THE 10 PROPOSmO S ARE:
- That a new world ord r hould
keep the promisesofth World Sum
mit for Children.
The goal agreed at th 19
World Summit for Childr n included
preventing 4 million child deaths a
year, halving child malnutri tion, en
ding di es like polio and tet nus,
ensuring a basic education for all
Children, and ensuring that all
, familie have clean water and ace
to family planning.
"That great promi e to the
world' children hould now be
kept," ays the report. At present, a
quarter and a million young children
are dying every wee and millions
more are living on with malnutrition
and almost permanent ill health.
Halfofthis suffering, says UNICEF,
is caused by five or ix specific iII
nesses which can now be prevented
or treated at very low co t.
- That the principle of 'first call
fur children' should become an ac-
- That improving th alth and
nutrition of th world' children will
h lp n t hind r. th truggle to low
popul tion growth.
Wh p n become more con-
fident that ir hildren will urvive,
ay UNICEF, they are more likely
. to be interested in family planning.
Most of the developing nations are
now entering or approaching the
tage at which further declin in
child deaths are associ ted with
much steep r declines in birth rates.
Further improvements in child
health hould now pay major
dividend in falling birth rates.
- That market economic policies
hould b accompanied by basic in
vestments in people.
The virtual collapse of the idea of
centralized state control of economic
life does not mean that governments
should leave everything to the
markets, says the report.
It is the responsibility of govern
ment to en ure that virtually all
members of society have adequate
nutrition, primary health care, clean
water safe sanitation, family plan-
u.s. returns Haitian refugees
. On Saturday, February 1, the Supreme Court lifted an 'injunction that
barred the forced return of Haitian refugees. Within hours of the decision,
the U.S. began sending refugees back to Hati.
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to lift the ban. Justices Harry Black
mUD, John Paul Stevens and Clarence Thomas opposed the action.
A Haitian in New York who was interviewed by the New York Times
commented, if Amerisa recalled their Ambassador to Hati, then how can
it be safe for the returned refugees?
I
, HUD says crucifix
can stay on
retirement home
wall .
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -Th
nation's top housing official says
Marie Irene Frechette doesn't have
to take down the crucifix she put up
in a recreation room at her housing
complex.
"This display of a religious sym
bol in the recreation room of a
federally subsidized housing project
does not constitute establishment-of
a state religion," Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Jack Kemp
said Tuesday, one day before he paid
a visit to New Hampshire.
Kemp was scheduled to make
several appearances today, one day
after President Bush delivered his
State of the Union addres .
Kemp's pronouncement, issued
from agency headquarters in
Washington, ettIes a dispute that
flared up about two weeks ago.
Then, Grace Grogan, residential
administrator for the Manche ter
Housing Authority, a ked the
building's tenant council to take the
cro down.
"If they want it down. then
they'll have to take it down and give
it to me," Frechette, who hung the
crucifix on the wall, said at the time.
Grogan said tenants could put up
religious item during ervices in
common areas, but had to take them
down afterward.
She aid a HUD official, citing
the constitutional separation of
church and tate, i ued the order
everal years ago during a tour of
city-run housing.
WORLD/NATION
t Increases
·d bould
ment to m
ore int mational . d .
ry to defe t poverty, y t e
report, but th will littl public
upport for any inc e unl aid .
n to be bein ed primarily for
improving the live of the poor.
"That i th kind of . d which th
majority of people in tb developing
world ant to receive and the kind of
aid which th majority of people in
the industrialized orld ant to
give, " y UNICEF. At present,
I than 10 percent of all interna
tional aid is Ilocated to meeting
ba ic needs for health, primary
education, clean water, and family
planning.
- That demilitarization soould
begin in the poor world and that fall
ing arms expenditures in the rich
world bould be linked to in" creases
in aid for development
The State of the World's Clildren
report calculate that the amount
now pent on the world' military
exceeds the combined annual incom
es of the poore t half of humanity.
. The goals of the WClrld Summit for
- That action on debt, aid, and Children - including drastic reduc-
trade should create an economic en- tions in malnutrition and disease and
vironment in which the people of the a basic education for all children -
developing world can earn a decent including drastic reductions in mal-
living. nutrition and disease and a basic
education for all children - �uld be
met by reallocatingjust 10 percent of
military expenditure in the develop
ing world and 1 percent in the in
dustrialized world.
Although average incomes have
risen substantially in Asia, says the
report, the 1980s were nonetheles a
disastrous decade for the majority of
countries in the poor world.
Average incomes fell by ap
proximately 10 percent in Latin
America and by 25 percent in Africa.
One cause is the debt crisis which is
still transferring almo t $50 billion a
year from poor to rich nations.
Another cause is protectionism in the
rich world which costs the poor
world a further $50 billion a year in
lost exports. \
- That the chains of Africa's
debt be struck off.
Africa is only managing to pay
about one third of the interest due on
its debts. Even this i absoIbing a
quarter of all its export earnings and
costing the continent, each year,
more than its total pending on the
health and education of its people.
"If Africa is not to be left behind as
the re i of the world truggle
toward ew pe ce and n w
pro perity," y UNICEF, "then the
way and means hould no be
found to bsolve Africa of the great
m [ority of i bilateral and interna-
. tional debts."
