European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes target Date january 1981 George will Federal Urban policy should favor Sun Belt ways be a but there have been Many 1981 los Angeles times Syndicate presidential commissions on vast topics too often tend to churn conventional Wisdom into a Bland paste that con Geals on deservedly unread and no commission Ever had a less promising origin than the one that derived from the Camp David Domestic Summit of which ended with president Carters lamenting and lamentable malaise but the commission for a National Agenda for the eighties has imparted momentum to a bold calling for Long Range reorientation of Federal Urban the commission urges the government to let the Market function and then assist people to instead of emphasizing policies to create jobs in de Clining cities of the Northeast and policy should encourage surplus population to Migrate to the booming cities of the South and the implication is that perhaps government should not even if it and in any Case cannot thwart economic dynamics such As the one that is shifting wealth and but not yet enough from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt when the Federal government Steps in to try to alter these it generates a flood of demands that May sap the initiative of Urban governments via the expectation of continuous since de and Washington have lost at least 10 percent of their while san Al Houston and san Diego have grown at least 20 per the commission suggests assisted shrinkage for cities in it says cities Are not which int quite the cities Are permanent their charac ters and functions Are there will Al new for became a City suited to a population of eight million be cause excellent rail cheap labor and cheap Energy made it a manufacturing Cen its advantages Are gone it still has but not for eight million Felix a financier involved in keeping new York warns that the Impact of the 1980 election will be inevitable and harsh on the arc of economic crisis from Baltimore to to partially offset tax cuts and defense there probably will be cuts in programs for housing that will affect old America in columns Jesse Jackson myths undermine affirmative action soon after the Reagan Victory and the Republican takeover of the Orrin who was scheduled to become the next chairman of the Senate labor was saying that he would push for a constitutional amendment to outlaw affirmative action following closely on his heels was the heritage a conservative re search group with ties to de the head of reagans transition which urged a halt to All affirmative action in hiring and promotion in employment and enrolment in professional schools of Wom Blacks and members of other the foundation went further and recommended that the Federal government even Stop gathering data by sex or ethnic much of the controversy Over the last decade surrounding affirmative action Cen tired on several probably the most critical myths were that affirmative action was really discrimination in reverse and that Blacks were gaining at White sex the facts continue to dispute the a report by the Illinois Board of higher education documents the discouraging during the past decade the percentage of Black students in Illinois med ical and dental schools has actually de creased since while Blacks constitute percent of the states of the 762 first year medical students in Only or were by the percentage had fallen to per cent 53 Blacks out of 1207 first year medi Cal in dental schools the record was even As the percentage of Black enrolment in Illinois dental schools de creased from percent to 2 percent in the last 10 a similar picture emerges on the National according to the association of american medical enrolment in the nations 126 medical schools this fall reached an Al time High of 189 1 400 More than last this years enter ing class of was the largest students 85 percent Are White percent Are Black percent Are hispanic 3 per cent Are asian american 221 per cent Are american indians and percent Are enrolment in medical schools has jumped by nearly in the last five White enrolment grew by nearly it president Reagan 000 while the number of hispanic and asian american students nearly while resistance to affirmative action and the myths surrounding affirmative action have mainly focused on the number of Blacks in medical schools grew slightly from in 1975 to this year a net gain of 252 in five but the percent age actually fell from percent to this is consistent facts covering the first part of the there were 571 Whites and 282 minorities who entered medical schools in the last Yea before affirmative action programs be Gan to get in there were Whites and 1400 minorities first year medical the number of White places did not remain but actually Rose by 49 White Access to medical training was not i but substantially increased Dur ing the affirmative action the trend was even More marked in Law in the first year for which reliable figures Are there were 933 minorities in the num Ber was up to but during the same Law school enrolments for Whites Rose from to an increase of 64 in the reality has been and continues to be contrary to the myth that affirmative action is allowing Blacks to make Prog Ress at White while some May choose to use americas economic crisis As an occasion to Scapegoat Blacks by attack ing affirmative those concerned with dealing with the reality would do Well to keep the facts in c Universal press comments the Oil and Gas producing Federal cutbacks will be More than compensated for by revenues from Gas and Oil Price Decon so local taxes can continue to decline and local services can continue to thereby attracting Industry from old Rohatyn says Between 1980 and decontrol of Oil and Gas prices will generate about billion of added Revenue to the Energy producing Region of this much of this will come from the consuming regions of the Northeast and and he notes judging by living costs and household the standards of living of residents of new York and Boston Al ready Are More than on third below those of residents of Dallas and one Way to encourage people to move to the Sun Belt is to encourage the Boom thereby widening the disparity with Frost of urging govern ment to favor the Sun Belt would be a bit like bidding the Sun to it undid in numbers As the Sun belts congressional strength its dominance will be seen in the allocation of Federal resources the writing of Grant for the locating of military and so the congressional coalition of old America can fight a rearguard Bat but it will be Only regional rivalry is As american As nothing is More before slavery split the nation along North South the fight Over tariffs split the manufacturing North from the importing at the turn of the agrarian populism of the Prairie states was fuelled by resentment of Eastern financial disputes about management of Energy and other including land and Are dividing the Mountain West from the rest of the and the influx of latin immigrants May soon set parts of the South and West dangerously at Odds with the rest of the nation regarding language and other cultural reason suggests that regional rivalries Are inevitable in a Complex nation that spans a continent and contains regions with different economics and ethnic and the latest presidential underscore the fact that regional rivalry is a constant of Ameri can c Washington Post