European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a a the stars and stripes monday june 18,1990 panel of . Mayors Calls for Gramm Rudman repeal Chicago apr americans mayors sunday gave initial approval to a Broad costly Domestic Agenda that asks Congress to repeal the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Law and Cut social Security taxes for nearly 120 million workers. The More than 70 resolutions approved by the key policy committee at the . Conference of mayors contain repeated pleas for a multimillion Dollar infusion of Federal funds for anti drug housing education and anti poverty programs. Also endorsed was a Resolution asking Washington to give cities Broad Powers to regulate billboards alongside Federal roads. But the panel walked at a proposal that would have put the mayors on record As opposing alcohol and tobacco advertising. The resolutions endorsed sunday will go before the full conference of More than 200 mayors wednesday. But the panels decisions Are rarely changed significantly in those votes which set the lobbying Agenda for the organization s Washington staff. The mayors who have spent much of the first three Days of their six Day annual meeting criticizing the Federal government for slashing Aid to cities said repealing Gramm Rudman would Force lawmakers to confront the deficit. A too Many of our members of Congress Are using this As a Crutch to hide some of the True problems of our Economy a said mayor Paul Soglin of Madison wis. A a Senes of budget gimmicks have been under Gramm Rudman automatic spending cuts take effect if Congress and the White House do not meet specified deficit reduction targets. The mayors complained that City level services Are the first to feel the automatic cuts. A it has the effect of putting cities and towns Urban programs first on the chopping Block a said mayor John k. Bullard of new Bedford mass. The mayors conference staff said the group a if the full conference endorses the proposal As expected a would be the first organization of elected officials to Call for repeal of Gramm Rudman. Several mayors said the organization Likely will face criticism for its stance because Gramm Rudman is the Only mandatory deficit reduction mechanism. A the mayors across this nation have got to say this is a charade Quot said mayor Lee Robinson of Macon a. A a we be got to say enough is in calling for the social Security payroll tax to be rolled Back from 7.65 percent to 6.71 percent the mayors panel also called on Congress to remove the Cap on outside earnings of social Security recipients and to Stop using the balance in the social Security Trust fund to mask the True size of the Federal deficit. Also included in one tax related Resolution approved sunday was a statement opposing a capital gains tax Cut favored by president Bush. Throughout this years meeting big City mayors have been urging their colleagues to be More militant in their lobbying of Washington and to Lay claim to a Good chunk of expected defense savings by warning that Urban tensions Are reaching a boiling Point because of Cash poor anti poverty programs. The first Resolution dealing with billboards passed with Little discussion. It called on Congress to Transfer to the states the Power to regulate and remove billboards alongside Federal the proposal to put the mayors on the record in favor of a alcohol and drug advertising ban was derailed a Day after it was endorsed by a lower level committee As part of a minority health initiative. Support for the measure eroded sunday after the measure was amended to oppose All alcohol and tobacco ads. It initially had sought a ban Only on outdoor wee race Jeff Rubinton leads his daughters Samantha right and Jullian Down the course sunday in the new York Road runners pee wee race in new Yorkus Central Park. Tie race was part of the clubs annual fathers Day Hopes to hike air time for �?T92 candidates Washington apr the Public broadcasting service is looking at ways to provide 1992 presidential candidates and the major political parties free air time beyond the Normal news coverage to present their views pcs president Bruce Christensen said sunday. Quot what we re looking for is the Way to increase the political dialogue a Christensen said in a Telephone interview from Dallas where pm so Board of directors is meeting this week. Christensen said just what approaches will be used Quot need to be worked out Over the next few but he said the possibilities include several ideas recommended Friday to top pcs officials by the John and Mary Markle foundation of new York. The foundation which will formally present a feasibility study to the pcs Board on tuesday has offered to contribute $5 million of the estimated $15 million to $20 million the project would Cost. Developed by Alvin h. Perl utter an Independent television producer the Markle study recommends that pcs offer free air time in blocks ranging from 2 i minutes to 15 minutes to the presidential candidates and or the political parties. Perlmutter who has worked for pcs and Abc recommended creating a a a voters channels production company to prepare expanded political programming for pcs stations that also would include a character and competence profiles of presidential candidates and an exploration of their debates. Regularly scheduled one hour programs would be broadcast during september and october 1992, with half hour programs airing daily the week before the november general election. The report also recommended that the programs include segments examining political ads and party activities in the Campaign and the Media a coverage of it. And it called for a segment in which voters could voice their views on the candidates and the issues. Kings daughter following in his footsteps Atlanta apr when the world last looked Bernice Albertine King was a fidgety 5-year-old in White ribbons piled sorrowfully in her mothers Lap at her fathers 1968 funeral. Now the baby daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Is a Serene Young woman newly ordained As a Baptist minister and Holder of doctor of Law and master of divinity degrees from Emory University. King 27, is the Only one of the slain civil rights leaders four children to follow her fathers career and join the clergy. She has a Long Range goal of starting a prison ministry that also would provide inmates with some Legal counselling. The broader goal of continuing the sweeping social change begun by her father is not on her Agenda King explains. But she understands Why people would take her entry into the ministry As a sign that she intends to go in that direction. A a that a part of being who 1 am Quot she explains. A a in be Learned to live with that. A my father was More concerned with sociology the sociological reasons for behaviour a she says. A i am More interested in the psychological. I like to Analyse things to look at How things happened to figure out Why they King describes herself As an ambitious but private person. She carries herself with an air so coolly serious that friends often Tell her she needs to lighten up. King said she might begin to do that a after a Bernice Albertine King poses with a bust of her father in the Martin Luther lung Center in Atlanta. Summer of Reading the Bible studying for bar exams and interviewing for jobs with Atlanta area Law firms. She was ordained and received both her Law and divinity degrees All on the same Day last month. Part of her serious nature King said stems from soul searching in her Early adulthood when she a spent a lot of time running from the religious calling she Felt at age 17. She thought briefly about a career As a television reporter. One participated in some anti apartheid protests and went to jail after one of them. She also attended democratic conventions represented her Church at Baptist assemblies and spoke before the United nations. But by the time King earned a bachelors degree in psychology from Spelman College she had a clearer idea of what she wanted to do in life. She then enrolled at Emory and in 1988, gave trial Sermon that whipped into a weeping frenzy the congregation at Ebenezer the Baptist Church presided Over by both her father and Grandfather. At her ordination the Rev. Joseph l. Roberts Ebenezer a pastor and one of Kings instructors at Emory said she has a not Only the oratorical guts of her father but the sensitivity of her King said she considered taking broadcasting courses to Sharpen that powerful speaking ability. A i always Felt i needed to work on the Way choose words. I still have difficulty with that one said. A and in be always admired the Way broadcast ers
