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House passes civil rights bill
Lawmakers fear businesses will be defenseless against discrimination charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a
painful break with his party. Dem
ocratic Rep. Charles Stenholm
voted against civil rights legis
lation Wednesday, saying the bill
would have a "chilling effect" on
business.
But Rep. Bill Sarpalius, D-Am-
arillo, who voted against last
year's civil rights bill, said he de
rided this year's version was "a gi
ant step" toward equal treatment
for women while protecting small
businesses. He was the only Dem-
ocrat who voted down the 1990
version to support Wednesday's
legislation.
The only Texas Democrats vot
ing against the measure were
Stenholm, a conservative Demo-
crat from Stamford and member of
the House leadership, and fellow
conservative Rep. Ralph Hall of
Rockwall. The state's eight Repub-
licans also voted it down.
The bill passed the House by a
vote of 273-158, but it fell short of
the margin needed to override a
veto by President Bush, who has
attacked the measure as a formula
for racial quotas.
Sarpalius, however, said he de
cided to support the legislation be
cause it specifies that quotas
would be illegal.
"I spent a lot of time studying
this bill before I cast the vote," Sa-
raplius said. "I spoke with the
president, businesses, business
organizations and constituents in
the district who would be affected.
The president tried to make the
American people believe that it's a
quota bill, but the language is very
clear that it's not."
Sarpalius said he also decided to
support the bill because busi
nesses with 14 or fewer employees
would be exempted from its provi
sions.
"I think that our ultimate goal in
this country should be to have
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equality for all people, regardless
of the color of their skin or their re
ligious beliefs, or whether they're
male or female, or whatever their
national origin," Sarpalius said.
"But it's got to be a delicate bal
ance. ... The government can't
come in and tell a business who to
hire."
But Stenholm said he could not
support the bill because employers
would face "an unreasonable bur
den when defending themselves
against charges of discrimination"
and would be penalized for being
guilty until they could prove
themselves innocent.
Stenholm said he was also afraid
the bill would encourage more liti
gation.
"I wanted to support this bill,"
Stenholm said. But he said civil
rights groups "would not move"
and that was when he realized
they had written the bill.
"It suddenly dawned on me that
I was not dealing with the Judi
ciary Committee, the staff of the
Judiciary Committee, not with the
House leadership, but with special
interest groups, and I said that
was not the way to write legis
lation this important," Stenholm
said.
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, who
voted for last year's bill, said he
could not support the 1991 version
because it was much more "politi
cally motivated" and included pro
visions that he opposed on compa
rable worth, punitive damages
and job testing.
Soldiers enforce
state of emergency
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Sol
diers backed by Soviet-made tanks
surrounded the presidential pal
ace and major public buildings to
enforce the state of emergency de
clared Wednesday after an upris
ing by Muslim fundamentalists.
Authorities in this North Afri
can nation reported at least seven
people dead in the unrest, which
prompted President Chadli Bend-
jedid to postpone Algeria's first
multiparty parlimentary elections,
scheduled for June 27.
In Washington, State Depart
ment deputy spokesman Richard
Boucher expressed regret that Al
geria's democratic process has
been interrupted and that there
had been loss of life.
"We hope that all parties will
show restraint in the coming days
and we share President Bendje-
did's hope that the conditions for
holding elections will be rapidly
restored," he said Wednesday.
Bendjedid, who dismissed the
government of Premier Mouloud
Hamrouche, issued a presidential
decree that would last up to four
months. He also left open the pos
sibility it could be lifted earlier.
Under the decree, the military
can detain anyone whose activities
are considered dangerous to pub
lic order and security.
Muslim fundamentalists of the
Islamic Salvation Front, whose
confrontation with authorities trig
gered the crisis, called more pro
test marches and rallies "if possi
ble." But the group ordered
followers to "respect order and
avoid confrontations" during the
gatherings.
The Front, made up mainly of
Sunni Muslims seeking to remove
Bendjedid and establish an Islamic
state, pledged to continue a 12-
day-old general strike.
Bendjedid, in a nationally
broadcast message, said a new
government would be formed fol
lowing consultations with political
parties.
That suggested he did not mean
to halt the democratic process that
began in the aftermath of 1988 ri
ots in which hundreds died. But
the state of emergency, which sus
pends civil liberties and places
public security in the hands of the
army, at least temporarily stopped
the clock on reform in this nation,
once a staunchly Marxist-socialist
state.
On Wednesday, the city center
was all but emptied of activity af
ter nearly two weeks of urban
havoc caused by demonstrations
by the Front.
Soviet-built tanks and armored
cars, surrounded by soldiers in
combat fatigues, were stationed at
major public buildings.
