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BY J. GOLDFLUTE
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A
homeless man was beaten and
kicked to death by a rampaging
group of teen-agers in an attack
that has heightened concern over
tensions between blacks and I lis-
pnnics in this gritty industrial city.
Hector Robles, 42, was at
tacked shortly after police
broke up a fight last week be
tween blacks and Hispanics at
a nearby high school. Witness
es told police he was swarmed
by black teen-agers who took
his beer bottle and smashed
him in the head with it before
heating him to death.
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was a racial thing. It was only
blacks and he was Hispanic, and
because he was Hispanic, they
took his bottle of beer and
cracked his head open with it
and left him for dead.”
Prosecutor Boh Corrado said
prosecutors do not believe racial
bias was a motive. “From what
we’ve gotten, it hasn’t even been
mentioned,” he said.
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rests of the hoys, ages 15 to 17,
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She said 20 to 30 percent of
people who have HEWAIDS
do not know that they have it.
• “You can’t tell by looking at
! someone if they are HIV posi
tive,” McClure said. “That is
why you have to take your
health into your own hands and
be proactive about the choices
that you make for yourself.”
Kristi Hanle, senior case
■pianager for AIDS Services
said it shocks some people to
know that there are people in
the B-CS area with
HIV/AIDS. She said many
people have the misconception
that since the Bryan-College
Station community is small,
residents are immune to the
threat of HIV/AIDS.
“In the past two years, we
have had more new HIV posi
tives than in the entire history
of this program,” Hanle said.
“We currently have 107 active
clients, but that changes often.”
She said the AIDS Services
have a few Texas A&M student
clients, but most students who
find out they have HIV return to
their hometowns for treatment.
If students, faculty or staff
are not able to be tested
Wednesday, the AIDS Services
works with the Texas A&M A.
P. Beutel Health Center to pro
vide free weekly testing at the
center.
“We do free HIV testing on
Thursday afternoons from 2 to
4 p.m.,” said Rhonda Rahn,
health center educator. “It is
completely anonymous. We set
up the appointment, mark
whether the person is male or
female and then they just come
in and get tested.”
McClure said that the AIDS
Services test from 200 to 400
people each month.
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Texas law professor Douglas Laycock said
Monday’s ruling should have little impact be
yond the Texas border.
“Today’s order resolves nothing,” Laycock
said, noting that in May, the Supreme Court
upheld a decision allowing the use of race as
a factor in admission to the University of
Washington law school.
A similar case from Michigan could reach
the Supreme Court within a year. Monday’s
decision did not rule on the merits of the
state’s claims, he said.
“Sooner or later, the court will decide this
issue,” Laycock said.
One of the plaintiffs in the original lawsuit,
however, said UT should give up the fight.
David Rogers, 37, recently graduated from
Texas Tech University law school and is
studying for the bar exam. Rogers said he
wants to be a civil rights attorney.
“They’ve been wasting everybody’s time
and money for nine years and they haven’t
won anything yet,” he said. “The U.S.
Supreme Court has said, ‘Go away kid, you
bother me.’ ”
bites, Olson said that people should
use insect repellents, cover as much
skin as possible and try to avoid the
peak mosquito time of dusk to 11 p.m.
“The great contributors to the
prevention of widespread outbreak
from mosquito bites are air condi
tioning and prime-time television,”
he said. “Try to keep your outside
activities limited to bright times of
the day and stay in during those
prime-time hours when nocturnal
mosquitoes come out in hordes.”
Olson also said houses may be
made less attractive to mosquitoes
by turning off lights because mos
quitoes are attracted to ultraviolet
radiation. If bug-zapping devices
are used, put them away from the
area they are meant to protect.
“Bug zappers always attract far
more bugs dian they kill,” he said.
“As we tell people, if you don’t
like your neighbor, buy him a hug
zapper.”
Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer said that,:
vate meetings, Watts agreed to change a proft
allowing religious groups to sue for damf
they are denied government grants. Archers:
also won assurances from Watts and Busin
ers that only groups with a proven record®*
services would be eligible for taxpayer fundi
“I’ve been assured the legislation will
tweaked, so the issues and concerns we’ve
pressed will he addressed — removed orsaniS
from the legislation,” Archer said.
New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, alsoal
mocrat, said of Bush: “He sounded a veiyresif
sive chord.”
But the president, who has made this is*
must-do priority alongside education leg® 5 '
and tax cuts, did not back away from hisassed
that church-based groups receiving govern:?;
funds should be able to refuse employing
people outside their religion.
“The president remains firm, so faras!^
in the ability of faith-based organizationstoi
on the basis of religion,” said former India: -
lis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, an advi*
Bush on this issue.
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