Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 9

rfmTTm-ri rr iTy'f rrr Monday May 8 1986 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE A-9 Yelisin war ytihr Lottick said in a telephone interview She said the episode Is much less known dun Pennsylvania's Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 which was regarded as the first serious test of the federal government's ability to enforce its laws "When I hear about (Yeltsin's example) 1 think of die differences not the similarities" with the Chechnya war she said Lottick said the uprising stemmed from a over whether the Wyoming area was part of Connects icut or Pennsylvania had claimed the area even though it wasn't contiguous with the rest of After the Continental Congress swarded Penruyt vania Jurisdiction speculation tried to move off thi mall fanners who held Connecticut tides she said The farmers resisted and tried to form a new atate The sheriff of a neighboring county raised a force to put down the rebellion Pennsylvania militiamen also Joined in "Very few people died" Lottick said in contrast to Chechnya where thousands have been killed since the Russians marched far In December Nor did the forces drive out the rebels she sakL Instead fanners were allowed to keep their land even when ft became part of Pennsylvania Oat challenge with orders to a unit of the to get prepared to march he said ourselves in a similar situation under differed circumstances in different may have thought most Americana would be paraDeL But even in the looming Valley occupies a dusty corner of history of the Vfyoming Historical and Geological in Wilkes-Barre Pa needed a few hours of find a mention of the uprising in her reference She referred further questions to a local Salfy Lottick say that Fm really surprised he chose that A880CWIB) PRESS NEW YORK Boris Yeltsin's attempt to teach Americans a history leaaon left his pupila with their brows furrowed in puzzlement In an interview in the current issue of Time magazine Yeltsin asked why it was neceaauy for Russia to launch war on the separatist republic of Chechnya He responded by drawing a parallel with American history "You might recall that in 1787 the population of the Wyoming Valley sought to secede than Pennsylvania and form its own state The governor of Pennsylvania Station: New facility beautiful answered militia "We found Yeltsin struck by the the uprising Ruth Bevan Society research to books historian "I must Russia: Critics link aid to nuclear deal TsansSl i Jack London Square wlbMoms a transportation cafltsr 1 1011511 VIUU whanthoCiDslumsAnmgkstationopsnsMay2Z 1 BUS taka bus 72 from 2nd and Alics Streets to 14th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland tha AC Transit transfer center 2 BART: Talce bus 72 to the Oakland City Csntsr12th Street station or walk sight blocks to the Lake Memtt station A 3 FERRY: Walk seven blocks to ferry dock 4 CAR: Short and long-term parking available Taka Oak Street to 1-880 Vi Continued fromA-1 Continued from A-1 ridor trains Passengers will have to travel to -Emeryville however to board trains for tiie San Joaquin Valley Is lobbying to run 56 of trains week from Oakland Southern Pacific Railroad is je-elsting because of concerns about efficiency and safety Trains that originate ini Oakland as some Cartel trains must' backtrack from the Oakland maintenance yanLWhUe Capitol are equipped with capability that gives engineers at both ends of the train the Joaquins are not and would to be backed into Jack London from the Oakland maintenance yard The maneuver lacks control and too much -time said Mike Ongerth Southern Pacific Because the traces parallel travel the Embarcadero a' street with heavy pedestrian Amtrak sell tickets especially since other modes of transport BART bus and ferry Are close by "Absolutely That station is Justs beautiful example of an efficient modem intermodal facility got to remember that trips begin and end in the station We Just be more Oakland architect Eh de- sign is a soaring $16 million station and pedestrian bridge that acts as gateway to Jack London Square Inside the Curved-steel structure 'a 40-foot buttressed ceiling is reink ntocent of PaddingtonSta-tionTwo long refinished oakpews transplants from the 19th Street station that was damaged In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake join modem seating in the waitingarea AV- Behind the ticket counter are offices and cargo-loading space All etty bound Amtrak these but iiuch trains control Sen have Square takes' utive and CflMGCUFmSS-Stlff White Hous -chief of staff Leon Panetta ap pearing on "Late Edition arid "We cannot in any way tel) ante the sale of technology tha would give bad a nuclear capacity A Addressing the pro-Israeli grourf before CUnton Israeli Prime Mm ister Yitzhak Raten commended CUnton for severing economic tie with Iran He sakl lfiddle EasC peace is threatened by Islamic radical'' groups whom are asstote themf! 