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It’s lonely at the top
Workers crouch at the base of the dome
of the Academic Building Tuesday. Work
on restoration of the building has been
going on since August.
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heelchair
United Press International
.CRAMENTO — Harold
(dell lost both legs when he
[an infant. Now he’s lost his
Jelchair to thieves.
■It’s kind of unbelievable that
ebody would want to steal
.uddell said. “It was a cheap
teichair, almost broken
jn."
Luddeil, 23, had both his legs
amputated when he was 15
months old because of gan
grene.
He gets around by using his
hands and swinging his legless
torso forward, but he needs a
wheelchair to go any distance.
The amputee said he left his
wheelchair outside Sunday
night because it was too difficult
to move it
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Hispanics oppose legislation
‘Legal alien’ bill action delayed
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Reagan administration Tuesday
urged House Speaker Thomas
O’Neill to reconsider his deci
sion not to proceed with House
action this year on a bill that
would make millions of illegal
aliens legal residents.
Responding to strong opposi
tion from Hispanics and what he
said were mixed signals from
President Reagan, O’Neill said
the House would not take action
this year on the bill.
The bill would grant legal sta
tus to illegal aliens who entered
the country before a certain
date, then toughen immigration
policies and make employers re
sponsible for hiring only people
legally entitled to work in the
United States.
O’Neill said opposition from
Hispanic groups and businesses
eroded support for the legisla
tion, which has been considered
for two years and won over
whelming backing in the Senate.
The speaker said he believed
Reagan — as part of his political
courtship of Hispanics — would
veto the bill.
But White House spokesman
Larry Speakes said Reagan was
behind the bill.
“This is not a political issue. It
is not a partisan issue. It is an
issue that concerns all Amer
icans — and it is in the best in
terests of all Americans to have
the nation regain control of its
borders,” Speakes said.
The strong White House en
dorsement of the bill came just
hours after White House offi
cials said Reagan would “wait
and see” if the House version to
the bill is too expensive.
“The president was naturally
disappointed today to hear press
reports quoting Speaker O’Neill
as saying that immigration re
form legislation would not be
considered by the House,”
Speakes said. “The president
hopes that the speaker will re
consider and allow the House to
vote on a bill that is essential to
the future well-being of this na
tion.”
Speakes’ statement repre
sented a shift from what he told
reporters at his daily briefing
several hours earlier. At that
time, he said the administration
was concerned about the cost of
the House bill and that any deci
sion to sign or veto the legisla
tion would have to wait until it
reached Reagan’s desk.
O’Neill told reporters the bill
had little support, other than
from the Judiciary Committee
members who drafted it.“I ha
ven’t seen anybody out there
who is truly interested in it,” he
said.
But, he said, Hispanics view
the legislation as the same sort of
move that Hitler made against
the Jews in Germany, largely be
cause it would make employers
responsible for knowing that
workers they hire are in the
country legally.
“The Hispanics say it’s the
most devastating thing that
could happen to them,” O’Neill
said.
Arnoldo Torres, head of the
League of United Latin Amer
ican Citizens, expressed “unbe
lievable joy, but with some reser
vations” to O’Neill’s announce
ment. He said Hispanics would
not believe the bill is dead until
this Congress ends at the start of
1985.
Hispanic Reps. Kika de la
Garza and Henry Gonzales,
both Texas Democrats, also
were pleased with O’Neill’s deci
sion.
Gonzalez said some of his
constituents were told they
would have to undergo national
registration, and many of them
feel there are “distortions in
those portions of the bill that are
highly controversial.”
The bill would offer legal sta
tus to illegal aliens who can
prove they entered this country
before a given date. In the Sen
ate bill it was Jan. 1, 1980, and it
was Jan. 1, 1982, in House ver
sion.
Under the Senate bill, em
ployers would have to ask all job
applicants for documents to
verify they are either citizens or
aliens authorized to work in this
country. This provision caused
concern for civil rights groups,
who feared creation of a “na
tional identity card.”
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