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fppIN JO N /0^; FEATURE/» SB: Anti-Homeless Controversy Ordinances Continue Over RU 486 TUE Éltt Ttie Ways of Waco SPORTS/12 Daily Nexus Volume 72, No. 131 May 12,1992 University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 24 Pages Free Speech? Empty Seat ‘Gag Rule’ Could Leave on IVRPD Local Clinics Gets Eleven in the Lurch Applicants By Lisa Nicolaysen By William Toren Staff Writer ______________ Staff Writer A recent vote by the U.S. House The Isla Vista Recreation and of Representatives to end the gov Park District Board of Directors ernment’s abortion “gag rule” postponed the appointment of a would not be enough to overrule new director at its weekly meeting an expected veto, leaving local on Thursday as discussion of next clinics wondering just where their year’s proposed budget carried on money will come from in the throughout the evening. future. Following the resignation of Although the House passed le longtime Director Laura Price, the gislation to overturn the rule IVRPD received 11 applications which prohibits family planning to fill the post It had been an clinics that receive federal funding nounced that the new director from mentioning abortion to pre CHRIS FITZ/Daüy Nexus would be named at the board’s gnant women, the tally was eight May 7 meeting. However, this was votes shy of the two-thirds major Still Dry also the day scheduled for exami ity needed to override a veto from nation of the district’s draft preli President Geoige Bush. Bush has minary budget for the next fiscal said he wiU veto the bill. Diverted by the changing current o f life at UCSB, an unsuspecting student fails to notice an oncom year. The Supreme Court decided ing torrent. When budget deliberations ex last year that the gag rule does not tended past the 9 p.m. selection violate the Constitution, but Cali time without hope for a resolu fornia clinics that receive federal tion, Director Lisa Rothstein funding are continuing to provide moved to take more time to con abortion counseling until the state sider the appointment. orders them to stop, according to End of Drought Could Mean New Growth “I know a lot of people may be 3rd District County Supervisor harder to control developers eager A factor that could limit deve here for the appointment, so Bill Wallace. By Matthew Spira Reporter to build in the idyllic Goleta lopment even in the presence of so maybe we should talk about it County-based family clinics Valley. much water is the Goleta Growth now before it gets too late,” she “are still getting state and federal “For the last 20 years, growth Management Plan. said. funding. The state told us to con With Goleta’s drought now on has been successfully controlled Implemented in 1979 by the One stumbling block in the tinue business as usual,” Wallace the history books and enough wa by the non-availability of water,” County Board of Supervisors, the decision-making process was the said. ter resources around for both cur said Gordon Fulks, a former di plan limits yearly growth to the absence of Director Mike Boyd, But Planned Parenthood rent and future residents, a major rector of the Goleta Water Board, equivalent of .9 percent of the who is running for a seat on the Public Affairs Director Margaret obstacle to local development has who was voted out of office in total already-developed land. Santa Barbara County Board of Connell believes things are going fallen by the wayside. 1991. This works out to approxi Supervisors. Boyd was attending to change. “Anywhere from two to In the past, when developers “The Goleta Water Board is mately 200 new residential houses a candidate’s forum in Lompoc three months down the road, we wanted to build condominiums or now firmly in the hands of pro and 80,000 sq. ft of industrial the evening of the meeting and did will see those regulations go into golf courses, many were stopped growth advocates,” said Fulks, space a year, according to 3rd Dis not return in time for the sche effect,” she said. in their tracks by stringent water who opposed development dur trict Supervisor Bill Wallace, who duled deadline. Connell added that the gag rule controls. Now, with Lake Ca- ing his tenure on the board. “Wa thinks the plan will succeed in The board must fill the vacancy conflicts with current California chuma high, a Santa Barbara de ter has been the key to moderating thwarting growth. before the end of June or the ap legislation requiring family clinics salinization plant waiting for any growth and with it removed as an “The current growth plan is pointment will be made by the to counsel pregnant women on all sign of shortage, and state water impediment, I expect to see rapid something we can live with,” Wal- county supervisors. their options, including abortion. on the way, environmentalists development over the next five “There is a direct contradiction and no-growthers may find it years.” See GROWTH, p.9 See FVRPD, p.5 between state and federal regula tions. That creates a dilemma,” she said. Cold War Legacy While Planned Parenthood currently receives $201,000 from Title X funding and $400,000 from the state, Connell said that if the Nukes Mean Environmental Mess gag rule is enforced, the clinic will five bombs this year. relinquish funds from the federal By Brooke Nelson Staff Writer The pollution generated by the Cold War government and either seek arms race has contaminated groundwater at further funding from the state or every DOE site, according to Ehrlich. Ra provide fewer services. Anne Ehrlich, an author who currently dioactive waste was sometimes rototilled The county family planning chairs the Sierra Club’s Committee on Mili into the soil surrounding nuclear plants as clinics in Lompoc, Santa Maria tary Impacts on the Environment, told a late as the 1980s. and Santa Barbara, which receive Campbell Hall audience Monday night that In one example, Ehrlich said that at the a total of $100,000 from Tide X the cleanup of American nuclear weapons fa Hanford site in Washington, enough ra funding, will also give up the fed cilities will take up to 50 years and cost over dioactive material to supply 50 bombs has eral money if the gag rule is en $300 billion. leaked into the ground. forced. “Some women would not “The New World Order presents chal “The motto of the DOE seems to be: ‘Dilu be able to get care because (fed lenges, not only for the dismantling of super tion is the solution to pollution,’” Ehrlich eral) money is mixed with state power arsenals, but also the removal of ra said. money and it’s hard for us to sepa dioactive waste,” Ehrlich told the audience Ehrlich said that until recently, the DOE rate the two groups,” Family Plan of about 100. insisted it was a self-regulating agency and ning Clinic doctor Sarah Miller All U.S. nuclear reactors administered by immune to oversight by other federal enti said. the Department of Energy have been shut ties, adding that in response to lawsuits ANDREY KUZYK/Dul, Nera The county provides the clinic’s down because they are no longer needed, brought by environmental groups, the agency Author and scientist Anne Ehrlich overhead, but Miller said the state Ehrlich said, noting that although the pro has been forced into preparing a systemwide has promised to try to make up for addressed a Campbell Hall audience of duction of nuclear warheads was halted in Ja 100, telling them the Cold War has had a nuary, the U.S. government still plans to test See EHRLICH, p.4 devastating effect on the environment. ÿ p V r 'v V t t T yt y k> 'V v; V V v tV V t-: i > v- ft£ kaT'V v-.i'1 v v v. t fr.'i / k k 5W ÎV 4 VV V -fc f » I t, v. t ,v y yV, v. r M y y \* r i t \ \ '.>«•> 1» *yy>*i*. u v ks i- v v v*¡i* k.k v■ v \■>¿yj,' 'i *« ■ vjftpi I' V \wRfI V H »vsH: r V V- » V V ) 4 i » y V y flffg jfty y y \\ I’., v V- M y y V V y M * I* »• il W* « v. tfV V-. 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The city’s demoralized police force “The focus of this investigation Eleven days of double shifts and a barrage of criticism faced ridicule for retreating in the face of anarchy. is not to lay blame, but to move for their slow response has shaken the 8,300-officer "The focus of this investigation is not to lay blame, but department. to move the department ahead," Police Commissioner H s! the department ahead.” Officer Tony Yancey said “the overall morale of the po Ann Reiss Lane said during a news conference.