munity,· Mayor Curt' Rich id
Monday. Under th curfew,]a
office can stop nyone on city
street between 9 p.m. and
dawn.
-On Monday, attendance at
Crystal Ri� only high school
as down 40 percent and some
bu in e in the city closed
early. By nightfall though, the
Citrus County Sheriff Office
was nding home some officers
because the community was
quiet.
M nwhile, the police chief
reiterated his support for the of
ficer who shot Jerome Bunch
Sunday. '
"It was a very difficult situ
ation and it was a very difficult
call, " Chief Roger Krieger said.
"From what I understand, they
ran out of options."
impo ed a
cer.
The curfew will extend indefi
nitely "until e a degree of
normalcy com back to the com-
BUNCH, WHO HAD nu
merous nm-ins with lice, was
.
• GID'II"aVllted battery charge
to N 0
r Katbl "Kat" Liotta tried
to put him in 1 g shackles.
According to police, Bunch
fell on top of the officer and be
gan choking her.
"Bunch told Liotta, 'You're g0.
ing to die, tit Krieger said, adding
the officer out.
Witnes e , however, di
agreed, yingthat they pleaded
with officer Joe Manfredo, 84,
- not to shoot and that Liotta was
telling him to back of[
A word of the shooting
spread through this small city, a
crowd of about 40 gathered near
the lounge. Two motorists were
Perrin Emanual, Highland Park DEVCO, (I tt) and Charllyn
Hackn y (center) olthe Hlghl nd Park Chamber of Comm rce
Joined Dwight Downe ,Hlghl nd Park City CouncUPrealdent,
for the annual celebration in Downe honor. (Photo by ark Hie .)
attacked, 11 an employee at
a fast food restaurant.
MEANWHILE, ome re i-
dents of this town of 4,000 re
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� ... e ed
major job
los e in
1990-91
NEW YORK (AP)- Blacks were
the only racial group that suf
fered a n job loss during the
1990-91 economic downturn, ac
cording to Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission re
cords analyzed by The Wall
StreetJ
t
tatistical fluke, but civil righ
dvoca blam m, the
Journal reported Wednesday.
"I'hia I ubcoascious,: deep-
eated raci m," aid George
Fraser, ho publis diredo
ri of Black professionals. "Peo
ple don't even know these
patterns and behaviors are being
initiated until you begin to see
the pieces of the puzzle together
and look at the numbers."
In an analysis of the 35,242
companies that filed EEOC re
ports for more than 40 million
upset· with the handling of the
case. Manfredo has been put on
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mood
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and it seems that those and more
came. The Convention had not
met in New Yor City in 58
years.
Dr. T.J. Jemison of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana is p ident;
Dr. C.A. W. Clar of Dallas is
vice-president-at-large, and Dr.
W. Franklyn Richardson of Mt.
Vernon, N.Y. is general ere
tary.
By bringing their member-
•
"THE DANGER WITH ge
netic research is that it can be
come a smo creen for racial
biae," Conyers said. "The project
was heading down a dark path
with racially biased reb, "
Conyers said he was assured
by the Clinton Administration
that there auld be no "racially
genetic" reb.
However, Conyers office said
Conyers did not object to genetic
research that was not racially
motivated.
His office emphasized that
the Congressman did not want to
•
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·Yes, if they're in extreme pain,
term inally ill or have a
debilitating illness.·
·No. I think there should be a
law banning the right to take
your own life.·
·Yes. Ifthey are termmally iII
under supervision. A living win
should be drawn up as a
guideline.·
VOL. XV NO. 44 An Informed People' Is A FI{\fi People SEPTEMBER 19 - 25. 1993
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To mark the opening of the 113th ann .. 1 convention of t N onal B ptl t Conv ntlon In New -
York, m mber. of mor than 50 aapt t congregatlona march d through Harl m to prot t drug •
viol nc and th w of Black IIv through crime, pov rty and other problema In B ck
commoo I .
t·o al a t·o
focuses on self-empowerment
'By ROBBIE r.ccoy
ship and m ge to the media
center of the country -perhaps
th world- Dr. Richardson said
the organization was demon
stratingwhat a force the 8.5-mil
lion member group' .
"The next fronti r for Black
p ople is economic empower
ment, and the Black church
must make economic empower-
NEW YORK, NY -There were
so many people at Madison
Square Garden September 6
through 10 that one. had to p
for room in the hallways and in
the exhibit halls.
It was the 113th annual
sion of the National Baptist Con
vention USA, Inc, which had
prepared for 50,000 delegates,
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ederal Vio e
ead,o I r
By RON SEIGEL ,
ABHINGTON - U.S. Con
gressman John Conyers' office in
Washington said the Federal
Violence Initiative is dead, but
some concerns raised by oppo
nents of the program may yet
remain.
'the federal program was set
up to study whether violence was
inherited.
Concerns were raised in 1991,
when Frederik K Goodwin, then
head of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse
ce
and MenW Health administra
tion, of the Department of
Health and Human Services,
made a speech comparing young
Black mal to a violent strain of
monkeys and the inner city to a
jungle. .
The National Academy of Sci
enoes in a report recommending
a program on the model of the
Federal Violence Initiative, reo
ommended asking as one "key
question" whether Black people
or males were more pron to vio
lence and if so, why:
interfe with reb by legiti-
mate scientists,
However, questions remain
as to w h ther a mo escreen
might still' exist, Supporters of
the Federal Violence Initiative
have always de ied there was
anything racial motivated in its
study.
Opponents of the study like
Dr. Peter Breggia, like Peter R.
Breggin, Director of th Center
for th Study of Psychiatry,
charged that th e in t pro-
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t eight to
et
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� Wllm Willi.
"No, God gave you life and he
should be the only one who
decides whether you live or
die.·
- Jerome Dring