European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. February 7. 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 7 2 sex mayors launch gubernatorial bids Feinstein Young open campaigns by the associated press two former mayors. Dianne Feinstein of san Francisco and Andrew Young of Atlanta launched campaigns monday for the democratic nomination for governor or i hair respective Home states of California and oco Igia. In other announcements monday sen. Jim Exon d-ncb., opened his bid for a third term and tour term Indianapolis mayor William h. Hudnut said he was accepting the pleas of Republican leaders to run for Secretary of slate. Feinstein. 36. Calling her Campaign a historic step for women said she would be a problem solving governor who would improve California schools provide health insurance to the uninsured and end the Auto insurance crisis. Young. 57. Also a former civil rights Leader ambassador and congressman sounded traditional Campaign themes a Progress education and holding Down taxes a in his bid to become Georgia s first Black governor. Feinstein enters the race As an underdog. Both in polls and fund raising to democratic state attorney general John Van do Kamp and Republican . Sen. Pete Wilson. The incumbent. Republican George Duck Majian. Is Noi seeking re Clellion. She stressed her administrative cd Peri former mayors Andrew Young of Allan a left and Dianne Feinstein of san Francisco announced plans to run for governor Cnoc As mayor of san Francisco for nine years ending in 1988, saying she has the experience to Quot be a governor who convinces. Cajole and. Yes. Even knocks Heads to get the Job  Feinstein appeared in los Angeles Sacramento and san Francisco to announce her candidacy monday. Young who left office last month after eight years As Atlanta a mayor has worked for months planning his democratic Campaign. After his Kickoff monday he was to begin a four Day driving  us Day. In his announcement. Young touched on two controversial topics vowing to protect abortion rights and calling Lor a statewide vote on a lottery a an Issue that has been bottled up in the Georgia legislature for years. Young spoke in his Pickol speech of n coalition Campaign with a Young and old. Rural and suburban  he has traditionally eschewed direct racial messages and he continued that strategy in his first official Campaign speech. An Atlanta Roumal cons Lillion poll last fall showed Young with 38 percent of the democratic Vole. Four term it. Gov. Zell Miller was second at 30  leak Virginia sues Over Federal ruling that military school admit women m w. Virginia injures 7 workers Richmond. A. Apr the stale attorney general filed suit against the Federal government monday challenging the . Justice department order requiring Virginia military Institute 10 admit women. Attorney general Mary sue Terry hied the suit in . District court in Roanoke less than an hour after Vii s Board of visitors voted in Richmond to fight for its men Only admissions policy. The lawsuit named . Attorney general Dick Thornburgh and the Justice department. Quot this action is filed in order to prevent Federal encroachment seeking 10 enforce unnecessary conformity in the state supported system of higher education in Virginia Quot the lawsuit said. Terry asked the Federal Coarl to declare the tax supported military school s admission policy constitutional. Quot admission of women to the Vii undergraduate four year program is not necessary to provide equal educational opportunities for women within the Virginia by slim of higher education Quot the lawsuit said. Quot the stale supported by slim of higher education in Virginia is richly diverse consisting or both Public and private institutions the Justice department s finding Quot was made without any inquiry into the stale interest served by Vii and without any visit to Vii to review firsthand its program of instruction Quot the lawsuit Saia. Terry said women who want a Mili tary school lifestyle can enrol in the Roth program at Virginia tech another state supported University. A min a Board of visitors unanimously approved a Resolution affirming the men Only admissions policy at the 150-year-old school in Lexington following a closed door meeting of nearly two hours. The Justice department said Vii s admissions policy violates the 14th amendment to the Constitution and the civil rights act of 1964, the department set a feb. 20 deadline for the stale to respond with a plan for ending the single sex policy or face a lawsuit. The department will Slick to its plan to sue if the slate does not change its mind by feb. 20, said Agency spokeswoman Deborah Burstion Wade. A Justice department investigation was prompted by a complaint from a Northern Virginia Icen age girl who had been told she could nut apply to the school. Former Ciao. Gerald l. Balics told the Vii Board last May the admissions policy was illegal. He included $160,000 in his proposed 1990-92 stale budget to provide Barracks for women at Vii. Vii and the Citadel in Charleston. . Are the nations Only two state supported male Only military academies. Institute . Apr a Small amount of the chemical that killed 3,500 people in India in 1984 leaked at a pesticide plan injuring seven workers the plants manager said monday. The Methyl is Cyanate leak at the former Union Carbide Plant in this town along the Kanawha River about 10 Miles West of Charleston occurred late Friday morning but Wasny to confirmed until monday said manager Ron bearer. The ounce Stze leak occurred As workers were doing routine maintenance work on the Methyl is Cyanate unit at Rhone poulenc which purchased Union carbides agricultural products division in 1986. Bearer said. The workers suffered hums to their eyes. Bearer said. Two of the seven were treated at a Hospital and released. The chemical is an ingredient in agricultural pesticides. A 1984 leak at a Union Carbide plan in Bhopal India killed 3.500  banishes Stallings his . Imani Temple Washington apr the archdiocese of Washington said monday it was a communicating the Rev. George a. Stallings or. And any of his followers Active in the Imani Temple an african american breakaway from the roman Catholic Church. Quot by his Public declaration that he has separated himself from the Church and by his renunciation of Church teaching. Father Stallings has excommunicated  the archdiocese said in a Salem Cal by vicar general William Kane. Quot any Catholic who would knowingly and willingly renounce his or her Catholic Faith to become a full and Active member or father Stallings congregation would also incur automatic  the statement said. The statement announcing the excommunication was written in consultation with Cardinal James a. Hickey according to Eileen Marx. Hickey s spokeswoman. Hickey did not consult with Pope John Paul ii. The censure of Stallings had been expected since he announced publicly last week that his Church w hich he started last summer was breaking All tics to Rome. Church officials also were disturbed by statements Stallings made sunday supporting abortion rights and the ordination of we Man. Stallings in Defiance of the Church officials isl summer formed the Imani Temple an Independent african american Catholic congregation. He announced his decision to break All ties with the Vatican Las week. Stallings said the departure from Vatican authority would allow his congregation to set in place Quot its own discipline and Laws which will govern our  after addressing his congregation it it a several Hundred followers on sunday. Stallings revealed same of Lamse Laws. Quot we will allow for the ordination of women and we will allow for divorced and remarried catholics to be in full communion without having to go through the tedious and potentially damaging annulment process. A he said in an interview with the Washington Post. Quot we will also allow the use of birth control As Well us allow women to decide whether or not to abort a  in addition he said the Imani Temple would permit Quot optional celibacy which Means our priests will be Able to decide whether or not they want to  the last prelate to incur Public excommunication was Swiss archbishop Marcel Lefebvre according to msgr. John Tracy Ellis a historian