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WORLD & NATION
6
Friday, June 16,1989
Study: Bush’s wage veto
greatly affects minorities
Impact sharp on earnings of Hispanics, blacks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush’s veto of legislation rais
ing the minimum wage will have an
especially sharp impact on black and
Hispanic workers, who have seen
their earnings erode over the de
cade, according to a study released
Thursday.
According to the study by the
Center on Budget and Policy Priori
ties, Hispanics and blacks are 40 per
cent more likely to be paid at the
minimum wage than white workers.
Yet a full-time, year-round
worker earning the minimum wage
and supporting a family of three
falls $2,900 below the poverty line,
the study said. In 1979, the mini
mum wage put a family of three at
104 percent of the poverty level.
Today, one in every four black
and Hispanic workers paid by the
hour now receives a wage too low to
lift a family of three out of poverty,
even if the worker is employed full
time, the study said.
The minimum wage has been set
at $3.35 an hour since 1981.
“The dramatic drop in the value
of the minimum wage has com
pounded the earnings problems of
poor and minority workers and in
creased their poverty rates,” study
author Isaac Shapiro said. “To these
workers, the president’s veto of leg
islation boosting the minimum wage
is ominous news.”
Last year, 21 percent of Hispanic
workers and 21 percent of black
workers made less than $4.50 an
hour, compared with 15 percent of
all white workers, Shapiro said.
Rep. Albert Bustamante, a San
Antonio Democrat and former mi
grant worker, said the minimum
wage keeps workers “enslaved at a
U.S. Ag secretary:
Drought relief bills
will spark public ire
level that they really don’t survive,
they just exist. They barely get by.”
“It has an impact on all working
Americans, and in many of the pock
ets of Hispanic America, it has a tre
mendous impact,” Bustamante said.
In those “pockets of Hispanic
America” are many young people in
menial, service jobs that pay the min
imum wage, “young kids that sup
port their families,” Bustamante
said. “And most of the people are on
food stamps, housing vouchers, on
everything they really don’t want to
be on; the wages just keep them
there.”
“And unless you’ve been there,
people really don’t know what it is to
live under those conditions,” Busta
mante said.
Earlier this week, Bush vetoed
legislation that would raise the mini
mum wage to $4.55 an hour by
1992, insisting that the new mini
mum wage not exceed $4.25 an
hour. The House on Wednesday was
not able to muster the votes required
to override the veto.
“Instead of lending a helping
hand to America’s low-wage and mi
nority workers, the president has
turned his back on those who work
but remain poor,” Robert Greens-
tein, director of the center, said.
Copter crashes
in Panama; kills
3 U.S. soldiers
PANAMA CITY (AP) - A
U.S. military helicopter crashed
Thursday near the Panama Ca
nal, killing three U.S. soldiers,!
U.S. Embassy spokesman said,
U.S. Embassy spokesman Ter
rence Kneebone said “we dom
know why or how” the acciden.
occurred, adding that it "appar
ently was an accident" and did
not involve any hostile fire.
The OH-58 helicopter wem
down about 1 p.m. EDT, Knee
Ixme said. The helicopter ate
those aboard belonged tothe7tr
Light Infantry Division from For :
Ord, Calif.
The names of the victims wen
withheld pending notificationo!
their families, Kneebone said.
The division was among abon
1,900 troops sent to Panama fol
lowing the government’s null
cation of the May 7 electionsatd
post-election violence in whicr
some opposition candidates werr
beaten.
When the helicopter crashed,?
was serving as an escort forami
tary convoy transporting troop:
between Fort Clayton, on the Pi
cific side of the Canal, to Ford
Sherman, on the Atlantic, Knee
Ixme said.
He said the accident causedifc:
temporary suspension of trai
linking Panama City with tit;
nearby city of Colon.
Vol.8
WASHINGTON (AP) — New
drought legislation in the House in
cludes provisions that Agriculture
Secretary Clayton Yeutter says could
raise taxpayer complaints.
“In my judgment, some of the
present drought proposals are, at
best, on the margin of acceptability
to the American public,” Yeutter
said Wednesday.
The Senate Agriculture Commit
tee, meanwhile, unanimously ap
proved a rural development pro
gram and agreed to take up drought
relief on July 19.
Senate Republican leader Bob
Dole of Kansas had argued before
the committee on Tuesday that quick
action on drought relief for winter
wheat farmers should come before
rural development legislation.
Large areas of the Great Plains
and western Corn Belt have still not
recovered from the devastating 1988
drought. The winter wheat crop in
Kansas, for example, is down by
more than a third from last year.
