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the associated press Worldwatch survey concludes females
economic asset and invesi
WASHINGTON - Women,
not men, are the family breadwin
ners in most of the world, where
sex discrimination against them is
a major cause of poverty, accord
ing to a Worldwatch report re
leased this weekend.
But women worldwide still
earn less, the report says, echoing
the conclusions of an International
Labor Organization report last
week.
Women in African countries
spend more hours cultivating,
harvesting, transporting, storing
and processing food then men,
says the new report by World-
watch researcher Jodi L. Jacobson.
earn less but bring home more money
“A condition that afflicts every
social institution from individual
families to international develop
ment organizations, gender bias is
an enormous stumbling block on
the road to a sustainable econo
my," the report says, citing statis
tics, studies and Jacobson's own
research in India.
In countries with 3 billion of the
world's estimated 5.5 billion peo
ple, women are the primary earn
ers for their families, putting them
in a key economic role, the report
says.
But, because they are discrimi
nated against in wages, land own
ership and lending, they are in
hibited from contributing to their
nations' economies, it concludes.
At a news briefing, she said that
even though overpopulation is a
major problem for Third World
countries, governments need to
focus more on increasing the pro
ductivity of women rather than
simply reducing fertility.
"National statistics often over
look women's work," Jacobson
said.
"Governments need to recog
nize women's work as a valuable
women accordingly."
In too many countries sk 1
women both earn the famili
ing and care for the chili
while men tend to use thein
ings for alcohol, cigarettes
consumer products, usuall
themselves or other women.
The report says gender bia
ists in every country andisi
compounded by discriminal
based on class, caste or race
But it is most pervasiveii
poorest areas of Africa, Asia
Latin America and ranges!
exclusion of women fromdes
opment programs to "system
olence against females."
Arlington contractor, city officials
battle over location of topless club
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ARLINGTON — A contractor preparing to open a
topless club here has become the center of a debate
over tightening the city's adult entertainment code.
Bob Meister has taken no risks with Club Legends,
which is scheduled to open in two weeks.
He applied for and received a certificate of occu
pancy in April. With the city's assurance that the
building was properly located, Meister bought the
property and began remodeling.
After he had begun his work, however, the city
withdrew its approval, citing an error by the city
staff. Officials said the staff failed to check the dis
tance between Meister's building and another near
by sexually oriented business.
Arlington's ordinance regarding adult entertain
ment requires that the front doors of each such busi
ness be at least 1,000 feet from each other and the
same distance from churches, schools, parks or
homes.
Meister's planned front door was 838 feet from
Fantasy Tan, which city officials now say staffers
failed to recognize as a sexually oriented business.
Fantasy Tan is a combination topless club and tan
ning salon.
To rectify the mistake, Meister moved the club's
door to the back of the building and built a 200-foot
wall so that the new entrance will meet the 1,000-foot
requirement.
Mayor Richard Greene and several council mem
bers blasted Meister and his plan as a "devious" and
"underhanded" attempt to circumvent the ordi
nance.
State and local officials have now gone to work
trying to block Club Legends' liquor license.
"Bob Meister is being persecuted," said his attor
ney, Kelly Jones. "He's caught in, at best, a political
war and, at worst, competitors using the council for
their benefit."
Greene acknowledges that the dispute began with
an error by the city.
"The original persoq failed to recognize ... it (Fan
tasy Tan) as an adult business," Greene said. "... If
city staff makes an error, it can be corrected and the
city is not liable for that mistake."
Meister maintains he's been a victim throughout
the ordeal. Moving the club's entrance was partly
conceived by city staffers, he said.
Jones said the city should stick to its original deci
sion, despite complaints from competitors and other
ntearby businesses.
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Clinton under fire
for military record
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Dan
Quayle fought his Vietnam war in
1988. Now it's Bill Clinton's turn.
The war divided the country a
generation ago and it still comes
back to haunt the baby boomer
politicians who came of age in the
1960s.
Quayle, who struggled to ex
plain in the last campaign how
and why he entered the Indiana
National Guard in 1969, has
joined the chorus of Republican
critics taunting Clinton about his
maneuverings around the mili
tary that same year.
