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pli on
wYor
m yoral bid
YO , Y-A m 'or­
ity 0 w Y rk rs of all eth­
ni and ra ial roup ay they
b lieve that th ndi tions of
that city are wors than they
were four y a nd b
liev that conditions will b
come wors iT' th n xt 10 to
15 years.
Blacl oontinu to upport
Mayor David . Dinkins, with
th mayoral election six
months away, whil whit
overwhelrni n ly di approve,
ccording to th Itt N w
York Times WCBS-lV poll.
The poll al 0 h w that
Dinkins' Hi panic upport i
fading away f t and i down
to an evenly divided upport
y tern.
Dinkins' trong t con-
tender i Republican-Liberal
Rudolph W. Giulani, If the
election were held today, the
win would b a to -up b
tween the two, with Dinkins
having 45 per ent of th vote
and Giulani having 44 percent.
Giulani leads in Queens and
Staten Island, th arne two
boroughs he h din 1989 when
Dinkins defeated him by 2
points city wide.
Yet Dinkins has re ur-
gence of upport in Brooklyn,
the city' mo 1 populous bor­
ough wi th t I g t Black
population.
I
�
Conyers
disapproves
tunnel
construction
WJ\ IJING ON, D. .-Rep.
John C n rs, Jr. (D-MI),
Chairman of the Ho e Com­
mittee on Government Opera­
tions, di agree wi th the
approval of the construction of
a Port Huron rail tunnel.
The Canadian ational
Railroad received a permit to
construct a double, t k rail
tunnel connectin Port Huron
_ to Sarma, Ontario.
Unfortunat ly, tlu permi t
could tand in the way of a rail
tunnel constructi n tween
Detroit and Wind; r.
"In approving this permit,
th adrnuu: trauon has inad­
v rt ntly played into a Cana­
dian poli y to mon p lizc rail
commer e in th United
State . Tlu W' a h' ty deci-
ion mad Without pr per
arninati n fit impa t njob
or internau nal rail rnm rc
in n ral", Cony rs aid.
1n prot t of the permit,
Conyers has d� cus ed th
matter with th Vi e President
and th uhcomrruttcc on In­
v II atioru ardO i h� of
th Commit tc on Pubh
Wor � and Tran portau n.
By DAVID BRISCOE
A •• ocl.ted Pr ... Wrlt.r
OILOWI JAP ,in the overall
index, are Canada, Norway, Swi tzerland and
Sweden. T United Sta r ixth, al­
though U.S. whit top th list if consid red
eparately. American white femal rank
lightly higher than whi mal ,with
longer life expectancy and more edu tion
but lower employment and income.
Ranked at th bottom in th report, com­
piled only inee 1990 by the U.N. Human
D velopment Program, are Niger, Burkina
Faso, Afghanistan, Sierre Leon and, in last
place, Guinea.
Progress Indevelopingmarketeconomi ,
multiparty democracies and non-government
gras roots movem nts eems to h ve done
little 10 give people more control ov r their
lives, the report concludes.
The report ranks countries on a scale
where 1.0 would be a perfect score. U ing the
amecriteriaapplied to countries, U.S. whites
would top the list with 0.986. Japan's core is
0.983. U.S. Blacks get 0.881, about the arne
as Trinidoo and Tobago which IS 31 t on the
list U.S. Hispanics core 0.869, which would
put them at 35th, between former Soviet
sta Latvia and Estonia.
R
7th in the index with . 2.
H Q
nn
W IUNGTON P)- Th quali ty of li�
or Am rican Bl ks and Hispanics ranks just
ahead of Rus ians am well below American
WID in th lat t global urvey of how
p ople get by.
Th annual U.N.inde -am ureoflife
exp ctancy, edu tion and purch ing
pow r-ranks people living in 173 countri .
A report to be published thi month with the
index also analyzes disparity among ethnic or
racial groups, between men and women and
among people from different regions within
orne of the countries.
Japan, as in past years, i th leading coun­
try in the 1993 U.N. Human Development
Index, but it drop to No. 17 if treatment of
women is included as a factor.
"While there are reports on production,
currency movements and other economic fac­
tOI'S, this is a report on the state of the world's
people, on bow people's lives are affected,"
said project director Mahbub ul Haq in an
interview.
"I'm W' that th itu tion i w in th
Uni ted Kin d m, but imil data i not vail­
abl ," Haq aid.
Th report ay that while th world'
economic output' has been increasing, auto-
mation h dec d employment.
"We may ch r human productivity,"
aid Haq, who i a former finance mini ter of
Pakistan, "but we have to get very con med
that not enough peopl are baring in that
productivity." .
