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Thousands support
jgays, AIDS victims
through city parades
By The Associated Press
of homosexual rights
marched in New York City yesterday
in a parade dedicated to victims of
the deadly disease AIDS, while thou
sands of their counterparts in San
Francisco staged a festive parade of
costumes and floats.
At New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathe
dral in midtown Manhattan, a group
of Roman Catholics who objected to
the parade as blasphemous gathered
for a prayer vigil. More than 700
police officers were assigned to the
parade to prevent disturbances be
tween the marchers and anti-homo
sexual demonstrators, but it was
generally peaceful.
In San Francisco, police had no
estimate of the number of
‘people attending the 13th annual
!“Gay Freedom 'Day Parade,” but
parade co-chairman Konstantin Ber
landt said about 350,000 people joined
or watched the event. The parade
also was dedicated to AIDS victims,
land a group of AIDS sufferers rode a
■ motorized cable car near the head of
"the parade.
“It is the policy of the Lesbian-Gay
Freedom Day Committee to reach
lout to (AIDS victims) with respect,
[support and love, and to strengthen
rthe ties between them and the com-
Imunity,” said a resolution adopted by
‘parade organizers.
; About 30,000 people lined the streets
on Chicago’s North Side lakefront for
[the city’s 14th annual Gay and Lesbi
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“We are appalled that it took a
couple of yeari before the govern
ment was able to take some action
and start funding research” on AIDS,
said Craig Covey of the group that
sponsored the march.
AIDS acquired immune deficien
cy syndrome has afflicted more
than 1,600 people, more than 700 of
them New Yorkers and many others
in San Francisco. Seventy percent of
the often fatal disease’s victims have
been male homosexuals.
Tom Wicker, an AIDS victim from
Illinois, marched in the West Coast
parade wearing a T-shirt that read,
“I have AIDS not leprosy.”
“It’s important for us to show our
strength and unity,” he said. “And
it’s also important to be effective in
public, to be seen and get the mes
sage across.”
Despite the serious .overtones
brought by the disease, more than 200
floats were entered in the West Coast
parade, marked by festive costumes.
Mounted police lined New York’s
Fifth Avenue as marchers with bal
loons, signs and slogans marched in
the 14th annual “Lesbian and Gay
Pride” parade, commemorating riots
in 1969 that gave birth to the gay
rights movement.
“God is Gay” banners at a previous
parade prompted opposition to the
event by the Catholic War Veterans,
who with the Rabbinical Alliance of
America sought unsuccessfully to
stop this year’s parade.
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participants march in the 14th annual “Lesbian and Gay” parade, which was held
to show support for gay rights and AIDS victims.
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Abortion amendment goes
before Senate tomorrow
By MIKE SHANAHAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Senate
votes tomprrow on an anti-abor
tiop amendment to the Constitu
tion, but even its strongest
supporters give the proposal no
chance of passage this year.
Supporters and opponents alike'
say the amendment will fail to
attract the two-thirds vote needed
in the 100-member Senate before it
can be sent to the House.
“If we get 51 votes, it will be a
victory,” said Paul Smith, a
spokesman for the proposal’s chief
supporter, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-
Utah. •
“Senator Hatch isn’t fooling
himself that we have the votes to
pass it,” Smith said.
Nonetheless, those seeking to
overturn the 1973 Supreme Court
decision permitting most abor
tions are going ahead with a sim
ply worded amendment reading:
“A right to an abortion is not
secured by the Constitution.”
If passed by Congress and rati
fied by the states, the amendment
would allow a state to more
strongly regulate, and even ban,
abortions.
It was approved on 9-9 vote in
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
While a tie usually kills legislation
in congressional committees, the
members decided to send it to the
floor without recommendation.
One reason the amendment is
given little chance is the deep
division within the anti-abortion
movement.. Some organizations
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it will be a victory.’
—Paul Smith,
spokesman for Sen.
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
want a tougher federal law or
constitutional amendment giving
a fetus the same rights as a person
thus making abortions the same
as murder.
"This isn’t going to do anything
to save 1.5 million lives which are
snuffed out each year,” said Gary
Curran, an official with the Ameri
can Life Lofcby, an anti-abortion
group.
Last year, Senate Democrats
and moderate Republicans defeat
ed a legislative proposal, requir
ing only a majority vote, that
would have defined life as begin
ning at conception.
While even Hatch gives' his
amendment little chance,' the is
sue could provide the focus for one
of the last major congressional
battles by the New Right before
the 1984 elections.
Similar efforts to allow volun
tary prayer into public schools and
to ban busing as a tool for desegre
gating schools have also failed
since. the election of President
Reagan in 1980.
A number of conservative crit
ics have faulted Reagan for not
making such social issues a major
priority of his administration.
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SEPTA strike enters 105th day
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - As Philadelphia’s commuter rail strike
enters its 105th day, a key issue blocking an agreement appears to
be management’s right to contract out certain types of signal work.
Eight other issues, all of them less significant, also must be
resolved before the Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen agree to a
tentative contract, said John Hansen, a negotiator for the union.
The 44-member union is the only one of 13 Southeastern Pennsyl
vania Transit Authority unions that hasn’t come to terms.
Rail service hasn’t resumed because of a pre-strike pact in which
all 13 unions vowed not to cross the picket lines of any holdouts.
