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Rally Tonight to Urge Drug Decriminalization Organizers Seek to Raise Student Awareness OPINION SPORTS TIPS: BIGWHEEL Final Word Gauchos Big Tips On Elections Down Tigers Gets Windblown P A 6 E 6 PAGE 9 PAGE 10 ¡¡3 M É > Daily Nexus Volume 71, No. 43 Tuesday, November 6,1990 University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 28 Pages Rally Tonight to Urge Drug Decriminalization Organizers Seek to Raise Student Awareness By Scott Lowe On the possibility of illegal drug R e p o rte r_______ use at the rally, Tillage is uncon­ cerned. “There shouldn’t be a ma­ jor police bust. We’ve gone In an event reminiscent of through all the legal channels and 1960s college “smoke-ins,” stu­ the expectations of the police are dents will stage a six-hour drug le­ for the people involved to be mel­ galization rally tonight in Storke low. If people bring pot there Plaza to critique the history of there’s nothing I can do ... but if drug enforcement in the United they didn’t, I’d be a little disap­ States. pointed,” he said. Sponsored by Associated Stu­ A.S. Lobby member Kris Peter­ dents Lobby, the rally will use son said the rally will focus on issue of drug legalization as a “the uses of marijuana, the history means to increase student aware­ of its being made illegal (and) how ness of other world issues in gen­ it ties into the drug war.” eral, according to rally organizer The last UCSB rally to legalize and A.S. Lobby member Charles drugs took place five years ago Tillage. and drew several hundred people, “What we’re trying to do is to Peterson said. A similar crowd is create an educational forum to expected tonight, she added. DAVID ROSHNAfci]; Nu b raise awareness and conscious­ Scheduled speakers at the / Wuv You ness, not just on drugs, but on all event, which begins at 6 p.m., in­ issues so that we can better under­ clude Black Studies Chair Gerald stand the world that we live in,” Home and a former director of the A student gets close with a tree as a political statement for today's election. Tillage said. American Civil Liberties Union. CAMPUS PROFILE: GERALD HORNE Election Day Head of Black Campaign Costs on the Rise Studies Program For Park Board Candidates Reflects on His By Jeanine Natale advertising in the Daily Nexus. R e p o rte r__________ Incumbent Mitch Stockton spent Past Activism $1,281 'advertising in the paper, while bpposition incumbent By Jan Hines Today marks the end of one of Bruce Murdock and challenger Staff W riter the most controversial and expen­ Hal Kopeikin — who are running sive campaigns for the Isla Vista on the same slate — have spent Recreation and Park District more than $5,000 for newspaper It was fall, 1966, and Prince­ board in recent history. ton University students were im­ advertisements. Stockton’s total campaign bill mersed in a civil rights demon­ “The candidates are spending is above $2,000, equalling that of stration. "Wallace go home! No more on this year’s campaign than challenger Matt Dobberteen. The racism at Princeton!” Gerald on all past campaigns combined,” Murdock/Kopeikin team has col­ Horne shouted, raising his said Glen Lazof, IVRPD general lected approximately $7,000, far clenched fist high in protest of a manager. and away the most expensive planned appearance by Alabama Park board candidates in 1988 campaign. Gov. George Wallace. Behind spent approximately $700 to $800 The stakes in the local election Home, an effigy of the pro­ for their entire campaigns, while are much higher than in years segregation governor hung this year’s candidates are spend­ past, due to the current IVRPD suspended. ing thousands, Lazof added. “I was 17,” said Home, a his­ Included in the high campaign tory professor who has chaired costs are large expenditures for See SPENDING, p.5 the UCSB Black studies depart­ ment for the last two years. Now, 24 years later, he recalls the epi­ sode with a grin. “We organized Candidates Make lith-hour Sweep a protest against Wallace’s speech, but he came to Prince­ Through California Seeking Votes ton anyway. So at the speech, we all dressed up in stilts and ties, to 13.5 million registered voters to By Doug Willis look really sharp, and then when DAVID SOTELO/DaBy Nexus Associated Press the polls in what promised to be a he started speaking, we got up as close race. Both were also joined one body and turned our backs UCSB Professor Gerald Home takes a break from activism and by celebrities — Feinstein by com­ on him.” checks out the sports scores. Democrat Dianne Feinstein edian Chevy Chase and Wilson by Home and the other protes­ and Republican Pete Wilson former President Ronald Reagan tors then walked out of the audi­ test at a bank. Growing up in St. and demonstrations — some of launched final campaign swings — and both ended hectic days on torium. “We were young,” Louis, Mo., at the epicenter of which, Home recalls, were un­ Monday in their historic $40 mU- their home turf, Feinstein in San Home said in a recent interview, American racism, Home always successful. In 1968, Home was lion battle