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- <text id=89TT1669>
- <title>
- June 26, 1989: Giving Birth To A Scandal
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- Giving Birth to A Scandal
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Did Detroit cops investigate the mother of the mayor's son?
- </p>
- <p> As mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young copes mainly with tedious
- municipal problems. But last January the monotony was interrupted:
- a paternity suit named the 71-year-old Young as father of Joel
- Loving, 6, born in 1982 to Annivory Calvert, 34. She claimed Young
- was her exclusive lover from 1981 to 1987. Twice divorced and
- unmarried, Young handled the allegation deftly. True, he was
- needled with jokes like the bumper sticker that said HONK IF YOU'RE
- MAYOR YOUNG'S SON. Still, after three blood tests indicated
- paternity, Young vowed to live up to his responsibilities. So the
- story faded.
- </p>
- <p> Now it has bounced back to the front pages with a new twist --
- a charge by Calvert and a friend, city employee Michael Thomas, 32,
- that a special secret police unit had been digging into Calvert's
- private life. After Thomas claimed that a police inspector
- questioned him about Calvert's love life, he was transferred to a
- new assignment -- at the sewer plant. Says Thomas: "That's where
- they find body parts." Calvert, who left Detroit to become head of
- the department of public works in Fontana, Calif., in January,
- filed her formal complaint with the Wayne County prosecutor's
- office, which announced it would investigate the alleged misuse of
- police.
- </p>
- <p> Detroit police admit investigating Calvert, but only about an
- alleged insurance scheme that Thomas tipped them to. Mayor Young
- says he knows nothing whatsoever about any police prying into
- Calvert's personal affairs.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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