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World and Nation
Department unveils proposal
to help migrant farm workers
Vc
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor
Secretary Ann McLaughlin an
nounced a $14.8 million plan Mon
day to meet the emergency survival
needs of thousands of migrant and
seasonal farm workers devastated by
the drought.
But Rep. Albert Bustamante, D-
Texas, himself a migrant worker for
23 years, said the Labor Depart
ment’s package is not enough to help
migrant workers stranded across the
drought-parched Midwest without a
job or enough money to finance the
return trip home.
“When you’re looking at the
amount of money big farmers, agri
conglomerates are getting, they
really are not providing for the bot
tom-rung people who do the har
vesting and stoop labor,” Busta
mante said.
“They should have been more fair
in trying to bring relief to these peo
ple,” he said.
Bustamante said he had sought
$20 million to $25 million, which
would have come closer to “meeting
short-term survival needs.”
A $3.9 billion package of drought
assistance for farmers, ranchers and
dairy producers passed the Senate
on Monday and could receive final
legislative approval as early as today
in the House.
Bustamante said he was working
with Majority Whip Tony Coelho of
California and House Agriculture
Committee Chairman Kika de la
Garza to free more money for the
migrant workers.
McLaughlin promised the Labor
Department would marshal funds
for “emergency and supportive serv-
Bush calls Dukakis
‘stealth candidate’
with vague policies
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — George
Bush, teeing off on his Democratic
opponent during a rare pre-conven
tion platform appearance, accused
Michael Dukakis Monday of being
“the stealth candidate,” pushing pol
icies that “can be neither seen nor
heard.”
The Republican vice president
promised he would campaign on a
crystal-clear statement of party prin
ciples.
Dukakis — whose ead in the na
tional polls has triggered an av
alanche of Bush attacks in the past
week — tended to state business in
Boston with an eye on the fall cam
paign.
He told reporters he was not
going to respond “every day to what
some speechwriter has put in front
of Mr. Bush.”
“George Bush has some of the
highest negatives ever recorded in
the history of American politics and
I think one of the reasons for it is
people have seen his campaign as an
essentially negative campaign,” Du
kakis said.
Bush campaign manager Lee At
water said again Monday that Bush
is intentionally playing coy on his se
lection of a running mate in order to
build interest in a convention that
promises no other surprises. “He
will have a maximum television audi
ence,” Atwater said. “I’m for doing
anything that will help build up a
TV audience.”
Bush has said he will withhold his
choice until the last day of the con
vention, and his only comment Mon
day was, “Still working on it.”
He was equally uninformative at a
family dinner Sunday night in Ken-
nebunkport, Maine, where he had
spent the weekend.
“We went around the table last
night at dinner,” Bush said. “Some
popped off and argued. I sat silent,
like a sphynx.” According to his old
est son, George W. Bush, “We bom
barded him at dinner. Nothing. No
expression on his face.”
President Reagan, warming to his
role as Bush campaigner, boasted of
the accomplishments of the past
seven years of Republican control of
the White House, though he stayed
away from the specifics of the Bush-
Dukakis match-up in a speech to the
nation’s governors in Cincinnati.
“Our states, like our citizens, have
known the blessings of the longest
peacetime economic expansion on
record,” Reagan said. “In the last
seven and one-half years, we have
broken the federal government of its
compulsion to control every breath
the states take.”
Bush and Reagan are not sched
uled to appear together at next
week’s convention, but the vice pres
ident said a joint airport appearance
was possible on the second aay of the
meeting.
declared
in Angolan war zone
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — South Africa, Cuba and An
gola Monday declared an immediate
cease-fire in the 13-year Angolan
war. South Africa also said it plans to
begin granting independence to
South-West Africa on Nov. 1.
Foreign Minister Pik Botha cau
tioned, however, that more talks are
needed to reach agreement on a mu
tual date for the withdrawal of Cu
ban troops from Angola and inde
pendence for South-West Africa,
commonly known as Namibia.
Botha said South Africa, Cuba,
Angola and mediators from the
United States will seek to set a date
when they hold peace talks the week
of Aug. 22 at a site still to be an
nounced.
“A de facto cessation of hostilities
(in Angola) is now in effect,” Botha
told a news conference in Pretoria.
