European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday july 17, 1991cities vow to file suits to Force of 5 million to 1990 census Washington apr angered that the Bush administration would not add 5 million people to the 1090 census officials in the states and cities with flawed counts Promise to return to court demanding a revision. A to shortchange the american people in this manner a and in particular our nations cities which suffer greatly due to the under count a is nothing less than statistical grand larceny Quot new York mayor David Dinkins charged. Commerce Secretary Robert a. Mosbacher announced monday under a court imposed deadline that he would not replace the census bureaus 1990 National population count with statistical estimates. The government has acknowledged that its census missed 5.3 million people. Mos Bucher a decision will Cost some states.,and Urban areas millions of dollars in Federal Aid since an estimated $59 billion a year is distributed based on population numbers decided by the census. Mosbacher was called before House and Senate panels tuesday to defend his decision. Rep. Thomas c. Sawyer a Ohio chairman of the House subcommittee on census and population denounced Mosbacher s decision As an Effort to a Gerrymander on a National . A but sen. Herbert h. Kohl a wis chairman of a Senate oversight panel said that trying to replace the head count with an estimate created too Many technical problems. The government has been counting people for 200 years and has never decided to scrap its census in favor a of statistical adjustments. A Abc lord we take a step of that magnitude we must he certain it would actually make the census better and the distribution of the population More accurate Quot Mosbacher said. Minorities particularly Blacks and hispanics and other inner City residents were most Likely to be missed by counters in the april 1990 tally. People in smaller communities Whites asian americans and midwesterner we re less Likely to be overlooked. New York City and 31 other cities Stales organizations Texas attorney general Dan Morales criticizes the 1990 census monday in Houston. And individuals had asked a Federal court to order the census corrected and the court ordered Mosbacher to decide a Given today a disturbing developments we will now resume that litigation immediately a Dinkins said. A spokesman for new York state attorney general Robert Abrams said the plaintiffs would be Back in Federal court in Brooklyn next week. Criticism poured in from elsewhere As Well. Texas gov. Ann Richards said the decision a cheats every county City and town out of hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal  the census missed a half million texans and Richards estimated that would Cost the state $1 billion in Federal Money Over the next decade. A it Means fewer police fewer teachers and fewer Miles of paved Highway for the people of this state Quot she said. A add yet another generation of texans who will be denied their constitutional rights because the . Government census officials failed to conduct an accurate count of our population Quot Texas attorney general Dan Morales said monday in Houston. The adjusted numbers would have Given Arizona a seventh seat in Congress and according to state estimates $20 million More in Federal funds. Sticking with the 1990 numbers will Cost Phoenix More than $4 million a year. A every single person we count is $137 to our City coffers Quot said Phoenix councilwoman Mary Rose Wilcox who Heads the City sad hoc census committee. A but the Money that Texas and Arizona say will be missed would have come from somewhere a and it would have been the states with More accurate census counts. That a because the amount of Federal Money and the number of seats in Congress do not change the population numbers Only determine How they Are distributed. A corrected count would have Cost Wisconsin for example a congressional seat and about $2.8 million a year in Federal Aid.  have lost a congressional seat if the adjustment had been made. California and Arizona would each have gained another seat beyond gains already produced by the 1990 count. In deciding against a correction Mosbacher rejected recommendations from census director Barbara Bryant and six other census officials urging that the numbers be adjusted. The governments suing along with new York City to gain a correction Are Chicago Cleveland Denver Houston Inglewood Calif. Los Angeles new Orleans Oakland and Pasadena Calif. Philadelphia Phoenix san Antonio san Francisco Broward and Dade counties in Florida and five states a California Florida new Jersey new York and Texas. Court upholds dial a porn ban for minors new York a a Federal appeals court monday upheld Federal regulations denying minors Access to sexually explicit a dial a porn Quot Telephone services. The 2nd . Circuit court of appeals upheld As constitutional a