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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Aug. 26, 1985
Campus/Area
Groups say HUD doesn't enforce housing laws
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Barbara Gilley, who raised three children while confined to a wheelchair, says she thought it was obvious she was a capable person — until she began looking for a federally financed apartment unit built for the handicapped.
Gilley said when she approached managers of buildings financed and regulated by the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, she was surprised, angered, and
finally, disillusioned by "obnoxious" treatment.
"After raising three children, marriage and divorce, I had to get a rehabilitation counselor who would certify that I could live on my own, that I could take care of myself," Gilley said.
She said apartments specially equipped for the handicapped were vacant when she made telephone inquiries, but would become unavailable when she arrived to fill out an application.
Gilley thinks she was a victim of
"You must be handicapped to qualify for some of these programs, but the handicap may be the exact reason you are denied (admittance)," said the coordinator, who requested anonymity.
what one housing coordinator for the handicapped described as "the Catch-22" of taxpayer-financed housing.
According to HUD and Farmers Home Administration budget directors, the agencies will spend more than $1.5 billion in 1985 on mortgage programs that require developers to
build wheelchair-accessible units.
An additional $623 million in HUD money already is committed for the next 20 years.
But handicapped and civil rights groups charge that HUD, which flies a banner outside its national headquarters in Washington proclaiming, "Fair Housing: 85 is Our Year," not only has failed to enforce fair housing laws for minorities, but also for the handicapped.
They say that despite a General Accounting Office audit warning of the problems four years ago, only a
fraction of the handicapped units are occupied by handicapped persons.
When Gilley, paralyzed below the waist from polio, applied to an Alexandria, Va., HUD complex she immediately was told, "the waiting list is very long — at least a three-year wait."
At the time, she said, non-disabled people were living in the handicapped units — designed with ramps, wider bathroom doors, grab bars by the toilet and adjustable countertops. So she asked about a separate waiting list for units for disabled
people to help shorten the wait. She said she was told the list was "very long."
"I never did find any (subsidized) housing," she said. "I gave up and moved to Waynesboro, (Va.), where the cost of living was cheaper."
HUD has yet to implement a regulation to require fair housing for the handicapped, and its officials acknowledge they have lost track of how many wheelchair-accessible units exist or where they are located.
Defecting pilot crash-lands plane
Associated Press
They said the pilot sought political asylum in Taiwan.
SEOUL, South Korea — A defecting Chinese air force pilot crashed a twin-jet light bomber in South Korea, killing the navigator and a farmer toiling in a rice paddy, officials said Sunday.
China said the plane strayed off course during a training mission and made an emergency landing. It landed near a military ammunition crew, including the man who died.
The first Chinese account came Sunday evening over official Peking television, a full day after the incident took place.
China and South Korea have no diplomatic relations, but state-run South Korean television said the government was in contact with Chinese authorities in a third country. Hong Kong generally was assumed to be the meeting place.
The Defense Ministry said the pilot suffered a fractured spine, but the plane's third crewman, a radioman, was unhurt and wanted to return to
Lee Hung-shik, a ministry spokesman, said South Korean air force jets spotted the plane about 6 p.m. Saturday and tried to escort it to Kunsan Air Base, a U.S. base near Iri, about 110 miles south of Seoul.
But the Chinese bomber ran out of fuel and hurtled to earth. Lee said,
The pilot, identified as Xiao Tienyen, 33, was taken to Wonkang University Hospital in Iri, where he was listed in stable condition. He told South Korean investigators he wanted to defect to the island nation of Taiwan, Lee said.
Taiwan became a Nationalist Chinese bastion after the Communists took power in China in 1949 after a civil war.
The Seoul government was expected to comply with the wishes of the pilot and radio operator in line with its past decisions.
Radio operator Liu Shuiy, 37, the third crewman, was unharmed.
Peking television said in its nightly nationwide newscast Sunday that the plane made an "emergency landing" in South Korea, but it did not mention an aslum request.
The Chinese report said the jet was "engaged in exercises off Qingdao,".
a city on China's northeast coast across the Yellow Sea from South
Korea, when "it drifted off course into South Korean air space and was forced to make an emergency landing."
China"hopes that South Korea will return the aircraft and all the crew immediately," the newscast concluded.
Reagan acted as FBI informant
newspaper.
United Press International
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the late 1940s, Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, reported to the FBI on suspected communists in the Screen Actors Guild and other Hollywood organizations, government documents disclosed yesterday show.
According to FBI reports obtained by the San Jose Mercury News through a freedom of information request, the president was one of at least 18 confidential informants used by the agency in its investigation of suspected communist infiltration of the film industry.
The others were not identified and all references to other people named
The others were not identified and all references to other people named by Reagan and Wyman were deleted from the documents provided to the
On April 10, 1947, the Reagans gave to the FBI the names of Hollywood figures in the Screen Actors Guild
they thought were members of two cliques that "follow the Communist Party line," the report said.
In addition, Reagan described the workings of the Screen Actors Guild to agents. He was elected president of the union that year.
Reagan's role in what was known as the "Hollywood Red hunt" has been generally known for some time. He testified before the House U- American Activities Committee in October 1947.
Questioned about the newspaper report Sunday, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, "While we have not seen the information the newspapers obtained, it's something that has appeared before."
The newspaper said Reagan also was questioned during the April 10,
1947, interview about a July 11, 1946,
meeting he attended of the Hollywood Independent Citizens' Committee of Arts, Sciences and
Professions. The FBI had monitored the meeting.
Reagan had tried, but failed, to get the group to accept a resolution condemning communism as well as fascism. He resigned from the committee by telegram that night.
Rusty Brashear, a White House spokesman, told the newspaper that FBI officials told him Reagan's role in the quest for communists in Hollywood was "very minor."
A Dec. 19, 1947, FBI report on "Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry," referred to Reagan as "T-10." but Brashear said that was not a code-name. He said agents rated informants on a scale of 1-10 for reliability or importance, with 10 being the lowest rank.
The FBI ordinarily does not release details about its confidential informants. It gave no explanation
why Reagan's activities were disclosed except to note that his public
status enabled the disclosure of more information.
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