NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 14, 1994
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Gay community says 'no' to pedophile organization
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The gay community has long allowed other sexual outcasts to ride its coattails, from transvesties and transsexuals to bisexuals and leather fetishists. But it now is trying to distance itself from pedophiles.
Last month, a New York group called Stonewall 25 voted to bar the controversial North American Man-Boy Love Association from its international march on the United Nations on June 26. The demonstration will commemorate the 25th anniversary of an uprising at the Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village gay bar.
"Those who advocate or engage in sexual abuse of young people are not welcome in the family of gay men and lesbians who live upstanding and honorable lives," said Pat Norman, a co-chair of the march.
The gay community historically has been inconsistent in its response to pedophiles, leaving itself open to attack.
In January, the Senate unanimously passed an amendment, introduced by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., to sharply reduce funds to the United Nations unless it severs deals with the International Lesbian and Gay Association. Helms objected to the association's relationship to NAMBLA, one of about 350 groups that belong to LGA.
David Smith, a representative for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a Washington lobby group, accused the religious right of trying to link homosexuality to denodhilia to serve its "twisted interests."
"It's very clear that every major U.S. gay leader has
But he acknowledged disagreement among gay leaders about NAMBLA's presence at gay events. For example, the annual gay pride march in Los Angeles excludes NAMBLA, but the marches in New York and San Francisco have allowed it to participate.
condemned NAMBLA and condemned groups that promote pedophilia, he said.
Hans Hjerpkejon, secretary general of the Brussels-based ILGA, said that NAMBLA joined ILGA about fifteen years ago when ILGA was a loose organization with few criteria for membership. He said that many ILGA members would like to see NAMBLA expelled but that the group could not take up a resolution to oust a member until its next meeting, in July in New York.
"Under our constitution, there will have to be an 80 percent vote in favor of expelling the group," he said. "That can be hard to obtain on any issue, but our intention certainly is to expel them, and I am hopeful we will reach that goal."
Clinton Anderson, officer for lesbian and gay concerns at the American Psychological Association, said psychological researchers have found that convicted sexual abusers of children frequently "cannot be characterized as having an adult sexual orientation at all."
Hempelson said ILGA had been concerned about its association with NAMBLA since the late 1980s and had urged the group to resign. In 1990, ILGA adopted a resolution denouncing nodophilia, he said.
"Of those people who seem to have had enough experience as adults to have an adult sexual orientation in addition to pedophilia, as adults they were primarily heterosexual," he said.
South African parties planning election boycott
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party said it would join pro-apartheid whites in boycotting South Africa's first all-race election.
Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said he would ask the Organization of African Unity, the Commonwealth and the United Nations to mediate stalled talks.
Political leaders say there still is time to overcome disputes before the April 26-28 election.
Inkatha's central committee called Saturday for the boycott and for the election to be opposed "in any and every way permissible by law."
A boycott by the Freedom Alliance — which includes Inkatha as well and right-wing whites seeking an independent white state — could escalate political violence that killed more than 3,000 blacks last year.
The violence, much of which stems from a power struggle between Inkatha and the African National Congress, is considered the greatest threat to free and fair voting.
Alliance members say they fear the ANC, which is expected to win the election, will trample minority rights. They want autonomous or independent homelands, a concept rejected by the white minority government and the ANC.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Serb forces refuse to comply with NATO orders to withdraw
THE NEWS in brief
Bosnian Serb commanders failed to show up for cease-fire negotiations yesterday after rejecting U.N. conditions for surrender of their heavy arms.
The Serbs are demanding that Bosnian government troops withdraw from front-line positions around Sarajevo as part of a cease-fire, U.N. officials said.
The Serbs say the government, which has stronger infantry forces around Sarajevo, could otherwise launch a ground offensive once the Serbs withdraw their big guns.
NATO has ordered the Bosnian Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from Sarajevo by midnight Feb. 20 or face air strikes.
