The Battalion
K/VORLD & NATION
Tuesday, January 24,1989
ups Policeman arrested
In Miami riot killing
Bush attacks abortion ‘tragedy,’
supports repeal of Roe vs. Wade
vt °han(l|fi MIAMI (AP) — The policeman
■hose fatal shooting of a black mo-
e situation jjtorcyclist sparked last week’s racial
ty. ffiolence was arrested Monday and
ow thev'r t f|ha r ge c l with manslaughter only
Biours after the young man’s funeral,
lip object.; Meanwhile, the Justice Depart-
hy it haw ent ’s civil rights division began an
Btvestigation into the shooting, and a
r lives andlpty panel formed to review the inci-
■ent complained it did not have suf-
icy’re in so ■dent power.
endtothfl Officer William Lozano, 29, was
Booked into Dade County Jail on two
i 10 m era .|tountsof manslaughter and released
may beseHf ter posting $10,000 bond, Sgt. Ar-
Biur Clemons said.
counselintl Lozano was charged in the killings
ieycantoi.Bf Clement Lloyd, 23, and Allen
supportiveBl anc h ar d, ^ he two were speed-
Bigona motorcycle Jan. 16 in Over-
ing service■P wn w hen Lozano allegedly shot
Bloyd in the head. Lloyd died at the
-^.pcene and Blanchard, his passenger,
Bied the next day from injuries suf-
ftred in the ensuing crash.
Only hours before Lozano’s ar
rest, about 150 relatives and friends
of Lloyd gathered for his funeral at
the small Bahman Avenue Church
of God in Opa-locka.
“As Martin Luther King said, we
live together as rational human be
ings or die together as fools — not
only in Miami but all over America,”
the Rev. Morris Lloyd, the victim’s
uncle, said in his eulogy. “Until
something is done to correct our in
justices, I believe a lot more lives are
going to be lost.”
Lloyd’s mother and other family
members, most immigrants from the
Virgin Islands, wept and cried out as
the mourners sang “Rock of Ages.”
The Rev. Dennis Archibald, pas
tor of the church, noted that the kill
ing occurred on King’s birthday.
“It is ironic that Clement should
be gunned down on the very day we
celebrate the birthday of the
founder of the civil rights
movement,” he said.
iti Court limits power to earmark
funds for minority businesses
fraid thet |
it that’s r| WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su-
ry to teaclffireme Court, in what three justices
ectively ais^lled a giant step backward for ra
ve a socialtlaal equality, drastically limited Mon-
flay the power of states and cities to
nformatiol&rmark public works contracts for
>ign upforiininority-owned businesses.
fl Voting 6-3, the court said the
Bichmond, Va., City Council uncon-
Bitutionally discriminated against
whites in saying a contractor on any
I ll^|Bty building contract must give at
*Bast 30 percent of the value of the
Broject to firms at least one-half mi-
Bority owned,
of the Anr i
entativescI j us ti ce Sandra Day O’Connor,
vans for Be: griting for the court, said the city
Women f# |) a t was once the seat of the old
.xcellencr: Honfederacy and now has a majority
io;andSffi ol blacks on its governing body re
ember Johljied on “past societal discrimination”
,n >°- Bp justify the c)uota.
B "None of the evidence presented
te truth,ainBy the city points to any identified
t saving se|
thiest cnoKti
wman oftk
n, said.
discrimination in the Richmond con
struction industry,” she said.
Adoption of such nationwide
would obliterate the goal of a colorb
lind America, she said.
“The dream of a nation of equal
citizens in a society where race is ir
relevant to personal opportunity
and achievement would be lost in a
mosaic of shifting preferences based
on unmeasurable claims of past
wrongs,” O’Connor said.
But Justice Thurgood Marshall,
in a stinging dissent, said the ruling
“sounds a full-scale retreat from the
court’s longstanding solicitude to
race-conscious remedial efforts.
“Today’s decision marks a deliber
ate and giant step backward in this
court’s affirmative action jurispru
dence,” he said.
Marshall, the court’s only black,
also accused the majority of cynicism
in suggesting that the case was a
product of local racial politics.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush told tens of thousands of
demonstrators today that abortion
on demand an “American tragedy”
and said he favors reversal of the
landmark Supreme Court decision
legalizing it.
Speaking by telephone hookup to
activists gathered near the White
House on the 16th anniversary of
the historic Roe vs. Wade decision,
Bush said he believes that ruling
“was wrong and should be over
turned.”
The new president made the call
shortly after Vice President Dan
Quayle also assured anti-abortion
leaders that the new administration
supports their cause.
“I wanted to share with you my
deep personal concern about our
American tragedy — abortion on de
mand,” Bush said.
“I think America needs a human
Painter Dali
dies Monday
at 84 in Spain
FIGUERAS, Spain (AP) — Sur
realist master Salvador Dali, who was
among the century’s most important
painters and created a public image
to match his art, died Monday in the
town where he was born 84 years
ago.
