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But others are heartened that the can didates are talking about child care, in fant mortality and high school dropouts, and are confident the next president and a new Congress will give higher priority to easing the plight of millions of Ameri can children. Nearly 13 million children — 1 in ev ery 5 — are growing up in poverty, according to the Census Bureau. After dramatic progress in the 1960s, the child poverty rate soared from 13.8 percent in 1969 to 22.2 percent in the re cession year of 1983. It has leveled off at slightly more than 20 percent in recent years. Medicaid, the federal-state insurance plan for the poor, covers only half of these children. Forty thousand American infants die before their first birthday, and progress has slowed in reducing the infant mortal ity rate. The United States, which had the sixth lowest rate in the world in 1955, now ranks 19th. “The only reason we haven’t seen ac tion on these issues is that children don’t vote,” says Robert Sweeney, president of the National Association of Children’s Hospitals. Head Start, the $1.2 billion preschool program for the disadvantaged, reaches fewer than 20 percent of its target group. Chapter One, the $4.6 billion remedial effort to help youngsters falling behind in school work, reaches barely half. More than 26 percent of teen-agers leave high school without a diploma. Drugs, gangs, crime and homelessness all make the poverty trap even deeper. “I find myself almost haunted by the lives being lived by the children of our inner cities,” Bush said recently. His response is a $3.7 billion “Invest in Our Children” initiative which in cludes a $1,000-per-child tax credit to low-income working families with chil dren under age 4, as well as expanded Head Start and Medicaid coverage. Dukakis makes an even bigger prom ise: making basic health care a birthright for all Americans, primarily by requiring employers to provide basic health insur ance coverage for workers and their fat| ilies. Marian Wright Edelman, presidem the Children’s Defense Fund, said, welcome the fact that they both reed nize that you’ve got to deal withems mous gaps in preventive health serviti for mothers and babies. The quesii now is translating that into money actual programs.” N( foi MISSION, tional college year probatio tions and will Larr Dukakis backed the ABC concept, committed himself only to staittf funds, not the full $2.5 billion. MCorp files suit in continuing fight over Fed’s rulings DALLAS (AP) — A suit filed by Dal las-based MCorp against the Federal Re serve Board is the latest clash between MCorp and federal regulators over the shape of recapitalization of the troubled bank holding company. “MCorp never had and does not have any intention to dissipate its assets,” the suit said. “Moreover, the orders are un reasonable, oppressive and render im practical the conduct of the normal busi ness operations of MCorp. ’ ’ The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Dallas, challenges a regulatory order that prohibits MCorp from paying dividends on its preferred stock. It also challenges the Fed’s right to force the holding company to do what MCorp’ eventually chose to do anyway. Officials from botn sides declined comment, but the suit might be a prelude to an even bigger fight. The Fed ordered on Oct. 19 that MCorp stop payment on preferred stock dividends. Two days later, MCorp said it would suspend such payments but also announced it would put a moratorium on payments of about $470 million in debt. MCorp, which recently sought a fed 1 erally assisted bailout, said the order came after it notified regulators of its in tention to take the two actions. Accord ing to the suit, MCorp told regulators sometime after Oct. 7 that the actions would be considered at a board meeting on Oct. 21. The suit comes three weeks after MCorp, the state’s second-largest bank holding company, asked for federal help in a management-led reorganization that would include $400 million from the holding company, $400 million raised, from private investors and shareholders and an undetermined amount from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Ana lysts estimate the FDIC would have to provide about $1 billion. Regulators have asked MCorp chair man Charles H. Bishop to first use $250 million in cash and other liquid assets — earned from the sale of non-banking sub sidiaries — to recapitalize struggling banks owned by MCorp before they will consider his request for aid. Since MCorp already had come up with a plan to stop the dividends and debt payments, the order from the Fed was unfounded, the suit said. But Bishop has said he first wants as- ' surances that the holding company will get federal assistance as part of his own proposal to restructure the company. Texas incumbents hold financial edge over House hopefuls WASHINGTON (AP) — Incumbent Texas congressmen wield a commanding financial edge over their challengers, in many cases by a six-figure margin, according to a study by the citizens lobby Common Cause. The nationwide study of 