Texas farmers cry out for federal
aid as they face certain disaster
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
cotton and wheat fields of West
Texas are parched, the rice fields
along the Coastal Bend are un
der water, the state's dairy farm
ers are reeling from low prices
and farm activists want Con
gress to investigate an imminent
disaster.
Joe Rankin, president of the
Texas Farmers Union, said
losses are climbing toward the
hundreds of millions of dollars
because of extreme spring
weather from the Panhandle to
the Rio Grande and the Gulf
Coast.
"It has not been a very prom
ising spring for farmers in many
parts of the country," says Rep.
Kika de la Garza, chairman of
the House Agriculture Commit
tee.
The committee plans a hearing
today to assess damages to agri
culture nationwide and the Agri
culture Department's response
to both farmers and agriculture-
dependent communities, said de
la Garza, D-Mission.
"Chairman de la Garza is very
prudent in calling for this hear
ing now, to make people aware
of the impending disaster we
have shaping up ... to review the
situation and determine where
we go from here," Rankin said.
According to Sen. Phil
Gramm's office, the Panhandle
wheat crop is 62 percent below
average because of extremely
dry conditions in West Texas,
while the state's overall wheat
crop is 42 percent below normal.
Body exhumed for autopsy
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The body of civil rights
leader Medgar Evers was exhumed and secretly
transported here to be re-examined as part of a re
newed investigation into his slaying, officials con
firmed Wednesday.
Evers' body was exhumed Monday from Arling
ton National Cemetery in Virginia, said Maj. Arlene
Beatty, a U.S. Army spokeswoman. She said the
Jackson, Miss., district attorney's office, which has
reopened an investigation into Evers' 1963 death in
that city, requested the exhumation.
The body was brought to Albany Medical Center,
where an autopsy was performed Tuesday, WTEN-
TV in Albany reported.
Dr. Michael Baden, chief of forensic services for
the state police, wouldn't deny that an autopsy was
performed in Albany. But he wouldn't elaborate.
saying only, "It's a homicide case investigation." It
wasn't immediately clear why the autopsy was done
in Albany.
Evers' body was reburied in Arlington early
Wednesday, Beatty said.
Evers, a field secretary with the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored People, was
shot to death June 12, 1963, in front of his Jackson
home.
Byron De La Beckwith, 70, was tried twice but
never convicted in the slaying. The Tennessee Court
of Criminal Appeals on Monday ordered him extra
dited to Mississippi to stand trial a third time.
Beckwith, who has been held in a Chattanooga,
Term., jail since Dec. 30, has 30 days to appeal the
extradition ruling.
Strauss
breaks
language
barriers
MOSCOW (AP) — Bob Strauss
may not speak Russian. He knows
more about the Democratic Party
than the Communist Party. But
the proposed United States am
bassador to the Soviet Union does
speak the international language
of money.
Members of the American busi
ness community in Moscow ap
plauded President Bush's choice
of Strauss, known as a dealmaker,
saying Soviet-American relations
should concentrate heavily on
business.
Strauss would succeed Ambas
sador Jack F. Matlock, a career dip
lomat whose broad knowledge of
the Soviet Union, love of lan
guages and down-to-earth manner
has made him popular among So
viets.
A Washington-based lawyer
and former Democratic Party
chairman, Strauss last visited the
Soviet Union two years ago. Al
though he was U.S. trade rep
resentative under President Car
ter, his only other experience in
the diplomatic field was when he
briefly worked as special negotia
tor on the Arab-Israeli dispute in
1979. He held the job five months.
Last year, the 72-year-old native
of Lockhart, attracted attention
when he helped expedite the $6.6
billion purchase of the MCA enter
tainment conglomerate by the Jap
anese electronics firm Matsushita.
His law firm received an $8 million
fee from the deal.
"The business background that
Mr. Strauss would bring as ambas-
sador is a language that
bridges the
gap between
cultures," said
Alexander Pa-
pachristou, a
Moscow-based
attorney for
the U.S. law
firm White &
"(It's) a lan Jack Matlock
guage that Soviet-American entre
preneurs need to learn to speak
with each other better," he said.
Papachristou said the Soviet
Union is "headed toward either
better cooperation with the West
or state domination," but believes
Strauss would be able to handle a
possible hard-line shift in Soviet
policy away from President Mik
hail S. Gorbachev's reformist pol
icy of perestroika.
"I can only imagine that Strauss'
experiences in the smoke-filled
rooms of American politics would
prepare him sufficiently to bring to
Soviet attention the full range of
views that the American govern
ment would wish to express," he
said.
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