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Thursday, August 31, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Gingrich to face new districts
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich would face a tougher re-election campaign under redistricting plans being considered by the Georgia Legislature, a political scientist said Tuesday.
Under separate House and Senate plans, much of Gingrich's predominantly Republican 6th District in suburban Atlanta would move into three counties where his popularity has steadily declined from 1986 through 1990. The house adopted its version Friday and the Senate was to have voted on its plan yesterday.
"He would have to spend more time in 'distant maintenance'—more time going to barbecues and street festivals," said Charles Bullock of the University of Georgia.
But because of his national prominence, Gingrich probably could win in any potential district, Bullock said.
Newt Gingrich
In both plans, the Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, have shifted black voters into Republican districts to try to recapture Republican seats.
And although they differ in details, the plans generally reconfigure Georgia's political map to the advantage of white Democrats at the expense of black Democrats and white Republicans.
The House plan creates "safe" seats for two of the state's three black members of Congress — Democrats John Lewis and Cynthia McKinney — while giving the third, McCrainy Sanford Bishop, a good shot at re-election. The Senate plan is less favorable to McKinney and Bishop.
Gingrich's longtime political foe, Georgia's Democratic House Speaker Tom Murphy, said that he didn't draw the new maps, but it wouldn't bother him to see Gingrich face unfriendly voters.
Gingrich said the House proposal was "the last revenge of a dying speakership."
The Legislature was forced to redraw district lines after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruled in June that the state's last redistricting effort relied too heavily on racial patterns.
NEW YORK — Needle sharing among drug users fell 40 percent after Connecticut passed a law permitting syringe sales without prescriptions, according to a study published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
The finding is good news in the battle against AIDS, as 75 percent of AIDS cases in Connecticut, and most around the country, occur among intravenous drug users, their sexual partners and children, the journal reported. Easing restrictions on clean needle sales, then, could
The Associated Press
New law reduces needle sharing
cut the spread of the AIDS virus.
"This is something that made a dramatic change in behavior at no cost to the public," Beth Weinstein, director of the AIDS division of the Connecticut Health Department, told The New York Times, which reported on the journal study in its Wednesday editions.
Weinstein's department and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted the study.
Connecticut is one of five states that allows non-prescription sale of syringes. The others are North Dakota, Alaska, Iowa and South Carolina. Connecticut legalized the possession of syringes that are not contaminated with illegal drugs in 1992.
The nine states that require prescriptions for syringes, including New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California, have the highest incidence of AIDS.
In a 1991 survey, researchers also found lower rates of sharing syringes among drug users in Washington state because needles were available in pharmacies.
An editorial in the journal called on other states to eliminate prescription requirements for syringes, based on Connecticut's experience.
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