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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1982)
THE POLITICS OF HUNGEH Every day the world produces enough food to provide everyone with 3,000 calories Yet every year between 15 and 20 million people die from hunger related causes The Politics of Hunger is a 2 credit Search course offered through International Studies China Blue Restaurant upstairs next to the U of O Bookstore Serving lunch from 11-4 • M-F 897 E. 13th Ave. 343-2832 Reagan soft on civil rights WASHINGTON (AP) - Inter nal records of the Equal Em ployment Opportunity Commis sion and a lawyers' study of Justice Department operations contradict Pres Ronald Reagan's claim that his admin istration has enforced civil rights laws more actively than its predecessors An EEOC document obtained by The Associated Press showed that, contrary to Reagan's recent claim to a black audience, the number of job discrimination suits ap proved by the commission has dropped sharply And the independent Wa shington Council of Lawyers concluded in a recent report that "the administration has retreated from well-established, bipartisan civil rights policies'' in several areas. Enforcement of vSP&t**0 * ho*® X ( school desegregation and fair housing laws has all but halted, according to the 138-page study. Only in prosecuting police brutality and similar violent denials of individuals' civil rights has the Justice Department ex celled. the report said A Reagan spokesman, Peter Roussel, said there would be no immediate comment from the White House Reagan told a dinner for black Republicans on Sept. 15 that he usually tries to ignore personal attacks, "but one charge I will have to admit strikes at my heart every time I hear it That's the suggestion that we Republicans are taking a less active ap proach to protecting the civil rights of all Americans. " "No matter how you slice it, that's just plain baloney." "Look at the record," Reagan suggested "The level of activity of this administration in inves tigating and prosecuting those who would attempt to deny blacks their civil liberties by violence and intimidation has exceeded the level of every past administration. The lawyers council, which bills itself as a bipartisan as sociation of attorneys from private firms, government and public interest groups, said in its study published the same day Reagan made his speech, that the administration s record in that area is at least equal to those of the two previous ad ministrations But Reagan went on to say, "The Justice Department has filed nine new anti-discrimination cases against public employers and has reviewed more than 9,000 electoral changes to determine compliance with the Voting Rights Act And that, too, is a higher level of activity than in any prior administration.” The council study found these statistics, used earlier by a Justice Department official, "highly misleading, though technically accurate Upon closer examination, a different picture emerges." The 9,000 reviews Reagan mentioned are those required each time a state or local government covered by the Voting Rights Act makes a change in its election law. Such automatic reviews have been particularly numerous in the wake of the 1980 census that forced widespread redistricting Furthermore, the council said, the administration filed only two new cases in the voting rights field during its first 20 months, compared to nearly a dozen during the first 12 months of the Carter administration Brazil s president blames west for worldwide economic crisis UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The president of Brazil on Mon day opened this year's policy debate in the U N General As sembly blaming Western powers for "a profound crisis in the international economic sys tem ’’ President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, in a 35-minute address opening the 157-nation assembly's debate, urged the developed nations to take immediate steps to reduce crippling high interest rates and to deal with other economic problems The policy debate is to go on for the next three weeks It was the first time a Brazilian head of state had delivered Brazil's policy position Figueir edo said it was "the seriousness of the international situation" that had brought him to the United Nations $96.00 a month in extra income! Become a plasma donor. It’s easy, safe and medically supervised Eugene Plasma Corporation 1071 Olive St. 484-2241 Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat. 7:45 - 3:15 Tues., Thurs. 10:15 - 5:45
