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<text id=89TT1669>
<title>
June 26, 1989: Giving Birth To A Scandal
</title>
<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>
</body></article>
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