University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. November 8, 1988 Nation/World 7 377 arrested in rally for homeless Protest, march on Capitol Hill attracts Benjamin Spock The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Police arrested 377 people yesterday, including prominent pediatrician and social activist Benjamin Spock, in the culmination of a long series of protests on Capitol Hill called to focus attention on the plight of the homeless in the United States. "We're here to show the politicians that there is a crisis in America, a crisis that they are not responding to, a crisis that we want answers for," said Mitch Snyder, a Washington advocate for the homeless and organizer of the protests. Snyder led a march and a 90-minute rally across Constitution Avenue from the Capitol building, enabling the event with his exhortation to the crowd to sit down in the middle of the street and be arrested as a way of showing concern for the homeless. homeless. About 377 people followed Snyder's appeal and were arrested by police on charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic on Capitol grounds, said Dan Nichols, a spokesman for the Capitol police. The protest and arrests had been coordinated with Capitol police and were generally quiet. About 2,000 persons attended the rally, Nichols said. Snyder organized a series of protests that began Sept. 26. sep. 19. The rally took on the trappings of a political gathering, with dozens of people in the crowd sporting "Dukakis-Bentsen" buttons and signs in support of the Democratic presidential ticket. No signs in support of Vice President George Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, were apparent. No takers yet for needle swap program The Associated Press NEW YORK — New York City yesterday began a pilot program to stem the spread of AIDS by providing new hypodermic needles to drug addicts in exchange for their used ones. The program aims at reducing needle sharing among addicts. Although the program intended to serve as many as 200 intravenous drug abusers, by early afternoon no applicant had appeared at Health Department headquarters in lower Manhattan. "Today, we're going to have only a handful," said health commissioner, Dr. Stephen Joseph. "We're going to build slowly up over a period of weeks or months." Under the $240,000 program, which has drawn heated opposition from conservatives and some minority group organizations, addicts also will receive counseling on AIDS and drugs. The program is open only to addicts over age 18 who have applied for drug treatment and have been denied immediate admission to the city's overcrowded programs. Applicants would be asked to fill out a consent form, learn about the program and take a blood test. They would receive a kit including a condom, sterile water and pamphlets about safe sex and needle hygiene. An addict who tries to get a new needle without returning the old one will be expelled from the program, Joseph said. joseph said City officials said the program was believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, although similar programs have been operated in Europe. News Roundup In Boston, Mayor Raymond Flynn had backed a similar proposal, but it was rejected by the city council earlier this year. Two prominent black city officials, Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward and Special Narcotics Prosecutor Sterling Johnson, criticized the program, as did the city council's Black and Hispanic Caucus. EARTHQUAKE KILLS 600: a powerful earthquake struck just inside China's southern border, killing 600 people and nearly wiping out the Yuan province, two official radio stations reported yesterday. The quake registered 7.6 on the Richter scale. TYPHOON HITS PHILIPPINES: The second typhoon in two weeks pounded the central Philippines with 108 mph winds and torrential rains yesterday, causing floods and mudslides that forced thousands from their homes. A radio station reported that six children and four adults were killed in a mudslide in a city 210 miles NW of Manila. southeast of Manila COURT TO DECIDE ON ASSETS: The Supreme Court said yesterday it would decide whether the government will seize money and impose that criminal defendants use to pay their lawyers. The Reagan administration urged the justices to uphold the government's power to take a defendant's assets even if it meant that the accused would be unable to hire the lawyer of his choice. TWO DIE IN WAGE DISPUEST: A Palestinian worker angry over unpaid wages killed a soldier on duty at a Jewish settlement yesterday and an Israeli farmer shot the assassin to death, witnesses. ses reported. FORMER HAITIAN ARMY COMMANDER DIES: Former Haitian army commander Jean-Claude Paul died under suspicious circumstances after eating a bowl of soup yesterday. Radio Haitier-Intered reported that Paul had died of a heart attack, but the independent station said police considered the death suspicious. The prime minister Ponton Maucoutes, the private army of the Duvalier dictatorship. TURNOUT LOW FOR ANNESTY PROGRAM: Turnout was light yesterday for the first day of the second phase of the government amnesty program for illegal immigrants, who could begin applying for permanent residency. Permanent resident status brings applicants a green card, which allows them to leave and enter the country at will and to eventually apply for citizenship. PRESS CRITICIZES WALES'A STRIKE THREATS: The official press criticized union leader Lech Walesa for threatening strikes to save the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk. 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