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national Battalion/Page 11 April 8, 1982 I <i special investigq fd “found thatii with company res i were tit less than] n m s-length disiJ were not adem led." (led: “As a restiltj (ontncts, NR("s)iii| Miiittal letter hadll the company iqt involved is da who was chaiQL from April I9i(j 77. and i :m litwyer. Hedt s'doing. (I not believe atj lo we now believd any improprienj ing these doaiit lominentingontiq e asked to dob e N RC reprera said. ■vfrit, NRC’s tits regional a (I he changed he report after R.' <1 \RC could not vein. dward Market, irman of the Hoi ilx oinmitteeonOa Investigations,.I shakeup in the!t| lice, claiming ihti s totally and irrq otnised the restilt ant vendorinv Zimbabwe leader vows to help white minority April showers bring the flowers Petunias, pansies and alyssums are just a few of the flowers to be planted in the beds by the aerobics track once Sandra Patterson, left, and Groups: to harm Changes disabled United Press International SALISBURY, Zimbabwe — Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, seeking to stem the flight of whites and their managerial skills from his black-ruled na tion, vowed to attend to the needs of the white minority who voted Tuesday to fill a vacancy in the 100-member Parliament. The parliamentary by- election came a day after Mugabe lauded the split in the white Republican Front Party of former Prime Minister Ian Smith. Nine of its parliamentary representatives had resigned to become independents. The nine charged that Smith was uncooperative with the gov ernment and Mugabe hailed their actions as a positive step that would make it easier for the government to work with the white independents. Three candidates — a Smith- backed conservative, a Demo cratic Party moderate and an in dependent — are vying to repre sent Matabeleland province, whose conservative representa tive resigned last year. In accordance with its British- drafted constitution, Zim babwe’s Parliament must, dur ing the first five years following its April 1980 independence, in clude a minimum of 20 white legislators. Only members of the nation’s ■Kofc*** ********* ^itc***************^! white population — sapped by an emigration rate of about 1,500 each month — can vote in the election to fill the vacant seat. Of the 80 parliamentary seats alotted to blacks, 57 are held by Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), 20 by the Zimbabwe African People’s Party (ZAPU) and three by the United African National Coun cil (UANC). “Whatever political or other differences exist between us,” Mugabe said Tuesday, addres sing white fears of black- majority rule, “the one danger ous thing which we should never allow to occur is to cease talking to each other.” In reference to a record 20,000 whites who emigrated last year, Mugabe said he had sympathy for those who left the country fearing for their future. “These I am prepared IQ assure they need not fear my government will victimize or dis criminate against or fail to create circumstances that reward their productive skills,” he said. The white flight has drained the pool of skilled technicians, teachers and civil servants'em-; cial to help run Zimbabwe, the former British colony of Rhodesia. ^ photo by Laura Match Mary Duke, grounds maintenance workers, finish weeding. Patterson has been a grounds worker for five years; Duke has worked here two years. )US dng gh s United Press International WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration wants to ise the nation’s major civil jights law for the handicapped by bringing it in line with its own federal deregulation drive. I United Press International obtained a draft Tuesday of a Budget office proposal to re write guidelines implementing the law that protects an esti mated 35 million handicapped people. Groups representing the rector William vj handicapped criticized the sug- ic stablilizing of g (Sted changes in the 1973 Re nnies should habilitation Act, including one i easing of conn would allow institutions to i the all-time In.' jNs e a handicapped person’s ■ overall crinm P <,ten ^ a * contributions to socie- percent with \ * n deciding how to grant him >\ I 1 iKTcent fot atxess to l he facility. | “What they’re proposing to ■kend U S Attoij ’ s 80 drastic it’s an amend- illiam French V ^ent of the statute by federal (Jience in ColtiiB l ule ' niakin g procedure,” said incidence of 4 feese Robrahn, executive dire- eached“crisis™ ct /> rot the American Coalition ime it takes tihle ol £f zem wlt , h Disabilities, s this evening,ifj > The statute s most visible re- violent crime".? P 8 mclude access ramps to across the conn bu,l,lu 1 \ s across the COUI \ n >' a , nd special buses to serve the dis abled. that same operty Crimes n’ Last year, one® • households in j victimized by s ions crime.” ItlStS on ig the total raiit 1 ley will be used ; of interieron : ,i re made bythel'j sled for its ail potential, oble Founda» , | division is enp :er reseachand ther interjen » Davis, head 3up, said ■e institutions si funding fro® 1 -oundation aft of Texas’ S «>spital, the Dm ■ ilia at LosAnj • ity, New York! ■re Medical The law bars discrimination against the handicapped by reci pients of federal funds, includ ing transit authorities, airports, schools, hospitals and other health facilities, libraries and public housing projects. The Justice Department sent the Office of Management and Budget proposed changes to soften the guidelines under Sec tion 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. OMB replied by urging big ger changes. One proposal in both drafts would shrink the law’s scope by applying it only to those prog rams within institutions that re ceive federal money. For exam ple, if a school’s physics depart ment gets federal research funds currently, the entire school is subject to the law. T he change would mean only the physics laborabory would be co vered. The budget office draft also would drop coverage of elemen tary and secondary schools, cit ing duplicate provisions in another law. Also to be discarded, under the proposal, would be all refer ences to employment discrimi nation. Courts rulings disagree on whether the law applies to employment. Robrahn said the change would leave the handicapped with inadequate job protection. The OMB draft proposes that recipients of federal funds be allowed to take into account “the value of the accommodation to society, taking full account of the potential contributions to society of handicapped persons” in deciding what accommoda tions must be made for the handicapped. Administration officials who met with handicapped groups to outline the proposed changes said they “caught so much flak” they promised to rewrite the provision. Robrahn said, however, the rewritten version is likely to be just as objectionable. “They didn’t say, ‘We’ll eli minate this provision,’” he said. “They said, ‘We’ll find some sub stitute language.”’ If “unreasonable expense” is involved, the recipients of feder al money can refuse to accom modate the handicapped, according to the OMB draft. The Justice proposal also con tained one provision praised by handicapped groups, requiring the government to determine before awarding money if the recipient was likely to discrimin ate. 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