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Monday, October 23,
City shuts down shelter
San Francisco angers many by moving victims
of earthquake to make room for plastic surgeons
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The shutdown of a shel
ter for earthquake victims to make room for a conven
tion of plastic surgeons has angered some of the dis
placed and brought an angry defense by Mayor Art
Agnos.
Most of the 1,000 people housed in the Red Cross
shelter at the huge Moscone Convention Center were
moved Sunday to the Presidio army base and to a Navy
transport ship, allowing time to prepare for the Ameri
can Society of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgeons’ con
vention Oct. 30, city officials said.
The relocation angered residents of the Tenderloin
district, where hundreds of elderly and impoverished
people were evicted from damaged transient hotels af
ter Tuesday’s devastating 6.9-magnitude quake.
“They should have the plastic surgeons postpone it
for a week and let people get over this earthquake,” said
Keith Holyfield, 28, an unemployed man in a stained
shirt and tattered green-and-yellow Oakland Athletics’
cap who waited outside the Moscone Center on Sunday.
“I’m still shaking from this quake.”
The center is within walking distance of thelenfel
loin’s cheap cafes. The Presidio and the USS PeleliuJ
Pier 30, are miles away, closer to the swanky C|j
House restaurant and Fisherman’s Wharf.
The city’s chronically homeless, the estimated 6,fe I
who live year-round in doorways and warm themsdic|
over garbage can fires, said it took a disaster for thee /
to open an emergency shelter.
“Why does it take an earthquake for a bum to pi;
cup of coffee?” said Harvey Roberts, an unemploje!
accountant who has slept at Moscone Center since 4
quake.
“The shelter, it’s a luxury,” said Holyfield, whoslep
on the street until the quake raised his standard ofi,
ing by making a cot available in the convention hall hi
room.
Mayor Agnos disputed the accusations that them
does not normally provide adequate shelter. He salt
San Francisco already pays for 2,900 hotel rooms;
night and that the city needs convention and touns
revenue.
Mandela’s wife reclaims role
as prominent, defiant activist
SOWETO, South Africa (AP) —
The government banned her, the
anti-apartheid movement censured
her and potential legal battles cloud
her future. But Winnie Mandela has
survived and is reclaiming her role
as one of South Africa’s most promi
nent and defiant activists.
Mandela, 55, wife of jailed Afri
can National Congress leader Nel
son Mandela, vanished from public
view in February when leading anti
apartheid groups repudiated her
and accused her self-appointed
bodyguards of waging “a reign of
terror.”
In recent weeks, however, Man
dela has emerged with high-profile
appearances at several opposition
rallies. The relentless speculation
about her husband’s release, ex
pected within several months, keeps
her at the center of the political
stage.
“She is blunt, rash, emotional and
speaks from the heart — that is why
people respond to her and why she
is controversial,” Fatima Meer, au
thor of a best-selling biography
about Nelson Mandela, said.
“Even during the crisis, Winnie
had the support and loyalty of many,
many people,” Meer said in an inter
view. “She will remain highly visible
and widely respected.”
gotiate with the white-led govern
ment.
Nelson, who is visited frequently
by his wife, reportedly told her not
to talk to the press. She remained si
lent for several months but has be
gun to speak out again.
There has been no formal pul
reconciliation between Winnie am
the anti-apartheid movement, k
the overt criticism of her hi;
stopped.
“I am of no significance to any
body as an individual,” she told
Tribute Magazine. “To attack me is
to attack (Nelson) Mandela, to attack
the ANC.”
Several anti-apartheid leaders, m
eluding some who earlier de
nounced Winnie for “violating k
man rights in the name of tit
struggle against apartheid,” refusec
recently to speak about her on tit
record.
Brady’s political stock
rises after market crash
When six of Nelson’s closest ANC
colleagues were freed from prison
Oct. 15, Winnie accommodated one,
Wilton Mkwayi, at her home in So
weto, the huge black township out
side Johannesburg. She appeared
that day at a rally lor the freed pris
oners.
The releases are widely seen as a
trial run for freeing Nelson, 71, pos
sibly the world’s most famous pris
oner. His release is considered nec
essary before black leaders, even
relatively conservative ones, will ne-
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the
aftermath of the Friday the 13th
stock market dive, Treasury Secre
tary Nicholas Brady’s political stock
has risen for successfully avoiding
the pitfalls that ensnared the Reagan
administration two years ago.
Before the crisis, the low-key
Brady tended to pale in comparisons
with his predecessor, James A.
Baker III, now secretary of state.
But in spearheading the govern
ment effort to prevent the Crash of
’87 from repeating, Brady is winning
praise for deft handling of the situa
tion.
“It was clear that the government
stood prepared to help prevent a re
peat of that 508-point debacle,” Al
len Sinai, chief economist of the Bos
ton Co, said. “The policymakers all
said the right things and helped to
contain any problems.”
by an 88-point rise the next Mondu
That success notwithstandk
Brady hinted in an interview Fri4
that he may soon recommend se«
ral steps aimed at promoting n
coordination among regulators,
would not be specific about wk
changes were being considered
In a free enterprise system,
ernment policymakers are notiw
essarily concerned with imposk
rules that inhibit the normal ebba
flow of market forces. But they an
concerned when other factors-]
ticularly those unique to the
speed, computer driven
the modern era — threaten to t
dermine or overwhelm the
natural forces.
When the market dropped 108
points on a Friday two years ago, it
followed with a 508-point plunge the
next Monday. This time, Friday’s
190-point decline was largely offset
In addition to directing the fad
finding operation that insured:
supply of accurate information upc:
which to base decisions during ik
market plunge earlier this monii
Brady worked to have all gover
ment policymakers, from the pre
dent on down, speak with one void
to project an air of calm.
E. German media report problems
BERLIN (AP) — In a crowded East Berlin subway
train, commuters shake their heads in disbelief as they
flip through the Communist Party newspaper Neues
Deutschland, its pages brimming with workers’ com
plaints and admissions of official bungling.
Less than a week after reform-resistant party leader
Erich Honecker was forced out of office, East Ger
many’s news media have shed their drab and doctri
naire image and given voice to unprecedented debate
over the troubled nation’s problems.
Although there is still no legal alternative to the state-
run press, government media have begun to respond to
the widespread calls for broader, more realistic news
coverage.
A day after Egon Krenz took over as party leader last
week, Neues Deutschland devoted four pages to critical
examination of the nation’s problems, including the
flight of more than 55,000 East Germans to the West
For the first time in their 40-year history, East fe |
many’s media have offered prompt coverage of tit|
pro-democracy street protests and other oppositi |
events.
On Saturday, two senior Communist Party offidail
engaged in an unusually candid debate withEastfoB
mans who had just marched through downtown
Berlin in demand of reforms. Less than two hours late I
footage of the heated exchange between East Bethl
party chief Guenter Schabowski and Mayor ErlH
Krack was shown on the nightly news show ‘ Aktue j
Kamera.”
East German television now routinely broadcastsijj
interviews with state officials, who were rarely seer f
few weeks ago and whose policies were never quel
tioned openly.
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