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Aiken County risk
management program at
Aiken Technical College
What if hazardous chemicals
were to be accidentally re
leased into the environment?
What would be done to protect
your community? Your fam
ily? Aiken County's Local
Emergency Planning Commit
tee and Aiken Technical Col
lege will sponsor a Risk Man
agement Program from 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. on September 24 in
the College Gymnasium. Find
out what local companies (UCB
Chemicals Corp., Air Products
and Chemical Incorporated,
and Halocarbon Products Cor-
Clinton
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opinion of Clinton has more to do
with the president’s Africa policy
than whether Clinton perjured
himself or obstructed justice.
“Can you imagine President
Reagan visiting Africa?” the 25-
year-old from Uganda said with a
chuckle.
Down the street, law clerk Cicely
Bricoe, who also is black, views the
Clinton affair through a prism of
forgiveness. “He made a mistake,
but who am Ito judge him?” she
says.
While America’s 34 million
blacks are by no means a monolith
in thought or deed, surveys and
interviews show that black
America’s support for Clinton re
mains strong.
A New York Times/CBS News
poll conducted after the release
last week of Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr’s report last week
indicated that 77 percent of blacks
believed the president shared the
moral values of most Americans,
compared with 63 percent of whites.
The poll also said 81 percent of
blacks blamed Clinton’s political
enemies for the current situation,
?mparedwitlxfipercentofwhites.
' Clinton’s support among black
thembers of Congress also remains
strong, reflected in the vote of black
legislators on whether to make
Starr’s report public. Of the 35
members of the Congressional
Black Caucus voting, 29 opposed
releasing the report. Thedocument
wasreleased by a 363-63 vote over
all.
“This president will not be rail
roaded if the Congressional Black
Caucus has anything todo withit,”
caucus Chairwoman Maxine Wa
ters, D-Calif., said in an interview.
“That’s his personal life,” said
Nicole Alaya, 23, a secretary at the
World Bank who shared a burrito
lunch with co-worker Tricia Fields.
“Im not happy if he lied under
oath, but you have to look at the
whole picture. And overall, he’s
been pretty good.”
“Clinton didn’t offend the coun
try,” Fields said. “He offended his
wife and family and they should be
the ones to deal with him. I'm not
saying what he did is OK, but it
isn’t an impeachable offense.”
Gregory Holland, who manages
a law firm, disagreed. He said
Clinton is getting “a free ride” from
blacks who are too forgiving of his
flaws.
“It was the same thing with
Kennedy. We all knew he was run
ning around with other womenbut
we still treated him like a saint,”
Holland said. “I don’t know if we're
more tolerant of infidelity, but it
burns me up we are so forgiving all
the time.”
* Part of Clinton’s attraction for
blacks may stem from their dissat
isfaction with his predecessors.
Television and radio personality
Tavis Smiley said that after the
Reagan-Bush years, Clinton was a
refreshing change for black Ameri
cans.
“Black people support the presi
dentbecause, by and large, he sup
ports us,” said Smiley, host of his
own talk show on BET and a com
mentator on radio’s “Tom Joyner
Morning Show,” the country’smost
populdr urban radio program with
7 million listeners.
. “He’s not perfect on all the issues
but it's no comparison to the tor
ture of the Reagan-Bush years,”
Smiley said. “We don’t ever want
to repeat that again.”
poration) are doing to keep you
and your community safe as
they explain “worst-case” sce
narios for dealing with haz
ardous materials accidents as
dictated by the Federal Clean
Air Act. Representatives from
the EPA and SRS will also be
on hand to demonstrate their
response in the event of “worst
case” scenarios. This event is
free and the public is encour
aged to attend.
For more information, call
Don Durivage at (803)442-
7826.
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