Reagan doesn't believe
in equality, says King
J United Press International
WASHINGTON — Coretta
Scott King said Thursday she
■considered it an insult when
iPresident Reagan expressed
doubts about the newly passed
bill to establish a holiday honor
ing her late husband.
“It’s hard for me to see that
someone like that really believes
tin equality,” King said in an in
will sign the bill as a “symbolic”
tribute to the slain civil rights
leader.
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' national. “What kind of America
Moes he want it to be? He doesn’t
represent America.’
c The Senate voted 78-22
j Wednesday to approve legisla
tion designating Martin Luther
j King Jr. Day as the third Mon
day in January, beginning in
1986.
1 Reagan said at his Wednes-
[ day night news conference he
But Reagan said he would
have preferred an informal
observance for King. He also
said he was sympathetic to Sen.
Jesse Helms’ demand that sealed
records of 1960s FBI wiretaps of
King be divulged.
“He had a great opportunity
to be a statesperson,” King said.
“He didn’t have to say what he
did.”
She said Reagan’s adminis
tration has “written the black
community off.”
“It’s been so obvious (since)
his election that he has systema
tically ignored the concerns of
black people,” she said. “And
then to top it all off, to insult us
with the statement he made yes
terday after the Senate over
whelmingly voted for the bill.”
Helms has said the FBI docu
ments, sealed by court order for
50 years beginning in 1977,
would show King was influ
enced by communism.
Asked if he agreed with the
North Carolina senator, Reagan
said, “We’ll know in about 35
years, won’t we?”
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-
Mass., called Reagan’s remarks
“reckless.”
King has lobbied for the holi
day bill ever since it was intro
duced in Congress 15 years ago,
shortly after her husband was
assassinated at the age of 39 in
Memphis, Tenn., in 1968.
Nominee for EPA water
programs pledges access
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Presi
dent Reagan’s nominee to
head the EPA’s water prog
rams pledged Thursday to
give critics of ocean burning
of toxic wastes the same access
to agency documents as prop
onents of the plan.
Jack Ravan, the Environ
mental Protection Agency’s
assistant administrator-
designate for water, told Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said
he knew nothing about
charges that proponents of
ocean incineration of toxic
wastes had fuller access to re
cords than opponents.
Bentsen said there was con
siderable public controversy
in Brownsville because of the
issuance recently of two per
mits to allow burning at sea of
toxic wastes, including PCBs.
“Yes, sir,” Ravan replied
after Bentsen asked if Ravan
would allow equal access to
agency documents to all sides
in the controversy.
“I know nothing about the
allegations, but that’s not any
way to run the office,” Ravan
said during a public hearing
by the Senate Environment
and Public Works Committee
concerning his nomination.
Bentsen said EPA “should
have just as tough require
ments for ocean incineration
as land incineration” of toxic
wastes.
Ravan, a former EPA re
gional administrator in Atlan
ta and former administrative
aide to Sen. Strom Thur
mond, R-S.C., said he did not
know if the same scrubbers
used on smoke stacks during
the burning of toxic wastes
should be required on smoke
stacks at sea. “There may be
some good reason for not
doing so,” Ravan said.
He promised to involve
himself in further considera
tion of the public comment
and hearing process before a
final policy on ocean incinera
tion of toxic wastes is made.
"My commitment is to assist
in the clean up, protection,
and making safe for consump
tion, waters of the United
States," he said.
“My faith is in their.
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LOS ANGELES — The
McDonald’s Corp., the nation’s
fast-food giant, has applied for a
license to sell wine and beer at
one of its California stores, the
first attempt in the United States
to put boo/e under the Golden
Arches.
. Spokesman Steve Leroy,
from McDonald’s headquarters
in Oak Brook, Ill., said Thurs
day the owner of the store in the
Sierra resort community of
Mammoth applied earlier this
month for a beer and wine
license from the state Alcohol
Control Board.
“Basically, the application
was made in Mammoth because
of the unique demographics in
the area,” Leroy said. "It’s an
adult recreation location and a
large number of tourists are in
the area.”
Leroy said there are no impli
cations at this time that the same
service might be offered at the
chain’s other 6,000 restaurants
nationwide.
“It’s not going to be ex
perimental," he said. “It’s our in
tention to take care of that area
and the people who go through
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