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Gap closing
on female wage
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -
The wage gap between women and
men is rapidly narrowing, but an
increasing percentage of the poor
are women, according to a Rand
Crap. study.
The study found that from 1980
to 1986, wages for all working
women increased from 60 percent
to 65 percent of men’s wages, and
in the age range from 20 to 24,
women’s wages increased from 78
percent of men’s wages to 86 per
cent.
And 25 percent of all new
graduates in law, medicine and
business are women compared
with only 5 percent two decades
ago, said the study prepared for
release Wednesday.
The study, by economists
James P. Smith and Michael Ward,
surveyed wages and skill levels in
American women since 1920. it
was published in the February is
Sbfcdf TM* Journal oF Economic
Perspective and was funded by a
grant from the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Develop
ment.
Smith directs the Labor and
Population Program at Rand, a
think-tank focusing on national
security and domestic welfare is
sues. Ward is an economist at
Unicon Research Corp. in Los
Angeles.
Their “very conservative esti
mate” was that women would
make 74 percent of men’s wages
by 2000, with a wage ratio of 80
percent more probable.
At the same time, poverty has
increasingly become a female
phenomenon, the researchers said.
Poverty was “sex neutral” in
1940, when more than 90 percent
of all families included a husband
and wife. But by 1980,62 percent
of poor adults were women, the
study said.
‘With the rising incidence of
unwed parenting and divorce, the
fraction of female-headed families
rose and did so at an accelerated
rale after 1960. By 1980, women
headed almost one in seven fami
lies, almost 70 percent more than
in I960. The problem has reached
epidemic proportions among
blacks, where now more than four
out of every 10 families are headed
by women,” the authors said.
All 144 passengers reported killed
Jet crashes in Azores; plane destined for Jamaica says U. S. company
LISBON, Portugal - An Ameri
can charter jet filled with Italian tour
ists slammed into a fog-covered
mountain in the Azores today and
exploded, and all 144 people on
board were feared dead, officials and
news reports said.
Maria della Versesi, a spokes
woman at the Italian Embassy in
Lisbon, said all 137 passengers were
Italian and the seven crew members
were American. She did not release
any names.
The aircraft belonged to the U.S.
airline Independent Air Coip., based
in Smyrna, Term. The flight origi
nated in Bergamo, Italy, and was to
have proceeded to Puerto Plata in the
Dominican Republic, and Montego
Bay in Jamaica, after making a refu
eling stop in die Azores.
The Portuguese news agency
LUSA quoted an official Irom the
Azores Civil Protcciion Service as
saying about 50 bodies had been re
covered and it appeared all on board
L1JSA also quoted an unidentified
member of a loc al Hying dub as say
mg all the passengers and crew had
been lulled. ,
Afonso Pimentel, a LLSA re
porter based m the Azures, said the
Boeing 707 was preparing to land at
Santa Maria airport when it crashed
into Pico Alto, a fog-covered. 1,794
foot-high mountain, and burst into
llames.
LUSA quoted the civil protection
official, who was not identified, as
saying the pilot asked the airport to
clear a runway for an emergency
landing. The Civil Protection Service
is a state body that provides rescue
services ana assistance in civilian
emergencies.
AjL. Piuman, president of Inde
pendent Ait Corp., said in an inter
view in Smyrna that the 15-year-old
company makes 400 to 500 charier
flights a year, mostly m the Carib
bean and Europe. Piuman, who de
clined to identify the se ven Ainenc an
crew members, said the 20-ycar-otld
jetliner that crashed had a relatively
low number of flight hours and no
history of trouble.
Pittman said the airplane, one of
two Boeing 707s owned by the com
pany, had 12,500 cycles, or takeoffs
and landings, and less than 50,000
hours in the air.
Jack Barker, spokesman for the
Federal Aviation Administration in
Atlanta, said those figures were not
unusually high for such an airplane.
Right wing reacts
Leader verbally attacked
CHAM, West Germany ~ The
leader of an extreme right- wing party
today told thousands of cheering
supporters that young Germans
should be absolved of guilt for the
Holocaust, and he criticized a promi
nent Jewish community leader.
Franz. Schocnhuber, a former Nazi
SS soldier whose Republican Party is
gaining in national polls, rejected
suggestions he was anti-Semitic. He
said there arc Jewish authors, com
posers and painters “whom 1 like."
“But I don’t have to like Mr.
Galinski,” Schoenhubcr said. Heinz.
Galinski, a survivor of Auschwitz, is
president of West Germany’s Jewish
community. “Mr. Galinski sabo
tages Gcrman-Jewish reconcili
ation.”
Galinski, 76, a well-known figure,
constantly reminds West Germans of
the Nazi horrors and criticizes right
wing extremism and anti-Semitic
tendencies.
“The Nazis brought us the worst
chapter of our historySchoenhubcr
said. “Wc don’t want another
Hiller.Bul wc can’t allow our history
to be reduced to Auschwitz.’’
“Today’s young generation of
Germans is no more guilty for
Auschwitz than the sons and daugh
ters of Americans who committed
genocide at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki,’’ Schoenhubcr said,
thumping his fist.
“Bravo! Bravo!” the crowd
shouted.
