2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 14, 1988
World and Nation
Welfare
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President
Reagan on Thursday signed the first
major overhaul of the nation's welfare
system since it was created in the
Great Depression. He said the new
law is a "message of hope" to those
mired in a life of dependency and
destitution.
But that message to welfare recip
ients, said the president, also contains
a demand from the citizens who pay
the bills: "That you will do your share
in taking responsibility for your life
and for the lives of the children you
bring into this world."
Reagan said the best part of the
frade deficit irises despite export boom
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON The nation's
merchandise trade deficit surged to
$12.18 billion in August as a record
flood of imported products swamped
a continued boom in exports, the
government reported Thursday.
The Commerce Department said
the August imbalance was $2.7 billion
higher than the July figure, which had
been the lowest monthly deficit in 3
and a half years.
While the August figure was
slightly worse than expected, finan
cial markets took the news in stride,
Shroud of
From Associated Press reports
TURIN, Italy The Shroud of
Turin is only about 700 years old and
cannot be the authentic burial cloth
of Jesus Christ as believed by millions
over the centuries, the archbishop of
Turin said Thursday.
Cardinal Anastasio Ballestrero's
announcement that he accepted the
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new welfare plan is that it actually
poses "an alternative to life on
welfare."
"For too long the federal govern
ment, with the best of intentions, has
usurped the responsibility that
appropriately lies with parents," said
Reagan at the signing ceremony in
the Rose Garden. "In so doing, it has
reinforced dependency and separated
welfare recipients from r the main
stream of society."
The legislation contains the most
sweeping revision of the nation's
principal welfare program Aid to
Families with Dependent Children
since it was created in 1935.
unlike a year ago when a disappoint
ing trade report set off a chain of
events culminating in the Oct. 19
stock market collapse.
The dollar tumbled briefly Thurs
day in hectic foreign exchange trading
but then steadied. The Dow Jones
average of 30 industrial stocks gained
more than 10 points by mid -day.
The market reaction was in sharp
contrast to a year ago, when the ,
August trade report sent the Dow
plunging by 95 points, setting the
stage for the record 508-point drop
five days later on Black Monday.
Torimi pot aotlheiniticofficial says
results of dating tests conducted by
three laboratories ended a debate
over the origin of the cloth that has
raged for hundreds of years.
But another mystery remains
unsolved: how the shroud came to
bear the image of what scientists have
called a real human form of a
whipped and crucified man.
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Under the agreement reached after
two years of legislative struggle, the
government has pledged to provide
training and support systems to
destitute parents if they take steps to
become independent.
Each state must operate a Jobs
Opportunities and Basic Skills
(JOBS) program to educate, train and
find employment for the AFDC
recipients. Over seven years, states
will be entitled to receive $6.8 billion
in federal matching funds to pay for
employment and training activities.
The president touted the measure's
work and education requirements, as
well as its provisions increasing
Analysts said the market got the
bad news out of the way early this
time, falling by more than 30 points
on Wednesday on fears that the
report would show a higher trade
deficit.
The Reagan administration, which
has been fending off attacks on its
trade record by Democratic presiden
tial candidate Michael Dukakis and
running mate Lloyd Bentsen, moved
quickly to downplay the significance
of the widening in the August deficit.
Commerce Secretary C. William
Verity noted that the trade deficit for
Rejecting attempts to brand the
shroud a fake, Ballestrero stressed
that for the Roman Catholic church,
the linen cloth remains a venerated
object and a powerful symbol of faith.
"The church believes in the image
and not in the history, because this
image of Jesus Christ is very inter
esting and the people believe very
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pressure on absentee parents to pay
child support. '
Also present for the signing was
the chief architect of the bill, Sen.
Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y.
"I Ye been waiting 20 years for this
day," said the exultant senator,
following the ceremony. He added
that he hoped its features would take
hold fully by the end of the century.
Under the complex piece of legisla
tion, various programs have differing
starting dates. ,
Under the bill, states are required
for the first time to offer people on
welfare a broad variety of education,
training and work programs.
the first eight months of the year is
running at an annual rate of $138.5
billion, a 19 percent improvement
from the record deficit off $170.3
billion run up in 1987.
