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Show 2 A2 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, IBM liah, Friday, September 20, 1996 extends benefits to partners of gay workers EVAN RAMSTAD AP Business Writer By NEW YORK IBM has become the . I U TTt i rvr c km.,Ai lo cXlciiuI ulibtuiu uitvs kuuipuny benefits to the partners of its workers, gay a move that follows a growing trend in corporate America. The decision could encourage even teere companies to do the same: IBM is so I3rge and diverse, it is viewed by many as .bellwether of U.S. business practices. : 'Having a company like IBM on board is going to shake a lot more of them out of the trees," said Liz Winfield, of Common Ground, a Natick, Mass., research firm. IBM on Thursday joined nearly 470 other large corporations, governments and universities in the United States that provide the same benefits to same-se- x couples as to married couples. That's up from 250 a year ago, according to Common Ground. Software maker Lotus Development Corp., which IBM acquired last year, took the step in 1990 and was among the first to do so. In recent months, several other household names, including Walt Disney Co. and American Express Co., have also extended health benefits to partners of gay workers. Other companies with similar policies include Microsoft Corp., Time Warner Inc., Levi Strauss & Co., and Apple Computer Inc. Gay ac Li vims applauded IBM's decision. "This is a magnificent step forward in terms of corporate America recognizing the value of gay and lesbian employees," said Elizabeth Birch, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay political organization. Political and religious conservatives, however, have criticized companies that offer benefits to gay workers' partners. Leaders of Southern Baptist churches have asked Dole ad shows Clinton saying he'd inhale Trick shows some candidates will take money from anyone By JOHN KING AP Political Writer WASHINGTON Getting personal in his political drug war with President Clinton, Bob Dole launched a $5 million ad campaign today that includes TV footage of a laughing Clinton saying he would inhale marijuana if given the chance to relive his college days. The new ad features footage from a 1992 MTV interview in which a college student asked Clinton about his earlier statement that he had tried to smoke marijuana while at Oxford University in the 1960s but had trouble inhaling because he was a nonsmoker. "Sure, if I could. I tried before," Clinton said when asked if he would inhale if he could try again. Dole mentioned the Clinton remarks for the first time on Wednesday, suggesting they sent By CONNIE CASS Associated Press Writer Spokeswoman Lisa Davis said the check was accepted as a contribution from an individual, not a group, "and what people put on their checks is Is there anyone a politician WASHINGTON r up to them." take won't from? money t To find out, comic Michael Moore sent a $100 Although the abortion check apparently slipped check labeled "Hemp Growers of America" to through unnoticed, Buchanan's GOP primary camit paign treasurer Scott Mackenzie said he saw the ;President Clinton's campaign. And $100 from "Abortionists for Buchanan" "Gacey" check before it was cashed. He assumed t went to Pat and his political brigade, which sees it was a joke, but decided to deposit it anyway. 1 outlawing abortion as nothing less than a crusade. (Moore said he misspelled Gacy's name on the Another $75 check hit Pat Buchanan's cam-- 3 advice of an attorney.) paign mailbox from "The John Wayne Gacey Fan "I thought we'd turn it around and have the , Club," a phony group for a real serial killer named joke on them," Mackenzie said. , Gacy. Each check was signed by an assistant of Cashed. i , Moore's, Gillian Aldrich, with the name of the Cashed. dummy organization printed clearly in the top left And cashed. i . corner. "If it said $100, we just saw the dollar signs," s So what's the point of all this? Obviously, to . Said Buchanan spokeswoman Connie Mackey. - Moore, best known for taking on General help sell Moore's new book, "Downsize This!" I Motors in the satirical documentary "Roger & But Moore, who pulled similar stunts on his sporadically aired TV show, said the results also tell a i Me," got two thank you notes from the Clinton lot about politicians' addiction to money. 'jxamp. "I wanted to test this question: Will a politician The professional prankster struck out a few accept money from anyone no matter how despiBob Dole's Republican presidential camVtimes cable the group may be or how contrary to that Satan Wosaw right through paign apparently rshipers for Dole. Two checks bearing that name politician's stated point of view?" Moore said durwere returned uncashed. ing a stop in Washington. He was inspired by the controversy over the And Texas billionaire Ross Perot, the Reform Party presidential nominee, sent back $100 from Dole campaign's decision to return a $1,000 check from a gay Republican group last year. Dole later pedophiles for Free Trade. "He returned the check with a very nice letter said returning the Log Cabin Republicans check wishing me well and the neoole in mv crouo well was a mistake. one of those form letters," said Moore. Ironically, the gag also echoes a