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-J CiiEF's Night Out Gourmet palate may try pizza Food, IB Graf Vs. Evert riser Qns 'comeback sets up semifinal Sports, ID Tigers Lose. 1-0 Brookens' hit beats Tanana Sports, ID Metro Final Wednesday July 5, 1989 For home delivery call 222-6500 20 cents Mostly sunny. High 88, low 63 TVn irelow Qiinntr tinmi1 lltUlJUUJt VLUUiJTf MUUU11U nAtaik Pa op 9 A I On Guard For 158 Years 21 UNSETTLED ISSUE Reagan r.llCMGAIIDERS LOVE A PARADE Oil THE FOURTH 3 more cases could erode abortion access Supreme Court next session to be pivotal for Roe vs. Wade 'Jh-: I'lP 'X'- I II it T-Vu The three new cases all involve state laws that have the effect of creating obstacles to access to abortions in the first trimester.

BY LINDA GREENHOUSE New York Times WASHINGTON The three abortion cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear in its next session offer a more direct road map for overturning Roe vs. Wade than the route offered by the Missouri case in which the court announced its decision Monday. The court stopped short on Monday of overturning the 1973 precedent, with four justices in the five-member majority saying that there was no need to take that step to uphold Missouri's restrictive abortion law. The Missouri case, which the court selected from among four abortion appeals that reached it last winter, was in some ways the narrowest of the group.

That was because the state law that was challenged did not restrict NAACP meeting to put Detroit in spotlight thrown off horse; he's OK Ex-president was at ranch in Mexico Free Press Wire Services LOS ANGELES Former President Ronald Reagan suffered minor injuries when thrown from a horse at a friend's ranch in Mexico, the president's spokesman said Tuesday. The 78-year-old former president was checked by doctors at the Raymond. W. Bliss Army Community Hospital at Ft. Huachuca, and pronounced "in excellent condition" with no broken bones, said spokesman Mark Weinberg in a statement telephoned to news agencies in Los Angeles.

Reagan had been on a hunting trip at a private ranch in Sonora, a Mexican state just across the Arizona border. Weinberg said he would return to the ranch later Tuesday. A military helicopter flew the former president to the Army base, the spokesman said. "The horse Reagan was riding bucked wildly several times on a rocky downhill slope and eventually stumbled," throwing Reagan, Weinberg said. "X-rays taken today revealed no serious injuries, and doctors who ex-See REAGAN, Page 15A Militias end blockade of Christian east Beirut Free Press Wire Services BEIRUT Syrian troops and their Muslim militia allies lifted a 16-week land blockade of Beirut's Christian enclave on Tuesday in a move militia leaders described as a goodwill gesture to facilitate Arab League peace efforts.

But the forces continued a sea blockade to prevent weapons and other supplies from reaching Christian forces. And a pledge to reopen Beirut International Airport, situated on the Outskirts of Muslim west Beirut, was delayed because of what was described as technical and political difficulties. Announcing the unilateral decision See LEBANON, Page 15A Stars come out at Reed City's open-air movie every Friday BY DAVID L. BARBER Free Press Special Writer REED CITY It's a scene that Norman Rockwell might have turned into a masterpiece. Americana at its purest and simplest.

Friday night at the movies in Reed City would have offered Rockwell the chance to paint children lying on blankets, or resting lazily on lawn chairs, or sitting on car hoods or in the back of pickups. He would have painted a popcorn atand set up on a makeshift table in a nearby alley and erupting like a volcano. I He would have painted, too, a pro-jectionist setting up the tools of his trade from the back of his station RICHARD LEEDetroit Free Press Ann Landers 2B Bookmarks 3B Bridge 12D Business 12A Classified Ads 6B, 8D Comics 12D Crossword Puzzle 13D Dateline Michigan 4A Death Notices SB Editorials 10A Entertainment 4C Feature Page 7C Food IB Horoscope 12D Jumble 6B Obituaries SA Television SC The Way We 1C Volume 159, Number 59 1989, Detroit Free Press Michigan Tuesday Lotto jackpot Ohio Tuesday Lotto jackpot 902 and 1583 $1.5 million 270 and S272 $6 million i 3s- kr By Constance Prater Free Press Staff Writer The 80th annual NAACP convention, which formally opens Sunday at Cobo Hall, will draw the eyes of the nation to Detroit for the fourth time this summer. But unlike the hydroplane races on the Detroit River, the Grand Prix and the Detroit Pistons championship parade, the drawing card for the national news media will be more the big names than the big events. With Vice President Dan Quayle making his first major speech to a civil rights group, two cabinet members, Democratic Party National Chairman Ron Brown, the Rev.

Jesse Jackson and TV superstar Oprah Winfrey scheduled to appear, "Detroit will be foremost in the minds of many national Above, Zachary Morgan, 3, of Clawson wears a big Fourth of July hat for his town's parade. At right, the Royal Lancers Drum and Bugle Corps of Wyandotte blare down Biddle Street. Photostory, Page 14D. WILLIAM DEKAYDetrott Free Press the availability of early abortions obtained in private doctors' offices and clinics. See ABORTION, Page 15A Soundoff, Page 15A.

journalists," Georgella Muirhead, city public information director, said last week. All three major commercial TV networks, Cable News Network, and the C-Span government access channel plan to send crews to Cobo for the NAACP gathering. Convention preparations were well under way at Cobo recently with workers checking all 84 meeting rooms in the 2.4-million-square-foot hall and testing a new air-conditioning system. Civic Center Director June Roselle said she wants to make sure no one gets too hot under the collar, and called the NAACP convention an important event for Cobo's future. Although the annual February con-See NAACP, Page 14A tion by the Justice Department.

Thornburgh said it would be improper for him to meet with those whose accusations were already under investigation. "I think the thing has taken a political turn now," said Donald Watkins, a Montgomery lawyer speaking for the group. "Now I don't know if we wffl ever have the meeting with Thornburgh." Already in Washington when the meeting was canceled, Watkins met instead with staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Black Alabama office holders have asked the committee to hold hearings on See ALABAMA, Page 14A 4- Black officials charge they're federal targets 1 DAVID BARBERSpectal to the Free Press MM! Ulillflltllltll. BY BILLY BOWLES Free Press Southern Bureau BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

Convinced that black office holders are singled out unfairly for criminal investigation and prosecution, a group of black politicians from Alabama is seeking help from Congress and the U.S. attorney general. Last week, Attorney General Dick Thomburgh agreed to meet with three of the black officials to discuss their concerns. But the officials angrily canceled the meeting when Thorn-burgh would not meet with nine others in the group on the grounds that they had brought formal charges already under investiga- John McDowell sets up the projector for the free Friday night movies in Reed City. The parking lot theater is the only one for miles around.

wagon, using a maze of electrical ex- of a pale white brick garage, tension cords and a portable, powerful And for the finishing touch, Rock-speaker, well would paint a tall, century-old gray His backdrop would consist of a huge njpvie screen painted on the side See MOVIES, Page 14A.