a
- Street people living
on the eam grat and ode of the
n tion's capital ha on right to
ote, mo that could trigger similar
d WODS 0 the country, city offi-
ci predicted recently.
nanimou te by the c' y Board
of Elections and Ethic overturns an
e Iier dec' 'on by Joe rer, the city
regi rar, that homele peop e to live
in elters to 'VOte.
"Only recently e received five regi -
tr tion application, from peop e ho
I li d either on grate, in a park, in an
y or on a porch," Baxter . d. "On ad-
lee of council I rejected th applica-
tion . They appealed to the board and my
ded . on overturn d.
"Th people have rn affidavit
t the grate or park or alley they li on
they return to every night," he d.
y y ey ould not b denied the
ri t to ote becau they can' afford to
p y rent."
of the ruling, ashington's
. be required to give the
te or alley and ar-
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range to pic up their mail t a fixed d­
dress, ch . nearby store, horne or
po office box, Baxter said.
Low Cioffi, a homele man pan­
handling with a stra hat near the city's
cPherson Square ubway station, wel­
comed the decision.
"If you have any idea of anting to do
something better for your If, you've got
to vote," Cioffi said. "The Con itution
y citizens have got the right to vote 0
it doe 't m tter what you do."
Robert Federline, lounging under a
tree aclo from !he White House and
drinkin beer concealed in a paper bag,
. d homele people "have more of a
right to vote" becau "some people who
o n hou don't ote."
Baxter predicted the board's action
ould trigger a wave of homele people
registering to vote in the n tion's capital,
and similar ctions in other cities.
"I DO do bt t peo-
ple in other areas will be looking to D.C.
Cities have tr ditionally not registered
homel people."
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Jack oneall
u.s. policy
'on S. 'ric
barbaric
NEW YORK - The Rev. Je L. J ckson
t wee attacked the Re gan dminis­
tration's policy to ard South Afric
"an act of barb . ." .
J ck" n reCi d ding ovation
from the orth Arne . can Co ference for
Action Against Apartheid, hich 0
ing pport for the United atio cam­
paign against South Africa' racially sep-
, aratist POlic!e . ,
Pre . dent Re gan h given the "green
light of loans to South Africa from the
International onetary Fund," Jackson
e ha allowed more South African
o consulates to open in country, ex-
panded military ti . h the apartheid
regime, which training for the
South African co guard."
The so-called "policy of political en-
gagement of the Reagan asmini on
an act of barbarism," Jackson said.
Preceding J ckson' blast . t the
policy toward South Africa, Sen. Edward
. Kennedy (D- .) told the con-
ference th t th U. S. "policy of con­
struc 0 t been a total fail-