trick suggested Perot wasn't yet accepting presidential by Buchanan himself two decades ago, when he worked for the Nixon White House. I c contributions at that time, a spokeswoman To embarrass Pete McCloskey, a Republican said, and all checks were returned automatically. After a reporter alerted Clinton campaign offiprimary challenger to Nixon in 1972, Buchanan cials to the gag Thursday, a spokeswoman said the suggested arranging for a gay rights or far-lenot because the check group to donate money to McCloskey, which money would be returned apparently endorsed marijuana farming, but would be leaked to the press. Buchanan's memo is "because it's not on the level." on file at the National Archives. - pany, like others, reasoned that such couples can obtain benefits by getting married, an option not open to gays. To qualify for the new benefits, IBM Jill Kanin-Lover- s, vice president of human resources for IBM's U.S. divisions, employees must sign affidavits that they said the company's decision was based on are financially and emotionally interdeits commitment to nondiscrimination. pendent with their domestic partners. Other companies have similar requirements of "We have a longstanding policy and such documents have become comand fairly," treating employees equitably mon in same-se- x partnerships. she said. IBM employs about 225,000 people IBM's new policy for domestic workers covers dental, vision and general health worldwide and 110,000 in the United States. In 1974, it was the first large combenefits, starting on Jan. 1. The company did not extend benefits to pany to include sexual orientation in its nondiscrimination hiring policy. unmarried heterosexual couples. The com the denomination's 16 million members to boycott Disney, contending that the company seemed to be promoting homosexuality. an interview airing tonight on the president tells ABC's "20-20- ," Barbara Walters that he was sorry he had tried marijuana in college, "It was even unsuccessfully. wrong," he said. Dole returned to Washington late Thursday night and was spending today at his campaign headquarters. Next week, he is to return his camecopaign focus to his nomic plan, including a speech at the Detroit Economic Club. Dole spent this week in the West, casting Clinton as silent and absent in the war on drugs, blaming the president's "naked leadership" for a recent doubling of drug use Ameriamong 12- - to cans. In addition to his campaigning on this issue, his campaign launched its largest advertising buy, spending nearly $5 million to air the spot criticizing Clinton. an alarming signal to young Americans that it was OK to experiment with marijuana and other drugs. Sending the opposite message. g Dole then unveiled his "Just Don't Do It" slogan and promised to make it as well known as Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign during her husband's presidency. "We will never have a firm, confident national message against drugs when our leaders are ambivalent themselves," Dole said in a speech to newspaper editors Thursday in Denver. " ... I will dedicate my presidency to restoring the moral clarity with which our government speaks." Earlier this month, Clinton insisted the MTV question was lighthearted and that he did not mean to suggest experimentation with drugs was acceptable. And in anti-dru- tax-cutti- Prevor:3ce:r r f - nJ , W - f . , - t. " T T. ,. V. f .- 1- I ! cam-onic- m 1 Value Pack or More 5 lbs. ft Lean Ground Hamburger Alarms ered feet first through the birth canal before the brain is removed. It will be more difficult to get (Continued from Page Al) bipartisan support in the Senate, where the bill passed last Decemvetoed the bill, saying it failed to ber by 54-4well short of the make an exception when the health margin needed to override. of the mother is at risk. Senate Majority Leader Trent ! Opponents of the legislation say Lott promised a vote, possibly next Jhe procedure, known medically as Thursday, but acknowledged, "I susjntact dilation and evacuation, is pect it will be hard to override it." ised only rarely when doctors disthe Sen. Don Nickles, r, cover severe abnormalities in the GOP whip and chief Ifetus or the mother has serious expressed doubt they could change health problems. enough votes for the override. ! Viki Wilson, a registered nurse "That's quite a few votes (to get), but we'll be working at it." from Fresno, Calif., had the proceEven with those prospects, dure two years ago after she late in her pregnancy that abortion foes claimed a major vicbrain had grown outside tory. "It will mobilize millions of (earned She said Thursday that evangelical and Catholic voters formal or induced labor would who will go to the polls in record numbers in November," said Ralph Jiave ruptured her cervix and probher. crushed Reed of the Christian Coalition. ably "This was the most historic vote ?But Republican sponsors of the since Roe vs. Wade in the House," legislation won 70 Democratic suleader Rep. Chris ppliers for the override by insisting said that the procedure is often elective Smith, referring to the 1973 land is particularly offensive Supreme Court ruling that gave because the fetus is partially deliv- - women the right to have abortions. 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