European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 14, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5carter Hopes project can save inner City Atlanta apr a sprawling and desolate Public housing project nicknamed Little Vietnam where even children must fight to survive is the Centrepiece of former president Carters Effort to help Urban America Rescue itself. In his Post White House career combating poverty disease and War around the world Carter is now focusing on his Home states capital. He Calls it the Atlanta project and says the $26 million five year commitment financed by donors is also his biggest Challenge. A i am not predicting total Success a Carter said at a news conference discussing the project a but i will not see this fail. A a we la try to prove that somewhere in gods world in a major metropolitan Center the major problems of Humankind May be  just now under Way the Atlanta project will pull together an army of resident volunteers businesses and government agencies to help the City a 20 poorest neighbourhoods fight poverty crime drugs and illness. A it is not the Atlanta projects role to be Santa Claus a Carter said. A it is a True partnership Between us and the homeless person us Ana the teen age Mother us and families in government housing  Carter is personally heading his program in the East Lake Meadows housing project Home to 3,000 people. Here in what is known As Little Vietnam crack users hide in boarded up apartments and children hang on Street Corners with drunks and drug dealers. Here stray bullets killed children in their Beds a 4-year-old Monica Carr in 1990 and 8-year-old Xavier Bennett this year. A subtler enemy is the hopelessness of people crushed by unkept promises from the outside. On this front Carter is apparent winning believers. One is Eva Davis Woods presi ent of the East Lake Meadows tenants association. Woods was fighting City Halls plans to build a High Wood Fence around the streets where she lives As part of the City a makeover for the 1996 olympics. She got nowhere until she dared Carter to help. She told him that if he did no to use his clout to Stop the Fence she would Block his Atlanta project. Two weeks later the City scrapped the Fence idea. A now baby i know he a going to make a great change a said Woods her enthusiasm As Plain As her i Carter a Gimme some sugar sweat shirt. Quot he wants to do what we want to do a that a what i love most about  since Woods signed on others have too a a Church said it will renovate vacant apartments to House working homeless people. Another Church pledged to Start a children a health clinic. A investment banker Lewis Holland head of Central Atlanta Progress a business consortium said businesses will provide Money and jobs. A the Community will Benefit and so will the businesses because  have a better work Force and better Market a Holland said. A Marlene Smith wants to be one of Carters a grannies a successful parents who will counsel pregnant teen agers and other youngsters at risk of dropping out of school using drugs or breaking the Law. To volunteering right now she said. A Lester a 14-year-old who would not give his last name said he Only occasionally shows up for school and always carries a gun. But he said he would apply himself to his studies under Carters plan to enlist employers to Promise entry level jobs for teen agers who finish High school. A i think he can make them give us jobs. That a the Only Way a Lester said. A if he does i m Gonna make sure in a part of  in i i Mahrs. I Hihi h10 years ago april 14,1982 a John Updike a Best Selling novel Rabbit is Rich won the 1982 pulitzer prize for fiction. Art Buchwald won a pulitzer for distinguished commentary for his columns for the los Angeles times syndicate.20 years ago april 14,1972 a the Senate passed a Bill to limit the Power of the president to commit . Armed forces to hostilities without the approval of Congress. The Bill permitted the president without Congress of to commit troops to Battle Only to repel an attack forestall threats or Rescue americans endangered overseas a and then Only for 30 days.30 years ago april 14,1962 a the army Navy air Force journal and Register reported that the United states might reduce its troop strength in Europe below the level maintained before the Berlin crisis in the fall of 1961.40 years ago april 14,1952 a sen. Robert a. Taft of Ohio issued a a cordial invitation Quot to Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower to state definite views on the issues involved in the presidential Campaign. World War 50 years ago today april 141 9 4 2 British troops be Girt destroying Burma a Yean Yaung oilfield installations to deny them to the japanese the British government provisionally accepts the . Quot Bolero Quot plan for the american military buildup in Britain before opening a second front in Europe. The . Destroyer Roper sinks the u-85, the first German submarine killed by an american ship cuts in welfare Don t mean Bush tacitly oks abortions official says Washington up health and human services director Louis h. Sullivan on sunday rejected the notion that White House actions to reduce welfare payments to unwed mothers could be viewed As a tacitly supporting  a in no Way is that the Case a Sullivan said. The Secretary appearing on the Abc news show this week with David Brinkley was commenting on the Bush administrations recent decision to Grant a