European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july �3, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Hud Boss says Blacks better off now san Francisco a angrily disputing statistics on Black poverty filed by National Urban league presi Dent John Jacob housing and Urban development Secretary Samuel a Pierce said monday that Blacks Are better Oft now than before president Reagan took office. It s very hard for me to say mathematically or statistically but Blacks have More Opportunity now than the had before because the Economy was just not hat Good Pierce said at a news conference after a luncheon address to the National Urban league conference. Pierce said Mare Black workers reemployed today than Ever before. I think our country is doing bet Ter he said. "1 think opportunities Are better. When you say Are Black people doing better i think in a Way yes. Jacob in his keynote speech on Sun Day said Blacks have not shared in the country s economic growth Over the past six years. He sharply attacked the new selfishness of american society. Black unemployment has grown from 10 percent in 1974 to 15 percent now he said and Black family income has slipped in comparison 10 White family income. During that same Span the number of poor Black people grew from 28 percent to 33 percent he said. Pierce questioned those figures and said statistics Are easy to Manipur  said housing discrimination does remain a serious  kind of Liberty what kind of Justice allows people because of race to deprive a family of the Home the seek this is nol my kind of Liberty nor my kind of Justice be told the audience of i Soo. The subtlety and sophistication of current discrimination Render it no less demeaning or dispiriting to the people and communities involved nor to any who consider themselves proud and Loyal americans he said. He urged support for several proposals by the Reagan administration including the fair housing initiatives program. It would maintain Federal funding of stale and local fair housing enforcement agencies and of Public and private agencies with outreach and education programs. The truly unique Clement of this program he said is the private enforcement component through which we would fund non profit organizations or other private entities. Until now the Federal government has not offered direct funding for private civil rights enforcement activities in any permanent ongoing Way Samuel Pierce . Embassies Gibbs irs confirmation blocked will test new in dispute Over fetus tax status bomb Detector Washington not the slate department said monday that it will Start using a new device at some embassies overseas to detect explosives. Both the state department and the manufacturer said the device could detect plastic and other kinds of explosives. It will be used to Check vehicles packages and people seeking entry. The device is made by Toner medics inc. Of Woburn mass. The company is developing similar devices for the Federal. Aviation administration for use at airports. A stale department official said the device is now being sent to a few embassies for Field testing. If the teals Are satisfactory he Aid the device will be Tup plied to american installations throughout the world. John w. Wood jr., president of the medics said research and development of the new device had been partly financed by the slate department and the Faa. The Cost of the device will be 150,000 to s 150,000 per unit with the permanent Airport devices More expensive than the portable ones to be used by the state department. The detection device to be used by embassies looks like a flashlight. Wood Laid that if the detection devices prove feasible they could reduce or eliminate the need for explosive sniffing dogs. Washington a Senate confirmation of Lawrence b. Gibbs to be commissioner of the internal Revenue service is being held up by a senator who objects to an irs ruling on the tax status of an aborted fetus. Senate sources said monday. They said sen. Gordon j. Humphrey r-n.h., has placed an indefinite hold on Gibbs nomination to object to a 1973 irs decision that under some Circum stances permits parents to claim a tax exemption for a fetus that briefly survives an abortion. Gibbs is being held hostage for something he had nothing to do with something he is walking in to said a source who discussed the situation Only on the condition of not being named. Humphrey s office had no immediate comment. The senator a staunch foe of abortion has been pushing an amendment that would Lake away the lax exempt status of hospitals clinics and other facilities that perform or finance abortions. The irs has been without a commissioner since Roscoe l. Egger or. Retired on april 30. Gibbs a Dallas lawyer was nominated to succeed him and was approved unanimously by the Senate finance committee on june 24. The nomination has been