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Jackson leads march against Contract With America
By Karyn SptHman
The Associated Press
ATLANTA - Jesse Jackson's supporters
Monday got an odorous reminder of the civil
rights activist's call for stringent environmental regulations - the stench of the Chattahoochee River carried on a light breeze.
A small crowd followed Jackson down a
busy suburban Atlanta highway Monday on
the second day of a 30-mile march to protest
the House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract With America.
Jackson and about 50 supporters, including members of the Sierra Club, stopped at
the Chattahoochee National Recreation
Area, about three miles into Monday's 10mile trek.
"We have a.right to breathe free. Our
lakes and streams should not constitute a
health hazard," Jackson said. "No one has
a right to pollute the water and contaminate
the air."
The march, dubbed "From Newt's
Nightmare to Dr. King's Dream," began
Sunday in Marietta Square just outside
Gingrich's district and will end Tuesday at
the Rev. Martin Luther King's gravesite in
downtown Atlanta.
Monday's march was to include stops at
IBM's headquarters, the governor's mansion and Piedmont Hospital.
Before resuming the march Monday,
Jackson visited Gingrich's Marietta office
to deliver a letter protesting the contract to
the speaker. Gingrich was in Washington,
and his aides accepted the letter on his behalf.
Senate refuses to shield
Medicare from budget cuts
ByAlanFram
vote let Republicans demonstrate
The Associated Press
that they would rally behind their
blueprint
for balancing the budgWASHINGTON - The Senate
et,
even
against
the most sharply
refused to shield Medicare and pointed Democratic
attacks.
Medicaid from $100 billion in
planned reductions Monday as
But Democrats got what they
Republicans thwarted the Demo- wanted: A platform from which
crats' strongest shot at scuttling to repeat their accusation that
the GOP's balanced-budget plan.
the GOP was heartlessly gouging
Aware that they would lose, the country's most helpless and
outnumbered Democrats never- aiding the wealthy in their effort,
theless unleashed an attack at the to end federal deficits by 2002.
two most sensitive, parts of the
"Now they're iit charge,.let
Republican budget. They pro- them
go to bat, but not take the
posed easing the GOP's planned bat and
crush so many vulnerspending slowdown;. for the able-people
in our country," said
health-insurance programs for Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, Dthe elderly and poor by $100 bil- W.Va.
lion, and finding the savings in-"The. bottom line here is,
stead by shrinking a possible tax
cut that Democrats insist would '.Whose side are we on?'" said
Senate Minority Leader Tom
benefit mainly the rich.
Predictably, the Senate de- Daschle,. D-S.D., listing senior
feated the amendment, with the citizens, children and working
52-46 roll call breaking almost families on one side and the
precisely along party lines, The wealthy on the other.
Standing outside Gingrich's office, Jackson criticized the speaker for calling the
march an outdated means of protest, saying
the speaker had never marched himself and
didn't understand the premise.
Over the weekend, Gingrich had dismissed the march as a publicity stunt.
"We marched in Montgomery, Birmingham. It worked," Jackson said. 'This is a
moral message of mercy to challenge our
government to be sensitive and provide
safety nets for those who are least able to
protect themselves.''
Gingrich later issued a statement, which
included a letter to Jackson, saying he and
Jackson "have a fundamental disagreement
about the role of government and the best
way to help our fellow Americans."
Helping local projects "is far more bene-
ficial than sending more and more tax dollars to wasteful Washington bureaucracies
which for far too long have trapped our citizens in a cycle of poverty and despair,"
Gingrich wrote.
Jackson and the marchers, which included the Rev. Al Sharpton, state Rep. Tyrone
Brooks, D-Atlanta, members of labor
unions, women's groups and civil rights
groups, contend the contract will take money from the poor and elderly and help the
rich.
"I brought my 10-year-old son so he
wouldn't grow up believing conservative
rhetoric," said Cassie Fahrney, who traveled from Austin, Texas, with her son Joshua after hearing Jackson speak there.
