Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 20, 1990 Projects that once housed Diana Ross to be destroyed r DETROIT (AP) - The 52-year- old housing projects where Diana Ross and the Supremes lived as teens are being razed and replaced with modern townhouse-style apart- ments. Demolition is under way this week on the more-than 1,000 units of the eastside Brewster-Douglass project, where 250 apartments will be built. Advocates for the homeless have opposed the demolition, saying the units could be remodeled at a lower cost. No cost estimates were avail- able Wednesday from the city. "I've seen similar units around the country that have been success- fully rehabbed," said City Council President Maryann Mahaffey. "It doesn't make much sense to tear down 11,037 units to make room for 250 units." A majority of City Council members favor the demolition, but a few said Tuesday they were upset to discover the razing by city crews proceeded without council approval and formal bidding. The council wants to hire an out- side consultant to study the city's public housing need but budget offi- cials say money is unavailable, Ma- haffey said. The demolition is part of a $40- million rehabilitation program funded mostly by federal dollars. In 1987, the city said it would re- consider its decision to demolish the projects if 400 prospective tenants could be found. The units have been vacant since then, while officials swayed between plans of renovation and demolition. The Brewster projects opened in 1938 with 703 units owned by the city. About 300 of the 1,300 units in the Frederick Douglass projects, built in the 1950s, also will be de- stroyed. Florence Ballard, a 15-year-old who lived with her parents and 11 other siblings in a five-room apart- ment in the projects, recruited her friend and neighbor, Mary Wilson, to form an all-girl group in the late 1950s. They eventually hooked up with Diana Ross, who lived in the Brew- ster projects with her parents and five siblings, and Cindy Birdsong and Barbara Martin, who left the group early to get married. The Supremes soared to success with Berry Gordy Jr. and Motown Records, rivaling the Beatles on the music charts in the early 1960s. No bull Andrew Maloney, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, answers questions at a news conference concerning the seizure of $6.4 million by the U.S. Custon Service Monday. During a routine warehouse search at Kennedy Airport, U.S. Customs agents found 26 metal cannisters marked "bull semen" that actually contained drug-related cash bound for Bogota, Colombia. Iraqis seem-- to resist im-pact of sanctions: 0 GULF Continued from page 1 out prior approval from Capitol Hill. The House approved a nearly $1 billion package to assist the U.S. military buildup in the gulf. * An Army paratrooper suffered a superficial leg wound when struck by shrapnel from a misguided ar- tillery shell in live-fire exercises by U.S. forces in the Saudi desert. He was treated at the scene and remained in his unit. Jordan's King Hussein flew to the Moroccan capital, Rabat, for a summit with Moroccan and Algerian leaders aimed at solving the Persian bulf crisis. U Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Veleyati indicated that Tehran would open talks with Saudi Arabia, its greatest rival in the Moslem world, to seek a solution to the gulf crisis. Japanese automakers agreed to al- low the United States to use three auto transport ships to carry vehicles and other goods to the Middle East. savings on big jobs for all clubs, businesses, and organizations. The flow of Kuwaitis into Saudi Arabia slowed, four days after Iraq began allowing citizens to flee. Only about 30 cars passed through the Khafji border crossing. Japanese automakers agreed to allow the United States to use three auto transport ships to carry vehicles and other goods to the Middle East. Hundreds of American citizens were allowed to flee the Iraqi capital aboard a U.S.-charted Iraqi Airways plane. The Boeing 747 carried 416 mostly American women and chil- dren on a flight to London. Most of the passengers had boarded the plane earlier in the day in Kuwait, where another charter flight was scheduled Saturday. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Although Iraq is beginning to feel the impact of economic sanctions, ordinary people in the capital seem determined to resist outside pressure. Bread, powdered milk, sugar, rice, macaroni, chicken and rice are in short supply. Other food is avail- able, but prices have skyrocketed since the United Nations imposed the trade sanctions Aug. 6. The sanctions were ordered to force President Saddam Hussein to withdraw the troops he sent into Kuwait on Aug. 2. "The West believes we will kneel to their will when they impose sanc- tions against us. But we have stored for all our needs," said Salwa Bayati, a mother of two who chatted with neighbors over morning coffee last week. The coffee was served without sugar. Iraqi homemakers commonly keep household food storerooms full and refrigerators stocked, a habit de- veloped during the eight-year war with Iran. Mrs. Bayati said she has enough food on hand to feed her family for seven months. Sugar, however, was in short supply even before the trade embargo, and it is one of the items not in her cupboard. The Iraqi government has closed all fast-food restaurants and many pastry shops because they would use large amounts of sugar. Those re- maining open bake bread instead of sweets. Mrs. Bayati and her neighbors compared living conditions now with life during the 1980-88 war with Iran. They said more food was available then, but they still have managed to pile shelves full of canned goods and pickled food and to load refrigerators with meat and frozen vegetable, despite government warnings against hoarding. The women said the last war and the current crisis have forced them to economize. Those at the table in- cluded Christeen Yohan, a German married to an Iraqi man, who has lived in Iraq for 20 years. "Iraqi women are quite capable of overcoming difficulties," she said. The women said they have taught their children to cope with difficult conditions. "I believe our children have started to be aware of the war condi- tions in which we are living. They understand they cannot get every- thing they want," said Hana Sabah. The other women agreed. "Today's children are the war generation. They tolerate conditions other children cannot," Mrs. Sabah said. Elsewhere in Baghdad, life seems to roll along without much change. Some businesses, like travel agencies and airline offices, have Iraqi government, and the ruling Baath Party has a wide network of neighborhood informers who watcl for potential troublemakers. "We hope this crisis ends peace- fully, but in the meantime, we try to live normally," said the manager of an Iraqi Airlines office. He said he has cut the salaries of employee who have almost nothing to do. - Throughout the city, people stood in lone lines outside bakery shops to get the daily ration of bread. Rationing began Sept. 1* Loaves are smaller. Tarik Al Sukooti, a leader of the accountants and auditors union, said Iraqi people support their president because they believe he is doing the right thing. He said Westerners do not understand the Arab mentality. "Iraqi people would rather starve than accept humiliation," he said. Ei; S in u re ryo Nuts and Bolts O , * b a, PRINI 6 o ii~~ (.Yj o Wo , , . o 1 0'1 O \ a. 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