NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan/Friday, September 20,1991
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Washington
poverty in U.S. increases in '80s The United State passed Canada and five European democracies during the 1980s in rising poverty, a private study said.
migration policy. The study, done by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, said the United States had the widest distribution of poverty across all age and family groups. For the United States the survey's bleakest finding was that 40 percent of U.S. households with children were poor.
one study said the U.S. economy was performing well, but in contrast to other nations, there was almost no support to those in the United States most affected by economic and social changes."
Tunis, Tunisia
Police trick, overpower hijacker
an unarmed man, who falsely claimed he had a bomb, hijacked an Alitalia jetliner yesterday, the government said.
The hijacker demanded the plane fly to Algeria but the airport in Algiers refused landing permission. The pilot then convinced the hijacker to allow him to continue to Tunis.
When the plane landed it was surrounded by security forces. The hijacker agreed to allow 137 passengers to leave the aircraft but held one hostage, security officials said.
Police, claiming they wanted to check if the passengers had left the plane, overpowered the officers.
The hijacker was identified as Sadok Hassen Bouchenk, 26, a Tunisian.
Miami
Castro may testify for Noriega
A deal in which Fidel Castro would testify by videotape for Manuel Noreja is a lawyer for a government witness in the former Panamanian leader's drug trial said yesterday.
The prosecution said Noriega visited Castro in 1984 after a Panamanian drug accidentally was raided by government troops.
Castro negotiated a deal and Noriega paid back $4-$5 million compensation for protection money paid by the cartel, as well as released everyone arrested, the government said.
Case studies show that Noriega faces 140 years in jail if he is found guilty of the 10 different charges of drug smuggling.
From The Associated Press
Pay gap for races still big
Whites ahead of African-Americans in earning power
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — College-educated white men earn nearly one-third a year more than African-American men with similar backgrounds, the Census Bureau said yesterday.
A study, conducted in 1989 and 1990, showed African-Americans were economically behind whites by almost every measure. Higher education placed African-Americans ahead of less-educated whites they still held the earning power of whites of equal education.
African-American men 25 and older with four years or more of college earned an average of $61,300 in equal education earned $41,090.
The gap between African-American and white women 25 and older was narrower. College-educated African-American women earned $26,730; white women, $27,440.
Among people 25 and older with four years of high school but no college, African-American men earned $20,280; white men, $26,510; black women, $16,440; white women, $16,910.
Ronald Walters, political science chairperson at Howard Uni.
versity in Washington said the study dealt a devastating blow to the idea that race was declining in significance in the United States.
"Race as a factor is growing, and racism accounts for, I would think some of this." Walters said.
As college-educated African-Americans climb the corporate ladder, many at some point reach the "glass ceiling," an informal barrier to promotion, he said.
Instead of rising, they languish in jobs that are below their qualifications. Or, they are siphoned out of the company into the African-American position of another firm. Walters said.
The census survey confirmed Labor Department research that found widespread barriers to the promotion of minorities and women in nine large corporations.
The Labor Department report, released in August, said that much of the bias was unintentional, caused by such practices as word-of-mouth recruiting, lack of access to management decision making, and the failure of executives to advance minorities and women.
Other factors that lessened the value of a college education for
African-Americans include:
—Urban residence. Jobs sought by college-educated African-Americans have shifted from the cities, where they live, to suburbs, where there are fewer African-Americans. Waltersaid.
—Type of company. Claudette Bennett, author of the census report, said college-educated African-Americans were more likely than whites to work in low-paying service industries.
—Time with a company. Taynia Mann, a research demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington research group, said college-educated African-Americans were relatively new to the labor market. They have had less time than whites to win promotion and higher pay.
Although the rewards of education were less for African-Americans than for whites, African-Americans were more likely to have four years of college in 1990 than 10 years earlier, the census study said. Last year, 16 percent of African-Americans aged 35 to 44 had completed at least four years of college, compared with 8 percent in 1980.
Bush: U.S. not looking to renew war
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration tried to quell talk of a new war with Iraq yesterday, a day after raising the possibility of sending U.S. planes to protect U.N. inspectors.
President Bush denounced Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as "brutal dictator," but only in a quick reference to the Persian Gulf War during a speech on domestic matters.
The president had said Wednesday that he was ready to deploy U.S. aircraft if Iraq continued
interfere with U.N. teams searching for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Told that Iraq's state-run news media had accused the United States of spreading false information to justify its resumption of aggression, Bush said, "I'm not looking for a fight with anybody."
But no one made any threats yesterday.
Defense Department representative Pete Williams said that the department would not comment on contingency plans.
with respect to an Iraqi conti-
gency. All I can say is, there are
no troops moving. Nobody is
going anywhere."
But he added, "No orders have been issued to carry out any plan
Williams did say that U.S.
Patriot missiles and the troops
that fire them would be leaving
Arabia. Europe soon for Saudi
Arabia
No increased threat sparked the deployment, he said.
The antimissile weapons were requested by King Fahd because Iraq "continues to sidestep the U.N. Security Council resolutions on destroying their ballistic missiles," Williams said.
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