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Show Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel, August 10, 1990 3. Utah NAACP names Civil rights bill is passed by split Senate BABY contest winner by Leslie Philips USA Today The Ogden Youth NAACP held its Be A Better Youth (BABY) contest on June 23, 1990, declaring the winner to be Omar X. Sawyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard Sawyer of Ogden. Omar represented Utah at the 1990 national convention of the NAACP in Los Angeles, California, July 8-12. _ The contest was sponsored by the Ogden branch of the NAACP in cooperation with the national NAACP to raise funds in support of a campaign The bill requires employers to prove a *‘buSiness necessity’’ for hiring / inequities. It also permits women and religious minorities to sue for punitive damages. Racial minorities already have that right. 99 Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kansas, said he has ‘‘never winner of the HO GEdEE BABY contest, with his mother, betty Sawyer. voted against a civil rights bill before. But I’ve never had one shoved down my throat before.’ White House spokesman Ogdenite’s egranddau ghter named 2nd runner-up in national BABY contest Keia Syreeta Fulgham, daughter of Royetta Goodwin Fulgham of Sacramento, California was named the second runner-up in the national BABY contest during the national convention of the NAACP held in Los Angeles July 8-12. | Keia’ § grandmother, Mrs. Dovie. Souter Washington — Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter, if confirm- ed, could provide key votes on such issues as abortion counseling, fetal protection, and school desegregation in the 1990-9 "court (erin that begins October Poe The justices could be closely divided on those and other issues already docketed for decision, and Souter’s views on them are a mystery. Legal scholars and lawyers following the cases say retired Justice William J. Brennan’s votes would have been predictably liberal. The book on Souter: He’s a conservative. The big question: How conservative? ‘‘We’re going from a known quantity in Brennan to an unknown,’ said Clarke Forsythe, general counsel of Americans ‘We still want a bill we can sign.”’ United for Life, an anti- abortion group closely watching the abortion-counseling and fetalprotection cases before the court. At issue in the first are federal regulations that bar government- financed family planning centers from counseling women about abortion. The regulations are being attacked as alleged violations of free-speech and abortion rights. The so-called Title X program gives about $200 million a year to some 4.000 clinics nationwide that serve about 5 million low-income women. Souter to be queried on affirmative action Supreme Court nominee David Souter can expect to face Senate interrogation about his stance on affirmative action, Sen. Edward Kennedy, © Stevens, the court’s three most members, _to vote to ogee He: a strike bloc Chief Justice _ William H. Rehnquist, and Justices Byron R. White, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy — will unite to say the resulations are valid. “It’s not an easy case, and Souter could play a key role,’’ Forsythe said. The second millions case of working could affect women. The : master, who died at home in Los . Angeles Saturday of lung cancer complications, never did. by Chris Erasmus — Anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak, whose extramarital television producer resign his political pursue a political Africa. affair with a white is leading him to posts, says hell career in South Boesak, who is of mixed-race descent ‘“‘colored’’ under South Africa’s rules — formally quit his congregation and as may exclude all women of childbearing age from some hazardous, but comparatively high-paying, jobs to protect their fetuses. _At issue is a car battery manufacturer’s policy of banning women who cannot prove they are infertile from jobs that expose them to lead. ‘Justice Brennan will be missed in both the workplace case and the Title Mission Church, the major Afrikaner church. X case,’ said Patricia Ireland of the ‘*He would have found (the fetal protection policy) to be offensive and inappropriate in. that it ignores what exposure to lead does to men’s reproductive systems. And he had a great history of respect for freedom of speech and women’s rights,’ Ireland said. Susan Ross of the Sex Discrimination Center at Georgetown University’s law school, said the outcome of the fetal protection case could hinge on Souter. Dutch post “moderator National Organization for Women. of the his court must decide whether employers Reformed He said associates had urged him to remain in the political arena and he’s ‘‘decided to offer my services to the people of this country to bring about a united, non-racial, and democratic