Hansen’s hold-out is placing him at odds with other union leaders,
some of whom are under increasing pressure from their financial
ly-strapped members to return to work.
A Handful of the nearly 1,000 workers on strike reportedly have
defied their leaders and returned to work.
SEPTA’s top negotiator said he plans no more talks with the
signalmen.
College students good credit risks
PHILADELPHIA (AP) “Charge it” could be the next campus
battle cry, now that major retailers are encouraging college
students to sign up for credit cards.
Retailers now consider college students to be good credit risks,
says one official in a credit card marketing company. Retailers
also are wooing college students with an eye toward their post
graduate shopping days.
“They’re excellent credit risks,” said Ted Erfer, a spokesman
for Sears, Roebuck &,Co., one of the early retailers to court the
college market. “They are stable, responsible, are entering the job
market and in five years will be in the market for much of what we
sell."
One Philadelphia firm, the College Credit Card Corp., specializes
in marketing the cards on campuses.
Irvin Penner, president of the firm’s parent company, GLS Inc.,
said students probably have a better chance of getting a credit card
than consumers in general because they “have nothing against
them” in the credit marketplace.
nation news briefs
Challenger crew ready for debriefing
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) The five Challenger astro
nauts rested up yesterday for an intensive days, of debriefings
while technicians in California worked overtime in hopes of
speeding the spacecraft’s cross-country return to Florida. •
Flight Seven commander Robert Crippen and his crewmates
face grilling from the boss starting early today, but, even so, their
debriefing is the shortest ever for an American space crew.
Officials said the debriefing schedule, which has been three
weeks or more for the earlier space crews, has been cut to only 4>/ 2
days because Flight Seven was almost flawless and because the
space shuttle is now “matured,” with few engineering questions
remaining.
Book: Rather made $25 million deal
WASHINGTON (AP) CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather
accepted a 10-year package deal at close to $25 million to stay at
CBS instead of defecting to ABC, according to a yet unpublished
book profiling the personalities, wealth and influence of the best
known television stars.
ABC president Roone Arledge was prepared to offer Rather a 10-
year package deal for close to $3 million a year, but Rather could
not bring himself to leave. CBS “when the torch passed from
(Edward R.) Murrow to (Walter) Cronkite was about to be passed
to him,” writes author Barbara Matusow.
The book, “The Evening Stars: The Rise of Network News
Anchors,” published by Houghton Mifflin, describes the competi
tion between the networks for star-quality journalists. It also offers
a behind-the-scenes peek at the networks’ office politics.
Matusow, a former radio and television producer for CBS and
NBC and now a freelance writer in Washington, said she spent two
years on the book and interviewed all the major network anchors.
The book will be in stores Aug. 1.
Mother continues weight rule battle
CHANNELVIEW, Texas CAP) A woman whose daughter was
suspended twice from a high school drill team because of her
weight is challenging the rule she says has driven some girls to
make themselves sick.
Barbara Blackstock’s 15-year-old daughter, Laura, exceeded the
weight limit for her height three times in the past year. Laura is
■nearly 5-feet-6 inches tall and, under the team rules, may weigh no
more than 130.
Blackstock, who has another daughter on the Channelview High
School drill team, has asked the Texas Board of Education to
intervene with the school board in this southeastern Texas commu
nity. She has also asked the American Civil Liberties Union to
challenge the rule.
She said several squad members “are making themselves sick to
stay under the weight limit. I can see having a guideline and
working with a kid on a weight problem, but kicking them out is a
little crude.” , , ,
Pete Brady, chairman of the Channelview Independent School
District school board, said yesterday that district officials are
reviewing the policy.
Habib arrives in Israel for talks
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Special U.S. envoy Philip C. Habib
arrived yesterday for talks with Israeli leaders on American
efforts to persuade Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon,
Israel Radio reported. , , . ,
Habib was accompanied by Deputy Secretary of State Richard
Fairbanks and Special Ambassador Morris Draper, the radio said
In Damascus, Syrian sources said the government has invited
former Lebanese Prime Minister Saed Salam for an official visit,
which could be an indication that Syria is willing to discuss the
U.S.-mediated 'troop withdrawal agreement between Israel and
Salam is one of Lebanon’s most influential Moslem leaders and is
closely involved in government policy-making.
The sources, who asked not to be identified, said the invitation
was for sometime in the next few days, but would not say whom
Salam would meet.
Prelate: journalists' deaths exploited
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) A Salvadoran prelate said
yesterday that the deaths of two American journalists on the
Honduran-Nicaraguan border were being "exploited for political
reasons by the two countries. , 4 ... „
In his weekly homily at San Salvador’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, said the deaths of Dial Torger
son of the Los Angeles Times and free-lance photographer Richard
Cross were “an occurrance we lament.” ;
He then said, “Honduras as well as Nicaragua are exploiting
the deaths for “for political reasons,” but did not elaborate.
Torgerson and Cross were killed last Tuesday when their rented
car exploded during a shell attack as they drove along an isolated
road in Honduras, a few yards from the Nicaraguan bor aer.
Honduras has claimed the Sandinista army was responsible for
the deaths, but Nicaragua has denied its forces shelled he
journalists’ car and implied instead that tlje CIA or Nicaraguan
rebels based in Honduras killed the reporters.
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