Quayle challenged Clinton this
week "to come clean with the
American people. I answered the
questions. He s going to answer
the questions — sooner or later."
The vice president no longer re
cites his name, rank and serial
number in public to demonstrate
his pride in the Indiana National
Guard. But he insists it set him
apart from Clinton, a resolute op
ponent of the Vietnam war.
"I wore the uniform for six
years and chose to serve my
country. Bill Clinton chose not
to," Quayle said last month in
Houston.
Clinton obtained a deferment
to complete his final year as a
Rhodes scholar at Oxford Univer
sity by promising to enroll in
ROTC at the University of
Arkansas law school.
He later dropped those plans
and took his chances on the new
draft lottery in December 1969.
He got a high number, 311, and
was never called. He wrote the
head of ROTC at the University of
Arkansas thanking him "for sav
ing me from the draft," and said
the only reason he had not resist
ed the draft was "to maintain my
political viability within the sys
tem."
Clinton faced a barrage of
questions and attacks over his
lack of military record last spring.
But he weathered that storm and
figured the issue was behind him.
Then the Los Angeles Times re
ported last week that Clinton's
late uncle worked to find him a
spot in Arkansas's Naval Reserve.
Clinton at first said he knew
nothing about it — and never
joined the Naval Reserve — but
later acknowledged he was told
last March of his uncle's effort.
Hurricane relid
will arrive soot
Quayle says
THE ASSOCIATED PRES;
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -
President Dan Quayle
with weary victims of Ha
cane Andrew at a tentcityS
urday and reassured them
relief will make it through
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need help and aren't
it," said Phillip Highofneai 1
Florida City, who wad
through swarms of boi p 0 iiti cs
uards and reporters to rea j ssue
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service center in a restaur)
and a church.
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Base, which representso»
third of the local econoitf
even though the U.S.
dropped reconstruction mont
from its relief bill, he said.
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built," Quayle said,
strategically located, and»
ondly it's good for the art
but we don't invest in nation
defense just for jobs and# 1
nomic development.'
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seven astronauts on Endo 1
our "good luck and w
minutes before the launch'
the 50th shuttle mission,
Vietnamese refugee credits Bush
first lady with reuniting family
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONROE — A Vietnamese refugee, reunited with
one of her daughters after 17 years, credits first lady
Barbara Bush and the president, along with warming
relations between her country and the United States.
Sally Gaudreau, a refugee of the Vietnam War
who was separated from her children in 1975, said
she was able to bring yet another of her children to a
new home here late last month.
As two of Gaudreau's children prepared to return
in 1990, they met their last surviving sister, Tuam
Chau, in Saigon.
Tuam had been released from a communist prison
just two days before her brother and sister were set
to leave for America, Gaudreau told the Conroe
Courier.
After Tuam's brother and sister helped her get
into a camp for children with parents in America,
they left for their new home.
But Gaudreau later received correspondence from
Vietnam that it would likely be five years before
Tuam w'as cleared to go to the United States. So she
wrote Mrs. Bush, enclosing a Dec. 9, 1990 clipping
about her family.
Gaudreau said the first lady answered her l et for t
telling the worried mother to be patient.
Tuam came to Texas within 16 months - in stl aside
of five years. When she arrived Aug. 27 at Hour 1
Intercontinental Airport, she handed her moth®
envelope with her immigration papers - and l
clipping — enclosed.
Gaudreau said the Bush administration has g!’
her a second chance to be with her family.
"It's like the sky opened wide for me andlsefj
blue sky again," she said Friday. "I never see ib
fore him (Bush). He is a nice man and I oweal o1
him.
"Every time I hear he is behind in the polls
heart squeeze a little bit," she said.
The South Vietnamese Army wife had found! 1
self on the roof of an Air America building at Saif
in 1975.
She was forced to jump aboard an American h
copter hours before the U.S. embassy fell to 1
North Vietnamese.
She said she landed on a U.S. aircraft ca® !
bound for the United States and could never reb
to her homeland.
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