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Show A8& The Salt Lake Tribune NATIONThursday,February 20, 1997 Hatch Praise Clinton Ss Model to Curb Kid Violence AS MORNING NEWS 3oston has beenkilledby Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, welcomed Clinton’s speech. “There d $495 million anti-gang and youth-violence is substantial room for agreement in many areas with measures he already has introduced, Hatch said Wearewilling to consider alternatives and new You haven't had a singlechild killed witha gunin islative proposal,” Hatch said in ajoint statement ation must follow inton said Wednesday as he outlined an a year andahalf in this city. How I would praythat could happeninevery city in America,” said Clinton during a speech at the University of Massachusetts. programs, $75 million for anti-truancy, curfews and other intervention programs and $50 million for a Youth Violence Courtsinitiative. WEstablishing federal authority to prosecute more youths as adults for violent offenses. Clinton said Boston and several othercities had ideas, andlook forward to seeing the president's leg- removed “any fig leaf of excuse” that nothing can be done about juvenile crime with first-year Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who heads the committee’s youth-violence panel. Among Clinton’s legislative proposalsare: Both the president and Massachusetts officials said the Boston planis based on what works. It is “tough when youshould be tough. smart when Spending $200 million on newlocal prosecutors He modeled his two-year plan after the Boston program, which emphasizes prevention, interven- @ Spending $60 million for 1,000 new after-school you should be smart, compassionate when you and on new ways to pursue and punish gang mem- tion and enforcement bers. should be compassionate,” Clinton said. Wecannot permit this to be only achievement in Boston Sooner or later, what we haveto dois niles who have been convicted of a violent crime ing Operation Night Life, which sends both police and probation officers on nightlyvisits to the homes to create thenotion that it is normal for kids not to get shot @ Revising the Brady Law to make certain juve- The Boston plan has several components,includ- cannot legally buy a handgunafter turning 18. It also would requiresafety locks on handguns Texas Lawmaker Caught In Prostitution Sting THEASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — State Sen. Drew Nixon was charged early todaywithsoliciting an undercover police officer who was posing as 4 prostitute : Nixon, 37, wasreleased on his own recognizance and refused to comment when he was approached outside the police station. According to court records, Nixon offered the officer $35 to perform oralsex. The Republican senator from Carthage, Texas, faces up to 180 daysinjail and afine of up to $2,000 if convicted of the misdemeanor charge. of youths onprobation. Charity Pulls Anti-AIDS Prayer Ads | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — An free AIDS charity yanked anationwidead campaign after receiving complaints that messages such as “Prayer won't cure AIDS, Research will” insult ed people who believein the power of prayer. The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) said the objections focused on that mes. sage as well as another that ran on public buses: ag fe se W we st your phone from unknown calls. “Sexual abstinence won't cure AIDS. Research will Transit agencies in both Dallas and Fort Worth had heard objectio celed the ds ad earlier 1 AmFAR seeks to educa offend the public Mathilde Krim. woman of the board of directors of New free York-based AmFAR, a favorite charity of actress Elizabeth Tay lor “Since the complaints over two of the ads distract from our cru- cial message — that only medical research can generatetrue solu- tions to AIDS — we have agreed to discontinue the campaign.” Krim said Wednesday your desk trom a mess of messages. The AmFAR campaign 1, was launche! torunin about 19 metropolitan areas through the i spring. A third ad. bons won't cure AIDS. Research will Religious leaders in the DallasFort Worth area stressed Wednesday that they didn’t disap- prove of research to find a cure for AIDS. They just felt that prayer and sexual abstinence shouldn't be slighted ‘That's just a swipe in theface of praying people,” Miller, Tar | said David executive director of the County chapter of the | American Family Association. It's certainly catching people's attention. And anybody that be lieves in prayer fended The | | free is going to beof. in-house ufacturer campaign. Ke tor and chairman of cations and marketing committee of AmMFAR Right now people have be come dangerously complacent Colesaid. come so. “We've basically all beensitized over time. We need to startle people, to grab their attention. 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