European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 study shows big disparity on race problems by the los Angeles times Washington in a vivid illustration of the Gulf still dividing american society a new National Survey released wednesday found dramatic Dis agreement Between Blacks and Whites about the sever Ity of racial problems in such Basic areas As education housing Job opportunities and the Law. For example two thirds of the Whites surveyed be Lieve Black people get equal pay for equal work while two thirds of Blacks believe just the opposite. Similarly half of the Black people surveyed say local police keep Blacks Down while an equal percentage of White people say police Are More helpful than harm Ful to Blacks according to the study which was con ducted by Louis Harris for the a act Legal defense and educational fund. These gaps in perception underscore the need for continuing educational efforts to help White americans appreciate that race continues to be a Factor in influencing our daily lives the study s authors said. James o. Gibson who directs the Rockefeller foun Dation s National programs on equal Opportunity said the Gap stems from the differences in experiences among Blacks and Whites. If people Aren t touched biracial Bias then they have no informed basis for an attitude he said. It s the out of sight  on housing 55 percent of Whites said Blacks Are no worse off than other groups with comparable Educa Tion and income but 64 percent of Blacks believe the Yare worse off. At the same time the study found significant areas of agreement. About eight of 10 respondents of both races for instance agreed that More Money should be spent attacking the causes of crime such As poverty and Lack of motivation than on sentencing Crimi nals to Long jail terms. Jury orders scouts to pay for molesting by the Washington Post the boy scouts of America declare Victory when a jury in a $10 million civil trial awarded a Reston va., youth Only $45,000 in damages for being molested by his former scoutmaster. After More than five Days of deliberation in Fairfax circuit court a jury of four women and three men wednesday found that the Washington area scout Council not the National organization should pay the damages because the local Council was liable for selecting or retain ing former scoutmaster Carlton l. Bittenbender. The youth and his family had asked for $30 million but the amount was reduced during the trial. The plaintiffs at Torney Douglas b. Wessel said wednes Day night that during the first week of the six week trial the scouts offered $1 million to Settle the Case but the family rejected it. We re very pleased with the out come said Frank Hebb director of Public relations for the National office of the boy scouts of  nine of every 10 Blacks and Whites also believe in the need for special school programs to motivate poor youngsters to stay in school. And nine of every 10 members of both races support efforts to locate More jobs in areas where poor people live the study found. While there Are some differences among Whites and Blacks there is compelling evidence that the pub Lic is ready to get on with the business of attending to Many of the race relations issues that have not been. There is compelling evidence the Public is ready to get on with attending to Many of the race relations issues. Julius Chambers addressed during the past eight years Julius Cham Bers director counsel of the a act Legal defense and educational fund said at a news conference. His comment reflects the View held by Many Black people that the election of George Bush offers Minori ties and poor people an Opportunity to reverse some of the social policies initiated by president Reagan who practice what one fund official called  despite the fiscal Handcuffs about to be passed on from Reagan to Bush because of the huge Federal Defi Cit Chambers asserted that some new programs will be necessary to improve conditions for the impoverished. The programs will Cost something he said but it s a worthwhile  As a measure of the depth of negative feelings Black people hold against Reagan and an example of the perceptual Gap Between Blacks and Whites generally the Survey found that half of the Whites questioned believe his administration has been helpful to Blacks while almost 80 percent of Blacks in the Survey consider the administration oppressive. Despite some areas of agreement Between the races Whites continue to stereotype Blacks the study found noting that More than a third of Whites think that Blacks tend to have less ambition than Whites and a fifth believe Blacks Breed  the study said 17 percent of Whites believe that Blacks have less native intelligence than  while these figures represent a decline in stereotyping since 1963, that level of Bias indicates that the anti Black virus among Whites is still abundant and not hard to find the study declared. It found similar views among asians and latinos noting for instance that one third of asian americans and one fourth of latinos who identified themselves As White feel that Blacks Breed  the Survey called the unfinished Agenda on race in America was conducted from june to sep tember and included 3,123 interviews with people fall races. The fund also released a separate Survey of Black who Are persistently poor finding that Many do not receive Federal benefits. That Survey of 347 people in eight cities including los Angeles new York Philadelphia Atlanta an Chicago found that Only 11 percent said they receive Federal or state housing subsidies to help pay rent and that Only 15 percent have Ever received special Job training. On behalf of Mankind president Reagan with president elect George Bush looking on Given the awards on behalf of All Mankind not just All Ameri presented congressional Gold medals to soviet activist Natan Sha  the awards were authorized by Congress in 1986 for the Ransky right wednesday saying he and his wife Avital were couple s work for human rights and Freedom for soviet jewry. Secret North papers reveal Cia links paper says Miami a the Reagan administration withheld documents from the trial of it. Col. Oliver North because they identify several latin american government officials who work for thecia the Miami Herald reported. The administration feared that an discussion of the documents in an Amer ican courtroom might expose the latin american officials links to the Cia and disrupt . Intelligence in several coun tries according to the Herald which quoted unidentified sources close to the Iran Contra inquiry. One source said some of the withheld documents were declassified during con Gressional investigations of the Iran con tra affair but were subsequently reclassified in an Effort to limit discussion of the incidents they describe the Herald said in its thursday editions. Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was forced to ask that the two major charges against North be dismissed after the Reagan administration refused to allow the documents to be used i North s trial. . District judge Gerhard Gesell is expected to act on that request soon. Gesell also has suggested that other charges against North might be in jeopardy because of the refusal to permit use of the documents. All of the sources consulted for the article Are either familiar with some of the documents or with the Legal strategies of Walsh and North s defense team the Herald reported. Some of the sources Are closely tied to North s defense team while others either worked closely with North in the past or participated m the 1987 congressional investigation into the Iran Contra affair. One of the sources is a senior administration official who advises the state department and the White House on Cen trial american Security policy the newspaper said. Countries listed in the documents the sources said include Costa Rica Al Sal Vador and Venezuela where respectively North s resupply network aiding the nicaraguan Contra rebels built a Airstrip controlled part of an air base and attempted to buy military aircraft. North s activities in these countries wer Central to Walsh s Legal strategy to show that the former National Security Council aide conspired to defraud the United states and steal government property by using the profits from arms sales to Iran to Purchase supplies for the contras. Those Are the charges Walsh says he must withdraw. In each Case the sources said Walsh has documentary evidence including in voices receipts and other Legal papers showing transactions involving Ira arms sales profits and Contra supplies. Declassification of the documents prob ably would shed Little Light on whether president Reagan authorized North to help the contras the sources said