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The Red and Black • Tuesday, April 3, 1990 • 6
Gubernatorial candidates get big money as
ethics debate continues in legislature
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Gubernatorial candidates in the Leg
islature managed to find a few deep-pocket contribu
tors last month during the General Assembly’s debate
on limiting political contributions.
Several scored $10,000 contributions during the
first nine days of the month, according to disclosure
statements on file Monday in the Secretary of State’s
office.
The statements were required under a provision of
Georgia’s campaign financing disclosure law re
quiring legislators to file monthly reports of political
contributions they receive while the Legislature is in
session.
The reports cover contributions the candidates re
ceived through March 9, when the Legislature ad
journed after passing a new ethics law limiting
contributions to statewide candidates and members of
the Legislature to $3,500 per election sequence, or a
total of $10,500 for a candidate involved in a primary,
primary runoff and general election campaign.
The measure takes effect upon the governor’s sig
nature, although because it is a change affecting elec
tion law, it must be approved by the U.S. Department
of Justice before it can be enforced.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris has said he will sign the
measure this Wednesday.
Among Democrats filing disclosure reports, Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller reported raising $16,564 in cash during the
first nine days of the month, including a $10,000 con
tribution from Fieldale Farms Corp., a poultry com
pany in Cornelia.
That brought Miller’s total collections to
$2,497,584.
State Sen. Roy Barnes of Mableton said he raised
$8,421 during the period, boosting his total collections
to $1,332,887.
Rep. Lauren “Bubba” McDonald of Commerce re
ported raising $17,760 during the first nine days of
the month, pushing his total collections to $711,536.
On the Republican side, Rep. Johnny Isakson of
Marietta picked up $43,337 during the period,
boosting his total collections to $641,989. Isakson’s
receipts included a contribution of $10,000 from his
mother, Julia.
Barnes, McDonald and Isakson have said they will
comply with the contribution limits.
Bush vows to continue Cuban broadcasts
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — President Bush,
saying “the voice of freedom will
not be stilled,” told broadcasters
Monday that the government’s TV
Marti will keep transmitting into
Cuba despite concerns that Fidel
Castro may widen his jamming of
U.S. radio stations.
Bush waded into a sensitive area
in his address to the National As
sociation of Broadcasters, which is-
concerned about Cuban retaliation
against TV Marti.
After testing of the television
station began last Tuesday, Castro
jammed the signals of AM radio
stations in the region. Within
Cuba, Castro jammed TV Marti’s
signal with varying success.
Bush implored broadcasters to
continue supporting TV Marti in
the name of freedom. “You rep
resent the very principle TV Marti
exists to serve — the free flow of
ideas,” Bush said.
‘The voice of freedom will not be
stilled as long as there is an
America to tell the truth,” Bush
told the audience to subdued ap
plause.
Broadcasters, however, were
skeptical of the president’s appeal.
Edward O. Fritts, president of
the broadcasters’ organization,
said, “It’s Castro’s threat of jam
ming AM stations that worries us.”
He said that while U.S. AM
radio stations are limited to 50,000
watts, “Castro has the ability to go
to 1 million watts.” With such high-
powered transmitters, he said, the
Cubans could theoretically jam
radio stations nationwide.
He also said that the TV Marti
signal, emanating from a balloon
ofTSouth Florida, was causing tele
vision interference to Florida sta
tions from Miami to Jacksonville.
FELLOWS
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of my years at the University and reer enhanced because of those
feel that I have personally bene- years in Athens.”
Criminals must pay for crimes, in cash
The Associated Press
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Federal
judges across the country in
creasingly are ordering criminals
not only to pay the time for their
crime but to pay the cost of their
prison stay.
From Jan. 19, 1989, through
the end of October, federal judges
ordered 254 defendants to pay a
monthy fee during their prison
sentence, according to the U.S.
Sentencing Commission in Wash
ington, D.C.
“We see this as merely an equi
table and common sense thing to
do,” said Judge William Wilkins
Jr. of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in Richmond, Va.,
chairman of the seven-member
commission.
“If you have the wherewithal
to reimburse taxpayers for the
coat of your imprisonment, which
you caused through the commis
sion of a criminal act, then you
ought to have to pay," Wilkins
said.
But judges must use discretion
in deciding which convicts will
pay for their prison stay. Only
those who can afford the monthly
payment of $1,210.05, plus
$91.66 a month during probation,
can be ordered to pay.
Those fees cannot be imposed
if they would leave the de
fendant’s family destitute.
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rectly improves the value of a stu
dent’s diploma, whether one
graduates from the business school
or not. He said this action, along
with other events such as grants,
endowments and victories in aca
demic events, improves the image
of the University.
Such endowments are necessary
to move the University into the
realm of the best public institu
tions in the country, he said.
University President Charles
Knapp, in a statement released
Tuesday, said, ‘This is a remark
able testament to the Terrys’ devo
tion to, and confidence in, the
University of Georgia. We are su
premely grateful for their genero
sity."
Herman Terry, quoted in the re
lease, said,“Mary Virginia and I
are proud and honored that we are
able to do something to benefit the
University of Georgia.
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