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4The Dally Tar HeelThursday, April 16, 1992 Philly police chief to replace L.A.'s Gates LOS ANGELES Philadelphia Police Commissioner Willie Williams has been picked to succeed an embattled Daryl Gates as police chief, Philadel phia Mayor Edward Rendell said Wednesday. Williams would become the first black police chief of Los Angeles, and ' the first chief in more than 40 years who didn't rise through the ranks. Rendell said that Williams told him Tuesday night that he had been offered the job and that the offer was too good to pass up. "He will be making about $80,000 more than he is making here," Rendell said. "Williams was a very fine com missioner, and he will be hard to re place, but no one is irreplaceable." Williams makes $95,000 a year in the Philadelphia job. Gates, who has said he would retire in June, was forced to announce his retirement in the aftermath of the March 3, 1991, videotaped police beating of black motorist Rodney King. U.N. sanctions against Libya go into effect TRIPOLI, Libya Countries barred Libyan jets from their airspace and or dereddiplomatstogohomeon Wednes day, tightening a noose around the Arab country to pressure it to turn over sus pects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The punitive measures were sanc tions approved by the United Nations, but a defiant Libya tried to flout them by sending its jets into the sky. Libya hinted it might retaliate by expellingdiplomats and announced that no Libyan airline tickets would be sold to citizens of countries supporting the sanctions. Although there is Arab sentiment against the sanctions, nations in the region abided by a U.N. resolution passed March 3 1 banning arms sales to Libya and calling on countries to cut back Libyan diplomatic staffs. Despite the grounding of flights, land and sea SUNDAY Last regular season home same for the defending champs! 360 put vrtmfTffST Fctier Field A" XtfUtisb i n save on We'll take 1 0 off when you leave rental! 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Life appeared to go on as normal in Tripoli despite Libya's growing isola tion. Traffic was normal. A few cars still displayed black ribbons on radio antennas, left over from a nationwide protest Tuesday over U.S. air raids on Libya six years ago, but the black mourn ing clothes were gone. Nations around the world heeded the call to isolate Libya. Belgium, Den mark, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Germany and France asked Libyan diplomats to leave, and countries across Europe and the Middle East canceled all flights to Tripoli. Switzerland said it would join in the sanctions despite its tradition of neutrality. Washington does not have diplomatic relations with Tripoli. First couple earned $1.3 million last year WASHINGTON The income of President Bush and his wife, Barbara, soared to $1.3 million last year, pro pelled by profits from the first lady's bestseller, "Millie's Book." Mrs. Bush donated $789,176 of the book royalties to a literacy foundation in her name. The Bushes' tax return, released Wednesday, showed they paid $204,84 1 on an adjusted gross income of $1,324,456. They claimed $669,484 in itemized deductions, most of it from donations to 48 charities. Bush is paid $200,000 as president. He and his wife also reported $ 1 97,047 in income from their blind trust, $1,151 in interest income and $ 1 ,359 from other sources. In 1990, the first family's income was $452,732, on which they paid $99,241 in taxes. Both the president and first lady have published books, earmarking the royal ties for charity. Bush's autobiography, "Looking Forward," earned $2,7 1 8 last year while "Millie's Book" brought $889, 176. After deduction of taxes.Mrs. Bush donated $789,176 to the Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation. Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, paid $45,27 1 in taxes on adjusted income of $ 1 8 1 ,652. 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A 1 972 Gallup Poll taken less than a month before that year's presidential election showed that 53 percent of vot ers aged 1 8 to 24 were planning to back McGovern, while 45 percent said they would cast their ballots for Nixon. Nixon's support in 1972 grew with age more than 60 percent of those 25 and older said they would vote to re elect the president. But in the spring 1992 Carolina Poll, conducted by students at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Com munication, younger North Carolinians Phillips predicts end of ByAlisaDeMao Senior Writer The Democrats have a slim-to-none chance of winning the presidential elec tion this year, but they may be lay ing the groundwork for a victory in 1996, au thor and political analyst Kevin Phillips said Tuesday night. Phillips, whodelivered the 1992Weil Lecture on American Citizenship in the Hanes Art Centerauditorium, compared the U.S. economic situation during the 1 980s to the conditions of the 1920s and of the 1870-1890 "Gilded Age." Each of these periods was marked by souring economic prosperity and was followed by an eventual ousting of the Republican Party from the White House, said Phillips, who spoke on "The Poli tics of Rich and