Schoenhubcr spoke for nearly two
hours in a large hall in this remote
Bavarian village. The hall was
packed with more than 5,(XX) sup
porters, who feasted on wurst and
beer. They frequently interrupted the
66-ycar-old Republican leader with
cheers and applause.
Outside, small groups whistled
and shouted “Nazisout!” Police said
about 50 people rallied in protest of
the Republican gathering.
About 30 people tried u> block
Schocnhubcr’s entry to the hall by
placing chairs and musical instru
ments in his path. Police detained
eight people who tried to unfurl ban
ners with anli-Republican slogans.
In Jan. 29clcclions in West Berlin,
the Republican Party won 7.5 percent
of the vote and 11 scats in the local
legislature. Under West Germany’s
election rules, the parly will have two
scats in the national Parliament after
the December 1990 federal elections.
A poll by the respected Wickert
institute published last week said the
Republicans would get 11.5 percent
of the nationwide vote if elections
were held now.
The crowd in Cham’s hall repre
sented a majority of the parly's
members. Party officials say the
Republicans have close to K.OOO
card-carrying members.
Syria and Libya responsible
Newspaper says bomb was in recorder
JERUSALEM - The explosive
device thal blew up New York-bound
Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland on
Dec. 21 was concealed in a radio
casseue recorder and was traced to
Frankfurt’s airport, a newspaper re
ported Tuesday.
The Jerusalem Post quoted un
identified investigators as saying the
device was similar, but not identical
to one found earlier in the possession
of members of Ahmed Jibril’s ex
tremist Popular Front for the Libera
tion of Palestine-General Command.
More than a dozen members of the
group were arrested in West Ger
many in late October, two months
before the Pan Am bombing that
killed 270 people - all 259 on board
and 11 on the ground at Lockerbie,
Scotland.
Police found among those arrested
a sophisticated barometric-pressure
detonating device, the Jerusalem Post
said. It quoted investigators as saying
the device used in the Pan Am bomb
ing had a “remarkably similar” de
sign.
The newspaper quoted investiga
tors as saying the radio-cassette re
corder was transferred at Frankfurt’s
Rhein-Main Airport from another
plane to a Boeing 727 flying to Lon
don.
At London’s Heathrow Airport,
baggage from the 727, including the
radio-cassette recorder, was trans
ferred to Pan Am’s New York-bound
Flight 103, the paper said in a report
from London.
Investigators have not identified
the bag in which the device was hid
den, the newspaper said.
Last week, a British radio station
said Scottish police believe Palestin
ian extremists hid an explosive dc- *
vice in the luggage of an American
CIA officer wno was flying home
from Beirut with five colleagues after
a failed mission to negotiate the re
lease of U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
CBS television said Syria and
Libya were responsible for the bomb
ing and that it was carried out by
■fibril's group, a Syrian-sponsored
faction outside the Palestine Libera
tion Organization.
Japan s top oppositon leader resigns
amid profiteering scandal, resignations
TOKYO -- Japan’s stock-profi
teering scandal claimed another
casualty Tuesday, a top opposition
leader.
Other government opponents
hope his resignation will hasten the
m fall of Prime Minister Noboru Takc
shita’s government.
Saburo Tsukamoto stepped down
as chairman of the Democratic So
cialist Party. He was the only one of
four opposition members linked to
the scandal who had refused to step
down.
His departure opens the way for
the opposition to unite and renew
demand* for Takeshita and his entire
CaUMkia resign when Parliament
cofv&SaFriday.
Many influential politicians and
business leaders were offered cheap,
unlisted shares in Recruit-Cosmos
Co., a real estate subsidiary of the
information-based conglomerate
Recruit Co.
Shares rocketed in value immedi
ately after they were offered for pub
lic trading in October 1986.
Tsukamoto admitted in December
that he earned about $77,000 in the
transaction.
Such lucrative dealings already
have led to more than 20 resignations,
including those of three Cabinet
ministers of the governing Liberal
Democratic Party and three other
opposition members.
ihc transactions arc not illegal,
but they have incited public outrage
and raised questions of political eth
ics.
Takeshua has denied any knowl
edge of Recruit slock trading by his
secretary, and has ruled out opposi
tion demands that he resign and call
an early election.
Instead, he has pledged to restore
public trust in politics.
Tsukamoto also denies wrongdo
ing. The 61-year-old party chief re
signed only after parly elders de
manded he lake responsibility for
tarnishing the name of the third larg
est opposition group as it prepares for
a major legislative election in July.
Vatican will release document
on racism to change attitudes
on various forms of prejudice
VATICAN CITY - The Vati
can has written a document on
racism that seeks to “change
people’s attitudes and h( iris’’ on
the various forms of prcji lice and
discrimination in the world, an
official said Tuesday.
The document strongly de
nounces all forms of racism, in
cluding apartheid in South Africa,
anti-Semitism, religious discrimi
nation and discrimination toward
native peoples, said the Vatican
official, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
The Vatican’s Justice and
Peace Commission prepared the
document and it will be released
Friday.
The Italian news agency ANSA
reported the document also raises
the issue of terrorism against Jews,
adding that anti-Zionism has been
used as a cover for anti-Semitism.
The Vatican official said the
document is not intended as a sc
ries of condemnations but as a
church contribution to debate on a
social issue.
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