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Thursday, October 17, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
U.S. crime decreased since Million Man March
Large gathering honored efforts of past year
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, gathering 10,000 black men, women and children on the first anniversary of the Million Man March, said yesterday that last year's rally led to a national drop in crime.
The crowd packed Dag Hammskjord Plaza outside the United Nations for a "World's Day of Atonement."
"I know Clinton wants to take credit for it," said Farakhan, speaking from behind a podium ringed with bulletproof glass. "I
know the police want to take credit for it. The real trust is that the spirit of the Million Man March should take credit for it."
At last year's march on the nation's capital, Farrakhan led black men in a pledge to "never raise my hand with a knife or a gun to beat or cut or shoot any member of my family or any human being."
The spirit fostered at that rally of at least 400,000 black men contributed to a national decrease in crime, Farakhan asserted. New FBI figures show murder was down 7 percent, rape down 5 percent and violent crimes down 3 percent in 1995.
It opened with a Muslim prayer and a memorial to influential blacks in U.S. history: Harriet Tubman, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X and slain rapper Tuapac Shakur.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani stayed away, saying the demonstration would be overshadowed by Farrakhan's "rhetoric of hatred." Some in the crowd disagreed.
Walter called last year's march in Washington "the best thing I ever did."
"It's not about Farrakhan," said Jerry Walter, 56, a retired city worker from the Bronx. "It's about respecting yourself, your family and your community."
Farrakhan told the crowd, "I come not as an enemy, but as a friend." He then launched into his topic: "Can the United Nations avert the war of Armageddon?"
Organizers said the rally would issue a worldwide appeal against exploitation and violence, and call upon nations to repent and atone for injustice.
Parents fight for strict gun ban
Avoiding another child massacre is Scotland's goal
The Associated Press
LONDON — In response to the massacre of 16 children in a Scottish school last spring, the government announced plans Wednesday to ban almost all public ownership of handguns.
But parents of the victims say the proposals are not tough enough. They want all guns banned — no exceptions.
Home Secretary Michael Howard said Britain would introduce legislation prohibiting private citizens from owning any handgun above 22 caliber. Even 22 caliber handguns will have to be kept at licensed gun clubs. "We will ban all handguns from people's homes."
we will ban all natluguns from people's homes," he said.
Gun enthusiasts protest that they are being "demonized" for the act of a
lone killer. But the Dunblane parents, backed by the opposition Labor Party, demand a complete ban.
"We have argued all along that this is an issue on which there must be no compromise," the victims' parents said in a statement. "What we have before us is exactly that — a compromise, a compromise that will result in the deaths of more innocent people."
Armed with two .357-caliber Smith and Wesson revolvers and two 9mm Browning pistols, 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton opened fire on a kindergarten in the Scottish village of Dunblane, killing 14 children, their teacher and then himself. He shot 105 rounds within four minutes with the guns, all legally registered.
Britain already has stringent gun control laws and Howard told the House of Commons that the government's proposals represented some of the toughest gun control laws in the world.
"We believe that it is possible to give the public the protection that if rightly requires and deserves without
going too far as to put in place the complete prohibition on the ownership of handguns." Howard said.
"And we believe that if it is possible to provide that protection without a complete ban, then it is the government's duty to take that course," he said.
He urged Parliament to back the legislation and said he was confident it could be law by Christmas.
The proposals would lead to the destruction of at least 160,000 of the 200,000 handguns now legally held, Howard said. It would have no effect on rifles and shotguns.
The Labor Party, which has a double-digit lead against the governing Conservative Party in opinion polls, pledged to back the bill, but called for a ban on all private handguns.
"Let us resolve that the lasting legacy of the evil that visited Dunblane on March 13 will be the complete outlawing of handguns so that this kind of atrocity can never, ever happen again," said Labor lawmaker George Robertson.
THE NEWS in brief
Protest tactics being judged
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion demonstrators have a free-speech right to confront clinic patients up close even if the patients ask to be left alone, a lawyer for two protesters told the Supreme Court yesterday.
But a lawyer for upstate New York abortion clinics said demonstrators can convey their messages while staying at least 15 feet away from people entering or leaving the clinics.
crowding, grabbing, sometimes knocking people down" by protesters outside abortion clinics, said Lucinda M. Finley, representing the Pro-Choice Network of Western New York.
A back-off order issued by a lower court, judge is a legitimate effort to stop "persistent, proven conduct of
Jay Alan Sekulow, the protesters' lawyer, said demonstrators should have the right to approach people to conduct sidewalk counseling or hand them leaflets as part of the often-emotional debate about abortion.
"We think the debate should tip in favor of free speech here," Sekulow said.
The Supreme Court reaffirmed the right to abortion in 1992. Since then the court has focused largely on protesters' tactics during a time that has seen many violent acts at abortion clinics, including five killings.
During yesterday's argument, the courtroom was packed with partisans in the battle about abortion, including the Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the American Center for Law and Justice, which Sekulow represents. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority Foundation also was there.
Defense Secretary pitches treaty
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Defense Secretary William Perry got a firm endorsement and a bit of a pep talk from his Russian counterpart on Wednesday in his push to overcome Russian doubts about the SALT II arms-reduction treaty.
"Everything will depend upon the pitch (given) by Defense Secretary Perry and on the mood of the Duma," Defense Minister Igor Rodionov said of the treaty's chances in the lower house of Parliament.
"What is the astrological date tomorrow?" the general added with a laugh.
Perry met with Rodionov for two hours before his appearance for the Duma on Thursday. Many of the legislators who must approve the U.S. Senate-ratified treaty contend it is too expensive or not in Russia's best security interest.
Speaking with reporters at the Defense Ministry, Rodionov said that not only did he favor the START II treaty, "I favor the next treaty,
START III. "Although no such agreement exists, Perry told reporters en route to Moscow that he also wants deeper cuts in nuclear weapons, but only after START II is ratified.
But ratification is not certain in the Duma, where nationalists and Communists have voiced strong opposition.
The treaty, signed by Presidents George Bush and Boris Yeltsin in 1993, would eliminate all land-based nuclear weapons with multiple warheads and by 2003.
Swiss withholding money from Jews
Holocaust survivors accuse bank officials
The Associated Press
money in their safes?" Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel asked. "For what purpose? Why didn't they speak up earlier?"
NEW YORK — Swiss bank officials collaborated with Adolf Hitler by keeping millions of dollars from Holocaust survivors and their relatives, critics said at a Senate hearing yesterday.
"How is one to explain the fact that Switzerland collaborated with Hitler's agents in keeping Jewish
Wiesel, a Nazi death-camp survivor, was among six World War II survivors who outlined their frustration of the issue before the Senate Banking Committee. Chairman Alfonse D'Amato hoped to increase pressure on Swiss banks to uncover bank accounts Jews say have been missing since the war.
Holocaust survivor Estelle Sapir, 70, told D'Amato that Credit Suisse bank officials denied her access to
her father's savings because she couldn'tproduce a death certificate
"Because my father was killed in a concentration camp, I would never be able to produce a death certificate, and they knew it," Saip said.
Switzerland and its banks, despite their neutrality, traded with Nazis during the war. Switzerland was surrounded by hostile countries and feared a Nazi invasion, officials say.
Jewish groups claim Swiss banks hold $7 billion in assets and interest belonging to Jews, some of whom were killed by the Nazis.
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