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Show NATICNAL _ 6A Sunday, May 24, 1992 Standard-Examiner NATIONAL BRIEFS Clinton gets rousing home-state parade Federal officials He told about 3,500 supporters LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Democrat Bill Clinton basked in a reading manuscript at a rally that Republican policies had forced some Americans “to flag-waving, welcome-home pa- LOS ANGELES — A manuscript spend the entire decade of the ’80s rade Saturday through the streets by one of the white policemen acquitted in the beating of a black on the receiving end of the eco- of Little Rock and said Americans “have been let down by what's happened in Washington.” The probable presidential nomi- motorist 1s being read by officials considering filing federal! civil rights charges against the officers, a newspaper reported Saturday. Sgt. Stacey Koon gave the 275- nomic disaster we were given.” The parade got off to a slow start under slightly overcast skies. Spectators were sparse. Band nee also publicly thanked his wife, members and instruments were sitting idly almost an hour after Hillary, and daughter, Chelsea, for “sticking in there with me and page manuscript to investigators on the marching was to begin. Even street vendorssaid they were surprised by the low turnout. But Clinton appeared undaunt- giving the American people a real Friday, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported KoonandAssistant U.S. Attorney Michael Emmick declined to example of family values under fire.” Clinton was campaigning here in advance of Tuesday’s presidential primary in which heis heavily favored over former California comment. Koon released portions ofthe autobiographical manuscript to news organizations this week. The work g@utraged someHispanic and black community lead rs, who said it re- ed whenthefestivities finally got under way. He smiled broadly and stopped often to shake hands or be serenaded along the route. The Gov. Jerry Brown. ; “Don’t forget about Tuesday, I idea, he said, had been toattract small groups from all of the state’s need you then,” Clinton said as the crowd chanted, “We wantBill! flected racist attitudes as it discussed the videotaped beating of 75 counties. “We’re going to move heaven and earth for him in November.” Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., de- WewantBill!” Rodney King Clinton criticized cutbacks in health care, pre-school and welfare Judge releases tape programs during the Reagan-Bush years and touted job growth, clared in introducing Clinton, “and on Nov. 3 for the first time of pair having sex school and welfare reforms in Ar- TAMPA, Fla. — A man who videotaped a couple having sex through partially open blinds can get the tape back in 20 days, a judge ruled. The tape, whichled to disorderly conduct charges against Janet Paddock and Alfred Stephens, has been locked up since the incident last year and only the couple, investigators an d several attorneys have “Yes, we’ve been Jet down by what's happened in Washington for a dozen years,” he said. “The in our history you’re going to see us conclude the triple crown: Lil E. Tee, Pine Bluff and Bill Clinton.” kansas during his administration. )uple had wanted thetape jestroyed, but Hillsborough County \ riday a Holloway decided to return it to Lee Adler, ‘ he 1 he plans bidde hest Ste] 3 to sell it to , and Ms. Paddock, yw irrest iw Vy 16 after po- video Adler shot linds of Stephens’ condominium. The said their privacy was inN x however, said be seen by children nming pool outside. )uple originally were aron a’ felony charge of lewd“ vad th sted the i lascivious acts in the presence a child, but prosecutors decided to lodge misdemeanor disorderly onduct charges that were unrelated to the videotape The Associated Press Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton waves to the crowd as he and daughter Chelsea, 12, (center) and Knight-Ridder Newspapers PHILADELPHIA — Peter Dodson holds up a toy dinosaur and studies its tail. “Horrible! Just horrible!,” he exclaims. “The tail is all wrong — it should be horizontal, not vertical!” “The name, Trachodon, is wrong. It should be Edmontosaurus. And the illustrations on the container are terrible, just terrible.” Dodson, a University of Pennsylvania professor, has just finished scrutinizing one of Imperial Toy’s rubber dinosaurs and, alas, it has flunked. Most of the time, Dodson is a mild-mannered professor at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, but — Two former slack Panthers convicted of killing a police officer will get a newtrial unless prosecutors prove ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — When Max Abernathy picked up his phonethat night, the message was Ominous: there was trouble in town. And police needed his race played no part in jury selection at their tria A state appeals court ordered a hearing for prosecutors to explain g I fined for violations * SYRACUSE igara Mohawk Power Corp. agreed Fr day pay $200.000 in f ay to pay $200: in Nine M nuclear plant, officials The S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it 1 the fines from $1 because response of the to the Cause O! a Nistory to $200,000 1 dequate and be- ol ns at Lake Ontar “Ths fine and tt ircumst iid operat T! es “Does racism To small: 5- 1 ’ of God Away pulpit, hurch ers, plar 1 j in various forms his congregation, he is a man m the glare of the I he is a human being strughis From C u J iffair with se a > recent resig- it of ar i he fathered a child, sexual essions clergymen have 7 bishop who ad- denominations to shed ght on their own beral ¢ sins gol ] } flesh Jew or a probiem M F au- pr g ties in | yng a lat 1ietl n treated many shuffling sters research and abuse ause churches st ect aS to ot But aut W the Case offending hurches n clergy ise Say sexual earch is availab ndicates the problem is at least as ne as te abuses of trust com- Dp other profess helping ps t pists Ch ny and all I get is busy signa I'm so pointed I could scream.” — The A disap- ated Pri n in its 1987 g ministers I aid they had ; ppropriate behavsomeone other than their “I had a box of tissues next to with Johnny Carson. The non-profit organization has an advisory board that includes top experts from the United States, Canada, England, China, Australia and other nations. Lessem, the society’s president, said it had a second major mission: to raise funds for dinosaur research by tapping into the public’s enthusiasm for these r2ptiles, which ruled Earth for 160 million years. “Dinosaurs are a great turn-on to science for both kids and adults,” search throughout the world. It’s a woefully underfunded scientific field.” The society hopesto raise $1 million each year — through corperate grants and other sources — to fund dinosaur research around the globe, Lessem said. The organization hopes to give small grants — $25,000 or less — to scientists in many countries. “This funding approach is unusual, but not unprecedented,” he said. “The Planetary Society raises money for astronomical! research. The said Lessem, who is the author of a Cousteau Society gives money for new book, “Kings of Creation.” research about the ocean.” NEWORLEANS (AP) — Mem- to be dealt with.” “The hopelessness that you see in people in LA,” he added, “is the same hopelessness you see in the people in Washington Gardens.” But Mayor James Perron said feelings of despair aren’t tied to skin color in this community, where blacks account for 14 percent — about 6,000 — of the 43.000 residents. “The tensions are not so much racially motivated,” he said. “They're economically motivated. Poor people of all races are feeling frustrated.” Like so many big cities, unemployment in this north-central In- churches settle conflicts. handles 70 to 80 internal disputes each year — about 20 percent related to clergy sexual abuse, said the Rev. George Parsons, a senior consultant to the institute “It's not unlike what incest does to a family at one level,” Parsons said. “There’s shame and embarrassment and a sense of betrayal.” Another effect often is a loss of faith “It raises real doubts about the legitimacy ofreligious authority, and the S nitive x thems the TV. waiting,” said Sharon Ra mer. “This is horrible. IT grew up kins University — founded the Dinosaur Society in March 1991. “Yet, only about $1 million is being spent each year on dinosaur re- Rappers arrested in hotel brawl value of their faith,” Par- sons said Power outage signs Johnny off eart Calif of the nservative, all VISALIA. ain the popular children’s movie “Land Before Time,” tyrannosaurus rexes and apatosauruses are seen playing together. Wrong. Apatosauruseslived tens of millions of years earlier than the tyrannosau- bers of the rap group N.W.A. were arrested after a brawl in a hotel lobby that injured five people before it was quelled by police on horseback, police said Saturday. About 50 people were involved *in Friday’ night’s fight in the lobby of