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battle for feminist rights
□ China, the center of
recent women's rights
controversy, will host
the gathering.
BEIJING (AP) — Delegates
from 181 countries convene
Monday for a once-in-a-decade
gathering to push for equality of
the sexes by the 21st century
and conserve women’s reproduc
tive rights under threat today.
“We must struggle ... to come
out with a document for the ad
vancement of women,” confer
ence secretary-general Gertrude
Mongella told reporters Sunday.
"We must watch out ... for con
servative or backward-looking
elements which want to keep the
woman in a place where she has
always been.”
We must struggle ...
o come out with a
document for the ad
vancement of women."
— Gertrude Mongella
conference secretary-general
Mongella called on delegates to
the Fourth World Conference on
Women to oppose those who want
to roll back previous conference
agreements on human rights,
abortion and contraception.
Those issues are expected to
dominate debate at the 12-day
meeting, which Hillary Rodham
Clinton will attend as honorary
chief of the U.S. delegation.
Nafis Sadik, executive direc
tor of the U.N. Population Fund,
expressed frustration that issues
decided at the 1994 U.N. popula
tion conference in Cairo and the
3 U.N. human rights meet-
in Vienna are also on the
Beijing agenda.
“It’s because there is the de
sire to subjugate women in so
many of the societies of the
world. All kinds of spurious ar
guments are made, religious,
moral — except the moral argu
ment that everyone is equal.
That is never used,” Sadik said.
The three previous U.N. con
ferences on women were highly
politicized by the Cold War, the
Palestinian struggle and
apartheid. With those issues ei
ther resolved or being negotiated,
organizers had hoped to keep the
spotlight in Beijing entirely on
the issues confronting women.
But they hadn’t factored in
the conflict between China’s fear
of free debate and the women’s
demand for it. Women attending
a parallel forum of non-govern
mental organizations have com
plained of Chinese security
guards shadowing and pho
tographing delegates, harassing
Tibetan and human rights cam
paigners, confiscating video
tapes and breaking up meetings.
Chinese authorities continued
to keep a wary eye on partici
pants of the forum in Huairou,
where 23,000 women from around
the world have gathered to put
pressure on the official delega
tions in Beijing.
Organizers dropped their
threat of a boycott, saying China
had reduced surveillance and
improved transportation and fa
cilities for the disabled. But
some participants in the forum
still complained of harassment.
Sunday was the biggest
protest day since the activists’
forum started Wednesday.
Campaigners for Tibetan in
dependence claimed one of their
members yvas grabbed, shoved
and chased from an official Ti
betan workshop when she tried
to hand out leaflets. Chinese se
curity staff stopped about 150
anti-nuclear demonstrators from
marching to the forum site via a
main street.
The Chinese did not interfere
with protests by women from
south Asia shouting “peace
now!”, Kuwaiti women demand
ing that Iraq free men impris
oned during the Gulf War, Iraqis
protesting against the U.N. em
bargo on their country, and Mus
lim women angered at being
kicked out of a cinema because
of a schedule conflict.
According to the United Na
tions, 3,000 delegates from 181
member states have registered
along with 2,500 journalists.
Labor Day sacrificed for
extended Christmas break
Americans are taking the day off to
day in observance of Labor Day. For
many college students, the holiday
provides a break from the hectic pace
of a new semester.
For Texas A&M students, though,
today is just another Monday. While
the state of Texas requires all state
agencies to observe Christmas and the
Fourth of July, other holidays for the
University are at the discretion of the
Board of Regents at Texas A&M.
For several years, the regents have
opted to keep the University, along
with the eight other schools in the
A&M System, open on Labor Day in
order to add more time to the Christ
mas break.
Goo oozes out in Goose
Creek Consolidated ISD
BAYTOWN (AP) — An elementary
school will be closed temporarily be
cause tests show chemical contamina
tion on a playground is more extensive
than first thought.
Workers began cleaning up the
black tar-like goo at G.W. Carver Ele
mentary School on Friday with hopes of
finishing before students return from the
Labor Day holiday.
But Goose Creek Consolidated Inde
pendent School District officials say the
contamination is more widespread than
the 150-by-80-foot area first targeted.
A statement from the district on
Saturday said students should not re
turn on Tuesday because of dangers
posed by heavy equipment being used
in the cleanup.
On Sunday, district spokeswoman
Kathy Clausen said officials were work
ing on a plan to send the roughly 800
G.W. Carver students to other schools
next week.
The black goo was discovered oozing
from beneath the playground surface on
June 29. It was coming from a pit where
crude oil was stored in the 1920s and
1930s, before the land was donated to
Baytown's Goose Creek school district.
School trustees accepted Exxon Co.
USA's offer to clean up the substance
over objections from parents who ques
tioned that the site could be cleaned up
in three days.
Some of the parents also claim that
their children have been sickened by
the substance.
Aerial photographs indicate the oil
storage pit may also be underneath the
bus barn and a small portion of the
school building, said officials from
ERM-Southwest Inc., which is oversee
ing the cleanup.
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