PULL OUT SECTION INSIDE: TV LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK AUGUST 24-30, 1997 THE DETROIT VOL. 2 NO. 41 75 CENTS S u n d a y Io u r n a l CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND CONTRACTS ©TDSJ Between the lines Page 24 Dead wrong Classifieds Page 25 Crossword Page 27 Editorials Page 10 Slain woman’s mother determined to block Entertainment Page 12 accused murderer from family assets Horoscope Page 21 By Norman Sinclair Detroit firefighter Adra Young. Hefound inconsistencies in Young’s alibi Susan Watson Page 3 Journal Staff Writer claimed he was out of town when hisand charged him in the deaths. Young Just before midnight on a coldwife and his only son were apparentlyconfessed that he killed his family to Sunday in February, the bodiesabducted, of taken to the park and fatal­start a new life with another woman. Terri Young, 36, and her 15-year-oldly wounded. Terri Young was slumpedNow Young is attempting to cash in son, Michael, were found in her carover the wheel with a gunshot woundassets, pension benefits, insurance parked in Rouge Park on Detroit’sin the back of her head. Michael, stillpolicies, a home, furniture and cars he Teamsters west side. clinging to life, was in the back seat.and his wife acquired during 16 years For two days, the city rallied aroundHe too had been shot in the head.of marriage to pay the lawyer defend- president her grieving husband, 35-year-oldDetroit homicide detectives quickly See SUIT, Page 7 election is nullified By Martha Hindes Fighting to save Journal Staff Writer the American Just four days after one of his biggest victories, Teamsters chief , Bream iSsJM t Ron Carey faced a challenge that could cost him the presidency of the nation’s biggest labor union. The federally appointed election officer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) nullified Carey’s election and called for the union to hold a new election in about three to four months, pending court approval of her recommendation. In a decision reached Aug. 4, but held until after the 15-day Teamsters strike against United Parcel Service, Barbara Zack Quindel said a new election was necessary because Carey’s elec­ tion campaign may have benefited from illegal campaign contribu­ tions. She said the point of the election was to rebuild confidence in the union. Although she did not find Carey was involved in improper activity, Quindel alleged that money was raised for a mass mailing of Carey Journal photo by PATRICIA BECK literature just days before the It’s his As a Thursday rally at the Detroit Free Press closes, a young demonstrator carries the November balloting by improperly p . message “Knight-Ridder, stop the attack on union jobs.” Five-hundred protested the giant sidestepping restrictions on cam- 1 Uture chain’s recent move to eliminate unions at its newspaper in Monterey, Calif. Story, Page 8. See TEAMSTERS, Page 5 PAGE 2 THE DETROIT SUNDAY JOURNAL AUGUST 24. 1997 (ZeUfrrnU £ oCi Aunty! Detroit Laborfest Music Featuring: Elise Bryant, emcee Voices of Solidarity Charlie King SEIU Local 79 Gospel Choir SHAP Starnails Others Fun for the Family UAW-built race cars Moonwalk tent Balloons for kids Test your nail-driving skills against union carpenters Michigan Labor History Many more exciting exhibits Food and Beverages And much more. Michigan State AFL-CIO and Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO, Ad paid for by UAW International Union. AUGUST 24, 1997 PAGE 3 Co-op brings together 25 years of memories By Sunday Journal staff co-op is Detroit’s largest and some say For Barbara Sutton, a retired arbi­ Detroit’s best natural foods grocery tration and mediation specialist, the store. According to the organization’s Cass Corridor Food Cooperative onquarterly newsletter, the co-op “was Cass and Willis is her neighborhoodborn and raised in the Cass Corridor, convenience store, a place where sheat the First Unitarian-Universalist can pick up a container of plain yogurtChurch, as a ‘$3 for 3’ bags of groceries with no preservatives or fruit. buying club.” And for Doris Saleem, a widow who Co-op members pay $100 to own a moves slowly through the crowdedshare of the business. No member can aisles of the 1,600-square-foot shop­hold more than one share. Members ping area, the co-op is where she canget a small discount on the food and fill up a jar with the black strap have a vote on issues concerning the molasses her doctor has ordered to co-op. Non-members can shop at the build up her