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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday june 7,198b civil rights commission chairman Dies san Diego a Clarence m. I end Lelon chairman of inc . Civil rights commission and one of the High est ranking Black officials in govern  sunday after collapsing while exercising officials said. He was 57. Pendleton died about i . At Mission Bay Hospi Tal after efforts failed to revive him said Deputy Coroner David Lodge. Pond Luton was believed to have suffered a heart attack. Lodge said. President Reagan selected perdition an opponent of affirmative action quotas and busing to head the commission in novem Ber i9s1 after firing Arthur s. Hemming. Pc Duclon Flmming the chairman since 1974, Crit Ici i d Reagan s civil rights policies As in conflict with the  the bipartisan civil High is commission monitors the enforcement of civil rights Laws within the Federal government. It lacks policy making or enforcement Powers and serves Only As an advisory body. He s going to be missed civil rights commission member Robert a. Dcastro said. I Don t think it s going to make any difference whether people agreed with him or disagreed with him. Tie was a great human being. He was a very dynamic  democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson said pc Duclon was an outstanding Public servant and. Like any american he had the right to express his Point of View which May nol have been a mainstream Point of  Pendleton stirred Wroth by calling lib eral Black leaders the new racists whose support for the democratic parly led Blacks into a political Jonestown. He described the concept of comparable Worth As inc loonies idea since loony tunes " and said that relieving one s poverty is nol civil  he criticized the civil rights Restora Tion act. Passed earlier this year Over Reagan s veto As an unwarranted inva Sion. By big  he also called affirmative action divisive unpopular and immoral and opposed Federal set aside contracts for minority owned businesses. Pc Duclon often was at Odds with other commission members. The com Mission voted 5-1 in 1982 to stale that there had been retrenchment and Retreat in All areas of civil rights enforcement. Pc Duclon was inc Lone dissenter. In june 1982, Pendleton argued thai there was Little Reagan or any president could do for Urban areas until the icon killed by Alligator Krin cil nver 4, above was attacked and Kilt d by a if a fit Alligator right near her Home in Englewood Kin. Inc Yusufi Jesu r us walking with her brother Anil another playmate a the time of lit attack saturday. Senate oks budget Compromise Washington a the Senate on monday gave final approval to a  trillion budget for fiscal 1989 designed to carry Forward the deficit cutting pact made last fall by president Reagan and congressional leaders. The spending plan a Compromise be in can the House and Senate passed 58 29 despite complaints that it used Shab by accounting to claim that red Ink would be significantly reduced. This budget Resolution More than Ful fills the pledges undertaken at the eco nomic Summit with Reagan said sen. Lawlon Chiles d-fla., chairman of the Senate budget committee. The Resolution itself is non binding but in serves As a guideline for Congress in producing its annual spending Bills. The president s signature is not required. The House approved the measure last month. Under the agreement with Reagan the budget Calls for no new taxes for the next year beyond the 114 billion enacted last december. The pact also preset the Levels of other major budget categories with increases of about half the inflation rate. The budget allows $294 billion in military spending s16.i billion for foreign Aid and 1169.2 billion for Domestic agencies. The guidelines made the congressional budget similar Overall to inc plan sub melted by Reagan in february. However Congress rejected his Call to cancel sever Al Domestic programs such As development Grants to stale and local govern ments. Like the president s plan the congressional budget increases spending on aids research the space program the fight against drugs air safety and Educa Tion. The budget projects a deficit next year of 1135.3 billion barely below the s136 billion target of the Gramm Rudman budget balancing Law. The figure swells to $ us .3 billion if inc calculations Don t include some unspecified sales of government assets included in the budget. In figuring the deficit Congress used while House projections for the econ omy instead of More pessimistic predictions by the non partisan congressional budget office. Omy and american productivity improved. I Sivji ivc in inc trickle Down theory because in Prosperity does t trickle up he said. Pond Luton maintained that Black Citi Zens must make it on the merits of their own abilities without any special prefer ence or apologies from the government or the White Power Structure. He made a practice of giving so called uncivil rights awards to those whose actions furthered discrimination As he defined it. The most recent went to Chi Cago mayor Eugene Sawyer last month for delaying the firing of an aide who made anti semitic remarks. Pendleton lived in the Community of la Jolla about 10 Miles North of Down town san Diego with his second wife Margrit and their Young daughter. He commuted to Washington d.c., and frequently gave speeches around the country. News briefs 2 killed in crash of Carrier plane suh1c Nava l base Philippines a an s-3 Viking anti submarine plane from the Carrier Enterprise crashed sunday in inc South China sea the Nuvy said monday. Two of Llic plane s four crewmen were killed one was rescued and one is miss ing Navy spokesman i. Robert Ander son said. He said the rescued crewman was in stable but guarded condition. Search operations were under Way monday for the missing crewman. Anderson said the crash occurred Dur ing training operations about 200 Miles Southeast of Hong Kong. The cause of the crash has not been determined and names of the Crew were withheld pending notification of relatives he said. 2 winners in lottery claim $51.4 million Sacramento. Calif. A an aircraft Mechanic and a supermarket clerk stepped Forward monday to claim North America s record lottery prize a $51.4 million Bonanza that will give each $25.7 million Over 20 years. I had a feeling so 1 played $100," said Shelby Carroll 53, of Vacaville a Mechanic at Travis fab. "1 Laid a 1100 Bill on the counter and said give me a Quick pick a random number Selec Tion the Only other person to pick All six winning numbers in saturday night s lotto 6-49 drawing was Randy pinning ton 26, a clerk at the Bel air supermarket in suburban Carmichael. He said he was glad he was t the Only one to win the grand prize. Museum from Page 1 balloon from Page 1 the swedish born Engineer had topped 58,700 feel at 7 10 . Two seated cameras that automatically filmed the Craft s altimeter readings and a bar graph strapped to the outside of the Craft will be examined to verify the record.  s return to Earth was delayed by natural solar heating inside the balloon a spokesman said. When he had dropped to 12,000 feel Lindstrand remit the butane burners on the Craft to slow his fall. At that Point he was falling at 500 feel per minute. Lindstand s Strat Oquist lifted off at 5 42 ., just three minutes after lie and his wife arrived at the launch site. Linds land hoped the $200,000 flight would break the 60,000-foot Barrier considered until now to be technically impossible because of a Lack of oxygen in the  sphere needed for the balloon s burners. His assault on the world record firs scheduled for june i. Was repeatedly delayed because of storms or High wind. Last year Lindstrand and Brandson a British millionaire became the first peo ple to Cross the Atlantic in a hot air bal Loon. But explosive charges that were to release their capsule failed and the two ended up in the Irish sea for 2w hours. The trans Atlantic flight Sec hot air balloon records for Speed Al 100 Mph duration Al 31 hours and 41 minutes and distance Al 3,075 Miles. By memorial ils approach takes a whole world View beginning with the roots of world War ii dating from the pre de pression Era. Experiencing a multimedia approach visitors take a winding walk through history War and peace. The museum also will serve As a research and documentation Center Complete with an International Media Library and thou Sands of previously unpublished documents pertaining to that Era. At the ceremony military bands from 12 nations performed including the . Navy s 6ih Fleet band from Naples Italy. The Navy band Drew a round of applause when it slipped into a rousing Glenn Miller hit in the   
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