Sr““ News Digest
Wednesday, September 28,1994 Page 2
Civilian senate returns to Haiti
Soldier’s body
discovered at
Parliament site
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
American troops expanded their mis
sion Tuesday from disarming the
Haitian military to taking up posts
around the Parliament building and
City Hall in anticipation of Haiti’s
return to civilian rule.
The U.S. forces suffered their first
fatality Tuesday. An American sol
dier was found shotto death at hillside
mansion being prepared for legisla
tors returning to Haiti for
Wednesday’s Parliament session.
Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx
said the soldier’s death was being
investigated as “an apparent suicide.”
He was part of the l Oth Mountain
Division from Fort Drum, N.Y., and
his identity was not immediately re
leased.
Military police strung concertina
wire in front of the white colonaded
Parliament building, aday before the
Haitian legislative body was to begin
discussing a bill authorizing amnesty
for the country’s top military leaders.
The amnesty measure was part of a
deal worked out Sept. 18 between the
U.S. delegation led by former Presi
dent Carterand Haiti’smilitaryjunta.
A soldier posted on the roof of the
Parliament scanned the area with bin
oculars, and others took up posts at
the gate. Army vehicles stood watch
in front of the building.
Small crowds of Haitians gathered
in front of the building.
At City Hall, U.S. military police
in armored vehicles were posted in
side the compound and Army
Hum vees, machine guns mounted on
their tops, took up guard just outside.
Mayor Evans Paul, exiled Presi
dent Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s former
campaign manager, is expected to
come out of hiding and return to his
office on Thursday, U.S. officials said.
Paul has been out of sight for most
of the three years since Aristide,
Haiti’s first democratically elected
president, wasoverthrown by the mili
tary.
The first U.S. fatality came as
American troops were refurbishing
the Villa d’Accueil, a Haitian state
guest house during the dictatorship of
Jean-Claude Duvalier that now houses
the independent Electoral Council,
which is to oversee elections.
“They found him dead,” said U.S.
Embassy spokesman Stanley
Haiti developments
■ U.S. troops took over the Parliament
building and city hall in the capital in
preparation for the return this week o< Haiti's
lawmakers and the Port-au-Prince mayor.
■ Americans readied their guns-for-money
program, paying $50 to $300 to anyone who
turns in a firearm.
■ Parliament is scheduled to convene
Wednesday to begin discussion of an amnesty
law, pat of the deal worked out by the military
junta and an American delegation headed by
former President Carter.
■ An American soldier was found fatally shot,
but U.S. officials said evidence pointed to a
suicide rather than an attack by Haitians
Schrager. “They don’t know if this
was a sniper or self-inflicted.”
Boxx said in Washington that the
shooting was being investigated as
“an apparent suicide.”
Witnesses said they heard two shots
about 11 a.m. on the northern side of
the Villad’Accueil.
Helicopters hovered over the area
after the shooting, and platoons of
American soldiers stood guard be
hind twin rows of concertina wire.
They walked openly showing no signs
of the tension that would follow a
sniper killing. They refused to talk
about the death.
In Washington, State Department
spoke women Christine Shelly said six
Haitian Parliament members in
Canada and five in the United States
were expected to leave Miami early
Wednesday for Port-au-Prince.
“We are trying to be sure that there
is an environment in Haiti which per
mits those who have been in hiding to
feel comfortable about coming out
and participating,” in the session, she
said.
AH
“I once admired the bald eagle for
its grace,” Haitianj>en. Thomas Eddy
Dupiton said. “Nowl am struck By its
rapacity. They came to reinforce our
institutions. Now they ate tollingtheir
death.”
Dupiton said he would not partici
pate in Wednesday’s debate, saying
the process was “a masquerade.”
Sen. Firmin Jean-Louis, president
of the 17-member Senate, and France
Robert Monde, speaker of the 82
member lower house, said several
other measures in addition to amnesty
would be debated. Those included
forming a committee of conciliation,
a local government and a new civilian
police force.
Eleven other senators who were
elected during military rule will be
barred from the session.
Looting and rioting broke out at
least twice Monday night and Tues
day. On Monday, a U.N. Develop
ment Program warehouse lost 11 tons
of food worth an estimated $35,000
when Haitians ransacked the build
ing.
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Simpson sings "Memory” for kids
LOS ANGELES —O.J. Simpson explained Tuesday that he softly
sang the song “Memory” on the first day of his trial because it reminds
him of his children, whom he misses.
“That song really gets to me because it says touch me’ and I can’t
touch my kids,” Simpson said of the song from the musical “Cats.”
Simpson has been jailed without bail since June 17, the day he was
arrested on charges of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and
her friend, Ronald Goldman.
