r If Iff A COPLEY LOS ANGELES NEWSPAPER Women In Waiting MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES THREATENS MEXICAN WAY OF LIFE LIFE ARTS D1 100 January 30 1994 Torrance California 100th yearNumber 30 1994 The Copley Pret Inc Cosby Capers COS MAKES MYSTERIOUS RETURN WITH NBC FILMS TV MAGAZINE Clintons workfare may lack for jobs Plan may not create enough work to go around By Jasoa DePari THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON - President Clintons pledge to make welfare recipients work could require a much larger public jobs program than previously acknowledged according to a confidential paper that is the subject of sharp dispute inside the administration A preliminary estimate prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services suggests that as many as 23 million people could be subject to the work requirements when the program is fully implemented To put them all to work would require three to four times the number of jobs the administration appears willing to create No one is contemplating a program that large and expensive and several administration officials dismissed the computer projection as a preliminary one that greatly exaggerates the problem One administration official giving what he called the first reliable estimates of the work program said the government would ultimately need to create between 500000 and a million jobs an undertaking that is itself virtually unparalleled in the last half-century But other welfare analysts inside and outside the government have called the estimate of 23 million a useful benchmark that illustrates the difficulty President Clinton faces as he struggles to fulfill one of his most popular campaign pledges Clinton pledged last week to send Congress a bill this spring that would offer training opportunities for welfare recipient? and require those still on the rolls after two years to join a work program The government would either subsidize privau jobs or provide community ser vice positions in the public sec tor The jobs would probable pay the minimum wage Clinton is under considers1) c pressure to proceed with hi welfare program even thougf many in the administration fear the move will bring a fractious congressional fight and may stall the debate over universal health care The paper suggesting the need f or 2 million jobs has not nrtulated among most of the 32 trerrlrtTs of the working group charged with drafting Clintons plan It was discussed at a tm-eting at the Department of Health and Human Services or Ian 14 a:d disclosed by an of- W0RKFARE A5 Why was freeway allowed to fail? By Jroes P SwMMy COKEY SEWS SERVICE SACRAMENTO - Since the Northridge earthquake brought down the Santa Monica Freeway atate transportation officials have been hounded by the question: Why was the nations busiest freeway allowed to fall? Six years into a seismic strengthening program that would have saved it the Santa Monica only recently had w orked its way to the top of the priority list More than 250 other structures had been reinforced before it Caltrans defense is rooted m a complex mathematical rating system sn algorithm that placed the only human factor known as traffic exposure" in the middle of a dozen weighted considerations But the answer is not as simple as an algorithm It's tangled m a web of competing funding priorities the time needed to research emerging retrofit technologies and the complications inherent in any major work on a congested urban artery It was just a matter of time and getting the right fix developed aaid James Roberts Caltrans chief engineer But some say Caltrans took too long given the known danger and the number of lives that could have been lost on the Santa Monica had the earthquake struck during rush hour instead of at 431 am "We know that they almost got to it" said Sen Tom Hayden a Santa Monica Democrat whose district is heavily dependent on the freeway "So it really (a question of) could they have expedited the process and obviously they could have FAILBACK PAGE Peter Marlow above and left was spending four hours m traffic one way between Castaic and Northrop Corp in Century City He bought a motorcycle and cut his road time by more than half Drivers seek creative wavs to commute their sentence By Anae C Mulkeni STATE WRtUR In normal times the drive to the South Bay from the Santa Clarita or Antelope valleys would take about an hour These however are not normal times These are times that call for creativity With the earthquake smashing the main routes into the Los Angeles basin getting to and from work has become a test of the imagination for employees of South Bay companiea who typically rely on Interstate 5 and the Antelope Valley Freeway Castaic resident Feter Marlow for example gave up after three days and bought a motorcycle Lancaster resident Michael Polda nes at 2 a m to beat the traffic Mike Terry stays in Torrance when he works and goes home on weekends to his home in Santa Clania Bob Anderson a commuter from Valencia decided there is only one alternative move to the South Bav or face a commute ranging from four to six hours The workers say it is a cruel twist of fate The quality they cherished most about their hometowns insulation from big city traffic crime and congestion now is wreaking havoc in their lives They are more insulated than they ever imagined COMMUTE BACK PAGE Aftershock jars nerves buildings Many irlx) had gone xjnic jlce to tent city By Lori Dodge Rose Th The sronget aftershock in 10 davs jailed Southern California before dawn Saur day disabling more freeways farther dam aging teetering structures and clearing out home of the rewlv brave The 3 a in u't measured 'i nr tie Richter svae and rurrtaed through ton on the fir-t right some families had finallv summoned the courage to leave temporary shelter and return to their damaged apartments The-e were no report of injure Ite Sat rdiv the I" S Department ' f Agriculture announced there had been about 10 arre-t? m a f?d stamp f'aud sting at a South-Central Los Argele chec k-c fishing company The arrests were for allegedlv rsffickirg in illicit stamp intended t r earthquake victm "Were still counting the stamps and we re still counting the cah" ad Dave I)ickn regional inspector genera! ! the I S Department ot Agriculture He md about people were ir cisto dv but dev lined to !e specific The agenev earlier said it was suspend rg its earthquake emergency fesai stamp pr gram for one dav today to implement anti fraud flan The Si ttom line is e have some jhi pie who are taking advantage of the system a system designed to help hungrv men wort' en and children the LSDA Bill Ludwg uud Fraud and abue of this emerging program will not Is tolerated" Otfictai on Fndav implemented a new three dvv waiting period to deter tra id The pr-gam ha distributed $11 h mi imr m fvsd vouiher to date to 751M apph cants Rosa Anna M rejia US and her ter Isabel Benitez 31 their husbands aro AFTERSHOCK BACK PAGE ls Angeles s are aacKmg daw d sPooevd mdevds n wae of quae A3 Japan lawmakers pass watered-down reforms By Laura Kins the associated press TOKYO Parliament approved watershed measure Saturday to tem political corruption saving Prime Minister Morihiro Hoaokawas job and enabling him to shift focus to Japans No 1 problem the faltering economy The political reforms were considerably weaker than those originally envisioned by Hoso-kawa who had said he would uit if they were not passed uring the legislative session that ended Saturday But amid widespread sentiment that a watered-down package was better than none Hosokawa expressed satisfaction with the result We have climbed one big mountain a mountain that we had to overcome and it was hard" Hoaokawa told reporters after the vote He pledged that his six-month-old government would immediately turn its attention to the economy which has been somewhat neglected in the push for reform The reforms werent secured until late Friday when Hosokawa agreed to a compromise with the opposition Liberal Demo-crata JAPANA7 I inside today Gender war polarized Eriks jury women say By Linda Deutsch THE ASSOOATIO Ptss A war between men and women on Erik Menendezs jury-doomed the chances for a verdict a group of w-omen jurors said Saturday suggesting that homophobia and sexism were ugly intrusions in deliberations "It was hostile in there" said juror Tracy Miller 27 a bookstore clerk There were insults sexual comments They tried to outshout us" We were called ignorant asses and empty-headed and those women' said a 36 year-old secretary who asked to be identified as Alice not her real name We had one juror who would put on his sunglass-GENDER A7 Erik Msnendtzs lawyer Leslie Abramson standing hosts a meeting Saturday with jurors from left: Betty Burke (an alternate) Hacel Thornton and Tracy Mi'er 3 i i I 1 I I I I ! ggssaassgggggatas I A i '! -w-
