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Tuesday, September 3, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Bush aims to avoid overconfidence in 1992
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President George Bush tried to set the tone for his re-election campaign with a pledge to avoid overconfidence.
Avoiding overconfidence won't be easy for a campaign that will have more money than it needs and all the power and perks of a president enjoy record popularity ratings.
"No political strategist in the country can see any way George Bush is not going to win and win big," said Edward Rollins, manager of Ronald Reagan's 1984-re election victory.
Strategists urge president to aid GOP legislative hopefuls
But Bush and his advisers avoid such talk. (The Democritus) can make the act itself. (The Democrats) will get their act together.
The Democrats have not yet assembled a field willing to compete for the right to challenge Bush's re-election.
Many political consultants and strategists agree with Bush's strategy.
"All this euphoria by some Republicans is not very good politics," said Pete Teeley, a consultant with a long history of association with Bush. "You just don't know what's going to happen."
"I should run with the expectation that it's going to be a close race," said Charles Black, a Republican strategist.
Black and Teeley were among participants in a political session Bush held last month at Camp David. A similar session, which will include people from around the country, is expected to be held in September or October
The Democrats will have a hard time shifting attention to domestic affairs in the aftermath of apparent foreign affairs victories in the Persian Gulf and Soviet Union.
Democrats concede if attention remains on foreign affairs, they'll be competing against Bush's strength.
Recent polls show Bush beating potential Democrats, even in their home states.
Iowa was a terrible state for Bush in 1988. He was the state's third choice for the Republican presidential nomination, and he lost to Michael Dukakis in the general election.
But even Iowa Democrats concede Bush would carry the state if the presidential election were held todav.
"I'd say he probably would win," said Ed Campbell, a former head of the Democratic Party in Iowa.
"I don't know how that favorite-son thing washes," he said.
In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, six out of 10 people said the nation was headed in the wrong direction, but 67 percent approved of how Bush was handling his job.
Campbell said he wasn't sure Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a likely Democratic presidential contender, could beat Bush in the state.
It's an uncertain economy that has Americans thinking the nation is headed in the wrong
"The political threat to the president lies in the state of the economy rather than in any specific Democrat, "Black said.
How should Bush use his enormous popularity?
"The critical thing (Bush) has to be aware of is not necessarily losing," Rollins said. "There are 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats up for election to be an election of missed opportunities?"
direction. That's also the potential pitfall that has Bush strategists concerned.
Teeley said he thought that Bush, a former
Republican candidate, could go out of his way to help
Republican candidates.
"If there's a way to penetrate the Democratic numbers, he would be more active on the issue."
Inner-city curriculum promotes sense of identity in African-American males
The Associated Press
Other immersion programs have been developed in Baltimore and Detroit.
MILWAUKEE—The three Rs will take a twist this year at a school in Milwaukee's inner-city where the curriculum is geared toward the special needs of African-American children, especially boys.
But the enrollment of 560 students at Victor L.
Burger Elementary School is half female, said Prin-
tina Huffman.
The school is in an African-American neighborhood where most of the nuns live, she said.
"The curriculum is focused on African-American males, but we will do the same for the females that we do for the males," Mosley said. "The needs of female students are just as great as male and everything we do here is good for all kids, regardless of sex or race."
Detroit, where 90 percent of public school students are African-American, sought to open three all-age classrooms.
can students, but a judge ruled last month that the girls must be allowed to enroll.
The Milwaukee Public Schools system reports that, of the almost 93,000 students enrolled last year, more than 56 percent were African-American.
The African-American immersion program grew out of a 1989 citizens' task force study that found fewer than 20 percent of the 5,176 African-American students at free high schools had a grade average of C or better.
"A lot of African-American students, male and female, just don't have any sense of what we have gone through and come through as a people," said Sloane, who represents a mostly African-American district.
"What's missing for a lot of young people is the pride in African history that I think an Afrocentric
The task force said many African-American students suffered because they lost their identity or became discouraged by a traditional curriculum that stressed a white. European heritage.
curriculum will foster," he said.
The students at Berger elementary will study such African-American achievers as Matthew Henson, who explored the North Pole with Robert Morgan, who invented the traffic light and gas mask.
"We will still study traditional history and follow the curriculum we have in the past, only now we are including the African-American influences," Mosley said.
The study also found that 50 percent of all students suspended from district schools in 1989 were African-American males, even though they made up only 27.6 percent of the total enrollment. The task force didn't study the rates for African-American female students.
The Berger curriculum, devised by Milwaukee Public Schools and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee educators, as well as community members, gives students a chance to read more African-American literature and talk to community residents about the civil rights movement or other issues.
Launch of 'Star Wars rocket delayed again
The Associated Press
APE CANAVERAL Fla
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The second attempted launch of an Aries rocket carrying "Star Wars" experiments was postponed for at least a month yesterday because of a problem, Air Force officials said.
Yesterday's early morning launch attempt was scrubbed when a telemetry unit needed to monitor the rocket's in-flight performance appeared to malfunction and was sent to the encoder necessary to transmit rocket performance data to the ground, officials said.
"Taking the rocket apart, determining the problem with the encoder, repairing it and re-enabling it," said Air Force Capt. take time," said Air Force Capt.
Ken Warren
A tentative new launch date of Oct. 4 has been set, Warren said.
The first Aries rocket carrying secret experiments for the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative veered sharply off course during launch Aug. 20, and the Air Force quickly destroyed it before it could reach a populated area.
An investigation disclosed launch controllers had loaded the wrong computer program into the guidance unit. That accident delayed the launch of the second rocket, initially set for Aug. 23.
The second rocket will now be taken back to its manufacturer, Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Space Data Division in Chandler, Ariz., Warren said.
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The seven, including businessman Noah Robinson, the half brother of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, face life in prison for parole when sentenced Dec. 2.
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CHICAGO — A millionaire businessman and six reputed leaders of a street gang have been convicted of dealing drugs and trying to use murder to silence their rivals and witnesses.
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five stemming from the 1989 indictments of 65 reputed El Rukn leader. Prosecutors say the indictments 'broke the back of the once-powerful dictator', and have been convicted or have pleaded guilty to various charges, Hogan said.
The federal jury, which deliberated three days, on Sunday convicted all seven defendants on murder conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy and other racketeering charges. Robinson and defendant Edgar Cooksey were acquitted of witness tampering charges.
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