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Wednesday • MarchS,
Clinton bars federal cloning researd
The president directed all federal
agencies not to allocate money
for cloning of human beings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the creation
of life “a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory
science,” President Clinton on Tuesday barred
the spending of federal money on human
cloning. He also urged a halt in private research
until the ethical impact is better understood.
Clinton, warning against “trying to play God,”
directed all federal agencies not to allocate mon
ey for the cloning of human beings — although
he acknowledged Tuesday that the government
is not currently funding such research.
“I just wanted to make sure that we keep it
that way,” Clinton said during an Oval Office ap
pearance before departing for Arkansas to in
spect tornado damage.
Citing the cloning of an adult sheep in Scot
land, Clinton asked the National Bioethics Advi
sory Commission last week to review the ramifi
cations cloning would have for humans and
report back to him in 90 days.
Clinton said he decided to restrict use of fed
eral funds after learning that researchers in Ore
gon had cloned two rhesus monkeys from em
bryos — the world s first cloned primates and the
closest step yet to humans.
“Human cloning would have to raise deep
concerns, given our most cherished concepts of
faith and humanity,” Clinton said. “Each human
life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches be
yond laboratory science. I believe we must re
spect this profound gift and resist the temptation
to replicate ourselves.”
Current law prohibits spending fei
money on human embryo experiments,
the prohibition expires Sept. 30. Sen.Chtii
pher Bond, R-Mo., has urged Congress
make that ban permanent.
Those restrictions did not explicitly add
cloned embryos, nor did it apply to all fei
agencies, so Clinton moved to close thatlooph
“Science often moves faster thanounl
ity to understand its implications,’’Clia
said. “Any discovery that touches uponhiit
creation is not simply a matter of scientifit
quiry. it is a matter of morality and spiritu
ty as well.”
Clinton also asked private researcherstoi ^
untarily hold off at least until the Natio
Bioethics Advisory Commission can study I
matter, a move with which biological andim
ical researchers agreed.
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UT ordered to release names
of rejected white applicants
List may result in more lawsuits against the University
AUSTIN (AP) — The University of Texas
must reveal the names of white law school ap
plicants who were put on a waiting list and
didn’t get in.
The ruling by a state district judge could
mean more lawsuits to challenge the school’s
admissions decisions.
Steven Smith, the attorney who sued UT in
the Hopwood case, which ended racial pref
erences for Texas college students last sum
mer, made the open records request in Sep
tember. He asked for the names of white and
“non-preferred minority” applicants on the
waiting list in 1995 and 1996.
At the time, race was still a consideration
in evaluating applicants for admission.
When UT refused to release the names,
Smith sued. Travis County Judge Jeanne Meur-
er ruled on Feb. 18 that the list was public in
formation that must be released. UT officials
said they learned of the decision Friday.
“I was disappointed because it certainly
has the appearance of soliciting cases,” UT
System Vice Chancellor and General Counsel
Ray Farabee said Monday.
Smith admits he plans to pursue more law
suits against UT by using the list. He believes
that 150 applicants in the last two years could
sue, and he said he plans to write to all of them.
UT gets about 4,000 applications a year for
500 seats and those closest to getting in make
the waiting list, Smith said.
UT has asked the Texas attorney general’s
office, as the state’s representative in court, to
appeal the ruling.
Although the attorney general has not
made a decision, he agreed that the open
records law does not require information to
be released when a lawsuit is anticipated or
underway, said spokesman Ron Dusek.
“Without question the issue of what con
stitutes anticipated litigation is something
that the courts may want to deal with further,”
Dusek said.
Smith has filed three cases against UT that
are similar to the Hopwood case, which involved
four white applicants who filed a reverse dis
crimination lawsuit against the UT law school
when they were denied admission in 1992.
Ail of the cases accuse UT of giving prefer
ence to less qualified black and Mexican
American applicants when denying admis
sion to his clients.
Although UT says it now has race-neu
tral policies in place, it is worried the poli
cies will mean qualified minority students
will go to schools in states that don’t have
the same restrictions.
Judge: Culkin can use|
fortune to help familj
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Freshman T
NEW YORK (AP) — Home Alone star Macaij
Culkin can use some of his $17 million fortune to leu
his family from homelessness, a judge ruled yesten)
State Supreme Court iustice David Saxe also*
moved the young actor’s warring parents asgua
of his property' and replaced them with Macau]
choice, his longtime accountant Billy D. Breitner.
Saxe said he had heard regularly of crises thato
curred because Macaulay’s parents, who haves
other children, were unable to pay rentonthefa^ii|"
ly’s three apartments.
The only source of income for Christopher “Kit
Culkin, 52, and Patricia Brentrup, 42, “had beei urn ^ P rac
management fees derived from their children'saa
ing income, which recently has not been enoughti |
support the family’s lifestyle,” Saxe said.
“Moreover,” the judge said, “the parents’finance!*
are currently so poor that there is a real possibility!)
this millionaire and his family being evicted andiei |
without any home.”
He said it would take “but a small fraction of his es
tate” for Macaulay to buy an apartment or other housing
Macaulay, reportedly the highest-paid childactor
in history, earned up to $8 million a movie afterstar
ring in “Home Alone” at age 10 in 1990.
Most of a child star’s earnings are protected inac
counts that usually can be tapped only by court order.
Court papers filed in January 1996 said the Cu
family’s annual living expenses totaled ab
$350,000, including rent and private school bills for
the children.
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