.llk buz, pr
frozen rabb .
Ironically, th tore i a recent re
cipient of the Spirl t of Detroit Award,
ard given by t City of Detroit
to ou tanding iOOividual or org . -
tiom for e ceptional wor don in
?
Suburbs move to .seize water board
By LEAH EL
fp!olel to til. hlp .. Cltlztln
Al on the committee are Senators
Jon Ci ky (R-Saginaw), Joel
Gougeon (R-Bay Qly), Jam Ber
ryman (D-Adrian) and George Hart '
(D-Dearbom).
While committee discuuiom �
ln on Se Bill 8S in Lansi the
war between Detro 8Dd
ayne, Oakl nd, Gene ee,
W htenaw, Lapeer, St. Clair and
Monroe counti currently receive
water and water treatment services
from the Detroit Water and Sewerage
Department. If the bill it will
create a regional water authority with
one representative from each of the
seven counti .
The bmw introduced by Senator
Dave Honigman (R-W t Bloom
field), chair of the Local Government
and Urban Development Committee.
"IT' ton
troit, " d Detroit attorney Peggy
Fortson, a member of the 15th Con
g ional District' Political Action
Committee. "This is our water depart
ment and we control it. The people in
, the uburb hav abandoned the city,
and yet they still want to control our
water."
"They have been trying to take the
Water and Sewerage Department
• away from us for years," said Detroit
, City Council Pr ident Maryann Ma
haffey. "They take no cognizance of'
Rev. and Mr . Leon Sullivan wave pa port allow
Ing them permanent visiting rights to Gambia as a
ymbollc ge ure of dual African citizen hip.
the fact that it' the city that built (the
water ystem) and that been nm
ning it. ow uddenly, because we're
70 percent Blae they want to take the
'II r f"
the
partme bell
result of racism.
"1bey have no confider.:e in a
Black adrni tration, " he ·d.
"TIlAT'STHElRQ efordo
ing a bad job," said Honigman, who
cited mi management within the city
department his reeson for introduc
ing the bill. He referred to ten-year
oldcriminal irdlctmen within the
S eWATER, 85
0, D T pices of
George d Ed Bally and just two
wee aft r receiving the Spirit of
Detroit Award, Shabazz and hi or
ganization performed a community
inspection of the tore. They tourd:
Live fli circling uncovered
mo ed pork 00c on top of a meat
cooler, dead fli on cooler rails, di -
colored I of pork rib ,a foul odor
S bazzpointed out "whit po "
on per hoc and ncckbon . The
ownerd ribedit being penicillin
(medicine) coming out 0 the mea,"
when in f ct it w mold.
As for the umnarked packages of
rabbi ,Bally ay they came frozen
direct from the packing hous with
"mbbi "stamped on the box. "We
remove them from th bo d put
them in pI tic b ." Bally d.
According to Harold Zoden, re-
gional director of Michigan De-
partment of Agriculture, t to
owner i r po ible for putti
identification on the meat once it i
in,his pos ion.
LY,
own IS bowed resentment and
unwilling to wor wi th ," aid
Shabazz, "but after we got me dia
log going, tensions began to e aJX1
we came up with some po itive
•
S AWARD,BS
BENTON HARBOR'S brlghte t nd be t parad d their talent ,Intelligence
and tyle part of th 1993 MI Debutant Pageant. E cort InCluded (I-rt)
Omar uhammad, Charle Patter on, James Taylor, Cha'Ron Bradley,
Omar Shabazz and Carlos Wright. See story a�d plcutres, page B-4
op n 00
African, U .
•
umrm
o
•
By William R .. d
edal to the Michl aD IUurn
The question being posed 'in
many quarters about th recently
concluded "summit" of Blae lead
ers from Am rica and top African
government heads in Libreville, Ga
bon, . ,"W it just ymbolic bond
ing, or did the five day of meetings
have any ub �Jor the m in
the U.S., or th re?
Aimed at bridging p opened
by hundred of years on oppo ite
ides of the Atlantic, th interconti
nental gathering drew over i,OOO
people from America and at least 20
African � of sta and govern
ment
•
I
The list of African American at- PARTI IP VOICED "a
tendees read like alit of "who's new rope" that W hington can for
who" from the civil rights era and mutate an African policy that tak
Black politics. into consideration that continent'
Figures uch as Coretta Scott own needs and concern .
King, D.C. Shadow Senator Jes e Rev. Jackson aid, "We must d
Jackson , Gov. L. DougJ Wilder, mand a formula for economic devel
members ofthc Congressional Black opm nt that is the same applied to
Cau us, tate ejected official ard . Europe and other places in the
Nation of Islam Minis r Loui Far- world" in advocating thr main
rak.han po e during the conference them for r uJ from tb ummit:
�hich w coordi ted by Rev. Leon -The right of Black Americans
Sullivan, founder of Ole. to hold dual citizenship in th U.S.
Reports from the conference indi- am in an African country;
cate that many participan felt that -A plan to hold meeting be
success was hieved in the ummit tween the world' ven leading in
because the even helped them, cry d trialized dem racies (0-7) and
tallize their id into a new and co- the beads of debt-ridden African
herent Blac political agenda. tat am
-A plan to help African OOUD
tries make their curren j freely
convertible on international ex
change markets.
F propo ed ideas
for an African American It kill
bank" that would link qualified
BI ck Americans with tho African
countries seeking killed techni
ciars and enginee .
Farrahkan also prop .c.J that Af
rican countri be willin to take
some of America' Black pri oners
and allow th m to develop ar in
their countries, much lik w done
wi th Bri ti h prisoners In th develop
ment of America and Australia
Se ,SUMMIT, Page B-5 '
How do you feel
about
,president's decision
to withdraw Lam
Guinier' name for
· stant Atto y
General?
LEONIA LLOYD- If they had
a problem with her, that should
have been looked at before her
nomination. She should have
been given the chance to
appear before the committee.
EDDIE BLOUNT-She is a
very deep sister, like Angela
Davis. They saw her as a
threat; that's why I think her
name was withdrawn.
ALEXANDRA RAWFORD-·'
don't understand what the
problem was. She should have
at least been given the
opportunity to explain her
writtings to the committee.·
LEON PEOPLES- ''The presi
dent was right with his selection,
but he doesn't have the power.
I've read what she wrote, and
there is nothing wrong with it II