PULLOUT SECTION INSIDE: TV LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK SEPTEMBER 14-20, 1997 THE DETROIT VOL. 2 NO. 44 75 CENTS S u n d a y Io u r n a l CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND CONTRACTS ©TDSJ INSIDE ENTERTAINMENT TV Critic Jim McFarlin is not one to shirk his duties: He makes Emmy picks for tonight’s show. Page 25. SPORTS Lions officials are not Barry happy these days as star running back Barry Sanders, below, and quarterback Scott Mitchell have led the team to a slow start. Backpage. Journal photo by GEORGE WALDMAN Sister Christophine is among the nuns who run the Missionaries of Charity soup kitchen in St. Dominic’s Church. The convent was founded by Mother Teresa, whose meeting years ago with a young reporter left a deep impression on him. Page 10. Their differences endeared them to us n a brief two weeks the world lost three extraordinary Janet’s turn women. One was a beautiful rose whose thirsty blossom bowed and trembled in the wind; Right-to-die advocate leaves memories one absorbed the pain of society’s Journal photo by REBECCA COOK of laughter, grace and dedication to others outcasts, infused it with her other­ worldly serenity and transformed INDEX misery into hope; one, facing her By Antoinette Martin knew full well what lay ahead. She own imminent death, found the Special to the Journal was diagnosed with 100 percent lethal Between the Lines Page 31 courage and the humor to gentle As pundits ponder what it meanspancreatic cancer more than two the final journey for others. that the world grieves for the glam­years ago. Besides, she lived with Classifieds Page 32 Princess Diana. Mother Teresa. orous Princess Diana so much moredeath, worked with death; death was Crossword Page 33 Janet Good. Their deaths affected emotionally than we mourn over theher calling. us in ways we are still trying to divine Mother Teresa, it is the essen­ As chief associate to one of Detroit’s Editorials Page 14 understand. This week three tially regular woman (though she wasbest-known figures, Dr. Death himself, Sunday Journal writers share their famous, too) Janet Good, whose deathGood had a second post-retirement Entertainment Page 25 thoughts about them, and in so breaks my heart. career in the field of demise. Horoscope Page 31 doing let us glimpse the thread Not because of suddenness, certain­ But, “Some are harder than oth­ that united three very different ly. Like the venerable and fragile nun,ers,” she once told me about deaths Susan Watson Page 3 women - and us. Page 10. if not the vibrant young royal, Good See GOOD, Page 12 PAGE 2 THE DETROIT SUNDAY JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 14f 1997 Wayne County Kidspace, Inc. is in the process of receiving competive bids for food and non-food items. Bids must be received no later than Fri., Sept. 26, 1997 S undayI o u r n a l Teachers approve pact, avert strike at 3:00 p.m. Interested vendors may call The Detroit Sunday Journal is Detroit Public Schools teachers on not offer a wage increase, even though (313) 224-5046 or write toKidspace at: Friday night approved a new contractthis year the state mandates a longer 600 Randolph, lower level, Det., MI published weekly by Detroit 48226.Sealed bids will be opened at 9:00 Sunday Journal Inc., 450 W. that will keep them off the picket lines school day. a.m. on Monday, September 29,1997. Fort St., Detroit, Ml 48226. Mail and in the classrooms come Monday For high schools, the day is 21 min­ Subscription price is $15 for morning. utes longer, for a total increase of 36 three months, $30 for six Members of the Detroit Federation minutes since the start of the 1995-96 months (no refunds). Call (313) of Teachers ratified the proposal by a school year. K l im is t , M c k n ig h t, S a l e, vote of 5,533 to 3,334. A major provision of the pact is an 964-5655, ext. 111 to subscribe, The contract came under fire recent­ agreement to submit the wage issue to McCLOW & C a n z a n o, P.C. or, for more information. Attorneys Representing ly because Detroit Public Schools did binding arbitration. Labor Unions and Working People POSTMASTER: We Stipport the Newspaper Workers Send address changes to in Their Struggle The Detroit Sunday Journal, 400 Galleria Officentre Suite 117 450 W. Fort, Detroit, Ml 48226. community calendar Southfield, Ml 48034, (810) 354-9650 Circulation/Postal 80th birthday bash erendum on a state law permitting JraJralfafgJRJRJRJRJrgJRlRJi physician-assisted suicide during