As part of a cease-fire announced Wednesday, the Bosnian Serbs had agreed to pull back their guns and put them under U.N. supervision.
The U.S. State Department, apparently worried about a backlash against Americans if NATO carries out its threat, ordered the families of American diplomats and government employees to leave Yugoslavia immediately, embassy officials said in Belgrade.
But after handing over several mortars and other big guns Friday, neither the Bosnian army nor the Serbs turned in any weapons Saturday, U.N.ookesman Mai, Jose Labandeira said.
And despite U.S. and Russian pressure on the warring sides, peace talks in Geneva broke up with no progress reported.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.
Whitewater made money
The money-losing Arkansas real estate venture that has entangled the first family in a federal investigation began generating a small income before President and Mrs. Clinton sold their interest.
The Clintons decided not to take any of the money before ending their relationship with Whitewater Development Corp. in December 1992, one of their lawyers said.
In May 1992, Whitewater paid off its remaining loans, enabling it to make a little money. Since
then, those proceeds — which total less than $200 a month — have gone to the Clintons' former business partner, James McDougal.
The Clintonts have said they invested and lost nearly $69,000 as co-owners of Whitewater. They sold their half to McDougal for $1,000 and have said they never made any money on their investment.
"It has never been clear as to what he (McDougal) has taken out of Whitewater," said James Blair, an attorney who advised the first family on the matter. "But I believe it to be more than anybody has talked about."
The attorney said he thought the Clintons should have received some Whitewater income.
McDougal said his Whitewater income went toward repaying his investment losses, which he estimates are about $90,000.
WICHITA
Shooter linked to clinic fires
In a series of letters and interviews with the newspaper, Shelley Shannon provided details that suggest she was involved in several arsons or knows who was.
Her activities are under investigation by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Shannon, 37, of Grants Pass, Ore., was charged with attempted first-degree murder in the Aug. 19 shooting of George Tiller outside his clinic, Women's Health Care Services. Tiller was slightly wounded in both arms and returned to work the next day.
In a telephone interview, Shannon said she decided in 1990 that violence against clinics was justified.
"So as far as somebody bombing a place, I came to the conclusion then that there was nothing wrong with that, especially when you see the results like we've had down in Redding, Calif., where the place was closed for eight months," she said, referring to a June 1992 fire at a clinic there.
Shannon is being held in lieu of $1 million bond while awaiting a March 21 trial.
Except video, no clues in art theft
OSLO, Norway
Despite a video of two men stealing the country's most famous painting — "The Scream" by Edward Munch — police said yesterday they had no clue as to who the thieves were.
Police were searching for a Mercedes station wagon the two men were believed to have used when they drove away from the National Art Museum on Saturday morning.
A video taken by a security camera showed a man climbing a ladder on the exterior of the museum and entering the building through a window. Fifty seconds later he handed the painting to his waiting accomplice beneath the window.
The camera filmed the men from a distance, and the picture quality was poor.
Police and art experts said it was highly improbable that the painting could be sold since it is so well known. No ransom demand has been made.
Munch painted several versions of "The Scream," but the stolen one is regarded as the most important.
WASHINGTON
Malaria vaccine in the works
In the wilds of Tanzania, 600 children are testing what could be a medical breakthrough: a malaria vaccine.
By 1998, researchers anticipate global vaccination for the disease, which strikes 300 million to 500 million people a year. Youngsters are the most vulnerable; malaria kills 1 million African children each year.
"If we have the right vaccine and the right resources, we could reach 80 percent of the people in Africa in just 24 months," said D.A. Henderson, a physician who is a renowned vaccine expert and an assistant U.S. health secretary.
But while Henderson says "we are hot on the right trail," the fight against malaria may soon be jeopardized by budget cuts.
Possible cuts in U.S. aid for malaria research may cause other donors to cut back. Medical officials say private companies will not pick up the tab because the vaccine, needed mainly in very poor countries, won't make a profit.
Compiled by the Associated Press
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