NEWS
BRIEFS
Pr Id n of South
Afrlc drumming
up upport .
Just Ii e an American
politically, President F.W.
de KIerk is pumping out­
stretched hands, igning
autograp , hugging babies
and munching fast food. He
i drumming up upport for
a whites-only referendum on
his effom to create nonra­
cial society in South Africa,
and such personal and casual
con ct i rare in the nation'
hite politics.
Court rule
eviction of
uspected drug
dealer
uncon Itutlonal
RICHMOND • A Federal
appeals court recently
declared unconstitutional
the Bush AdministraHH!l' ....
• '�tOlJ t
F'!.. - d ll� ....
ers an se ers mpu c
housing developments
around the country.
The decision, issued by a
unanimous three-judge
panel of the United States
Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit, upheld a
ruling by a Federal district
judge in December 1990.
That ruling cited the con­
stitutional guarantee of due
process in requiring that ex­
cept in "extraordinary cir­
cumstance," drug-related
evictions from public hous­
ing be preceded by notice
and a hearing.
The Administration had
planned to begin the pro­
gram in June 1990 with a
. series of raids atpublichous­
ing developments in some
20 cities around the country.
BU4 responding to a lawsuit
by several legal aid or­
ganizations, Judge Williams
that month issued a tem­
porary restraining order
against the plan. The follow­
ing December he made the
order permanent.
Human right
official quit
The State Department's
. top official concerned with
monitoring and advocating
human right abroad
resigned, saying that after
'six years the time had come
to "move out." The an­
nouncement of Richard
Schiter's resignation denied
that there wee policy dif­
ferences, but he is known to
have taken strong positions
within the Bush Administra­
tion on rights issues involv­
ing China and Kuwait,
where the White House has
often been more con­
ciliatory.
Campaign lurche
forward
Governor Clinton gained
a commanding victory in the
Democratic Presidential
primary in Georgia, while
former Senator Tsongas
prevailed in Maryland, voter
surveys showed. On the
Republican ide, President
Bush won in Georgia, al­
though Patrick J. Buchanan
once again howed the
- trength of a prote t vote.
Ion I 0.3, 1
CompU by Flod
Starr Wrtter
OERRYBROWN
special education costs ... In 1988,
candidate Bush said he wanted to
full y fund Head Start. Do you know
when we will fully fund Head Start
under Bush's proposals? In the
year 2050." Tom Harkin will spend
the �ecessary $8 bilion on enrolling
every eligible child, not on
defending Japan from the Soviet
Union, an country that no longer
exists.
Tom Harkin will reduce class
sizes in the public schools.
One of the most important steps
in improving chidren's learning is
to reduce class size, and 15
students per class is Tom Harkin's
goal.
. Tom Harkin will fully fund the
WIC program.
"And every dollar spent on the
pre-na tal component of WIC
(Women &: Infant Children) saves
$3 in short-term hospital costs, and
more in later years. Now that's
smarter spending.
" ... when you have a low birth
weight baby and that child doesn't
have health care and
immunizations and doesn't have
nutritiou food and intellectual
stimulation' until it's six or even
years old, I don't care how may
remedial programs you have -
that kid' life is tunted. Early
intervention save lives and save
money."
Tom Harkin aysifyou're mart
enough for COllege, you ought to
have the chance.
No one hould be denied a
college education because they
lack money.
Tom Harkin will create equal
educational opportunity.
The federal government has to
III CI n on
ource ay from the citi and
till get their products to tbe
market.
De-industrialization and urban
flight cued m jor roblem
whicb ere aggravated by the·
BILLCUNTON
, Reagan.aDd Busb �mJnistJ:I .
'actions. They slashed funding for
[citte severely; federal housin
assi tance down 70 percent;
employment and job training down
SO percent; ocial service block
grants, the major source of
assistance to poor children, down
by 24 percent; transit dies cut
100 percent; federal revenue
sharing cut and then eliminated
altogether; child nutrition, AFDe,
food staID , and crime lance
all reduced.
