"W n d en
anc to prevent th e too n
from all i ng through the
cracks, " id chool board
m mb r Rodean Murphy.
"W need to find a way to ke p
up with them. We ar 10 ing
too many tudents."
Blacks,
Hispanics just
ahead of
Russians in
quality of life
poll
Wa In to� DC-American
Blacks ard Hispanics rankj t
ahead of Rus ians in the lat t
United Nations quality of life
poll. ranked much further be­
hind the No. 1 American
whites.
The annual index, which is
measured on education, life'
expectancy, and purchasing
power, ranks 173 countries.
The report ranks countries on
a Owu��
pe
would to t
U.S. Black get 0.881, which is
the same as Trinidad and To­
bago. U.S. Hi panics get
0.869.
Project di rector Mahbub ul
Haq aid that minorities in
may countries would likely do
much worse than American
Blacks or His panic , but in
some countries like Britain,
law prevent the collection of
imilar census data on racial
and ethnic minorities.
MICHIGAN
CITIZEN
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BY TOM STUCKEY
ASSOCIA TED PRESS WRITER
APOLI d. - An i tant
attorney general defending Mary­
land's new legislative di tricts was
ubjected to sharp qu tioning y
memb rs of the Court of Appeal ,
I t week.
Mo t of the questions were di­
reet d at the legislature deci ion to
divide five districts etween Balti­
more city and county to preserve
much representation as po ible for
the city, which bas been losing pu­
la
stan
Robert pre
whether the division violated the
state constitutional requirement that
due regard be given to county
boundaries.
"I th:'lk the state can justify
(eros ing boundaries) if its reasons
are good enough." Zamoch said.
A reason he ci ted for combini ng
parts of the city and county was the
need to have enough districts with a
majori ty Black population to comply
wi th the federal voting rights act.
d vii's advocate, and it is difficult to
determine from questions how the
court will rule. But opponents of the
plan said they were encouraged by
the questions Zarnoch was asked.
"It's hard to judge the judges,"
aid Delegate Theodore Levin, D­
Bal timore, one of four lawyers argu­
i ng agai ns t the plan.
"I fell encouraged, because they
were cri tical ... 0 f the state's pI an for
regionalism, " he said.
Suits c lengin the plan also are
awaitin U.S. Di triet
Court.
I
"WE ARE CONFID 1 T .0 f
winning the federal case,' Zamoch
aid.
George Liebmann, one of the
lawyers arguing against the plan,
told the court the plan was developed
wi th the clear intention of shoring up
Bal timore and surrounding areas.
Most districts with tbe smallest
population are in the Bal timore area,
and those wi th the largest. are in
Montgomery, he said.
(If the five districts that overlap
the Baltimore city-county line, "at
most one could be justified," he
said. That one crosses from the city
into a predominantly Black area of
Baltimore County to create a major­
i ty Black dis trict in line wi th federal
voting act requirements, he said.
Dana Dembrow, a Democratic
Mis _ tsslppl wUI
.add to it Black
hi tory archive
legislator from Montgomery
County, noted his county has seven
enators and 22 delegates while Bal­
timore, with a smaller population,
has eight senators and 23 delegates.
"Was it coincidence? No," he
aid.
If the appeal judges reject the
plan, they could adopt an alternate
one offered by opponents, draw their
own or kick the i ue back to the
governor and legislature.
There was no indication when a
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ZARNOCH AID after the
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Appeals court judges often play
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"There are alotofthings we can't
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