SIDESTEPS
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balance,” said Charlene Drew-Jarvis, a member of the city council
who has said she will announce her candidacy for mayor soon.
Jackson said it was too soon to be concentrating on the mayor’s
race. "The mayor has another year to serve,” he said.
“Focus on the mayor’s race is paralyzing the city,” he said. “The
priority issue ought to be enfranchisement of the District of Colum
bia.”
Other announced mayoral candidates include David Clarke, the
council chairman; John Ray, a member of the council; and
businesswoman Sharon Pratt Dixon, a former Democratic National
Committee treasurer.
Jackson was questioned by reporters after testifying in favor of
legislation to expand the rights of the disabled. His appearance was
before the House Committee on Education and Labor subcommittees
on select education and employment opportunities.
NIXED i
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a directive to reform the program in
April. As a result of initial findings,
he requested that the Office of Inspec
tor General audit the entire program;
investigate related consultant activi
ty; and examine the circumstances
surrounding the processing of a loan
for one of the recently approved
developments, McNair Farms.
“I promised to root out every oc
currence of inefficiency, misuse of
government monies, and fraud in the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development,” Kemp said. “This is
another step in meeting the reform
agenda that President Bush and I
have proposed for HUD.”
Secretary Kemp also announced
that all Title X projects now under
consideration, but which have not
received a legally binding commit
ment, will be frozen and all applica
tion fees returned. Further, all pro
jects that have received firm com
mitments and initial endorsements |
will be examined to determine |
whether fraud or misrepresentation ,
warrant the denial of government in- j
surance.
PAY PLAN
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the beginning of the 25th step in the
plan.
When fully implemented in three
years, a beginning teacher would
earn $2,050 a month for the id-month
school year, while a teacher with 20
years’ experience would earn $3,137 a
month. A teacher with 30 years’ ex
perience would get $3,748 a month.
The pay would not include any
across-the-board raises approved by
the Legislature or local pay sup
plements.
Teachers had a pay plan until 1962,
when teachers were frozen at the step
they then occupied. They have gotten
across-the-board increases since, but
no increases under the plan, essen
tially bunching teachers with several
years’ experience at the same pay as
new teachers.
The House panel, the group
meeting while many legislators were
at a conference in Baltimore, agreed
to accept a Senate proposal that
would give the State Board of Educa
tion the equivalent of six percent pay
increases with instructions to develop
a separate pay schedule for school
administrators.
The House panel also voted to stay
with its proposal for the Basic Educa
tion Plan, the eight-year proigram
approved in 1984 to guarantee that
every student in the state is offered
the same educational opportunities
under programs funded by the state.
capable of using dialogue and
negotiation to attain healthier race
relations in South Africa? Botha rush
ed policemen, police dogs, batons,
guns and bullets as his only answer to
the legitimate and democratic pro
test of the Africans who resented be
ing shifted about like pawns on a
chessboard.
In addition, Botha issued orders to
the police to shoot down unarmed and
nonviolent African villagers, killing
them.
With good reason, the brutalised
and angry villagers defended
themselves from the unprovoked
lasaktsassusi
of their fellow villagers.
The Africans of South Africa have
had too much of apartheid brutality,
and are now ready to lay down their
AFRICA
(Continued from page 1)
Botha foiled President Bush’s plan by
rushing to use force instead of resor
ting to peaceful negotiation. The
South African minority regime failed
to grasp the opportunity for a
peaceful «u^»ingue
Are the South African racist rulers
numerous sinnes, uuyuuua, luaiuiw,
demonstrations and other forms of
protest.
Rightly, the deprived, uprooted and
brutalized African masses must exer
cise their democratic right to air
views on their accumulated bitter
grievances. They must not be harass
ed, intimidated and brutalized with
guns and bullets for exercising these
democratic rights, as Botha is doing
at Leeufontein where he forces
Africans off their traditional habitat
to folkloric “homelands” which are
virtual concentration camps.
South Africa’s extreme racism
must be halted, presto.. It is
mankind’s major foe that brings into
perspective the juxtaposition of
western democracy close to apar
theid-concepts which are
diametrically divergent. Western col
lusion with apartheid can become a
disturbing question, and must be
avoided.
To end the terrifying centuries-long
genocide in South Africa, America
mustn’t shirk its responsibility to the
global causes of world leadership and
the defense of the concept of human
rights. America must continue to
play its vanguard role in the global
marathon struggle to end apartheid.
And America’s veto power in the
Security Council of Nations should
never be used to shield South Africa
from world censure. Instead, it
should be used to prevent further
Leeufonteins, Sharpevilles and
Sowetos... Never should America’s
power or influence be used to
perpetuate apartheid, which is
genocide.
NC DWI
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convicted.
However, Hiatt cautioned citizens
against forming opinions about the
outcome of DWI cases based solely on
conviction rates in individual coun
ties. “There are many factors involv
ed in prosecuting court cases,” he
said, “including the validity of
physical evidence submitted, the
absence of key witnesses in some
cases, and other circumstances affec
ting adjudication of cases."
school children travel the highways
and I understand the need for good
roads,” he said.
“But North Carolinians now and in
the future will find that investing in
education Is the single best way to Im
prove this state’s economy and
assure its future health,” he said.
The State Department of Public In
struction has prepared a county-by
county list of the money that will be
lost to local education agencies, under
both the House and Senate versions of
the BEP. Copies of those figures have
been sent to all superintendents,
school board members and county
commissioners.
