European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes . Thursday february 18,1993 rights groups plan drive to improve image of Gays Washington a Gay rights abortion right Sand civil liberties groups Are launching a Campaign to improve the image of homosexuals in the aftermath of the fight Over Gays in the military. Plans Call for mailing an eight minute video to Mem Bers of Congress and Pentagon officials to combat stereotypes of homosexuals. A documentary for airing on Cable television is also in the works. We need to debunk what the joint chiefs of staff Are learning about Gays and lesbians said Alan Klein a spokesman for the newly formed Gay and Les Bian emergency Media Campaign. Civil rights and other groups have joined the Campaign saying attacks on Gays often coming from the religious right represent just one episode in a larger Effort to erode constitutional freedoms. They use Gay rights As an opening wedge but the have a much broader Agenda said Loretta Ross pro Gram director at the Center for democratic renewal an Atlanta based organization. This is not a Burden the Gay Community should have to shoulder on their own. To end bigotry and discrimination in this country said Arthur Kropp presi Dent of the Liberal group people for the american Way. Ann Northrop head of the Media Campaign envisions a $500,000 Effort Over the next year. One video will document violence against Gay peo ple. Another will teach activists How to combat anti Gay rights referendum such As ones placed on ballots i Idaho Washington state Oregon and Michigan. The Campaign will distribute a video explaining the Gay Community s political and social Agenda. And the group has arranged an hour of television time in May King s widow supports Clinton s stand on Gay Washington a civil rights leade Coretta Scott King is throwing her support be Hind president Clinton s decision to allow homosexuals to serve in the military. She announced her position in a speech tues Day at the Headquarters of the Federal Bureau of investigation the Agency that once hounded her and her late husband the Rev. Martin Luther King or. During the speech she also laude embattled Fri director William sessions for his commitment to hire women and and lesbian people have served in the armed forces with Honor from the Early Days of the Republic on Down to today and Many have Given their lives for the Freedom that we enjoy today King said. If i can stand up for the Freedom of Blac people and All other people whose civil rights and human rights Are violated then i would be inconsistent if did t support the Gay and lesbian Community s Effort to be accepted and to have equal rights. On the deep dish satellite network. Activists said the Campaign is timely not Only because of the wave of protest Over president Clinton s plan to allow Gays in the military but also because of a Long term strategy aimed at demeaning homosexuals. Indicted jews deny kidnapping boy new York a a rabbi his wife and a Rabbin ical student pleaded innocent wednesday to charges that they kidnapped a 13-year-old jewish boy in an alleged dispute Over his religious education. The parents of Shai Fhima claim he was kidnapped lust year. But the rabbi and his wife say Shai apparently left Home because of parental abuse. The boy is still missing. Bail was set at $100,000 for the rabbinical student Mordochai Weisz. Bail for rabbi Schlomo Helbrant 35, was continued at $250,000. His wife Malka 31, remained free on her own recognizance. All three who were indicted last week pleaded inno cent to charges of second degree kidnapping and fourth degree conspiracy. A kidnapping conviction car Ries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. Outside the courtroom the missing boy s father Michael Reuven shouted that my son is dead for me and fainted moments later. Helbrant leads a Small offshoot of the hasidic sect and operated a Yeshiva or Rabbini Cal school which Shai attended. Several weeks after he was withdrawn from the school last april Shai vanished according to his Mother Hana Fhima. At the heart of the Case Are tapes on which the rabbi offers Shai s father $10,000 in Exchange for the boy s custody according to a published report. The boy parents Are divorced. The new York times on wednesday cited Law enforcement sources who said that they also have a tape made 10 months ago in which Reuven was threatened by one of the rabbi s bodyguards. Fhima told the times that the rabbi offered her$60,000 in Exchange for her son s custody. Rabbi Schlomo Helbrant front and student Morde Chal Weisz Are free on bail in new York along with Hel Brans wife Malka in the kidnapping Case. A Mae Citadel rejects woman accepted by mistake Charleston . A the Citadel accepted Shannon Faulkner to the All male military