the downtown Sheraton Hotel, and 80 to 100 officers were called in to break it up, said Sgt. Marlon Defillo. After police brought the situation under control, “the rappers N.W.A. then attacked the police officers, during which time another altercation erupted,” Defillo said. “The horses were brought into the hotel to defuse the situation.” The Associated Press The Rev. John Nettles of St. James AME Churchvisits the housing project where a melee erupted earlier this week. diana town 110 miles east of Chicago is much higher among minorities: Perron says the city’s 6 percent jobless rate is at least double that among blacks. And like so many urban areas, Eljkhart has grappled with black distrust of the police. A few years ago, Breckenridge said, hundreds marched to protest claims ofexcessive police force. Since then, the mayor said, two shed light on subject that is taboo giing w W wrong: about dinosaurs, and David Weishampel, a professor at Johns Hop- police officers — one of them black — have been discharged. The city also has its first black police chief and its first two elected black school board members. “We're trying to keep a lid on.” said the Rev. John Nettles of St. James AME Church. “There are a lot of people who are concerned, who are trying to makesure what happened in LA does not happen here. ... All it takes is a spark.” Robert Williams, 22, Tray Curry, 24, and Andre Young, 27, who also is known as Dr. Dre, were each arraigned Saturday on three counts of battery on a police officer and single counts of inciting a riot, criminal damage to property and resisting arrest. Johnny King, 24, was arraigned on chargesofinciting a riot, crimi- nal damage 1o propertyand resisting arrest. Another person, Robin Allen, 26, was arraigned on a single count on each of the charges. Sexual transgressions bycleqna —_———_"—-—-— B Ralph §$ a, N 1 Mohawk’s senior vice pr ient for nucl NR was relatively housands of dollars in damage But the message was clear: racial tensions, raw nerves and angry charges of police brutality that exploded in Los Angeles are simmering in small-town America. Nuclear plant owner olations at the toll one arrest, a few minor injuries, y fact, it was probably faster than scientists originally believed; fossil evidence shows that it ran with its tail outstretched. It was to correct these all-too-frequent errors that Dodson and two other dinosaur enthusiasts — Don Lessem, a Massachusetts science writer who has written widely do exist in Elkhart. They’ve got The melee Tuesday night at the Washington Gardens housing project erupted after a shooting suspect purportedly resisted arrest. Rodney King’s name was shouted out. The crowd inched closer to the cops. One officer sprayed them with a Mace-like substance. Ninety minutes later, it was all over i N sail on its back) is included as a dinosaur. Wrong. In fact, it lived before the first dinosaur was born. gin numerous books and movies, the tyrannosaurus rex is portrayed as a slow-moving creature that dragged its tail. Wrong. In about them is outdated, or simply cops Bottles were being thrown. Win- tely kept € jury. ted and the 198] John Scz rus rex. aln many books andtoys, the dimetrodon (the reptile with a large but ali too often the information dows were being smashed. Residents were edgy. So were the Abernathy, a civic leader, was asked to help calm a nasty crowd gathered at a housing project. d prosecu- tors may have blacks from serving The two m \ sent 25 spends more than $i billion woridwide on dinosaur-related products, exist and is it a problem in cities like Elkhart? The answer is unequivocally “Yes,” ” said Franklin Breckenridge, president of the NAACP’s state conference of branches. “It’s a microcosm of the urban area.” “The problems are the same,” the local attorney said. “A high unemployment rate, the blackon-black crime, the high number of teen-age pregnancies — they help. why they rejected about 80 percent of the black prosps jurors for the trial six years ag Anthony LaBorde, known as Abdul Majid, and James Dixon York, known a s Bashe r Hameed will be retri prosecutors can’t show ace played no part in the rejection « 2 of 15 possible black jurors for the 1986 trial An appeals when he dons his hatas vice president of the Dinosaur Society, he becomes a stern taskmaster. Dodson, a dinosaur paleontologist, is appalled by what hesays is the inaccurate portrayal of dinosaurs in toys, books, movies and other media. Each year, the public Racial tensions