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Mickey Clatt, an employee of Bayer Electric, breaks up a part of the sidewalk
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order to allow access to the new phone system being installed in the Pavilion.
Clinton advocates statistical sampling for next censi
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HOUSTON (AP) — An
ticipating a showdown
with congressional Repub
licans over the next nation
al census. President Clinton
today advocated using sta
tistical sampling to avoid
undercounts of minorities
and the rural poor. "It's not
about politics, it's about
people," he said.
The president visited a
community center in a
heavily populated Latino community in Hous
ton to get an idea of how much local govern
ments, community programs and even private
foundations rely on census data to determine the
assistance they dispense.
Clinton said severe undercounting of popula
tions such as children, minorities and homeless
people is now hurting attempts to funnel feder
al help to those who need it. He said the experts
agree that using statistical sampling, along with
"quality checks" that involve head counts in cer
tain neighborhoods, can reduce the error rate to
1 /10 of 1 percent.
That would mean only about 300,000 Ameri
cans may be missed in the next census count,
rather than the millions overlooked in the 1990
tally, he said.
"It is therefore, I think, quite unfortunate that
some in Congress have so vociferously opposed
sampling, because improving the Census
should not be a partisan issue," Clinton said.
"It's not about politics, it's about people. It's
about making sure that every American really,
literally counts."
Afterward, Clinton attended a fund-raising
luncheon at the home of attorney Richard
Mithoff. The luncheon, which drew 120 guests,
raised $800,000 for the Democratic Congres
sional Campaign Committee. It was Clinton's
first fund-raiser for the DCCC in Texas and all
the money is to be spent on congressional races
in the state.
He was expected to pick up another $500,000
at a fund-raiser in Dallas tonight for the Democ
ratic National Committee.
Clinton chose to visit the Magnolia Multi-Ser
vice Center in Houston to address ways to keep
the serious problems with undercounting expe
rienced in the 1990 census from happening again.
With that tally, an estimated 4 million Ameri
cans nationwide were overlooked, with higher
rates of undercounting among minorities, said
Robert Shapiro, undersecretary for economic af
fairs at the Commerce Department.
The problem was acute in Texas, where the
Census Bureau estimated that 245,286 Hispanics
and 83,114 blacks — as well as 226,883 children
— were missed by census takers. In Houston
alone, nearly 67,000 people were left out in 1990.
As a result, the state lost out on $1 billion in
federal funding. That alone should lead law
makers of any political party to support ways to
make the count more accurate, the president said.
"In Texas, I would think, every Republican
would be just as interested as every Democrat
in seeing that every Texan is counted,sj
this state does not lose another billiondoi
Clinton said.
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boundaries for congressional districts.Th:
play a role in determining eligibility fort
funds for an array of programs from Media
roads and bridges.
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Bush, the National Academy of Science
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Verdict expected Thursday for assault of 3-year old Dallas^:
DALLAS (AP) — Two brothers,
ages 7 and 8, testified Tuesday that
they and a fourth-grade friend sexual
ly assaulted and beat a 3-year-old girl
at a West Dallas creek.
Their testimony came during the
trial of the 11-year-old boy, who is
charged with three counts of sexual as
sault and one count of injuring a child.
He faces up to 40 years' imprisonment
if convicted.
The 8-year-old brother was practi
cally mute on the witness stand, giving
only simple yes or no answers in a small
voice. Lawyers for both sides repeated
ly asked him to pull his hand away
from his mouth and use a microphone.
By contrast, his younger brother
was smiling and chatty, spoke loudly
and clearly into the microphone, giving
yes or no answers in a lilting singsong
voice. After admitting that he touched
the girl's vagina with his penis, he gave
a toothy grin and sang a little song.
The brothers can't be charged with
the crime because they are younger
than age 10.
Both boys said they and the 11-
year-old on trial engaged in oral sex
with the girl and beat her naked body
with shoes. There were some inconsis
tencies, however.
The victim's mother broke into
tears when prosecutor Gina Savage
showed her photos taken of the girl at
the hospital after the April 9 attack.
"She was nude, and she just had big
eyes, like she was not knowing what
was going on," the 24-year-old woman
said, her voice quaking. "When 1 saw
her, I couldn't bear to see her, so 1 just
looked away."
"You're going to hear bravado from
a 7- and an 8-year-old trying to be big
ger than they are," said Garry Cantrell,
maintaining his client's innocence and
contending admissions to police were
coerced. "You're going to hear incon
sistent statements."
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