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Pag< C Con ' Contr tion, for m!i Admil autot 21 Be: able. • INSPII quired. 1 Manaq j mainte Part-tin prefern at 29th. Compil be fami Pull tirf Please Part-tim quette. ; Box 44J PART T acceptir j TO HAV i donor is sible (45 day. Do read, stu cash in ^ year. Nic 8855. Evening acomme available INTERNA $4,00CH7r Japan, Ts Asian lane ext. J585J CRUISE S working or travel (Ha\ Full-time ej sary. Forr Coilet 82 Needed - fern W/Dj bus rout Wednesday Pag' e 8 mgm : J^JATION IM Wednesday • August 24,! 1NU. Ghavis asks court for his NAACP job bad Br<n ' UNDATE Return would destroy organization's fund-raising abilities, attorney says WASHINGTON (AP) — Benjamin Chavis Jr. asked a judge Tuesday to order the NAACP to give him his job back, saying that by firing him, the civil rights group ruined his chances of finding other work in the only profession he’s known. But the NAACP responded that its survival would be jeopardized, its fund-raising in tatters, if Chavis returned as executive director. “My God, the organization would be virtually de stroyed,” NAACP staff attor ney Willie Abrams said after the court hearing. “Are there Chavis people who would give Dr. Chavis money? I don’t believe so.” Chavis’ attorney said some members of the NAACP board are unfairly painting Chavis as “es sentially, a crook.” “The NAACP has a long history of survival,” Abbey Hairston said. “But what will Dr. Chavis do?” Chavis was fired Saturday from his $200,000-a- year job as executive director of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, for conduct the board of directors deemed hostile to the NAACPs survival. He filed suit Monday in Superior Court for the District of Columbia, arguing the group deprived him of a proper hearing, besmirched his reputa tion as a civil rights activist and left him unem ployed when his wife, Martha, is pregnant with twins. Chavis asked Judge Herbert Dixon for an in junction barring the NAACP from “publicly and privately disparaging (his) good reputation” or re moving him from office until their dispute is re solved. Dixon said he would rule today. NAACP lawyers asked Dixon to throw out Chavis’ lawsuit, saying it had been filed in the wrong jurisdiction. The NAACP has its headquar ters in Baltimore and was formed as a corporation in New York. NAACP attorney Lawrence Greenwald said Chavis failed to get written board permission be fore committing the group to a debt, as required by its constitution. The board voted 53-5 vote to fire Chavis, Green wald said. “When a board resoundingly speaks, the court should not intervene,” he said. Board members complained Chavis ran up a $2.7 million deficit, didn’t tell them he had used NAACP money to settle a sexual discrimination claim by former employee Mary E. Stansel, and es tablished alliances with such controversial figures as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The NAACP also faces a lawsuit by who says Chavis reneged on $2 4 5,000ofi $332,400 sex discrimination settlement thatslj was to be paid if the group could not find her a;, other job. NAACP lawyers said Chavis had a chancet defend himself in two meetings of the board’s leg subcommittee on Friday and Saturday. Chamss tended both sessions with his attorneys. ing their NI ham’s was g Despite r late because 1 draft pick comerback < with San Di Tuesday as teams th required to “He had every opportunity to put forth any c \ were margi of case he wanted,” said NAACP general cours Dennis Hayes. Hairston contended the NAACP failed to Mi many of its own rules. It did not give Chavis [j mal notice that the board would meet about hist ture and it did not properly record the vote, si said. Hairston produced an affidavit froimboai member Larry Carter of Des Moines, Iowa,»l said the board based Chavis’ firing on a variety issues that were not on its agenda. The group’s interim administrator, Earl Sli hoster, attended the hearing, as did Chavis. The Battalion Classified Ads Georg: Phone: 845-0569 / Fox 845-2678 Office: Room 015 (bosemenf) Reed McDonald Building ;ia teacher refuses to comply with new la v O ‘AGGIE’ Private Party Want Ads $10 for 20 words running 5 days, if your merchandies is priced $1000 or less (price must appear in ad). This rate applies only to non-commercial advertisers offering personal possesions for sale. Guaranteed results or you get an additional 5 days at no charge. If item doesn't sell, advertiser must call before 11 a.m. on the day the ad is scheduled to end to qualify for the 5 additional insertions at no charge. 