UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, February 17, 1997
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Vice president visits South Africa
Gore meets with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela
The Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Vice President Al Gore saw the prison where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated, introduced the country's first Peace Corps volunteers, and discussed "everything under the sun" with Desmond Tutu on the second day of his South African visit yesterday.
Gore met separately with President Mandela and retired archbishop Tutu, both Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Al Gore
The relationship between the United
states and South Africa has come under strain recently because of a possible South African arms sale to Syria.
Mandela told journalists at his
Cape Town residence that his half-hour meeting with Gore was an informal one, and they did not discuss the possible sale.
The issue would be handled by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, Mandela said.
If South Africa sells arms to Syria, U.S. law would require the suspension of certain economic aid packages to South Africa because Syria is on a U.S. list of states that support terrorism.
Tension over the issue seemed to ease when South Africa said that it would consult with Washington before any decision was made on the sale.
trutu has taken a leave from his post as chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission while he recovers from surgery for prostate cancer.
Earlier Gore met with Tutu at his Cape Town residence.
"We began with a prayer," Gore said of the meeting. "We laughed a lot. Along with that we discussed everything under the sun."
Gore and wife Tipper also visited Robben Island prison, where former political prisoners, including Mandela, were incarcerated.
The prison was closed in December and is now open to the public.
Gore also visited an education fund that sponsors students from one of Cape Town's poorest black townships, Cross Roads, and introduced the first group of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to be deployed to South Africa in the organization's 36-year history.
Gore arrived in South Africa for the third meeting of the binational commission, a Cabinet-level group that works out agreements in broad areas such as development, education and environmental affairs.
He is scheduled to attend commission meetings today before returning to the United States.
Clinton clips pilots' bargaining wings, sets precedent for strike procedures
Decision may affect future negotiations
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The word *strike* doesn't conjure up such scary images to the flying public anymore.
That is the precedent set by President Clinton when he ordered American Airlines pilots back to work within minutes after they declared a strike early Saturday.
If pilot negotiations at four of the nation's other big airlines get to the brink of a walkout, airline chiefs and passengers almost certainly will look to the White House to keep the planes in the air.
Clinton made a hugely popular decision by effectively removing the one potent negotiating weapon in the American pilot union's arsenal. There was little obvious sympathy for the pilots in their quest for more compensation, largely because at $120,000 a year they already are among the most highly paid professionals in the country.
"I think it has some implications
for the industry that aren't all good," said Ron Keever, an American pilot. "Management can just sit back and let the government step in, instead of negotiating in good faith."
American pilots haven't been the only ones trying to squeeze more money out of the U.S. airline industry, which has become healthy and profitable again after years of painful losses.
Pilots at United, Northwest, Continental and USAir also are hagglimg over new contracts and had been keeping a close watch on the American negotiations
Clinton's decision marked the first time in 30 years that a president declared an airline strike an emergency and ordered the workers back to their jobs.
But he did so with the comfort of knowing that not too many union leaders were going to complain about it.
One White House aide, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, recalled the response from an AFL-CIO official about the possibility of presidential action.
"These aren't our guys," the union representative said of the pilots.
Management canjust sit back and let the government step in, instead of negotiating in good faith." Ron Keeve
Ron Keever American Airlines pilot
Unlike the Air Line Pilots Association, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, American's pilots are a splinter union known as the Allied Pilots Association.
the American pilots had angered even some in ALPA — by far the nation's biggest airline pilot union — suggesting ALPA members at American's turboprop sister airline, American Eagle, weren't qualified to flyjets.
Traditional Catholics come under criticism
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — As Cardinal John O'Connor delivered his sermon inside St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, dissident Catholics gathered outside and called on the church to relax its stance on the ordination of women, cellbacy for clergy and homosexuality.
"Jesus was open to dialogue with anyone, including people with whom he vehemently disagreed," said Sister Maureen Fiedler, national coordinator of We Are Church, based in Fairfax, Va.
O'Connor told parishioners they must decide for themselves whether to sign.
"You are grown Catholics in here. I trust your judgment," he said. "I have never told you what to sign or not to sign. And it is up to your conscience whether you sign any kind of petition at all."
women, drop its requirement that priests remain celibate and recognize the human rights of gays and lesbians.
Members of the We Are Church want the Vatican to approve the ordination of
They're also calling on the church leadership to give lay people a voice in the selection of bishops and pastors and to allow them to exercise their own judgment on issues such as birth control.
"I don't see one thing about it that's radical," said Margaret Dubbins, of Los Angeles, who signed the petition on her way into Mass at St. Patrick's. "The majority of American Catholics are moving ahead regardless of what the Pope says."
Dubbins had particularly strong feelings about the church's prohibition on the ordination of women.
Do these men that are cloistered in seminaries for 15 years have any concept of what it's like to raise a family in the 1990s?" she said. "Women belong up on the pulpit. Women have a voice that hasn't been heard."
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