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VOL XV NO 21
An lntormea People Is A Free People APRIL 11- APRIL 17, 1993
In 1978, Walter Fauntroy
spo e proudly of the cong
ional inquiry he helped over­
ee into tbe as ination of
the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., with its dozens of hear­
ing , scores of witn es and
487 trips by investigator to
trac leads in five countries.
The far-ranging effort by
the House Select Committee
on A as ination w well
worth it, Fauntroy aid then.
"TIre American people want
to know that their government
i telling them the whole
truth," he aid. Dr. M rtin Luth r King Jr.
Today, however, he doubts Aft r 25 y ara, qu ion.
the whole truth came out.
Fauntroy has joined hi torian and re earchers in Ilin for a
new and independent re-investigation of what happened in Mem­
phi 25 years ago Sunday.
"I'm not out to pro ecute anyone," aid th former chairman
of the subcommittee examining King' death. "I'm looking for
lh truth."
By CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN
A •• ocl.r.d Pre •• Writer
?
U OY' CO C grew not from any newly di cov-
ered "smoking gun" evidence, but from what he called a trou­
bling "'plethora of new information" - notably former FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover's hatred and harassment of King and
_reported U.S. Army spying on the civil rights movement.
"I feel that a very determined effort was made by the FBI to -I
want to choose my words very carefully - to prevent our corn-
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o th Africa
or D troit?
Th s sign Is among several in the
parking lot of Detroit's St. John Hos­
pital located at Moross and Mack.
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Would you
invest your
10 tery
dollar into a
Community
Inve tment
Fund?
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By JENNIFER OU
C.p't.' New. Service
LANSING-Locking up crimi­
nals and hiding the key isn't the
b t way to le en crime in Michi­
gan, according to two leading
groups. ,
Both the Michigan Council on
Crime and Delinquency (MCCD)
and the tate correction di r ctor
are calling for le money for pri: -
ons and more attention toward
crime prevention.
Since the 1980 , expenditur
for criminal justice in Michi an
have doubled and appropriations
for the Department of Corrections
have quadrupled, according t a re­
port released by the MCCD.
Michtgan currently pend
more than 1 billion on correc­
tion , which is 40 percent more
than the national pending average.
J H TRU OTT, pokes-
person for Gov. John E.ngler, said
By KRISTINA MARLOW
Spec/., to the MlchlSl.n CItizen
LA ING ( .pltal News e"ice)­
. When Ford Motor Co. and Rock­
well International move nto
Benton Harbor thi summer, th
. companies will reverse an e od
of firms, job , and resident that
have left the ci ty wi th abandon d
building , crumbling infrastructure
and economic depr ion.
ev lu ted within the next few
mont . An April 1 meeting be­
tw n city official and Enterpti e
Zon Authority officials e ami d
the internal operation of the pro­
gram.
"It 100 . em yb tb ci ty will
ati fy all requiremen e cept the
comprehen ive plan," predicted
John CZarnecki, director of the De­
partment of Commerce' develop-
S ,ZO E, P a-s
As part of the NAACP's Shop Your Block Campaign,
Detroiters patronized businesses aJong the Avenue of
Fashion April 3. Stanley Hodges of Superior Screen Print­
ing waits for customers. (Photo by Wanda F. Roquemore)
fw
hif
o pr vention
ons and reserve them for viol nt
and repeat criminal .
More effort need to b put into
the diver ion of crime and to aJ ter­
native to pri on, aid Gail Light,
pok p [Son for the Michigan De-'
partment for Corrections.
l:..ight ugg ted more attention
toward uch altemativ pri -
oner boot camp and probation d -
t nti n center.
H wever, Light aid that uch
pr gram are currently counter­
a t d by mandatory t te ent n -
ing law that en offenders to
pri on instead of into an altern tive
pro
I
that mo t of tho e co ts ar due to
federal requirements for providing
education, librari and gymnasi­
ums for pri oners.
Despite tb heavy p ndin , the
report said that violent crim rat
in the tate have increased by more
than 46 percen t.
AI 0 dur­
ing the
198 , more
than 2 ad­
ditional cor­
rection
f a c i l i t i e
were built,
,some of
which are
"lock-em-up" policy will not re­
duce crime and i too co tly-.
don't outweigh the co ts Arnovits
aid.
"Pri ns wer n v r m ant to be
a job program. Tb amount of
money pent onjail could be p nt
on a mas ive job pro ram."
Arnovits advo ates that there be
a major hift in ernphasi in orrec­
tion from pri -
n to prevention
pr r m ..
rca h
ho ul d b
S. ,PRISON, P
PO T aid that D in-
vestment of $5,0 in a child'
education now may av the
25,000 that would b pent on po­
lice, court, and· orrections co t
in-
that arc pent p r year to hous a
pri on inmate.
AI though the con tTU non of
the e pri on', uch th recently
opened Macomb Regional Prison
in Lennox Township, may bring
job and improved wafer y tern
to orne communitie , the benefits
o R TI DIR
Kenneth. L. M Ginnis aio
that be agre wi th a number of
conclusion tb report reached.
McGinnis aid Michigan nced
to make better us of curr nt pri �
neglect.
CLARENCE LIGHT - Yes I
would but, would still have
to continue to invest in
education.
HOLLY SHARPE - I would
first have to see how solid 'the
fund was. If solid, then yes!
FREDRICK GRIGSBY
Sure I would-I live in th
community. If it helps th
com munity, it's going to .h Ip
me.