pending on the Senate Calendar since then under Senate tradition a senator May prevent vote on a nomination As Long As the leadership permits a hold to remain in place. In most cases an a conto Dation is eventually reached under which he senator permits the vote to go ahead it is almost unheard offer a major nomination to be killed because of one member s  sources said leaders had discussed the Nomi nation with Humphrey As recently As Friday but he has not  Compromise being explored would permit Humphrey in return for dropping his objection to offer an anti abortion Amend Jujj ment to a Bill raising the govern ment s borrowing authority. The aborted ictus ruling has become one of the More emotion Al elements of the lingering Abor Tion fight in the Senate. Under prodding from sen. Jesse Helms , the irs amended the Rul Inge lightly last  change prohibits a Parent from counting expenses of a abortion As an item to be consid ered in determining whether a Humphrey Parent provided Over half a child s support. A Parent must provide Over half the support during a year to claim a child As a dependent which exempts s 1,080 of income from  the Law. A Parent May claim a full year t exemption for a child even one bom on dec. If. The 1973 ruling specified thai a child who lived Only moments could be claimed so Long As the state treated the child As being bom Olive and issued a birth certificate. Experiments left in orbit too Long Washington a seventy per cent of experiments parked in space in 1984, originally for a 10-month stay have ruined by being led in orbit Loo Long a Nasa official said monday. The Long duration exposure facility def contained 57 experimental was launched from the space shuttle challenger in april 1984. The 11-ton aluminium Cylinder 30 feel Long and 15 feet in diameter was to have been retrieved in february 1985 but the retrieval Mission was put off. It was still in orbit when the explosion of challenger put a halt to the space pro Gram last Jan 28. More than 200 scientists in the United states and abroad were involved in the experiments which included tests on the Lurvie ability of seeds and swatches of different coating materials to see How they fared in exposure to the harsh space environment Raymond s. Colladay who Heads the space Agency s office of aeronautics and space technology said is percent of the experiments have been enhanced by their overlong stay and is percent were not affected. The other 70 percent he said have been degraded significantly or totally  6 killed in crash with stolen police Cruiser mount Holly. No. A a Man with an extensive criminal record was charged monday with killing six people who were on their Way to Church when their car was struck by a stolen. Police Cruiser driven by the suspect authorities said. The victims two Sisters and four members of another family were in route to Fellowship Baptist Church in mount Laurel to hear a missionary speak. The Cruiser commandeered by Steve boiling 2s, of Brown Mills sped through a red Light and crashed into their car. Pagano identified the Sisters As Janice e Carmody so of Levittown. Pa., and Frances e. Baldwin 47, of Elmira . Burlington county prosecutor Ste phen Raymond said the identities of the other victims a husband and wife and two children were being withheld Pend ing notification of relatives. He was charged with six counts of death by Auto three counts of assault on an officer and one count of Auto theft. He also was arraigned on one count each of resisting an officer criminal attempt at theft eluding arrest Possession of Nar Cotic paraphernalia and various motor vehicle charges. He was held in lieu of $250,000 bail. The incident began about s 2s . Sunday when boiling walked up to a. Car parked outside a Flower shop in South Ampton township and very menacingly told the woman behind the wheel he was going to drive the car said stale police u. Thomas Gallagher. Someone inside the shop saw the confrontation and notified slate police. When police arrived boiling bolted for one trooper s Cruiser and sped off. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 23. 1946 at least so people reportedly were killed in the bombing of Jerusalem s King David hotel the head quarters of the British army in Palestine. Palestine police attributed the explosion to terrorists. 30 years Ogo today. July 23, i9s6 producer Otto pre Minger announced a worldwide search for an unknown actress to play Joan of arc in his film of George Bernard Shaw s Saint  20 years ago today. July 23, 1966 military officials in Saigon said . Marines battled through the night against units from an elite North vietnamese division near the 17th parallel. ? 0 years ago today. July 23, 1976 Nadia Comanici a 14-year-old romanian gymnast won perfect scores on the balance beam and uneven parallel bars her fourth and fifth perfect scares of the Montreal olympics