European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday Juty 7,19b7 a act to fight naming of Bork All the Way new York a the a act executive director Benjamin l. Hooks opened the organization an Nual meeting sunday with a threat to fight the appoint ment of Robert h. Bork to the . Supreme court Al the  the supreme court is too important to our Hope of Equality and Justice to sit idly by and watch a whole line of civil rights Liber lies be threatened by the appointment of an Overly ideologically oriented jus Tice Hooks said. Hooks said the nation-1 � association for the advancement of coloured people would stage a massive lobbying Campaign against Bork who president Reagan has nominated to replace re Hooks tiring Justice Lewis f. Powell or. We will fight h All the Way until hell freezes Over and then Well skate across on the ice he said. The a act convention the first to be heart in new Fork City in 28 years continues through thursday with scheduled appearances by the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sorelta Scott King surgeon general c. Everett Koo pand others. Most of Hooks speech to the assembled delegates was a recapitulation of the a act s accomplishments since its founding in new York in 1909. And an exhortation thai they do not  but instead continue to fight. To believe that nothing remains to be done is to be Blind deaf and dumb to the conditions that confront us now he said. He said 6,500 Blacks serve in elective offices but this is Only 1 percent of the number of officeholders in the nation. Although Blacks together have a Gross in come of 1200 billion a third of the Black population ii in poverty he said. And. Although a million Black Young people Are enrolled in Posl secondary education he said there Are More Blaa men in prison. He called attention to the a act s ongoing efforts to end discrimination in the music Industry and in professional sports. Hooks also noted the dropout rate teen age preg Nancy drug and substance abuse youth unemployment and wife abuse in Black America. The a act a committed to fighting these problems with existing and new programs he said. We Call upon the More fortunate segments of Black America to Ert Lisl in this fight or to re enlist. There is work enough for All and we need every hand on deck Hooks said. In essence he said if we do not Park by our past victories if we Are not halted by yesterday s achieve ments if we recognize that our opportunities lie in tomorrow s challenges then we will be the great people that god intended us to  odometers on Many pm vehicles replaced or doctored paper says pont1ac, Mich. A As Many As 2.000 Gener Al motors corp. Trucks and Utility vehicles had their odometers replaced or turned Back during the past four Yean to conceal mileage run up by managers a newspaper reported sunday. Pm truck i bus group employees at the Pontiac West Plant said they were asked by supervisors to re place disconnect or turn Back odometers because the trucks primarily Chevrolet blazers and Csc jimmys were resumed after overnight test drives with too Many Miles on them the Oakland press reported. The Worken spoke on the condition they not be identified the Pontiac newspaper said these arc serious allegations said Jim Crellin spokesman for the no i automaker. General motors has a longstanding written policy that prohibits disconnecting odometers after vehicles leave the Assembly line. We Are interested in any information about violations of that policy Al us Plant so that we on investigate and Lake whatever Steps Are appropriate. Chrysler corp i manufacturing subsidiary and two executives were indicted june 24 by a Federal grand jury in St. Louis for telling cars with odometers that had been disconnected. Chairman Lee Iacocca bit week apologized for the practice. At the Pontiac truck Plant employees Laid supervisors were permitted to take Home vehicles for product evaluations i mixed to so mile. Hourly employees also take the vehicles Home through a lottery system. The employees said the vehicles involved had 140 to170 Miles on them before odometers were rolled Back. They said the practice was common at the Plant from198 j until earlier this year. Falwell harassers denounced pal members told to repent fort Mill , up the pastor of pal heritage Village Church denounced protester who forced the Rev. Jerry Falwell to flee their Wrath and warned that Only god can save the sick ministry from its own greed and idolatry. You try your plan and your plan will fail miserably the Rev. Sam Johnson shouted to More than 2,000 people in the Church sunday. There is Only one plan and wiil is god s  neither lawyers television preacher nor a Baptist from Lynchburg a. A reference to Falwell can save pal if its followers do not repent Johnson wanted this has been a sick ministry Johnson said Shak ing a Finger. Greed selfishness idolatry