European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 3. 1993 . The stars and stripes Pago 5 Brady team up for gun Bill Washington a with Jame Brady at his Side president Clinton pressed Congress on tuesday in impose awaiting period before handguns May be purchased As the first step to control Ling violent crime. I think it s going to be very difficult for the Congress to justify continued in action on what millions of americans be Lieve is the no. 1 problem in their lives the president said. Brady one time White House press Secretary to president Reagan is be Virely wounded in the 1981 assassination at tempt against Reagan. He and his wife Sarah Are leaders of handgun control an anti gun lobbying  s Espousal of handgun controls had left him estranged from the Republic Brady can administrations of Reagan and president Bush. But he was. Welcomed Back to the Oval office to help Clinton build support for the Brady Bill which Calls for a waiting period on handgun purchases of five business Days Dur ing which a Back ground Check would be required. Clinton predicted the Bill would Pas this year. All female jury violated Man s rights court told Washington a it is just As unlawful to keep people off juries be cause of their sex  to bar them be cause of race the supreme court was told tuesday in its first major sexual Equality Case in years. " you should not be Able to exclude a male or a female simply because of their gender said a lawyer for an Alabama Man who contends his rights were Vio lated when an All female jury decided he fathered a baby out of Wedlock. But an attorney for the state said that sex discrimination in jury selection is Nota major problem and that creating a hew constitutional Protection would create More problems than it solves. Both men and women sit on juries throughout this country men and women Are not minorities said Lois n. Bras Field an assistant Alabama attorney Gen eral. The Clinton administration joined the lawyer for paternity defendant James e. Bowman in urging the High court to Rule that the Constitution bars jury selection based on sex. An individual removed on the basis of gender is frequently the victim of an out Moded stereotype said assistant solicitor general Michael r. Dreeben. Justice Antonin Scalia was. Sceptical. Are you saying there s nothing to the fact that a woman juror or a Man May have a different Outlook on paternity lawsuits or rape cases he asked Bow Man s attorney John f. Porter Jii. Even if a stereotype is largely True it should not be applied to All men or All women. Porter replied. That what jury selections Are All about it s a playing of the Odds Scalia answered. The supreme court barred race based exclusions of potential jurors in a series of rulings starting in1986. Tuesday s Case asks whether the Constitution s equal Protection clause re quires the same ban on jury strikes based 04 sex. Brasfield said it does not adding that Blacks were often kept off juries until the High court stepped in. But justice1 Ruth Bader Ginsburg a pioneering women s right9bflbcate, note that Alabama barred All women from serving on juries until 1967, Long after lacks were allowed to serve. There s no other group in the history of this country that has been exclude from jury service As Long As women Ginsburg said. J Dreeben said sex based jury selections already banned in nine states including new York California and Massachusetts and one part of the Federal court system. The High court is expected to Issue decision by june. Alabama officials filed a paternity Law suit on behalf of Teresia Bible contend ing Bowman was the father of Philli Rhett Bowman Bible born Mijat 16,1989. A blood test established a 99.92 per cent probability that Bowman was the boy s father. The jury Pool for the 1991 trial was narrowed to 23 women and 10 men by the trial judge. Lawyers for the state used peremptory or automatic challenges to remove nine of the remaining men and one  s lawyers used a peremptory strike to remove the last Man from the jury Pool. The jury decided Bowman was the child s father and the judge ordered him to pay child  Alabama appeals courts rejected Bow Man s argument that excluding men fro the jury. Violated his Equa Protection rights under the Constitution s 14thamendment. Allowing male or female jurors to be excluded solely because of their sex perpetuates stereotypes of both groups Bowman s lawyers told the supreme court. Policeman kills mental patient Detroit a an off duty police officer mistook a Var Remote control for a gun and fatally shot a 21-year-old men Tal patient in a school. Officer Jimmie Wheeler told police that when he got to Barber elementary school to pick up a Cousin monday Sev eral children said the Man was carrying Agun shouting profanities and claiming he was going to pop somebody.". Wheeler found James Monroe John son near the gymnasium and told him to Lake out the object that was Malu pocket bulge police said. Is Johnson by Why turned around and Wheeler Frfd his .45-caliber revolver when he saw what he thought was a gun in Johnson s hand police said. Johnson who was picking up his girl Friend s son at the school had been re leased recently from Aurora Hospital after a three week stay according to his Mother Patricia Tyson. He had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia she said. Wheeler 26, has been assigned to desk duty pending an investigation. The Bill was split off from other crime legislation and passed a House judiciary subcommittee last week. The chairman of the full committee rep. Jack Brooks d Texas has promised to move it along quickly even though he opposes the Mea sure. The timetable for Senate action Bun Clear although the full Senate is Likely to debate the measure without first subject ing it to committee review. I believe we clearly have the votes to pass it if we can get it to the floor Clin ton said adding that he hoped the full House judiciary committee would com plete work on it this week. The president said that it would be brought up in the Senate As a separate Issue apart from a major crime Bill so that Jpn one will be Able to hide behind other issues and try to find Clever ways to filibuster  Clinton said states that have handgun controls Are fighting a losing Battle be cause their restrictions Are not applied nationwide. With the Brady Bill Clinton said we would be Able to Check All that uniformly nationwide. We find now that in to kit of states that have pretty strict guns Laws an enormous percentage of the guns that Are confiscated by Law enforcement officials every year come from other states that Don t. So we do have some evidence that these Laws  Bishop Mary Adelia Mcleod smiles after she was installed in Burlington it to Jemale episcopal Bishop in . To Lead Vermont Burlington it. A to jubilant cheers the Rev. Mary Adelia Mcleod was installed monday As the nation s first full fledged female Epis Copal Bishop. I think it is really a message to women Mcleod said of her historic installation. It is a sign of  Mcleod who is also the second Epis Copal woman Bishop elected in the world will Lead the Church in Vermont serving As the spiritual Leader to the state s 10,000 baptized episcopalians. God bless you my sister said there. Rev. Barbara Harris of Massachusetts who set precedent when she was consecrated As the world s first female Suffragan Bishop in 1989. F Mcleod was chosen june 5 Over two other candidates on a third vote of the clergy and Lay delegates to the Vermont convention. Church officials said it is not uncommon to have 20 such ballot before candidates receive majorities. Her selection is very significant said the it. Rev. Jane Dixon of Washington d.c., the nation Only other female Suffragan a position Akin to assist ant Bishop. It is a message to the Church at Large Dixon said of me Leod s appointment. The consecration ceremony included time for protest from episcopalians who remain bitterly opposed to the idea of ordaining women Bishops. If you ordain this woman you will have to answer before the throne of god warned Jane Shipman of the conservative episcopal Synod of America. Shipman said the ordination of women is contrary to holy scriptures and the tradition of the episcopal Church. These issues Are not a mat Ter of majority vote. This is a matter of Faith and  but that argument had Little effect on the crowd of 1,500, most of them women who Rose to their feet cheering a Short White later when the most Rev de Monk Browning the nation s presiding episcopal Bishop officially installed Mcleod. Those attending included Mcleod soon the Rev. Harrison Mcleod and her husband the Rev. Henry Mac Mcleod both ordained episcopal priests. Mcleod 55, has been co Rector Wither husband of St. John s Church in Charleston w.va., since 1933. An Ala Bama native she joked that the ver Mont priests found the fact she s Adeep southerner More interesting than her gender. Our Church really does allow for All of us to have a voice she said