European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Monday april 18,1994 immigrants found to pull Fop salaries Washington a immigrant professionals Are getting higher paying jobs than native born Ameri cans in hospitals universities and other institutions As asians outdistanced Whites in Many professions Accord ing to a new study. The census based study found More foreign born in Dian doctors than native born Black physicians with striking disparity in median salaries among racial groups. And it found significantly larger proportions of asian and White professionals than either Blacks or hispanics. It suggested a professional Hierarchy of jobs and Sal Aries is emerging in . Institutions with asians push ing toward the top Whites in the Middle and Blacks and hispanics at the Bottom. The report by the Independent Center for immigration studies credited foreign born professionals with providing a double gift to the United states by enriching scientific research and education and by provid ing services for people who would not otherwise get them.  " it also noted that the children of. Foreign born professionals tend to perform Well academically and to be come professionals themselves. The United states May be neglecting the interests of the native born particularly minorities in its in creased Reliance on foreign scientific and technical Tal ent the report said. The report based on 1990 . Census data found that the median annual salary of foreign born professionals is $35,363, compared with $31,008 for those born in the United states. The study covered a wide variety of professions in physical and social sciences health services teaching Legal Fields and artistic in Deavors. A /.,/. Among professionals foreigners earn about $4,000 More a year than people of the same race born in the United states. Native born Blacks have the lowest me Dian salary of any group just Over $26,000.some of the widest disparities were attributed to the fact that immigrants from some countries tended to choose higher paying professions than others. But there also was a pattern of differences in salaries by race within professions with the foreign born earning More than natives. An exception was mexicans immigrant professionals earned less than native born ones. Korean doctors who had a median income of $101,000, were the highest paid of any foreign Bora group Analysed separately by profession the report said. Indian physicians ranked second at $82,205. It said 14,000 foreign born asian professionals earned More than $150,000 a year apiece. The study by demographers Leon f. Bouvier and David Simcox said universities May eventually have to work to recruit motivate and train More native Bora americans. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago april 18,1984 Gen. Mark Clark 87, who in 1944 Jed the Allied Cap Ture of Rome during world War ii died at the University of South Caro Lina medical Center in Charleston 20 years ago april 18,1974 attorney general William b. Saxbe linked Patricia Hearst with eight members Oflahe terrorist sym ionese liberation1 army As common criminals say ing he believes she was not a reluctant participant in a san Francis co Bank robbery. 30 years ago april 18,1964 a confident president Johnson noting that the nation s Economy and defense were both in Good shape came closer than Ever before to confirming that he would run for president. 40 years ago april 18,1954 i vice president Richard Nixon said . Troops might be used in a last ditch Effort to save Indochina a statement promptly challenged by Republican and democratic lawmakers. 50yearsago april 18,1944 Mediterranean air forces took up the major Burden of a North South squeeze on Ger Many attacking their third and fourth Balkan capitals in 48 hours As Britain based b-24s launched Tran Schannel raids. World warm 50 years ago today april 18 19.4.4 tightening Security As the Normandy invasion nears Britain bans coded radio and Telegraph messages outside the country and forbids diplomats to leave. Soviet troops capture Balaklava in Crimea. A British Relief Force opens a Supply line to troops holding off the japanese at Kohima in Eastern India. . Bombers newly based in the admiralty islands bomb japanese forces in the Carolines source 2194 Days of Muoc w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War. Bison books corp., 1981 a More arrests of police Likely new York a the police com missioner said he expects about 35 More officers in a City precinct to be arrested or disciplined in the next few weeks Sun Day s new York times reported. Police commissioner William Bratton said the officers either will be charged with drug violations or disciplined for failing to report the corruption they saw the newspaper said. Twelve officers from the 30th precinct in the City s Harlem Section were charged Friday with a variety of Federal and state crimes including Selling drugs protecting drug dealers and assaulting citizens. Two others were arrested in March. In an interview with the times brat to said that "25 percent of the precinct has problems suggesting that there was pervasive knowledge among the precinct s 191 officers that fellow officers were crooked. Tammy Westhoff of Mobile ala., holds her 2-year-Olddaughter, Lauren As they watch mistakes of the heart can be forgiven the frigate Antrim leave naval station Mobile after a closure ceremony Friday. The an but mistakes of the mind can t be brat trim is the last of four Home ported frigates to leave the facility which will cease opera ton said tons May 3  Boyfriend Shannon Rader is a Seaman aboard the frigate. Full Speed ahead new aim at guns in projects Washington a announcing a new policy to help Public housing Resi dents take Back their Homes without violating the Constitution president Clinton said saturday that tenants will be asked to allow police to conduct sweep searches for guns. Clinton said his administration also will eur courage More weapons risks of suspicious  in his weekly radio address the presi Dent outlined Steps to rid Public housing of firearms despite the ruling of a Federal court in Chicago that searches conducted without Legal warrants violate constitutional protections against unwarranted search and seizure. Clinton frustrated by this setback to get rid of drugs guns and crime in Public housing said he assigned attorney Gen eral Janet Reno and housing and Urban development Secretary Henry Cisneros to devise a constitutional effective Way to protect the residents of America s Public housing  Well put More police in Public hous ing crack Down on illegal gun trafficking and fill vacant apartments where Crimi nals hide out Clinton said. And he said Leisure programs such As Midnight basketball leagues will be mad available to help our Young people say no to gangs and guns and  we will empower residents to build Safe neighbourhoods and Well help to organize tenant patrols to ride the elevators and look after the Public spaces in these High Rise Public housing units he said. In the main thrust of the Effort to Over come constitutional concerns the presi Dent said tenant associations will be asked to put clauses in their leases Al lowing searches when crime conditions make it  world train revival chugs past ., study says Washington a trains Are making a steady comeback around the world with the help of policies that Are promoting them Over More highways cars and airports the world watch Institute says. However the United states is being outpaced by other nations efforts it adds. Global rail revival is propelled by a crisis. A steady worsening of air Quality and traffic congestion the Washington based environmental group said in its new report Back on track release saturday. The report said however that the United states does t fully utilize its 112,800-mile rail network the world s longest. Erfen though railroads carried 37 percent of the nation s intercity freight in1992 a much higher proportion than in Japan or any Western european country except Switzerland they had 80 per cent of that Market in 1925. But trains handled Only four tenths of 1 percent of . Passenger traffic com pared with 56 percent in China 45 per cent in the former soviet Union 41 per cent in India and 31 percent in Japan. Even though . Passenger train travel Rose 50 percent the past decade the nation continues to lag behind other countries in subsidizing it in comparison with other modes of transportation said the report s author Marcia d. Lowe. As a result she said the future is clouded for Amtrak because of deteriorating equipment and inadequate capita funding. . Lawmakers contend that subsidies for rail Are unaffordable but you never hear a congressman asking if we can afford Highway travel Lowe said. If you total the social costs of Acci dents congestion and pollution you find that driving is twice As expensive As flying and seven times As expensive As train travel she said. The Clinton administration is encouragingly supportive of rail Lowe said but the funding in t  americans suffer from a delusion that driving your car is free when in fact the United states subsidizes All forms of transportation she said. Lowe suggested that americans might tolerate further increases in the Federal gasoline tax now 18 cents a gallon if they knew it was going for no Highway pro Grams including upgrading rail corridors