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Vol 95, No. 38 26 Pages 01994 Collegian Inc
Crowds of supporters cheer • and wave an Irish flag in Belfast. The
crowds were celebrating the IRA's declaration of a cease-fire, which
hoped to end 25 years of violence.
Military cannot
punish soldiers
for coming out
By 808 EGELKO
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO The armed
forces can bar homosexuals for
sexual acts but not for merely
"coming out" as gay, a federal
appeals court ruled yesterday.
In upholding the reinstatement
of a Navy man who revealed his
homosexuality on national tele
vision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals said a declaration of
homosexuality was not the same as
an intention to engage in homo
sexual acts during military serv
ice.
Only a statement that shows a
"concrete, fixed or expressed
desire to engage in homosexual
acts despite their being prohib
ited" justifies an involuntary dis
charge, the court said in a 3-0
fulling.
The court rejected an attempt by
'a federal judge in the case to
impose a nationwide ban on mili
tary discrimination based on sex
ual orientation. That ban raised
issues beyond the scope of the
discharge of Petty Officer Keith
t Meinhold, who sued only on his
• own behalf, the court said.
Troops heading to Haiti
By BARRY SCHWBD
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Deputy
Defense Secretary John M. Deutch
:said yesterday that American
troops will be dispatched to Haiti
either to expel the country's
'military junta or to help restore
:cater if the generals bow to inter
:national pressure and depart.
"The multinational force is going
,to Haiti," he said, referring to the
predominantly American fighting
coalition about to be trained in
;Puerto Rico.
Deutch told reporters some
;10,000 U.S. troops would be in a
Coalition force supplemented by
feveral hundred from other hemi
:sphere countries to be trained in
' , Puerto Rico. He said 'the point of
such a large force was to minimize
:American and Haitian casualties.
fie offered no timetable for mov
:inst IL Gen. Raoul Cedras.
.;:Clinton: administration officials
have warned Raoul Cedras and his
:cohorts for months they risk an
invasion if they do not quit and
permit restoration of elected
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
who was ousted three years ago.
•Deutch's statement was the tough
est so far.
Delaying reports the Pentagon
-4 ,Wea reluctant to act, Deutch said
„There was no policy disagreement
•with the State Department, usually
depicted in the media as more
prom to use the force authorized
lA* the U.N. Security Council in
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Eve► so, Deputy Secretary of
"... the government
cannot assume .. : that
I'm any different from
any other sailor."
Keith Meinhold
U.S. Navy Petty Officer
Meinhold was discharged under
former military regulations, which
treated declarations of homosex
uality as grounds for discharge.
Under the new "don't ask, don't
tell" policy adopted by President
Clinton and Congress, service
members who declare their homo
sexuality face discharge unless
they can prove they will remain
celibate while in the service.
The court said it was not decid
ing issues raised by the new poli
cy. But the ruling suggested that
the court would consider the policy
invalid if discharges were based
on a presumption that a declared
homosexual would engage in con
duct prohibited by military rules.
The ruling, by a panel of two
Please see GAYS, Page 10.
State Strobe Talbott said the use of
force would be "a last resort." In a
joint news conference, he said "we
want to make sure we use other
avenues."
Deutch and Talbott headed a
U.S. delegation that went to
Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday and
won unanimous support of the 13-
nation Caribbean Community and
Common Market for the U.N. re
solution. They then went to the
Dominican Republic to check on
infiltration of supplies to Haiti in
defiance of a U.N, embargo.
Talbott said they detected dur
ing a helicopter ride a large,
makeshift pipeline, apparently to
carry oil, as well as several large
barrels of oil being carried across
the border to Haiti. Talbott said
the Dominican government had
promised to enforce the embargo
with troops.
Administration officials are
hopeful three nations, the Baha
mas, Antigua and Guyana, which
did not commit trows on Tuesday
will do so eventually. They would
supplement the troops Jamaica,
Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados
and Belize agreed in Kingston to
provide.
Deutch dismissed any suggestion
the Caribbean countries were
making only a symbolic contribu
tion. He said tlw would be part of
the military coalition and also help
in stabilizing the country.
However, other officials said
that if there is an imfaidon, only
Americans would be in the initial
wave.
Thursday, Sept. 1, 1994
IRA declares cease-fire
Possible end to 25 years of violent resistance
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Associated Press Writer
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
The IRA declared a cease-fire
yesterday, and Northern Ireland
now waits to see if the long-sought
truce will hold and bring talks to
end a quarter-century of sectarian
bloodshed.
The Irish Republican Army's
supporters called the declaration a
historic opportunity for peace in
the British province. But it disap
pointed British officials and
majority Protestants in Northern
Ireland who wanted explicit
assurances of a permanent truce.
There also are worries about
whether Protestant gunmen will
Health on wheels
Maggie Cohen (sophomore-science), right, receives information about the University Health Services Wellness Wagon. Jeremiah Hyslop
(junior-recreation and parks management), left, helped her at the ongoing Volunteer Fair in the HUB Tuesday afternoon.
Apartments cause headaches for some
Many student-renters find
move-in more painful than they
expected.
By STEPHANIE G. ROSENFELD
Collegian Staff Writer
Sean Plower opened the door to his Univer
sity Gateway apartment expecting to find all
his belongings in place, but instead he found
that everything he owned was gone.
Plower (senior -geography) and his room
mates decided not to sublet their apartment
this summer and left all of their belongings,
including dishes, ski equipment and fraternity
mementos there. They returned to discover
that everything they owned was gone.
