Salt Lake Tribune | 1992-01-06 | Page 3

The Salt ' TTT - - t c 4- - - til i 4 4' I a- t t 4' dA i — 1 — 4- o - ( - ) m "P' v lk V t( to 44 4 4 - ' r' k 1 T "s-- - ----- go 420 i I I ' 0 00-- - ' ' lo ' '' 11 -- -v 4ag ' i 4 or — ''''''' 1"'"'' t 4( & ti - i 0- '"' ' '' it - J1 t ) Al e r o) Fla — A white judge's remarks in court and in print about blacks women and Jews are provoking a public outcry that he's racist sexist and and should be removed from the bench But after 30 years as a jurist Chief Circuit Judge John Santora says he's sorry if he hurt anyone's feelings And that's all The tug of war over Santora who turns 69 today is tearing northeast apart the Florida circuit he heads Cries for his ouster sound outside the Duval County Courthouse in houses of worship and the usually sedate offices of the Jacksonville Area Chamber of Commerce Jesse Jackson appeared twice in one week to rally forces against the judge With the business community's efforts under way to bring a National Football League franchise here black leaders are threatening to contact the NFL and urge the city be denied an expansion team if Santora doesn't quit Meanwhile the DW Perkins Bar Association a group of black lawyers filed a complaint Friday seeking Santora's removal by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission which reviews judicial conduct Some judges and the mayor urge forgiveness in light of Santora's apology Those sensitive to bias say he's a bellwether of feelings in the society at large The Rev Tom Diamond pastor i The Aeseeeere JW Hutchins and grandson Prt Donny Hutchins make their way for supplies on what was once a road in Dayton Lake Estate Texas THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rain-swoll- low-lyin- great-grandso- I mas but after that we had to get out'' Amaya said By Sunday she said her home and her mother's in Hardin were under water for the third time in two years "It'll work out It always does" Amaya said The Trinity River Authority on Saturday began curtailing the release from Lake Livingston Dam about 50 miles upstream from Liberty On Sunday output was about 80000 cubic feet per second still five to six times the normal flow from the dam said authority spokesman Forest Powell "The lake has leveled off but we've still got a lot of water coming down from Dallas and we've still got flooded areas north of 1 us" Powell said Officials said the Trinity should begin receding today or Tuesday but said flooding would continue For several days Si iMibiallablidlIMEIOMENem Pocket Knife Helps Hikers &cape Snow-Blocke- Cave d SEATTLE TIMES GRANITE FALLS Wash — Three hikers used a pocket knife to tunnel their way through 30 feet of snow after an avalanche trapped them in an ice cave in the mountains of Mount BakerSnoqualmie National Forest Robin Peterson 15 the wife of one of the hikers was in satisfactory condition at General Hospital Medical Center after the avalanche carried her about 300 feet across a snow field She is 71' months pregnant and was having contractions Saturday night after the incident "It was stupid of us to go up" said David Peterson 22 a teacher "We honestly thought wewould be CK'' The Petersons and Vaughn Rodewald 23 all of Seattle and Mike Kichline 21 of Mountlake Terrace Wash headed to the Big Four Ice Caves in the Cascade Mountains about 40 miles east of Everett at about 2:50 p tn Saturday "We heard this big ramble and it was really really loud "All we could think about was my wife out there Pregnant Aione Scared and confused' The men took about 30 minutes to crawl and push one another through the hole they Everett's (day-car- e dug prompted in part by his remarks in an interview with The Florida n published Dee 22 Some excerpts: "The blacks have come into the school system which they never were in there before and it was a step forward for them yet they couldn't cope with it Because they had a chip on their shoulder — I'm talking about the average — when they went there Times-Unio- dents spent Saturday night in a shelter set up in a hardware store but Red Cross volunteer Ed Easterling said as many as 150 people have been showing up for lunch and dinner In Brazoria County south of Houston officials were awaiting the worst of the flooding on the Brazos A stretch of state highway and some smaller roads were closed as water rose Brazoria County Judge Jim Phillips said "We're wet" said Toni Hodges a Red Cross volunteer at the shelter in Angleton about 40 miles south of Houston "It's just contindeal" ually a The shelter in Angleton housed 96 people Saturday night and workers were preparing for more Sunday night Hodges said plans were being made for a second shelter to be opened if needed of Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church warned a gathering of 2000 people Saturday: "Santora is not the issue He's just an alarm clock You might wake up and find I don't want you are a nigger Santora to resign The longer he rings the madder I get" The public apparently got its first inkling of the judge's views from reports of his