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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 6

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The Town Talki
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Alexandria, Louisiana
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WASHO A-6 Monday, September 16, 1996 Bails Com Gingrich backs ban on guns for abusers Pressure grows on Dole to push plan the anti-stalking language, stripped of the gun ban, to a spending bill. On Friday, Lautenberg and Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and John Kerry of Massachusetts wrote Dole, asking him to use his influence to pass the legislation. Dole retired as Senate majority leader to run for president. "Without your direct intervention, it now seems unlikely that the Republican congressional leadership will protect battered wives and abused children from gun violence," they wrote.

They said that Dole was "in a unique position to persuade Speaker Gingrich" to approve the gun ban. "Bob Dole believes all guns, not just handguns, should be kept out of the hands of domestic abusers," said Dole campaign spokeswoman Christina Martin. "That's why the Dole instant check initiative would protect anyone under a court order for stalking or harassing their spouse from purchasing any gun rifle, shotgun or handgun." After failing to make the ban part of the anti-stalking bill, Lautenberg and his allies introduced it Thursday as an amendment to a Treasury and postal spending bill. The amendment passed, 97-2, but Republican leaders pulled the spending bill from the floor because of a lack of progress toward completion. WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Newt Gingrich promised Sunday to support legislation barring those convicted of domestic violence from obtaining a handgun.

At the same time, pressure for such legislation grew as four Democratic senators urged Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole to come out for a ban. "I'm very much in favor of stopping people who engage in violence against their spouses from having guns," Gingrich said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think that's a very reasonable position." The Georgia Republican said such legislation would pass the House in the closing weeks of the current session. President Clinton endorsed the idea during his whistlestop train trip to the Democratic nominating convention in Chicago in August. The gun ban has been actively pushed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, He tried unsuccessfully to attach it as an amendment to anti-stalking legislation Congress passed last week that would make a federal crime of crossing state lines to harass a person.

The popular anti-stalking bill was held up in the Senate for months because the gun-control issue was included. The bill's main sponsor, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, succeeded last week in attaching Clinton gives civil rights figure Medal of Freedom WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton honored civil rights heroine Rosa Parks on Satin-day for "one modest act of defiance that changed the course of history." In an Oval Office ceremony the president slipped the blue ribbon of the Presidential Medal of Freedom around the neck and shoulders of the elderly black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat in a city bus to a white person led to the 1955 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, one of the opening dramas of the civil rights movement. Later, Clinton escorted Parks, still wearing her medal, to the annual dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation where he again called on voters to help Democrats regain majority control of Congress.

Clinton also called on the integrated but mostly black audience to help him remind America "in this election period" that while 10.5 million jobs have been created in his administration "there are still people that have been left behind." Referring to his controversial decision to sign into law welfare reform legislation with tough work requirements he said: "I want you to remind America that you can't require people on welfare to go to work unless they have work. I want you to help me spark a vast new round of investments in our isolated inner-city areas which have been left behind." And he called on Congress to help by giving big-city mayors "the power to create those jobs and create those opportunities by cleaning up the environment, creating investment incentives and putting people to work." And in a remark directed to the black-tie audience gathered in the Washington Convention Center he said: "We cannot ever forget that there are still too many Americans who could no more come to this dinner than the man in the moon because they're still looking for a job. "We can turn this around if you are committed and I am committed and if we get the kind of Congress that will support the kind of policies that will enable us to move this country forward," Clinton said. The president had been set to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest i7 Gingrich: release report He wants probe completed before data unveiled Associated Press Civil rights heroine Rosa Parks smiles alter she was introduced to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation by President Clinton. civilian award, on Rosa Parks last Monday.

But weather problems in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran disrupted airline schedules and she was not able to attend the ceremonies in which 10 other distinguished Americans also were recognized. Instead she got her medal solo. NBC's "Meet the Press." He said, "Some Democratic staffer leaked a false report. There is no final document. The study is not yet done, so we're being attacked because they claim we don't want to release a document which doesn't exist yet." The report the Democrats want published is only a progress report, and outside counsel James M.

Cole is conducting interviews for the investigation, Gingrich said. The ethics panel, comprising five Republicans and five Democrats, has been reviewing the course that Gingrich taught, "Renewing American Civilization." The lectures were at two Georgia colleges, but a satellite hookup beamed them to Gingrich supporters nationwide. An ethics complaint by former Democratic Rep. Ben Jones, a defeated Gingrich opponent, contends the course was part of the speaker's political operation that should not have qualified as a tax-exempt activity. WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Newt Gingrich, responding to Democratic charges he is trying to hide results of an ethics investigation, said Sunday he will vote for the report to be made public, but only after it is completed.

"The country has a right to know," said the Georgia Republican. He said he will be exonerated by the outside counsel's examination of whether he obeyed tax laws in raising money for an unconventionally financed college course. Democrats charge the Republican-led House ethics committee is covering up for the speaker in refusing to release before November's elections a secret summary of the outside counsel's findings. They point to Gingrich's 1989 demand for the release of an outside counsel's report that led to the retirement of a Gingrich predecessor as speaker, Jim Wright, D-Texas. "I'm not trying to delay anything," Gingrich told Charitable groups pay women execs less last year, according to a survey of 188 charitable organizations by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

But the women, who made up about 16 percent of the executives, earned only $163,100 compared with a median salary of $192,125 for men, the chronicle WASHINGTON (AP) Not many women reach the top position in American nonprofit organizations, and those who do make less money than their male counterparts, a survey has found. The median salary of all chief executive officers was $188,686 reported. Overall, salaries rose 4.8 percent for the executives in organizations that also reported data last year. The largest raise went to Susan Corrigan of Gifts in Kind International in Alexandria, Va. Her salary jumped 36 percent to $128,015.

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