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. Don't let your projects put you in a bind! We can make the difference i I while you wait. Sprial & velo binds professionally finish your report instead of leaving it dangling. BROWN Continued from Page : 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. G Y W y 4 J r' N W_ 4 to W Send Anyone/Anywhere A N m m m - v v , - oo AROUND THk WORLD ,:ยง,: ; 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. 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