provision requiring Telephone companies to provide such services to adults Only when they request it in writing. The so called a Helms amendment Quot to the 1934 communications act named after its sponsor sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., changed the Way Telephone companies prevent children from calling for sexually explicit conversations. Before customers had the option of asking their Telephone company to Block their Access to those numbers. Providing them to ail customers except those who objected was ineffective in preventing Access by minors the Federal communications commission had said. The appeals court said the Helms amendment provided a better Way to prevent children from calling them. A it always is More effective to lock the barn before the horse is stolen Quot the three judge panel said. The court vacated an injunction issued by . District judge Robert p. Patter son in August 1990, two Days before the acc was due to begin enforcing the Law Patterson had ruled the Law was Likely to violate the first and fifth amendments because its definition of indecency was too vague. The appeals court disagreed. The panel said the Law had properly defined indecency and ruled that having customers pre subscribe for a dial a porn services was not unduly restrictive.3-year-old sails boat 2 Miles to Shore a Solo Erie a. Apr a 3-year-old took the Tiller of his family a catamaran on Lake Erie and sailed two Miles to Shore by himself leaving his father brother and two cousins treading water. A Andy Craft shocked his Mother when lie ran onto the Beach alone sunday. Quot i asked him Why he was crying and he said a cause they re still out there a a Laura Craft said. A can you imagine what the people on the Beach must have Felt watching a 3-year-old sail that Hig boat in by himself with a three Story High sail above him a a i wondered where he was going Quot said his father Tom Craft a then i thought a Dang lie s going All the was to the Beach a a a the youngster was left alone when his father stopped the boat to let the other children take a swim. Tom Craft left the boat to bring an 8-year-old Niece closer to the Craft. Andy who had been shown How to steer the boat then pulled the Tiller turning the boat enough for the loosened sail to catch the wind and Start ashore. A passing Powerboat picked up the floating foursome and brought them Back to the Beach. The three children were wearing life jackets. A it was t a big Deal Quot Tom Craft said. A we just grouped together started telling jokes and started paddling toward . Chief Craig Carter of the Erie coast guard station said they were very Lucky. A first of All everyone on the boat a especially the Only adult a should have been wearing a life jacket Quot Carter said. Quot no matter How Good a swimmer you  and Craft should never have left Andy alone on the bout he said adding Quot what if that child had sailed it. The other Way away from Shore Quot jetliner lands safely despite Hydraulic failure Long Beach Calif. Up an Alaska airlines jetliner men route to Portland ore., with 129 people aboard a landed safely monday after suffering a Hydraulic failure shortly after Takeoff. Alaska airlines flight 216 landed at Long Beach Airport after being diverted tront its scheduled Landing at Burbank because of a failure in the hydraulics which Are required to control the aircraft. The operations office at Burbank Airport a where the flight was scheduled to make a Stop to pick up about 50 passengers before continuing on to Portland a said the md-80 experienced a a Complete Hydraulic failure Quot shortly after taking off from John Wayne Airport in Orange county. The jetliner circled Burbank for about in hour before officials decided to Send it to Long Beach Airport about 30 Miles to the South which has a longer runway and where Alaska has its Southern California maintenance facility. The plane carried 123 passengers and a Crew of six. Airline spokesman Witter said the Pilot shifted to plane s automated backup system Greg the that lowered the Landing gear and controlled the  said that despite the loss of hydraulics the plane was a in perfect flying conditions when it landed. Emergency Crews were on hand but the runway was not foamed and the passengers were not forced to use emergency escape chutes. Witter said it was a a routine  Kathy Dawson 39, of Vancouver wash., who was on her Way Home after vacationing with her husband Steve and their son said a when we saw the emergency equipment on the runway we Felt there was a real problem. We figured they weren to telling us  Joann Stenlund also of Vancouver said the Landing was a a bumper than  Vancouver is across the Washington state Border from Portland. The passengers scheduled to get off at Burbank were bused from Long Beach and the people who were to Board in Burbank were put aboard an Aane rican airlines flight to the Pacific Northwest Witter said