r
protect our peop
curlty.
ed con
budget,
Ide
ting effect OIl our peop
d only offers a teful,
extr v ant military beefup,
hich m
e per do not think the
otagon could prudently
d extra billi
e gan ould the
br .
At time
ort,
ministratio
rvice to th
You
d
nt in e
tate and
grant" program .
Such co lidation ould effecti Iy kill Titl I
, bi- . program and programs desi d
di pped children. (Other pr rams included
on the dministration' hit . t, ould be: child
nutrition, ·d to migrant children, 001 de greg­
tion ce, ocati nal educ tion, po erty pro­
gram , and employm nt d training programs).
re ant to the drastic cut in education
program d the b grant concept is the philoso­
phy of th Reagan Administr tion hi claims that
hi gran will all local governmen ts greater
fleXIbility ith re ct to th u of Federal fund .
This philo phy . qui dangerous. If Coogre
ppro the bl grant heme, not only ill many
of th programs be dr s ically reformed, but many
of them will also be eliminated.
Of equal'importance,· the f ct that the Re
budget plan ould also do y ith the rule that
disallo 001 district from substituting Federal
aid for local spending on poor and handi pped tu-
dent.
e are rting you to this cri . ,be u re
going to need y' and the . tance of your con-
titutent organiz tions, to mobilize a tie of imp
. mented tntegies to defeat this att upon the
education of di vantaged children.
Sincerely,
Augustus F. Ha .C.
Shirley Chisholm, .C.
lop
r. at;�
of riving to ard the sam
In fiscal year 1981 th
C budget calls for
deficit of $ 1.8 billion le
in than R ' propo d $55
e time abandOl&. billion. The CDC budget
of th poor and underscores the need
underprivileged. for $6092 billion in federal
The Congr . nal rewnues bile R say
Caucus budget offers to needs only 600.3.
Co ress and the American Additionally, C propo
peop a better altematne, 662.3 billion· outlays
a �kable, constructive for self-help and peop
alternati . It 11 construe- programs bile Reagan, by
be e, e all meat-axins the \. program ,
Americans, t to reduce ,ee $655.2 billion -
inflation, incre job and a difference of $8.9 billion!
productivity, improve Under CBC plan,
national curity and relie federal outlays in 1982
th American people of ould total $721.1 bOOm
gr . g feder burden. and revenues $677.6 billion,
The C budget· crea a deficit of $43.5
de gned to: 1) impro billion. This compares ith
n tional rity without - e Re gan Administratio
exce . e military ding· budget, hich ca11s fo
2 provide tax relief for outlays totaling $695.3
and billion and revenues of
650.5 billion, resulting in
a deficit of $45 billion.
The De CDC budget
the folloWing
imp t 0
tion, employment,
health, hoo· , food pro­
grams, energy and natio
security:
�aintain existing aid to
colle and to dents
. g higher education
ould increa educational
id to di vantaged;
·re ore full funding to
C CET (Comprehen .
Employment and Trainin
dministration) programs;
• maintain edicare,
edi . d and other health
programs;
·cre te dditional in-
centive for c nstruction of
housing and re bilitation
of existing housin ock in
urban and other are here
hou . orta s e . ;
·continu federal energy
CODSeIY • n programs and
main tain pport for lar,
fo . and hiom fuel re­
arch and development,
300 million by elimi-
ting proposed Clinch
. r breeder reactor:
-Wp ment General
ccoun Office r comen-
dations hich will reduce
te and mismanagennent
in military spending by at
$3 billion ye,
ve $21.3 billion by elimi­
nating unnecessary weapon
procurement programs,
improve US. relatio with
third arId nation by in-
ere g in ernational
development and relief
spending hile cutting mili-
tary ance.
Ho can C ecom-
plish all this at 1 er
federal defICit than Reagan
h propo d? This i e ily
done if e thro out th
Presid nt' fallaciou eco­
nomic doctrine. He belie
the federal governm nt is
the cau of inflation and
slo economic growth and
this . just more tired
APRIL 15 -21,
1
CITIZ
P GE3
o
up ith $27.1 billi .
off For I
t benefits for our more the choi
ent citizens - tax
tradd1e and capitol pins
tr tment of ordinary . - difference be een "our
come to ju d "their
In it pl , C off: ts
re ration of $27.4 billi n
cuts propo d by the
. ent simply by reduc- gram
. g or altoghther elimin, .
a f choice tax benefits
for the thy. e
,
t conference from th South Afri
called to denounce d- ba ed dministntion in
ministration' foreign pob- ambo (South AI-
cy, Rep. illiam Gray ica), the Bla
(D-Pa), spe. for the posing th
18-mem Congr·anal South est African Peop "
B Caucus, said, uIt· Organization ( APO).
n becoming clear that '70 choo the p -
the Re administration theid regime of South AI-
is ibelf·th a rica . to alien te all of
plicy that goes US. 8 Africa. It .
inter s in Africa d wi11 a p in th face to 26
. late u from peop, million B Arne . "
markets and resource of he ..
the orld. But
First e the revela-
ti on th t fi high ranking
South African military om­
cer had slipped into a -
ington and d meetin at
ith US. offici can
cam the high pre
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OBlLE, ALA - The
brother of a BI teen-
r found h . g from
tree in racially mixed
nei borhood in obi.le,
I t Thu ay thinks th
r my have en
b other for anoth r
o had been d ting
bite 0
Police . . d the
the slaying of ichael Don-
, 19, ho d been
be ten and trangled before
his body from
a tr .
Thr bite
m n h been
d
ctions
gru d· 0 ery.
Police insi the
h