1 Rabin asked name to CUnton to slated to Join more1 than 50 world leaders in Moscow on Tuesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ADies' victory over Nazi Germany On Wednesday-he plans to meet with Yeltsin at tiie Kremlin The White House hopes to keep expectations Lw because of differ-i ences over tiie pending nuclear sale the bloody war in Chechnya and Yeltsin's opposition to east ward expansion Gingrich and Dole' said the nu-' dev sale ought be CUntoa's top summit priority' even at the ex penseqfiqwettingYeltetn' i-' v' president may need to -worry as much about the American side of tills equation as the Russian side" said Gingrich of Georgia If the president to not tough enough of Congress arw going to say Tour Job wasn't to gti to Russia to make Ydtein happy -your Job was to to Russia to stop Iran from getting nuclear Gingrich said Gingridi said he also to troubled by reports that Russia to turning to ite nuclear arsenal as the keystone! openly constructively arid reso- hiteiy'Clintixi said Gingrlch and Senate Minority Deader Bob Dole of Kansas said failure by Moscow to drop the- pending nuclear deal could prompt Congress to cut foreign aid to Ruadav -s tidnk it would be almost lm-': mediate Dole told "Fhce: the If tiie president cant persuade Yeltsin to scuttle the nuclear deal 'then we've got a real Dole sakL think going tb cool 1 relations with Appnring on "Meet tbe Press" Gingrich stopped short of 'predicting Russian aid cute but' said think ft would have cats- strophic consequences In if the sales goes through without safeguards to ensure Iran cannot moke a nudear bonb A-'-' With foreign aid programs under attack across the bouxL Clinton arid tiie Russian package in paitio-' ular nurtures the seeds of peace de- mocracy and prosperity "We did not win tiie Cold War to walk away and blow tiie peace on foolish penny-wise pound-foolish bud-1 CUnton said 7 "We can make all the difference in the world but we cannot do it for The administration and Congress view Iran as a terrorist nation tiiat cannot be trusted with a nuclear ar-senaL Officials expect Clinton to share with Yeltsin classified information about nuclear weapons effort Gingrich called tiie pending sale the station later this year It will allow more than one track to serve the station at a time 1 if The CI DeUums Station will be open to the public on Map SO and SI takes to back ft hie said "What--ever you do you want to hsve 'Amtrak and Southern Pacific executives hope to reach-' an agreement after a crossover switch is built eight to 10 blocks north of and auto traffic backing the train in poses safety and efficiency concerns he sakL "We don't know how' long it free the 1450-foot platform where 64 trains a week and 400000 pas- sengers year will board the Coast Starlight Zephyr -and Capitol (km- Dellums: Railroad union activist is honored Continued from A-1 Washington in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr greatiy helped by ti network Dellums had estab- fashed during World War said Robert Haynes executive director of the Northern California Center for AfooAmerican History 'and life' Totheendofhislife Rep Ron DelhmiSj DOaldand championed the limits of his comriumity sndall minorities He died in 1989 bdleringjifrjadnt done enough and could never do enough "People tell me I've paid my dues (XL Del- buns had confided to a reporter in 1977: "But say not folly I've never been able to do as much as I think ought to be in government The march was called off: Dellums kept going In 1959 he and others helped push the state Hair Employment Practices Act through the state Legislature over thepro- tests of fellow Oakland resident and Gov Earl Warren A As chairman of the new Fair Employment Practices Commission the articulate Dellums his voice stripped of the drawl of the South he so disliked ferreted out chronic discrimination by dties and counties He would hold the position until 1985 Meanwhile he was named Western regional director of the National Association tor the Advancement of Colored People and president of The Brotherhood In the phenomenally successful March on When Pullman fired Dellums The Brother- hood paid him out of its own pocket But the union triumphed many firings later -winning a contract and higher trages in 1937 Delhims and Randolph then turned their attention to Bay Ares railroads and shipyards where African Americans were being turned away from top-paying Jobs at the same time they were being sent overseas to fight and die for their country It was tire beginning of an era When Dellums laid the groundwork for a massive civil rights demonstration in Washington DC President franklin Roosevelt made his-tory by signing an executive order to abolish discrimination in the national defense industry and of its defense Staff writers Sieve Lavoie and Brenda PayUm contributed to this report Dole makes promise to meet with Foster met Care: Needs parents not Campus tots Over tiis last dscads tha numbsr of studsnts with children has 1 grown by nsarlyi third in Univtr- sity of California Barktlay on- ft campus housing akmo Univarsity officials say than arc many mors studant-parants living off campus Total i i I as majority leader and pressure not? to be outflanked on tiie abortion