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Thursday, February 11, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Some colleges still segregated, Bennett says
Missouri named to six-state list
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said yesterday that six Southern and border states are still in partial violation of the civil rights law and must take further steps to rid their colleges of segregation.
Bennett said his department had found four other states — Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia — to be in
compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
He asked the governors of the six states, including Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia, to send him within 90 days written assurances that they would carry out by the end of this year desegregation measures they previously agreed to.
The action was the latest of federal efforts, stretching back nearly 20 years, to force states that once segregated their colleges to improve traditionally black campuses and to open doors for minority students and faculty at traditionally white campuses.
Most of the steps that the six states must take involve physical repairs, renovations or construction of facilities at traditionally black colleges. Few require commitments or actions by the states' flagship universities, where black enrollments still lag behind their share of the population.
Bennett said none of the states had met the goals and timetables for minority recruiting and hiring that they agreed to in 1978 desegregation plans, but he emphasized that those goals never were intended to be quotas — not even under the Carter administration, where the goals originated
Bennett said there was not much difference
"It is not a suggestion on our part of either rampant racism or bad faith, simply that things that were agreed to have not yet been done," he said.
between the four states in compliance and the six states in partial violation.
"All of the 10 states have made significant and substantial progress in desegregating their systems of public higher education," he said. "Each has done all or most of what it committed to do."
Elliott C. Lichtman, a private civil rights lawyer who has worked with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on this case from its inception, deplored Bennett's
action.
"It's very sad," Lightman said. "It's a repudiation of 20 years of efforts by the Office for Civil Rights to get some meaningful desegregation and some meaningful elimination of the vestiges of segregation."
The Southern states, like all states, still are obliged to obey the civil rights law, and the Department of Education still has an obligation to enforce it. The department's action means Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia no longer will have to submit desegregation plans to Washington for scrutiny.
Testimony ties North, Bush to Noriega
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Noriega, provided military training for U.S.-backed contras after he met twice in 1985 with Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, a former top Panamanian intelligence official testified yesterday.
North told Noriega in October 1985 that Panamanian training bases were needed because U.S. laws at the time banned direct help from the United States for the contrains, Jose I. Blandon, former aide to Noriega, said. Blandon's testimony was interpreted into English.
Blandon, who was fired last month by Noriega as Panama's consul general in New York, also told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that Vice President George Bush used Noriega to send a warning to Cuban leader Fidel Castro hours before the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983.
Bush, who was asked at the White House if he ever called Noriega, replied, "Nunca. Never." "Nunca" is the Spanish word for never.
a second day, also repeated his assertion that the CIA regularly sent Noriega reports on the political positions and personal lives of some U.S. senators, including Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
Blandon, testifying under oath for
The CIA categorically denied Blandon's statements Tuesday, but he refused yesterday to change his story.
Late yesterday, Sen. David Boren, D-Dakla, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, issued a statement saying he doubted Blan-
don's allegation about the CIA reports.
U.S.-Panamanian problems center on General Noriega
And in testimony before the subcommittee yesterday afternoon, a Panamanian pilot, his features hidden by a black hood, said Noriega contracted in 1982 with Colombia's Medellin narcotics cartel to protect cocaine shipments flown into Panama en route to the United States. The cartel is said to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine imported into the United States.
The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY, Panama — The upheaval in U.S.-Panamanian relations centers or one man, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriegia, and Washington's efforts to break his tight hold on power.
In an interview on CBS" "60 Minutes" on Sunday, Noriage said the drug indictments stemmed from his refusal to cooperate with U.S. foreign policy. He said former
National Security adviser John Poindexter told him such cooperation included helping the United States invade Nicaragua and training contrasts in Panama.
In a letter to his attorney general, Carlos Vilalaz, Noriega said the U.S. drug indictments were "for false crimes that are attributed to me in a foofhardy manner."
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