testimony in December in a lawsuit seeking more minority judges Santora said Jacksonville had enough black judges — three out of 40 judges in his purview — but more Jewish judges were needed to work on Christmas and other holidays He later said his comment about Jewish judges was in jest Then The Florida Times Union 0"li 1' 2 'I 6 ''''-''- t 1 t 1r A 00 ' A I AI 1 1 1 : Orono e — ""' " t ' ' if ' -- -- - S ) - te4 itk 1 - state 4 "" 4k414 (f g t t t ? is' 1101":1 al r '44'1 s ‘ "Itllir v le 1 —et - It 0 - - i e if to ' 4 ''' f"''' A '1 t s 0 ' ' e4 ' The Aptomelated Preqs Ukraine Drawing Back From Russian Claims Of Military Leadership in Commonwealth - PRESS Yeltsin founded the Russia's commonwealth to keep Ukraine in the political fold but their conflicts over military and economic policy already are threatening the fledgling alliance The military dispute is so sharp that Yeltsin postponed a tour of Russian cities last week to deal with it Russian radio reported High on his list of tasks is responding to Ukraine's claim to control the important Black Sea Fleet and its demand that former Soviet soldiers on its territory swear allegiance to Ukraine Friction over the former Soviet armed forces and price increases has prevented the two most powerful members of the Commonwealth of Independent States from creating political structures for their new alliance Leaders of the commonwealth's 11 member republics have done little more than agree to unified control over the estimated 27000 nuclear weapons of the Soviet military Yeltsin sees Russia as the successor to the Soviet MOSCOW post-Sovi- Union which Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk finds hard to accept After seven decades of domination by Communist authorities in Moscow Kravchuk does not want to see a resurgence of Russian domination over its Slavic neighbor The most potent military symbol is the Black Sea Fleet based in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula Russians however consider the Crimea to be Russian territory linking Sevastopol with Catherine the Great and important battles The loss of the fleet would be a big blow to Russian pride Ukrainian officials were angered last month when Russia seized control of the newest Soviet aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov and moved it from the Black Sea to the Arctic port of Murmansk inside Russia Kravchuk also distressed Russia by demanding that Soviet soldiers on his territory swear allegiance to Ukraine An unknown number of soldiers reportedly began doing so Friday — about 1000 participated in a ceremony in Kiev on Sunday — but other soldiers including Russians have refused Drug Busts Nab Colombian Every 50 31inutes REUTER NE7NS SERVICE BOGOTA Colombia — Every 50 minutes last year a Colombian was arrested somewhere in the world for smuggling drugs a Bogota newspaper said Sunday Quoting figures gathered by Colombia's police El said last that Tiempo year 9714 Colombians were arrested on drig charges in 24 countries equivalent to 27 per day or one about anti-narcoti- every 50 minutes This was in addition to the 12237 Colombians held in foreign prisons at the end of 1990 the re port said girls and said black youngsters in private school behave better than those in public classrooms The spokesman for the local Another 1520 people were arrested in Colombia last year for drug offenses the report said Colombian drug cartels dominate the cocaine trade and are also involved in heroin and marijuana trafficking' US authorities detained 4133 Colombians the report said It said another 3940 Colombians were arrested in neighboring' Some 523 Colombians were arrested in Spain 230 in France 205 in Italy 105 in Portugal 89 in the Netherlands 83 in Venezuela Germany and 37 in Britain The rest were arrested in other mayor among urged acceptance of the apology "I call upon all our people to accept this as a first step toward getting on with the solutions to our problems" Austin said Others remain worried "While we respect the right of free speech we believe chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called Santora's remarks inflammatory "Black folks are not heathens- - Fred Matthews said "Don't make us look like cave men saying black kids are raping white teachers That isn't till public officials must oppose action stateprejudice in every ment and deed- - Tom - Santora has refused to talk directly to reporters but he read his apology Thursday in Mayor Ed Austin's office Petway chairman of the Chamber of Commerce said Fri 5000-memb- NEWS SERVICE Vance would not disclose details of Sunday's meeting but said recommendations including on when and if peacekeepers would be sent to Yugoslavia would be outlined in Boutros Ghali's report today to the Security Council A spokesman for the general said the Security Council would review the report "early this week" Vance a former secretary of state has made five trips to Yugoslavia since fighting broke out after Croatia and Slovenia declared independence last June Vance also spent more than two hours with