European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 24, 1988 the stars and stripes Page � Jackson fasting for Chavez s cause los Angeles up Jesse Jack son fasted monday in support of Cesar Chavez s protest against agricultural pesticides As the weakened United farm workers Leader remained on a liquid diet after his 36 Days without food. Cesar Chavez must not Bear the Cross of All said Jackson who wore a Cross on a Chain around his neck during a demonstration against the use of five pesticides on table grapes. The Demon stration was outside a Ralph s supermarket in East los Angeles. As 50 placard carrying Ufa support ers chanted Jesse s fasting Boycott grapes Jackson said he would not end his water and fruit juice fast until wednesday at the earliest. Jackson predicted table grape growers and supermarkets would eventually yield to Public pressure to Stop the Sale of grapes laced with the pesticides. We will not surrender because we know we re morally right said Jackson accompanied by councilmen Richar Alatorre Robert Farrell and Nate Holden. Jackson began his fast sunday when Chavez handed him a Small Cross fashioned out of twigs. He gave Jackson the Cross during a Catholic mass in Delano at which the Union Leader ended his fast after losing 33 a pounds. Since then Chavez has been fed diluted Carrot juice and Light miso soup made from fermented soybeans said or. Mari on Moses. Fasting Jesse Jackson urges a los Angeles crowd to Boycott pesticide sprayed grapes. Chavez who is recovering at an Undis closed location is in stable condition mentally Alert and in Good spirits and he is not being Given any medication she said. The abnormally High uric acid Levels in Chavez s kidneys caused by the fasting should begin dropping As he eats Over the next several Days she said. We will not know if he sustained per manent damage until he is further along in his recovery she added. Moses said it would be a week to 10days before Chavez a vegetarian for years can be phased Back to solid foods. When Jackson ends his fast the  Lowery head of the Southern Christian leadership conference will continue the Chain of suffering wednesday in Chicago and begin his own fast Jackson said. Jackson said actor Robert Blake would take Over the fast saturday in washing ton d.c., during the 25th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King s poor Peoples March. Jackson accused grape growers of wreaking economic and environmental violence on farm workers. But Adam Ortega of the grape work ers and Farmers coalition which opposes the Ufa s 4-year-old grape boy Cott accused Chavez and Jackson of howling  Ortega who attended the supermarket demonstration As a bystander said Cha Vez has targeted grape growers As a negotiation ploy because his Union does not have any grape contracts. Ortega noted that the Federal and stat governments have ruled the pesticides do not pose a health Hazard. Jackson said however that the grape Industry was targeted to intensify the focus of the Boycott which he said would be expanded to other pesticide laced crops in time. Our health is at stake he said. Our life is at stake. Our integrity is at  youths Are staying younger longer study finds Washington a Young people in the United states Are living at Home longer marrying later and taking More time to become self sufficient according to a government report released monday. Assistant education Secretary Chester e. Finn  the study of youths aged 14 to 24 indicates they Are staying younger  they seem to be becoming autonomous self sup porting individuals at a slower rate than was once the Case finn said. The report titled youth indicators trends in the Well being of american youth was compiled from information that had been collected since 1950 at fed eral agencies and private organizations. Finn said the figures show Young people Are living with their parents longer and they Are slower to form their own  a number of indicators suggest that the transition from childhood to adulthood is taking longer and presenting More Pitfalls than was the Case several years ago the study said. Youths in the 20s Are living at Home measurably longer since 1970, they have been delaying marriage to significantly later Ages and since 1980, they have found their average earnings declining while those folder workers have  size of . Households in average number of persons 3.37 3.33 3.33 3.29 3.14 2,94 2.66 1950 55 60 65 70 75 80 Chicago Tribune graphic source . Census Bureau 87 among the findings the share of youths aged 18 to 24 who lived with their parents or in College dormitories Rose from 43percent in 1960 to 53.6 percent in 1985. The number of first marriages per 1,000 never married women aged 20 to 24 fell from 220.1 in 1970 to 104.4 in 1984. Median income for women aged 20 to 24 fell from$12,517 in 1980 to $12,192 in 1986, using constant 1986 dollars. The comparable figures for Young me fell from $16,113 in 1970 to $14,152 in 1986. The study said the trends May be related since lat marriage is a reasonable response to lower earnings living with parents is a reasonable arrangement for those not earning enough to support  finn said the report also showed falling scores on College Entrance examinations and a last place ranking for . Students in recent International science an mathematics tests raising concern about How the youth will fare in the future. Compared to kids elsewhere in the world they Are performing poorly on All kinds of tests and that makes me worry he said. They make me worry about the future of a country that s raising up people with a number of years in school but that Don t know  lobbyist allegedly told Fri she said no to Quayle los Angeles a two former attorneys for one time lobbyist Paula Parkinson say she told the Fri in 1981 that gop vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle propositioned her during a Flor Ida trip but she refused according to a published  a copyright Story in tuesday s editions of the daily news of los Angeles the attorneys said Parkinson told the Fri the request was made when she Quayle then a congressman and two other legislators shared a cottage during the 1980golfing trip the lawyers said. Quayle an Indiana senator who has been married since 1972, has said he did not have an affair with Parkinson and Campaign spokesman declined comment monday evening about the lawyers allegations. Efforts to find Parkinson on monday were unsuccessful the newspaper said. The two lawyers represented Parkin son when she was questioned on March 28, 1981, by the Fri during an investigation of whether sexual favors were traded for votes against legislation. The lawyer reviewed their notes of the Fri interview for the daily news during separate Tele phone interviews monday. Parkinson has said that at the time of the trip she was with rep. Tom Evans r del., who lost his re election bid in 1982. Paula reported to the Fri during the investigation of the lobbying scandal that Quayle was interested in her flirted with her and asked her to go to bed wit him said Washington attorney Glenn Lewis referring to his notes from the Fri interview of Parkinson. She indicated at that time that she could t respond to his overture be cause she was with congressman Evans Lewis told the newspaper. Washington attorney Roy Kinsey who also was present Dunn the interview said his paraphrased notes show that she told the Fri Quayle made a pass an said he would like to sleep with her. According to Kinsey s notes Parkin son told the Fri that she rejected Quayle s suggestion saying no i m with Tom Evans Mark Goodin Deputy press Secretary for the Bush Quayle Campaign was told of the lawyers comments monday evening. I think you be got a huge Rumor Mill out there churning this stuff out and until i have s9mething Laid before me that is substantially More than a Rumor ican t comment Goodin said. The lobbying investigation entered on Parkinson a lobbyist for an insurance Industry group that opposed legislation to set up a National farm crop insurance program. The Bill passed the House in september 1980, with Quayle Eva Sand the third member of the Florida trip rep. Tom Railsback r-i11. Voting against  three Republican congressmen shared a House with Parkinson during the january 1980 golfing trip to Atlantis  spokesman Greg Jones refused comment monday on the 7-year-old interview. Kinsey said his 20 pages of notes of the interview paraphrase Parkinson stat ing that she and Evans shared one room and that Quayle was in another. The Justice department which con ducted the investigation of Parkinson s relationships with the members of con Gress dropped its Case in August 1981without filing any charges. Lewis and Kinsey said they have no talked with Parkinson for several years. The Dallas morning news reported that Parkinson who is divorced uses he Maiden name Paula Laham and lives in an apartment in the Dallas suburb of  does t want to talk to anyone today a woman at the apartment told the newspaper monday. The former lobbyist was arrested twice in 1985 for Public intoxication the news reported. One Case was dismissed but she received 90 Days probation on the other. She was placed on two years Proba Tion last december after pleading guilty to a charge of driving while under the influence