European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday june 29. 199-1 Mil n. A a a a last ride map no census auditors say Washington a the census Bureau missed nearly 10 million people during last years population count and it counted More than 4 million people twice congressional auditors said. The 14 million errors occurred As census takers counted 248.7 million americans a nyc Stevens of the general accounting office told the House Post office and civil a service subcommittee on census and population. A the 1990 census appears to have had at least 50 percent More errors than it had in 1980, said. The census Bureau has estimated 5.3 million people weren to counted. Blacks and hispanics were More Likely to be missed than were Whites officials said. The bureaus estimate was based on a Survey taken shortly after the census rather than on the count of errors used by Stevens. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher must decide by july 15 whether to replace the population count with the census Bureau s estimate a Federal court set the deadline after states and big cities sued to Force a census correction. A a. Under the court order Mosbacher can to decide to Correct the numbers unless the estimate is More accurate than the count. Census officials blame census errors on a number of. Problems. Among them Are the tendency of poor peo pie in big cities not to mail Back their census forms and difficulty in getting Correct address lists in some areas. Census numbers Are used to determine How Many representatives each state sends to Congress. They Are also used to draw political districts for state Legislatures City councils and other government bodies. Also localities care about census numbers because they Are used in dividing tip about $25 billion a year in a Federal Aid. A \ jell Kiy Cra Parks department supervisor takes one of cuts in Park Ranger work Are part of a tight new City his last patrols through new York City scentral Park. Budget which slices 1,741 jobs and $61 4 shooting leads to 50 arrests in miam Miami apr More than 50 people were at rested alter a police shooting Tri tiered sporadic Rock and bottle throwing to a predominantly Black neighbourhood tense Over a court ruling in an earlier police shooting police specially trained to handle civil a Hui Bailee moved in immediately after Ihm Day evening s shooting barring inline irom Large sections of Overtown and nearby i Chrly City. Both mainly Black neighbourhoods erupted m rioting four times during the .1980s. After police officers killed Blacks or were acquitted in the killings. Police said More than 50 people were arrested for disorderly intoxication and Quot incite a riot after one of two officers shot and wounded a Man they said walked toward them carrying a gun. A. A a. A a a a police have been on Alert in Overtown since tuesday when an. Appeals court overturned the conviction of a Miami officer whose shooting of a Black motorcyclist led to three Days of rioting in january 1989. No violence was reported after the ruling ordering a new trial for officer William Lozano. Police said sporadic gunfire was heard in Liberty City after the police shooting. One officer was reported injured when lie was hit head with a Rock. Thursday nights shooting involved police who confronted two men during a shootout. A they got into a. Gun Battle a said police spokesman David Rivero. The police Allicer who pulled his trigger a did not act wrong a he said. A a several witnesses said they saw the Guy walking toward the officers with the weapon and that a when the officer confronted him and then fired two shots a said police spokesman George Cher Sanders a woman who lives near the shooting scene said she saw the suspect throw Down his gun and put up his hands before he was shot. Police said the shooting victim whom they would not identify was in satisfactory condition at Jackson memorial Hospital a a a Miami mayor Xavier Suarez went to Overtown later thursday in an Effort to Calm Community fears that the shooting May have been unwarranted. A people can rest assured that there was absolutely no deadly Force directed at any citizens a he said. A it was routine police action against the criminal m by the los Angeles times or Jonas Salk famous for developing a vaccine for polio said in a report published thursday that he would inject Nim self with an experimental aids vaccine before the end of the year. A a i want to answer the implicit question a would you take it yourself a a Salk 76, told the san . A since actions speak louder than words that a the obvious thing to . Salk who recently attended an aids conference in Florence Italy was in Paris and unavailable for comment. A spokeswoman for the Salk Institute in san Diego said that the blood of Calls alter sulks comments were published were referred to the immune response corp. Of Carlsbad calif., which Salk a current Board member and shareholder co founded in 1986 to search for an aids vaccine. Steven Viasta of spokesman for the company said that Salk a comments a overemphasized something that a not a primary locus. Our focus is to target the Aheady infected aids population. The Oiler matter a vaccine for an uninfected population is not what we a spend our time thinking Jonas Salk., human Guinea pig but Basta conceded that if a vaccine for an uninfected population is tested a and the company has applied for California health department permission to begin such testing a Salk would be one of several volunteers on whom the vaccine would be administered. A the trial for an aids vaccine to be used on uninfected patients is not about to Start and at this Point is Only a maybe anyway a Basta said. He said that a Jinn the vaccine is tested Salk would a be injected with a killed virus vaccine. That would be similar to what he did in the past with an influenza vaccine.�?�. Basta said that recent tests on monkeys have led to Hopes that a an effective vaccine for an uninfected population can be developed based on a killed virus a similar to one being used on patients already infected with human immunodeficiency virus w hich causes aids. A it prompts us to Avant to explore a vaccine for the uninfected population a Basta added. A but the critical need we see now is in the 1 million to 2 million already infected patients that will eventually Progress to aids if there is no new a therapy.�?�. Cable firm cuts mtg in 7 states Tyler Texas apr More than 400,000 Cable television customers in seven states will lose their mtg this weekend after a Cable conglomerate. Bowed to complaints of too much sex and violence in Rock music videos. A was a corporate citizen we done to feel we can continue to offer borderline pornographic materials a said Randy Ellisor a Tea executive in Huntsville. Tyler based Tea decided thursday to drop mtg from its offerings to 53 Cable companies be. Ginning sunday. Tea serves 420,000 Cable subscribers a 175,000 in Texas and the _ others in Arkansas Idaho Louisiana Mississippi Missouri and new Mexico. A pm tvs a program standards Are the same As the broadcast networks. To can a comments about our programming Are ludicrous a said Carole Robinson vice president of press relations for mtg