Poor in Campaign '92." Phillips, the editor of The American Political Report, is a member of the political strategists panel of The Wall Street Journal and a commentator for National Public Radio. His first book, "The Emerging Re publican Majority," published in 1969, accurately predicted the growing con servative trend in the United States. His most recent work, "The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath,"appears on sev eral bestseller lists. Phillips also served as chief political and voting patterns analyst for Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign and was a special assistant to the U.S. attor ney general's office in 1969. "George Bush, by far and away, has set a record in losing 50 percent of the population in one year," Phillips said, commenting on the president's low ap Get Fully Prepared with the LEGAL PREP LSAT PREPARATION SEMINAR . . . run, uicwenyuiy, iiiyiiiyeuuuuvei ivauy tha hoc 10 ia in I QAT nranaratinnl" lifts Also GRE & GMAT tutorials 24hour telephone hotline: 1 -800-654-2385 Sponsored by Educational Preparation Services, Inc. I LOUNGE mJif IhHI lSISLSV Play the most exciting live TV competitions in history. Trivia Countdown & Showdown pits your knowledge and skill against other players in Teddy's and all across the country. With QB1, you can actually interact with live TV football games by anticipating live quarterback plays via satellite - at Teddy's. 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In the fall 1988 Carolina Poll, state residents who planned to vote in the upcoming presidential election were asked whether they supported the George Bush-Dan Quayle ticket or the Michael Dukakis-Lloyd Bentsen ticket. When divided into the twoage groups, the responses of those who endorsed a ticket differed by 17 percentage points: 66 percent of those aged 18 to 40 proval rating, which has dropped from 89 percent to 39 percent in the past year. "George Bush might lose in a race if he ran unopposed. But he can't run unop posed. He has to have a Democratic challenger." Although Democratic front-runner Bill Clinton is not marketable, the Democrats are on the right track, Phillips said. "It usually takes a party one election to get a theme together," he said. "I wouldn't be surprised if 1992 wasn't the year the Democrats got the mes sage, but what they didn't count on was a candidate who put all his personal problems in the hopper. 'This is often the way the opposition party looks just before it's about to take over." The United States is historically unique in that it holds critical elections every 20 to 30 years, Phillips said. "Ev ery long generation, the party out of power wins and holds the White House," he said. "I think it's logical to expect in the '90s that this will happen again." This cyclical pattern can be seen in the Republican defeats at the end of the 19th century and in the 1930s, Phillips said. . "Each of these periods pulled the plug on the Republican coalition," he said. 'They tell us the psychology of the '90s will move away from (that of) the '80s." Phillips drew a number of parallels between the three periods of Republican-dominated politics to support his theory. In each of these eras, there has been a popular sense that government has grown too large, a massive restructur- uiuwuiMiiiiii i supported Bush and Quayle, compared with 49 percent of those 41 and older. 34 percent of those 18 to 40 sup ported Dukakis and Bentsen, compared with 51 percent of those 41 and older. The president's success among younger voters is not a local phenom enon. A 1988 Gallup Poll taken just days before the presidential election showed 53 percent of those aged 18 to 49 sup ported the Bush-Quayle ticket, com pared with 45 percent of those 50 and older. Of those 1 8 to 40, 42 percent said they backed the Bush-Quayle ticket, compared with 44 percent of those 50 and older. For those 65 and older, the difference swayed even more toward the Democratic side. Lewis Lipsitz, a UNC professor of political science, said the results of the 1992 CarolinaPoll and the 1972 Gallup Poll reflected a difference in what the younger generation had been exposed to. "My guess is that of the people under 40, there are more in this group who have been kind of socialized during the Reagan years. The older ones were af fected by the Depression and the New Deal," Lipsitz said. "There is some evi dence that younger people tend to be Republicans." Terry Sullivan, an UNC associate Republican ing of business and finance, major tax reductions and periods of disinflation resulting in booms on the stocks and bonds markets. These periods also saw the emer gence of a two-tiered economy, mas sive growth in the concentration of wealth among the economic elite and a huge increase in debt, leverage and speculation, which eventually brought about the end of each of the first two economic eras. Phillipscitedexisting economic con ditions, including the collapse of real estate values, massive corporate debt and the emergence of the United States as the world's leading debtor, as indica tions that the country was reaching a critical point in its economic and politi cal cycle. Following this trend, voters in the 1990s will focus on