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anti-loitering ordinance
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Supreme Court will
decide how far cities can go
in combatting street gangs,
agreeing Monday to study
a Chicago anti-loitering or
dinance intended to con
trol the “expanding cancer”
of urban gangs.
Chicago contends its or
dinance, struck down by a
state court, was a lawful ef
fort to head off drug deals
and shootings associated
with gangs. The 1992 ordi
nance required police to or
der any group of people loi
tering in public to move
along if the officer believed
at least one was a gang
member. Those who re
fused could be arrested.
Gang-related killings
dropped after police were
allowed to remove a “visibly
lawless element whose very
presence ... was often
viewed by rival gangs as an
invitation to violence,” the
city’s lawyers said.
But those challenging
the law say it was too vague
and unfairly allowed people
to be arrested for innocent
conduct. One man was ar
rested after standing on a
sidewalk with his brother,
eating carryout sandwich
es, said lawyers for the
Chicago-area American
Civil Liberties Union.
The Supreme Court will
hear arguments in the
case this fall and issue a
decision by mid-1999.
In ruling the law uncon
stitutional last October, the
Illinois Supreme Court ac
knowledged, “Criminal
street gangs are an expand
ing cancer in our society.”
But the state court said,
“The city cannot empower
the police to sweep unde
sirable persons from the
public streets through
vague and arbitrary crimi
nal ordinances” and cannot
make it “a crime to be a
gang member in a public
place.”
Under the ordinance,
people who refused to
move along after a police
order could be arrested and
sent to prison for up to six
months, fined $500 and or
dered to perform 120 hours
of community service.
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Clinton administration
refused on Monday to use
federal tax dollars to buy
clean needles for drug ad
dicts, even though it said
needle exchanges fight AIDS
without encouraging illegal
drug use.
Health and Human Ser
vices Secretary Donna Sha-
lala said her scientific en
dorsement should encourage
more communities to start
their own needle exchanges.
But Shalala, under orders
from the White House, side
stepped a political fight with
conservatives and stopped
short of providing commu
nities with federal money to
let addicts swap dirty nee
dles for clean ones.
Half of all people who
contract HIV are infected by
needles or by sex with in
jecting drug users, or are
children of infected addicts.
The decision bitterly dis
appointed AIDS activists,
who said they couldn’t recall
another medical program
the government had de
clared lifesaving but refused
to try to pay for.
“They’ve now said we
know how to save lives and
we don’t want to do what’s
necessary to save the lives,”
said an angry Dr. Scott Hitt,
chair of President Clinton’s
AIDS advisory council.
“This administration is
now publicly stating how to
slow it (the AIDS epidemic)
down and is saying they lack
the courage to do it.”
Republicans continued
to argue that needle ex
changes were bad policy,
and Rep. Gerald Solomon,
R-N.Y., said he would
push for Congress to ban
federal funding altogether
in case Shalala changed
her mind.
“Why not simply provide
heroin itself, free of charge,
courtesy of the American
taxpayer?" asked Sen. John
Ashcroft, R-Mo.
President Clinton’s own
drug policy chief. Barry Mc
Caffrey, spent the weekend
arguing that needle ex
changes jeopardize the ad
ministration’s war on drugs
and send the wrong mes
sage to children.
Asked about the criti
cisms, National Institutes of
Health Director Harold Var-
mus said that they were be
ing made only by politi
cians, not scientists.
Every major public health
organization lias supported
needle exchanges.
WASHINGTON
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promotes conser
vative values
among high
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lege students, is |
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