Yeutter, in an interview with re
porters, said that “we have not offi
cially embraced any drought legis
lation” and will “give an official
response when the time comes.”
Yeutter said he preferred Dole’s
drought-relief bill over a broader
version in the House, which he de
scribed as “too open-ended, with far
too much taxpayer exposure and
vulnerability.”
Further, he said, the House bill is
“far too subject to attack by the gen
eral public” because of its costs and
other features. Yeutter said the Dole
bill “is far more acceptable in that re
gard.”
Dole’s drought bill would extend
terms of last year’s drought relief to
crops planted in 1988 for harvest in
1989, mostly winter wheat, which is
normally Kansas’ biggest crop.
The House bill, which was ap
proved by the agriculture committee
on May 25, is basically an extension
of the $3.9 billion 1988 drought re
lief law. Under it, if farmers qual
ified, they could get federal aid for
any affected crop or livestock opera
tion.
Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Texas,
chairman of the House committee,
said the bill “provides the thinnest of
safety nets for farmers around the
country who have suffered signifi
cant financial losses because of the
continuing drought and other types
of weather damage.”
De la Garza said the committee
“acted in a compassionate and bud-
getarily sound manner” to deal with
the tragedy of these farmers.
Study suggests senators
abuse free mail privilege
But Yeutter said there are limits
on measures the federal government
can or should take to remove risk
from the nation’s agriculture.
“We are already covering price
risk in agriculture in a very signifi
cant way through a variety of pro
grams,” he said. “ We are already
covering income risks to agriculture
in a very significant way through a
variety of programs, including defi
ciency payments (subsidies).”
Yeutter added: “If we’re now also
to cover weather risks in a very sig
nificant way, one must wonder just
what additional role government
should take up on behalf of Ameri
can agriculture — and at what cost.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen spent $2.8 million
updating Texans on the latest devel
opments in Washington in the two
years before his re-election, while
Sen. Phil Gramm’s franked mass
mailings cost taxpayers $1.6 million,
according to a study Thursday by
Common Cause.
Although the two Texans were
among 15 senators who spent more
than $ 1 million each for franked, or
free, mass mailings in 1987 and
1988, the per-household cost
amounted to less than the price of
two stamps for either Gramm or
Bentsen.
Common Cause, a public interest
lobbying group, said Bentsen’s gov
ernment-paid mass mailings cost 46
cents per Texas household, while
Gramm’s per-household total was 27
cents.
mailings in 1987-88 and critic®
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., had
the highest cost per household —
$1.27 — but his total cost was
$315,943, while Sen. Alan Cranston,
D-Calif., had the greatest total cost
— $3.87 million, but a cost per
household of 37 cents.
In total costs, Bentsen, a Demo
crat re-elected to a fourth term in
November, was ranked fourth
among all senators, while Gramm
ranked eighth.
Common Cause said senators
spent $53 million for franked mass
the practice.
“Franked mass mailings are
for campaign purposes by memte
of Congress and provide incumbei
with an unfair and discriminaii
advantage over their challenger
Common Cause President Ffi
Wertheimer said. “The use of
frank for mass mailings should
eliminated or sharply curtailed
In February, the Senate chaff
its policy and expanded fromffl
to six the number of franked iq
mailings senators can make toe«
address in their state.
Spokesmen for Gramm and Be;
sen said the Texans use
mass mailings to reach constitute
who have written them about
cific issues.
Gramm spokesman Larry
said the Republican has never d*
a statewide mailing addressed si®:
to “postal patron.”, Gramm in
targets his mailings to spedfic
ences — such as Texans who Iff
written him about the need fora
anced budget amendment - =
each letter is addressed tothereo|
ent by name.
Gramm’s mass-mailings are
sent pre-sorted by carrier route,
go third class, the cheapest va"
mail, Neal said.
“They’re the last thing on
truck . . . and it’s the last thing^
delivered,” Neal said.
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Groce
mativc
gard.” can agriculture — and at what cost.” spent $53 million for franked mass delivered,” Neal said.
Hungary honors martyr of 1956 uprisi
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — were an “absolute, total victory” and veiled Thursday at the Budapest Nagy and four of his asso
Imre Nagy, martyr of the 1956 “the bastions of the old regime . . . prison where Nagy and the others an empty one symbolizir
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) —
Imre Nagy, martyr of the 1956
uprising, will be reburied Friday as
an “outstanding statesmen” by the
communist regime that executed
him for treason 31 years ago.
Only a year ago, before Hungary’s
more liberal leadership changed the
official view of history, police used
clubs to break up a memorial dem
onstration.