His children from his first marriage, Jason, 24, and Amelle, 25, visit
him in jail. His children with Ms. Brown, Sydney, 8, and Justin, 6, are
living with their maternal grandparents and haven’t visited him at
Simpson’s request.
Simpson’s unusual public remark came just before the second set of
potential jurors started filing into a small room for questioning in front
of Simpson, attorneys and the judge.
Suffer the little children "
BOSTON — The number of children living in poverty is going up
faster in suburbia, once a world of prosperity and promise, than it is in
big cities or rural areas, researchers say.
The proportion of children living below the poverty line rose 49
percent from 1973 to 1992, say researchers at the Tufts University
Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition Policy, who examined Census
Bureau data.
In rural areas, the share of children in poverty grew 36 percent, and
in the inner city, 56 percent, they said. In the suburbs, the increase was
76 percent.
“There’sbeenawholesale transformationofthe American economy,”
Tufts researcher J. Larry Brown said.
“Halfof our families are experiencing declining wages, and the other
half are those who have always been struggling near poverty."
Embryo research encouraged
BETHESDA, Md. — A federal panel recommended Tuesday that
the government end its ban on funding of human embryo research,
saying very young embryos “do not have the same moral status as
infantrand children.”
Opponents of the research immediately labeled the decision “ethi
cally and morally bankrupt” and pledged to carry their resistance to the
floor of Congress.
The 19-member committee of experts selected to advise the National
Institutes of Health concluded that fertilized human eggs can be used for
federally funded scientific research within guidelines that limit how
long an embryo can be kept alive, the sources of the sperm and egg, and
the purposes for the study.
The panel would allow research only on embryos about 14 days or
younger.
GM workers walk out
FLINT, Mich. — Up to II ,500 workers went on strike Tuesday at
a key General Motors Corp. complex, shutting off the flow of parts
needed to keep many other GM plants running.
As many as 100,000 other GM workers could be idled within 48
hours, a union leader warned. A subcontractor in Tennessee shut down
within hours and 6,550 workers in Lansing were told not to report
Wednesday.
The United AutoWorkers walked off the job at the huge BuickCity
complex, complaining of production speedups, safety problems and
subcontracting.
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College charges include PR expense
BOSTON — The average tuition at
America’s four year-year colleges rose 6
percent this year and studies show a growing
share of the money is going toward public
relations instead of teaching.
Although the increase was twice the in
flation rate, it was also the smallest since
1989, according to the College Board, an
association of2,800 higher-education insti
tutions. The figures were released Wednes
day.
According tothe College Board, average
tuition is now $11,709 at four-year private
schools and $2,686 at four-year public
schools, both 6 percent increases over last
year.
The cost of two-year private institutions
rose 5 percent, to $6,511, and two-year pub
lic colleges, 4 percent, to $ 1,298.
When room, board, books, supplies and
transportation are added in, the average total
cost ofa college education comesto $ 18,784
for resident students at four-year private
schools and $8,990 at public schools.
Separate government statistics also show
that the proportion of money used by col
leges for instruction, libraries and mainte
nance is shrinking, and the amount spent on
public relations, marketing and fund-raising
is increasing.
“We’re paying more and getting less than
we got 10 years ago,*’ said Stephanie
Arelonio, president of the U.S. Student As
sociation. “We’re learning from videotapes
in some instances. Class sizes have grown.
... It would be nice to see the professor
sometime.”
David Warren, president of the National
Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities, said health-care benefits for
faculty members and staff account for much
of the tuition increase.
Also, federal grants and loans have not
kept pace with demand, forcing colleges to
give their own scholarships, Warren said.
School spending on scholarships and fel
lowships rose 70 percent from 1982 to 1992,
according to the U.S. Education Depart
ment.
The proportion of their budgets that col
leges spent on instruction fell from 32.4
percent to 30.7 percent, the department said.
Spending on libraries fell from 2.7 per
cent to 2.3 percent and on maintenance from
8.4 percent to 6.6 percent.
Administrative budgets increased45 per
cent at private universities and 26 percent at
public universities, the Education Depart
ment said.
“It raises the question of what educa
tional institutions are here for,” said James
Perley, a biology professor at the College of
Wooster in Ohio and president of the Ameri
can Association of University Professors.
Warren said many of the increased ad
ministrative costs are going to counseling
and job placement services, which he said
college students are demanding.
And colleges must spend to promote
themselves in an increasingly competitive
market, said David Breneman, former presi
dent of Kalamazoo College and now a pro
fessor at the Harvard School of Education.
"Marketing is a term you wouldn’t have
even heard in higher education 15 years
ago,” he said.
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