European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 b the stars and stripes . December 17,1992 Packwood says Congress still needs his expertise Washington apr sen. Bob Packwood says Calls for his resignation Are expected a was part of democracy a but he wont step Down because Congress needs his expertise on abortion rights health care and Northwestern forests. Quot frequently in the past in be been picketed by groups who did no to like me. That goes with the territory a said Packwood r-ore., the target of a Senate ethics committee probe into allegations of sexual harassment. A you never like it but you understand that is part of democracy a he said in an interview tuesday with the associated press. Packwood 60, discussed a wide Range of topics. But he would not comment on allegations by 16 women that they were the victims of his unwelcome sexual advances or that he has tried to gather information to discredit his accusers. As the ranking Republican on the Senate finance committee pad Wood has been an avid student of health care insurance and influential player in tax re form he also has been one of the Gopas leading advocates of abortion rights Over the past 20 years. In recent years he has defended the Timber Industry and become a steadfast opponent of what he views As excessive environmental Protection in the Case of the Northern spotted owl. A my knowledge on those subjects Hasni to gone away Packwood said. A a in be got a Quarter Century of experience in dealing with them and i think i can continue to Deal with them Well. The issues Haven to changed that much. My positions Haven to changed. Quot i will still support and sponsor the abortion Freedom of Choice act which is More important now than its Ever been. My views on family leave Haven to changed. Quot my views on the medicaid waiver Haven to changed. My views on health insurance Haven to changed. A fall of these you continue to work on and Hope you arc judged on your entire big heist police stand around an armoured truck that was held up tuesday by four masked men while it was parked at a Bank in Barc Clonta puerto Rico. Police said the armed men escaped with nearly $1.4 million in the biggest robbery in the Island s history. Barc Clonta is about 35 Miles West of san Juan. Activists angry Over Sailor s death to protest military ban on Gays by Ray Rowden Washington Bureau Washington a members of the militant Gay lights organization queer nation planned a protest today on the Pentagon Steps claiming the ban on homosexuals in the military led to the oct. 27 murder of a Gay . Sailor in Japan. Members of queer nation claim that homophobia an irrational fear or hatred of homosexuals is fostered by the ban and contributed to the death of 22-year-old Seaman Allen Richard Schindler. Group members oppose the ban which is endorsed by defense Secretary Dick Cheney. The i Otcel follows a sunday report in the Pacific stars and stripes which said that one of the two sailors arrested after Schindler a death was court Martiale in late november. Navy airman Charles e. Vins 20, was sentenced to a year in jail for not reporting a serious incident the report said. No Date has been set for the trial of the second Sailor 20-year-old airman apprentice Terry m. Helvey according to the sunday report. A the Navy investigating the death of a Gay Sailor is like the Kun flux klan conducting an inquiry into the death of a Black Sailor Quot said Mike Petrellis a spokesman for queer nation. Schindler a radioman was beaten to death in the restroom of a Park near the naval base at Fleet activities Casebo in Japan. T he two sailors arrested in the ease were his shipmates on the amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood. After almost four years in the service Schindler had told his superiors he was Gay and was being processed for discharge when he was killed the Pacific stars and stripes said. The report said Schindler a friends indicated that he previously had been attacked while aboard ins ship and that the phrases Quot no fags on this ship and a get out of Here Faggot Quot were Spray painted on his hunk. A Navy spokesman told the Tokyo based newspaper that officials were unaware of any threats against the victim before his death. A Pentagon spokesman said wednesday that there was no reason to question the Navy a handling of cases involving homosexual victims. A if someone is beaten to death they re beaten to death a said it. Col. Doug Hart. Quot there Are no special rules in the Ucma uniform code of military Justice that classify victims into supremacist faces new trial in Evers death from Wirg reports Jackson miss. A the Mississippi supreme court has ordered an avowed White supremacist to stand trial for the 1963 killing of civil rights Leader Medgar Evers. The 4-3 decision wednesday sends the Case Back to a state circuit judge who will set a trial Date and determine whether Byron de la Beckwith should be freed on la Beckwith 72, of signal Mountain tenn., has been in jail since october 1991 after his arrest in Tennessee. He was tried twice in 1964 on murder charges but mistrial resulted when All White juries could not reach a verdict. The state High court apparently accepted prosecutors arguments that they have enough evidence to take the Case before a jury again. Defense attorneys had argued that prosecutors waited too Long to bring fresh charges. They said the passing of 29 years had dimmed the memories of both do la Beckwith and potential witnesses and that some witnesses had died. Evers was Field Secretary of the Mississippi chapter of the National association for the advancement of coloured people when he was gunned Down outside his Jackson sprays Pepper Gas new York a at least 76 students and teachers required treatment tuesday after a 14-year-old student released a canister of Pepper Gas in a stairwell of a Queens school officials said. The boy later charged As a juvenile with assault was carrying a used canister when he was arrested outside intermediate school 125, the officials said. The Spray is similar to Mace and is illegal in the City police said. Rwanda fights aids spread Chicago a . Inner cities trying to Cope with the aids epidemic May find a lesson in the Eastern african nation of Rwanda where health workers Are reducing the heterosexual spread of the disease by working with Young women. Rwanda with 7.6 million inhabitants has one of the worlds highest aids rates. Nine of 10 deaths among Young Rural women Are caused by aids and almost one third of Urban adults Are infected with the his the virus that causes the disease said researchers from the University of California san Francisco. They studied 1,458 women Ages 20 to 40 who enrolled in a prevention program in 1988 in the rwandan capital Kigali. The program provided confidential his testing a 35-minute educational video and group discussions. All participants were Given regular physical examinations free condoms and spermicides and invitations for male partners to be tested and taught. After one year condom use had risen from 7 percent to 22 percent among All the women a partners the researchers reported in wednesday s Issue of the journal of the american medical for plants animals Washington a in what environmentalists called a major Victory the Interior department agreed tuesday to Speed up Federal Protection for More than 400 varieties of plants and animals that had been proposed for consideration As endangered species. The departments fish and wildlife service agreed to designate the 400 plants and animals for endangered species Protection by september 199b. The settlement was reached with defenders of wildlife the fund for animals and other environmental losers win a s Boulder Colo. A hundreds of angry French language students were guaranteed a son their final exams after losing a dispute with the University of Colorado women a basketball team Over use of the basketball court. A scheduling mistake caused the problem monday. The team had scheduled the Coors events Center for practice at 9 . There was no record of a Slot for a French exam to be taken on the court said Charles Middleton arts and sciences Dean. 1 he exam was cancelled and cd officials apologized to the students saying they could All have a a