“This is the first step of a very
long, arduous road to peace.”
Angola’s Marxist government
later said it had accepted the
agreement along with its Cuban al
lies. Its Foreign Ministry statement
was reported by Angola’s official
Angop news agency and monitored
in Lisbon. Angola is a former Portu
guese colony.
The Cuban government news
agency Prensa Latina said an
agreement in principle ending fight
ing in Namibia and granting Nami
bia independence this year has been
converted into a permanent treaty
and goes into force at once.
It said in a dispatch from Havana,
monitored in Mexico City, that
Cuba, Angola and South Africa
agreed in Geneva last week to make
the tentative 14-point agreement
reached in July in New York “an of
ficial treaty.”
dependence, said it would abide by
the cease-fire pact.
But the Angolan rebel movement
UNITA (the National Union for the
Total Independence of Angola)
said, “There can be no effective
cease-fire in Angola if UNITA’s po
sition is not taken into account.”
Neither SWAPO nor UNITA was
involved in the direct peace negotia
tions.
Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA has said it
will not be bound by any agreement
unless UNITA is brought into nego
tiations. It seeks a power-sharing
accord with the Angolan govern
ment, which refuses to negotiate
with it.
In Washington, the State Depart
ment released a joint statement in
the name of Cuba, Angola and
South Africa, stating that the parties
set a Sept. 1 deadline for agreement
on a timetable for the total withdra
wal of Cuban troops.
Other U.S. officials said they be
lieve agreement is possible if Cuba
and Angola drop their insistence on
a four-year withdrawal time frame
and agree to an 18-month to 24-
month withdrawal period.
The officials, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity, said Cuba and
Angola also would have to agree on
a substantial Cuban troop withdra
wal during the early phases.
The developments followed last
week’s fifth round of peace talks
held in Geneva.
Botha said South Africa planned
to pull its estimated 3,000 troops out
of Angola by Sept. 1.
i he ouuih-West African People’s
Organization (SWAPO), which has
fought since 1966 for Namibian in-
South Africa and the United
States back UNITA in its fight
against the Angolan government
ices” and said the agency would be
flexible and quick in making deci
sions about spending.
She is also writing to state gover
nors and agencies to recommend
“special employment services and
nemployment insurance consider-
tion for mil
care, transportation and temper |
shelter. The agency said that®
mean up to $9.5 million
spent.
unemt
ation for migrant farm workers.”
“The severe drought in some
parts of the nation has had a dev
astating effect on migrant farm
workers and their families,” Mc
Laughlin said in a statement. “Some
are stranded without work or money
to return home, while others face ex
treme hardship at their home base.”
McLaughlin said she has autho
rized existing migrant worker pro
grams operating under Labor De
partment grants to use up to 15
percent of their current funding for
emergency services such as health
She said another $5
been set aside from a Job t, |' nl
nership Training Act resent,
count for displaced workers I
used specifically for migrant fi
workers hurt by the drought.
She said a $300,000 discrete
I mul in I ><■ inl; set up to provide;
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ay
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tional emergency and support*
ices for areas that have exhan
other resources.
The Labor Department alsos lU,
portions of some states maybti
dared disaster areas, triggeringiH^ p,
saster unemployment insuranct:-|ft en
gram. ■ A
World briefs
Senate passes drought-assistance
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate voted 92-0 on Monday to
approve the $3.9 billion drought-
assistance bill, a wide-ranging
measure that would be the most
expensive disaster-relief legis
lation for agriculture ever passed
by Congress.
The oill would extend help to
hundreds of thousands of grow
ers and ranchers. It is expected to
receive final congressional appro
val from the House, perhaps as
early as Tuesday, and President
Reagan is expected to sign it
quickly.
“This bill is a compassionate re
sponse from the heart of the
American people,” Sen. Patrick
Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of
Senate Agriculture Committtt
said shortly before the vote.lit
der the legislation, growers wb
lose more than 35 percent 0!|
their crop because of tne droujli
would be entitled to an emtt
gency payment totaling 65 p
cent of their expected federt
subsidy or of the anticipated mat
ket price of the crop, up it
$100,000.
