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YORK (AP) - About 1,000 low-income
minority families will have the opportunity to
move out of southw t Yonkers into middle­
c neigh rhoods ofW tch r County, ac­
cording to an greement reached in Federal
Court.
The plan to relocate the famili also will
create a special program to bring landlords with
apartments in non-poor and non-minority parts
of the county into the federally subsidized hous­
ing program, lawyers said Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Robert P. Patterson set
Nov. 10 as the final hearing date on the plan,
which calls for about 1,000 low-income minority
families to be moved into predominantly white
neighborhoods throughout W tch ter
THE DEAL Wll..L settle a class action suit
brought on behalf of more than 1 000 low-in­
come, minority families living in housing that's
partly federdally subsidized.
Claire Palermo Flower, a pok woman for
Westchester County, said the county agreed to
help fund an organization called Enhanced Sec­
tion 8 Outreach Program. It will tell needy
families about various hou ing options.
She pointed out that landlord could still
reject a person offering to pay p rt of his rent
with a Section-8 housing voucher, which i
federal subsidy.
"This settl m nt do not m an people are
moving," sh said. "Itmeans p pl will be given
information about other housing. It d n't
mean they're packing bags tonight and leaving
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southwest Yonkers. "
People with Section 8 vouchers have to be
recertified every year, she said, and at that tim�
they are aaked wheth l' they nt to mo .
Sh id the majority say they want to stay
in southwest Yonkers.
THE LA wsurr against federal, state and
local governments noted that the apartments
were located in poor, minority-concentrated and
high-crime neighborhoods in southwest Yonk ..
ers.
"Southwest Yonkers is just about as bad as
the South Bronx," said John Kirkland, a lawyer
who represented the families in the lawsuit.
"There's a lot of drugs and crime. It's a danger­
ous, awful place to live."
"Lots of decent, responsible people trapped in
southwest Yonkers want a better life for their
family," Kirkland said.
The settlement followed two years ofnegotia­
tions. No wrongdoing or liability was admitted
by any of the participants.
. Kirkland said the program may enable as
many as 2,000 mostly Black and Hispanic fami­
lies to move. It will be administered by
Westchester People's Action Coalition and paid
for with local and state funds. .
The case is unrelated to th 12-year-old de­
segregation case in Yonkers. In that case, a
different federal judge determined that the city
had intentionally segregated its schools and
housing over a 40-year period.
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Law-enforcement authorities
confirmed the ban' on drive-by at­
tacks and said that Hispanic gang
killings have declined 15 percent
in areas patrolled by the Los An­
geles County Sheriffs Depart­
ment.
But some law-enforcement of­
ficials cautioned that the move
could be a bid for power by the
Hispanic prison gang as much as
an act of compassion for innocent
victims.
"I'm 11 for peace, but what
we're really looking at is the be-
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prison gang has told Hispanic
gang members that they should
solve their di putes eye to eye and
avoid driv -by shootin and
other incidents that invol inno­
cent bystanders, law-enforce­
ment officials say.
In recent months, the gang,
called the Mexican Mafia and
known as "La M, " held a ri of
m tings including one on th af­
ternoon of Sept. 18, attend by
about 1,000 gang mem gath­
erednear Dod r Stadium.
The authorities said that
prison gang members w rned
street gang mem rs they wou ld
be attacked in prison if a ted
for drive-by hootings.
The 1..0 Angeles Times quoted
a gang m m r who said h had
attended the t. 18 m ting as
ying that prison gang members
had said: " 0 more dri ve-bys;
they're cowardly. W' killing
our kids and grandpar n . Any­
body who d this is going to pay
the pri "
ginning of organized crime, " said
Lieut. Sergio Robleto, South Bu­
reau homicide commander. "I just
don't believe that a pact betw n .
people who are rapist, murderers
and robbers should be hailed with
accolades of peece."
The authorities . d th Mexi­
can Mafia was motivated by a
desire to share some positive
p with Black gangs that were
hailed for a truce last year and to
unite Hispanic gang members in
an attempt to gain more strength
in racial that are becoming more
common inside state prisons.
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Magistrate P ter Palermo ruled
Avril must return to Miami
within 45 days to answer attor-
neys' qu tions. .
"Had we been forced to go to .
Haiti and have a deposition un­
der the conditions there now, it
would have b n dangerou ,"
Stephens said. "This ruling
makes it clear that the U.S. ju­
dicial process is serious and that
it applies to him that he can't
hide from it."
Stephen Papy, Avril's Miami
attorney, did not return cal
from The Associated P on
Tuesday.
The Haitians' local attorney,
Ira Kurzban, said he expects
Avril in Miami th last w k of'
October.
Dive ifying the 1 der­
hip of t nation' colle
been low, acoordingto a
recent tudy of 2,435 college
p iden by the American
Council on Education.
The typical college presi­
dent is white, male, married
and 54 years old and has
been in the job for seven
years, according to the
tudy .. "If higher education
intends to have its presi­
dency reflect the population
of the future, " the council ar­
gues, "different recruitment
efforts and selection proe-
will be required. "
The number of women in
presidencies is 11.8 percent,
up from 9.6 percent in 1986,
but only 11 women lead in­
stitutions that grant doctor­
ates.
The percentage of Black
presidents has remained
constant at 5.5 percent; half
lead historically Black col ..
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