for the governorship, Francisco and Wilson in San remembering one in a long string possessed a passion for human one of approximately 60 stu­ uiging backers to get out the vote Diego. of civil rights demonstrations rights. dents who stormed the financial in an 1 lth-hour push for support. The two topped a complicated, that he has taken part in. It was when he received his center at Princeton to protest Both candidates stumped crowded ballot which includes 28 Home first became politically education at Stanford in the late South African investments. “We throughout the state, reaffirming ballot initiatives, congressional active at 15, when he partici­ 1960s, however, that Home be­ their basic themes and exhorting and legislative races, a half-dozen pated in an anti-segregation pro­ came truly involved in protests See HORNE, p.8 precinct volunteers to organize all-out efforts to get California’s See ELECTION, p.4 2 Tuesday, November 6,1990 HEADLINERS Daily Nexus v) State Leaders of Hezbollah, Amai Militant Jewish Leader Meir Daughter Testifies Watching Announce Peace Agreement Kahane Killed in N.Y. Hotel Father Kill Playmate in 1969 DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Nabih Beni, leader of the NEW YORK (AP) — Rabbi Meir Kahane, who cam­ REDWOOD CITY (AP) — Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, Syrian-backed Amai militia, and a top official of the pro- paigned to drive Arabs from Israel and urged American who has accused her father of molesting and killing a play­ Iranian group Hezbollah signed a peace accord late Mon­ Jews to arm themselves against anti-semitism, was shot to mate 21 years ago, testified Monday that she watched in day that will allow Lebanon’s army to assume control of death Monday night after a speech at a Manhattan hotel. terror as he smashed the little girl’s skull with a rock, Shiite Moslem areas of Lebanon. Police identified the assailant as El Sayyid Al-Nosair, “Her hands flew up to her head. ... The next thing I Hie peace agreement, which becomes effective Satur­ 35, of New Jersey. He was wounded by a U.S. Postal ser­ heard was two blows. It sounded terrible. It sounded like a day, was signed at the end of a 10-hour meeting with Syr­ vice police officer as they exchanged gunfire outside the crack and a splat,” testified Franklin-Lipsker, whose ian and Iranian officials by Beni and Hezbollah Secretary- Halloran House, said police spokesman Officer Scott friend Susan Nason was slain Sept. 22, 1969. General Sheik Subhy Tufeili. Bloch. Hie postal officer and a bystander in the hotel were George Franklin Sr., 51, was charged with murdering Amai, which means hope in Arabic, and Hezbollah, or also wounded, police said. Nason after his daughter told police last November that Party of God, have fought intermittently since June 1987 Kahane, 58, a Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist who she’d remembered a repressed memory of the attack. vying for control ofLebanon’s 1.2 million Shiite Moslems. once served in the Israeli Parliament after renouncing his Franklin, who faces a possible life sentence if convicted, By police count, 1,100 people have been killed and 3,222 American citizenship, was pronounced dead at Bellevue has pleaded innocent to the charges. wounded in the fighting. Hospital, said hospital spokesman Peter Schectman. Ka­ Franklin-Lipsker, 29, claims her hither threatened to They are among the major militias that Lebanese Presi­ hane had been snot in the neck, he"Said. kill her if she told anyone about the crime. She testified dent Elias Hrawi’s government is trying to disarm to im­ Mayor David Dinkins said the shooting was “an inter­ that the memory flooded back last year as she looked at plement a peace plan to end 15 1/2 years of civil war. national tragedy that shocks all of us.” her own young daughter. Present tor the signing of the agreement were Syrian Kahane was head of the anti-Arab Kach party in Israel. On the witness stand Monday, she also recalled that Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa and his Iranian coun­ The party advocates the ouster of all Arabs from Israeli- when she was 11, her father pinned her down on a table as terpart, Hli Hkbar Velayati. held territory and a ban on Jewish-Arab marriages. his best friend raped her. Officials Visit Iraq Hoping Supreme Court Rules Army Man Guilty of Killing Wife To Gain Release of Captives Must Re-Enlist Homosexual In Staged Burglary Attempt BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq has announced that in WASHINGTON (AP) — Hie Supreme Court carved PASADENA (AP) — A man who told authorities his the event of a war over Kuwait, it would attack Arab coun­ out a one-man exception to the military services’ ban on wife was shot by burglars was convicted of first-degree tries participating in the U.S.-led multinational force, as homosexuals Monday, letting stand a ruling that forces murder Monday in her slaying, a Los Angeles County several foreign officials were in Baghdad Monday to gain the Army to re-enlist 4 gay soldier.
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