issue by other Republican presidential candidates like Sen'Phu Gramm of Texas Gramm has promised to lead s' filibuster against any Senate vote on the nomination But some Republicans including Sen Nancy Landon Ksseebaum of Kansas have promised to fight a filibuster and have predicted any attempt to block a vote would fofl Making a dadsion 4 make my decision based on what Phil Gramm or Arien Specter Dick Lugar or other leagues who are running for dent may Dole said Sunday trying to discount the conflicting pressures be majority leader 1 have to make a decision and well make a decision on this On Sunday Dole even praised performance before the Senate panel last week but offered no hint about whether he wouty allow the full Senate to vote "I think he did a pretty good Jofr before the committee but I think there are still some very serious questions that ought to be an Dole said When asked if he would allow vote If Foster made a favorable fan prearion in their meeting the sen star said "Well I think always been in play I said at the outset we may not bring ft up and we still may not bring ft up We Ye going to find out where the votes are and then well make a NEW YORK TMES Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole promised Sunday for the first time- that he would meet with President choice for surgeon general Dr Henry Foster before deciding whether to bring the nomination to a vote before the full Senate Foster seemed to pick up support from some Republicans at a hearing last week of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee putting pressure on Dole R-Kan to allow the full Senate to vote if the committee endorses the nom- free think I should before I make a final Judgment sit down and talk with him free to Dole said on the CBS News program the "I think he's entitled to that I don't have the reputation of holding up nominees" Put indications Dole had suggested that even if the committee endorsed Foster's nomination and sent ft to the floor he might not allow the Senate to vote on ft Foster an obstetrician and gynecologist from Tennessee has acknowledged performing several dozen abortions during his career 1 Some critics have opposed the nomination on these grounds while others say that missteps by Foster and the White House in detailing hto record call hto credibility into question Dole is clearly caught between what he views as his responsibilities too long to get degree their financial' aid to cutoff Others are notified late about whether they will get child care sometimes Just weeks before school starts "Even those who get child care are sometimes stuck without ft for midterms finals or emergencies And child care at UC Berkeley unlike at least four other UC campuses falls under rather than student affoirs or campus life Student parents say this breaks the vital folk between child care and staying in college A campus task force Is now looking into some of these complaints put forward in student report to the chancellor Student parents have also organized their own child care emergency sitting services and other self-help measures But perhaps their hardest task will be to change the perception that they got themselves Into this and dont deserve handouts These parents are asking not for extras but for the removal of obstacles said Alice Jordan director of the Women's Resource Center on campus "The alternative -for a single parent student is to drop out of college get low paid Job and still have to put your child in some kind of inadequate child jeare arrangement" arid Jordan That's what Marisa Villegas Is determined not to do Her mother was student parent at Laney College in Oakland who eventually dropped out Villegas said her own daughter has given her the motivation to get her degree campus Student parents Uvihg off campus now account for about half 1 the dots in campus child cpre facilities The squeeze is tightest for young children: 100 infants under the Age of 1 live in family housing but campus child care offers about 20 slots Despite tiie demand the child -care budget has been cut's! least 2 percent for several yean because of UCs budget problems said Gail Ward assistant director for campus child care services need more buildings and more money" The campus also contributes about $6000 year to child care center run by the Albany Unified School District which serves many student parents from UC Berkeley But the center offers Just 240 spaces i Campus child care also sets minimum admission age for babies of 3 months in the foil and 8 months in the spring Some student parents qualify In the first place like Junior Marisa Villegas Villegas drives to campus from Oakland with her almost 9-month-dd daughter Cecilia whom she takes to lectures Last semester she and her baby commuted fay bus very very iaid Villegas 23 who had Cecilia week before starting classes "On days that It rained I usually even goto class Student parents free host of other obstacles from system that does not even count their numbers Many are held back fay inflexible course schedules and the lack of part-time options Yet if they take