789 major party candidates seeking a House seat showed incumbents with a nearly 6-to-l edge over their opponents in fund rais ing, including a twelvefold advantage in contributions from special interest groups. “The PAC-rigged system for financ ing congressional elections is creating a challenger-proof House of Representa tives,” said Common Cause president Fred Wertheimer. “When House incum bents can’t loose, regardless of perfor mance, and House challengers can’t win, regardless of talent, then we don’t have real elections and we don’t have rep resentative government. ’ ’ Only one Texas congressman, Repub lican Rep. Bill Archer of Houston, did not accept contributions from political action committees, according to the study of Federal Election Commission reports for the period beginning Jan. 1, 1987, through Sept. 30. $132,002, of that $8,626 in PAC money, and has spent $120,801. Bryant had $415,175 cash on hand at the end of Sep tember; Williams had $11,200. Leland has no major-party, general election opponent. A Bryant spokesman said the con gressman tries to raise as much money as r possible in case he'has a stiff opponent, and supports legislation to minimize the role PACS play in shaping campaigns. “The PAC-rigged system . . . is creating a chal lenger-proof House of Representatives.” Fred Wertheimer The ranking GOP member of the pow erful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Archer cannot allow “any false impressions regarding the decisions he makes and the actions he takes,” a spokesman said. When it comes to spending, House Speaker Jim Wright of Fort Worth leads the Texas delegation at $685,720, put ting him in 14th place nationally. Wright has no opponent but spends a substantial part of his warchest helping the cam paigns of other Democrats, his spokes man, George Mair, said. Two other Texas candidates, Demo cratic Reps. John Bryant of Dallas and Mickey Leland of Houston — rank among the top 30 House office-seekers nationwide in PAC receipts, Common Cause said. Bryant was in 17th place with receipts of $334,258; Leland was in 24th place with receipts of $321,425. “We didn’t know we didn’t have a challenger until Jan. 6 and money might have been spent before a campaign,” Mair said. “And there are two write-in challengers so that suggests we might do something — an ad here, a placard there, a lawn sign. There are all sorts of rea sons.” Bryant placed 16th nationally for total receipts, at $781,649, among the 26 House candidates whose campaigns took in more than $700,000. His opponent, Republican Lon Williams, has raised Another big spender in the Texas dele gation has been Republican Rep. Steve Bartlett of Dallas, who has put $648,301 into his race against Democrat Blake' Cowden, to earn a 17th-place ranking among all candidates. Cowden has spent $6,500, raisecP $9,214, and has $2,713 in his warchest. Bartlett has $346,013 cash on hand and has raised $590,870. World Briefs Group calls for action to save pandas HONG KONG (AP) — The giant panda faces extinction unless China takes more steps to save the endan gered species, a conservationist said Tuesday. Chris Elliot, chief China conserva tionist of the World Wide Fund for Nature International, said at a news conference his group and China rec ognize that what they have done up to this point is not sufficient. China, the only country where pan das live in the wild, estimates that fewer than 1,000 remain, threatened hv deforpstatinn and nnaohers who sell the black and white skins. China has stiff penalties for panda poaching, including the death pen alty. Elliot said his group and the Chinese Forestry Ministry have come up with a plan calling for increased patrolling of panda reserves and bet ter training for the guards. In additior first-year of lowed to ha\ will be stripp The NCA; why it shoulc ciate three u upon their in\ The NCA/ treme sanctic have shut doi Only Southei wrath of that ] “Kansas v Berst, assist! sure there wa vere violatior the team. It w The report gation which started by tel< dealing with student-athlet The plan is expected to be sub mitted to the State Council, or Cab inet. next year, and “it will be a blow if the State Council doesn’t ratify anything,” Elliot said. Let Scientist: Half of core melted at TMI WASHINGTON (AP) — At least half of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor core melted during the 1979 accident, a government scientist said Monday as he revealed a higher per centage than most previous estimates. “Many of you may not be aware that at least 50 percent of the core melted during the accident,” James Broughton, manager of the TM1-2 Accident Evaluation Program at the Idaho National Engineering Labo ratory, said at a conference of the American Nuclear Society. The material that melted included fuel and the tubes in which the fuel was contained, he said. In the accident at the Pennsylvania plant’s Unit 2 reactor, uranium fuel was allowed to lose the vital cooling footbal , tcam get water that normally covers it, causing temperatures to rise dangerously in the core. Broughton’s estimate, based on an bleeding