However, Bentsen said the steep
rise in the August deficit was another
example of failed Republican eco
nomic policies.
In August, both exports and
imports climbed to record levels.
Exports were up $1.03 billion to
$27.55 billion as America sold more
cars, business capital goods and farm
products to foreigners. -
much in Jesus," he said. ;
Ballestrero told a news conference '
at the headquarters of his archdiocese
that carbon-14 tests by labs in the
United States, Britain and Switzer
land concluded with 95 percent
accuracy that the shroud cannot be
more than 728 years old, dating to
between 1260 and 1350.
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United States to help provide
famine relief for Sudan region
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON The Sudan
has agreed to let the United States
provide relief to its famine
ravaged southern region, and food
and medical supplies began mov
ing Thursday to thousands of sick
and starving people, the State
Department said.
But there were no assurances
that rebels fighting a guerrilla war
with the government would allow
the assistance to get through. They
have attacked civilian planes and
truck convoys, and interfered with
the International Red Cross in its
efforts to work out relief schemes,
spokesman Charles Redman said.
The airlift was begun after
Sudanese Prime Minister Sadek
el-Mahdi met in Khartoum with
U.S. Ambassador G. Norman
Anderson and Walter Bollinger,"
an official of the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
A total of 90 tons of food will
be flown into Abyei, where an
estimated 25,000 refugees . have
gathered and more are expected
as the rainy season ends.
Crackdown on gangs begins
MIAMI Federal agents have
begun a nationwide roundup of
violent Jamaican drug gangs
blamed for 1,400 murders over the
past three and a half years and
121 people already have been
arrested, authorities here and in
Washington said Thursday.
U.S. Attorney General Dick
Thornburgh said the Jamaican
gangs, called posses, are "among
the largest traffickers in crack
cocaine.
The posses "have staked out a
large piece of the nation's drug and
firearms trafficking," Thornburgh
told a Washington news confer
ence, and are allegedly involved in
kidnapping, robberies,, assaults,
domestic and international gun
trafficking, money laundering and
fraud.
Helms fights AIDS legislation
WASHINGTON Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C, acknowledges he
has a personal interest in his efforts
to remove the confidentiality
provisions from legislation to set
national standards for AIDS j
testing his daughter is a nurse.
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Helms said he wanted to protect
medical workers, day-care,
employees, spouses and others
who might unknowingly come
into contact with AIDS victims.
"For no other disease known to
man is this kind of confidentiality
required," he said. "I just believe
we owe more to the people of this
country than to force them to be
at risk without their knowledge."
Helms, an outspoken critic of
most legislation to combat
acquired immune deficiency syn
drome, said Wednesday he would .
not yield unless supporters of the .
bill drop provisions that assure
confidentiality to people who test
positive for the AIDS virus.
Surgeon General C. Everett .
Koop and the bill's key sponsors
have said confidentiality is essen- .
tial to a successful program. ;
Hostage incident debated
RALEIGH Prosecutors .
argued Thursday that Robeson
County's problems do not excuse
the takeover of a newspaper, but
the defense in the hostage-taking .
trial countered that Eddie Hatcher
and Timothy Jacobs saw no other
alternative.
"Conceding an argument that
there are serious problems in -Robeson
County that need to be
addressed, that does not excuse the -action
taken here," Assistant U.S.
Attorney John Bruce said.
"We're not saying that because
there were problems in the past
(in Robeson County) that this was .
a violent protest," countered
defense lawyer Lewis Pitts, one of
Jacobs attorneys. "That's what .
the government would like you to -think,
but it ignores the real and
immediate threat to Timothy
Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher."
Hatcher, 30, and Jacobs, 20,
both Tuscarora Indians, from
Pembroke, face charges of making
and possessing illegal firearms,
conspiring to make those wea
pons, and making a bomb threat.
A federal charge of hostage-taking .
was dismissed earlier this weejk
against Jacobs but remains against 1
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