European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a a the stars and stripes sunday october 21,1990bush seeks rights Bill changes Washington apr president Bush is holding off on vetoing a sweeping civil rights Bill while sending Compromise language to Congress in Hopes of getting a measure he could sign administration officials said saturday. White House officials were sending Congress a package of changes saturday that addressed some of the principal objections of civil rights advocates whose legislation Bush opposes. In the meantime Bush will hold off on his promised veto of the civil rights Bill that arrived at the White House from Capitol Hill officials said. Instead he is sending Congress proposed amendments to the Bill in Hopes of getting a joint Resolution to supplant the original Bill. Quot assuming that we continue on this course it represents an Effort by the president to try and make a currently unacceptable Bill acceptable a said Fred Mcclure Bush a legislative Liaison. Congressional opponents of an earlier White House proposal contended the administrations language would have focused on employer intentions rather than keying on whether certain employment practices themselves were discriminatory. One of the key changes being offered according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity was elimination of the word a a intended from what the White House had proposed earlier. The Bill that cleared Congress on wednesday k the civil rights movements top legislative priority ans would overturn six Job discrimination decisions the t raised a juror when the supreme court handed the Down last year. M provisions Range from a ban on racial harassment in the workplace to punitive damages in the most extreme cases of Job discrimination. The major conflict however has come Over features that would make it easier to take employers to court Over their employment practices. Bush has been saying these provisions Are so harsh they would Force companies to adopt hiring quotas something sponsors dispute. Quot wounded Goose wings it a Canada Goose shot through the Chest attempts by a local landowner and a with an Arrow several weeks ago lies game Warden to capture the Goose and North of route 111 in Lyman Maine remove the Arrow have so far failed. 2 live Crew foun innocent of obscenity fort Lauderdale Fla. Up a a jury saturday acquitted three members of rap group 2 live Crew on obscenity charges. The charges stemmed from a live nightclub performance of songs from an album a Federal judge had declared obscene. The six person jury deliberated for about two hours before returning the innocent verdict. During closing arguments earlier saturday assistant state attorney Pedro Dijols told the jury of four women and two men that the Miami rap group was a trying to make a Bucko off obscenity and its material had no artistic or political message to convey. A this was just Plain simple Nasty talk. That Sall it was. Nothing More than that a he said. A a it a unbelievable that they could walk into this courtroom and Tell you something for the defense attorney Bruce Rogow said the first amendment protects citizens right to speak freely whether the state likes it or not. A it has to be that Way. Otherwise creativity would be dead a he said. Among the yardsticks the jury was told to consider was whether the groups june 10 performance at club Futura in Hollywood had artistic or political value and whether the performance would be morbid or shameful to the average person in the Community. During the performance the group performed songs from its hit album a was Nasty As they Wanna be a that a Federal judge in fort Lauderdale deemed obscene in Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties two Days before the concert. If convicted of the Misdemeanour obscenity charge group members Luther Campbell Mark Ross and Christopher Wong on each would have faced a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 Fine. A just As their album says they were As Nasty As they wanted to be that night As morally indecent As they wanted to Rogow said Dijols was saying that words some people use every Day could be interpreted As grounds for arrest. A sex is the one thing that All of us do in the world a he said. A yet if you say it the wrong Way you re in trouble with the Rogow also noted that Broward county sheriff Nick Navarro chose to arrest 2 live Crew for obscenity while an adult Bookstore a with much More explicit photographs and videos across the Street from a sheriffs department substation was allowed to operate. Western film Star Joel Mccrea Dies los Angeles up Joel Mccrea a real life Cowboy who starred in such Western classics As a Union Pacific and a the virginian a died Early saturday he was 84. Mccrea a tall raw boned Man with the look of the West about him died of pulmonary complications at 4 50 . At the motion picture and television fund Hospital in Woodland Hills after a Short stay in the acute care Ward a Hospital spokeswoman said. His wife of 57 years actress Frances Dee was with him when he died. Mccrea always played the hero whether in Slick comedies or Riding the Range. Off screen he defied the old Hollywood Mold of scandal and headlines and spent More time punching cattle on his own ranch in thousand Oaks Calif than he did before the cameras. He bought the ranch in 1930 on the advice of will Rogers. In the ensuing years while starring in such films As Wells Fargo a a cattle drive a a a Wichita and a a Barbary coast a Mccrea developed his 100-acre parcel of land in Ventura county North of los Angeles into a 2,300-acre cattle ranch that made him a multimillionaire. One of his proudest achievements was his election a behind Rogers and Gary Cooper a to the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. A i love being a member of that Hall of Fame a he later said a because its purpose is to perpetuate the standards ideals and culture of the old born nov. 5, 1905, in South Pasadena Calif., Mccrea entered films in the 1920s As an extra while attending Pomona College. His Early films were not limited to westerns his first real role came shortly after College graduation with a bit part in a the fair coed a starring Marion Davies. In the 1930s, he starred in a the lost Squadron a a Bird of Paradise a a three Blind mice and Alfred Hitchcock a Joel Mccrea in 1953 a foreign correspondent a among others. But the Burly 6-foot-5 actor soon settled into Frontier roles. His first break was in 1930 As the Lead in a Kos so the Silver horde a filmed in Alaska. It was while playing in Rogers spoof Western a Light nine Quot that same year that he first befriended the great humorist. He made his television debut in 1959 in the a Wichita town series. Mccrea once said he entered acting Only because it was the faster Way for him to make Money to buy his beloved ranch. Ambitious studio publicists soon discovered that both the actors grandfathers had fought indians in the wild West. A i done to want to do anything but westerns a he said in a 1956 int Mew. A Good films Are mighty scarce these Days and in westerns there s always plenty of spectacular scenery to keep the audience Happy when the plot begins to occasionally Mccrea lamented the loss of realism in modern films. A a in be seen pictures where thousands of rounds of ammunition were pumped Back and Forth without hitting anybody a he complained once. A a it a stupid. Nobody could shoot and miss that much. A Guy live that Long a Mccrea is survived by his wife and three sons Joel who worked As an actor under the name Jody and David and Peter who Are both ranchers in new Mexico. Private funeral services were s second b-2 takes test flight Edwards fab Calif. Up a the second of the radar eluding b-2 stealth bombers under attack for being too costly and obsolete in the face of wanning superpower relations made its inaugural flight Friday. The b-2 took off from an air Force Airstrip in Palmdale at 8 35 . And stayed aloft for two hours and 36 minutes before Landing at Edwards in the Mojave desert. It soared to 10,000 feet and flew at a Speed of 325 knots. Northrop corp., the builder of the b-2, said the flight ended before completing All of the planned tests because Crosswind speeds at Edwards reached 15 knots with gusts of 19 knots a near the upper limits for Crosswind landings during flight tests. Earlier last week . Senate and House negotiators agreed on a $288 billion defense authorization Bill that would continue production of the b-2. But opponents of the Bat winged plane have complained that the program has already Cost too much is far behind schedule and is based on defending against a soviet threat that no longer exists