The I of the middle cl and
the manufacturing bue in our cities
and the parallel decline in pulbic
support for our cities s
ccompanied by the explOSion of
single parent ho ehold due to
family breakup and rile in
out-of- edlock births.
Th e economic, political and
social trends combined to increase
poverty in our cities, largely among
women and cbildren; to erode the
quality of life for the urban middle
c1 ; and to make our citi even
more vulnerable to violence and
dru •
Despi te federal DeJlcct of our
clue , the 19801 IIDe cd the
development of a hOlt ·of
innovative urban re ltallzatlon
. • -- .b eo •• £.America'i
oum� 1b
exciting expcrime elped �to
slow and in some reverse the
pbysica1 and economi� decay of
urban America, and showed the
hopeful road we' need to follow to
revitalize our cities.
T�rn. to Page 8 and 9 of thi
endor ement ,view and opinion
. the candidates.
ection for
of
Tom Harkin � - -......_ _
Paul E.
Tsongas
EDUCATION: LL.B., Yau
Law School) 1964-67;
Dtu1/unouth,Colkg, SA (Gov't),
1958-62
BACKGROUND: Chairman,
Mus. BOGrd of R",nt& of HI,her
Education, 1989-91. U.s.S,IUItor,
1978-84, Foreign Relations
Committ,,; U. S. R,pres,lIIlItiv,;
U. S. R,p., 1974-84; P,ac, Corps
Volunte,r, Ethiopia. PublicatiotU
includ, Th, Road from Her,
(1980), B.tulin, Hom, (1984) and
A CaU to Economic Arms (1991).
Tong on "Our
Workforce"
Improving U. S.
competitiveness requires a broad
strategy to improve education and
job training. America's education
and training sytems are inadequate
and underfunded. Improving them
will co t moe ny, but it' an'
investment we desperately need.
The pace of technological
change is increasing. To compete,
Americans must not only leave
chool with a top quality education,
but must at 0 receive continuing
education and training to keep up
with the latest technologie . We
must give ourselves the tool to
maximize our productivity. The U.
S. mu t be a place where
companie want to locate because
they know our people can help
them produce the highest quality
products and ervices.
Improving education mean
trying new trategie , uch as merit
pay for teachers - not to penalize
them but to reward excellence,
J
longer school days and yean,
school choice, national standards
for testing and curricula, more
chool autonomy, and other
creative ideas that can
revolutionize our education
ystem.
Improving education also
means fully funding Head Start,
which I h ve committed to do, 0
children are ready to learn when
they reach chool.
And it means guaranteeing that
every student can borrow the
money to pay for. college, by
agreeing to pay tbe loans b ct will)
a portion of their income after they .
graduate.
BDUCATION: JD, Yal,
Univ.nity, 1973; RIuJd. Schow,
Oxford Univ.rdt" 1968-70;
G.org.tow" U"I,.� lty, BSFS,
1968
SAC 'GROUND: Go"nuw of
A 1979-80,1983.,,.. lit;
Aria" ••• AIlor"., G.""al,
1976.7'; Law I'ro/ ... or,
Univ,nity 0/ Arb i 1914-76.
Born ill Ho,., Ar1cG1UIIU; 1IIIInWd
ill 1975 to HUliIr1 RodluJmj on,
dtuI,hUr, CM"', 11, stud,nt ill
Liltk Roci Publk Sclaools. A,.
