European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns Walter Mears . Safe Hood drive creates d/7emma for Jackson Jesse Jackson new Hometown May have a Job opening made to order Tor a once and future democratic presidential hopeful but the line print us he can t run for it. Another Slot almost As inviting is tied up in the City Council. Neither Job is mayor the office Jack son could seek in november an option to which he so far won t say yes or no. The other posts involve Congress one officially As a non voting Delegate one unofficially As a City elected lobbyist for District of Columbia statehood. There has been speculation about Jackson for mayor Ever since he moved to Washington last summer and he has done nothing to Dampen it. That s True to the form he has shown in National dem uralic politics. Transplanted from Chicago to the District of Columbia he s got them guessing again this time in local politics. There arc older players among them Waller e. Fauntroy. The District s non voting Delegate to Congress since 1971. With mayor Marion Barry in a rehabilitation Center and facing drug posses Sion and perjury charges some of misleading supporters have formed a com Mittee to draft Fauntroy for mayor. Fauntroy says he is agonizing about the decision and will announce by March 3 whether hell run for mayor or stay in Congress. Should he run for mayor it would Cre ate what seems the perfect vacancy for Jackson a seat in Congress with a staff committee assignments and the right to speak and debate on the floor like any other member. Even the Lack of a vote would be an asset missing House action while campaigning nationally or tending to other interests would t be the recorded disadvantage it sometimes has been for members of Congress seeking the presidential nomination. And Jackson has said that if he did become mayor it would limit his activities in National and International affairs. The hitch is in the Law that Grants the District a Delegate and requires that on the Date of his election he has re sided in the District of Columbia Conlin Tom Wicker 1 wet Wmk is nor on m Agenda wedge to make a to Fraum wait Sously since the beginning of the three year period ending on such  Jackson moved to Washington during the summer of 1989, in time to meet the one year residency requirement to run for mayor but far Short of the three year Rule for Delegate. That Law could be changed but some potential Jackson rivals local in 1990, National in 1992,would have to go along. The Law also could be challenged As invalid since it does t apply to congressmen elsewhere and the House itself has the last word on its members. There seemed to be another option inthe planned election of a Shadow con Gressional delegation by District voters but that has been shelved indefinitely by a City Council committee. The plan was to have the voters elect two Shadow senators and a representative this year As part of the Effort to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. They would t be seated in Congress of course. They would be cast As leading lobbyists for statehood a cause for which Jackson has been campaigning. Creation of those positions which would Cost an estimated $1.35 million a year was approved in a City referendum on statehood a decade ago. The elections already have been postponed three times. Statehood always has been a Long shot. Congress approved a constitutional amendment to give the District voting representation in 1978, but it did for Lack of state ratification. Seventy nine percent of District voters Are registered democrats. Only 9 percent arc registered As republicans. So statehood if it came would give the democrats a lock on two new scats in the Senate and one in the House a Prospect republicans Are not about to accept. And that s not the Only problem that goes with Jackson s new voting address. Fauntroy has announced a Campaign of tax withholding civil disobedience say ing District residents should refuse to pay their Federal income taxes until they get statehood. That would risk penalties including imprisonment. Perhaps. But if there really is such a statehood Campaign it would create a special dilemma for Jackson who would have to choose Between local and nation Al objectives. Tax disobedience might play Well in the District of Columbia but it could be disastrous in any future presidential Campaign c the associated press coalition Cabinet May be Best for Nicaragua one nicaraguan who believes that Virleta Chamorro actually May defeat sandinista president Daniel Ortega in sunday s elections is Arturo Cruz or. The son of a former presidential candidate a former sandinista himself but also a former Contra and National Security assistant in the Reagan White House. Few observers and not Many More nicaraguans agree a final Washington Post Abc news Survey for instance gives Ortega a