ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Th ner 1 committ in-
el ud Eddi All n, P nnie Bur­
d n, William E. Clar C rolyn
Edw rds, Beverly Goode, Eliza-
th T. Jones, H len B. Love,
Willi mcGill, Beverly Smith,
Sharon t -Steph n, J ph
Weir and Lewis Whitman
drtan r aches
out to students
Students at Adrian College,
(Adrian, Mi. , and members of
Scott United Methodist Church
are members of ASPIRES, a col­
lege preparatory program co-
ponsored by the church, the'
college and a Detroit area high
school.
Members include Jermaine
Dord, Gloria Liddell, Cecilee
Mitch 11 nd Jammard Page.
Ruby Washington is community
develo r and director.
Pontiac to
host Woverine
Youth
conference
Carrie Soward, director of
youth for th Wolverine state
Congress of Christian Educa­
tion, announced the first confer­
ence on wheels for 1994 will be
held Friday and Saturday, Jan
28 and 29, at Macedonia Baptist
Church. 513 Pearsall. Pontiac,
Mi., With Rev. Edward McCree,
pastor, and host moderator.
Julia Wind field is local youth di­
rector.
A musical workshop will be
h ld to open the retreat with
choirs app ring to be judged on
performance, voic , pois nd
other ttributes. A musical tro­
phy will be pr s nt d, with
Georgia McPhaul and L Grant
c rdinato
The Saturday s sion will
op n with pray r reakfast
and Ma onia young p ple'
choir will sponsor h worship.
Duri ng th re t he youth
will discuss "shacking-up" be­
for m rria , building ch rae­
t r, charm, church tiquett,
t t witne in nd cultural
enlighti nment through educa­
tion. Linda Park r nd ttie
Williams, e th . tructo .
Th s cor-d conf rence on
wh ] will b h I in conjunc-
tion w � h w h < rt nqu
urdiy, Feb. 2 , 6 p.m at
Church
co
c of
lang a dam ging to Black youth.
cCary, how ver, departs from tradi­
tional renderin , cho ing instead to
"tra late" tori from th Bible' first
fi boo into a ion of th English as
pok n by BI cks.
Felder, a United Methodist, id he
kno many Black youth dislike McCaJY
boo He the Bla Bibl Chronicl
as potentially damaging. He ked rheto-
uslim: CO ove y test. new
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By TOM HAYS
A •• ocl.t.d Pr ••• Wrlt.r
EWYORK (AP) - The trialby
fire for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
and his new police commissioner
began with a mysterious 911
call.
The anonymous male call r
calmly told an operator that two
gunmen were "sticking up" a
Harlem mosque, ending the two­
minute conversation with
"Happy New Year."
The call was a fake. And the
result is making the New Year
uncomfortable for Giuliani and
Police Commissioner William
Bratton.
After ponded Sun-
. day afternoon, a bra wl erupted
at the Nation of Islam mosque
that left eight officers injured
and worshipers outraged. Two
days later, police officers re­
sponding to another call about a
man with a gun shot and killed
the unarmed son of a prominent
Muslim cleric in a Brooklyn
apartment building.
ON THE SURFACE, the
two incidents were not extraor­
dinary in a city where police and
residents often clash.
But the confluence of violent
episodes involving Black Mus-
lims, the cases' foggy circum­
stances and - especially - the
fact that they come as a new
white mayor takes office have
created a climate for crisis. '
Nation of Islam leaders and
Black activists, already leery of
Egypt's leading
Muslim preacher
meets coptic pope
side.
A private meeting between
Bratton and Muslim leaders -
scheduled in part to arrange the
questioning of a suspect in the
melee - was canceled by the
commissioner when the leaders
showed up with uninvited Black
activists, including the Rev. Al
Sharpton,
the Republican mayor el cted on
a law-and-order platform, say
the incidents are an assault on
the Black community. Police of­
ficers, they claim, unjustly
stormed a hous of worship with
their guns drawn, then killed a
mild-mannered teen-ager.
Dogged all w k by the con­
troversy, Giuliani and Bratton
have defend d police actions and
dismissed harg that Black
Muslims ar under siege.
At a news conference Thurs­
day, Giuliani said demands by
the Nation of Islam leaders that
the city apologize for the mosque
incident are "not a reaction to
reality."
"The only victims so far are
the police officers who were
beaten up," the' mayor said,
Bratton told reporters he felt
sympathy for the family of the
victim of the Brooklyn shooting,
but believed the officers' actions
were justified. He also argued
that the real culprit in the
mosque episode was the 911
caller. .