University Gateway apartments are rented
through State College Rental Center, 421
E. Beaver Ave., which is run through the parent
company, HFL Corp., 477 E. Beaver Ave.
Plower said when the cleaning company hired
Corman,
By MIKE O'SULLIVAN
Collegian Staff Writer
The race for the 34th District
Senate seat is starting to get
serious and so are the candidates.
With nine weeks left until the
elections, Republican incumbent
state Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-
Centre, will battle Democratic
challenger John J. Elnitski.
Corman, who is chairman of the
Senate Transportation Committee,
said he wants to see the state
Route 26 relocation project
become a top priority. The pro
posed state koute 26 project would
create an expressway around State "I think we have to re-examine
College that would ease congestion our commitment to use a shotgun
along East College Amnia. to fund higher education," he said.
Gorman also said he would con- 'We are ag) longer providing q ua ' .
thine to lobby for the construction ity education at a reasonable price
hold their fire. Many militant
Protestants fear the British gov
ernment has made secret conces
sions to the IRA to win a peace,
and the extremists could try to
provoke renewed IRA violence by
attacking the province's Roman
Catholic minority.
Hours before the IRA's declara
tion, the outlawed Ulster Volunteer
Force kidnapped a 37-year-old
Catholic, shot him in the head and
dumped his body on a roadside.
In recent years, Protestant
extremists have killed more people
than the IRA in "The Troubles,"
which have brought the deaths of
more than 3,100 people.
Any steps forward will be bur-
Eltinski square off for 34th District Senate seat
at Penn State and other state- comprised of Centre, Clinton,
I owned institutions." Juniata and Mifflin counties, as
"' I ections •
411 prisons is one way to provide more Elnitski said he is committed to
- ,
iv money for education and revitalize working for the people, citing his
the declining production of prod- recent work with the Governor's
ucts, Corman said. Response Team in an effort to
The prisoners would be paid, but prevent Champion Auto Parts from
also charged for room and board, leaving Clinton County.
he said. The manufacturing profits Elnitski said he also wants to see
would go toward the rising,costs of changes made in higher education.
state prisons, thereby creating "We're s p en di ng all our money
more funding for other programs on teachers who teach a couple
such as education, he said. hours a day and then are out hay-
If re-elected, Corm= said he big a good time," he said.
also plans to make the job of the State-related institutions should
state legislature a part-time, rath- have to record exactly how funds
er than a full-time, position. appropriated by the legislature is
As Corman's competitor, Elnitski spent, Ehlitshi said.
said he is tired of watching Cor- "How can you run this state
man only pay attention to Centre three months a year?" he ques-
County. The 34th Senate District is tioned.
of the final leg of the
U.S. Route 220 project. Completion
of this road construction would
create a four-lane expressway
from the Pennsylvania Turnpike in
Bedford County to Interstate 80.
Corman said he has some ques
tions about the way the legislature
funds institutions of higher educa
tion.
by the State College Rental Center came to
clean the apartment this summer, they alleg
edly assumed the tenants had moved out and
left their belongings there. The cleaning com
pany then allegedly threw those things away,
he said.
HFL Corp. is investigating this and two other
similar incidents, said Arthur Sirounian, direc
tor of HFL Corp. If the accusations are proven
true, the parties will be compensated, but
"nothing is black and white," he said.
One of the cases involves an HFL employer
and the other two involve outside contractors
hired by the company, Sirounian said. If the
investigation shows all allegations are true,
criminal charges will be filed, he said.
But apartment theft is not the only problem
students . encounter when returning to State
College after summer break.
Heather Tempest (senior-health policy and
administration) spent her first days in State
College with a bottle of ammonia and a vacuum.
After waiting two hours in line to check into
Published I
What's next in
Northern Ireland
dened by the accumulated bitter
ness of the past.
"I welcome this IRA cease-fire
in the sense that for some months
no one will be murdered by them
but don't expect me to be
grateful," said Alan Mcßride,
whose wife, Sharon, was among
10 people killed by an IRA bomb at
a Belfast fish shop last October.
Despite the pain, some people
held out hope, such as Michael
English, a Catholic bartender in
by students at Penn State
Londonderry who lost two sons
one run over by a British armored
car, the other blown up by his own
bomb while with the IRA.
"I can't live in 1981 for my son
Gary. I can't live in 1985 for my
son Charles. I have to live in 1994
for my grandchildren who have
replaced them," English said.
The governments of Britain and
Ireland pledged last December
that there would be no change in
the status of Northern Ireland
without the consent of a majority
of its people. The IRA has sought
for 25 years to end British rule and
join the province with the Irish
republic.
In launching the peace campaign
Please see IRA, Page 10.
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her State College Park apartment, 349 W. Clin
ton Ave., Tempest walked in to find bright
yellow, black and red stains all over the car
pets.
"It was disgusting," she said.
After complaining to the management,
workers with State College Park Apartments
finally swept some of the floor and pulled up
the carpet in the bathroom, replacing it with
linoleum, Tempest said.
Diane Lindberg, State College Park 'Apart
ments manager, said Tempest's problems were
not entirely the management's fault.
"Some of the residents of that apartment are
renewing residents and they would not let the
cleaners in," she said.
When asked about the poor cleaning job, she
said the cleaners probably wanted to get out
quickly because they were initially denied
access.
Cleaners are on standby for the next week
and will be returning to the apartments until
residents are satisfied, Lindberg said.