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States to enforce feder
WASHINGTON ? The Reagan administration
plans to delegate enforcement of key federal civil
rights laws to state officials in selected states.*The
federal Department of Health and Human
Services has drafted agreements under which state
agencies would investigate charges that a recipient
of federal funds* that had been channeled through
the state government had violated federal laws
against discrimination on the basis of race, color,
national origin, handicap, age, sex or religion.
The agreements, in effect, would give the states
responsibility for enforcing federal laws which they
may be accused of violating.
The policy, which would begin as a pilot program
involving several states, would apply to discrimination
complamts in connection wTth The use or
federal money distributed"to stile fbvernments in
lump sums to finance a*broad range of social programs.
Approximately $6.5 billion in these block
U.N. votes 133-0 to ce
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations
General Assembly voted 133-0 last week to condemn
the Republic of South Africa's racial policies
as a "crime against humanity and a threat to international
neace and stahilitv " Thp IlnitpH QtatPc
and Britain abstained from the vote.
U.S. representative Alan L. Keyes said that the
American delegation joined in "condemning the inherent
injustice of apartheid," but felt that revulsion
for the policy did not entitle the General
Assembly to "indulge in violent rhetoric that can
exacerbate an already tragically violent situation."
The U.S. representative also challenged the
"competence of this body-or of4he-Security Coun- cil
to declare the constitution of South Africa, or
Ethiopia hinders emer
WASHINGTON - The director of the U.S.
Agency for International Development said the
Ethiopian government's lack of cooperation in
handling emergency food supplies from donor nations
had slowed delivery of food to the country's
starving population.
?-?? - Peter -McPherton, director of 4he* agency
which manages U.S. overseas food contributions, _
charged Ethiopia's Marxist government at times
had closed its ports to emergency aid shipments,
^ giving priority to cargos of fertilizer and concrete
from the Soviet Union.
Ethiopia has been particularly hard hit by a
drought which has severely affected several sub
Saharan nations. International relief workers and
Ethiopian government officials say that 200,000
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al rights laws
grants has been distributed by the Department ol
health and Human Services this year. The funds ar<
used for maternal and child care programs, preven
tive health care programs, drug abuse treatment
and energy assistance to low-income families.
The states have broad discretion in spending th<
funds, which ultimately may go to local govern
ments, public health clinics, day-care centers anc
private agencies under contract to carry out socia
programs.
Administration spokesmen say the transfer ol
power is consistent with President Reagan's "nev
federalism" conceptTwhich seeks to reduce^federa
regulation and increase the role of the state govern
ments.
But some lawyers withinthe Health and Humai
Services Department are suggesting that it may b<
illegal for federal officials to delegate their respon
sibility for enforcing federal civil rights laws.
nsure S. Africa
that of any other member state, 'null and void.*
Britain and the U.S. also abstained on a simila
Security Council vote against the South Africai
constitution.
That constitution for the first time provide
parliamentary chambers for Asians and persons o
mixed race in South Africa, although the whit
chamber of the Parliament can overrule the twi
minority chambers and govern without them. Th
nation's 22 million blacks are not entitled to vote o
own propcriy.
The General Assembly resolution also supporte
the"legitimate struggle for natiohal liberation'' c
South Africa's black majority.
gency food delivery
persons eventually may die of starvation in th
country.
To date in 1984, the U.S. has donated 50,OC
metric tons of food worth S26 million to Ethiopi
and 1.4 million tons worth $430 million to sul
Saharan Africa. That amount is scheduled to ii
"I don't think money is the problem," said Sei
Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas. "The question is ge
ting the food out of the ports."
"Although we can mobilize resources here in tl
United States within weeks of approving i
emergency food request," McPherson said, "the
is less we can do about the movement of food on*
it arrives off the coast of Africa."
t of court?
A: Paul Cloud, director of the Neighborhoc
Justice Center, said if the other person involved
the incident consents, both parties can settle tl
case through the center.
The center handles misdemeanor cases by actii
as a mediator in a dispute. If an agreement can 1
reached, the district attorney's office will move f
a voluntary dismissal of any charges and the parti
will not have to go to court. The service is free. It
located at 1201 E. Ninth St. and its phone number
724-2870.
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| Teen pregnancies c
By M.L. CLARK
Waka Foftit Univaralty
The teenage pregnancy rate in the United States is
one of the highest in the world. It is estimated that
close to 5 percent of U.S. teen-agers give birth each
year.
Based on data presented by the Guttmacher Institute,
the U.S. teen-age birthrate is 3 times higher
than that of the Soviet Union, while Japan's rate is
only 1/18 of the the U.S. teen-age birthrate. Fifty
two of every 1,000 teen-agers less than 20 years of
age become pregnant in the U.S. yearly, while only
3 out of 1,000 teenagers become pregnant in Japan.
During the 1970s, there was a slight decline in the
rate of teen-age births, but only for females 15 years
of age and older. The out-of-wedlock birthrate continued
to rise during the 1970s, with a 40 percent increase
occurring for white females ages 15 to 17,
while the birthrate for black teen-agers declined by
7 percent overall and declined 10 percent for young
black teen-agers.
Although this information may sound encouraging
regarding black teen-agers, there is still cause
for concern. In 1978, approximately 70 per 1,000
black teenagers became pregnant, compared to 11
per 1,000 white teen-age girls, making the black
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teen-age pregnancy rate 6 times higher than that of
whites.
In 1978, there were 554,000 babies born to teenagers
and 1.3 million small children were living with
teen-age mothers, half of whom were unmarried. In
addition to these statistics, the Guttmacher Institute
has reported that in 1978, 441.6 million children
under 5 years of age lived with mothers who were
teen-agers when they gave birth," suggesting that
many children today are being raised by parents
who are merely children themselves.
More than 1/5 of the first premarital pregnancies
among teen-agers occur within the first month after
sexual activity has begun, with half occurring in the
first 6 months. In addition, the younger the age at
which a teen-ager becomes sexually active, the more
likely that she will become pregnant only several
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activity are much more likely to become pregnant
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1 young girls will become pregnant as teen-agers; 2 in
10 will actually give birth. Of the the 2 million girls
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