JOHA U 0,
Chri H ni, th I rot
South Afric n Communi t
Party and m mber of th
can ation I Cong ,w
gunned down prillO ou ide
of hi home puttin forth yet
aoother ob tacle in the coun­
try' transition to rule by ma­
jority.
Police have in c tody a
40-year-Old whit man, identi­
fied Januzu Jakub Waluz.
Hani' neighbors too down
the license pIa number 0 the
fleeing W luz after the drive
by occurred.
The Sunday Tim of Jo­
hann burg f ported that the
alleged gunman w a Po Ii h
immigrant with violent anti­
Communi t view and had
clo e link with the white
South African nationali t
group, th Afrikaner Resis­
tance Movement.
Hani, according to opinion
poll , was only second to
Mm1ela in popularity. His
am-apartheid guerilla creden­
fia and his appeal to young
revolutionaries gave him
credibility in areas that could
not be reached by more con­
servative ANC m rnbers.
Dr. Walt Brown, d if
rthvill R gional P y hiatri
H pital, estimated tw n 0-60
p reent of chronic mentally ill p
ti nts mo e.
orthvil1e went rnok -fre in
Septemberl992.,andthec p ration
of patients and taff, whil "not 1
percent "h been good.
Butth well- ownimageofpsy­
chiatri wards itti in a rocking
chair, m king and watching t I vi-
ion prov an ed for an altemativ
to moking, said Tom Sovine ex u­
tive director of the Michigan Mental
Heal th Association.
"THAT LEARLY AY that
the level of their activiti is not up
to the level it should be," Sovine aid.
"Their minds need to b occupied,
their time needs to be occupied.
Smoking is to a large extent thei
routine."
Brian Beauchamp, a clinical 0-
cial worker at Kalamazoo, antici­
pates the smoke-free policy will be a
behavioral issue. The hospital is re­
ducing the amount of tim pati nts
Shopping The Avenue of Fashion
Approximately 150 people turned out April 3 in support of the NAACPs efforts to "Keep Dollars In Detroit."
Supporters patronized businesses along Detroit's Avenue of Fashion. According to Joann Watson,
executive director NAACP, an estimated $20,000 was spent with merchants along the strip of businesses.
The NAACPs "Shop Your Block - Keep Your Dollars I n Detroit" is a yearlong campaign designed to stimulate
economic growth within the city.
"
S S OKE, 88
icial con i r
moking ban in pri n
,
A tale of two cltle
Similarities of the Rodney
King beating in Los Angeles
and the Malice Green murder
� II) .' Detroit-arc ing'mt:izens
to lookl �
Black motori
.�---- �-- .. --------�-+��
w lte po I 0 icers,
As Lo Angeles prepares
for the verdict in the Rodney
King trial, Detroit prepares it­
If for the trial of the three
vhlte officers accused of mur­
dering Green.
, White police beat Black
men in poor cities governed by
aging Black mayors, aid the
Detroit Free Press April 14th.
In a li t of similaritie and
differences done by the Free
Pre s, the imilarities out
weigh the differences. Simi­
larities include:
--«ntral cities, populated
by people of color. containing
overwhelming poverty ur­
rounded by well-to-do sub­
urbs.
-<1epressed economy, de­
creasing blue-collar job base.
--mayoraJ elections loom.
Each city has an aging, first
generation Black mayor.
--deep racial divisions.
egregated chool and hous-
ing.
-angry kid with guns.
-youth angs.
-hist ry of police brutal-
ity against people of color.
-police riot training trig­
gered by trial of officers.
Government
rethinks racial
categorization
SI ighted by race cajegori
that include white Afri an
American American Indian"
etc .• half of California" Hi -
pam Americans ho .e the
"other" atcgory. m n
eh eked the category that It
swelled t in lude 13% of the
tat • p pulation 0 0.4 mil­
Ii n.
Hi pani Am rican ar n't
the nly on who f I light d
when it m to idennfyin
their raee. Arab Am ri ans
are tired 0 the "other"
well.
The ra ral ru k i. lcadin
the federal ovcmmcnt 0 r - _ .
thinking racial c tcgon
con re I nal hemin con-
idcr redefi run 1 how p opl
a d 1'1 .d.
Thc· rnc m b r\ of he-
"other" roup say It 1 n't Just
ic .ral pnd that mak th m
p sionatc bout rcde irun
ra tal cat n. J s.: ch 1-
a , hlp, f deral fund. and en­
torccm nt of ivil righ law
arc all tied to r care onz -
tl n.
By JENNIFER FINER
C.pIt!l NeM Service
"There i a feeling that moking
will probably be banned from the
inside of all pri ons but that' just one
school of thought. Nothing i being
etched in con rete," aid Warren
Williams, public information and
communication adminii trator with
the Michigan Dep rtment of Corr -
tions.
According to the EPA tudy,
wide pread expo ure to environ­
mental toba co. rnok pr ents a" c­
riou. ubstantial public health
imp t."
The EPA al concluded cond­
hand moke i responsibl for ap­
proxi matel y 3,000 I ung cancer
deaths each year in non moking
adults. "Therearegoodargum nt on
. both side of th fence," William
aid. "On one ide you have the
he lth i ue while on the ide of th
coin, thi could ca an uproarin th
pri ns."
All f ctors would have to be con-
idered and the pro and cons would
b weighted efor any final decision
could r ndered on thi i ue, ec­
cordin to Williams.
criminal justic leld exp
�o t' �. P.
e , lairnin
at ri k.
"It would not urpri e me if pri -
oncrs appealed on the gr und of th
(EP A) r port but nobody h men­
tioned It yet," aid Joan Buchanan,
admini trative si tant to the war­
den, at the Thumb R gional Correc­
tional Fa ility in Lapeer.
"It just depends on how long it
t ke them to become awar of the
report." aid Bu hanan, wh - handl
approximately 200 pri oner gricv-
an a month.
According to Bu .hanan, in th
p ,t. a handful of pri oncrs have
m d r mmate req on the b i
o whether that person w a moker,
but pri on 0 fieial qu tioned if
. moking w really the i uc.
Buchanan timated that of the
pn 'on. 950 inmate only a ut 30
percent we nonsmokers.
I
n do) lar clean-up, r dl -
them In an en ironmentally af
�y MATT STRATTON
C�/t.' New Service
then maybe'
manuf ture
See CLEAN, 88