MOS OW, RU IA -T e
recent shooting of a student
front Zimbabwe has Africans
in Russia accusing the country
of engaging in a urge of racist
violence. Even the amba -
ador from Zimbabwe ha ac­
cused the Russians of having
"an anti-Black undertone."
Mo t of the recent problems
center in Moscow where
thousands of students from
Africa have gone in recent
I ..... ye \ dy at P__atric.�
Lurnumba Friendship Univer­
sity-a co ege establi hed O·
years ago to train third world
. students, especially tho e from
Africa. But many Russians
have grown re entful of the
free education and other
benefits given the Africans.
One elderly lady recently told
a Briti h Broadcasting Com­
pany reporter, "I just don't like
their Black skins." The anti­
Black mood is said to have in­
creased with the recent
breakup of the former Soviet
Union and the resulting
decline in the economy.
By
VVUHN
om tud nts at th econd ry I vel,
MacE chran aid.
"We're talking
about restructuring
schools to have a
bottom-up structure
rather than top
down"
,
"I believe we will be more effec­
tive if we do have building more
involved in the deci ion making
pro e ." MacEachran aid. "Too
often we try the top-down y tern
with decisions coming from the
central office and change doe n't
occur that way."
Maddox aid ite-b ed deci ion
making would not put all d i ions in
th hand of each chool. For ex­
ample, core curriculum would till b
handed down by the cho I boards in
each district, he aid.
"But tho e who work with tu­
dent and tho e who know tudents
would decide what' be t for tho e
students," he aid.
EL A OR DILLON, P litical
and legislative director for the
Michigan Federation of Teachers,
said empowering school can be ef­
,fective in better serving students.
"W�(, support rgiving mote
decisions to �<w.le jp l�al �chool ,"
"monies will not be going out of the
country to Windsor (Canada)" where
gambling is allowed.
Council President Dwight Downes
noted he was a strong supporter of
casino gambling, saying that Highland
Park High School tudents were al­
lowed to leave class from 8-11 a.m.
election day to pass out literature for
casino gambling and an election slate
he gave them at the polls.
The tudents al 0 received credit in
lORD R 0 make ite-b d
deci ion making work, empowered
chools need money and contr lover
a chool' di cretionary fund to
make program u ce ful, h aid.
MacEa hren aid th cho I im­
provement team in hi di tri t
gradually are becoming more in­
volved in budgetary deci ions.
"Ultimately, the board mak
deci ions 0 in that ense (the teams)
are advi ers to the board in th budget
pr e ," MacEachan aid.
Giving more autonomy to the in­
dividual chool ha been ucce ul
so far, MacEachran aid. Al 0,
teachers are very willing to g t in­
volved, he aid.
"We ee more teachers volunt er­
ing to be the e committee ," he aid.
"We ee more work getting done, we
see fewer erie of 'we'll do m re if
you pay us .for it. � .. Teache
treat d more ·pmlt· ." J
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their subjects for "playing a part in the
event," Downes id.
Down aid that ca ino gambling
would help the city get a tax b e and
aid for hools and bring more resi-
dents arid busin in.
"We're on our way," he said.
Councilwoman Christine Franklin
expressed concern over casino gam­
bling, noting in . orne places where thi
was allowed, poor people gambled 0
much money they 10 t their home .
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Si� months after the violence in Los Angeles that left 53 dead, no
one has come up with a plan to solve the problems that produced
the riots. This mural in South-Central Los Angeles was painted
, . � .afta(�tJ'.l rj
for contributions to police agencies.
"We do not solicit by phone," he
said. "When people get caJl asking
them to contribute to police agencies
we ask them to just hang up."
nUT OM POLl • organiza­
tion depend on money raised by
phone solicitors to pay for program .
Mike Koehs, President of the
Michigan Deputy Sheriffs Associa­
tion, said money raised is used for
legislative lobbying and training.
The as ociation has been using phone
solicitation for two years, he said.
Jim Shearer, a member of the.
Fraternal Order of Police in Niles,
aid mo t of their fundrai ing is done
locally - only a fraction i done by
phone.
"We hire a country-we tern band
once a year or we have a La Vega
night orsomething like that," Shearer
ald. "If we do rai e money over the
phone we don't do it ourselve . We
get a lump sum."