Japan and other east Asian countri have
made the greatest investments in people, with
heavy funding for education and training,
Haq aid. They a 0 have the low t un m­
ployment
But in Japan, women's average earning
are only 51 percent of men' , and only 7
percent of administrative job are held by
D for du tion, h
ot r human n bould b in
7 p rc nt of curr nr aid to 2 per nt. 0 t
non-military aid now g to build roads,
bridg dam, power y terns and other in-
tructure,
'It' all neces ary, but there i an imbal­
ance," aid Haq. "Peopl bav to manage
th e facili ties and people are not getting
trained."
The . of in reasi foreign aid
been "bea n to death," Haq aid, and more
needs to be done to chang the priori ties of
existing i tance. Among d veloping coun­
tri , the report puts Barbado at the top,'
ranking 20th overall followed by Hong Kong
(24th), Cyprus (27th), Uruguay (30th) and
Trinidad and Tobago (31 t).
lac can
ov ,r ho OWJl r
note bla
A f d ral judg di mi ed the
Milwaukee r iden ' federal fair­
. hou in claim. He . aid the govern­
ment ha ... d no authority t apply the
law t i rsuran . ale.
But th 7th U .. Circuit Court of
Appeal r instated th cl im, ying
it w uld de r t the government's'
I nt rpretanon o th law.
The app (II urt al 0 aid the
d ral law i not pre-empted by a
nt aid in similar Wi onsm law that bars ra e
di crimination in hom wners' in-
W IIING10 (A p)-A roup of
Black Milwaukee re id nt may us
a federal fair housin law to ue for
alleged racial bia, in the ale of
homeowners' insurance b ausc th
Supreme Court let a lower court rul­
ing tand Monday.
The court, without oomment, r -
fused to hear a Wi onsin iru uranc
company' argument that the federal
Fair H usin Act do n t apply t
al 0 hom wn rs' insurance.
A federal app Ilate court had aid
the law doe apply.
'I HT nLA
Anthony Estes a student at the newly renamed Thurgood Marshall school on
Unwood at the'Lodge in Detroit, recreated Marshall in the renaming ceremonies.
dohn Marshall, the judge' so!, was present to see his late father hon,ored.
Marcus patton! Special to the Michigan Citizen
Many B.lacks, Hi panic
dissaf fied with political leader
L ANGEL� (AP)-A majority
of Blacks and Hispanics living in two
of the city' poorer areas believe
their political representatives care
lIttle a ut neighborhood problems
and ra e relations, a urvey found.
A private finn commi. ioned by
KVEA- TV Channel 52 and La Opi n­
ion new pap r surveyed 305 Blacks
and 301 Hi panic in the Pice-Union
and South Central districts.
Only 11 percent of tho e ur­
veyed aid their political leade
cared "a great deal" abo ut neigh­
borh od problem . Eighty-two per­
cent replied their leaders cared
"only little" or "not at all."
Some 5 percent aid ovemment
official h d done little or "nothing
at all" to reduce racial conflict in
their communiti . Only 9 percent
said official had done •• a great
deal."
living in crowded conditions ... with­
out grocery tores and supermarke
... I'd probably ay the arne thing,"
said Rita Walters, a Black city coun­
cilwoman who e 9th Di trict encom­
passes part of th South Central area.
"The problems were created be­
fore we came there," aid Morrie
Goldman, pok man for Council- -
man Mike Hernandez, who edi trict .
in lude one of th neighborhoods
urveyed. "We'r going in and fix­
ing what City Hall had ere ted over
the years.'
Mayor Tom Bradley had no om­
ment on the urvey, pok woman
Vallee Bunting aid Thursday.
De pite critici m f poll e per­
formance in minority nih or­
h ds, 54 percent of Blacks nd 64
percent of Hi pani aid th y had a
positiv view of th Police Depart­
ment.
vived?
Or are th r tt r trate ie for
WI nni ng u h "reparation t day.
when it i en rally agreed that th
4O-ac are not, after a century-
. and-a-quarter of accrued inter t TH
worth bilhons dollars?
And wh IS to re IV' r para­
tions? Hov are repar nons to b
ed?
Lo Angel and th y believed the
rebuilding effort after last year' ri­
t hasb n"m di re"or"poor."
sued
Cony n ion plo
ra egy 0 win r
IAL
p
III.. Willie L. Wil-
Iiams received a favora Ie ratin 0
67 percent from both up'.
Abo�t 62 p r nt f th e ur-
If I w out 0 a J , v d aid th y w u1d like t leav
,
under the Fair Hou In Act two fed­
r I ivil ri h law, and Wi consin
housing law.
Th Fair How in A t, P sed in
, mak it illegal to refuse to ell
or rent h to anyon b ause of
ra .
TH • T pecifi-
ally mention in uran di crimina­
tion; ut it ba hi in the .. provi ion
o rvi " onnected with buying
or rentin a home. .
In 19 9, f dcral regulators de­
'ideo the law bars racial di crimina- •
ti n in ale of homeowner'
insura e.
para ion
See PLOT,B4