.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