2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 6, 1995
Simpson challenged to return black support
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Black ac-
tivists cautioned O.J. Simpson yester-
day not to ignore his fervid support
among blacks and risk becoming "the
No. 1 ingrate in America."-
The same day, the State Bar began
investigating attorney antics during the
double-murder trial.
As acquittal fallout continued, a de-
fense attorney denied allegations he
once offeredaplea bargain for Simpson,
Mark Fuhrman dropped his libel suit
and a prosecutor complained his case
was hampered by Simpson's celebrity.
At the District Attorney's Office, so
many flower bouquets arrived that the
office looked, in one employee's words,
"like a funeral parlor."And at Simpson's
house in Brentwood, hordes of report-
ers remained outside his gates even
though no one knew if he was home.
Several miles and a world away from
Rockingham Avenue, Simpson was
offered a pointed challenge to start pay-
ing more attention to the streets of South
Central than the fairways of the fa-
mous. His acquittal Tuesday by a black-
majority jury in the murders of Nicole
Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
drew cheers in the black community.
"It's about time for this guy to begin
to understand that if he's going to be a
kind of poster (boy), then he ought to
straighten up his act," said Celes King,
state chairman of the Congress of Ra-
cial Equality.
At a news conference with otherblack
activists, King said that if Simpson
doesn't respond, "He's going to prove
himself to be the No. I ingrate in
America."
Dr. James Mays, who runs four in-
ner-city clinics, insisted, "This is not a
payback.
"Sometimes situations awaken people,
and I think this is an opportunity for him
tobe awakened," Mays said. "...We feel
that if we have some input into his fu-
ture, and he has some input into our
future, he can be symbolic."
In a television interview, the Rev.
Jesse Jackson criticized Simpson for
lashing out at prosecutors and legal
analysts on a call-in show Wednesday.
He urged Simpson to become "a posi-
tive healing factor" and "not try this
case again out of the court."
"I hope that we can really get beyond
this painful racial divide that we're go-
ing through now and really move to-
ward some healing. And I hope Q.J.
will be a factor in that healing," Jackson
told CNN.
Meanwhile, the State Bar of Califor-
nia began a preliminary investigation
into allegations of attorney misconduct
during the televised trial, said the Bar's
chief counsel, Judy Johnson. She said
there had been no finding of wrotigdo-
ing so far.
"My primary intent is to take a look at
the propriety of the conduct and state-
ments made in the courtroom and deter-
mine if any attorney engaged in con-
duct that violated the Bar's Rules of
Professional Conduct," she said.
W NATIONAL REPORT
Supreme Court to decide VMI gender status
WASH INGTON - The Supreme Court will decide whether Virginia Military
Institute can remain all-male.
The court said yesterday it will study competing appeals - one by Virginia
officials and one by the Clinton administration.
A decision is expected by July.
The administration says the only way to guarantee women equal treatment is to
admit them to VMI. A separate "women's VMI" begun this fall is as unlawful as
segregated schools once created for blacks and whites, administration lawyers
contend.
Virginia argues that the state-supported military college must keep female students
out to preserve its educational goals. Women can attend other public colleges in
Virginia, state officials note.
Even if the women's VMI program were dropped, the state adds, VMI should
be allowed to remain all-male.
An eight-member court is expected to hear arguments in January. Justice
Clarence Thomas disqualified himself in the case because his son, Jamal, is a VMI
senior.
VMI and The Citadel in South Carolina are the nation's only all-male, state-
supported military colleges.
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House was funded by taxpayers and
rent is negligible, the facility still car-
ries a $900,000 annual budget to cover
utilities, food, staff and general aid to
battered women, McClary said.
"Ongoing operating costs need to be
raised year-to-year and month-to-
month. Operating expenses are still
raised from private donations, churches
and the United Way," McClary said.
SAFE House opened last June and
has been filled to capacity since, said
Susan McGee, executive director of
SAFE House,
"We're happy to be serving so many
m S.
women and children," McGee said.
SAFE House has been plagued with
numerous minor difficulties since its
opening. "There've been a lot of prob-
lems: mechanical, heating, cooling,"
McGee said.
McClary, however, was not disheart-
ened by these problems. "Wheneveryou
build a facility of this magnitude, there
will alwaysbe someproblems," she said.
Despite the difficulties, SAFE House
fills a vital role in the Ann Arbor com-
munity. "1 think providing women and
children with a place they can feel safe
is at least as important as punishing the
people who hurt them in the first place,"
said LSA senior Brian Henzel.
