European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday january 28,1893 Blacks urge to Washington a president Clinton must Back up Nis promises to Black americans with billions of dollars in economic help for inner cities and strict enforcement of civil rights Laws a group said tuesday. But Black people must do their part to rebuild their communities and the Power base that slipped away As Federal social programs were dismantled in the last 12 years the Urban league said. The assertions were made in the group s 18th annual report on the state of Black America the report cited Steep increases in Black unemployment at More than 14 percent in the third Quarter of 1992, and warned of economic devastation for Black americans As jobs Are Cut in Auto manufacturing the military and service industries. Expectations for Clinton Are High said Urban league president John e. Jacob. Quot Black America in 1992 turned a hopeful expectant face to the future even As the terrible conditions of the present led to despair and rebellion a Jacob said. A it is still remarkable How much Hope has been sparked by the Clinton  eighty two percent of Black voters cast expectations for Clinton the Urban league has these suggestions for president Clinton  passing a Domestic Quot Marshall plan Quot a 10-year Federal investment in education Job training transportation water supplies waste treatment and telecommunications technology. Bolstering enforcement of existing civil rights Laws. A eliminating Caps on damages for employment discrimination. Ensuring that All Black children earn calculus a foreign language essay writing and ethical behaviour before they graduate. Providing direct Federal Aid to inner City schools hospitals and Law enforcement agencies. A enacting waiting periods on handgun purchases. Building and renovating Public housing. Setting up Community based Banks. Providing Federal funds to test children for Lead poisoning. Sas their ballots for Clinton and addressing their needs is his Way of paying that political debt Jacob said. Quot we believe that we have some cause on holding him to his word that he will create jobs and he will use government As a problem solving mechanism for the african american Community Jacob said. Quot that plus what we should do ourselves. Should begin to make some of these problems go  the league repeated its Call for Pas Sage of its Domestic a Marshall plan a a 10-year Federal investment in education Job training transportation water supplies waste treatment and telecommunications technology. Jacob said the plan closely tracks Clinton s economic initiatives. But it would Cost an estimated $50 billion a year a nearly two thirds of the $80 billion that Clinton has proposed spending Over four years for economic programs. Quot we talk about More Money because we believe the problem is greater than the administration has identified a Jacob said. Quot we have looked at it against the Clinton economic plan. What we will attempt to do is help the Clinton administration understand the common ground will Marshall a scholar at the progressive policy Institute who advised Clinton on Urban policy said the president was looking into innovative ways of revitalizing Urban areas rather than just pumping Federal Money into the cities. A the never embraced anything like $50 billion a year for Urban America a Marshall said. Quot there has been a lot of talk about ways to empower. Ways to help Urban residents into the mainstream Economy Quot u . Residents Brace for next beating trial los Angeles a police want to buy More riot gear the mayor plans to Send peacemakers door to door and peo pie in the South Central Section of the City Are warning of trouble As the Federal trial of four current and former police officers in the Rodney g. King beating draws near. Uty mayor very tense. We re preparing for the worst but hoping for the  jury selection is to begin wednesday in the civil rights trial of four Whites who were captured on videotape while beating King a Black Motorist after a car Chase in 1991. The four were acquitted of most charges in state court in april touching off three Days of riots in mostly Black South Central los Angeles. The violence left 53 people dead and 10,000 businesses destroyed. Damage was put at $1 billion. The riots produced another videotaped beating and another trial with explosive implications news helicopters captured the eating of Reginald Denny a White truck Driver who was dragged from his Rig by a mob in the opening moments of the riots. Four Black men have been charged in the attack. The trial of three of them starts March 15 and could overlap the King Case. Quot there is great fear about the outcome of these trials a Fabiani said Quot people in the african american Community Are fearful that Justice May again be denied especially in the  mayor Tom Bradley is organizing a Quot neighbor to neighbors program in which hundreds of volunteers will visit housing projects schools and shopping centers to urge Calm during the trials. Volunteers Are being recruited. The police commission at the request of police chief Willie l. Williams voted last week to ask the City Council for $1 million to spend on riot equipment including rubber bullets tear Gas bombs and police vans. The request is pending Williams a soft spoken Black succeeded Daryl f. Gates who was forced out Over the King controversy. This week people near the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues a where Denny was attacked a said there could be More violence. Quot people Are saying they want Justice. If there s no Justice this time there wont be no peace said Lee Haylock standing in his employer s Auto parts store. At Art s Chili dogs a worker who would not allow his name to be used predicted More violence. Quot you have to understand this is the ghetto Down Here it s the ghetto mentality a he said. Quot you got a lot of people who done to care about the cops. They Don t care  Quot the conditions in the Community Are not much different than they were prior to april 29/ said de Turley director of Field operations for Community youth gang services a Community group dedicated to ending gang violence. Child neglect hearing delayed Shakori 5ch0� enter court in Geneva iii., to face accusations that Judaea a 4 a Quot be alone and went on vacation for nine Days. Jjl88�1#8rc�,d tuesday to extend a scheduled hearing Date when the schoos attorneys said they were unprepared to argue motions in the child neglect  ratio shows when fat spells risk women told Chicago apr a you bulge battlers abandon your Devotion to height and weight charts. If you really want to know How risky it is to carry extra pounds compare the circumference of your Waist to that of your hips a study suggests. Waist hip ratios were better signs to predict five year survival among 41,837 Iowa women Ages 50 to 69 than a commonly used height weight calculation the authors say. They found the bigger the Waist in comparison with the hips the higher the risk of death regardless of the weight of the individuals who ranged from about 10 percent underweight to about 40 percent overweight. The authors cautioned that their data  be used to discount the harm of being fat and said height weight ratios remain an important predictor of disease. Quot we recommend that Waist hip ratios be measured along with weight and height As part of routine surveillance and monitoring of risk status in medical practice a the researchers said in wednesdays journal of the american medical association. A people often ask me what the Waist hip ratio values should be Quot said the Lead author or. Aaron r. Folsom an associate professor at the University of Minnesota school of Public health in Minneapolis. A for women it should be less than 0.8 a the Waist should be less than 80 percent of the hips a he said t Telephone tuesday. For men it should be less than 0,9 based on previous studies he said. In the women a study researchers found that a 0. I increase in Waist hip ratio a for example a 6-Inch if crease in Waist size for a woman with 40-Inch hips increased the risk of death by 60 percent. While the team found a steady Rise in death Ris along with Waist hip ratio a Standard height Weigl ratio called body mass Index Quot had almost no relation ship to risk of death a Folsom said in fact the thinnest people who had higher Wais hip ratios had the highest risk of death a he said