University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 7, 1988
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Nation/World
Grand jury report says Brawley lied
The Associated Press
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.
Tawana Brawley's tale of rage by a gang of whites was a lie fanned into a source of racial tension through the opportunity "of his advisers and his attorney general said yesterday.
"We have the facts. We have solved the case. The allegations she had made were false," Robert Abrams said as he released copies of an 18-page grand jury investigation of the black teen-ager's story.
The grand jury said it found no evidence of sexual assault and said the charges were for the degraded condition in which she was found after a four-day tour in which
The investigation received no cooperation from Brawley or her family, who with their advisers — the Rev. Al Sharpion and attorneys C. Vernon Perry — was accused of accusing authorities of a racially motivated cover-up. No charges
"They have charged the atmosphere with incredible, incendiary remarks and with extraordinary tenacity during a news conference."
The grand jury provided no reason for Brawley to lie but noted that she had been punished and beaten on previous occasions by her mother and her mother's boyfriend, Ralph from leaving home and staying out late.
were filed against Brawley.
She claimed she had been held captive for four days and raped by several white men, and she implained that he was enforced officials in the attack.
Brawley was found Nov. 28, seemingly dazed, outside an apartment that had recently been vacated by her family in Wappinger Falls, Fay县. Her body was smeared with acetone and scrawn with racial slurs.
Brawley's advisers bitterly attacked the report.
Military to reconsider black war records
Army medal review
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Army has agreed to review the records of black World War I heroes, following an acknowledgment by Defense Secretary Frank Carriuchi that racial discrimination "could well have contributed to the awarding of medals," a lawmaker said yesterday.
Rep. Joseph Dioguardi, R.N.Y., made the disclosure in release letters from Carlucci and another Pentagon official.
Dugiardi and Rep. Mickey Leland, D.Texas, have been seeking passport renewal services. Army gt. Henry Johnson of Albany, N.Y., who served during World War I; and Navy Marine Derrie Miller, of Waco, Texas.
The congressmen introduced legislation last October that would have
waived the five-year statute of limitations governing the awarding of Medals of Honor, opening the way for consideration of the Miller and Johnson cases. But because of Pentagon actions against him, House Armed Services Committee
Some 1.5 million blacks served in the world wars.
"It is clear that unjust discrimination existed during World War I and II, but the recent individual decisions leading to the awarding of medals or recognition of honors have been
Diougard and Leland, along with 102 colleges, wrote to Carlucci in June, and the letter released yesterday was the secretary's reply.
Carlucci emphasized that the Defense Department "does not support a symbolic award" of the Medal of Honor "the nation's highest military honor."
Abortion consent law restrained
The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. — A federal judge issued an order yesterday to the City of Jacksonville law requiring minors to get the consent of a parent or judge before making a decision.
U. S. District Judge JH. Moore II issued a temporary restraining order based on arguments Wednesday in a 90-minute hearing that the law unconstitutionally restricts the abortion for pregnant girls under 18.
"Judge Moore's ruling clears the way for teens needing abortions to do so without their parents' consent," said attorney Elizabeth White, who represented a Jacksonville clinic and an uncle of a student that took effect Saturday.
Sheppard had charged that the measure provided no guarantees of confidence, did not ensure court action would be handled speedily and made no provisions for a court order. The cost of care for a destitute teen-ager.
Attorney William J. Sheppard said, "It means that the young women of Florida can do what they want with their rights." A judicial rightful court to have an abortion," she added.
Assistant Attorney General George was contended that the law was unfair to Mr. Baldwin, who was not required to address "all variables in the vast exp of cases."
Anti-abortion group protests
The demonstration was part of a week of protests dubbed "The Siege of Atlanta" by the New York-based anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. This week, 368 demonstrators were jailed and leaders made allegations of police mismanagement that were denied by officials.
Thirty arrested demonstrators have been released on bond, police spokesman Cal. Jackson said.
The Associated Press
prayed or sang hymns on the other side of a portable steel barricade erected by police.
Seven were arrested, police said, for obstructing a car on its way to the clinic. The others were charged with failure to obey an officer.
Shortly afterward, volunteers escorted a young woman up the steps to the door of the Feminist Women's Health Center, while one demonstrator pleaded with her to not vote. The protest that she was going through with it.
While some Operation Rescue teams were called to recoach, others claimed she was "a plant" brought to the clinic to give the impression that it was a robot.
Benny Gardner, president of the Dade County chapter of National Organization for Women, called the judge's ruling a 'wonderful victory.'
He argued that the law guaranteed confidentiality, ordered a Circuit Court judge to consider a petition requiring 48 hours and expended appeals.
Virginia Chapman, president of Right To Life of Jacksonville, said her organization pushed the legislative push to create a decision-making role to parents.
sonvile Abortion Rights Action League said the law "was designed to keep teen-agers from getting abortions."
Janis Compton-Carr of the Jack
If the law were allowed to stand, Compton-Carr estimated 3,700 teenagers would seek court permission for abortions in Florida this year.
Penny Gardner, president of the National County chapter of the organization for Women, called the judge's ruling "a wonderful victory."
NOW has taken the position of friend of the court on the issue and is lobbying state legislatures consider state consent laws, Gardner said.
The order will remain in effect, the Court issues rules on the supportability of proceedings, anonymity of petitioners and expeditionality of petitioners.
Moore said the U.S. Supreme Court had recognized a woman's constitutional right to an abortion and that right had been extended to minors.
The judge said that the new state law, "when measured against Supreme Court precedent, falls under all of constitutional requirements."
Sung were the Max Sater Women's
Sung team of Jacksonville and
Jacksonville and physicians Jeffrey
M. Stowe of Jacksonville, Ralph
Burmond of Ormond Beach and Randall
Lewis of San Francisco.
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News Roundup
HOSTAGES' SAFETY THEATREMED: Kidnappers in Beirut hold two U.S. citizens threatened the hostages' safety yesterday in venting their anger over proposals to send U.N. troops to police Lebanon's stalled presidential elections. The warned came in a typewritten statement in Arabic from the Revolutionary Council of Lebanon, which answered to the Beirut independent newspaper An-Nahar along with a Polaris picture of U.S. hostage James Cieppio.
are calling it an unconstitutional intrusion into the private lives of public employees.
SMOKING BAN CONSTITUTIONALITY: Regulations that took effect yesterday forbidding police officers and firefighters in Massachusetts are producing resentment and expectations that the law will be challenged in court. The law, which was passed on October 25, is the first of its kind in the nation. Some unions
HOUSE APPROVES VETERANS BILL. Paying election-year homage to the nation's 72 million veterans, the U.S. House of Representatives gave easy approval yesterday to a bill that would transform the Veterans Administration into the government's 14th cabinet department. The lawmakers approved the measure on Wednesday. A passage was considered likely. President Reagan supports the bill, which would go into effect next March.
programs receiving federal aid. The opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel is in line with a Supreme Court ruling last year and the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 passed by Congress. The opinion also says that AIDS victims in whom the disease has progressed can be placed on a separate place if they pose a threat to the health or others of are unable to do their jobs.
LAW PROTECTS AIDS VICTIMS The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday that an anti-discrimination law protects the disabled person in the workplace and are in the federal workforce or have jobs in
NIGH RADON LEVEL: State environmental officials in New Jersey said yesterday they discovered what may be the highest level of the deadly gas radon ever found in a home. One house in a cluster in the rural community of Waukee, Iowa, was listed times the federal safety standard, said Christopher Daggett, acting commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection.
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