hit small-town America prove lack of bias YORK Lil E. Tee won the Kentucky Derby and Pine Bluff won the Preakness. issue is, what are we going to do to change it?” Organization trying to correct dinosaur mistakes Prosecutors must NEW wife Hillary are on their way to participate in a really Saturday in downtownLittle Rock, Ark. Twelve percent said they 1 had ther than intercourse with someone their spouse The Alban Institute m Washingin Organization that helps Why do someclergy stray? For some — the so-called “onetime wanderers” — it often is a case of ignorance and inexperience, observers say Unlike therapists, who are trained in the psychology of the patient-counselor relationship and how it easily can be manipulated by the person in authority, many ministers receive little education on keeping proper boundaries Clergy also have little supervision of their counseling work and many opportunities to initiate contact said Fortune, a United Church of Christ minister and executive di- their calling. But experts say it is precisely because they are generally compassionate, people-oriented professionals that some may yield to inappropriate intimacy. More serious offendersin clerical garb exhibit sociopathic behavior and feel they are above the rules, Fortune said A typical case, and one Fortune considers an extraordinary abuse of the ministerial calling, is abuse of adults who seek pastoral counseling and reveal childhood abuse. To an abuser, that information is virtually a “green light” to manipulate the congregant into another abusive relationship, Fortune said. On the other hand, experts say, some people in the pewlike the idea of seducing the holy, or somehow establishing a closer relationship with God through intimate contact with a member of the clerBy. “This notion, m-effect, that they can seduce God,” Parsons said. “It is an irrational dynamic, but it’s there.” In such cases, clergy — like other counselors — must take responsibilits “You, as clergy, are in charge of the boundary, not the congregant tion of Sexual and Domestic And that’s tough,” said Dr. Jane Violence in Seattle ~Mutcham of Lutheran Family: SerFor a fong time, clergy were con-'’ ‘vices itt the’ Carolinas if Charlotie. sidered practically incapable of sex- N.C. “But from my perspective, ual abuse because of the nature of that’s the bottom line.” rector of the Center for the Preven- GOLDENWEST NOTEBOOK By Cliff Thompson A couple of weeks ago I had agreed to “sub” for Cindy McCollum in her Special Ed class at Ben Lomond High School. All of the students in Cindy’s class are It was very rewarding to see *@. and feel the sense of achievement those students show when they’ve accomplished what to most of us would be a simple, disabled. Over routine task. half of the 15 students are in wheelchairs. By mid-morning I wasfeeling very comfortable, by noon all of my apprehension had disappeared and at the end of the day, | was hoping they would ask me back. The transition from appre hension to enchantment was due in large part to two full time adult aides, Val and Dorothy. But mostly it was the students themselves and how they were responding to the concern and commitment shown byVal and Dorothy. I thought I would try the same approach when oneof the boys, who has become a special friend, came up, struck out this hand, told me his name and askedif I'd help him writein his journal We spent about 20 minutes writing four sentences about a trip he took to the mall the day before I spent the next worthwhile. Maybethat’s why theHilltop Lane owners and a number of other businesses provide assistance to the special education program to make that activity and others possible : I've had the same rewards “subbing” in Clara Gifford’s Special Ed class at Mt. Ogden Middle School. If I substitute again next year, I think I will concentrate on Special Ed classes I think the biggest reward for me is to meet one of my new friends in the hall, have them smile and say “Hi, Cliff.” The Goldenwest Credit Union members, staff and officers join 15 minutes helping another student-do a crossword puzzle Seeing those students respond to attention and concern made me feel exceptionally good. One day we went bowling at Hilltop Lanes. There weren't too manystrikes or spares and the scores were largely in the lower double digits. However, the lessons the students learned in interacting with the public madeit me in congratulating the Special Ed teachers and aides and wishing the students well poorcop |