Shearer said money raised i w ed
for lodge operations and supporting
th I cal little league and maintainin
their playing fields.
RI K DARLING, Michigan
State Troopers ociation president,
said public awarenes may' be work­
ing to eliminate th number of phone
olicitations.
"If it i a dead giveaway that it i
deceit just hang up," Darling aid.
"There i no lawsuit in Michigan now
Col. Michael Robinson, director
of the Michigan State Police, said the
state police has not traditionally
generated money by phone and do not
receive any funding from agencies
'using the police name for fundraising.
Robin on aid groups not as­
sociated with local or state police are
generating thousand of dollars using
. their name. .
"What happens with these boiler
room operations is that they are train­
ing college students to do the hard ell
on the phone," Robinson said.
EAST LANSING - Phone solicita-
WHILE MICmGAN GOVER· tions claiming residents will not get
NOR John Engler bas expressed op- . police help if they do not contribute
position to casino gambling, Davi aid money to local and state police are on
he hoped that the Governor would sign the rise, police o�ficials warn.
a gambling mea ure to ensure that
MAYOR I.JN Y P RT and
hi admini trative a . i rant, Scotty
Wainwright .ould not be rea hed for
omment.
Former May r Martha G. Scott aid
that ca ino gambling might have
beneficial effects, but empha ized
there had to be legal a fegua rds.
She said that in Atlantic City, where
casin gambling was legal, hotel did
not give job to local residents, but
rought in outsiders to work there.
She .said that state and local Jaws
aUowing casino gambling should "dot
all the i' and cross all the t' s" in
protecting the communities and ex­
pressed doubt that the local govern­
ment "was strong enough to tand up to
local busines ."
Scott noted tbat in the late , when
she was president of tbe Highland Park
City Council, the majority of council
members ignored her efforts to stop
Se GAMBUNG Al0
"1'U"UIl9·0 for
p min
Som II
D -Th
CP i olictin donations
for tree planting project in
Som li on 0 i fund-rai­
ing efforts id th f min -
r vaged re ident of that
country.
The organization i king
minimum of 5.00 contribu­
tion to the Mickey Leland
Tree- Planting Campaign,
named aft r th Texa con­
gre m n. For more informa­
tion about the project
ponsorship contact Melvin P.
Foote, Director of Constituen­
cy Development, Africare, at
(202) 462-3614. .
African c�arge
rac m In Ru sla
Is there 'Soul
Patrol' .among
succe . ful Black
A11..ANTA, GA -Do successful
Blacks apply un-due pressure
on other professional African
Americans in a bid to prevent
them from "acting too white?"
That charge ha existed for
some time but it wa made
public recently by a Black
reporter for the Atlanta Con-
titution-John Blake. Many
succes ful Blacks charge that
they are shunned or criticized
by other Blacks if they adopt
too much "white behavior" 01
do not automatically side with
Blacks on major political and
social issues. Blake labeled
succe ful Blacks who eek to
prevent other uccessful
Blacks from becoming "too
white" the "Soul Patrol."
Quayle again
tracks rap mu Ic
HOU TON, TX -Vice Presi­
dent Dan Quayle ha once
again attacked what he con ..
iders a controversial ong by
a .Black rap mu ic group.
Quayle argued during a cam­
paign peech in Hou ton that a
young man wh killed a Texa
tate troop rwa influenced by
the "2PACALYPSE NOW"
Joy and concern over casino gambling passaqe
t Lansing- Th tate' larg t
cher' union will decide ov. 9
whether to endo providing more
utonomy to individual choo .
Michig n Education ociation
Pre ident Juli M ddox aid allow­
ing deci ions to be made in individual
chool buildings, instead of dictated
from the district office,' on of th
best way to meet the changing needs
of tudents th 21st Century draw
n arer.
"We're talking about re tructur­
ing chools to have a bottom-up
structure rather than top down," Mad­
dox aid. dding that "bottom up"
involve teacher • tudent and
paren in deciding p'rograms for in­
dividual chools.
The measure is including in the
"School of the 21st Century"
propo al, which goes before the
MEA's Repre entative Assembly for
acceptance. The propo aI-released
last year-s-is a weeping reform in
how school ervices are delivered to
students, Maddox said.
