European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday september., 1994 a Fate Rosa Parks 81, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a White Man in 1955 sparked the Modem civil rights movement was injured by an intruder tuesday in her Detroit Home. Rights figure Rosa Parks 81, Hurt in Rof Detroit a revered civil rights figure Rosa Parks spent the night under police Protection after she was robbed of $53 and assaulted inner Home authorities said. Parks 81, was attacked about 8 . Tuesday. She was treated at a Hospital for bruises to her face and Chest and released a few hours later. Parks was upstairs in her Home when she heard a noise downstairs and went =4nvestigate, police chief Isaiah Mckinnon said. She found Aman inside her House reeking of alcohol he said. Her Back door had been knocked off its hinges. The Man told her someone else had knocked Down the door and he was there to protect her and then he hit her Mckinnon said. Mckinnon said the assailant who remained at Large wednesday probably did not know who Parks was. Police will provide Security for Parks indefinitely he said. She was not available for comment. Parks was a 42-year-old seamstress in Mont Gomery ala., when she committed an act of Defi Ance that was to change the course of american history and earn her the title Mother of the civil rights  dec. 1, 1955, a White Man demanded that Parks relinquish her seat on a City bus. Laws i effect at the time required separation of the races in Public areas throughout the South. Parks refused despite rules requiring Blacks to yield seats to Whites and was jailed. The arrest triggered a 381-Day bus Boycott that resulted in the desegregation of the bus line. Parks moved to Detroit in 1957. . Icy on a by Deutsche Presse agent or Washington facing opposition from islamic countries and the Vatican the United states has eased its abortion policy in the statement to be issued at the upcoming . Conference on population and development. A senior Clinton administration official said tuesday that we Are hot pushing an International right to abortion and that any language in the draft final statement produced in april would be altered. Once the Cairo Egypt conference begins next week. About 90 percent of the preliminary document was approved by the 160 countries attending the preliminary conference. Put the remaining 10 percent of the language enclosed in brackets to show a Lack of agreement is the most explosive contraception and abortion As Well As Access to information by teen agers on sexual matters. Earlier the . Policy As stated by state department undersecretary for global affairs Timothy Wirth was that abortions should be Safe Legal and rare suggesting the right should be Universal although not encouraged. Some islamic newspaper reports have accused the United states of pushing 3 strategy of genocide by insisting that abortions should be acceptable when  Essary Toey argued that the . Policy was aimed atthe developing world where the birthrates Are highest. Some Arab reports have also accused the United states of pushing its policy by threatening to withhold . Development Aid funds. The state department quoted vice president Ai Gore to said last week there have been allegations made that the United states has used undue influence related to the availability of development assistance to nations that do not support our population policies and programs. That is unambiguously and  however the senior administration official speaking tuesday on the basis of anonymity conceded that unfortunate language in a Cable sent out by the state department in March May have Given the impression that there would be a link Between future financial Aid and support for  population policies. Distributed by scrupps Howard news service in withheld in Jordan killing Case Daniel Andre Green charged with killing the father of former basketball Star Michael Jordan arrives at the courthouse tuesday in Lumberton . Lumberton . A defense attorneys asked tuesday that charges be dismissed against one of the two teen agers charged with killing Michael Jor Dan s father arguing that the prosecutor has withheld crucial evidence. The evidence includes one reported sighting of James Jordan after the Date he was supposed to have been killed and two reports indicating other people talked about committing a similar crime said defense lawyer Woodberry Bowen. Most of these reports would have been in the District attorney s hands Way Back in the fall Bowen said. Bowen represents Daniel Andre Green who with Larry Martin Demery is charged with first degree Mur Der armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery in the elder Jordan s death last july. Demery and Gree were charged aug. 15,1993. V judge Gregory weeks said he would review the re ports and Rule on the motion by the next hearing which May be in october. District attorney Richard Townsend said that he made the decision to hold the reports Back but that the defense had received or would get everything it was entitled to in a Case like this there Are a lot of incredible claims that Are made he said. Bowen said that whatever the nature of the claims the defense had t had the Chance to investigate them until now. The prosecutor apparently has t followed them up in an Effort to exclude other possible suspects he said. There is no order this court can enter that can give us our year Back to go Back and pick up our Trail Bowen said Bowen said Townsend gave the defense 23 statements from individuals from As far away As Flor Ida new York and California. The statements were handed Over Friday and should have been provided much earlier and certainly no later than a discovery conference held in july he said. Settlement of sex Bias suit against a act exec revealed Washington a just before it fired Benjamin Chavis for secretly settling a former worker s sexual discrimination claim the a act quietly resolved a similar lawsuit by another female employee against a member of its Board of directors. That Board member Gentry Trotter was present at the aug. 20 meeting in which Chavis was terminated. It is not known How he voted in the 53-5 decision. In an october 1993 lawsuit Harriet Diles accused Trotter of harassing her defaming her and firing her because she filed sexual discrimination complaints with Federal and local employment and civil rights agencies she sought More Trtan $2 million in Back pay and damages. The settlement was reached aug. 17 and filed one Day later in . District court in Baltimore. Terms were not disclosed. Trotter s conduct Diles alleged was extreme and outrageous and beyond the Bounds of  it included false and defamatory remarks to potential employers she said. The lawsuit alleges the harassment was part of longstanding policy and pattern of conduct at the 85-year-old civil rights group which has been rocked by claims both in and out of court that it treats female employees  National association for the advancement of coloured people and Trot Ter of St. Louis denied Diles allegations in court documents reviewed tuesday bythe associated press. Neither Trotter nor Diles could be immediately reached for comment tuesday. Dennis Courtland Hayes a act Gener Al counsel was out of town Anjou Vail Able for comment. Diles attorney Howard lined to discuss the Case citing a confidentiality clause in the settlement. My hands Are tied i m afraid Needle said. Diles had asked for $27,914.34 in Back pay unused vacation and Severance. She also sought $600,000 in compensatory damages and $1.3 million in punitive damages for the loss of her Job defamation of character and emotional distress. Chavis was fired As a act executive director aug. 20 mainly because he used the groups Money to Settle sex discrimination claims raised by Mary e. Stansel his former assistant. That brought Calls from women s groups not Only for Chavis to resign but also for the a act to evaluate its treat ment of women