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Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Poor Economy Could
Drain Social Security
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The sour econo
my and President Bush’s tax cut will
force the government to tap $9 billion in
Social Security reserves this year, con
gressional analysts concluded in a report
Monday, igniting a bitter political fight
over the dwindling surplus.
“Houston, we’ve got a problem," said
Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., ranking
Democrat on the House Budget
Committee. He used the famous Apollo
13 line to underscore the pessimistic
projections from the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office. “What
we’ve got here is the hard job of adjust
ing the budget to reflect reality.”
The CBO report was scheduled for
release Tuesday. It was obtained
Monday by The Associated Press from
congressional sources.
Democrats said the CBO update,
coming less than a week after a sunnier
White House budget forecast, would
severely crimp the ability of the presi
dent and Congress to fund their priori
ties: increasing defense and education
spending, providing a Medicare pre
scription drug benefit and extending
popular expiring tax breaks.
House Minority Leader Dick
Gephardt, D-Mo., said the 10-year,
$1.35 trillion tax cut is causing an
“alarming fiscal crisis,” draining away
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the surplus cushion just as the econom
ic downturn is hitting home.
The CBO provides the budget num
bers Congress is required to use. “The
numbers don’t he,” Gephardt said.
The new report was released even as
Republican party leaders began attack
ing Democrats for their criticism about
the dwindling budget surplus.
“If Democrats stay on the attack ...
and finally resort to paid advertising to
mislead the people of the United States,
... we can’t allow that to go unan
swered,” said Jim Gilmore, chairman of
the Republican National Committee.
The Democrats responded with the
argument that their comments about the
dwindling surplus are the truth and used
Congress’ nonpartisan financial watch
dog office as proof.
“We owe it to the American public to
let them know truly what the Bush
administration is doing to our econo
my,” Democratic national Chairman
Terry McAuliffe said.
Gilmore, the Virginia governor, said
Democratic leaders are “tone-deaf” and
hypocritical about the budget.
Republicans began airing 30-second
television commercials Monday that said
Bush “is sending money back to taxpay
ers to get our economy growing again.
He’s protecting every penny of Medicare
and Social Security and still left the sec
ond biggest surplus in history.”
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Powell to Skip U.N. Racism Summit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Ending months
of deliberation, Secretary of State Colin
Powell has decided not to attend the
U.N. conference on racism because of
Arab-backed “offensive language"
accusing Israel of racist policies against
Palestinians, the State Department said
Monday.
Spokesman Richard Boucher said no
decision has been made on whether the
United States will send a delegation to
the conference or boycott it altogether.
The eight-day conference convenes
Friday in Durban, South Africa.
While negotiations continue over the
wording of a conference document to be
approved by delegates, Boucher said the
administration could wait no longer in
announcing whether Powell would
attend.
Shortly before Boucher spoke, U.N.
Human Rights Commissioner Mary
Robinson noted the formulation
“Zionism equals racism” had been delet
ed from conference documents. Similar
ZOOM CULTURE
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“People say what goes on in Jamaica
stays in Jamaica, but we got it all,” said
Marty Lasferty, president and CEO of
Zoom Culture. “We were incredibly for
tunate to capture the stories we did.”
The company releases the fruits of its
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p.m. tonight at the Lumina Theater. A
premiere party is scheduled at Top of
the Hill following the screening, and the
film’s $3 admission also fronts one drink
at the after-party.
Filming the trials of several Spring
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Zoom Culture’s ongoing “Digital
Diaries” series, Lasferty said. The diaries
are meant to chronicle youth’s various
stages and rites of passage, and Lasferty
added that “Spring Break” is a logical
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language still exists in the draft docu
ments, including a reference to “the
Zionist movement, which is based on
racial superiority.”
Boucher said he did not have up-to
the minute information on the negotia
tions over the documents. He added that
the United States wants to work with
others who are trying to rectify the situ
ation.
Speaking in Johannesburg, Robinson
said she was encouraged by the con
structive attitudes of delegates attempt
ing to reach a compromise.
But, she said, it would take “the par
ticipation of all countries at the highest
level possible” to demonstrate determi
nation to fight racism.
Boucher said the administration is
disturbed by the focus that many coun
tries want to place on Israel.