In the morning, Jackson urged about
1,500 students at Campbell High School in
Smyrna to hold themselves to a higher moral standard and to stand up to friends involved with drugs or violence.
Jackson asked the students to stand if
they knew anyone involved in drugs or
bringing guns to school. Nearly all of them
got up.
But when Jackson asked the students to
stand again if they had ever told authorities
what they knew, fewer than 10 stood.
"Those who know and don't tell are engaged in a conspiracy of silence," Jackson
said. "In your silence, they know school is a
sanctuary for them."
Jackson ended by asking students to become more politically responsible. He handed out voter registration forms to 18-yearolds who said they weren't registered.
NATION BRIEFS
Olympic tickets
are prizes in new
Ga. lottery game
ATLANTA - Ten million dollars
worth of tickets to Olympic events
are the 'prizes ,in a new scratch-off
lottery game being launched today
by the Georgia Lottery Corp.
For matching symbols on their $2
cards in "Tic-Tac-Toe" style, play:
ers can win cash or two tickets to
any of more than two dozen events,
including the sought-after opening
and closing ceremonies.
They also can win entry into
weekly drawings for cash and tickets. Two grand prize winners -, to
be selected just before the games
start next year - will win $50,000,
two tickets to either the opening or
closing ceremonies, four tickets to
the best events for eight days, and
hotel accommodations.
host to Somalia's Olympic track
team next year after residents protested the treatment of U.&_soldiers
in that African nation. / ^
In a 13-2 vote, the Barrow County
Chamber of Commerce barred the
runners from using facilities, in the
rural county 40 miles north of Atlanta.
.
Dozens of residents had urged
county officials to reject the plan,
presenting them with copies of the
October 1993 news photograph of an
American soldier being dragged by
a jeering crowd through the streets
of the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
Seventeen Somali track and field
athletes and eight coaches, had.
planned to train for three weeks in
Barrow County and three weeks in
Gordon County,
Taxol found effective
against ovarian cancer
LOS ANGELES - The drug
Taxol has proven to be the first effective new treatment in a decade
Ga. county won't host ~ 'Tor ovarian cancer, an especially letumor that has largely eluded
Somali Olympic athletes thal
all attempts at control, researchers
said Monday.
t WINDER - A Georgia county reOvarian cancer will strike an esjected a proposal Monday to play
timated 27,000 U.S. women this year.
Two-thirds of the victims die within
five years, making this .the most
deadly of all cancers of the female
reproductive system, largely because it produces no symptoms until
it has already spread.
Data from a comparison study
begun in 1990 on 385 women shows
that it does indeed make a difference, although whether it will actually cure anyone remains to be seen.
Bankrupt charity's
workers seek immunity
PHILADELPHIA - Some former employees of the Foundation
for New Era Philanthropy are.seekIng immunity from prosecution before they talk to investigators probing the biggest charity collapse in
recent U.S. history, a federal bank*
ruptcy lawyer said Monday.
In other developments:
• John T. Carroll HI, the interim
trustee appointed in the bankruptcy
case/said his investigators had discovered that some documents are
missing from New Era's headquarJ
ters in Radnor, Pa,
• He also said his team was concentrating on certain transfers of
funds from a brokerage account the
charity has with Prudential Securities.
Pool mechanic charged
in Gerulaitis'death
SOUTHAMPTON, N.V; - A pool
mechanic has been charged with
criminally negligent homicide in the
death of tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis
from carbon monoxide poisoning.
A malfunction in the pool heating
system at the home where Gerulaitis
died was cited by investigators as
the. reason carbon monoxide circulated into the bedroom where he had
been napping when he died last September:
The mechanic, Bart Torpey of
Recreational Concepts in Sag Harbor, installed the heating unit in
April underneath the guest cottage
at the estate of Gerulaitis- friend,
Martin Raynes.
Just prior to Gerulaitis* death,
Torpey and a manufacturer's representative had serviced the unit after
Raynes complained it wasn't keeping water in the pool at the desired
90-degree temperature.
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