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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Oglethorpe dining hall closed today. Oglethorpe Dining
H21 will be closed today becauae the dty ie abutting the water on in
the area to make repair! to a nearby fire hydrant, laid Donald Smith,
Food Service! personnel coordinator Bolton and Snelling dining halle
will be open aa usual, and Oglethorpe will reopen Saturday. City
official* couldn't be reached for comment.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP):200 officers to stop drug violence.
Atlanta police are deploying about 200 officers to patrol dty housing
projects in a 60-day experiment designed to discourage drug sales and
drug-related violence that claimed 34 lives last year However some
residents think the move is designed more to quiet resident
-onplaints. Public Safety' Commissioner George Napper said Mayor
Maynard H Jackson ordered him last week to send officers to the
projects 'to deal with both the fear of crime and the reality of crime
itself." Police officials said the officer! will be drawn mostly from
special squads and desk job* so the department won’t cut into the
number* of regular officers on patrol.
ATLANTA (AP): Young's campaign returns donations .
Official? :r former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young’s gubernatorial
campaign said they will return donations from the Atlanta
Convention ar.d Visiters Bureau and Greyhound Bus Lines. Neil
Hortor. Young's campaign communications director, said attorneys
decided a $2,500 donation from Greyhound was illegal, since the bus
company is regulated by the state Public Service Commission and
qualffi e« a# a public utility. State law prohibits utilities from making
campaign -tnbution*. Although the $1,000 donation from the tax-
supp met c sermon bureau appeared to be legal, it will also be
returnee. Horton said. The contributions were made at a tribute
dinner fir Young when he was still mayor. The dinner was non-
p ■ but proceeds went to a campaign committee, Young Working
f r Georgia Officials for both the convention bureau ar.d Greyhound
said they c.d not know the money was going to Youngs campaign.
ATHENS. Ga^ (AP): Births to unwed mothers climbs. A
sociologist said Thursday that an increase in births to unwed mothers
in Georgia Is an alarming trend that will contribute to poverty,
ignorance ar.d a host of other social problems. "I think it results from
more general permissiveness in American society and a changing of
moral values," said Doug Bachtel, a rural sociologist with the
University of Georgia Extension Service. Georgia had 31,378 births to
unwed women in 1988, according to a recent report from the state
Department of Human Resources. The report said 8,237 of the births
were to white women and 23,012 were to black women. In 1988, the
last year for which statistics are available, 12.3 percent of all white
women giving birth were unwed and 61.9 percent of all black women
who had babies were unwed, Bachtel said.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP): Abortion law blocked . A federal
judge today blocked sections of Pennsylvania’s new abortion law from
taking effect Tuesday. The law contains the toughest abortion
restrictions in the nation. U.S. District Judge Daniel H. Huyett III
issued an injunction against requirements that women notify their
husbands and wait 24 hours before an abortion. The judge left intact
sections banning abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy and
abortions to select the sex of the child, said Robert Gentzel,
spokesman for state Attorney General Ernie Preate Jr. The American
Civil Liberties Union, the Women’s Law Project and Planned
Parenthood said the order was a victory in their first round against
the new law. In passing the law last fail, Pennsylvania became the
first state to take advantage of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in July
allowing states to put more curbs on abortion.
WASHINGTON (AP): U.S. withholds funds. The United
States has sharply reduced its annual contribution to a U.N. food
agency that supported the Palestine Liberation Organization, and
suggested it might pull out of the agency altogether, sources said
Wednesday. The State Department last week informed the United
Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization that it would only pay
$18 million of the $614 million it owes for 1989, a source said. U.S.
contributions constitute 25 percent of the agency’s budget. “This is
just enough to retain our voting nght in the FAO," said the source,
who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We plan to reassess our
participation in the FAO altogether during 1990," the source added.
U.S. ire was sparked by the agency’s governing council, which voted
overwhelmingly last November to help the PLO teach Palestinians
how to grow food in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
NEW YORK (AP): Bernini bust unsold. A white marble bust
by Gianlorenzo Bernini went unsold at auction Wednesday when bids
failed to reach the sellers’ minimum price. Bidding at Christie’s
auction house reached $6 million for the 32*i-inch bust of Pope
Gregory XV. But the sculpture, made in 1621, had been expected to
sell for more than $7 million, and it was withdrawn. Bernini, one of
the greatest sculptors of the baroque age, was 23 when he made the
bust, the year of the pope’s election. It portrays a bareheaded Gregory
wearing a cape embroidered with images of St. Peter and St. Paul. Art
consigned for auction can be withdrawn if it fails to reach the
confidential “reserve price," established in advance. Bidding for the
Bernini started at $3 million in a packed auction room.
