Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 4

ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES A4 SUNDAY, AUG. 24, 1997 NATION -l Tiff "ft WITi it M' iVA r4 Fairolofh draws protests Angry D.C. residents fear loss of autonomy Many in the district saw the creation of the control board in 1995 as the beginning of the end of self-governance. Residents have protested the plan since it passed Congress. Earlier this month, about 200 demonstrated in front of the White House, and 13 people were arrested.

"I want the same rights every other American has to be able to vote for a city council, to vote for a mayor and to vote for a school board th.it has power," protester Paul Pleas said Saturday. "We pay $1.6 billion in taxes a year and this (package) is taxation without representation," Pleas city and a state. But the measure has angered city officials, residents and civil-rights groups, who say the package takes away many of their democratic privileges. Mayor Marion Barry said Fair-cloth, who heads the appropriations subcommittee for the city, spearheaded the effort to get the package passed. Protesters say the trip to Fair-cloth's rural home was an effort to get their message to his constituents.

"He will continue to abuse his power and take away my democratic rights," said protester Paul Strauss. "We're trying to tell the people of North Carolina just what kind of man their hometown has sent to my hometown," Strauss said. Washington D.C. was granted home rule in 1973. District residents decried the passage as a final nail in the coffin of self-government.

ljAjsV. Li Tl IE ASSOCIATED I'KliSS CLINTON Washington, D.C, residents march and shout slogans outside N.C. Sen. Lauch Faircloth's home Saturday morning. Eleven buses of protesters were on the scene.

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The North Carolina Republican never showed, however, and the protesters started reboarding the buses to head back to Washington about 5 p.m. On Aug. 5, President Clinton signed into law a federal assistance package for the cash-strapped nation's capital, which was included in the federal budget. Federal officials had long said the legislation was needed to correct the operating structure of the city, which has functioned both as a 2-day-old baby abducted from hospital THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKEWOOD, Wash. A 2-day-old baby boy was abducted from a hospital early Saturday by a woman who walked in wearing a white lab coat and was familiar with procedures.

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The boy's father, John Rembert 43, issued a tearful plea for the infant's return. his mother and myself please take care of him. Treat him he were your own and return him safely to any church, hospital, police department anywhere, so we" can get our baby back," John Rambert 43, said at a news conference. FBI agents and local law enforcement were searching for the baby and the woman, FBI special agent Burdena Pasenelli said. St Clare Hospital spokeswoman Diane Gage said security will be stepped up "beyond what is standard practice in hospitals." After-hours visitors, who must enter the hospital through the emergency room, now will be allowed into other parts of the building only after patients give their permission.

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