Mr. Etheridge said ha realises that
House and 8onate members are ex
tremely frustrated and may not
welcome a call for still more money
when they have so many
but he said the BEP
is so Important that he would not “be
able to sleep writ if I did not warn
people about the danger of allowing
FUNDING
(Continued from page 1)
previous General Assemblies and the
promise ought to be kept.
Mr. Etheridge said failure to fund
the BEP will leave local school
systems “with contracts they cannot
honor and with promises made that
they cannot keep.”
“More importantly,” he said,
“failure to fully fund the BEP will
mean that North Carolina has blinked
in its determination to build up its
public schools, and I am afraid that
once the determination flags, we will
have difficulty recaptureing that
determination.”
Mr. Etheridge said he is in favor of
building highways and that North
Carolina can afford the plan that has
been proposed. “Our 1.1 million
“We need to ask ourselves some
serious questions about our priorities
before it is too late, and I intend to
make the BEP my standard speech
from now until this session of the
General Assembly is over,” he said.
FINDINGS
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“There is no intention here to
mislead,” she said, adding that she
was not trying to “belittle” or “make
light” of the inaccuracies.
“There is no concern about his
honesty, or his ethics,” Ms. Burstion
Wade said. “The man’s background
is just too admirable.”
But she acknowledged that At
torney General Dick Thornburgh and
his top aides were not aware of
Lucas’ inaccurate answers until last
The New York bar application
could become an issue in conjunction
with the fact that Lucas stated on
resumes and in court testimony that
he had been a Justice Department at
torney in 1963 when in fact he was a
legal assistant, no a lawyer.
Lucas was forced to leave the
department when he failed the D. C.
bar examination. He joined the FBI,
later becoming sheriff of Wayne
County, Michigan, which includes
Detroit, and after that county ex
ecutive.
In signing the New York form,
Lucas swore to the accuracy and
truth of his answers. His signature
was witnessed by a notary public.
Earlier in the day, Ms. burstion
Wake had said Lucas had given a
truthful answer to the question about
whether he had ever been a court
witness, saying “the application was
filed in his personal capacity as an at
torney. In that capacity, he was never
a witness.”
Confronted with more details about
the form, Ms. Burstion-Wade
acknowledged the inaccuracies and
said she had not seen the form when
she gave her initial response.
Lucas’ nomination is opposed by a
number of civil rights organizations
who say he lacks the professional
legal experience to head the Justice
Department’s civil rights division.
Michigan’s two Democratic
senators, Carl Levin and Donald W.
Riegle Jr., broke the Senate’s unsual
practice by declining to introduce
Lucas to the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee.
Nominees most often receive the
courtesy of an introduction from
home-state senators at confirmatin
hearings, regardless of party dif
ferences and sometimes even the in
tention to oppose the nominee.
Critics also have been focusing on a
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals finding
in 1985 that Lucas failed to in
vestigate police brutality charges in
the 1976 beating of a jail prisoner
named Salvatore Marchese.
“I think that what it demonstrates
is that Lucas is the wrong person for
this job by any measure,” said Ar
thur Kropp, president of the People
for the American Way, a group that is
fighting the nomination.
Lucas would succeed William
Bradford Reynolds, whose tenure
was marked by constant friction with
civil rights groups.
HOUSING
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the Center repot-ted.
While one of every three poor black
households and more than one of
every four poor Hispanic households
lived in substandard housing, the
report found that significant propor
tions of minority households that are
not poor - one of every six non-poor
black households and one of every
seven non-poor Hispanic households
-- also live in substandard conditions.
In fact, the proportion of non-poor
black and Hispanic households living
in substandard housing exceeded the
proportion of poor white households
living in substandard housing, the
study noted.
The Center's report is based on ex
tensive data collected by the Census
Bureau and the U. S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development and
released earlier this year. Although
the data describe conditions in 1985,
the Center study notes that housing
cost burdens are unlikely to have eas
ed since then because rental costs
and the average income of poor
families have risen at abut the same
pace since 1985.
"These stark findings indicate that
the growing lack of affordable hous
ing has reached a crisis stage for
blacks and Hispanics, as well as for
low income Americans in general,”
said Center Director Robert Greens
tein.
According to Edward Lazere, the
report’s principal author, “These
high housing cost burdens are likely
to have contributed substantially to
the growing problem of homelessness
and to have intensified other pro
blems such as the rising incidence of
hunger. When poor families must
spend .so much of their limited in
comes for housing, little money re
mains for other necessities.”
Housing Costs
Escalate in 1980s
The Center study found that hous
ing cost burdens have escalated
sharply since the 1970s, particular^
for minority and low income
households. It attributes the growing
shortage of low rent housing primari
ly to a sharp increase in the numbei
of poor households, a substantial
reduction in the number of low rent
housing units, and the resulting in
crease in rents.
It notes that the numbers of poor
white, black and Hispanic households
all grew substantially since the late
1970s, with the growth in poverty be
ing fastest among blacks and
Hispanics.
It also finds that housing costs rose
during this period for white, black
and Hispanic households alike, but
the rate of increase was more than
twice as great for the typical black
and Hispanic household as for the
typical white household.
Deep cutbacks in federal low in
come housing programs exacerbated
the problem, the report said. It noted
that only 29 percent of all poor
households received any federal,
state, or local housing assistance In
1987, and that the number of poor
households of all races failing to
receive any housing aid climbed from
four million in 1979 to 5.5 million in
1987.
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