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We take care of the Work Authorisation Help with Job hunting: career or casual - Resource centers In each country are non profit with 38 years of experience! : Council 00 International Educational Ex< University of Oregon In the EMU Building Eugene Pfr 877 1/2 East 13th Street Eugene (541)344-2263 R#fe|g|K| • Recycle • Recycle • Recycl< Bush's disability proposal is called detail-challenged ■ Local organizations say the president’s plan has potential but needs implementation By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald President George W. Bush’s mul ti-million dollar plan intended to aid disabled Americans has poten tial, but the recent proposal isn’t detailed enough to indicate how it will impact people with disabili ties, according to members of vari ous local organizations that offer disability services. The “New Freedom Initiative” that Bush sent Congress on Feb. 1 is a set of proposals to ensure that all Americans with disabilities can lead active lives in their communi ties and country, aiming to speed up progress and opportunities for disabled people. Bush is expected to make an an nouncement today concerning the details of his proposal, according to Jan Campbell, a disability proj ect coordinator with the Office of Neighborhood Involvement in Portland. “It’s a wonderful concept, but we need to have the backing, the implementation and the monitor ing to enforce it,” Campbell said. The series of proposals that could potentially help disabled Americans offers an increase in spending for research and devel opment and provides low-interest loans to help disabled people buy computers and other equipment needed to work from home. “Wherever a door is closed to anyone because of a disability, we must work to open it. Wherever any job or home, or means of trans portation is unfairly denied be cause of a disability, we must work to change it,” Bush said in a White House press release. “Wherever any barrier stands between you and the full rights and dignity of citizenship, we must work to re move it, in the name of simple de cency and simple justice.” The plan would also increase state spending for educating dis abled students and support 10 pi lot projects to develop transporta tion plans for the disabled. The proposal would also create a na tional commission on mental health to study the nation’s deliv ery system of health services. University Disability Services Counselor Molly Sirois said the proposal was too general to predict whether the plan would increase the program’s spending abilities. Bush did not provide spending figures Thursday, but during a campaign stop in June, he pro posed creating a $5 million annual fund to provide technical assis tance for small businesses that face financial burdens in complying with laws affecting people with disabilities. Hilary Gerdes, with Disability Services, said she still needs more information regarding Bush’s gen eral statements. “Until we really know what the plan is, we won’t know exactly how it will impact University stu dents,” Gerdes said. Bush’s father signed the Ameri cans with Disabilities Act in 1990, which was the genesis of President Bush’s current proposal. “Because of that law, millions of Americans can now compete for jobs once denied to them, enter buildings once closed to them [and] travel on buses and trains once unequipped for them,” Bush said, Ruth McEwen, a private rehabil itation and general counselor, said while she isn’t familiar with Bush’s new plan, she has seen progress over the years in terms of employment initiatives for dis abled people because of the act. “People are starting to look more at ability than disabilities,” McEwen said. “We can go a lot more places than we used to 10 years ago. It takes almost a genera tion for changes to really come through.” Wally Earl, the program director of Lane Shelter Care and an advo cate for seniors and people with disabilities, said he hopes Bush will do more nationally for people with disabilities regarding trans portation and access to buildings. Earl, who was once 100 percent disabled, said Eugene is one of the best cities he is aware of in offering disabled people easy access to buildings. Earl added that he hopes Bush’s plan will improve transportation at universities, but he said Oregon al ready offers senior citizen and dis abled transportation. He also said the Americans with Disabilities Act still has room for improvement. He said many Americans think too much money is currently being spent by the gov ernment on disability services, and businesses and restaurants feel providing services for disabled people is already costly. Anne Brown, the executive di rector for the Coalition in Oregon for Parent Education, works with parents of children with disabili ties. She said Bush’s plan to ex pand focus on technology and spe cial education needs for disabled people is significant, and more funding needs to be available. “In theory, he is looking at the right issues,” Brown said. “We are opening the door to conversation about the right things, and that is a • very important step.” Man fires gun, is shot in knee by agents outside White House WASHINGTON — A middle aged accountant with a history of mental illness fired several shots outside the White House on Wednesday and then was shot by the Secret Service as he waved his handgun menacingly, authorities said. The tense, noontime standoff sent tourists running for cover. uxxxxixii^ iVJi LUVC1, Come Get Juiced Up Before the Game! Ernesto’s Juice & Java •unlimited smoothie choices •organic coffees; full espresso bar •fresh organic juices •daily specials •delicious soups and salads Located in the Rec Center 346-1100 • We accept campus cash The midday drama unfolded just outside the fence at the edge of the South Lawn, 200 yards from the building where President Bush was inside exercising. The man, wounded in the knee and hospitalized under guard, was identified by law enforcement sources as Robert W. Pickett, 47, from Evansville, Ind. He was fir^d by the Internal Revenue Service in the mid 1980s, and neighbors said he kept to himself, resented the IRS and was obsessed with West Point, where he dropped out after a semester in 1972. Pickett has ac knowledged in court records that he suffers from mental illness and has tried to commit suicide. Bush, working out in the White House residence, was alerted by Secret Service agents “but under stood that he was not in any dan ger,” spokesman Ari Fleischer said. First lady Laura Bush was in Texas. Vice President Dick Cheney was working in his White House office. The shooting was the latest in a string of security scares that have brought tighter protection for U.S. presidents. In 1995, then-President Clinton ordered Pennsylvania Av enue closed in front of the White House following the Oklahoma City bombing. Earlier that year, a man was shot on the White House lawn after scaling a fence with an unloaded gun. The latest incident, shortly be fore noon on a sunny, spring-like day, triggered a tight security clam pdown. Tourists were evacuated from White House rooms, and po lice in riot gear took up positions around the executive mansion and beyond its gates. Dan Halpert, a tourist from Queens, N.Y., was on the National Mall nearby when officers told him to get down and clear out. “We were all running away. It was scary,” said Halpert, 24. The confrontation occurred on “E” Street, where tourists gather along the White House fence to snap photos of the executive man sion and hope for a glimpse of Bush jogging on the track encir cling the South Lawn. There is an unobstructed view from the fence to the mansion. Secret Service officers on rou tine patrol in a car “heard shots fired and proceeded to surround a subject who was wielding a weapon, a gun,” White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said. A 10-minute standoff ensued in which witnesses said they heard officers try to persuade the man to put the gun down. The Associated Press
