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LONDON — When she’s not
doing the laundry, baking bread or
buying groceries for her husband
and 10 children, Victoria Gillick
taunts the British medical establish
ment.
She and her supporters have been
campaigning for more than a decade
to stop doctors from prescribing
birth control pills for girls under lb
without their parents’ consent.
The British Medical Association,
the Department of Health and Social
Security, family-planning clinics, the
big drug companies, the education
system and the feminist movement
are all on Mrs. Gillick’s list of ene-
And for now, the 38-year-old Ro
man Catholic housewife has them all
pinned down with an Appeals Court
ruling in her favor. The case
reached the House of Lords’ Law
Lords, Britain's Supreme Court, in
June, but the court put off judgment
until the fall legal term.
In the meantime, doctors are
banned from"giving contraceptive or
abortion advice or treatment to girls
under 16, the legal age of consent in
Britain, without their parents’ per
mission.
Mrs. Gillick, whose five daughters
are all under 16, says it c«mes down
to one question: "Who is responsible
for children, parents or the state?”
' In Britain, where contraceptives
are free under the National Health
Service and sex education has long
been taught in the schools, the rate
of pregnancies among teen-age girls
is about half that of the United
States.
Dr. Pramilla Senanayake, medical
director of the Londonbased Inter
national Planned Parenthood Feder
ation, which has affiliates in 120
countries, says it would be “disas
trous” if the appeals decision is al
lowed to stand.
“The Gillick case provides a bar
rier between a young person and
health personnel to whom they
might turn for advice, including ad
vice on how to prevent pregnancy,"
she says.
“If young people know the medi
cal profession has to get prior con
sent before prescribing contracep
tion, then they won’t turn to the
doctor. They will carry on with sex
ual activity and risk pregnancy.”
During a birth control debate at
the University of Manchester in
March, about 10 i left-wing feminists
shouted abuses and pelted Mrs. Gil
lick with contraceptives. Some of the
women were dressed as rabbits to
mock the size of her family.
Tentative agreement made
Chicago teacher strike
Associated Press
Chicago teachers tentatively
agreed Wednesday to end a strike
that had disrupted the first day of
school for 431,000- students,
while walkouts in Seattle and
other cities kept another 151,000
students out or class in six states.
The teachers in Chicago, the
nation's third-largest school sys
tem, agreed on a two-year con
tract on the second day of the
strike after intervention by Gov.
James R. Thompson.
The pact still must be ap
proved oy the 28,000-member
Chicago Teachers Union, which
called a strike for the third con
secutive year. The union’s House
of Delegates was meeting
Wednesday night to decide
whether to accept the pact.
Jacqueline Vaughn, president
of the teachers union, said she
would recommend that it ap
prove the contract, and that tea
chers return to work pending ap
proval within 10 days by the full
union membership.
The walkout had parents
scrambling to find alternative rec
reational and educational pro
grams for their youngsters or
seeking last-minute enrollments
at parochial or other private
schools.
“I really have lost faith ... no
one has the heart for this any
more,” said Mary Aimer, a for
mer PTA president.
Some community centers of
fered free instruction to students,
and Chicago’s City Colleges’ tele
vision station planned educatio
nal broadcasts ranging from “Ses
ame Street” to videotaped high
school math and composition
classes.
The strike began after negotia
tors reached a stalemate over a
bne-year salary increase, with the
board offering a 3.5 percent raise
and the union asking a 9 percent
increase.
The union lowered its demand
to 8 percent. And late Tuesday,
Reilly, who shuttled between the
two sides during the talks, said
they had agreed to a “framework
for an agreement.” Money re
mained the sticking point, he
said.
The average teacher’s salary in
Chicago is $30,000, said Board
President George Munoz.
No new talks were scheduled in
' Seattle, where the city’s 44,000
public school students were to
nave gone back to class Wednes
day. The 3,700 teachers, aides
and substitutes struck Tuesday
over state-imposed salary limits,
class size and other issues.
Elsewhere, walkouts began
Wednesday in Pawtucket and
Newport in Rhode Island, keep
ing 12,100 students out of school
and in Toronto, Ohio. Strikes
continued in four Michigan dis
tricts, affecting 51,400 students,
and 3,100 teachers; in six Penn
sylvania districts, idling 19,800
students; and in one other Illinois
system, affecting 9,900 pupils.
Pawtucket’s 600 teachers voted
early Wednesday not to work
without a contract in the 8,200-
pupil system. They are seeking
raises totaling 27 percent over
three years and rejected a School
Committee offer of a one-year
contract with a 5 percent raise.
In Newport, the strike by 330
teachers left 3,900 students with
out instructors.
Little progress was reported in
efforts to end strikes in four
Michigan school districts affect
ing 51,400 students and 3,100
teachers.
Professional businessmen
become weekend cowboys
Associated Press
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — They are a
nomadic band of weekend cowboys
in pickup trucks. They suffer bro
ken hones and bruised egos in quest
of prize money that hardly covers
expenses.
Today’s rodeo rider keeps alive a
W'ild West tradition, but he may
earn his living in a Pennsylvania coal
mine or a New York office.
