Togo Receives UN Recognition
For Efforts Reducing Population
NEW YORK, N.Y.-Recognized by
the United Nations for its efforts in
reducing population growth, the West
J1*1,1?" of Togo was awarded
the 1969 UN Population Award for its
National Family Welfare Program.
,1f8t African recipient of the
in Population Award, Togo’s efforts
will set an example for others to
emulate^ the UN announced.
Javier Perez de Cuellar, secretary
general of the UN, who presented the
award, stated, “Togo’s efforts sihee
the beginning of the 1980s have begun
to bear fruit.” He commended Togo
on its program and particularly on its
“spectacular reduction in maternal
and infant mortality.”
Togo’s commitment to the objec
tives of its National Family Welfare
Program has resulted in infant mor
tality dropping by more than 50 per
cent since 1970. Togo’s population
rate increase has dropped from 3.4
percent in 1970 to 2.9 percent in
1987-88. The fertUity rate hat also
dropped from 6.6 percent in 1970 to six
percent ih 1967-88.
The program’s focus on family
planning hps brought about a major
Increase in the use of contraceptives.
Since 1984, the use of condoms and
spermicides have both increased by
more than 300 percent.
Seeking to sustain long-term
development, Togo’s President
Gnassingbe Eyadema instituted a
“green revolution’’ policy of
agricultural self-sufficiency in 1977.
This policy included improvement in
the quality of life of the Togolese
population, but particularly for
mother and child. Togo’s National
Family Welfare Program was
created to accomplish this particular
goal.
Created in 1977, this program’s
long-term objective is to disseminate
information about and provide fami
ly, maternal and child health care to
the Togolese population, currently
estimated at 3.1 million. In order to i
carry out the information campaign, I
1,856 health care professionals from
the Ministry of Public Health, In
cluding doctors, social workers and
nurses, were trained.
Since 1983,37 clinics have been set
up and fully equipped to provide
family health care as well as family
planning contraception services.
Medical personnel trained to provide
family health care services have in
cluded 19 doctors, 63 midwives, 13
medical assistants, and 37 nurses and
social workers.
In 1987, as a result of a pilot pro- j
gram providing family planning kser- !
vices in the clinics, 10,897 women {
began using birth control methods, 1
including oral contraceptives and
barrier methods. In each of Togo’s
five districts, five to 10 medical
dispensaries have also been set up to
provide over-the-counter barrier
methods of contraception.
Mayor Barry Plans To Campaign
Despite Personal Woes. Scandals
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)-Mayor
Marion Barry, Jr. disclosed plans to
seek a new term last week, despite an
11-year administration punctuated by
scandal, in a decision complicating
the political future of Jesse Jackson.
Barry, 53, said through an aide that
he will run for re-election in 1900 and
expects Jackson’s support. The an
nouncement ended months of
speculation about whether a com
bination of personal woes and the ci
ty’s crime and budget difficulties
would discourage Barry from runn
ing for an unprecedented fourth term.
Jackson had disclosed plans earlier
in the week to move to Washington by
Sept. 1. And he had done nothing to
discourage speculation that he was
eyeing the mayor's chair, although
aides said he would not run against
Barry, an old ally from civil rights
days.
But the two-time Democratie
presidential contender quickly pulled
back after Barry spread word of his
plans, telling the Detroit Free Press
last Thursday, “I have no plans to run
for mayor.”
“I’ll be doing more and more work
out of Washington for the cause of the
Rainbow Coalition,” he said of his
political organization.
Barry, also a Democrat, was
traveling to a National League of
Cities conference in Minneapolis and
was unavailable for comment.
Jackson was en route fropi Detroit
to Chicago and could not be reached.
Jackson said in the newspaper in
terview, Our basic work, whether
it’s same-day [voter] registration, or
day-care legislation, or our reinvest
ment plan, or affordable housing, is
all kind of Washington-centered. It
makes more sense for my wife and
me to have a house there three or four
days a week than to stay in a hotel.”
In the past six months, several of
Barry's top appointees have resign
ed, a former top adviser has been in
dicted on fraud and conspiracy
charges, and the mayor himself has
twice testified before a federal grand
jury about ties to a man convicted of
selling drugs in the Virgin Islands.
That man, Charles Lewis, is
awaiting trial—recently postponed to
September—on additional drug
charges in Washington. He came
under federal investigation after city
police called off an attempt to make
an undercover drug buy from him
after learning Barry was in Lewis’
Washington hotel room.
As for the mayor’s race, one aide
familiar with Barry’s political
strategy said the disclosure of his
plans was designed to keep Jackson
from gathering momentum in an
unannounced campaign for mayor,
particularly in the event that the drug
trial produced more unfavorable
publicity for the mayor.
Barry has been concerned that if
Jackson moves to Washington, adn
Barry is damaged by the Lewis trial,
"Jesse will gather a full head of
steam and be unstoppable,” said the
aide.
me mayor naa planned to make ms
announcement in the fall, the aide
said.
Jackson has never held elective of-,
fice, and a term as mayor was seen
by some of his supporters as a way to
add such experience to his political
resume, while avoiding a third run
for the Democratic presidential
nomination at a time he seemed
unlikely to win.
Barry, in addition to his personal
problems, is struggling with the city’s
murder rate and is having to deal
with growing budget problems.
Through Friday, 229 persons had
been killed in Washington in 1969, 70
more than at the same time last year.
A record 372 persons were killed in
the district in 1988, and police blame
more than 60 percent of those deaths
on drugs.
Airman Robinson
Assigned Post
Air Force Airman Felita A.
Robinson, daughter of LaVerne Pirtle
of Rural Route 1, Whiteville, Tenn.,
and Leon Murphy of SOI Rock Quarry
Road, Raleigh, has arrived for duty
at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.
Robinson is an administration
specialist with the 351st Supply
Squadron.
She is a 1988 graduate of Bolivar
Central High School, Tenn.
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