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Soft Drink Feature 2 Liter Coke Or Diet Coke •§O9 8 Wednesday, October 11,1995 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation ansi world Palestinians Released As Start of West Bank Pact NABLUS, West Bank—lsrael released about3oo Palestinian prisoners and handed a military government office to the PLO Tuesday in a fitful start to the West Bank autonomy agreement. The releases were marred by delays, confusion and PLO accusations over Israel’s refusal to pardon four Palestinian women prisoners despite a clause in the accord that says all female detainees are to be freed. By late afternoon, some 300 prisoners had been freed, out of some I,oooslated for release that day, radio reports said. A senior Palestinian official had said earlier in the day that none of the 500 security prisoners eligible for release today would leave jail, in protest over the contin ued detention of the women. But2ooof the prisoners who walked out of prisons in Nablus and other towns had been held for security offenses. Sami Zahran, who served three years of a seven-year term for weapons possession, said he would not honor the non-violence pledge he signed. One hundred criminals also were set free, and 400 more were to follow by the end of the day. Court Hears Arguments Over Anti-Gay Rights Law WASHINGTON,D C. -Colorado’s solicitor general ran into skepticism from several Supreme Court justices Tuesday when he argued the state’s citizens have a right to prohibit laws that protect homo sexuals from discrimination. “I would like to know whether in all of Justice RUTH BADER GINSBURG asked Colorado's state attorney some tough questions. U.S. history there has ever been any thing like this,’’Jus tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the state’s lawyer, Timothy M. Tymkovich, who asked the high court to reinstate the ban on such anti-dis crimination laws. Tymkovich did not provide specific examples, but ar gued that voters have the right to bar all state and local laws giving homosexuals “special protection” from bias in housing, employment and public accommodations. In a 1992 referendum, 53.4 percent of Colorado voters approved the amendment to the state’s constitution. But the Colo rado Supreme Court invalidated the amendment before it could take effect, saying it denied homosexuals an equal voice in government. Tymkovich said Colorado voters ap proved the amendment in response to the If ' W •+- MORGAN STANLEY cordially invites students of all majors to attend a presentation on the Investment Banking Financial Analyst Program Wednesday, October 11,1995 7:oopm-9:oopm The Carolina Inn STATE & NATIONAL success homosexuals had in winning en actment of anti-bias ordinances in Denver, Boulder and Aspen. However, Justice David H. Souter was skeptical. “Why is discrimination against one group dealt with under state law differently than discrimination against other groups?” he asked. Justice Antonin Scalia appeared more sympathetic to Tymkovich’s argument. “They are laws that provide special protec tion to that particular category of person," Scalia said. Several justices wondered how far the amendment goes in banning bias protec tion. Ginsburg compared gay activists’ tactic of seeking local anti-bias ordinances to women’s suffrage proponents who long ago sought the right to vote in cities when they could not win such a right statewide. But Tymkovich said voters could de cide that all gay-rights issues must be de cided on the state level rather than by various city governments. Statistics Back Up Million Man March Principles WASHINGTON, D.C.—The state of America’s black men is measured with sweeping statistics too few in the class rooms and board rooms, too many on the streets, behind prison walls and in early graves. No matter how they succeed, many blackmenfeelfearedandmistrusted. Their frustration and an ger is shared across economic lines. And it’s part of the pull of the Million Man March, a giant rally for black males planned in Wash ington next Mon day. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, origina tor of the Million Man March, says one of its goals is “showing the world Minister LOUIS FARRAKHAN hopes the march will show a different side of the black man. a vastly different picture of the black male. ” The midday event organizers de scribe it as more of a convergence than a march will highlight those black men who do stay in school, work hard and care for their families. It is also described as a call for black men to come together to end the inner-city spiral of crime, drugs and unemployment, the conditions that feed adverse media images of black men. Organizers have been criticized for ex cluding women from the event, which is one of several reasons the national N AACP refused to endorse the rally. But many black women support its goals, agreeing that black manhood is in crisis. The statistics are numbing. Black men are eight times more likely to be murdered than white men, and five times more likely to be murdered than black women, accord ing to Census Bureau figures. Thousands more black men are serving time in prison or jail than are studying in college. In contrast, white men are nine times more likely to be in class than behind bars, according to researchers at The Sen tencing Project, a nonprofit group that advocates alternative prison sentences. ®lj t Daily (Ear Heel Although black women are more likely than men to live in poverty, in many ways they have been more successful. They live longer lives and are more likely to be employed, Census Bureau sta tistics show. The Million Man March is the most visible embodiment of a strategy that be came popular in the 1980 s— focusing attention on black men in hopes that their economic successes would uplift women and children as well. GOP Defense Bill Opposed By Pro4hoice Advocates WASHINGTON, D.C. The fax machines hummed in Republican lawmak ers’ offices with a message from the Na tional Right to Life Committee: Defeat a $243 billion defense bill because of a single clause on abortion. Although it seemed a long shot, since Republicans had a chance to support one of their top priorities increasing Penta gon spending House conservatives heeded the call and rejected the bill. By doing so, they sent a message: Their oppo sition to abortion would not be compro mised. The National Abortion and Reproduc tive Rights Action League counts a slim majority of 218 House members as “sol idly anti-choice" while in the Senate only 45 out of 100 are so ranked. The abortion opponents joined Demo crats in defeating the defense bill 267-151 late last month. The defeat of the defense appropria tions bill represents the kind of ideological tangle Republican leaders had hoped to avoid. President Ponders Race Issues After Simpson Trial WASHINGTON, D.C. President Clinton expressed surprise Tuesday at the sharp division between blacks and whites over O.J. Simpson’s acquittal and said he is deeply concerned "that we are still polar ized in some ways.” “I do think we need to work on it,” the president said. “Because we don’t have a stake in drifting apart.” Clinton may address the need for racial harmony in a speech next Monday in Aus tin, Texas, aides said. Clinton said he’s been thinking about the subject a lot in recent days, and “The whole issue of reconciling races in America has been a passion of my life.” Simpson’s acquittal in the murder of his former wife,Nicole, andher friend,Ronald Goldman, has highlighted a wide racial divide, with many whites upset over the verdict and many blacks delighted by it. “I think what has struck all Americans in the aftermath of the trial is the apparent differences of perception of the same set of facts based on the race of American citi zens,” Clinton said. “I must say, even I— I thought I knew a lot about how people of different races viewed things in America, but I have been surprised by the depth of the divergence in so many areas, and I do think we need to work on it.” Clinton said that blacks and whites could have differences “but at least we ought to be able to look at facts and reach some common judgment more frequently than apparently we’re able to today.” FROM WIRE REPORTS
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