The "terrible irony," he said,
is that "the police and the Nation
of Islam are at odds with each
other through the actions of an
individual whose motives we
don't know at all."
There was little indication
Thursday the uproar would sub-
SHARPTON CALLED the
cancellation "an affront to the
Black community."
Meanwhile, lingering ques­
tions about both cases remained
unanswered.
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age of six to improve their chances in life.
Earty intevention programs are crucial.
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receives help ear1y on can hope for a much
brighter Mure.
But these programs need help
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt's most popular Islamic preacher
visited the head of its Christian community Thursday in a
display of unity between the country's two main religions.
Sheik Metwaly el-Sharawy, known throughout the Muslim
world for his television programs interpreting the Koran, Is­
lam's holy book, saw Coptic Pope Shenouda III at his office in
Cairo's St. Mark's cathedral.
Attacks over the past two years on the lives and property ,of
Egyptian Copts by members of radical Islamic groups have
ngered the country's largely moderate Islamic community.
Radicals killed nine Christians last, year. Government news
media generally dismissed the attacks as individual acts, but
they have coincided with a campaign of extremist violence
attempting to destabilize Egypt's largely secular government.
On Thursday, four gunmen shot dead three policemen ou�­
side a village station hous in southern Egypt and stole their
weapons. Since the campaign to topple the government started
two years ago, more than 280 people have been killed in clashes
b tween xtremists and police.
,Mother Clara Atwater, pastor
of Love Tabernacle Church, Mil­
waukee, was a guest minister in
- - Detroit recently for a three night
ust ppornts revival at Twelfth Street Baptist
D B kl Church. She also attended a
r - ec ey birthday dinner honoring her fa-
Dr. David Beckley was in- ther, Keller L. Coleman Sr., at
stalled last month as the 11th the Polish Century Club, Jan.
pr sident of Rust College, a 15.
United Me hodist supported col- Mother Atwater is the sister
lege loca ed in Holly Springs, of�llerL. Coleman Jr., a super­
MS. outheast of Memphis. visor for the Wayne County
,Robbi rump-McCoy is m m- . Road Co .., abd .
bel' of Rust Alumni Club of De- at Twelfth Street Baptist
troi t and Candis Hayes is ' Church.
publicity chairp rson. She has bought and super-
Rev. Willi Downer will be in- vised a block of buildings and a
stalled Sunday, Feb. 13, as pas- ch�rch dedicated to the yout� of
tor of Northwest Unity Baptist Milwaukee. The community
Church 8345 Ellsworth. He sue- house built by Mother Atwater is
c eds the late Rev. Ozzie Clark, named "Gingerbread House"
pastor for 37 years. ?n? the youth �ho "go there are
For the morning worship Rev. Gingerbread Kids. . .
F.O. Hock nhull, pas or of First In a recent story in the Ml.l-
Trinity Baptist, Flint, Mi., will waukee Journal, -Iackie
preach. The Rev, Charles W. Mitchard wrote tha� Mother A_t­
Rainey of Dallas will be a guest water now o.wns SLX houses. In
speaker, beginning at 4:30 p.m. the block, which she and her kids
Rev. Downer served for 14 years call "Gingerbread Land."
assistant to Rev. Clark. Hulah Jean Hurley, nation­
Lena Clifton and Mary ally known gospel soloist, will be
Richardson ar chairpersons. in concert S��y, Feb. 13, 4
Huey Partlow i chair of trustees p.m.,.at the Ongmal New Gra�
and J .M. Gardner is chair of dea- Baptist Church, 1111 Carmel, In
con. Debra Blocker is church observance of Black History
clerk, Month. Rev. Loyce Lester, pas-
tor, invites the public to attend.
I THE MEET G, el-Sharawy and Shenouda empha-
sized that Ial mic and Christian scholars must cooper te
"against extremism and to combat terrorism."
El-Sharawy id he was deeply sorry for attacks by "terrorist
groups that led to the deaths of innocent people and other public
figures while performing their duty." , I
The two clerics exchanged gifts and said they will or niz
talks on official Egyptian television to emphasize "national
unity betw n Mu lims and Christians in Egypt and valu of
love and peace in the two religions."
Tthe Coptic community is thought to number e million of
Egypt' 5 million people.
n
P -Whenth Ku
Klux Klan held a rally here re­
cently th St. Andre United
ethodist Church celebrated
human relations day by hosting
an interracial, interdenomina­
tional worship reioe for area
church . Others planned v­
eral mas activitie for their
Unity Week to counter the ef­
fect of the Klan march and
rally.
Mother
Atwate
visits Detroit