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Clinton discounts eligibility rule
Owning a car becomes easier for food stamp recipients
WASHINGTON (AP) — Recogniz
ing that many of the working poor live
far from where the jobs are, the White
House plans to make it easier for fam
ilies getting food stamps to own a de
cent car.
“If you want more people to work,
you’ve got to help them get to work,”
Clinton said Wednesday.
Clinton said he will scrap an eligi
bility rule that counted the value of all
but the oldest, and thus least reliable,
cars against a family’s assets. Too many
assets, and a family can’t get food
stamps, the national coupon program to
subsidize grocery bills.
Under existing rules, food stamp re- -
cipients cannot own a car valued at more
than $4,650. Clinton will replace that
dollar limit with an equation that will en
able families with little equity in their
cars to qualify for food stamps, no mat
ter the total value of the car.
To figure a car’s equity, the govern
ment will subtract outstanding loans
from the car’s fair market value. If the
equity value is less than $1,000, the car
would be irrelevant toward detennining
food stamp eligibility.
The White House estimates the
change will help 150,000 people own a
car over five years.
Two-thirds of all new jobs are now
"If you want
more people to
work, you've got
to help them get
to work."
CLINTON
created in suburbs, but three-quarters of
welfare recipients live in rural areas or
central cities where public transit sys
tems are often sketchy or nonexistent.
The White House estimates that even in
metropolitan areas with extensive tran
sit systems, fewer than half the entry-
level jobs are accessible by transit.
“It doesn’t take Einstein to figure out
that transportation is critical to matching
the available work force with the avail
able jobs,” Clinton said.
The White House cites a recent Ur
ban Institute study that shows twice as
many welfare recipients with cars were
working than those without cars.
The food stamp program, which
benefits 19 million people, is ex
pected to cost $21.2 billion in 2001,
up $ 1.4 billion from this year.
The food stamp rule change,
which does not require approval
from Congress, goes along with a
proposal in Clinton’s 2001 budget
that the White House estimates
would benefit 245,000 people over
— five years.
If Congress agrees, each state could
set a different automobile limit for food
stamps and key the amount to what they
now permit in their respective welfare
programs, federal officials say.
Some states place no limit on the val
ue of a welfare recipient’s car. In many
states, the limit ranges from $7,000 to
$9,000. The change would cost taxpay
ers an estimated $132 million a year.
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News in Brief
Prison riot curbed
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) —
Guards shot nine inmates, killing
one, during a riot Wednesday at one
of the state’s toughest maximum-
security prisons, a spokesman
said.
The half-hour melee at Pelican
Bay State Prison involved about
200 inmates using handmade
weapons, Lt. Ben Grundy said. He
did not know what sparked the vio
lence, but believes it could have
been a racial incident.
Inmates stabbed each other
while guards used tear gas and pep
per spray to try to control them be
fore they began firing, Grundy said.
One of the eight wounded inmates
was in critical condition, he said, but
he would not give details on the na
ture of the other inmates’ injuries.
Deliberations begin
for NYPD cops trial
ATLANTA (AP) -
who refused induction intottiC;
in the 1960s because the al
draft board wouldn’t address
“Mr.” was returning totheli
States for the first time in 39;
Wednesday after receiving
dential pardon.
Preston King, 63, fledhisfe
town of Albany, Ga., in 1961 afe
ing sentenced to 18 months inpii
Over the years, he made a lili
himself as a professor in Engl
where his daughter is a memk;
Parliament.
On Monday, President Clii
granted King a pardon sohes jjng water li
return to Albany for the fia jakedback o
Thursday of his oldest brother,G
non W. King Jr.
King’s family — including
daughter Oona, a member of Bras
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union at the Atlanta airport Wei]
dav afternoon, when Kins wassci rom the cit\ c
uled to arrive from London.
“I can't express to you how e!j ground in the
the family is,” nephew CheveneKi Station,
said before his family left Alta
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Jurors be
gan deliberating Wednesday in the case
of four white police officers charged
with killing an unarmed black man, af
ter the judge said the panel could acquit
if they believed the officers acted in
self-defense.
