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Compromise tenant's handbook
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landlord attorneys.
Rose 'said "tenants need uncensored,
uncompromised information from ten-
ant's lawyers about tenant's rights ...
which the referendum would provide
for."
Rose, who has written tenant booklets
for the city, said landlords are afraid of
the section which the referendum pro-
poses be written by tenant advocates,
so they pushed for the city-adopted
booklet as a less objectionable alterna-
tive.
BERTOIA CALLED Rose's claim
"ridiculous." He said, "for a lawyer,
(Rose) sure doesn't check his facts
very well."
Councilwoman Leslie Morris (D-Sec-
ond Ward), long an advocate of the re-
vised booklet, said she "doesn't buy
(Rose's charge) in the slightest." She
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really been settled yet."
Remington said, "Most of us have
had some exposure (to PBB contam-
ination)." But he "would be sur-
prised to find major overt effects."
Remington predicted the study
would find the level of PBB in the
blood of the test participants to be
low.
RALSTON said that, "in the gen-
eral population, we would expect to,
find a lower level of PBB contamina-
tion than those on the farms."
A UPI press release yesterday said
officials may be worried about the
PBB problem as a national problem,
as well as a Michigan problem.
"I'd love-to know who made the
statement," said Ralston. "To my
knowledge, there has not been a
problem with a PBB spill anywhere
else but in the state of Michigan."
Remington also questioned the
statement. "This is all hearsay to
me. I understand there may be some
exposure in Ohio."
said the booklet was approved because
it took into account the concerns of
Council Republicans. "There was noth-
ing the Republicans could really op-
pose," Morris said.
Though not fully satisfied with the
approved booklet, she called it an "im-
provement" over the previous version.
She will re-introduce an amendment to
the booklet informing tenants of their
right to make repairs and deduct them
from rent payments-in some cases.
VERN HUTTON, a local landlord,
said he finds the revised booklet an ac-
ceptable compromise. "We don't know
why they want a referendum on another
booklet," he commented.
Specifically, the approved booklet
contains:
" a ::_w section on city housing code
requirements;
" a new section on unenforceable
lease clauses;
" a new section on steps a tenant can
take to withhold rent;
" a more detailed section describing
eviction procedures;
" an expanded directory of legal
assistance;
" other revisions to bring the booklet
up-to-date.
Concessions Democrats made in
seeking approval of the booklet by
Council Republicans include:
" deletion of a section giving samples
of legal forms for a notice to quit, notice
to end tenancy, summons, complaint,
and answer to complaint;
changing the word "illegal" to
"non-legal" throughout the booklet;
" references to "lessor" and "lessee"
instead of "landlord" and "tenant";
" references to "third party assistan-
ce" instead of "legal assistance."
Six thousand copies of the new
booklet have been ordered at a cost to
the city of about $1,500. Landlords will
be required to distribute the booklets to
their tenants when printing is com-
pleted within the next few weeks.
European exploration of the New
World from the 15th to the 18th
centuries would not have been pos-
sible without the fresh meat provided
by the green turtle, according to the
American Museum of Natural His-
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Wrong? Oh, nothing much. They were just
born. It seems odd that they have to pay with a
lifetime of hunger. The statistics are so crushing in
many parts of the world that even the cynics are
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60 million children were sent to
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