le No.14 tonight Belly up! Mega.hit band plays Detroit's State Theater tomorrow Sa tKeen It IWOent vketey ame NRatwe wnl1 ihgn98910tene f 46V 4v ritt 4, One hundred three years of editorial freedom Vol. CIV, N0.10 Ann Arb, Tihga uesday, October 12 93019 h ihgnDaily Thomas ecture explores y u * MIKE NEWMAN FOR THE DAILY Nationally syndicated columnist' Cal Thomas attacked current moral foundations last night in a speech that l provoked both those who attended the speech and a group protesting the I e event outside. '. He kept the crowd entertained with jokes and anecdotes that went over 11 with the attendees. -" "We see an America tortured by w.i" - new and frightening nightmares," MARK FRIEDMAN/Dail See THOMAS, Page 2 Protesters from ACT-UP and Queer Action try to force their way into the Power Center to protest during conservative columnist Cal Thomas' speech last night. Protesters fight exclusive'family values' Army backers foil U.S. plans .o in aitian port PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Army-backed toughs, warning of another Somalia, wrecked plans for American troops to land yesterday as part of an international peace mission and drove away U.S. diplomats wait- ing to greet them. The band of 25 to 50 men, some of them armed, then beat up merchants in the nearby market and fired guns while roving through the capital. No casualties were reported, but the gun- men later took over state Radio Nationale. Madeleine Albright, the U.S. am- bassador to the United Nations, brought a complaint to the Security Council, which met to consider en- dorsing it. A U.S. source at the U.N. said it contained a "veiled warning" of reimposing sanctions if Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali re- ports that the Haitian peace plan has been violated. U.S. and U.N. officials said the disturbances would not halt the over- all peace mission. Yesterday's land- ing was to begin in earnest the peace mission to restore democracy and re- build the economy. About 100 other U.N. personnel are already in the coun- try to do advance work. The White House delayed the de- ployment of nearly 200 American military medics, engineers and civil U.S. troops received a hostile reception yesterday during a multinational peace effort when their ship was prevented from docking and embassy personnel were chased by an angry mob, 50 miles. Guantanam50k 'S. Coast' HAITI; uard beyond 2 mile limit Port-au-Prince U.S. warship Harlan Caibean County blocked Sea from docking. *MiamI Atlantic Ocean Detail map CUBA-- ~, JAMAICA,' DOMINICAN REPUBLIC affairs specialists aboard the USS Harlan County, an amphibious land- ing ship anchored 800 yards offshore. There was no word on when the troops might dock. Port officials supported by the See HAITI, Page 2 By HOPE CALATI Y NEWS EDITOR The 150 people who protested Cal Thomas at the Power Center after his speech last night saw the conserva- tive columnist as a threat to what they had been celebrating at the Coming Out rally one-half block away. "Part of (the protest) is to let people know that what they espouse as fam- ily values is hatred," said Mary Beijan, W AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power tivist. "These are people who have deserted their gay children and who have deserted their children with AIDS." Before the speech, about 50 people chanted pro-gay slogans and picketed on Fletcher Street. Jeff Wiitala of Citizens for Family Values, the group that brought Tho- mas to campus said, "I believe in free speech and I noticed they haven't blocked the doors or anything so more power to them." After Thomas spoke, people who had attended the Coming Out rally marched to the Power Center. The group split in two while planning the way it was going to interact with the audience. Half of the 150 protesters stood in front of the Power Center doors and the other half surrounded protest leader Beijan. Beijan said to the people circled around her, "We at Queer Action and Triangle are glad there are students who are proud enough to stand up." As the group near the doors shouted "Act up. Come out. Be queer. Fight the Right," she told the group how to stage a "die in." The protesters were told to walk down the aisles of the Power Center silently and lay down holding tombstones to symbolize the "people killed by AIDS." Beijan told the group, "The point is to be non-violent tonight." During Thomas' speech, the doors to the Power Center were unlocked. When the protesters near the doors See PROTEST, Page 2 Oceaiiic ear'thqiiake ~ An earthquake, registering 7.1 Pride pervades at Coming Out rally rolls through Japan TOKYO (AP) - A strong earth- ake centered deep under the Pacific Ocean shook Tokyo and a wide area of Japan early yesterday. A 64-year- old woman died when she fell trying to flee her home. The quake registered a prelimi- nary 7.1 on the Richter scale, accord- ing to the Central Meteorological Agency. Two U.S. agencies estimated magnitude considerably lower - by the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., and 6.8 by the University of California