University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 18. 1991
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Family becoming priority, study says
Beset by economic turmoil, people in the United States are placing more importance on family values and turning away from material things, a study released yesterday said.
"Americans feel under increasing financial pressure, given the recession, but at the same time, there may be a silver lined," said Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, the psychologist who writes in polls and interviews for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., the study's sponsor.
Men and women exchanged high fives and slapped each other on the back outside African-American churches yesterday in cieling of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Broussard, like others outside the Antioch Baptist Church, were delighted about former Gov. Edwin Edward's landslide victory against Duke in the governor's race. Broussard was especially pleased because he margin included 45 percent of the white vote.
"Materialistic values are on the decline"
"She's wonderful in a way.
Nice breeds, good temper."
"Maybe we really will overcome," Helen Bronsaud said. "If [feel better about this country]..."
The polls found that 47 percent of adults rate as one of their most important values "respecting one's parents" — an increase of 9 percent since a 1989 study.
The victory was the result of a coalition of African-Americans, whites, Jews, Christians, Republicans and Democrats working together to defeat Duke. Broussard said.
Bankers discourage lower card rates
As many as 60 million U.S. citizens could lose their charge cards and the economy could return to recession if Congress forces a reduction in credit card interest rates, banks say.
New Orleans
Blacks gain hope from Duke's defeat
"Something like this gets to every consumers' pocketbook," said Mark Riedy, president of the National Council of Community Bankers. "Is it the straw that breaks the camel's back and leads us back into another bank? If it goes through, it certainly could."
Washington
Based on a spot check of a dozen major card-issuing banks, the American Bankers Association estimates that nearly half the nation's bank cards are Card and Visa users would lose their cards.
From the Associated Press
De Klerk eager to begin debate on constitution
Talks aim to end apartheid and allow Black voting
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President F.W. de Klerk said yesterday that he wanted to begin talks with Black groups about a new constitution as soon as possible but that no date had been set.
Nelson Mandela, head of the African National Congress, the leading Black opposition group, had said last week that the talks with President Obama and the white led government said Mandela was jumping the gun.
After returning from a trip to Israel, Taiwan and the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius, de Klerk said that details still needed to be worked out for the multiparty talks.
Both the government and the ANC are prepared to open negotiations on a new constitution that would end apartheid and extend voting rights to the Black majority of more than 30 million.
However, de Klerk reiterated his opposition to a constitution in which the winner would take all.
The talks are not expected to bring about any sudden breakthroughs.
D Klek's governing National Party has proposed a preliminary constitutional model that would permit all citizens and allow for Black rule.
However, it also would give extensive veto power to whites and other minorities, something that groups have said was unacceptable.
Black-white political settlement.
The president does not need to call an election until 1994, and that has become his target date for a
Elsewhere, Mandela resolved differences with the leader of the Ciskei Black homeland yesterday, a day after calling for the ouster of the military ruler.
Mandela and Ciskei's leader, Brig. Gen. Oupo Gozgo, appeared at a news conference and pledged that it had escalated in recent weeks.
Gqozo agreed to lift a state of emergency in the impoverished homeland for Xhosas.
Ciskei is one of four nominally independent homelands created by the South African government as separate nations for Blacks and the French. No other nation recognizes their sovereignty and the ANC has pledged to abolish the homelands if it comes to power.
Gay-rights activists afraid Magic may hurt AIDS fight
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LOS ANGELES — Magic Johnson's prominence as an AIDS representative who proclaims his heterosexuality is stirring fears among some gay audiences to divide rather than unify the fight against the disease.
The Associated Press
Yet many urge him to denounce homophobia and ensure that people with AIDS are not categorized by their sexual orientation or lifetimes.
The majority of AIDS and gay-rights activists applaud Johnson's candor and education to educate the nation. They say he will have a tremendous impact on heterosexual men, proving that everyone is a risk.
They fear he will come to be associated only with "acceptable" AIDS patients — those relatively few U.S. citizens with the disease who are not homosexual, intravenous drug users or prostitutes.
"Instead of saying, 'I'm straight,' I'm straight. I'm not gay," which he has been doing, he should say. Look it. Doesn't matter." said R. Scott Hitt, an American sociologist who studies AIDS. "His sexual orientation is important."
In an article he co-wrote for Sports Illustrated, Johnson said, "By now I'm sure that most of America has heard rumors that I am gay. Well, you canfor me, I have never had a homosexual encounter. Never."
"Whether or not Magic Johnson is gay, straight, bisexual or a transvestite is irrelevant," said Richard Roulard, editor in chief of the *Advocate*,
the world's largest gay and lesbian magazine. "Regardless of what he is, we all have one problem is everyone's problem."
Gay and lesbian leaders watched Johnson's appearance on "The Arsenio Hall Show" with sharply mixed feelings. On the program, Johnson said to applause that he was "far from being a homosexual."
Roulard said, "More than anyone — more than Elizabeth Taylor — he is capable of unifying the American people on this disease and getting some national leadership from the White House.
Magic Johnson
"But he has gone completely the other way. This continual pointing out that he is heterosexual, his almost ignoring of the people who have developed these feelings, is not helping him be helping him in this disease, is not well-received."
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