“It’s the only country that seems to be
singled out,” he said.
He added that Powell’s attendance
was not deemed to be imperative
because, while many countries plan to
be represented by their head of state or
extension of that series.
And due to the nature of this partic
ular rite of passage, Lasferty said the
film, currently not rated, will receive an
R for several adult themes that are pre
sent in the film.
“(The R rating is) for numerous incar
nations of the ultimate pursuit of hedo
nistic pleasure,” Lasferty said. “It doesn’t
disappoint in terms of that aspect of it”
Although the rating will not be
applied at the time of tonight’s showing,
audiences only over age 18 are permit
ted to see tonight’s screening.
UNC graduate student Jennifer
Grossman, who was affiliated with
Zoom Culture during its days as a
Carrboro-based Internet company, was
filmed by the Zoom Culture crew in
Cancun last March.
The experience of having her Spring
Break filmed both amuses Grossman
and makes her a bit nervous. She said
foreign minister, many others will send
lower level delegations.
A senior State Department official
expressed skepticism about the willing
ness of some countries to back off on
their criticism of Israel. The official said
conciliatory language accepted at this
stage can be scrapped and replaced by
tendentious wording once the confer
ence begins.
Given the brief period before the
conference starts, the official said a deci
sion on sending an official delegation
from Washington would have to be
made in the next day or so. Another
option, the official said, was to have the
United States represented by officials
already stationed in southern Africa.
Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., praised
Powell’s decision. Asa world leader in the
fight against racism, “the United States
must not dignify this anti-Israel lynching
with its high-level participation,” said
Lantos, a member of the House
International Relations Committee.
The decision also was praised by the
pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League.
she is concerned how the documentary
will depict her but nevertheless looks
forward to the film’s release.
“I have been on Spring Break three
times, so I was familiar with the antics,
but being with Zoom Culture wasn’t
what I expected,” she said. “Reality TV
can be a lot more stressful than I thought.
“I’m really not as looney as I might
appear.”
Lasferty said all who participated in
the project signed waivers allowing
Zoom Culture to use footage at its dis
cretion and added that, despite its
antics, the film has a moral about the
consequences of things going too far.
Grossman echoed this statement and
encouraged anyone on Spring Break -
or on reality-based TV - to be careful
while relishing the revelry.
And while the film might embarrass
her, Grossman said she’s looking for
ward to seeing the finished product.
“I’m excited and extremely wary of
how I’m going to be packaged - I’ll be
covering my eyes and laughing at the
same time.”
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Glen A. Tobias, ADL national chair
man, and Abraham H. Foxman, its
national director, said the decision sends
a clear message that “the United States
will not legitimize the attempts to resur
rect unfounded anti-Israel and anti-
Jewish canards” at the U.N. conference.
But Gerald LeMelle, a top official of
Amnesty International USA, said Powell’s
decision not to go was very disappointing.
“There has been no serious thought
as to the role the United States could
play,” LeMelle said. “Who is going to
start leading us away from racial strife in
Rwanda, Burundi, Kosovo, Cincinnati?
“Race was at the core of all of these
issues. Who is going to show leadership?
It’s not going to be the Chinese or the
Russians. It has to be the U.S. They
don’t seem to be seizing the moment.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who is flying
to Durban Tuesday to join other U.S.
civil rights activists at the conference,
said in a telephone interview that
Powell’s decision not to attend the con
ference represents “a huge step back
ward toward isolationism.”
RAT RATE
From Page 3
Durham,” she said. “The HUD formu
la will not allow families to move out of
public housing. We are looking at what
is needed to move more people forward
into home ownership.”
The residents’ council also submitted
a recommendation to the town council
with the resolution passed Monday that
called for a series of rental rates ranging
from S3OO to S6OO per month.
Despite the residents’ council’s con
cerns, Tina Vaughn, director of the
Chapel Hill Housing Department, said
the rates established by the town using
the HUD formula will not negatively
impact families living in public housing.
“You have to remember that (families)
still have the option to have rent based on
their income,” she said. “Because they still
have that choice, (the flat rental rates)
won’t hurt them. The rates set forth by the
consultant are in accordance with HUD
regulations and I believe are reasonable."
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.