Boutros Ghali on Saturday Asked if he had recommended deployment of a UN force Vance told reporters Saturday: "We discussed at considerable length the question of peacekeepers" But he indicated that any deployment of UN troops might be weeks away His recommendations to the Security Council will be crucial Diplomats said a peacekeeping force could be organized quickly They also said two problems remained Leaders of the Serbian enclave of Krajina in Croatia had said irregulars there would not lay down their arms while some Croatian policemen had also indicated they were not willing to disarm in areas where UN troops might be deployed secretary-- work that for the moment appears to be taking place" Vance said after 112 hours of talks Sunday with Secretary-Gener- Bon- al tros Boutros Ghali Vance has warned political leaders of Serbia and breakaway Croatia and the fighters on both sides that he cannot recommend a UN peacekeeping force unless the cease-firholds "I ant pleased that the ceasefire appears to be holding and hope that this will continue" said Vance who brokered the accord Friday in Sarajevo between the leaders of the Serbian-leYugoslav Army and the Croatian National Guard in the It is the 15th cease-firconflict bloody that has killed thousands and displaced some 600000 Boutros Ghali left the secretariat building without commenting to reporters but a statement released by his office he said he was "encouraged that the parties are making a serious effort to maintain the cease-fire- " e e An unknown man walks through the debris of a house in Damvar Yugoslavia that was bombed prior to the latest eeasefire Piioris would never purposely say anything to hurt any group of people" Santora said "Those did hurt some of our and for that I am truly personally opposes interracial marriage referred to women as countries in Latin America Europe and Asia Most were carrying small quantities of cocaine in their luggage or stomachs 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a campaign to dissuade its citizens from being tempted to smuggle drugs saying that foreign authorities have become expert at spotting worth the mules and that it is risk of spending years in prison Security Official in Lebanon SIDON Lebanon — Unidentified assailants killed a security official of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the southern port city of :')idon on Sunday police The -smugglers known as "mules- are paid up to 311000 for carrying d seven-month-ol- wait-and-s- THE ASSOrIATED "I would never mistreat judge a case on somebody's color or ethnic background Not ever Never have and I never will" on Dec 22 published an interview with Santora in which he said he happening- iT:AS is a between a lot of that they can't overcome its not all of it their fault the fault of their mothers their daddies and their And our fault We been too good to them" d — C ''I think that there UNITED NATIONS — UN special envoy Cyrus Vance said he would contact all parties in the Yugoslav conflict Sunday with a message urging them to maintain a cease-fir- e "I will be getting in touch today Sunday with the Yugoslav parties with a view to encouraging them to keep up the good V'I - 4444 1 mother would kill me wouldn't mistreat one" My Vance to Yugoslav Armies: Truce Means UN Help N 1 girt I would not take one - '''' 4 -And they started fights They started the gangs And the whites retaliated and they did the same thing- "Girls are wearing pantyhose and miniskirts that would make a guy my age chase them down the hallway The blacks are playing with those white girls with the white girls' consent'" "They also have blacks at Bolles fa private school but those blacks are disciplined They don't molest teachers They don't rape" would not date a black REUTER t t 4 resi- Liberty-are- a fi ' Judge John Santora was 4 County n PRESS — Rain that drenched Texas before Christmas caused widespread flooding along the Brazos Colorado and Trinity rivers taking at least 15 lives and causing millions of dollars in damage No deaths have been reported in the past two weeks Texas counties Twenty-fou- r have been declared federal disaster areas and Gov Ann Richards said last Friday that at least 2500 homes had been flooded At Liberty the Trinity was at 29 feet 58 feet above flood stage Officials said at least 180 homes were flooded in Liberty Twenty-seve- TB g ASSOCIATED JACKSONVILLE Fla — The call for removal of Chief Circuit anti-Semit- ic Flood Victims Have Wait efore Waters Recede LIBERTY Texas — Authorities were releasing less water Sunday from a dam on the g Trinity River but people in areas downstream were told to expect several more days of flooding 'It's going slow if it's going at all- - said Dorothy Patterson 88 who since Dec 2 8 has been staying with her daughter June Amaya n at a sheland her ter in Liberty about 50 miles northwest of Houston "I was determined I was going to stay in my home until Christ- Interview Excerpts Prompt Reaction to Judge three-count- y it lp 4:' - 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