European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a the stars and stripes sunday january 12, 1992 Bush Carter to join King festivities Atlanta apr president Bush and former president Jimmy Carter will participate in King week events leading up to the seventh National Holiday honouring Martin Luther King or. Bush will sign the official Holiday proclamation Friday at the King Center in Atlanta and will place a Wreath at Kings adjacent crypt. Carter will participate in a symposium on Law enforcement and youth violence on tuesday Kings widow Coretta Scott King said Friday. Activities for the nine Day King week Observance will culminate in the Federal Holiday Jan. 20, the focus of the seventh Observance of the event is a a new Campaign against poverty a she said. King said her annual a state of the dream address next sunday will Call for a new social contract Between government and Industry to increase investments in Job training and education. A government can do even More to reduce poverty but government cannot do it All a said King president of the King Center in Atlanta. Martin Luther King a Baptist Clergyman spearheaded the non violent movement for Black civil rights through the late 1950s and 1960s and was awarded the 1964 Nobel peace prize. He was assassinated in 1968 and would have been 63 on Jan. 15. Other participants include a olympic Gold medallist Carl Lewis who will Lead a relay team at wednesdays completion of a three Day run from Selma ala., to Atlanta. A housing and Urban development Secretary Jack Kemp who will speak at a seminar on poverty tuesday. A Andrew Young former Atlanta mayor and . Ambassador and a former top aide to King who will present a a blueprint for non violence at a learning fair for elementary school children tuesday. A education Secretary Lamar Alexander who will talk wednesday about teaching non violence. A Cable to magnate Ted Turner and children a defense fund president Marian Wright Edelman who will be honoured at a a Salute to greatness dinner saturday. A Winnie Mandela wife of african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela who will be grand marshal for a March Jan. 20. A health and human services Secre Tail Louis Sullivan who will join Winnie Mandela on Jan. 20 in speaking at the King centers 24th annual ecumenical service honouring Kings birthday. A sen. Edward m. Kennedy of Massachusetts rep. John Lewis of Georgia rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts Singer actor Kris Kristofferson and world heavyweight boxing Champion evander Holyfield will be honorary marshals for the March. Sign of hard times Bob Hayes holds up a sign advertising his labor in Exchange for food and baby formula on a Street Corner in Brunswick ca., Friday. His wife Michelle and their two children keep him company nearby. The family moved from West Palm Beach fla., to Brunswick after Hayes heard there were jobs available in the Georgia Community from his former employer. Hayes had been employed by a Ceramic tile company in Florida until december. Women career rappers find time off Job is costly study says san Jose Calif. Apr women who interrupt careers for family reasons including child raising never again make As much Money As female Peers who stay on the Job researchers said Friday. Over time the women career a Gap Persy make up some of the wage differences but even 20 years after returning to the work Force they take Home smaller paychecks than women who never left the researchers found. A part of the problem is that employers think that these women who left Aren t As serious about their jobs a said Joyce Jacobsen co author of the study and an economics professor at Rhodes College in Memphis Tenn. Co author Laurence Levin an economics professor at Santa Clara University who first worked with Jacobsen when they were graduate students at Stanford University said employers think a a rappers Quot Are bad investments. A if you leave the work Force that Sig nals to some employers that a woman might not be As Good a worker a Levin said. A for when a woman who had a baby i. I comes Back to work an employer might think she a got her mind on her baby and her Home life instead of her Job. Besides perceptions the study presented last week to the american economic association conference in new Orleans also cited three reasons Why a Gap Persy done to catch up financially. A women who leave the labor Force lose seniority and thus earning ability. A women who have career interruptions miss on the Job training. A women who stay away from jobs too Long might forget skills. The study scrutinized 2,426 career women interviewed eight times Between 1984 and 1986. Their Ages ranged from 30 to 64. Over a two decade period each had one or two work gaps of at least six months. The average Gap was 7,5 years and 85 percent of the women said they interrupted careers for a family Levin said it appeared that women who took a Shorter break of one year or so lost the same ground As women who stopped working for longer periods. The findings showed the wage Gap was 33 percent during the first year a woman returned to work after a career interruption. That Gap shrunk to 20 percent after three to five years Back on the Job. After 11 to 20 years Back to work the Quot rappers a still made 10 percent less than their Peers. After 20 or More years Back at work the wage Gap was 7 percent. In one research example a woman who entered the work Force at age 21, then quit at age 25 for seven years to have two children made $52,000 less Over the next 10 years compared with Peers who stayed on the Job. Quot its not totally disastrous for a woman to interrupt her career but its going to Cost her a said Levin. Lawyer to get reprimand Trenton . Up the state supreme court on Friday ordered that a lawyer be publicly reprimanded for attempting to prey upon the vulnerability of a Man immediately after his songs death in the bombing of pan am flight 103. Magdy Anis an attorney with offices in Holmdel solicited business from Peter Lowenstein the Day after the remains of his son Alexander were identified As being among the downed flights 270 victims the court said. The Boeing 747 exploded dec. 21, 1988, Over Lockerbie Scotland killing everyone on Board the London to new York flight. The letter a dated Jan. 4, 1989, and signed by Anis a suggested that Lowenstein a Morristown resident sue pan am for negligent Security. In the letter Anis falsely insinuated that he was experienced in pursuing such cases and implied that his fee would be one third less than usual attorney charges the court said. Instead of succumbing to the pitch Lowenstein filed a complaint. Mother Teresa improving eager to return to work la Jolla Calif. Apr Mother Tere says condition has been upgraded from fair to Good As she recovers from pneumonia and she can now walk with assistance. A Mother Teresa has told her doctors that she feels much better and looks Forward to returning to her work Quot sue Pon Drom of Scripps clinic and research foundation said in a statement Friday. The 81-year-old roman Catholic nun who won the Nobel peace prize in 1979 for her Charity work in Calcutta India was moved from the hospitals intensive care unit to a private room wednesday. So takes Short daily walks her doctors said. She became ill while visiting Tijuana Mexico and was hospitalized dec. 26 with bacterial pneumonia. The pneumonia triggered a Brief congestive heart failure. Doctors performed an angioplasty to it Force open her coronary arteries. She also suffered recurring Chest pain and developed an irregular heartbeat which were treated with medication