45.
house in this country, you would Clinton' Urban
cut coergy consumption by enough Propo I
to pay for ..• that work and create The decline of our gieat cities
7 million job . (In the Pentagon began in the fifties and intensified
Budget there is) $300 billion a year through the. sixties and seventies,
of .unnece ary, wasteful and as illdustry fled the great cities for
polluting energy consumption. .. the Sun Belt and tbe sl,lburbs,
by spending $300 billion to destroying the wbanand economic
ccompli h the goals of fuel bue and constraining its social
. efficient homes: '�\OIS, �. I • ,.': , -: , , • v
refri eratoR, fuel effie ent .cars, .. ·�treDcs euce bj
high speed tWris ..... ': you 'd'on"t have federal �l1�y.·eta� �'tht1'VA
to raise taxes one penny ••. If there housing loans and the creation of
was a committment, and if the oil beltway cities made moving to the
companies ... and the power suburb attractive, while the
companie would stand ide... interstate highway system allowed
you would have seven million new companies to follow their labor
jobs. We need to make the
committment to make sure people
have job .•. whetber it be
building the infrastructure for high
peed trains, or creating things lite
the Civilian Conservation Corps to
get young people out of adverse
circumstance and give them an
opportunity. "
dmund
Bra n Jr.
•
EDUCATION: ra« Law
School, 1964; U. C. Berkel",
1961
BAC GROUND:
Lawyer/Politician. EI,cted
Governor of CGlifonaill ill 1974,
r"lecud in 1978 by th, lIug,st in
CaU/onaia history. R,duc,d tIU,s
and l1m c,.,aud 2.2 mUllon jobs.
A"53.
Brown on Education
As governor, tripled K-12
education budget; opposed
charging tuition at state colleges
and universities; raised standards
for high school graduation and
college entrance; Work ite
Education and Training Act to put
people to work in skilled labor
po itions; MESA Program to
motivate women �d minotiti'es to
complete cOi ��e: de�,(n _m tb,
engineering, and' UiC sciea&!S. The
public school i the major
integrating institution in our
ociety ... I want to make ure it's
fully funded. We can put a
computer in front of every cbool
child ... and have learning
program from Kindergarten
through the 12th grade. The arne
p ple who are designing the Star
Wars defense ... that level of
committment and skill and money
... can revolutionize American
education. "
Brown on Job
"The World Watch Institute has
said that if you weatherize every
EDUCATION: JD,. Catholic
University. 1972; BS, Iowa Slate
University, 1962
BACKGROUND: U. S.
Senator, 1985-prese1lt; member U.
S. House of Representatives,
1973-85; Navy Pilot, '1962-67,
Chair 0/ Labor, H ,alth and
Human Services Appropriations
subcommitt", funding aU f,deral
health and ,ducGlion programs,
such as H,ad Start, NIH. Primary
sponsor of th« Americans with
DisabiUties Act. Ag, 52.
Harkin on Education
Tom Harkin will invest in
education to match the standards
being achieved in other countries.
"How do we stack up against our
competitors toda Education:
14th out of 16 industrial countries
in federal inve tments in K t�ugh
12. Investments in training: as,
Wages: less than most of the
developed countries in Europe, and
44 percent less than the Germans.
According to the Children's
.Defense Fund, "Every eight
econds of the chool day, an
American child drops out ...
American school children know
less geography than school
children in Iran, les math than
school children in Japan, and le
science than school children in
Spain ... Every chool day,
135,000 American .children bring
guns to school."
Tom Harkin will fully fund the
Head Start program
" ... every dollar spent on Head
Start return nearly $5 in later work
productivity and in budgetary
savings from lower welfare and
TOM HARKIN
be more of a partner in �llmentary
and secondary educatiQD to help
the chools that need help, and
leave the one that don't alone."
Tom Harkin will be an advocate
for teachen.
We can improve tudent
achievement by recruiting more
minority teachers and improving
te cher preparation through mentor
programs and clinical training ..
Tom Harkin will invest in
America so that good jobs will be
here for our graduate .
"George Bu h ha if dead
wrong. You don't m ke the
economy grow by giving bigger
pieces of a hrinking pie to the
people at the top. You make it grow
by investing in the kill of the
people, giving the private ector
the right incentives to provide a
killed work force with the tool
they need, and investing in
infra tructure and. new
tCcbnologi • Then, prodUCtion and
investment that depend on killed
labor will go - and stay - where
the skilled labor is.