution in an effort
to discourage further arrivals.
tuaBy the same, dipping to 21.6 from
21.7 in 1990.
"The lingering gap between the
Black and white infant mortality rate
is of great concern to all of us,"
Davis Anthony said.
LANSING, MICH. (AP) -
Michigan's infant mortality rate
dipped in 1991, but the rate for Black
babies is still unacceptably high, the
head of the Michigan Department of
Public Health said Thursday.
Vernice Davis Anthony aid the
rate for all races declined to 10.4 per
1,000 live births in 1991 from 10.7
in 1990. .
For whites, the mortality rate
dropped to 7.5 from 7.9 the previous
year. But the 1991 rate for babies
born to Black mothers remained vir-
NAIROBI, KENYA - A U.S. ad­
vocacy group claims deliberate
neglect has killed up to 4,000
Somalis who fled to northeastern
Kenya, but the government and the
United Nations today disputed the
contention.
The Wa hlngton-based U.S.
Committee of Refugees issued a
statement Thursday claiming the
"eaSily preventable" deaths oc­
curred among the 70,000 refugees
who have established squatter camps
THE UNITED NATION High
Commissioner fer Refugees "has
been hoping th e people will give
up and crawl back aero the border
to whatever fate awaits them In
Somalia," aid the committee.
It aid 2,000 to 4,000 refugee had
"peri h d unneces arily" ince
May. Its report w based on a recent
See KENYA, A10
births.
The department reported 1,554
babies died before their first
birthdays in 1991,84 fewer than the,
previous year or t drop of 5.1 per­
cent. Live births also fell, dropping
See INFANTS, A10
Ie WE WERE HOPING that the
most recent figures would show that
some progress was being made in
this area.' ,
The infant mortality rate is based
on the number of infants who die in
tbeir first year of life per 1,000 live
Q.
Did the
presidential
debate change
your mind
about
Ross Perot?
GLORIA DORSEY: "To a
degree yes. Something is not
checking out right I think be
divided the voters.
DARE .L SMITH: "A little
bit. He did well in the debate and
he did clean up hi act. I WOUldn't
vote for him."
LANCE HOLMES: "He is
unstable. He is really not known.
He just popped up."
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