provi
galion.
"Tbi w not part of the re
earch we 100 ed t," he aid. It
not wh t Congres man Conyers
ked us to do."
Cheryl Greenhouse a public in
formation officer of the ational
A demy of Sciences, confirmed
one of th key qu nons the acad my
listed for future research on page 380
of its tudy, which w "do male or
BI ck persons have a high r pot 0-
tial for violence than others and, if
so, why?"
She added that there w a ection
on biomedical research and search
[or phy ical processes which under
lie violence and new drugs to reduce
violent behavior.
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L taff
H P schools get
funds
By RON SEIGEL
lIlchlq.n CltlDn
I
Town Hall meeting
Congressman John Conyers Jr., addresses citizens of H.P. on
President Clinton's Economic Plan during a Town Hall meeting.
HP' chools get
oj· drug grant.
By RON SEIGEL
. HIGHLAND PARK _:_ Highland
Park -School Di trict won a 92,083
state grant for a drug-free program, it
was announced at the March 9 Board
of Trustees meeting.
Nell Stout coordinator for tate
and federal projects in the Highland
Park school system, aid tbe staff was
particularty happy about thi grant
because Highland Park got it on its
own "as a district and not as part of a
consortium."
The grant will be used to support
education about the dangers of drugs,
prevention and intervention. It will
get parents involved and timulate
neighborhoods to d vetop a upport
sy tern against drugs.
The school system would be in
volved in tea hing youngsters about
the dangers of drugs:
Stout aid from kindergarten
through the thi rd grade, young ters
would learn about the dangers of
drugs through the use of puppets. In
higher grades, the schools would fol
lo . the portion 0 the Michigan
Model curriculum dealing with drug
education.
Stout confess d she has orne
ideas -which some other staff mem
bers considered too ambitious- for
teachingaboutdrug in mathard ci
ence.
BLACKWELL IN addition
has been named chairman of the
NACo aviation subcommittee of
the Committee on Transporta
tion. NACo is established in
Washington, D.C. to lobby Con
gre s and the presidential ad
ministration for local priorities.
Much of the county budget
guarded by Blackwell, partie u
larly revenue coming from fed
eral ources, is allowed to long
term capitol improvement at
Metropolitian and Willow Run
ARTHUR BLACKWELL
airports, both operated by the
county. 'r t port. 0 with
hipment by rail and land as well
as water, is also a part of planning
by the Detroit/ Wayne County
Port Authority which Blackwell
chairs.
The airports and the port
authority both are een as cata
ly ts for timulating major eco
nomic expansion, not only in
Wayne County, but in all of
outheast Michigan. Billions of
dollars worth ofbusine s transac
tions thou ands of acre of real
estate exchanges, and thousands
of newly created jobs are envi-
ioned,
Based on 1988 figures, the lat-
est ail ble, Metro Airport even
now ranks 18th in th world in
number of p engers handled
annually. '
Willow Run, with 170 million
of pound of freight hauled
through it last year, is recognized
the busie t cargo airport in the
country.
The port authority last year
administered the handling of
n arly $30 billion worth of good
leaving duty-free trade zones, the
most in the nation and a new do
me tic record. Together with
duty-free exports in 1992 valued
at $1.3 billion, th port authority
administers activity generating
job for more than 37,000 work-
ers currently employed. .
WHEN FIRST ELECTED
chairman of the county comma-
ion in 1989, Blackwell at age 35
w t ' e lrmaa 1D'�
Wayne County history. Now 38,
serving his fourth year as chair
man, he will in August become
the chairman serving longest,
well.
Blackwell is also the youngest
in a line of prominent port
authority chairmen, among them
the late automobile industrialist
Henry Ford II, a former Michigan
chief economist, and a past presi
dent of Michigan Consolidated
Gas Company.
Blackwell was appoi nted to
the port authority in 1983 and has
been its chairman since 1987.
, .�
LYNN'S �;
SHOE
REPAIR
source, who wi bed to be anony-
mous, tressed the necessity for cau
tion in drawing conclusio . The
staff person said that just suggesting
government research into whether
Blac people have "a higher poten
tial for violence," did not mean ug-
n study w the w
biologically or genetically more vio
nt, but could have meant studying
e ec f a "racist" environment.
o ever, Conyers himself, when
asked about whether he aglCed wi th
the GAO timings, dismissing criti
cisms of lUIS, said, "Absolutely
not"
Ginger Breggia, ,who is a strong
critic of the Federal Violence Initia
tive, said she believed that staff
members on the GAO were confused
by complicated scientific tenninol
ogy, which was bald for trained peo
ple to grasp.
She noted a section on giving
drugs to relieve "attention deficit"
and "conduct disordered" children.
"Attention deficit" children was sim
ply a complex scientific name for
children who foum it bald to pay
attention and "conduct disordered"
children were those whose behavior
caused problems for the schools.
Tbo e who read it might feel the
youngsters had unique physical
problems which required the use of
drugs, she said. '
Wh n asked how the new Qinton
Administration felt about the Federal - _
Violence Ini tiative, Breggin said she
did not know, but said that the old
staff still in place were militant in
efforts to "whitewash" themselves.
\.
Arthur Blackwell II has been
r elected chairman df the Wayne
County Commis ion by unani
mous vote.
·the chief legislative over-
eer of the-nation's eighth largest
county-population 2.1 million
encornpa sing Detroit and 42
other municipalities - Blackwell
is the only African' American
chairman of county commi ion
e-s in a county with more than
one million residents.
He also is the only rican
American chairman among
county commis ioners in Michi
gan and in (fnother public policy
role, one of only three African
American chairmen of a port.
authority in the United States.
Watching over a $1.5 billion
annual county budget and steer-
g the port authority that admin
i ters the nation's largest duty
free trade zone, BlackweU . 0.
chair of the National As ociation
of Counties.
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