Aggies updated scenario of the accident, was higher than the 35 percent figure pre sented to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in April 1987 by Donald McPherson of the Department of En ergy. Lawyer: Tax exemptions discriminate WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas law exempting religious publications from a tax on most other books, newspapers and magazines is dis criminatory and amounts to an uncon stitutional promotion of religion, a lawyer for Texas Monthly argued Tuesday before the Supreme Court. But an assistant Texas attorney general told the high court that the exemption was justified because it neither advances nor inhibits religion and does not foster an excessive en tanglement between church and state. At issue is a Texas court ruling ihai said the sales tax on publications other than religious periodicals nei ther violates equal protection rights nor breeches the constitutionally re quired separation of church and state, From October 1984 through Octo ber 1987, sales of books and newspa per subscriptions were subject to the Texas sales tax. But “periodicals published or dis tributed by a religious faith that con sist wholly of writings promulgating the teaching of the faith” were exempt from the tax. When an NCA nent of a game idd up to a disma )all team is ble: mown to the coll lave been given a n having their g lack to Dec. 1. For Texas A& u. skirmish can at least Aggies wc Only in Aggielar season game. It’ where mercy is fa But don’t thin less season. Taki like taking the Co And think hov tion was made I temporarily cane cane. But no soonei You s< You m Youth You’re Federal judge blocks state exit poll law MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked a state law that would have banned the three ma jor television networks from conduct ing exit polls just outside voting places to predict winners on Election Day. U.S. District Judge David Doty, saying the law is likely to be found unconstitutional, issued a preliminary injunction against its enforcement. The 1984 law prohibits voters from being asked how they voted within 100 feet of the polling place. Nearly half of the states have some limits on exit polling, in part because ot tears that voter turnout will be hampered by early predictions of results. The networks targeted Minnesota along with six other states where they successfully challenged restrictions they considered so stringent they would effectively ban exit polls. Floyd Abrams, a New York lawyer representing CBS, ABC and NBC, had argued that the Minnesota law vi olates free speech and would prevent family members from asking each other how they voted if they were within the zoned area. Denver starts 5th Better Air Campaign DENVER (AP) — The governor took the bus to work and the mayor greeted commuters at a bus station Tuesday as Denver launched its fifth Better Air Campaign to combat car bon monoxide pollution produced by cars and wood stoves. Last year the campaign included an oxygenated fuels program for vehi cles, and Denver dropped from first to seventh place on the Environmen tal Protection Agency’s list of worst cities for carbon monoxide pollution. This year, the goals have been raised. Carbon monoxide levels in the mile-high city are highest during the winter, when cold air traps the pollut ion. And internal combustion engines work less efficiently in the high, thin air and emit dirtier exhaust. The Better Air (Campaign encour ages commuters in the six-county | metro area to leave their cars at home j at least one day a week and on high- pollution days until the end of Jan- r uary. It also calls for wood-burning bans on high-pollution days; some com munities have mandatory bans and others appeal for voluntary cutbacks. Rebel attack kills four in El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Leftist rebels launched a dar ing mortar and rifle attack Tuesday on National Guard headquarters, kill ing four soldiers and wounding 37 people, including the guard com mander, the Defense Ministry said. ijition Col. Jose Galileo Torres told the Associated Press that rebel mortar fire set off grenades stored inside the main building in the compound dur ing the 45-minute attack. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze, he said. One of two parked cars loaded with explosives blew up about a block from the site in northern San Salva dor, a defense ministry spokesman said. Army munitions experts deacti vated explosives in the second veh'- LiiL, spuiw.jiAAciii 5diU 1 of anonymity. Among the injured were four civil ians. National Guard commander Col. Jose Humberto Gomez received a shrapnel wound in a leg, the spokes man said. The guard is part of El Salvador’s armed forces and takes part in coun terinsurgency operations. Col. Rene Emilio Ponce, the new armed forces chief of staff, said the attack was carried out by urban com mandos of the Farabundo Marti Na tional Liberation Front, the umbrella group of five leftist guerrilla organi zations. Ponce, speaking at guard head quarters, told reporters that about 15 rebels took part in the attack.