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Plus Two (2| FREE 22 oz Soft Drinks ^ EUGENE HOTLINE t *_686J5808_| Pizza by the slice $.75 BEFORE 4PM $ 10.00 off any 26” Colossus Pizza L A T E N I C H T List of journalists who were killed compiled in report WASHINGTON (AP) Ton immigrant journalists have Ixnm murdered in the United Staton siiuo 1‘Wtl fiirnivonngnoivstli.it disturtxcd political fat tions from their native countries, according to a report released Wodnosday by a private group The deaths noted by the Com mittee to P rot is t Journalists five Vietnamese nevvsp.i[>er and nuig ft/ine journalist*; three Haitian radio hosts who supported Pres ident Joan Hortrand Aristide, a Chinese-American reporter in California; and a Cuban-Altieri can publisher in Now York Of those cases, only two have been solved, mostly fun a use of pressure from the ethnic com munities where they worked, at cording to the report. "Silenced: The Unsolved Mur den of Immigrant loumnlists m thr United Stott's " "The purpose of this report hen? is not to ( onsider these imrv solved <Loses i losod but to under line that they remain open." William Orme. the committee's executive dirts tor. said at a news conference lie released a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno asking her to i rente a national task force, led by the FBI. to try to solve the murders The letter, signed by more than 25 human rights and journalism groups, asks the FBI to coordinate efforts with lix a! and state authorities where the murders o* curred The committee Ixtgan investi gating journalists' deaths in the United States after the killing in 1992 of Manuel de Dios Unaniie. a free lance journalist and author and former editor in chief of FI Diario-La I’rensa. a New York based Spanish-language daily De Dios 4H, was assassinated by a fill man allegedly hired by Colombia's Cali cocaine cartel to stop his reporting on the drug trade The killer, Wilson Alejan dro Mejia-Vela/, was sentenced last March to life without parole Orme said licit as a result of that cast!, Ihti l ummltltKi began ret (living tails from rt>|)orl**rs seeking background on other journalists killed in the United State* The committee t empties an annual report on attat ks on the press abroad but had never done similar research in the l Init ed States, he said It seemed that no one had ever actually gone through the work of compiling a detailed iisi" of journalists kilted in the United Stiites. he said Ana Arana, the committee's c oordinator for the Americas, began the research and discov ered 1* eases dating liack to including the murders of Amer icans Don Holies of the Arizona Ht'publn and Alan Berg, a Den ver radio talk show host All the other cases involved immigrant reporters working in languages other than English, Ortne said. "All of them bore the earmarks of domestic terrorism," he added. The other immigrant case that was solved was the murder of Henry Lin, in Daly City, Calif, by a Taiwanese hit team in 19H4 on orders of the Taiwanese govern muni Thu Vietnamese journalists whose t asos remain open arc lam Trun Duong in San Francis co; Nguyun Darn Phong in lions ton, ! ip \ m Pham In <ludn Drove. Calif. and Nhan Trong Do and Trial l.u in Fairfax County. Va Kight wing exile groups have claimed responsibility, accord* ing to the report The Haitian journalists who were killed )ean*(ilnucln Olivier, l ilt/ Dor and Dona .St I’lite. all in Miami All had received politically motivated death threats from supporters of the Haitian military, the committee found Dor and Olivier were killed in 1091 by the same gun St Plite was killed more than two years later while attending a lamefit on ludialf of Dor's family Ills ai cusod assassin is awaiting trial. Social Security paying some households several checks WASHING I ()N (AI’) - A small (Min outage of low income families collar i federal disability benefits for morn than one child, the S« ini Stn tirity Administration said Wednesday. The report was prompted by com ones that some families rer etving che< ks from Supplemental Security income have several disabled children on the rolls and, as a result, are paid in uxi ess of $2.MOO or S3.000 a month tax-free. SSI pay* (I maximum <if $446 a month The program limits pay ments to married couples to $669 but has no similar maximum for families or households with several recipients on the rolls Social Sm urity, which runs the SSI program for the elderly and dis abled poor, said field office employees o< casionally report that some households are receiving I a rye checks In one current i-ase provide*! iiy a field office in the Midwest, a cou ple and five children ages 1? to 22 ns eive disability lienefits totaling $3,004 a month All five children receive SSI. The family also < oi lecta Social Security disability insurance, us well as $220 a month in Aid to Families with Dependent Children for the wife and child of the 22-year-old son. Through a spokesman. Social Soc urity Commissioner Shirley (dialer said she is concerned about sending large sums of cash to multi recip ient households, and that those corn erns prompted her to request the study She said the agency is luoking at ways to address the issue but declined to list specifics Just over 6 million people rweivo SSI In March 1994. 400.000 rvcip ionts were living in married couple households ami were suhjei t to a restriction on their benefits Another 513.460 recipients were living with other SSI n« ipients in a total of 213.040 households Hie agency, however, estimates that there are too households nation wide with six recipients. 200 households with seven recipients. 40 households with eight recipients, and 60 households with 12 people on SSI. Thursday. DecoeiOof 1. 1994 Oiogim Dany EmofWd 9
