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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 7, 1992
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BRIEFS
Unions end strike in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — A union walkout that brought many city services to a halt all but ended the day it began yesterday when the mayor and the city's blue- and white-collar unions reached tentative agreements.
Leaders for the unions approved pacts to end a work stoppage — the city called it a strike, the union a lockout — that began at midnight.
It was the first strike in six years. Off the job were garbage collectors, water and sewage workers, City Hall clerks, inspectors, social workers, emergency 911 operators and others.
Government critics win elections in Kuwait
KUWAIT — Government critics woke up to something of a shock vesterdav —
a landslide victory in Kuwait's first parliamentary elections in seven years. Seven loosely allied opposition groups and independent candidates captured 35 of the 50 Parliament seats. Most of the 15 solid seats for the government came from the ruling al-Sabah family's traditional supporters in tribal areas.
Only about 81,500 "first-class citizens," males who can trace Kuwaiti ancestry to 1921, could vote.
Court hears arguments on abortion blockades
White House says protests should be states' jurisdiction
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court yesterday to keep federal judgments from stopping abortion-clinic blockades, but a lawyer for clinic owners said that would cripple abortion rights.
Justice Department lawyer John Roberts Jr, said the administration did not defend the tactics of Operation Rescue members and other anti-abortion protesters who block access to clinics, but he argued they should be held accountable in state courts.
Those who engage in unlawful acts at clinics lack the necessary motive—will it warrant women—to bring their conduct under federal scrutiny, Roberts said. "They are targeting women not because of who they are but because of what they are doing." he said.
Deborah Ellis, a lawyer representing Virginia abortion clinic operators, said removing federal court authority to issue injunctions against block-
ades would leave women without adequate protection.
Clinic owners would have to turn to state courts for help, and many local police departments called on to enforce state court injunctions say they lack the resources to deal with massive demonstrations.
Ellis likened anti-abortion protesters who participate in clinic blockades to Ku Klux Klan members who intimidated African-American students during the early days of school desegregation efforts.
"If equal protection means anything," she said, "it must cover the taking away of a right that only the protected class has. The denial of women's reproductive rights denies women the right to control their destiny."
"If men and women of good conscience can disagree over abortion, how can opposition be an invidious act?" he said. "It cannot."
But Jay Alan Sekulow, Operation Rescue's lawyer, said his clients opposed abortion, not women.
The legal and political battle was waged outside the high court's statety
On the public sidewalk in front of the court building, dozens of activists
on both sides of the national debate shouted slogans at each other and vied for news media attention.
"The federal judiciary should not be used to hammer pro-lifers," said Rand Derry, Operation Rescue's founder. "This is a horrible injustice."
The groups' leaders, talking to reporters after the hour-long court argument, spent little time debating the legal points.
The right of women to have an abortion is not directly at issue in the case before the justices, but rather a post- war federal law, the Ku Kuxi Klan War (1777). It bans conspiracies aimed at violating someone's constitutional rights.
The law protects "any person or class of persons." Past Supreme Court rulings have said that wording meant those who invoke the law must be victims of class-based animosity.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., and the 4th U.S. Circuit court of Appeals in Richmond ruled that women seeking abortions are a protected class of persons who can use the 1871 law to obtain federal court injunctions against the blockades.
Those injunctions can be enforced by federal law enforcement agents or,
Russia intervenes in Georgia region
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boryiseltski said yesterday that Russian troops were taking control of the railway and the coast in Georgia's seismic region of Abkhazia, deepening Moscow's involvement in the troubled area.
Yeltsin told lawmakers that Russia was not involved in offensive military actions in Abkhazia, disputing accusations by Georgia's Defense Ministry that Kremlin forces were aiding the separatists.
Both former Soviet republics have engaged in an increasingly sharp war of words over the six-week-old conflict, in which Georgia sent troops to Abkhazia to root out supporters of ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Abkhazia claims the troops were sent to crush its independence drive.
The move by Yeltsin appeared aimed at protecting the railway and Black Sea coast. The north-south railroad, Russia's main land link with Georgia and Armenia, has been locked charing the unrest in the Caucasus Mountains region.
However, Georgia was likely to regard the move as an infringement on its territory. All the principal cities of Abkhaiza, including its capital of Sukhumi, are along the coast.
Along with their ports, they represent the richest part of the western region of Georgia.
Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze, while not responding directly to the announced seizure of the railway, criticized a statement Yeltsin had made earlier in the day. Yeltsin had said: "Russia will not stand aloof when human rights are violated, the interests of people of Russian origin are trampled."
At a news conference in Tbilisi, Shevardnadze said all Russians — including its military — had enjoyed full legal rights in Georgia and were safe from harm.
"The president believes that he is obliged to protect and defend the rights of Russian nationalists wherever they exist."
... including Georgia, Shevadznadez and Yeltsin. On Sept. 3, Yeltsin and Shevadznadez Georgian-Russian military control of railroads, highways and bridges in Abkhazia to protect them. But Yeltsin told the Russian legislature yesterday that Russian troops were taking the railway "entirely under our control."
"Yes, there is shooting there, and we are defending our materiel and ourselves," he said.
Yeltsin proposed that he, Shewardnadze and the Abkhazian leaders meet Oct. 13 in Abkhazia even though there is shooting there.
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