On weekdays, Dennis Sciabica
toils in politics as an aide to a state
senator. In his free time, he’s a pro
fessional cowboy, wrestling steers
and riding snorting bulls.
“Both are high risk businesses,”
Sciabica says. '“I’ve had people tell
me that I sling the bull during the
week and ride it on weekends.”
In nine years of rodeo competi
tion, he’s had his nose broken five
times and his back broken once. He’s
lost most of his teeth, smashed a
cheekbone and dislocated his shoul
der. He travels 40,000 miles a year
and is happy to make pocket money.
“I’m 30, my body’s 82,” he says.
“But it beats the devil out of growing
up.”
Most weekend cowboys have reg
ular jobs. On a busy weekend they
may compete in as many as four ro
deos, but only a few make a living at
it.
Entry fees range from $25 to $60
per event. A good payoff for a first-
place finish is $600 to $700. Cow
boys who bite the dust go home sore
and broke.
“If you watch your nickels, your
profit margin could be $7,000 or
$8,000 a year,” Sciabica says. “But I
don’t think anybody gets rich riding
rodeo. There’s not enough money to
justify the abuse.”
Qualifying for a payoff in bull rid
ing means sticking to a 2-ton, ram
paging hulk for eight seconds.
“It’s like an entire lifetime com
pressed in a few seconds,” says Scia
bica, who hosts his own three-day ro-
deo every year in central
Pennsylvania.
Sciabica is also vice president of
the American Rodeo Association,
one of three nationally sanctioned
rodeo groups. The ARA has 1,000
members competing in rodeos
staged mainly in the East, with nary
a tenderfoot among them.
“It doesn’t matter where you
come from anymore,” says Sam
Swearingen, 25, of Milroy, Pa., the
ARA’s leading money-winner in sad
dle bronc riding last year. “It’s amaz
ing how many cowboys come from
the East.”
East or west, cowboys are a rare
breed, according to steer wrestler
Jimmy Douglas, 42, a transplanted
Texan who now lives in Dayton, Pa.,
and operates a surface coal mine.
“The same spirit that drove peo
ple the whole way across this country
takes the cowboy and his beat-up old
trailer to the rodeo every week,”
Douglas says. “The Wild West might
be gone, but the Wild West inside
the man isn’t gone. I think all these
people are living 150 years after
their time.
“I’d rather rodeo every week for
$100 than mine coal five days Tor
$1,000. Being a cowboy is being
something everybody else isn’t.
Sikh extremists linked to killing
Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — Three sus
pected Sikh extremists firing ma
chine guns burst into a city council
office Wednesday and killed a prom
inent politician who was a close
friend of the prime minister.
Slain councilman Arjun Dass, 46,
was a Hindu and a member of the
Congress Party of Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi called an
emergency meeting to review secu
rity in New Delhi.
In Punjab state, which has been
beset for Sikh violence for more
than a year, two terrorists riding a
motor scooter opened fire in an in
dustrial area of Jalandhar city.
Police in the northern state said
two people were injured, but gave
no further details.
A series of coordinated attacks
Tuesday by Sikh extremists in Pun
jab villages took the lives of four
Hindus and injured 12 others. Hin-
A series of attacks Tuesday by Sikh extremists in Punjab
villages took the lives of four Hindus and injured 12
others. Authorities believed the violence was intended
to sabotage Punjab's Sept^j0£ elections.
dus are a religious majority in all of
India except the Punjab.
Authorities believed the spate of
violence was intended to sabotage
Punjab’s Sept. 25 elections, which
are being boycotted by Sikh mili
tants.
Of ficials responded by ordering a
dusk-to-dawn curfew on a section of
Punjab’s border with Pakistan. An
official announcement said the cur
few would remain in force until
Sept. 30.
The curfew was imposed to “pre
vent entrance or exit of disruptive
elections in the wake of the coming
OH THE SIDE OF
TEXAS ASM
elections,” according to an official
statement.
Dass, a member of the Delhi Met
ropolitan Council, was named by
civil liberties groups as one of 16
Congress Party leaders who alleg
edly instigated anti-Sikh riots follow
ing the assassination last Oct. 31 of
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
)0 peopl
four-day riots, including almost
2,000 Sikhs in New Delhi alone.
Another Congress Party politician
linked to the riots, national law-
INSTRUMENT COURSE
maker Lalit Maken, was assassinated
at his home July 31. No arrests have
been made.
Police said they did not know
whether Dass was slain because of
his alleged role in the riots or as part
of attempts to undermine the elec
tions for a new 117-member Punjab
legislature and 13 seats in the na
tional Parliament.
Police on Wednesday night re
leased photographs of four men,
three bearded and f.irbanned and
one clean-shaven.
A television announcer said the
four, who were not named, were be
lieved involved in a number of
crimes, but he did not say they were
suspects in Dass’s murder.
The clean-shaven man was Lai
Singh, a Sikh terrorist wanted by the
FBI for allegedly plotting to kill Ra
jiv Gandhi during the Indian lead
er’s visit to the United States in June.
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