a honors activists meeting of the Macomb County WINDOWS U. A. W. LOCAL 155 An 80th birthday dinner tribute Chapter of the National Organiz­ ★ ROOFING ★GUTTERS for labor, peace and freedom ation for Women at 7 p.m. Wednes­ ★ ALUMINUM SIDING & TRIM STEPHEN P.YOKICH activists Lee Cain, Carl Reinstein, day at Faith Trinity Church, 12221 ★ STORM WINDOWS & DOORS Stella Reinstein, Ethel Schwartz Martin at Hoover in Warren. ★ ALUMINUM AWNINGS LABOR CENTER and Lasker Smith is set for 4-8 ★ REPLACEMENT WINDOWS p.m. Sept. 21, at UAW Local 600, Old-time religion To The Locked Out 10550 Dix at Wyoming, Dearborn. A mixed-media exhibition of McGLINCH & SONS Lee Cain, a precinct delegate, led works celebrating the tradition of “Three Generations of Newspaper Workers the fight to keep Dodge Main open goddess-making continues through Dependable Service" and is a longtime activist in UAW Oct. 31 in the Center for Creative The membership officers & Locals 3 and 7. Carl Reinstein is Studies’ Center Galleries in the West secretary of the Retiree Chapter executive board support our Park Shelton Bldg., 15 E. Kirby at 278-2777 and a delegate to the Metro AFL- locked out brothers Woodward in the Detroit Cultural East CIO Council from UAW Local 157. Center. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 and sisters in their Stella Reinstein is a founding 776-8912 struggle for a fair p.m., Tuesday to Saturday. 22400 member of the Executive Admission is free. Call 313-874- settlement. W. WARREN Committee, U.S. Peace Council, 1955. Detroit, Michigan laiziralraiizijzlBlraJizlislraiH taiiaRiiaifn] Michigan Chapter and member of UAW Local 2071. Ethel Schwartz, Poets to perform who is co-convener of Metro- Poet M.L. Liebler and musician Detroit Gray Panthers, has been Bill Blank are scheduled to be the ★ With Special Visitor active in the struggle of locked-out performers at the monthly “Poetry OX ROAST Richard McCord, \ newspaper workers for the past at Main” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at in support of Locked-Out two years and is a member of the Detroit Main Library, 5201 % 1 author, The Chain Gang OPEIU Locals 42 and 494. Lasker Woodward in Detroit’s Cultural Newspaper Workers Smith is editor of Retiree News for Dinner, Music and Center. Admission is free. Call 313- v Region 1A, UAW, and former vice- 833-1470. Saturday Refreshments president of UAW Local 2. Tickets are $25. Call 313-342-3682. Labor’s future September 27,1997 Checks payable to: Friends of Labor Detroit Council meeting “The Future of the Labor Donation: $10 in advance; Movement” will be discussed dur­ 6:30 p.m. The Detroit City Council is ing a public meeting of the Gray $ 15 at the door; $5 for strikers scheduled to meet from 7-8:30 p.m. (at the door) Panthers - Metro Detroit at 10 IBEW Local 58 Tuesday at St. Mark Missionary a.m. Saturday at the Royal Oak 1358 Abbott Road, DetroitFor more information, Baptist Church at 24331W. Eight Senior Community Center, 3500 Mile at Grandview. (just east of Trumbull) call (313) 438-0968« Marais, in Royal Oak. Call 248- Call 313-224-6225. 549-5170. Friends of Laborare concerned members of the community who have joined together to support working class families. Women’s Day speaker Womencenter open house Iyanla Vanzant, author of “Acts The Womencenter at the of Faith: Daily Meditations for Oakland Community College People of Color,” will speak at 11 Orchard Ridge Campus has set an DAILY 4 a.m. Sept. 21 at Mayflower DAILY 3 open house for 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 Congregational United Church of 9/12 Midday: 3-5-8 Eve: 6-2-3 9/12 Midday 0-8-7-3 Eve: 1-1-3-5 p.m. Thursday in J Bldg. The Christ, 7301 Curtis, Detroit. Call 9/11 Midday: 6-7-4 Eve: 8-5-0 9/11 Midday 7-8-1-8 Eve: 9-1-3-5 Orchard Ridge Campus is at 27055 313-861-6450. 9/10 Midday: 4-2-0 Eve: 1-8-4 9/10 Midday 0-1-8-3 Eve: 4-4-4-0 Orchard Lake Road south of 1-696 9/9 Midday: 8-0-6 Eve: 1-7-2 9/9 Midday 1-8-0-4 Eve: 5-4-5-0 Irish festival in Farmington Hills. Call 248-471- 9/8 Midday: 4-8-9 Eve: 7-2-8 9/8 Midday: 2-4-4-1 Eve: 6-6-2-6 The Gaelic League Irish 7602. 9/6 Midday: Eve: 3-8-7 9/6 Midday:: 8-9-3-0 Eve: 5-9-6-8 American Club will have a fall fes­ Classes for newlyweds CASH 5 MICHIGAN KENO tival Friday through Sept. 21, fea­ A state-required class on sexual­ 9/12 1 15 25 27 36 9/12 1 6 12 13 16 20 23 30 31 39 40 turing Irish music on three stages, 9/11 3 9 24 26 37 45 4647 57 58 5961 62 64 65 69 activities for kids, food and drink.