OBERT MACEACHRAN,
superintendent of the Sutton' Bay
school district, said many chools in
his district have school-improvement
teams, which develop mission state­
ments for each school.
The teams are made of teachers,
building administrators, community
me�bers, school board membfrs and
By RON SEIGEL
Sp!cl.' to th. Cltlz.n
mGBlAND pK.-According to un­
official results, the advisory measure to
aDow casino gambling passed in High­
land Park by a vote of 3,116 to 2,274.
Highland Park Councilman Charlie
P. Davis, who propo d the measure,
expressed satisfaction, stating, "It will
mean jobs and other good things."
Davis added that this vote had no
legal force, since casino gambling is
blocked by state law, but it did let state
officials know how Highland Park
citizens felt.
''The next step is to go the state
legislature, and request (new tate
legislation to allow casino gambling I
he said.
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and Ethiopia by the U.S. and the
Soviet Union cau ed many
problems, but now that they have
pulled out of those countries, all the
armaments left behind by the United
State and the Soviets are being used
by the Somalians and Ethiopians on
each other."
"Most of the guns fell into the
hands of young men," be explained ..
"The women, children and older
p ople are tbe ones dying, because
they are the ones without firepower.
We have to deal with getting the gun
away from the young men."
F OT AID that part of
Africare's effort include changing
the n gative image of Africa and
Africans perpetuated by the media in
America.
"We have to change the way
African-Americans view Africa," h
aid. "We don't have a en e of how
the world work , or how Africa
works. Africare linka e of
African-American to their
homeland i to help us ee ou elves
When the police call asking for money ...
By JEAN L BONNETTE
ClIpit.' New. S.rvICfl
and Africa with a different
perspective.
"Some African-American have
a ked. 'Why help Africa when there
are so many in poverty here?' What
they don't realize i that
African-Americans are the riche t
P ople in the African diaspora. The
Africans often ask me how the poor
Black people in America could be' 0
fat,' because that's the way we look
to them. It's a matter of perspective,
and' it a lot ea ier dealing with
famin and' drought in Africa than it
is to change African-American
percepti of Africa."
"Helping to build well in African
ountric will not only help Africans,
but it will al 0 help
African-Americans," Foote aid.
"There 1 a role for every person tha t
wants to i t in Africa. We can
bring church .Bla k rganizations,
and unions to form a trategic plan
for Africa. Our me age to
African-American i if you don t
want to h Ip your si te and brothe
in Afri a turn in your kin."
"WED N T receive anyofthat
money," he aid. "There may be
some local departments who do, but
any funds they do receive is minimal
compared to what they (the
fundraisers) keep."
State Trooper Mark Schoeneich,
from the New Buffalo Po t, aid calls
are not a frequent in Southwe tern
Michigan but residen d need to be
aware of the problem.
"Thi i a tatewide problem,"
Sch eneich aid. til think it i more
prevalent in Southea tern Michigan
- areas like Oakland, Wayne,
Macomb, Lansing - beca e there
are more people there. I am c n­
cerned because they arc using our
name fOT fraud."
. The State Police are taking tep to
inform the public. They have created
"Operation' Hang Up," a video tape
urging people to hang up if callers a k
that would stop a single group from
oliciting - that would border on
being unconstitutional. But the in­
dustry can be regulated and I think
that i something that should be
done."
Legi lations is being considered
to regulate the telephone solicitation
industry. It would require companie
to tape calls and register calls with the
state.
Koehs said the requirements are
already being followed for the
Deputy Sheriffs Association
telephone fundraising.
"The Deputy Sheriffs Association
has gone to greatpains to make it as
plea ant an operation a phone
solicitation can be," he aid. "It is a
means of support and would obvious­
ly impact us if we were not able to do
it." .
MI HI AN B LL ha con­
umer tips in the telephone directory
to deal with hara sment or telephone
ales call. Michigan Bell instructs
to ask who i calling when a ale call
is received. Then ask the caller to
mail information if you are interested
or just cut in if you are not interested.
Your name can be taken off the li t if
req\!e ted.
The total number of olicitation
calls can be reduced by removing
your name from their list. Write to:
Telephone Preference Service,
Direct Marketing As ociation, 6 East
43rd S1. New York, New York
10017 .
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