Kiosks did a brisk business Thurs
day in Nagy buttons and in black-
rimmed armbands bearing his pic
ture or “56” on the national colors of
red, white and green.
The city government said all pub
lic buildings would display black
flags Friday. .
Nagy was premier in 1956, when a
popular uprising began Oct. 23 and
was crushed by Soviet tanks on Nov.
4. He and his close associates fled to
the Yugoslav Embassy, but later
were seized by the Soviets while trav
eling outside the embassy with diplo
matic escorts.
They were tried and executed in
Budapest on June 16, 1958. Nagy’s
rehabilitation began in February of
this year, when the Communist
Party leadership decided the anti-
Soviet revolt began with a popular
uprising and was not a counterrevo
lution after all.
Exiled survivors of the military
crackdown and reprisals returned to
Budapest for Friday’s funeral, many
for the first time.
Bela Kiraly, who commanded the
paramilitary national guard under
Nagy and now lives in New Jersey,
said it was hard to believe he was in
Budapest “with my past” for the first
time in 33 years.
He declared to journalists Nagy’s
leadership was “absolutely” right,
that the liberal changes made then
were an “absolute, total victory” and
“the bastions of the old regime .
were wiped out.”
Asked whether he thought the
leaders of 1956 were ahead of their
time in trying to meet the people’s
demands for more democracy, Ki
raly replied: “We were behind the
times because changes were due in
1945,” before the Communist Party
had consolidated power.
Kiraly said the revolt was an “ex
pression of popular will” and would
have continued if the Soviets had not
intervened.
A commemorative plaque was un
veiled Thursday at the Budapest
prison where Nagy and the others
were held.
Most newspapers and periodicals
carried articles, documents and pho
tographs about the uprising. Nagy’s
picture was on the cover of several
magazines.
Women’s Journal, the most popu
lar weekly, put a painting by Cara
vaggio called “Burial” on its cover. It
portrays a Christ-like figure being
borne by mourners.
At Heroes Square, a platform was
built on the steps of the art museum
for coffins bearing the remains of
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bers of the independent yf “Fo ° V
group known by its initials FI$V ernrn°' T
asked about last year’s events if strain^
light of the changed official vie" c j eac j
headqua:
Foreign Minister Gyula Horf
sponded that “no one in the Get
Committee could have known
year ago what would happen
the conclusions that would leadi (
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his
stone landed near his car, patrol leader Meishe Mish-
kan hit the brakes, popped a 25-round clip into his Uzi
submachine gun and led other Jewish settlers on a
chase of a dozen Arab teen-agers.
Moments later, a short, chubby settler with a white,
knitted skullcap was stoned from a rooftop. “I’m under
attack,” he yelled, crouching low, pivoting on one foot
and raking a nearby rooftop with bullets.
No one was hurt in Wednesday’s clash. But the con
troversial settler patrols of the occupied lands have
spurred accusations the settlers are taking too much of
the law into their own hands.
The organizer of the Wednesday patrol, Bella Go-
nen, said the settlers began the patrols in April after los
ing faith in the Israeli army’s ability to end the 18-
month Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule.
“The army is becoming more like a group of United
Nations observers,” said Gonen of Kiryat Arba, a set
tlement of 4,700 Jews that overlooks Hebron, a city with
50,000 Arabs.
“They don’t protect the Jews, all they do is separate
the two sides,” she said.
Army officials have ordered the settlers to end their
patrols in Palestinian areas. “It’s illegal and each time
the army comes across such a patrol it’s dispersed im
mediately,” a spokesman said.
isiaeii civilians, most oiien settlers, were involve^
19 shooting deaths since the uprising began.
Gonen said Kiryat Arba settlers began car patrols 1
week, which they officially refer to as “arenaeolof 1
expeditions” to circumvent official objections.
Wednesday’s patrol slowly cruised through the
ing streets of Hebron for about a half-hour until
stone landed near Mishkan’s car outside the N
University campus.
During the clash, Yaakov Ben-David, a tall, thin 11
in his 20s who is a Moslem convert to Judiasm, carfG
took aim before letting loose with a burst of ti
rounds. “They’re rounding the stone wall,” he si#
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the Palestinians who were running up the hill, behif
wall. Sharp pops could be heard as the bullets 4
cheted off the stones.
The encounter lasted about three minutes, a 1 '!
which the settlers withdrew to their cars and theAl
teens stood on a stone wall beyond gunfire range,
ting Palestinian slogans and flashing “V” for vic> 1
signs.
“The problem here is the media,” said settler M
Cohen as he climbed into his mud-spattered blue
and rolled up the reinforced glass windows.