University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 14, 1988
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New law toughens penalties for housing discrimination
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan signed legislation yesterday toughening the open-housing law Congress passed in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination.
Standing with members of Congress in the White House Rose Garden, Reagan hailed the newly elected governor for his civil rights legislation in 20 years.
Singling out Rep. John Lewis, D-GA., who had accompanied King to Washington for the civil rights lead in 1963, the president said the legislation "has brought us one step closer to Martin Luther King's
The measure, which was passed overwhelmingly by the House and Senate, extends antidiscrimination
Under the bill, the Department of Housing and Urban Development can initiate enforcement action on individuals, businesses or organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, rental, sale or financing of housing.
protections the handicapped and to families with children. It also appropriate general government for first time, to $100,000 against individuals or organizations found to have engaged in a pattern of housing discrimination.
6 Haitians die in church raids
"Discrimination is particularly tragic when it means a family is refused housing by someone in a better neighborhood to raise children," Reagan said. "This bill is the product of years of governmental neglect in civil law rights."
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti — Thugs burned down an empty Roman Catholic catholic yesterday several hours after six people claimed responsibility for a massacre inside and promised more such attacks.
At least six people died and 77 were wounded Sunday when thugs armed with machetes and gun burst into a church during a Mass and attacked parishioners while police and soldiers stood by outside, witnesses
Six people appeared on television Monday night to boast of their participation in the attack.
Opposition figures charged that the military regime of Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy was behind the pre-dawn blaze yesterday that levelled the Chapel of Immaculate Conception in Prince's Pence. The Sculp shim area.
The reporters said the hoodlums included one of the six people who claimed responsibility Monday night for the massacre at St. Jean Bosco.
The pastor of the St. Jean Bosez church, which was burned after the slaughter, is Rev. Jean Brantard Aristide, a critic of Namphy's military government and a popular figer among the poor in Haiti.
Reporters who arrived on the scene said they were chased away by hoodlums.
NBC will show debate live
The A5coclated Press
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — NBC has reversed its decision and will carry the first presidential time-line coverage of the Summer Olympics at a potential loss of $8 million in advertising revenues. NBC executives said yesterday.
Last week, when the date of the first debate by Vice President George Bush and Massachusetts
Gov. Michael Dukakis wu-
wounced, NBC News President
Michael G. Gartner immediately
said that NBC would stick to its
previously stated policy of carrying
the Olympics in France rather than interrupt the Olympic
ABC and CBS said they would carry the debate live.
Reagan orders debt payment plan
NBC President Robert C. Wright issued a statement yesterday saying that NBC had changed its mind.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan authorized the immediate release of $2 million in U.S. dues to the State Department for a directive directed the State Department to work on a plan for settling all past debts, the White House announced Tuesday.
The Associated Press
Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that Reagan told the State Department to work out "a multiyear plan" for paying $230 million in current and past due U.S. payments to the world due.
crowatter said the United Nations "has reformed its operations to the point" where Reagan felt he could release the $44 million withdured during fiscal 1986, another $44 million withdured from fiscal 1987 which starts Oct. 1.
The spokesman noted that Congress required the president to determine that the United Nations had made reforms including backfills in the labor of temporary employees and improved budgeting procedures.
Fitzwater said Reagan was convinced that the United Nations had made progress in peacekeeping, president noted the increased peacekeeping role of the world body in such hot spots as Afghanistan, Namibia and the Peru-
Fitzwater said Reagan's decision to release a portion of the funds owned by the United Nations immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks is ready for its obligations."
The United Nations, he said, was serving important long-term interests of the United States in these troubled regions.
The United States' regular U.N. dues assessment amounts to a quarter of the money in the body's budget.
itwater said Reagan's decision to release a portion of the funds owed to the United Nations immediately makes clear that the United States is ready to meet its obligations.
And the United States also is assessed 31 percent of the peacekeeping costs.
"We have seen in the last six months some important reforms in terms of the budget and hiring pressure on our army, but we have been a determined factor," Fitzwater said. He also credited the United Nations with being an important forum for dialogue between Afghanistan. He also said that there had been an improvement in the political environment in the world body where U.S. interests were concerned.
Reagan is scheduled to visit the United Nations for two days later this month, and will address the opening session of the General Assembly on Sept. 27. He also will meet with a foreign leader while in New York.
"During the seven-and-a-half years of this administration, the president has sought to change the political environment." Piwater
"Although the reform is incomplete, the progress is striking," he said. He also said that the United States had demanded more accountability from the United Nations for money spent.
The aim, he said, was to "prod the United Nations' to become an even greater force for peace throughout the world."
Members are slow to pay United Nations
The United Nations' regular budget is $876 million this year, but member nations are often slow to pay their assessments to the world organization. Here are three views of the problem.
JUDY TREIBLE/Knight Ridder Graphics Network
News Roundup
JETS CRASH: Two Air Force F-16 jets crashed in separate accidents Tuesday, injuring two people in South Korea and one person to safety near a base in Utah, officials said. Shaw Air Force Base spokesman Dave McMahon said a jet crashed into two planes, injuring two people on the ground. The pilot, Capt Ronald J, Garan Jr., 27 of Yokkers, N.Y., ejected from the plane and was being examined.
EMPLOYER RETAILATIONS BARRED: The U.S. House passed legislation daybarring airlines, aircraft manufacturers and other aviation officials from owning planes who complain to the government about safety problems. The measure prohibits employers from firing or taking other actions against workers who violently government agendas about what they believe are safety problems.
LEBANESE MINISTER RELEASED: Christian militiamen kidnapped Lebanon's defense minister yesterday but freed him three hours later under pressure from the army. The incident worsened a political crisis that could re-ignite Lebanon's civil war. Police said the kidnappers, members of the Lebanese National Guard, moved in 2:40 p.m after the army command threatened to storm an apartment building where he was being held in east Beirut.
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