Farmers who are the hardes
hit would be entitled to evet
more coverage. They would it
ceive aid covering 90 percent oi
their drought-caused damage(o:
all losses they suffer beyob
three-fourths of their crop.
Court says abortion law constitutional
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Minne
sota law requiring pregnant mi
nors to notify their parents or se
cure court clearance before
having an abortion is constitu
tional, a divided 8th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
The opinion reversed a ruling
last year by a three-judge panel of
the same court. The earlier opin
ion had upheld a finding by the
U.S. District Court in Minnesota
that the law was unconstitutional.
The law, which took effect on
Aug. 1, 1981, was suspended in
November 1986 by U.S. District
Judge Donald Alsop, who ruled
unconstitutional the law’s require
ment that a pregnant girl under
18 years old notify her bioloeid
parents before receiving an am
tion.
The law, Alsop said, unduly
burdened a minor’s right to seel
an abortion, particularly whet
the pregnant girl does not litt
with both parents.
Monday’s opinion, based om
7-3 vote, ordered that theDistric
Court in Minnesota entei
judgment that the law is constia
tional.
The 1981 law required those
providing abortions for minorslt
give notice of the pending aboi
tion, when possible, to bothoflk
minor’s parents at least 48 houn
before the abortion was to occur
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Duchess of York gives birth to girl
LONDON (AP) — The Du
chess of York gave birth Monday
to a daughter, the first child for
her and her husband, Prince An
drew, and the fifth in line to the
British throne, Buckingham Pal
ace announced.
The child, who weighed six
pounds, 12 ounces, and the
mother, the former Sarah Fergu
son, are doing well, the palace
said.
Andrew, the Duke of York and
second son of Queen Elizabeth II,
was with his wife when she was
“safely delivered of a daughter at
8:18 p.m. today,” the palace said.
In May, Andrew said the child
would be named Annabel.
“All members of the Royil
family are very pleased with tin
news,” a Palace spokesman, ui
identified in keeping with Britiil
practice, added later.
An official notice with tht
statement was posted on the gait!
of Buckingham Palace, in keep
ing with tradition.
The baby’s birth at 18 minute!
past 8 p.m. on the eighth dayof
the eighth month of 1988isbein[
taken by well-wishers as asignol
good fortune. The day is consid
ered highly auspicious by Cantfr
nese-speaking Chinese, whose
word for eight i
for prosperity
is similar to that
Tropical storm rains pelt Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS (AP) —Trop
ical storm Beryl blanketed south
Louisiana with rain on Monday,
but the vice president’s pre-con
vention day trip to New Orleans
came off as planned.
Thousands of workers from
Louisiana marshes and offshore
oil rigs were evacuated as a pre
caution while the storm hovered
along the Gulf of Mexico coast.
South Louisiana, with more
than half of the state’s popula
tion, was warned of possible
flooding by Tuesday morning, es
pecially in coastal communities.
“We’re on cautious alert now
and we don’t expect to go beyond
that,” said Andy Valence, mayor
of Grand Isle, La., a coastal to«
about 40 miles south of New Or
leans.
The National Weather Serviff
said the storm was located abon 1
50 miles from New Orleans
its behavior was expected to k
slow and erratic into Tuesday
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the
Tropical storm warnings wer(
posted from Morgan City, La.,l(
Pensacola, Fla.
The National Weather Servitr
said small vessels from Perl
O’Connor, Texas, eastward Ki
Pensacola should remain inpori (
Beryl began forming inlan%
over Lake Pontchartrain, whicf:|| he
borders New Orleans mex;
Centi
Meese allows partial newspaper mergit
fcr ;
ste
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Detroit News and Detroit Free
Press will be allowed to merge
their business and production op
erations because the smaller Free
Press was in danger of financial
failure stemming from years of
steady and apparently irreversi
ble losses, Attorney General Ed
win Meese III said Monday.
Meese rejected the recommen-
ston
lid.
dation of a Justice Departmerj
administrative law judge whosaiiL
the two newspapers’ pricing polily. e s
cies were unrealistic. (
Meese, however, said therewaiR 16 ^
little prospect for the Free itel
to return to profitability in De j Tl
troit’s highly competitive market P ( >i t<
Meese said the losses were not ktrwi
manipulated but came from com Begr
petition.
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