- That a new world order hould
oppo ed the apartheid of gende
vigorously the apartheid or race.
The women of the developing
world do a disproportionate amount
of the third world's wor but are
generally rewarded with less food,
less health care, less education, less
training, I leisure, less income,
less righ and less protection, ys
the report. Discrimination is most
pronounced in South 'Asi where
"more than a million girls die each
year simply because they are born
female."
- That the responsible planning
of births is one of the most effective
and least expensive way of improv
ing the quality of life on earth - both
now and in the future.
So important is famil y planning
to the health of mothers and children,
says the UNICEF report, that it
would be a top priori ty even if there
were no uch thin a population
pr blem. undreds of tho and of
worn n and everal million children
die each year beca e ofbirths hich
r too many or too cl e together, or
because moth rs were too young or
too old to give birth afely. Over
5, 0 illegal abortion are per
form d each day.
The d mand for famil y planning
already exi ts.
Approximately on pregnancy in
thr in th world i unwanted, y
th report. If all women h d th
knowledge and the means to decide
how many children to have and
w n, then the rate of population
growth would fall by approximately
30 percent.
"For all of these reason," con
clude the State of the World's
Children report, "family planning
could bring more benefits to more
people at less co t than any other
single 'technology' now available to
the human race."
"The World Summit for Children
promised to reduced child deaths by
a third, to reduce child malnutrition
by half, to bring an end to polio, and
to ensure that every child has at least
a basic education by the end of this
century.
Blues singer remembered
Bush giveth and taketh away
overty 9 oup char ge u
cala e war again t poor
By NATHANIEL SCOTT
StIlgWrite,.
wellsprings of
my mind.
I laugh.
I cry.
I see
twixt and tween
the hoot owl's
hoots.
I've moaned
nights gone
woman!
baby/
sugar/.
darling
don't leave me.
WGIIlAND PARK-On Wednes
day, January 29, an apparent heart
attack stilled the voice of a legend in
the blues world. Big Willie Dixon
passed away at the age of 76.
Big Willie Dixon was blues from
sunrise to sunset. He spent the latter .
part of his life trying to give the blues
accreditation. And now he is gone.
His voice hushed by time. But the .
years of being a spokesperson for the
blues; the message lives in those who
are not ashamed when the soul of
man expresses itself in � blues vein.
Oh! I've heard those words: the
"Handkerchief heads. "The "Low life
people." The "Ignorance folks." And
the others I chose not to write.
But there are some who have a
mindset that leads them to believe a
gut bucket guitar's twine, belittles
them. And they pain because they
fear what someone else might think.
Come here, Big Willie Dixon.
Tell them about "I Can't Quit You
Baby." Let them hear the full force of
a "Back Door Man" screaming
But I am
that I am.
My castles
and mansions are
By RON SEIGEL
Cornspotul,n'
concern that Bush might allow
Michigan, Governor John Engler to
eliminate all aid to women wi th
children now receiving the federal
Aid to Families with Dependent
HIGHLAND PARK':"" Maureen
Taylor, representative of Up and Out
of Poverty, an organization support
ing the rights of the poor, called
President George Bush's State of the
Union message "Operation Poverty
Storm," an escalation of a war
against poor people.
II If the rich paid
taxes, we'd neve
money to burn.
Poverty is at the
feet of those who
don't pay taxes. '.
In his address, Bush promised to
increase programs such as Head Start .
and child care, but Taylor em
phasized that be said he would do it
by taking .money from other
programs.
She expressed concern that J3ush
promised to waive federal guidelines
preventing states from impo ing
"responsibility" on those in federal
programs.
Taylor stated that there w ome
WIllie Dixon
hoochie coochie,
, Let them know: America's musi
cal gift is jazz and the blues: artistic
expressions that were born out or a
need to release emotions that would
Children (AFDC) , if Engler re
quested this.
ENGLER HAS already
eliminated the state General Assis
tance Program for childless people,
leaving 93,000 without aid, but he
would not tamper with the AFDe
program because of federal
guidelines.
Taylor aid that the Bush message
represented propaganda that the poor
were responsible for middle class
problems, when both the middle
class and the poor bad been "carrying
the rich." She said that 4 percent of
the richest people don't pay taxes.
Some said it was ironic that at one
point in the address, Bush spoke of
the moral lui ty of those receiving
social services, and yet criticized
"Puritans," in fear that people might
"enjoy themselves," when talking
not rest while that Little Red Rooster
was gone.
I heard your ory Big Willie
Dixon. I understood' the agony that
drove you to the "Wang Dang
Doodle."
And so Big Willie Dixon:
I'm a blues man,
I ride railroad
tracks.
My soul tears
neon lights
unning rapid
valley discomfort.
My mind is impressions
choose.
walk the wind
squared
because when you said
the blues are
"the facts of life, •
you said it man.
You said it.
The blues are
'The facts of life. •
h
about charges that a cut in the capital
gains tax would benefit the rich.
Taylor concluded, "If the rich
paid taxes, we'd have money to burn.
Poverty is 'at the feet of those who
don't pay taxes."
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