■ WORLD
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP): Zhivkov likely to face charges.
Ousted Communist leader Todor Zhivkov is likely to face charges of
abuse of power, fraud and violating human rights, a member of a
parliamentary commission said Thursday. The inquiry might stop
short, however, of unearthing irregularities by Communists still in
power, said Petar Beron, a commission member and pro-democracy
activist. He said the commission was also looking into “the drainage
of public money" by Zhivkov, the hard-liner who ruled Bulgaria for 35
years until his ouster Nov. 10. Beron said Zhivkov had siphoned
millions from state-run foundations promoting arts and education, to
help build more than 30 villas and luxurious residences around the
country.
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP): Castillo leaves Vatican.
The former director of immigration under Manuel Ar.tonio Noriega,
charged with selling passports and visas, left the Vatican Embassy on
Wednesday and gave up to U.S. troops, an embassy official said.
Former director Belgica de Castillo and her husband, Carlos Castillo,
left the nunciature of their own accord, said the Rev. Joseph Spiteri.
Still inside is Capt. Eliezer Gaytan, chief of Noriega’s personal
security force. The Castillos sought refuge shortly after U.S. troops
invaded on Dec. 20 Deposed dictator Noriega himself holed up in the
embassy from Dec. 24 to Jan. 3 before turning himself over to U.S.
soldiers. Spiteri said a U.S. military vehicle picked up the Castillos
and took tnem to a U.S. base. Panama’s new government said
Monday that eight former immigration officials, including Mrs.
Castillo, were being charged with corruption for selling visas and
passports.
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Misra advises rise in food production
to match population increases in India
By USA GILMORE
Contributing writer
Although rural areas in India
have advanced in the last 40 years,
they have a long road to travel be
fore it can be considered modern
ized, said Baidyanath Misra,
deputy chairman of the State Plan
ning Board in Orissa, India.
Misra, who is internationally
recognized and has published 17
books, made his remarks in t lec
ture entitled “Rural Development:
The Indian Experience,”
Wednesday afternoon at the Tate
Center
Misra, also the director for the
Center for Development Studies in
Onssa, said although agricultural
production has increased due to
the new technology, it did not im
prove the economic condition of the
rural people.
Since gaining independence in
1947, India has introduced a
number of developmental pro
grams through five year plans that
function to increase national in
come and improve the economic
well-being of tne poor.
The programs were expected to
change the rural scene by diverting
rural people from agriculture to
other occupations and to reduce
the pressure of population in agri
culture, Misra said.
But there was no spectacular
change in the rural economy, even
though the economy aa a whole
made some progress, he said.
Together with new agricultural
technology, anti-poverty programs
were developed.
The anti-poverty programs are
now superior in terms of their tech
nical content, better quality data
and sophisticated methods, he
said.
Food production has more than
tripled — from about 50 million
metric tons between 1950 and 1952
to 170 million metric tons between
1988 and 1989
In addition, Misra said rural
poverty has been reduced from
54.1 percent between 1972 and
1973 to 39.9 percent between 1984
and 1985
There have also been im
provements in sanitation, health
care, drinking water supply, elec
trification of rural villages, rural
roads and primary education, he
said.
“We have started from scratch
and made some progress in each
field," Misra said.
Howsver, problems still exist
The investment in agriculture and
irrigation has increased the pro
ductivity of land, but not labor pro
ductivity.
In 1960, 73 percent of the pop
ulation worked in agriculture In
1980, the number has decreased
only three percent, Misra said.
To make matters worse, sgricul-
ture now contributes only about
one-third of India’s iota! national
income.
"When 70 percent of working
people depend on agriculture and
the latter contributes only about
one-third of national income, there
cannot be any improvement in the
level of income of rural people,"
Misra said
Misra pointed to some future di
rections that India is now begin
ning to emphasize
The country is increasing its
minor rather than major irrigation
facilities because it’s easier to con
trol.
India is looking to improve cap
ital formation and increase em
ployment opportunities for the
rural poor by investing heavily in
rural development This includes
electr.ficanon, roads, communica
tion, soil conservation and social
File
Baidyanath Misra
forestry.
India is also trying to upgrade
its rural industries and divert sur
plus people from agriculture to
non-farm occupations in order to
increase the income level of rural
people.
The lecture was sponsored by
the Agricultrual Economics De
partment, the Office of Interna
tional Development and Center for
Asian Studies.
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