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He was suspended Tuesday for refusing to comply with the law, which he says is unconsti tutional. Legislators pushed the bill as a first step toward getting prayer back in schools. “What I have to say is very important to say, and they’re not taking a minute from me,” said Bown, a teacher at South Gwinnett High School in subur ban Atlanta. Classes started Mopday at many schools in Georgia, and that was the first time many teachers had to order their stu dents to sit quietly for up to one minute at the beginning of the day. The law went into ef fect July 1, and it was enforced during summer school in some districts. Similar measures are on the books in other states, although Georgia appears to be alone in strictly enforcing a mandatory moment of silence. Massachusetts, Tennessee and South Carolina require a moment of silence, but they don’t enforce it. Other states al low optional moments of si lence. “I’m sure very few teachers do it,” said Alan Safran, a spokesman for the Massachu setts Department of Education. “We don’t monitor it and we’re not going to.” Supporters of the Georgia law said it would help students reflect on their activities. Oppo nents said it was an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling against orga nized prayer in public schools. Most of Bown’s students paid attention to him during the mo ment of silence on Monday. One student, sop at bek, do wed Per head in 11 n 1 a ‘ • Gwinnett County Superin tendent George Thompson told Bown that he would be fired if he didn’t comply. The moment of silence is an nounced over the public ad dress system. “All he had to do was stand and be silent,” Thompson said Tuesday. “He interfered with the students’ rights to partici pate in the moment of silence. I think it is divisive when a American government teacher openly violates the law ini | of students. It could enc« j them to do the same thing On Tuesday, Bown told! j cipal Delores Hendrix he: L would not comply with the f then left the building. Berney Kirkland, spiil woman for the school dk t said Bown was suspended j pay. A hearing on Thor.: recommendation to fire h will be held within lOdaji Bown refused intend?!I quests Tuesday, sayitijr needed a moment of refill 1 himself. “I’m so overcome with ■ have to stop and take l :j:i ment. I’ve got people biilfi said. mo to posipn- apy iptgrvipws.” n 1 On Monday, BownfiT calls on a radio talk show. appeared on several AtlaJm stations. Students leaving the if Tuesday afternoon werei 1 ' ' ed on the issue. “Mr. Bown’s the best tel 1 in this school,” said Justbifs Grogan, a senior who has two classes from Down.' standing up for whathe 1 ' lieves in.” LittL WILL — Middl the cur\ know wl ridge pit them. The ( pitches t has seld Tuesday in the se League A “We j teoq R G ADOPT - Dogs, Cats, Puppies & Kittens. Brazos Animal Shelter. 775-5755. 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Call Gayle at 774-7971 WASHINGTON (AP) — Re publican senators, threatening to thwart a $30 billion anti-crime bill on a procedural vote, de manded Tuesday that Democrats accept changes in the House- passed measure. President Clin ton appealed anew for bipartisan cooperation. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole brushed aside Clinton’s call to “continue the bipartisan spirit that was established in the House,” accusing the president of an “11th hour” bid for GOP support. Clinton had ex horted “every sena tor, without regard to party,” to work for passage of the bill that had cleared the House 235-195 Sun day, with 46 Republi can votes, after 10 grueling days of be hind-the-scenes ne gotiations. But Republican “We were ignored,” he groused. “We were never contact ed by anyone at the White House.” Meanwhile, Clinton and other senior administration officials were making phone calls, seek ing sufficient support to sur mount the point-of-order chal lenge by GOP opponents. 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His vote would bring the total to the 41 an hour after said he had® signatures, fice still hat ? released a caf the letter wit 1 signatures. S 1 John Warm Va., said h> the idea M ;: letter from 1 ton. He carf at 11 o’clock last night,” said. “He said, ‘Is there: short of outright confront on the point of order that L talk about it?’ ” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-i said Republicans want to back on the fat” and and t “tough on crime provisions the bill.” Senate Judiciary Com®. Chairman Joseph Biden.f 1 said he thought he wotil 1 enough votes to block the/ order.