South Africa.” Boesak is a founder of the antiapartheid United Democratic Front and likely will continue his ties to it. His resignation follows disclosure two weeks ago of his relationship with Elna Botha, a niece of a former Cabinet minister and wife of South African television personality Colin Fluxman. In a dramatic and tearful speech, he told his congregation then that he would resign. On Wednesday, he announced that his wife of 21 years, Dorothy, 1s filing for divorce. They have four children. Botha said she and her husband also are divorcing. D-Mass., said Wednesday — the first solid indication Souter’s confirmation hearings could be bumpy. Souter, as New Hampshire attorney general, argued to the Supreme Court in 1976 .against a federal rule requiring states to submit racial breakdowns of their employees, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Kennedy, a member of the Judiciary Committee that will question Souter, met with _ him privately Wednesday and. later _ said his apparent opposition to some forms of affirmative action *‘concerns me’? and ‘‘certainly”’ will be brought up at the Sept. 13 confirmation hearing. ning. And the amiable game show ey hoped: the court’s con- servative by Tracey Wong Briggs Bill Cullen said it was great to be witty, but a game show host should never distract a contestant from win- Anti-apartheid cleric to pursue liberal career them _ political Republicans joined all N.M.; David. Durenberger, Minn.; Cullen, the bespectacled Sailclist of I’ve Got a Secret and To Tell the Ore.; Arlen Specter, Pa. Klan, neo-Nazis march in Florida Palm Beach, Florida — About 30 Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis rallied and marched down this exclusive retreat’s most famous street Saturday to jeers from a crowd of about 1,000 people. The marchers, split between Klansmen and young neo-Nazis, walked down Worth Avenue. past royal palms, manicured hedges, and pastel shops, many of them closed. About 130 officers from six police Truth, and host of game shoes in- departments, most in riot gear and carrying batons, closely monitored the cluding The $25,000 Pyramid, was march in an area that includes many 70. survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. ‘*Bill was the ultimate host,’’ said A spectator was arrested for game show producer Dick Clark. disorderly conduct during the march, ‘*He had the great talent of eee his Said police spokesman Craig Gunkel. job look easy.’ A childhood bout with polio left After the march, police intervened him with a limp, but he earned his. when a group of people chased down pilot’s license at 15 and landed his first - a marcher and tried to wrestle an American flag away from him. job as a radio announcer four years later. _ He became emcee of the radio quiz show Winner Take All in 1946, and Support did radio and television game shows for 42 years. By 1958, he was on the radio and TV more than 25 hours a week. 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Blackmun, and John Paul Ten Democrats in favor of the bill: John Chafee, R.I.; William Cohen, Maine; John Danforth, Mo.; Pete Domenici, Republicans said the bill would force employers to institute hiring quotas in and of any game, By Dav that will be its effect.’’ Mark Hatfield, Ore.; John Heinz, Pa.; Bush Bill Cullen, master Allan Boesak In a last minute effort to appease Republicans, Kennedy added an amendment that prohibits quotas. But Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif., said the -bill requires ‘quotas — if not in express, explicit language, inevitably, Senate President could provide key votes Associated Press Marlin Fitzwater said the administration will work to revise the bill in the House. Goodwin of Ogden was on hand as a delegate and beamed with joy as veteran television and movie actress Jayne Kennedy Overton, the mistress of ceremonies for this program, announced the winners and kissed each child, presenting many gifts to all of the children participating. stormed apart. The Senate voted 65-34 for a bill that would nullify six Supreme Court decisions that made it harder to prove employment discrimination. “It’s time to end the double stanwomen and minorities,’’ said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the bill’s sponsor. it Sawyer! schmotas,’’ Kennedy. “‘Quotas are not the issue. Job discrimination is.’’ dard that denies equal opportunity to — Ra eae “Quotas, A sharply torn Senate passed a major civil rights bill late Wednesday after talks with the White House fell to be used in the fight against drug and. alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy, crime and violence, and dropping out of school and illiteracy. order to avoid costly lawsuits. And that’s only naming a few. So make the winning move to CheckMate. 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