Federal waiver to Wisconsin so that it can enact its so called a Bride fare initiative. Sullivan was asked about the abortion question by interviewer Cokie Roberts who noted the objections by Milwaukee a archbishop the most Rev. Rembert Weakland. Weakland said he strongly opposed the new welfare rates on moral grounds and suggested they would Lead some women to seek abortions. The three year Wisconsin Pilot project essentially cuts state payments to teenage welfare mothers who remain unmarried and continue to have More children. The Aid for families with dependent children program would Cap benefits after the first child. Currently a woman receives $440 per month for one child $517 per month for two children and $617 per month for three children. Under the Wisconsin plan the funds would hold at $479 per month for any second or Addi Sullivan tonal child. Sullivan said the administration supports the controversial plan because it emphasizes the a responsibility of individuals and Points the Way off welfare. Sullivan though emphasized that Wisconsin welfare recipients would still receive a higher a net results because they presumably would continue working and would be allowed to keep More of the Money they do earn and other benefits would not be harmed. At this Point no other states have requested such a waiver he said though others Are looking into ways to change their welfare systems. He said any More administration approvals of Federal waivers would be based not on one feature of the plan but on its entirety. He also said that the administration has no evidence of Quot welfare migration a the movement of people from Low bin fit states to High Benefit states but that it is studying the question. It was noted that the Aid for families with dependent children program has grown by 21 percent since the Start of the Bush administration in 1989, and that now one in seven american children is in the program. A the welfare system just does no to work in its present form a said Wisconsin gov. Tommy Thompson. Thompson who requested the Federal waiver said half the welfare cases in Wisconsin involve teen age pregnancies. Besides Wisconsin Pennsylvania new Jersey and California arc studying similar a a flexible answers to their welfare loads. Fear grips City after six women slain source 2194 Days of War w h. Smith a publishers inc., world almanac Book of world War la.  books corp1981 by Ian Fisher the new York times East Orange . They could see the yellow Flash of the police lights from the parking lot but worshippers sunday at the Church at the Crossroads did not need another reminder that they were afraid. Only a few Hundred feet away investigators were still combing the desolate shadowed areas of a major Highway and Railroad embankment where the bodies of four women have been found since Friday. The police had not determined sunday whether those deaths were linked or whether they were tied to the slayings of two other women since August in another part of the City. That uncertainty did not Comfort the worshippers at Crossroads a Baptist Church where the congregation offered a special prayer in their Palm sunday service. The prayer was not Only for the victims. They also asked for the capture of the killer or killers before another woman was slain. A today everybody is like in Shock that something like this could happen in East Orange a said Marion Phillips 49, a hos vital administrator As she clutched a gang Palm Leaf after the Church service. A Young ladies i know they just have no fear when they go out. They come Home at late hours. They feel comfortable doing that. But now in a concerned about  investigators released few new details sunday about the killings which have rocked this predominantly Black City of 73,000 just North of Newark. Although their search along a tangle of Highway intersections was mostly for evidence three City workers stood by to Clear Brush in Case yet another body was found amid the shrubs and Small Pines. The Only new development the police reported sunday was the identification of one of the dead women Elizabeth Cle nor 30, who had been missing since feb. 17. Her body was found Friday under a Railroad Bridge near the intersection of route 280 and the Garden state Parkway apparently killed by a blow to the head police said. Her body was found with the body of Stephanie Alston 30. The police released no cause of death for Alston. On Friday the police first discovered the body of Jamillah Jones 16, a High school student at Maple Avenue along the Highway embankment. Jones had been stabbed to death. The police then found the bodies of Alston and Clenor about a Block away. On saturday another woman about 30, was found within 38 feet of the bodies of Alston and Clenor. The woman whose body was badly decomposed has not been identified. What has frightened Many residents in East Orange is the possibility that the killings May be linked not Only to each other but also to two other deaths at an abandoned building on Washington Street roughly half a mile away. On wednesday night the body of an unidentified woman was found in the basement of the building the address where Maria Ferguson 27, was discovered strangled to death on aug. 28. Although three of the women were killed in different ways the similarities Between the deaths Are being investigated by the police. All of the identified women Are from East Orange Range in age from 16 to 30, and Are Black