College then reversed itself after realizing the applicant is a woman. Correction fluid had been used on her transcript to delete a reference to her sex. There is no place in our Day program or Evenin College for anyone cloaked in subterfuge by submitting altered documents to this institution Citadel spokes Man maj. Rick Mill said tuesday. Faulkner s attorney Suzanne Coc said she would Challenge the school s men Only policy. Faulkner has a 3.7 Grade Point average on a 4.0 scale. The Citadel had sent the 18-year-old from pow Desville a provisional acceptance letter. Later admission officers who contacted her school Learned she is a woman. The College revoked her acceptance feb. 10. Faulkner had asked her High school to delete any reference to her sex on her transcript. Coe said Faulkner had a Legal right to do so. Last month the Virginia military Institute asked the supreme court to protect its policy of excluding women. A Federal appeals court has ruled that Vii May remain All male As Long As it provides similar pro Grams for women. Probe asked into allegation pm shredded truck data from wire reports Washington consumer groups seeking the recall of 4.7 million general motors pickup trucks asked the Justice department on tuesday to look into an allegation that the automaker shredded groups claimed the documents might have shed Light on the 1973-87 Chevrolet and Mcc a series full size pickups. The trucks have Side mounted gasoline tanks that Are subject of a Federal safety investigation. Earlier this month an Atlanta jury awarded $105.2 million in damages to the family of a 17-year-old who died in a crash of a 1985 Gumc Center for Auto safety and Public citizen said their allegation was supported by a nov. 5,1991, deposition videotaped of a former pm Engineer a few months before his Kashmerick who said his documents were so thorough that the sales and Lega departments came o him for data said he was told around 1982 that it was not a Good idea to keep paperwork on the pm truck design because it was potentially controversial. He said every document including a Box he had stored at his cottage about " 250 Miles away was seized from him. Boy 11, steals ambulance Cathedral City Calif. An ambulance nonemergency Call was stolen by an 11-year-old boy who eluded capture during a 90-minute desert Joy Nde police said tuesday. The youth was arrested monday and booked for investigation of Auto theft hit and run driving and delaying fire personnel. His name was t release because of his age. This particular juvenile has an extensive record knocking ladies from Golf carts that sort of thing. This is just a really bad kid said fire a chief Doug Brown. Paramedics responded to a Call monday evening and left the ambulance idling outside which is routine Brown said. When the paramedic returned the ambulance was gone. Neighbors identified the boy. He ignored Radi Picas from his Mother to surrender. He eluded police by hiding behind stores. In Brief Chase which included a police helicopter the ambulance struck a parked car police sgt. Way Nehauser said. The $70,000 ambulance was damaged slightly Brown said. The nature of the ambulance s Call was t disclosed but Brown said it was t critical Vasectomy linked to cancer Boston a Vasectomy May increase a Man risk of developing prostate cancer according to two studies to be published in wednesday s journal of the american medical association. The studies both led by or. Edward Giovannucci of the Harvard medical school and Brigham & women s Hospital in Boston found that the risk of prostate cancer increased by 56 percent to 66 percent in men of All Ages who had vasectomies. Formen who had the operation 20 or More years earlier that risk Rose by 85 percent to 89 percent. Aspirin cancer role studied Washington aspirin and other pain Relief medicines appear to protect against Colon and rectal cancers although they May increase risk for certain other cancers researchers reported tuesday. In a study of 11,683 men and women Glori Gridley and colleagues from the National cancer Institute found up to a 40 percent lower incidence of digestive tract cancers among rheumatoid arthritis patients than among the Genera population. Rheumatoid arthritis patients Are routinely treated with aspirin and other pain relievers such m addition to reduced risk for Colon and rectal cancers among both sexes women in the study had reduced risk for cancers of the stomach oesophagus gallbladder and pancreas. But people in the study group also were almost twin As Likely to develop cancers of the such As Lymphoma myeloma and leu Wisia the researchers reported in the journal of Tel National cancer Institute. They said this could result from the pain Relief Medicine or other , such As frequent a a s Over Long periods of