resistance. store, but they don’t get a discount. For 25 years now, the Cass Corridor Over the years, membership and Co-op has provided Detroit-area resi­money have waxed and waned, and dents with a healthy alternative to thethe co-op has changed sites five times. chemically enhanced foods at mostBut today, the co-op is operating on grocery stores. If you want to boil a lit­solid ground, has a full- and part-time Journal photo by REBECCA COOK tle burdock root for a blood cleanser,staff of about 17 people and is makingShift manager Bobby Peeler rings up items at the Cass Corridor Food Cooperative. you can pick it up at the co-op plansfor to expand, said General $8.89 a pound. In the market for anManager Gari Freeman. “Membership million-dollar business,” said Carol cert by Sweet Honey in the Rock at 5 organic cucumber, rice milk, a dash ofhas increased 25 percent over the pastIzant, who handles membership ser­p.m. today in the First Unitarian- sea salt, raw turbinado sugar, lactose- couple of years,” he said. vices. “It really is amazing.” Universalist Church, 4605 Cass. free pizza, meatless smoked turkey or “We’ve gone from a little basement As part of its 25th anniversary cele­Tickets are $25 for members, $40 for PMS tea? You can find it there. operation staffed by volunteers wherebration, the co-op and the Detroitnonmembers. Call 313-865-8635 for With 4,500 members on its rolls, thepeople brought their own bags intoWholistic a Center are sponsoring a con­more information. Men lay it on thick in the heat of the night ast w eek,“Today Show” co­ brief hours. she heard that line, she bought it. The host Matt Lauer elevated I didn’t know whether to throw upsecond time, she returned it to sender. television to a new level with S u s a n or throw a shoe at the TV set. ‘You’re too good for me,” millions of his interview of an attractive Suddenly all the words I had heard - men have told kazillions of women Lolder woman who wrote a book about W a t s o n and believed at the time - came rush­ down through time. Each time it’s her secret love affair some 40 years ing back to taunt me. My women said, it’s true. ago with Jack Kennedy. The woman friends had the same reaction when Then there are the lines sticky with said she met Kennedy in Europe told of the interview. They remem­ guilt, such as “I can’t live without when she was in her early 20s, he inabout those words that spill from a bered those threadbare lines that you.” And, of course, the ones stained his 30s. suitor’s lips on moonlit nights ... orchoked the common sense out of us,with past mistakes that are guaran­ Their encounter was, she said, dewy mornings ... or dog day after­ and left us temporarily giddy and teed to haunt your future. “electric.” They ate dinner; they noons ... or express elevators in thelight-headed. My favorites: talked; they sat on the beach staring Empire State Building for that mat­ “I could get lost in your eyes,” a des­ “I promise to change.” He won’t. at the ocean. Their eyes locked; their ter. perate swain told a friend of mine. “My wife doesn’t understand me.” souls bonded; he plucked a garland of Lauer leaned in close and gently She believed him and toyed with the Yes, she does. stars and placed them in her hair; told the author that lots of men say notionI of having her eyes declared “I’m just staying with her for the she wove him a scarf of moonbeams. love you when they want to make dangerous territory. kids.” The kids are grown and on You get the idea. time with a woman. ‘You look beautiful in the moon­ their own. When they had known each other That’s right. light,” a sweet young boy one year myBut it took a male colleague to all of three hours, she said Kennedy On national television, before God junior told me as we rowed across a remind me of the best line of all time. told her the four magic words that and the Nielsens, he admitted that lake during a high school retreat. ForIt fired the imagination and stirred women have heard since time began: when it comes to wooing a woman, the rest of the week, my stomach gotthe passions of a generation. “I love you, but....” men will lie like a rug. Like a yellow all fluttery whenever I saw him. A “Ask not what your country can do In her case, the “but” was Kenn­ line down the middle of road. few weeks later, I passed him in the for you,” Jack Kennedy told the edy’s upcoming wedding to a gal back Unfortunately, the author of the hallway at school. The flutters were nation years after his encounter on home named Jackie.