Continued from A-1 has gone down But the waiting list for cXmpus family housing to months long and capacity has barely changed in decade So many more student parents con-mute to campus officials say The rise in the student parent population comes from dianging attitudes toward both college and children When UC child care system was initiated after "babystt-ln" fry student parents 25 'years ago the typical college family had graduate student husband and 1 wife who either worked or looked after the children full time But families have changed on campus just as they have across the country Today's student families more undergraduates more single parents and more graduate mothers With high pressure to earn degrees in tight Job market more undergraduates who get pregnant are now deciding to stay hi school choice their mothers might not have made More single parents are also de- dding that college offers the be future for them and their children UC Berkeley Juniors Diana Spatz and Patti Rede are both welfare moms who coordinate a student parent group on campus so happy with the education Fm getting'' said Rede who lives with her 8-year-old son in University Village Then there are re-entry students who are going back to college rather than wafting for the children to grow up More women are also going to graduate school and having children at the same time Just as their peers in the working world are balancing careen with children All these changes are putting pressure on an already stretched child care system Not only are there more student parents but today's student parents especially single parents and undergraduates are likely to need child care more Many don't have ft DC Berkeley's child care to widely praised and services are low cost or free for needy parents But only 190 slots are available and about 75 families are on the watting list That falls far short of the needs of more than 700 student parents in campus housing let alone those off Poet: Colleague calls him speaker effective I A1 nm and he's hud aa humv to let the nubUc of human lonaina are braidina one an- California Commonwealth Club "My early work was certainly local and from Arl poet and he's Just as happy to let the public human longing are braiding one California Commonwealth Club "My esrfy work was certainly local and very much concerned with California and the natural world though some of ft was written in New York and I was thinking about California from a distance" be sakL "And then ft evolved Fm not sure In wh In a 1985 interview with The Oakland Tribune about hto poetry essays Hass said made a decision to never refer to an Idea in passing but to alwaya reduce ft to an ex-1 perience from life ft to a way of commur ideating the Intensity of poetry to an audience that does not normally read Leaser said more recent Hass poems ate "more personal and go back Into his past I think he to writing longer poems ft's aa If he's gone from the larger state to the local community on was published in 1979 Hass was awarded a Danforth Fellowship from 1963 to 1967 the prestigious MacAr-thur Fellows Award In 1984 and the National Book Critics Circle Award In criticism the same year He has translated the works of Milosz a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and Berkeley resident In Hass' work of essays "Twentieth Century Pleasures" he considers the poetry of Robert Lowell Robert Greeley James Wright Raider Maris Rilke and the haiku tradition Hass illuminates their poetry with recollections from hto own past: a freak snowfall on a beach an accident on a family camping trip in the Desolation Wilderness another's hair which is strawberry blond and the texture qf cold rivers" i Hass 54 was born in San franctoco and received degrees from St Mary's College in Moraga and Stanford University He taught at SL Mary's for many years and Joined the UC Berkeley English Department in 1989 have talent (at UC Berkeley) like June Jordan and Maxine Hong Kingston and Czeslaw Milosz it's a pretty astonishing Hass sakL His first collection of poetry "Field Guide" won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1973 Another collection "Human Wishes" earned a silver medal for poetry from the know about On that note Hass said was a little concerned about logistics that ft would be a distraction" from writing and teaching But he added he would look forward to whatever unfolds in Washington UC Berkeley English Department Chairman Ralph Rader called Hass of great distinction and accomplishment He's a wonderful speaker and very effec-thfe teacher" In hto poem of Hass wrote: are mdking love Up above the angels in the unshaken ether and crystal Continued plush Washington DC office overlooking the Capitol advising the librarian of Congress on literary matters and col- lections and promoting Hass poetry throughout the I country Wendy Lesser editor and publisher of the Threepenny Review In Berkeley said llass her friend and colleague for more than decade would probably take the sward like a "heavy think he would see ft as an Important and burdensome leaser said Just as happy to be private.