STANDING STRONG FOR 1,438 DAYS JUNE 20-26, 1999 THE DETROIT VOL. 4 NO. 31 75 CENTS S u n d a y Io u r n a l PUBLISHED BY LOCKED-OUT ETROIT NEWSPAPER WORKERS ©TDSJ NEWS Missing in action for eons, Sunday Journal columnist Susan Watson returns, explaining she was not kidnapped or on a secret mission. Where has she been? P ag e 3. An NLRB trial for four fired Teamsters will f ■ ^ journal pnoto oy latU H iat WALUMAr i nev re on Ford Motor Co. Vice President Pete Pestillo faces off across the bargaining table begin Monday.P ag e 4. J from a UAW team that includes International President Steve Yokich (in check- K o rrv oinitrrrered The un‘on ^egancontract talks last week with the Big Three domestic SPORTS d l Id U d l d l l 1111automakers in Dearborn. See stoiy, Page 3. He's called the father for a neighborhood. Virgil Phillips is also the father of a U-D basket­ ball star. P ag e 28. Unions 101 INDEX Organized labor sparks new Classifieds Page 22 By Marc Cooper to link up with organized labor, it floodeddid­ campuses coast-to-coast. AlterNet News Service Crossword Page 23 n’t feel too reckless — or too hopefulEven the New York Times recently he bucolic, palm-studded— to speculate that we just might beconcluded that this is the biggest Entertainment Page 8 campus of Stanford witnessing the birth of a new nation­uptick of student activism since the University in California al student movement. surge of anti-apartheid protest in the Movie Guide Page 10 bears no resemblance to the There have been campus protestsearly ’80s. Told and gritty autoworkers’around summer the war in Kosovo. AndRecently there have been takeovers Opinion Page 6 camp at Port Huron, where StudentsBerkeley recently erupted in a fightand sit-ins at the universities of Reel Love Page 19 for a Democratic Society (SDS) was over ethnic studies programs. ButWisconsin, Duke, Michigan and formed in 1962. the big man on campus today is Georgetown.the After four days of a late Sports Page 28 But when student activists con­worker. For the past several months,April sit-in at the Chapel Hill campus verged on Stanford, Harvard, Yalesweatshop and labor-related protests, Television Page 11 and Kent State on an April weekendrallies and demonstrations have See STUDENTS, Page 5 JUNE 20, 1999 PAGE 2 THE DETROIT SUNDAY JOURNAL DAILY 3 DAILY 4 M it n t t A 6/18 Midday: 2-9-3 Eve: N.A.{ 6/18 Midday: 8-1-3-5Eve: N.A. 6/17 Midday: 4-7-7 Eve: 3-0-4| 6/17 Midday: 0-5-7-8Eve: 7-2-1-2 U.S. Senate calls Parks 6/16 Midday: 1-4-8 Eve: 0-6-5j 6/16 Midday: 1-2-7-7Eve: 1-6-0-0 6/15 Midday: 8-8-8 Eve: 8-7-8j 6/15 Midday: 5-8-3-0Eve: 3-8-2-9 S UiU « A « 6/14 Midday: 9-1-6 Eve: 6-9-8| 6/14 Midday: 6-1-6-5Eve: 6-1-7-4 6/12 Midday: 5-2-7 Eve: 8-8-5s 6/12 Midday: 9-9-6-1Eve: 6-2-2-9 ‘living icon for freedom’ CASH 5 6/17 20 23 29 36 39 MICHIGAN KENO 6/16 3 7 17 30 37 6/10 13 17 18 21 25 29 32 33 36 41 42 Reuters tual collapse of institutionalized seg­ 6/15 13 19 20 24 29 45 48 52 53 56 59 60 6374 77 78 Rosa Parks of Detroit received the regation in the American South. 6/14 1 4 7 25 31 “Rosa Parks said, ‘I didn’t get on 6/11 21 30 31 34 35 6/8 1 8 14 15 19 23 26 2728 30 31 Congressional Gold Medal last week LOTTO 41 43 48 53 66 68 62 7478 79 80 from President Clinton in the ornate that bus to get arrested. I got on the 6/16 7 8 13 28 32 37 6/7 2 3 5 11 14 16 17 2230 31 42 rotunda of Washington’s Capitol bus to go home,’ ” said Clinton. “In so 6/12 7 12 13 33 41 42 44 4748 51 55 69 70 7172 74 77 building, attended by scores of digni­ many ways Rosa Parks brought THE BIG GAME 6/4 5 9 11 15 26 27 28 36 37 39 40 taries, politicians and civil rights America home to our founders’ 6/15 1 6 19 27 42 25 42 48 52 57 60 61 63 6871 73 79 leaders. dream. 6/11 5 7 13 17 43 12 (Numbers are not official.) The woman who is widely seen as “We should all remember the pow­ the mother of America’s civil rights erful example of this one citizen.” movement joins Nelson Mandela, Accepting the honor, Parks said in a I COMPARE OURI J1 Miller Cohen, P.L.C. V Mother Theresa and Frank Sinatra statement that efforts to end “racism, BRUCE A. MILLER NORTON J. COHEN among others as a recipient of the poverty, sexism, poor housing and APPLIANCE Attorneys and Counselors at Law most prestigious civilian award poor education” should go on. H&R Representing Unions & Working People “I celebrate with the United States NEW LOCATION Personal injuries * Wooers* Compensation • ■Employee Rights granted by the U.S. Congress. 33084 NORTHWESTERN « Social Security Oisability • Employment Discrimination Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on Congress and the president ... the 14 Mile & Orchard Lake Area, West Bloomfield 600 West Lafayette 6715 Park Avenue a bus to a white man in Montgomery, attention given to those areas and Detroit, MI 48226 Allen Park, MI 48101 MON.,WED.,THURS. 1 0 a .m .- 8 p .m . (313) 964-4454 (313) 383-2422 Ala., in 1955 sparked the civil rights ask you to work harder,” she said. 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Start date Mail subscriptions available in V ^ ~ Check No. Pf the U.S. only. Call ( 3 1 3 ) 3 6 6 -5 1 0 4 for more details Auth. No. PAGE 3 JUNE 20, 1999 i TATE Trust me: I’d never do that to you again ’m back. I would have returned ure out what it was. I felt off balance work at the Journal, and I spun out to this space earlier, but on my and out of sorts. Losing a noun heresome pretty catchy headlines and a way to a column ... S u s a n and there will do that to you. Thefew news stories here and there. But I next thing I knew, entire phrasesthere was no column in me. I was kidnapped by a bunch of W a t s o n began tiptoeing away. EmboldenedSome folks would call this phe­ terrorists, driven to City Airport and by their success, the runaways beck­nomenon writer’s block, or burnout. I flown around the city until my oned other words to join them. Andrather think that words and abductors realized that no amount of they did. Pretty soon, I had nothingthoughts, which are as alive as you torture would make me forsake the to write.