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PULLOUT SECITICH INS5DE: TV if SIriNGS FOR I H£ WEEK SEPTEMBER 7-1L3, 1997 VOL. 2NO. 43 75 CENTS ----------------- fe*-----------------j SUNDw loURNAL Z33D^fcflHCEQi ©TDSJ Women at work Union initiative addresses job-related By Amber Arellano like Tuggle and how it can help Journal Staff Writer them - as well as plant union Diane Tuggle cares for chil seeds for the future. dren who have cancer and Leah This weekend it kicks off a Bossert runs construction crewsnational hot line that will at Detroit Metro Airport. answer any woman’s workplace Yet both worry about beingquestions, from what legal paid what they’re worth, and options are available for stop keeping up with a frenetic workping sexual harassment to rec pace that is the norm nowadays. ommending local child care cen A new nationwide surveyters. It aims to strengthen the reflects their concerns. Equal AFL’s lobbying voice in pay, a healthy workplace andWashington, too, by speaking for secure, affordable health insur more than just the unionized. ance top working women’s con“A woman can call and say, ‘I cerns, despite the U.S. economic live here, I can afford this much, recovery and workplace stridestell me three good child care for women, according to the “Askagencies near my neighbor A Working Woman” surveyhood,’ ” said Brenda Moon, the released Thursday by the AFL- AFL’s Michigan field represen CIO. tative. “We’re acting as a cata “Now employers want youngerlyst, as a national voice.” people, just out of college, cheap,” Neither Tuggle nor Bossert says Tuggle, a patient care asso are union members, like 88 per ciate at Children’s Hospital of cent of the 725 women random ktfmm,v V : ,» : v . V Michi-gan in Detroit. At 42, she ly sampled by phone for the sur V ;:V;: , v\ fears that as she grays, she’ll vey. The results were telling of becoming less valuable to herwomen’s lives today: bosses. And like other African- ■ Equal pay is the top issue American women, low pay andamong all women, including little opportunity top her worry2,000 Michigan women ques- list. mm® The AFL is studying women See WOMEN, Page 8 INSIDE Classifieds Page 32 Journal photo by PATRICIA BECK SPORTS Last year’s unproven Columns Page Page 31 Parade rest linebackers are making Crossword Page 33 A Labor Day parade-watcher gets a monumental view beneath the Grand Circus Park statueS. of Hazen Page 14 Pingree and a plaque with this description: “The citizens of Michigan erect this monument to the cher good on promises this Editorials ished memory of HazenS. Pingree. A gallant soldier. An enterprising and successful citizen, four times Entertainment Page 25 elected mayor of Detroit, twice governor of Michigan. He was the first to warn the people of the great year,dan if the Lions win ger threatened by powerful private corporations and the first to awake to the great inequalities in taxationover Atlanta is any Horoscope Page 26 and to initiate steps for reform. The idol of the people.” LaborMore Day photoson Ps«®s10 and 11. indication.Back page. Movie Guide Page 16 PAGE 2 THE DETROIT SUNDAY JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 7, 1997 SIDING ★ ROOFING ★ GUTTERS OURNAL mHy calendar ★ ALUMINUM SIDING & TRIM ★ STORM WINDOWS & DOORS The Detroit Sunday Journal is ★ ALUMINUM AWNINGS published weekly by Detroit Learning a lesson Motor Co. River Rouge Plant in ★ REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Sunday Journal Inc., 450 W. Dearborn. Call 810-948-1010, from the strike extension 288. Fort St., Detroit, Ml 48226. 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V: Sale ends September 30, 1997 wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMmmm DAILY 3 DAILY 4 Midday: 8-4-6 Eve : 3-7-2 9/5 Midday:5-3-8-1 Eve: 4-2-2-0 Midday: 5-0-3 Eve: 6-0-7 ; 9/4 Midday:3-2-1-4 Eve: 6-1-2-2 Midday: 7-7-8 Eve: 5-0-7 ] 9/3 Midday:4-5- 1-7 Eve: 4-3-2-9 Midday: 5-5-9 Eve: 4-8-2 | 9/2 Midday:2-9-1*4 Eve: 9-6-9-3 Introducing Midday: 9-7-9 Eve: 7-1-1 j 9/1 Midday:7-4-4-2 Eve: 8-5-5-1 8/30 Midday: 2-7-1 Eve: 8-6-1 I 8/30 Midday:2-0-8-3 Eve: 7-6-4-8 The Detroit Sunday Journal’s CASH 5 MICHIGAN KENO 9/5 16 19 23 34 3 9/5 5 6 7 13 18 19 21 24 26 32 33 Movie Guide 9/4 2 9 13 28 31 34 36 47 50 52 57 58 67 69 7879 9/3 3 7 22 24 30 9/4 1 4 21 24 25 27 39 40 45 49 50 Find complete metro Detroit area theaters 9/2 12 16 19 24 27 54 57 58 61 63 65 71 74 76 7879 9/1 4 12 16 35 38 on page 16 LOTTO 9/2 1 7 13 21 23 25 26 29 30 33 36 62 71 78 9/3 3 6 15 22 44 46 37 42 43 50 54 55 58 61 34 41 8/30 6 12 27 33 9/1 5 14 15 16 20 21 28 30 31 32 33 THE BIG GAME 34 45 46 52 55 61 62 68 70 7677 9/5 14 15 25 26 42 3 Numbers are not official SEPTEMBER 7, 1997 PAGE 3 C ity&State Princess Di: Unforgiven but unforgettable By Susan Hall-Balduf Journal Staff Writer can’t remember exactly when I began to despise IPrincess Diana. It was some time after Prince William - whom I still think should have been named Arthur - and before Prince Henry. I was tired of seeing her face on every other magazine cover. Besides, by then she had begun to betray me. Yes, I’m sorry she died and I understand the grief of the British people over her death. After all, they have only one set of Royals, whereas we in the United States have a First Family that gets replaced every four or eight years. What I cannot understand is the way we in the United States have been carrying on since she was killed, as if she’d been a 36-year- old cross between Elizabeth Taylor and Mother Teresa (who died Journal photo by GEORGE WALDMAN Friday, rest in peace).