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kind of white Southern politician —moderate, attuned to civil rights issues and appealing to both Black and white voters. Rev. Jesse Jackson, who accompanied the president on Air Force One to Selma, said Clinton owes his political beginnings tothe march and its legacy. ‘The whole new South — new America flows out of Selma,” he said. “Southern politicians could emerge with their dignity and not be stigmatized. No Selma, no Bill Clinton.” Clinton was joining Jackson, Lewis and others for a tour of the Voting Rights Museum and then a walk across the bridge. Lewis, who marches every year to mark the

anniversary, invited Clinton to join him this year, Clinton’s last in office. Before the re-enactment, Clinton and Jackson stopped on the side of the bridge where a memorial park is planned — right at the city limits. The two stood silently for a few minutes before two large rocks that have served as ah informal iribhument for years. In 1965, Clinton watched the events in Selma from Washington, where he was then a student at Georgetown University. Speaking at a fund-raiser in Los Angeles hours before flying to Selma, Clinton said he hoped Sunday’s re-enactment will dramatize for Americans just how much the country has changed. “For me as a Southerner, it will be the experience of a lifetime to be able to go there as the president of

my country, having lived through it,” as a young person, Clinton said. “I don’t even have the words to say to you what it means to me.. .1 want you to see us all walking across that bridge, and remember that 35 years ago when people did it, they were risking their lives.” In 1965, only 2.1 percent of Blacks of voting age in Selma were registered to vote. They were shut out by strict rules, such as one that allowed Blacks to register only on the first and third Mondays of each month—only to encounter police who would beat them if they attempted to register. They also were subjected to literacy tests and made to answer irrelevant questions. One such question, Lewis has said, was to identify the number of bubbles in a bar of soap.

CENSUS

Continued from A1 will lose funding and improvements. Conducting a census is mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Every lOyears, since 1790, in times of peace, war, prosperity and depression, the government has conducted an official count to determine the population and how we live in America. Nearly $7 billion is being spent

on the 2000Census. Scores of census workers are currently being hired in Indianapolis to help conduct the census. Persons can apply for these temporary, part-time jobs as census enumerators, or census takers, by calling 1-888-325-7733. Most people will receive in the middle of this month what census officials call a “short form.” This simple color-coded form asks seven questions: the names, sex, ages, household relationships, Hispanic origin and race of everyone living in your house or apartment. Along

with whether you own or rent. Roughly one in six households will get what the census calls the “long form.” It is a more detailed questionnaire designed to ascertain the social and economic char-

acteristics of Americans and the physical and financial characteristics of the nation’s housing units. The results of the 2000 Census

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will begin to be released at the pnd of this year. One year from now, detailed censusdata for Indianapolis will become available.

Hotel chain offers settlement

By R. B. Fallstrom

ST. LOUIS(AP) — A hotel chain has submitted a proposal to settle federal chaiges that it discriminated againstBlacks by charging them more than whites, offering them less desirable rooms and lequiring larger security deposits from them. Adam’s Mark Hotels & Resorts made the proposal recently after the NAACP called for a boycott of die chain. Adam’s Mark pledged to enhance corporate policies and practices, provide diversity training for

Department. Under the proposal, the chain would admit no wrongdoing. “The allegations against our organization are unfounded,” said Fred Kummer, chairman and chief executiveofficerof St Louis-based HBE Corp., the hotel chain’s parent company. “However, we want to settle this matter as soon as possible and demonstrate our absolute commitment to equality and diver-

sity.”

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ing matter,” she said. “We have no agreement. I don’t have any time

line.’

The Justice Department on Dec. 16charged the 21 -hotel chain with discriminatory practices. That same day, the Florida attorney general filed a motion to , intervene in a class-action lawsuit

resolution in two to three weeks.

Christine DiBartolo, a spokeswoman for the federal agency’s

charging Adam’s Mark with discriminating against Black College Reunion visitors in DaytonaBeach, Fla. last April. The NAACP is also

a party in the lawsuit.

On Wednesday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called for its j

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