The Ia provides for �
Dr.Lenon FuiaD1, the iode- day peri . • period, but
I pendeat . te for President enacted· than half
of the UoitcdStates, a mort the time allowed d expo eel.
will place ber on the Political observers are "ex-
ballot i ichipn . ithout pecting that the ruliag . result
to submit �ominating . many indepe deats gettiDg OIl
pe . es, the ballot, th preseDtiDgwters
Fedetal Di trict Judge ith a -laundry list- of can-
Robert E. Demucio ruled didates.
T y, J 13 that the stale's "Once again, the state of
Ia requiriag· depeodeDts Michigan bas a te d the
ther24,OOO· bares· - .taxpayers' IDO y iii trying to
CXDW·tutioaal. deny ballot access to inde�
pendent candidate," com­
meoted FuIaDi, calls bee in­
dependent presidential cam­
paign ·a ausade for fair elec­
tions and demoaacy.·
The Michipn suit brought by
PuIani one of five such suits
brought s tes
with Ia placing unreasonable
requirements on independent
candidates.
A of 1986 teState of
Mich.n Ilad s�nt S35,m> in
court-a arded attorneys' fees
Congressional. hearinq ;tops
Black . Aged Flint' meeting
The National Caucus and
Center OIl Black Aged, Inc. will
hold its 18th Aanual Con&ren�
June 23 through 25 t the Hyatt
Regency Flint in Flint; t
Michipo. -
Theme of this year's con­
fereece i "Today awJenges
- TolllOl'l'OW's Opportuo.ities •.
FOQI5 will be on information
which ha recently been
gathered on the status of the
Black aged and What can be Israelis deny
done to imprme that status.
One of the �jor conference . Angola fighting
eve wiUbe a public bcariDg on Hou e Committee t e (NIS) _ An Isreali Embassy
Saturday, J 25 at 9:00 a.m., _ Budget, Thursday, June 23 at
. conducted by' U.S. Con- 1:00p.m. on the outlook for pr� officer in W· �
gre sman Dale Kildee (0- senior from the Federal denied report. th.at Israeh
icigan), on "Improving perspective,. mg.ton· the troops ar� fightmg �moog the
mority Participation in the budget, the Older Americans South African forces an Angola.
Older Americans Act Ad, senior housing and Social I The charge was firs� leveled
Progr •. . Security; at � nc:ws \ coaference an, Braz-
Other conference highlights - Con. George�W. Crockett, zaYille May by Angola am-
. elude speecbes by: Jr., a member of the House b �or to the Cong�,. Jose
- WilliaJD Gray, Chair of the Committee on Aging. 0 will Agostinho Neto, according to a
- BBC r port.,
I
speak on Friday, June Z4 at 7:00
pm. on -rile Status of the Black
ElderJy'.
- Con. Charles Hayes (D­
IU), a member of the House
Education and Labor Commit­
tee, Friday, June 24 at 12:00
nooaon emergiug tren affect­
ing the Black elderly.
, For juftMr in/omuztion caD­
(202) 637-8400.
omen.
� H.R. 4049
Development
require the ney for Interna­
tional Develo ment (AID) to
process key ta by gender to
identify the role of Third orld
men. AID u1d also be re-
quired to emphasize the effec­
tiveness of iategr ling n in
the development p ocess
· through project and personne!
evaluations. Under the . Ia-
tion, an agency task force 0
men in deYelopmen uld
be estabf ed with seOlOr staff
from all bureaus to OYersee the
uccessful operation of the
program. Curreatly bUl.i
pendiDg in the House Coalmit­
tee OD -Fore· Affairs.
., CoDgl'cuman Le1araa . d,
-Fifteen years 0, CoDp"e
passed the. Percy Amen.t
mandating that AID iotegate
me1l into . �1dpment
programs. Too little beea
dooe'in thole fifteen years. It .
time for Congress to pell
t AID m t do to mo e
effecti\1e1y ddr the needs of
Third World women.·
To address the pr ctice of
DiscrimiDatioD· the allocation
of U.s.' ei Aid to Africa,
The" Congre sional BI ck
Caucu ill be developio a
I
I·
first ever to be on e ballot in all
50 states and e District of
Columbia.
proposal that would provide
minority set -aside programs re­
quiring a certain percentag of
United States development as­
sistance be provided through
minority contractors .
According to the overseas
Development Council, in 1987
the Middle East, Lati America,
The Caribbean, d Asia ranked
higher than Africa, in receipt of
U.S. foreign assistance. Over $5
billio of the" $13.4 billio ap­
propriated by Congress went to
Israel d Egypt The 460
million peop of SublSaharan
Africa received less than two
dollars per capita while Israel
received about &1,000 per
capita.
DEATH PENALTY
FORDRUGKIW
- Bya VOle of 68 to Xl, the
Senate refused to block a
provaio that uld permit. the
death penalty for drug kiDgp.
order kjUm� weD for
�pIe who actually commit the
ki11iap. Introduced by Seaato
Alphonse D' Amato (R-NY) the
Jll!CaSUCe uJd penni the death
penalty for individual
demoDSta . ·a re indif­
ference for humaia life, • 0 kill
or "participate substantialluy" in
th killing of Ia -enforce nt
officers a part of a cootinuing
criminal drug eaterpri . The
House bas voted twi« to p­
proved the dealth penalty for
drugaimes.
According to the Depart­
ment of Justice (DOJ) "from
im-I986, 2A Bla have been
xewted in the U.s. Currently,
f the 1,181 prisoners on death
row, 42.1% or 750 are Black.
African America com ise
12% of the U.s. popula .