The officers could be cleared if ju
rors believe their claim that they fired
41 bullets at Amadou Diallo because
they thought he had a gun and wanted
to shoot them.
Latest attempt to
boost airfare fails
FORT WORTH (AP) — The latest
effort by airlines to boost fares by
up to $30 per round trip has stalled,
with several airlines declining to go
along with the move.
Houston-based Continental start
ed the latest round of increases on
Friday, citing escalating fuel prices,
which have doubled in the past
year. Five other large airlines, in
cluding Fort Worth-based American,
matched the increase.
But Southwest Airlines, North
west Airlines and America West were
among the holdouts that chose not
to raise prices.
Faced with rivals offering lower
prices on the same routes, Ameri
can rolled back its increase two
days after putting it in effect, and so
did Continental, Delta Air Lines and
several others.
Just three weeks ago, Continen
tal led a successful run at higher
prices, boosting fares $20 per
round trip to help compensate for
the increased fuel costs.
Airlines are expected to try to
raise fares again next weekend.
Justice Joseph
Teresi said. “A
person who
acts in self-de
fense is not
guilty of any
crime,” he
said.
The judge
spent more
than three
hours going
over the legal
instructions
for each of 24
criminal
counts before
deliberations
began.
He gave the
jurors the op
tion of consid
ering charges
other than mur
der, and told
Earlier, Teresi replaced a female ju
ror for talking about the case outside of
court. The jury is now composed of
four black women, one white woman
and seven white men.
Sean Carroll, 37, Edward McMel-
lon, 27, Kenneth Boss, 28, and Richard
Murphy, 27, each have pleaded inno
cent to second-degree murder. They
face a maximum prison sentence of 25
years to life if convicted.
Lesser charges being considered
include sec-
degree it won’t actually sink ii
we see him home.”
In an interview with CNN Ml ^federal go'
he left London, King said he was'i
ing w ith great expectations.”
“I’m a little bit numb.butl’iii
ing back,” said King.apoliticalffl
into tl
professor at Lancaster University.
He said that he expectedtoi comm ^
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"You should figura
tively put yourselves
in the shoes of the
defendant and con
sider how the situa
tion appeared to
him. You should con
sider what Amadou
Diallo did before or
during the en
counter”
Justice Joseph Teresi
Albany judge
ond-degree
manslaughter
and criminally
negligent
homicide,
which could
result in a sen
tence of proba
tion.
The de
fendants were
members of a
roving unit of
New York City
plainclothes of
ficers that has
been accused of
stopping and
frisking young
black men
without cause.
Diallo’s slaying
sparked such
intense publici
ty and so many
protests that the
formed” from when he was last ta
and that the memory of leaving ki
home is still painful.
“There are very elemental thmt LI"//,/,
that make you a human being,"ij
said. “All that was stripped away."
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granted time by his draft board ft ) v j ronmenta /
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did white draftees. He was event! With each plain
ly convicted of draft evasion.
During his three-day trip to! rated street va
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them the law allows police officers to
stop and question someone if wrong
doing is suspected.
“You should figuratively put your
selves in the shoes of each defendant
and consider how the situation ap
peared to him,” the judge said. “You
should consider what Amadou Diallo
did before or during the encounter.”
case was moved to Albany.
Prosecutors allege that Diallo, 22,
was accosted in the vestibule of his
Bronx apartment building on Feb. 4,
1999, without warning or justification.
He was hit 19 times.
The defense claims Diallo ignored
the officers’ repeated orders to halt and
pulled out a black object in a threaten
ing manner. It turned out to be a wall.
United States, King plannedt
the president and to thank retiredtlnanjuana aloni
District Judge William A. Booi nhiletheBordi
who presided over his trial inl9i winds,
and petitioned Clinton to pardon>
The judge, now 97, saidKiiri ptsmanning
suffered enough, having miss/ Mhas 7,761 a
funerals of both his parents andi®
brothers. He said that the sen® signed to 192
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