European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday August 7,1988 residents of Yonkers told of doomsday scenario Yonkers . A City manager Neil Delu Ca outlined his doomsday scenario As fines levied by a Federal judge mounted first he would Lay off non essential workers then sanitation workers and then police and firefighters. Finally he d fire himself. It might be the Best thing that Ever happened to me he  dispute Between a defiant City Council and a judge who ordered it to desegregate housing has split this already divided City which has been hit with fines that double daily and could bankrupt Yonkers this month unless the Council complies with the order or gets an appeals court to intervene. The City moves from crisis to crisis and this is the worst yet said former mayor Angelo Martinelli. It s one thing to have the councilmen go Down. It s another to see the City go Down the tubes after All everyone has done in the past to save  hovered on the Brink of bankruptcy in 1984 because it underfunded its school system. In 1985, . District judge Leonard Sand who recently declared the City in contempt and imposed the fines found the City liable for 40 years of intentionally segregating its schools through segregated housing. The racial divisions evolved through the City s shape split by the saw Mill River Parkway with the older More Industrial Section on the West and the affluent area which includes Sarah Lawrence College and houses with manicured lawns to the East. Some 6,800 units of Low income housing were built in the 1960s, mostly on the West Side. Originally they housed the Irish italians and slays but those groups prospered and moved to the East Side. Blacks and hispanics from new York City s Bor Ough of the Bronx on Yonkers Southern Border took their place and now account for nearly 30 percent of the City s  judge wants the City to build Low and Middle income housing All Over the City not just on the West  last week the City Council voted 4-3 to reject a package of incentives to attract developers of 800 housing , As promised assessed fines of $500 a Day against each recalcitrant councilman and an escalating mayor Koch dogs it As sidewalk Vendor dispute is settled new York a mayor bites hot dog i Midtown Manhattan that s news. Mayor Edward i. Koch relishing the end of dispute with sidewalk vendors that led to a month Long ban on the culinary carts had Frankfurter for lunch Friday. This is a delicious hot dog Koch said be tween mouthfuls of the sauerkraut and onion Laden  new yorkers greeted their favorite Ven Dors with handshakes and backstops forming lines to buy italian sausages greek so Uylaki Middle Eastern falafel chinese egg Rolls mexi can tacos and american hot dogs All Staples of the City s sidewalk cuisine. Koch banned food vending in the Midtown Are july 11 to reduce sidewalk congestion. Last week he ended the ban after  with Pushcart representatives. The agreement krafts the number of vendors to about eight per intersection and requires them to set up their stands each Day on a first come first served basis. Fine against the City that began at $100 a Day tuesday and doubles daily. It was to reach $3,200 sunday and by Day 22, the City s $337 million budget would be wiped out along with the jobs of its 1,800 municipal  councilmen also Are threatened with jail terms if they Are still in contempt after aug. 10. The real tragedy is Yonkers was doing so Well economically before this said mayor Nicholas Wasiecko 29, who supports the desegregation order. We be had three years of surpluses and there really has been an economic rebirth. Except for , the City of 200,000 people was known As the City of gracious  some Black leaders now Call it the City of racist  will violate the Law to keep Blacks out of their neighbourhoods Whites will pay huge fines to keep Blacks out of their neighbourhoods and Whites May even go to jail to keep Blacks out of their neighbourhoods said Marvin Ardisson 27, who lives in the Schlobohm houses one of the City s worst housing projects. Others say race is not at Issue. I am absolutely convinced it is a dispute of class said gov. Mario  focus on the effect of the judge s order on the value of their Homes and complain bitterly that Yonkers is being  has 24 percent of the population of West Chester county but about 40 percent of the county s Low income housing. Other towns have none. Opponents of the judge s housing plan fear their town might follow the path that transformed the Bronx into new York s poorest Borough. We worked and saved All our lives so we could move out of the Bronx to this Beautiful neighbourhood and for what asked John Loggia 62, whose House faces a site for 22 Low income Homes. So we won t be Able to sell our House its value has lost $100,000." on the other Side of town a few Blacks Are opposed to the plan too like Stonewall Odom who said Sands order could ruin the Black Community and its political base. He called it Plantation  we need education jobs we Don t need any More handouts. Judge Sand is condemning my son to poverty Odom said. Musical glasnost Eugene Mondi of Dallas signs the shirt of arme Nian violinist Susanna Grigorian at the Kennedy Center in Washington . Friday. Mondi a clarinet player joined Grigorian and other musicians Ages 17 to 23, in the newly formed Ameri can soviet youth orchestra in an opening night performance at the Kennedy Center Friday night. The orchestra was to perform works by Sergei Prokofiev of Peter and the Wolf Fame facade my award winning composer Aaron Copland and austrian composer Gustav Mahler. Reagan vows to Block other Bills that Don t meet his defense goals Washington a president Reagan threat ened saturday to Block any Effort in Congress to re Spond to his veto of a $300 billion Pentagon spending Bill warning against an even worse defense Bill As an act of  it won t happen not if i have anything to say about it the president declared in his weekly radio address delivered from the Oval office. Reagan vetoed the military authorization Bill on wednesday saying that although it offered More funds than he requested it was loaded with require ments that would jeopardize his defense program and weaken the . Posture in arms control talks with the soviet Union. He repeated these objections in his radio address and said now that i be vetoed the defense Bill there is talk on Capitol Hill about producing an even worse defense Bill As an act of political retribution. Well let me ask you what could be More deplorable than to use the defense of this nation As a political Pawn sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee called Reagan s veto an other serious setback to building a bipartisan Consen sus regarding America s National Secundy  Nunn in the democratic response to Reagan s address said he had hoped Reagan would place National Security above partisan  Nunn accused Reagan of following the advice of vice president George Bush s political team rather than his own defense Secretary and other advisers and Republican members of Congress in vetoing the Bill. We will continue to work for the enactment of this important defense Bill Nunn said. 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