gins of the flesh i m not talking about a Man. I m not talking about a few people. I m talking about  Johnson a Minuter of tic charismatic assemblies of god Church praised Falwell Tor pulling his reputation on the  turmoil has dogged the ministry since founder Jim Bokker a charismatic resigned in a sex scandal in March handing Over the pal Empire to Falwell fundamentalist Baptist who founded the moral major , although defrocked by the assemblies of god has since said be wants to return to pal but Falwell has refused deeming Bakker unfit to Lead. Because of some $72 million in debt Falwell said pal accrued under Bakker pal sought chapter 11 bankruptcy Protection. Many pal partners peo ple who contributed Al least s 1,000 10 the ministry bitterly criticized Falwell and Many arc seeking bait Ker s return. Several Hundred dissidents converged saturday on heritage Usa the pal theme Park to confront fal Well who was there for fourth of july activities. They pushed Inlo the lobby of the heritage grand hotel where Falwell was slaying and harassed Falwell As he entered an elevator. Falwell later Rode in. A Parade As grand marshal and received applause and cheers from most onlookers. There were scattered Boos. He later told United press International that the demonstration helped everybody see How irrational and undisciplined they protesters Are and pronounced it a resounding and embarrassing defeat. Falwell said Don t think that the dissident part ners Are a dangerous  i think they Art irrational. They have questionable  Johnson said be thought the fury of dissident part ners has nearly ended. Stateside wine merchant Dies was music philanthropist Chicago a philanthropist Paul fro Tom a wine merchant whose foundation a Harvard University helped nurture the creativity of nearly 150 contemporary american com posers has died at age 80. Fromm died of heart failure saturday at the University of Chicago s Bernard Mitchell Hospi us. We lost our Leader did composer Ralph Shancy director of the contemporary chamber players a new music ensemble at the University of Chicago. In 1952. He established the Fromm found lion Al Harvard in Cambridge mass. It a focused on individual artists works and musical events rather than on institutions. He was bom in a Atzingen Germany a fifth generation member of a family of  emigrated to the United states in 1938 and was naturalized in 1944, four years after settling in Chicago. 2 companies go to court in droopy diaper dispute Dallas b i two companies battling Over who owns a patented process la prevent droopy diapers Alff their Case to court thu week. A two year Legal Battle Between Procter Gamble co. Of Cincinnati which  Luvi diapers and Kimberly Clarit corp. Of Irving Texas which makes buggies will be submitted to a jury in . District judge Joe fish s court Procter & Gamble says it owns a patented process for Clastic waistbands and is seeking an order that Kimberly Clark cease duplicating the tit of luvs diapers in its buggies product. Kimberly Clark claims the Patent which a scheduled to expire in less than two years i invalid and Procter St. Gamble is attempting to violate anti Trust Laws by monopolizing the Dia per Industry. Time ends with no one claiming lottery Jackpot Concord. . Up despite a Mas Sive Media Campaign to notify the Winner a j2 million Jackpot in the tristan a megabucks lot Tery apparently went unclaimed by the deadline officials said. The deadline was 11 . Sunday. Officials speculated that an out of state tourist bought the winning ticket and was unaware fits value. The winning ticket was one of 2,000 sold Al the Hampton Beach n.h., chamber of Corn Merce on july 5,1986, As the Beach Community hosted some 300.000 visitors during the july fourth weekend last year. A Winner has one year to claim a Jackpot inthe nation s Only mull state lottery before the prize technically reverts to the coffers of the states. But Long said in this Case the prize would beaded o the july 11 megabucks drawing fur an estimated Sis million Jackpot 19 children shot to death in Detroit during 6 months Detroit a in the first us months of 1987, 19 children under 17 were shot to death in Detroit equating he loll in the same period Tail year and at Casl 161 were wounded according to a newspaper s count. A police official in the nation s lib Tab urges laity blamed the number on drug trafficking by Young people and their Lack of understanding of death. The figures revealed a drop in suicides with none being reported in 1987, compared to five in the first half of 9so. When suicide Ore excluded from the loll total death represent a 36 percent increase according 10 figure compiled by the Detroit free press. Both last year and the year before Detroit in first in per Capiuk homicides for victims of villages among . Cities with More than 100.000 residents according to statistics compiled by the Fri