The melting clocks and barren
landscape of his “Persistence of
Memory” made an indelible impres
sion on contemporary culture. It is
probably the most celebrated sur
realist painting in the world.
Equally identified with “The Di
vine Dali,” as he liked to call himself,
were the pointed, waxed mustache
curling up like a bull’s horns, long
hair and a walking stick, of which he
owned more than 30.
He died at 10:15 a.m. at Figueras
Hospital. His physician, Dr. Charles
Ponsati, said, “The cause of death
was cardiac arrest brought on by his
respiratory insufficiency and pneu
monia.”
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life amendment, and I think when it
comes to abortion there’s a better
way — the way of adoption, the way
of life,” he said.
“I’m confident that more and
more Americans every year — every
day — are hearing your message and
taking it to heart. I promise you that
the president hears you now and
stands with you in a cause that must
be won. God bless you all and God
bless life.”
Although the protestors cheered
Bush with enthusiasm, Nellie Gray
of the March for Life, an organizer
of the rally, cautioned the crowd on
the Ellipse, off the White House
grounds, that although they could
see the White House and hear Bush
he could not hear them.
“Unfortunately the White House
staff chose to put in a one-way com
munications line,” she said. “He
spoke to us but he could not hear us.
That was not an adequate way to
deal with our pro-life march.”
Former President Reagan fol
lowed the same practice as Bush in
past years.
Talking to anti-abortion leaders
earlier, Quayle said, “I have been in
volved with a lot of people in my
state (Indiana) on this issue. I
couldn’t think of a more appropriate
group to be meeting with.”
The noontime rally and a march
to Capitol Hill culminated a series of
nationwide protests against the Su
preme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade
decision that legalized abortion.
Crowds at past commemorations
on the Ellipse have ranged from
5,000 in a heavy snowstorm to
100,000 or more.
Police reported no violence Mon
day, but said about 75 anti-abortion
protesters were arrested for block
ing access to a Washington doctors’
office where abortions are per
formed.
Woman in Politburo decries
birth-control shortage in USSR
MOSCOW (AP) — The highest-ranking woman in
the Kremlin decried the chronic shortage of contracep
tives in the Soviet Union on Monday, saying it contrib
utes to an estimated 6.5 million abortions a year.
“It is not normal when the number of abortions is
about equal to the number of births,” Alexandra Biryu
kova told a news conference.
“Our complaints from women are completely well-
founded concerning the number of abortions com
pared to the use of contraceptives,” she said.
The comments by Biryukova, a candidate member of
the ruling Communist Party Politburo and a deputy
premier, addressed an issue that until recently would
not be discussed by the official Soviet media, much less
by a top official.
But in the past two years as the society has begun to
discuss openly many of the social problems it kept hid
den for decades, women have protested the lack of con
traceptives and sex education, and the humiliation they
say they face when they seek an abortion.
Abortion is used instead of contraceptives as the
main means of birth control in the Soviet Union, and
Western experts estimate that the average Soviet
woman has nine abortions during her child-bearing
years.
The Health Ministry newspaper Meditsinskaya Ga-
zeta, commenting on a critical shortage of condoms,
said some couples were so desperate they had turned to
using children’s balloons.
“The first thing we have to do is increase production
of contraceptives,” Biryukova said. “We have to im
prove conditions in hospitals.”
The latest salvo against the medical profession came
in an article published in the weekend edition of the
newspaper Moscow News.
Yekaterina Nikolayeva wrote about standing in line
at the door of a hospital operating room one recent
morning, waiting for her abortion.
“What are you waiting for? Come on, don’t stare,”
she quoted the doctor as saying, taking off a pair of
blood-stained rubber gloves as she entered.
“My hands started to shake, I felt scared, hurt and on
the verge of tears,” she continued. ‘“Hurry up, you! I’m
sick and tired of your stupidity!’ the doctor spurred me
on.”
After the abortion the doctors left for the day with
out checking on her, and she finally left on her own in a
nightgown and robe, she said.
Nikolayeva said 600 to 700 women die every year as
the result of abortions in the Russian republic, the larg
est of the Soviet Union’s 15 republics.
She said 90 percent of all first pregnancies end in
abortion and that 6.5 million abortions are performed
annually in the Soviet Union.
She did note cite a source for the figures, but if they
are accurate they would indicate that there are about
900,000 more abortions a year in the Soviet Union than
live births. A Soviet statistical reference says there were
5.6 million births in 1986.
Biryukova said she had read the Moscow News article
and had asked Health Minister Yevgeny Chazov and
Moscow officials to investigate the complaints.
She said the leadership was committed to improving
health care, and had allocated an extra $12.8 billion
during the current five-year economic plan.
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