LSA junior Julie Smith agreed. "A
lot of these women stay in very danger-
ous situations because they don't think
there's anywhere for them to go. As a.
result, they may be hurt or killed. Do-
mestic violence shelters should be avail-
able everywhere and to everyone."
The SAFE House dedication is just
one of the activities planned for Do-
mestic Violence Awareness Month.
Otherevents include a Walk-A-Thon/
Roller Blade-A-Thon, a fashion show
and brunch benefit all on Oct. 21.
From Oct. 24-27, the group is spon-
soring the Clothesline Project, a dis-
play of shirts with graphic messages
created by women as a statement of
solidarity by those suffering from do-
mestic abuse.
The dedication is open to the public
with shuttle buses running from
Arborland Mall to the shelter.
GOP hopes for tak
before Clinton vetoes
sweeping budget bil
WASH INGTON -Republican con-
gressional leaders have decided that if a
sweeping budget compromise is to be
reached with President Clinton this year,
negotiations should begin in the next
few weeks before he vetoes a still-
evolving, massive package of spending
and tax cuts.
But the Clinton administration, seem-
ingly buoyed by recent polls showing
public displeasure with GOP plans to
rein in Medicare and other programs,
seems in no hurry to talk.
As a result, immediate prospects for
a budget deal remain uncertain. And
while officials from both sides say in
private that the general outline of a
budget-balancing compromise is easy
to envision, they concede that politics
will make it hard, perhaps impossible,
to conclude a pact.
Negotiations will be required forbud-
get-balancing legislation to become law
because a Clinton veto of a Republican
package is certain -as is the inability
of the GOP to muster a two-thirds ma-
jority in Congress to override that veto.
Republican leaders hope to have their
package of cuts in taxes, Medicare,
Medicaid, welfare and other domestic
programs ready for final votes by midi
November.
Critics: Browni's
son received faVor
WASHINGTON - Over the past
two years, a gas company controlled by
a prominent Democratic couple from
Oklahoma has placed Commerce Sec-
retary Ronald Brown's son on its board,
given him a 5-percent stake and pro-
vided him with a $60,000 golf-club
membership.
The Commerce Department hired
the daughter of Eugene and Nora T.
Lum of Tulsa in an entry-level politi-
cal appointee job, and the Clinton ad-
ministration invited Mrs. Lum to a
White House state dinner and a trade
meeting.
The relationship began to drawatten-
tion after the Lums were sued by former
business partners Stuart and Linda
Mitchell Price.
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Comoros mercenary
surrenders after
French invasion
MORONI, Comoros Islands - A
grizzled, limping soldier of fortune
ended his latest power grab in Africa
yesterday by quietly leading his cam-
ouflage-clad band of white mercenar-
ies into French custody.
The subdued surrender on the
Comoros Islands off Africa's east coast
came afteralightning invasion ofFrench
troops ended a short-lived coup by Bob
Denard, two dozen mercenaries and
300 allied Comorian soldiers.
Denard and the hired guns who fol-
lowed him in his latest African esca-
pade emerged unarmed yesterday from
the military barracks that had served as
their command center since they de-
posed the president of the Comoros one
week ago.
Defiant to the end, Denard, 66, re-
fused to call his negotiated agreement
with French officials a surrender.
"I don't consider myself a prisoner,"
he toldjournalists. "There are no condi-
tions, there is no surrender.... Today
it's raining and today the Comorians
are crying."
Denard ruled these dirt-poor Indian
Ocean islands, a French colony until
1975, through coups and puppet presi-
dents from 1978 until 1989, when France
negotiated his departure.
France sent 600 troops ashore
Wednesday, forcing Denard to free
President Said Mohamed Djohar after
six days of captivity. Djohar, in his 80s,
was flown to the French island of La
Reunion and hospitalized for tests.
Irsh poet, -Heaney,m
wins Nobel Prize
BELFAST, Northern Ireland-Over
three decades Seamus Heaney has built
a reputation as the English language's
greatest living poet, reflecting the wild
beauty of Ireland and the passionate
contradictions of his native north.
As he won the Nobel Prize for litera-
ture yesterday, friends and fans cel-
ebrated a shaggy-locked "teddy bear"
who long ago rejected the tribal labels
of Catholic and Protestant to explore
the divided national soul.
"It's the kind of news that makes you
want to jump in the air and cheer," said
Frank Ormsby, a poet and editor of
several anthologies of Northern Irish
poetry.
Widely regarded as the greatest Irish
poet since William Butler Yeats, Heaney
had been ranked a likely Nobel laureate
for a decade. He is the first poet to win
the prize since 1992.
Irish President Mary Robinson con-
gratulated him "forbringing great honor
to Ireland."
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