European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 20, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Record poor in dealing with poverty study says breath of life Kevin Canhan a Volunteer firefighter in Roosevelt n.y., gives Mouth to Mouth resuscitation to a 2-year-old girl who was rescued from her burning Home wednesday by firefighter Dwight Wood Center. The child Jasmine Chambers was listed in critical condition in a Bronx Hospital. The fire left an extended family of 16 homeless. By the Baltimore Sun Washington the United states has More poverty and is less Able to Cope with it than any of the major industrialized democracies of the Western world according to a two year International study. Compared with Canada and six Western european nations the study found poverty in the United states is More widespread and More severe poor families Here stay poor longer and government programs of assistance in the United states Are the least Able to lift families with children out of poverty. These were among the findings in a study sponsored by the joint Center for political and economic studies a Washington based research organization primarily concerned with issues affecting Black americans. The United states the study said a stands in ignominious isolation among the other Western industrialized countries a Canada Britain Germany the Netherlands France Italy and Sweden a with the highest incidence of poverty among a the non elderly households in which the head is 20 to 55 years old and the widest distribution of poverty across All age and family groups. A it is also the country in which the poor experience the longest spells of poverty and the Only Western democracy that has failed to give a significant proportion of its poor a measure of income Security a the report added. The study defined poverty As an annual household income of 50 percent or less of a nations adjusted median income. In the United states that would amount to about $15,000 a year for a family of four a member of the research team said. The free food no go without bit of cheese Atlanta up a social workers say Low income people Are turning up their noses at free food because it is mostly Beans and Rice a and no cheese. The disdain for food handouts comes at a time of increased demand for unemployment benefits welfare checks and food Stamps they said. A if we done to have cheese they done to consider it Worth their time said Clayton county Community services support coordinator Sheila Renfro. The Fuls of food Are being handed out in the metro Atlanta counties of Cobb Clayton Fayette and Henry. It is being supplied by the department of agriculture a emergency food assistance  offer stirs up rash of complaints by the new York times diaper raids Are rocking to land and babes Are nowhere in sight. Child world it seems offered a Deal on disposable diapers that some at toys a a re us could not resist. And now the two rivals Are lobbing charges at each other. Child world inc., which is struggling to lure Back customers after a Brush with bankruptcy is complaining that toys a a re us inc. Is taking advantage of a promotion at child world to Stock up on diapers baby food and formula at bargain basement prices. For every $100 of diapers and the like purchased at child world in september customers receive certificates Worth 25 percent off a similar Purchase in october. Bags of the diapers in the promotion Cost $8.99 and $9.99, depending on size. Toys a a re us said it was simply taking advantage of a Good Deal and that child world was crying foul to attract publicity for its promotion. Child world said that employees at toys a a re us were a systematically abusing its promotion. It said toys a a re us employees were buying Large quantities of child worlds diapers and other products priced just above Cost to draw in Consumers and then reselling the merchandise at toys a a re us. By buying More diapers next month using the discount toys a a re us will be buying diapers below Cost child world said. A w. John Devine chief executive of child world said that by taking advantage of the promotion toys a a re us would get up to $300,000 in discounts. A this is not Money intended for toys a re us. This was meant for Bona fide customers a he said. Angela Bourdon a spokeswoman for toys a a re us said there was nothing illegal about buying diapers and added that child worlds complaint is a just a publicity stunt on their  official poverty line in the United states is currently $13,360 a year for a family of four. Although the United states experienced More steady growth and lower unemployment than most of Europe in the 1980s, the study found the . Poverty rate was double that of every Continental european country by mid decade. A in our country this report paints a picture of a government that is failing More and More of its people a said Eddie Williams head of the study Center. Critics Burn Over go tvs sequel Atlanta apr tomorrow has finally come for Scarlett of Hara. Rhett Butler is dumping her a again a Only this time hell pay her $500,000 to stay out of his life forever. Scarlett will never go hungry again with that kind of Money. But can she live without Rhett thousands of die hard fans of gone with the wind awaiting the answer to that and other questions a have already reserved copies of the books Long awaited sequel Scarlett. Others Arentt so anxious to see the Book arrive in stores sept. 25. Five writers recently denounced Scarlett written by Alexandra Ripley in essays published in the Atlanta journal and Constitution. Other people have proposed their own sequels including one in which Scarlett becomes a mommie Dearest character who is exposed by her children. Meanwhile the Clayton county town of Jonesboro a the real life Model for the first books Tara the place where Rhett wooed Scarlett amid Plantation splendor a is ignoring the whole thing. A in the new gone with the wind attention is drawn away from Clayton county away from the True roots of Margaret Mitchell a said Allison Scholly marketing coordinator of the county a convention and tourism Bureau. Mitchells family hired Ripley to write the sequel and Hopes it will help raise $1.5 million to restore the dilapidated Atlanta House in which Mitchell wrote the pulitzer prize winning novel. Warner books bid almost $5 million for the publishing rights and thousands of fans Are expected at a Benefit showing sunday of the 1939 film version of gone with the wind. A a it a perfect timing a said Mitchells Cousin Lillian Clarke. A a it a a Good excuse for us to be playing on but i done to feel like even if people done to like the i m already disappointed. This is terrible a Lillian Clarke Margaret Mitchells Cousin sequel it will have a detrimental effect on  Clarke says she Isnit sure Shell like the Book. A a in a already disappointed a she said after Reade excerpts. A this is  Ripley a plot has Rhett reunited with Scarlett in Charleston s.c., then offering her $500,000 to leave him. He also saves her life at sea divorces her and marries another woman. Other people responding to a request from the Birmingham Ala news for proposed sequels had other ideas. Bernice Downs imagined that Scarletto a two children Wade Hamilton and Ella Kennedy took a tales of abusive neglect to the  a meanwhile Scarlett s sister Careen became a partner in a restaurant. Pearl Cleage one of the five Southern writers who wrote opinions of the Book based on excerpts published by life Magazine did no to mince words Cleage author of mad at Miles a Black woman a guide to truth called the sequel a one of the worst things in be Ever  a if i got this in a writing class a she said a i would definitely urge the person to take up another  nevertheless 5,000 people Are expected to show up for Ripley first Book signing sept. 28 at a Kich s department store in Atlanta