2The Daily Tar HeelMonday, April 10, 1989
World and 'Nation
Washington site of pro-choice march
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON With cries of
"choice" and symbolic coat hangers
hung from their clothing, hundreds
of thousands of abortion rights,
activists marched Sunday on the
nation's Capitol hoping to avert a
return to the days of back-alley
abortions.
"We're scared," said Ellen David
son, a Yale University junior from
Hewlett, N.Y. Scared, she said,
because "we're coming to the reali
zation that the thing we've taken for
granted can be taken away."
The Supreme Court will hear
arguments April 26 in a Missouri case
that pro-choice and anti-abortion
forces agree could significantly alter
the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that
gave women the right to an abortion.
"I'm thrilled to have my baby," said
Kristin McNnmnra of College Park,
Md., as she wheeled 4-week-old
Kathryn in a stroller during the march
from the Washington Monument to
the Capitol. "But I think a woman
must have a choice to decide whether
and when to have a child."
"The message is: Don't let this right
go," actress Whoopie Goldberg said
in an interview as the marchers
gathered in a brisk wind in intermit
tent sunshine.
The women's rights advocates
men and women. Democrats and
Republicans, dozens of members of
Congress and a host of celebrities
assembled on the Mall at the Mon
ument for the march to the Capitol.
Marchers traded taunts with about
200-300 anti-abortion protesters who
stood along Constitution Avenue.
Police, some on horseback, kept the
opposing forces apart.
The anti-abortion activists set up
a symbolic "Cemetery of the Inno
cents" on the Washington Mall
containing 4,400 white wooden
crosses and Stars of David. That,
organizers said, is the number of
unborn children killed daily since the
Supreme Court legalized abortion.
At the Capitol, law enforcement
authorities estimated the pro-choice
crowd at 300,000. Eleanor Smeal,
president of the Fund for the Feminist
Wilson
Majority, said it was more than
600,000. By comparison, some 90,000
people gathered for a March 1986
pro-abortion rally in Washington.
Molly Yard, president of the
National Organization for Women,
vowed to "raise a political army" to
ensure that abortion rights are
protected. "If they (politicians) don't
get the message, we will replace them
with pro-choice."
Rep. Tom Downey, D-N.Y.,
declared, "I have a message for the
man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
and the nine Supreme Court justices.
Read my lips. Pro-choice, pro-choice,
pro-choice." The crowd picked up the
chant.
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rate in calculus from 60 percent to
4 percent, a rate lower than that of
white and Hispanic students, Wilson
said. But other departments at the
university failed to learn from the
example, mainly because good teach
ing often goes unrewarded and
without incentives, he said.
"What they're showing at Berkeley
is that good and effective teaching can
benefit everybody."
. Wilson began his speech with a
brief history of desegregation in the
United States. The first attempt to
deal with legal segregation occurred
when President Franklin Roosevelt
integrated the country's defense
plants under a black labor union's
threat of a march to Washington, he
said.
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"affirmative action," Wilson said.
The executive order made by
President Lyndon Johnson now
guides all affirmative action, although
the order is not a law and can be
cancelled by any president, he said.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act and other
legislation since that time have dealt
with racial equality as well.
"It's important to understand,
despite the fact that it seems like
ancient history, that what we're
talking about are things that hap
pened during the lifetime of everyone
seated in this room. It's important to
recognize that those changes were
fought by the states, fought by the
schools, and fought by the public."
x Student representatives from sev
eral universities attended the speech,
and afterwards discussed approaches
to the problems of minority recruit
ment and retention.
Student Body President Brien
Lewis said research into the support
programs that have worked in the
past and talking to other universities
with successful programs is the first
step in addressing the problem at
UNC.
"I think it's time we start talking
to our administration and faculty
about how they recruit. Let's use what
works."
Both the administration and stu
dents must use past successful pro
grams and work together, said Stu
dent Congress Speaker Gene Davis.
"At UNC, only 48.9 percent of the
black students that come here will
graduate in five years, whereas with
other minorities the graduation rate
is 80 percent. It is important for us
to realize that we must make an effort
to retain black students at this
University."
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London newspaper reports
planned Libyan terrorism
From Associated Press reports
LONDON The Sunday Tel
egraph reported -that Libya is
planning terrorist attacks on U.S.
airlines and other American
targets to mark the third anniver
sary of the April 15 bombing of
Libya.
The official Libyan news agency
JANA, in a dispatch monitored
in Rome, denied the report.
The London weekly attributed
its story out of Washington to an
unidentified senior - intelligence
official, who said the Libyan
threats were being taken "very
seriously" as they were based on
"hard evidence, not vague
suspicions."
It said the official would not
discuss details or the source of the
information.
The Telegraph quoted a spokes
man of the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration as saying it had
not issued any special warning to
U.S. airlines.
Soviet law allows subleasing
MOSCOW Soviet citizens
and businesses may lease land for
50 years or more, sublease it to
Others and pass it on to their
children when they die under a
sweeping new law published in
Sunday's newspapers.
The decree, issued by the Pres
idium of the Supreme Soviet,
creates the same right to lease
animals, equipment and even
entire factories.
It grants considerably more
extensive property rights than
many had dared hope for, even
after the Communist Party lead
ership in March approved the
principle of leasing land to family
and cooperative farms.
Particularly significant was the
right to sublease, which opens the
possibility of Soviets taking out
long-term land leases, building
homes and offices on the property
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News in Brief
the land, however.
Uprising continues unabated
WASHINGTON Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir -said
Sunday he cannot imagine
holding elections among Palesti
nians living on the West Bank and
Gaza Strip as long as the Pales
tinian uprising continues there.
While Shamir renewed his offer
to allow Palestinians to elect
representatives who would nego
tiate self-rule in the territories
under continued Israeli authority,
he also said it would be at least
three years before talks could
commence on the future of the
territories taken by Israel in the
Six-Day War of 1967.
And during an interview on
ABC-TV's "This Week With
David Brinkley," the 73-year-old
Shamir voiced regret about the
killings of Palestinians, saying
Israel will not consider attempting
to quash the uprising although it
has the military wherewithal to do
so.
"It's very painful for us to kill
people," he said. Shamir also said
that "I personally believe it's
possible" to ultimately resolve the
question of sovereignty over the
territories.
Oil spill fight continues
VALDEZ, Alaska Military
jets flew skimmers, booms and
beach landing craft into Alaska on
Sunday, and commanders issued
a Pacific-wide call for more equip
ment to fight the nation's worst
oil spill.
Kodiak, the nation's richest
fishing port, prepared for the
onslaught of oil by putting out log
booms, but the Coast Guard said
the leading edge of the spill, 60
miles away, retreated a bit and
began breaking up into tar balls
and sinking.
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