VOL. XVI NO. 35 An Informed People is A Free People JULY 24 - 30, 1994
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By RON SEIGEL
Michl n Citizen
D OIT - Congre sman
John Cony ra, repre enting
Highland Par and ome parts
of Detroit, wants you to forget
what Bill Clinton tells you
about health care and what Bob
Dole and Rush Limbaugh tell
you about health care.
Conyers maintains that it is
time for the single-payer health
plan. This plan would create a
health ecurity program that
would replace most private in-
urance, Medicare and Medi­
caid, delivering such care "a
matter of right," not deter­
mined by th "ability to pay. "
The single-payer plan is
similar to the ystem practiced
in Canada.
Even some supporte of the
single-payer plan are not back­
ing it. Conyers states that some
people in the labor IQovement
However, Conyers ays a
."more historically correct per­
spective" is to realiz that the
time i ripe for a single-payer
plan
"For the first time in our life­
time, our health care ystem is
being seriously debated." he
said.
surance.
Conyers id in th p year
one million people los th ir
h lth insurance. H dds 40
million poor peopl nev r had
h lth insurance to begin with,
Cony r ay this wide-
d upport for th ingle
pay r pi n hould be t1'8 lated
into m ive citizen lobbying.
ur people to write their
to. nd congr m n sup-
porting "with th rongest feel­
ing" th bill he helped ponsor
(H. R 1200 in the Ho and
S.491 in th nate).
H also ur people to go out .
JOHN CONYERS
Black leaders upset over:
,
HP Council candidates
disc s views, qualificatio ............
By Dennis Schatzman
Spec,., to MlchlQ!n Citizen
d .J. im
in common with ct Sherrie B I fon , in r
Michael Jackson, rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, and
fellow athletes Mike Tyson, Vince Coleman and
Daryl Strawberry?
AlL of them have hired whit lawy rs to get
them out of trouble. But did they r lly hir them,
• or did someone else hire these attorneys for them?
Simpson, who is charged with the double mur­
ders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, h
hired a battery of high-priced lawyers to defend
him.
His decision to hire popular Ro rt hapiro, I w
school dean Gerald Uelman and mega-lawyers F.
Lee Bailey and Harvard University Law School
Professor Alan Dershowitz, h s rankled som
.Black community I aders, lik C I King III,
prominent Los Angel civil rights leader and
owner of the West Coast's lar t bail bond geney.
"WHY DltiN� he call Johnnie Cochran, or
C 1'1 Jon 01' Edi F l," King wondered, rattlin
off the names of t . nent local African
American trial) wy
"It is now time for people to understand that
O.J. Simpson is no longer private prop rty of the
white community when it comes to spending his
money." Jones, on of the three lawyers mentioned
by King, explained that even though "There is
temptation to criticize those celebrities for making
tho e decisions, in reality, are they really making
the e decisions, or are those decisions being mad
by others (agents, etc.) close to them?"
The NNPA h learned that Jon may b�joih­
ing the Simpson defense team, and that Cochran,
arguably the ar ' most sought-after Black trial
lawyer, has repeatedly r commended Jones to the
highest h Ions of the Simpson defense team.
Cochran' firm i currently representing
Please see. TEAM, B8
temporary replacem nt until a
special el tion could b held,
that citizens sought him out for
th post and th unci] mem­
ber unanimously g ve him
th ir vot
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Mrs. Khalindi Iyi (center) and dauqhter Karen Iyi Oeft) along with a family friend (right) at
the African Liberation Day Rally in downtown Detroit model their African garb. (photo by
Jeryl Barglnear)
By RON SEIGEL
Michl an Citizen
HJGHLAND P - Four candi­
dates are running in the Tues­
day, August 2 election for the
Highland Park City Council.
They discussed their views with
the Michigan Citizen last w ek.
The four candidat are Titus
McClary, Com r Heath, James
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By ATHANIEL SCOTT
Ai'ch'g.n Citizen
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era wford, and Arthur Mc Clung.
TITU M CLARY, who cur­
rently holds the council seat,
said, "You have to treat city
funds as if they belonged to all
the city, not just public officials."
When the Porter administra­
tion failed to provid fi nancial
reports it promised on June 20,
tt
Ann Holme ,d ughter ofth late
nator; J ffVega; Nathan Vin­
son and A vis Holmes, widow of
h late Senator.
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