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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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• 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. OMB watered down that
provision in its draft.
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United Press International
I ST. LOUIS — The head of a
teaching program company says
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ployment.
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