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NEWS
THE BATTALION
Tuesday, January 30,2
Bush signs executive order givin;
religious group services fundin
BUSH
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush, challenging traditional no
tions about separation of church and
state, opened the
door Monday for
religious groups to
receive govern
ment money for
their work aiding
addicts, prisoners,
the homeless and
more.
“We will not
fund the religious activities of any
group, but when people of faith pro
vide social services, we will not dis
criminate against them,” Bush said.
By his signature on a pair of ex
ecutive orders, Bush created a White
House Office of Faith-Based and
Community Initiatives — with coun
terpart offices in five Cabinet-level
departments — that will facilitate
competition by religious groups and
charities for a share of the billions of
dollars that the government pays out
for social services.
On Tuesday, during a visit to
northeast Washington’s Fishing
School, a spiritual youth center. Bush
planned to unveil the legislation he
will submit to Congress opening all
federal grant programs to participi\ r
tion by religious groups. His propos
als will also include tax incentives
and liability protection to encourage
more charitable giving, aides said.
“Problems like addiction and aban
donment and gang violence, domestic
violence, mental illness and home
lessness — we are called by con
science to respond,” Bush said during
Monday’s signing ceremony in the
White House’s Indian Treaty Room.
“As long as there are secular al
ternatives, faith-based charities
should be able to compete for fund
ing on an equal basis and in a man
ner that does not cause them to sacri
fice their mission.”
Religious leaders of varied faiths
and political backgrounds — a
Catholic nun in her blue habit, a
Muslim imam in his turban, an Or
thodox Jew in his yarmulke — sur
rounded Bush for a smiling photo.
Among them were ministers Walter
Fauntroy and Floyd Flake, both of
them prominent black Democrats.
In a private meeting beforehand.
Bush, who was opposed by nine of
every 10 black voters in November, as
sessed the group and, according to sev
eral participants, joked: “If this was
about politics, this room would be kind
of empty, if you know what I mean.”
Carol Porter, executive director of
the Houston-based Kidcare, a 16-
year-old “meals on wheels” program
for children, told Bush in that meet
ing that the only condition tied to
federal money for religious groups
should be: “No proselytizing.”
“I don’t think the religion of any
one should be shoved down anyone
else’s throat as a prerequisite for
service. Jesus didn’t do that,” Porter
told a reporter afterward.
Bush put University of Pennsyl
vania political science professor John
J. Dilulio Jr. in charge of the new
White House office and asked former
Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Gold
smith to watch over the initiative
from a seat on the board of the Cor
poration for National Service.
The idea of religious participation
is not entirely novel. The 1996 wel
fare overhaul signed by President
Clinton — and implemented in Texas
by then-Gov. Bush — allowed reli
gious groups to help the government
move people off welfare and into
Rescue efforts continue in India
Survivors say lack of equipment hindering search for bodies
BHUJ, India (AP) — The discov
ery of a living 8-month-old baby —
covered in his dead mother’s blood but
cradled in her lap — on Monday cap
tured the heartbreak and the singular
miracles of India’s killer earthquake.
The rescue was rare cause for hope
following the earthquake, which
killed at least 6,200 people and
caused damage estimated at up to
$5.5 billion. India’s prime minister
acknowledged Monday that his coun
try was ill-prepared for disasters.
In the case of the miracle baby,
doctors said the warmth of his moth
er’s body helped him survive three
days in the ruins of a collapsed build
ing in Bhuj’s Kansara Market.
“We saw the baby in the mother’s
lap, we saw some movement from
the baby,” said R.K. Thakur, a Bor
der Security Forces assistant com
mandant. “I took the baby in my hand
and I found it was alive.”
The boy, Murtza Ali, was rushed
to a medical center, surviving rela
tives were found, and the child was
conscious and smiling, Thakur said,
adding: “It was miraculous.”
There are few even partly happy
endings in western India these days.
Survivors complained Monday
that confusion and a lack of equip
ment were hampering rescue efforts.
Rescuers lacked cranes and bulldoz
ers, and many units did not even have
generators, making night work im
possible without lights. Soldiers
hunting for survivors began work at
first light and stopped when the sun
went down.
tt
I'm here to
express my
solidarity with
the Indian people. ”
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister
The hope of finding many more
survivors “is dwindling hour by
hour, but as long as there is hope,
we won’t give up,” said Joachim
Ahrens, who represents a Swiss
rescue team in Bhuj.
In the first estimate of damage, the
Federation of Indian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry Secretary
General Amit Mitra said quake loss
es may be as high as $5.5 billion be
sides a daily production loss of $ 111
million. However, officials in Gujarat
state, epicenter of Friday’s magni
tude 7.9 quake, put the figure at $2.17
billion.
A grim-faced Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who toured
Gujarat on Monday, said he was
forming a national disaster agency
to ensure immediate response to
emergencies.
“The country is not ready to face
such disasters,” Vajpayee told re
porters in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s
economic hub. He also announced
federal grants totaling $108 million
for the state.
The prime minister noted that
when a cyclone killed 10,000 people
in the eastern state of Orissa two
years ago, his government had trou
ble responding. He said it was facing
similar problems now.
“I’m here to express my solidarity
with the Indian people,” Vajpayee
said. “They are not alone in this.”
In New Delhi on Monday, Agri
culture Minister Bhaskar Barua ap
pealed to private aid groups for field
hospitals, clothing, volunteers to
put up tents and prepare and dis
tribute food, and cranes and other
equipment.
jobs. Seventeen of those groups
Texas are now being sued by
American Jewish Congress
Texas Civil Rights Projectcha
ing the constitutionality of
“charitable choice.”
At the Washington-basedi
cans United for Separation ofQii
and State, the Rev. Barry Lynne
Bush’s planned expansion an ass
on constitutional principle I
only lead to more litigation.
“The 1 irst Amendment wasl
tended to create a separation
tween religion and governmeii
a massive new bureaueracyj
unites the two,” said Lynn.anaij
ney and United Church oft
minister.
Another opponent. Rep. Chetj
wards, D-Texas, said he wasj
that religious organizations,
tight regulation, could discrin
in a way federal programs no
would not countenance. ,
“I don't want Bob Jones lud
sity to be able to take federal (
for an alcohol treatment prograisi|
put out a sign that says noCatt
or Jews need apply here forai
ally funded job,” Edwards said
— News In Brief-
Minister pleadsl
guilty to sexual
abuse of childreil
GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP)
minister and former eleme
school aide who videot
himself molesting chili
pleaded guilty Monday to
ally abusing nearly two doji
youngsters and was sente
to 60 years in prison.
The Rev. Fernando Garcia,
pleaded guilty to 47 counts,
admitted molesting the 23
tims ages 5 and 13 atfectwi
office and at the school.
After his plea, the Bd
minister stared at the c.
room floor while the moth?
two of the victims, boys 10
12 at the time, called Ga
"this evil incarnate" and!
her family would never be
same.
Garcia, who grew up inli
co, said that as a boy he
abused by a Roman Catt
priest.
“Your kids need specialc
seling. I don’t know what I
do to help,” he said. “What
are seeing here is the rest
somebody who never took
chance to be counseled.’
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