at Berkeley' Seismographic Stations. No damage was reported. The quake shook Tokyo and neighboring Yokohama the strongest, but was felt as far away as-Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, more than 600 miles north of Tokyo, the Central Meteoro- ical Agency said. - The quake, which struck at 12:55 a.m., was centered 270 miles south- west of Tokyo and 250 miles below the ocean's floor, the meteorological agency said. It had relatively little effect on land because of its deep location, the agency said, adding there was no dan- ger of tsunami, or quake-induced ocean waves. Kimiya Ishida of the Tokyo Fire Department said a 64-year-old woman who suffered from a heart ailment fell in her home in Tokyo while trying to flee outside. The woman was rushed to a hospital, where she was prounounced dead. The Richter scale is a gauge of the energy released by an earthquake, as measured by the ground motion re- corded on a seismograph. Every in- crease of one number means that the ground motion is 10 times greater. A quake of magnitude 6 can cause Ctr LHU eIMr scle, e K11UOny person in Tokyo and was felt more than 600 miles away. CHINA Sa1poro RUSS Pacific Ocean JAPAN N. R EA Z Sea o Ja an Tko S. ORE East Epicenter China 2 ig Sea ° 00 ' 200 km. severe damage in populated areas; one of magnitude 7 is considered a major earthquake, capable of wide- spread, heavy damage in populated areas. By LARA TAYLOR FOR THE DAILY Rainbow flags and music by Doriart and Moses kicked off the Pride Awareness Commitment rally on the steps of Rackham last night. About 170 people attended the rally to sup- port National Coming Out Day and hear guest speaker and University alum Billi Gordon. "It is time we forget about Black, white, gay, straight, whatever," Gor- don said. "We are all humans, and there is room in this planet and in this city for all of us." During his undergraduate study at the University, Gordon served as president of the Gay Liberation Front and coordinator for the Lesbian Gay Male Bisexual Programs Office (LGMBPO). He said the office helped him, serving as a surrogate family while he was at the University and since he graduated. Chris Urchyk, who graduated from the University last year, said, "Rallies help us not to feel alienated. Society tries to make us stay in the closet." Pete Castro, an Engineering stu- dent, added, "Visibility is the main reason I'm here. People get used to what they see. We cut across the spec- trum." People cheered when it was an- nounced that Mayor Ingrid Sheldon proclaimed the week of Oct. 11-18 as Lesbian Gay Male Bisexual Pride and Commitment Week. The rally peaked when Gordon asked for a moment of silence out of respect for all the Uni- versity alums who have died of AIDS- related illnesses. "Society can change without smoke or ash," Gordon said. "If we come together and treat each other with respect, it can happen." After leaving the University, Gor- don moved to Hollywood to begin a career in show business. Since then, he has appeared in movies such as "Coming to America," and sitcoms such as "In Living Color" and "Mar- ried With Children." "I'm probably the only man in Hollywood to constantly portray a woman," Gordon said. In addition to his work in movies and television, Gordon has written four books, including the cookbook "You've Had Worse Things in Your Mouth" and "Oily Gasoline." "'Oily Gasoline' is based on child abuse experiences. It was written as a catharsis, for forgiveness. There was a point in my life where nothing was right - my career, my family, my identity. LGMBPO was my support system, my family. It was like living in a storm and having a port to call," Gordon said. This sense of family and commu- nity pervaded the rally. Many people said they felt coming together for the rally helped them to become more visible to the University. Also included were speakers from the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition, Ozone House and the Campaign for Human Dig- nity. Fraternities, neighbors discuss conflicts .... 7.... By APRIL WOOD FOR THE DAILY Gathering to discuss relationships and problems between local fraterni- s and residents, the Oxbridge ighborhood Association met with representatives of local fraternities last night at Sigma Nu Fraternity to air differences and look for solu- tions. The groups discussed several re- Residents' most common com- plaints about their collegiate neigh- bors concern excessive noise, park- ing problems, littering and illegal al- cohol possession. The conflict over noise level has been raging for more than 10 years. Difficulties between private citizens and students have also arisen in the past because of loitering and partying near the Rock on the corner of Hill arise from neighborhood complaints about noise level. The ordinance holds that any disturbance that annoys local residents is cause for police interven- tion. Sussman said, "It has been a con- stant source of conflict and there will always be a conflict. The best we can hope for is to establish a common understanding." Other problems that were dis- 15.