University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 22, 1992
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'JFK' prompts call for files
Senator asks for release of government's assassination records
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee called yesterday for the release of all classified government files relating to the assassination of former president John Kennedy.
Sen. David Boren said in a statement that he knew of no indications that the government was involved in any kind of plot in the assassination.
"It is time to find an appropriate way to clear the air." Boren said. His comments were delivered in part at the CIA, which his committee oversees, and came amid renewed discussion of the assassination prompted by the new docudrama movie "JFK."
"It is important that the American people, particularly those who have been born since the assassination of President Kennedy, have confidence that their own government, even in its most secret programs, is operated in accordance with basic American values." Boren said.
The National Archives is in the process of reviewing closed files of the Warren Commission, which investigated the 1963 assassination. Already 88 percent of those files have been opened to historians and scholars.
Records of the House Select Committee on Assassination remain closed under House rules, which routinely keep committee files out of the public domain for 30 years. There may be other files at the CIA and other federal agencies that also remain classified and should be opened. Boren said.
New Jersey welfare-reform law to deny aid for additional babies
The Associated Press
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — Gov. Jin Fiorio signed into law sweeping welfare reforms yesterday that will make New Jersey the first state to deny additional aid to welfare mothers who have babies after joining the program. Monthly welfare grants now are increased by $64 for each extra child.
The new program could be implemented as early as July. It requires nearly all welfare recipients, both men and women, to participate in education and job-training programs. It also allows women to marry without losing all of their aid.
Women already on welfare who have children and work will be able to keep wages of up to half their monthly grants without losing benefits.
Under existing laws, recipients lose some or all of their benefits if they start earning wages. Critics say that discourages welfare mothers from finding work and perpetuates their dependency on aid.
"Our current welfare system is morally bankrupt in that it drains people of hope, "Florisa said before signing the bills. "That wasn't the intention at the beginning, but that's been the result at the end."
welfare reform but argue that freezing grants would unfairly penalize children. Several groups, including the state department of the public advocate, said they were considering legal action.
Civic and religious groups support
Welfare mothers attending class at The Work Group, a nonprofit education and training center where Florio signed the six-bill package, also said the provision was punitive.
"There are going to be kids caught up in the middle," said Robert Jones of Camden, a 20-year-old welfare mother of three young children. She is studying at The Work Group for a high school equivalency diploma.
Tsongas ad puts spin on trade deficit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Paul Tsongas criticizes rivals for Japan-bashing in a new television ad and promises to declare an economic emergency and shake things up in an effort to restore American manufacturing might.
The 30-second spot, to debut Wednesday in New England media markets, is designed to tap into voters' economic anxieties but takes the opposite tack to a trade ad being aired by Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey.
"All the Japan-bashing in the world won't open this factory," a narrator says as a black-and-white photograph of an empty factory appears.
The previous two Tsongas ads were largely biographical. In the new one, titled "Taking Control," Tsongas seeks to establish himself as the Democratic candidate best qualified to revive the nation's manufacturing base although the ad gives no details of Tsongas' ideas.
"Let's not kid ourselves.
America must take control
ofi's own fate."
narrator in Tsongas ad
"Every Democrat promises to get tough on trade. But let's not kid ourselves. America must take control of its own fate. Paul Tsongas will declare an economic emergency and shake things up. ... Others just blame the Japanese. Paul Tsongas will beat them, the American way, by making quality come first again."
Tsongas adiser adviser Michael Shea said the ad was designed to directly engage the other candidates on the issue of trade protectionism
without being a negative spot.
Kerrey's ad features the senator leaning on a hockey net and promising that if Japan won't play fair in trade they will find out that he can play a little defense, to.
Tosgas and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton have criticized that approach, saying America needs to solve its own competitiveness problems with an economic offensive.
Even Kerrey has felt compelled to say his views on trade are not as protectionist as one might assume from his television spot. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin is the most保护ist of the Democratic candidates, but he has assiduously avoided Japan-bashing.
Shea said the trade ad would replace biographical ads now airing on Boston, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont stations — all of which are seen in New Hampshire, where the first primary will be held Feb. 18. He declined to discuss how long the ad would run or how much it cost.
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