Democrat-dominated issues, Phillips said. Three issues that could favor the Democrats are abortion, the environ ment and a collection of women's is sues, including child care and parental leave, he said. Under Ronald Reagan, the GOP came to be seen as the party of prosperity. This could create a populist backlash as the electorate begins to see the party as elitist, Phillips said. "The way the two parties get out of alignment is interesting," Phillips said. "Democrats move to a fringe any PPP the best approach would be for Orange County but that PPP members should begin to investigate possible means of funding. Neighborhood opposition can pre vent affordable housing developments because of fears that low-cost housing will drive neighboring property values down. Dyer said. "Neighborhood opposition and neighborhood concerns are really pow erful," Dyer said. "This idea that neighborhoods of dif ferent prices can live together is a real important one." Ben Tuchi, University vice chancel lor for business and finance, said af fordable housing should be a public and private partnership. A number of groups, including OWASA, area governments and builders, will need to make conces sions if houses costing less than $100,000 are to be built in the commu nity, he said. Ted Abemathy, director of the Or ange County Economic Development Commission, said the lack of affordable housing adversely affected Orange County's economy. MCI passed over Orange County and See What You're Missing! Daily Wear Soft Contact Lenses regular $16000 Sperical Only Includes: Eye Examination. Contact cacF Lenses, Sterilization Kit, Fitting and Follow-up Visits. Offer good through 53092 rvrfl CILd ship ax professor of political science, agreed that younger Americans' experience watching Republicans in the White.. House played a significant role in their , voting habits. "While they've been growing up,' that's all they've seen," Sullivan said. ! "Older adults have experienced more; i Democrats as president." In the 40 years preceding 1972, seven ! Democrats filled the presidency, and three Republicans held the post. In the ! 40 years before 1992, however, there ; were seven Republicans and three ' Democrats. " The generational switch has been fairly steady, according to Gallup Polls from the past two decades. In 1976, younger Americans sup--ported the Democratic Jimmy Carter Walter Mondale ticket slightly more; than they had supported McGovem four ' years earlier. Older Americans, how ever, gave much more support to the Democratic ticket in 1976 than they had , in 1972. In 1980, support for Carter and Mondale was significantly greater' among older Americans than it was among younger adults. The 1984 election was the one quirk ; in this pattern, as a larger number of older Americans supported the Repub lican Reagan-Bush ticket. domination fringe. It doesn't matter what fringe. Republ icans have only one fringe. They : pursue the top 1 percent of the eco nomic community. "There are major populist currents out there. What (they) suggest is a kind of outsiderism, with economic over tones There's a growing animosity toward the top 1 percent. It's seething; even though its not being properly chan- neled." This animosity can be seen in the "frustration politics" of the past few years and accounts for the emergence of Pat Buchanan and Jerry Brown as le-' gitimatepresidentialcandidates.Phillips said, calling the Brown candidacy the equivalent of a drive-by shooting. The frustration also explains the popularity of H. Ross Perot, who is seen as a political outsider, he said. Perot's popularity is indicative of a situation unique to this political genera tion, the sense that both the Republi cans and the Democrats have failed, Phillips said. "Both groups contribute to the fact that you have a huge group that cuts across ideology. ... We've got a di vided government," he said. Usually, Phillips said, a Republican executive branch can blame problems " on "those rotten Democrats on Capitol ' Hill," and a Democratic Congress can blame "those lousy Republicans in the White House." from page 3 ' decided to build a new office building in Cary because it was concerned that its -employees would not find affordable . housing in Orange County, Abemathy ' said. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said he wanted to see a comprehensive re port from the PPP detailing the prob-' lems inhibiting the development of af fordable housing and some possible ' solutions. ' Broun said the PPP would plan a housing summit with Orange County : leaders to address some of the issues . raised at the meeting. Housing from page 1 . A discrimination test, Boger ex-." plained, would work if a black student, ; for example, were to be sent to act as a potential buyer or renter. ; If the black student was refused, a white student with the same economic and social profile would be sent to the same landlord. If the landlord offered to rent or sell to the white student, the landlord could be sued for discrimina tion, he said. i urn in .iniiiiiil.il ' S$jJ!aV 1 H Dr. Thomas A. Costabile Optometrist Village Plaza, Chapel Hill Monday-Friday 8-5 Closed 12-1 968-4774
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