European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday october 24, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 Bush kills civil rights quota Bill bitter dispute Over opposing measures a Marioa a Al 99cox news service i Washington a in a move that an feared civil rights groups but pleased business leaders president Bush delivered monday on his longstanding threat to veto a far reaching anti discrimination Bill. Saying that a i deeply regret having to take this action a Bush charged that despite its intentions the Bill would a result in the presidents rejection came after months of Tough negotiations Between the White House and civil rights leaders Over How to remedy six recent supreme court rulings that have weakened enforcement of anti Job discrimination Laws. Bush insisted that he wanted to Correct the situation but he charged repeatedly that the Bill amounted to what he called a a quota civil rights advocates responded with bitterness. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., a sponsor of the congressional Bill said a when the chips Are Down this White House is against civil rep. John Lewis d-ga., said Bush was a giving cover to the likes of David Duke the Kun flux klan the skinheads and other White House spokesman Marlin Fitz water predicted Congress would be unable to overturn the veto. The Bill passed by 62-34 in the Senate and 273-154 in the House both Short of the two thirds needed to override a veto. Bush a action was expected to please Many conservatives in the Republican party As Well As much of the business Community. The . Chamber of Commerce called the veto a a Victory for a Colo Blind Congress also declared in its Bill that it society. Was neither encouraging nor mandating Bush urged passage of his own version but it stopped Short of denying of a civil rights Bill which he dispatched courts the use of quotas Over the weekend to Congress. To Many in the civil rights Community opposing sides opened a bitter dispute the most offensive part of the White Over the two Bills. Fitzwater defended the Bush version of the Bill As accomplishing most of the goals sought by the congressional Bill a without use of quotas. The Bush administration in pointing to quotas As the most offensive part of the rival Bill has proposed to ban the use of quotas in any re House Bill concerns employers who practice discrimination because they cite a Job performance necessity. The congressional Bill would Force employers to justify that necessity by strict standards. The effect said an analysis by the lawyers committee for civil rights would be a to allow airlines to return to their for Spect. Employers would be forbidden to Mer practices of hiring Only Young single use them As part of an Effort to hire More women As flight attendants or permit minorities. Courts which now occasional employers to a bar Blacks or other minority employ quotas As a tool to fight disc rim ties from hire on the ground that their nation would be forbidden to order customers do not feel comfortable dealing them. With Black s family awarded $12.5 million Portland Ore. Up a a jury ordered a former Kun flux klan Leader to pay millions to the family of a Black Man murdered by a a skinheads he allegedly incited to racial jury found monday that Tom Metzger his son John and their Southern California group White aryan resistance incited the murder of an ethiopian student who was beaten to death with a baseball Bat and kicked in the head with steel toed jackboots outside his Portland apartment in 1988. The jury awarded a total of $12.5 million in damages against War and the met Gers and against two of the attackers a Oregon skinheads Kenneth Mieske and Kyle Brewster. The actual attackers All have pleaded guilty to either murder or manslaughter charges. Metzger a former California Kkt grand dragon had called the trial a a Salem Witch Hunt. Metzger 52, a to repairman whose organization is based in Fallbrook calif., said he did not have enough Money to pay the award and planned to Appeal. He also vowed the White supremacy movement would continue unabated. A the White separatist movement will not be stopped in the puny town of Portland a Metzger said. A now i wont be restricted any longer a said Metzger who had argued he had not specifically ordered any of his followers to commit violence. A i will not restrain anyone after several Days of testimony in a civil suit filed by civil rights attorney Morris Dees on behalf of the family of the murdered student Mulugeta Seraw the jury concluded the met Gers had conspired to Send agents to Portland to seek recruits and encourage attacks on Blacks. One of those agents was Dave Mazzella a former vice president of the aryan youth movement who testified he was sent by the met Gers to incite Portland skinheads to violence. The jury of 10 Whites a hawaiian and a japanese american deliberated about five hours before returning the 11-1 verdict which awarded $10 million in punitive damages and $2.5 million in compensatory damages. At least nine jurors had to agree on the verdict. Tom Metzger was ordered to pay $5 million in Puni White supremacist Tom Metzger addresses the jury in his Portland Ore., civil trial. Tive damages his White aryan resistance $3 million John Metzger $1 million and Mieske and Brewster $500,000 each. The compensatory damages were assessed against All the defendants. Dees said the decision signalled a a new season for a this jury has spoken loud and Clear that in this country the first amendment gives you the right to hate people and say what you want in that respect but not to Nurt people a said Dees head of the Southern poverty Law Center. A a we re going to collect every asset he has a Dees said. A the first thing we re going to do is Send a moving Van to his House so we can take it Over. A Aback Home we say it cleans his clock a Dees said in his Alabama drawl. Seraw Teruneh the slain Many a father said through an interpreter that the jury had a avenged my songs Only the attackers faced criminal charges the met Gers were never charged with criminal panel to probe new Lukens charges Washington a the House ethics committee on monday voted to investigate new charges that rep. Donald e. Lukens convicted last year of a sex offence Back Home in Home in Ohio sexually harassed a Capitol employee. A the committee has received additional evidence indicating that rep. Lukens May have made unwanted and unsolicited sexual advances to a congressional employee a the committee said in a statement. Sources close to the Case said that Lukens a Ohio recently fondled and propositioned a Young elevator operator giving her his business card. She reported the incident to her supervisors and one source said there was a witness to corroborate her Story. Although the House was in session Lukens was not on the floor. His office issued a statement in his name. A my attorneys have advised me that since Little or nothing is known about the new allegation there will be no comment until we have More information a the statement said. Lukens who is 59 and divorced lost in the Republican primary earlier this year and will be leaving Congress at the end of the year. However the committee appeared to be expediting its schedule to take action ordering Lukens to appear under oath on tuesday. Lukens was convicted last year of contributing to the Una ugliness of a minor for having sex with a 16-year-old girl at his Columbus apartment in 1988. He was sentenced to 30 Days in jail and fined $500 but is free on Appeal. He refused to resign from Congress despite pleas from Many Ohio republicans. The ethics committee until monday had withheld action on the Lukens Case because his conviction is being appealed. According to committee sources no action was planned since the courts were doling out punishment and Lukens would be gone by years end anyway. However the new allegations were believed to be too serious to ignore and the investigation was expanded to include them a committee spokesman said. The ethics committee formally known As the committee on standards of official conduct can recommend punishments ranging from a written reprimand to expulsion from the House
