News Digest
Giuliani proclaims Yankees'the best'
■ New Yorkers played hooky
Monday to celebrate the team's
World Series win.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Thousands of
fans lined the Canyon of Heroes
Monday for the New York
Yankees’ third ticker-tape parade
in as many years as manager Joe
Torre hailed his players as
“maybe the best team of all time.”
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani gave
each Yankee a key to the city and
said that “the relationship
between the people of the city of
New York and the New York
Yankees is a love affair that goes
back a very, very long time.”
“Has there ever been a team
better than this one?” Giuliani
shouted. “The best!”
Reams of shredded paper
hurled from office windows cre
ated a virtual blizzard as parade
goers - many of them skipping
work or school - helped the
Yankees celebrate their fourth
World Series championship in
five years.
Blustery winds and piles of
paper created a scary scene
toward the end of the parade
when at least four fires erupted
and quickly spread; the cause
was not immediately known.
Firefighters doused the flames,
and there were no reports of
injuries.
Police reported two stab
bings near the parade route on
lower Broadway. Neither victim
was considered to be in danger of
death, and it was unclear
whether he violence was related
to the parade.
A police officer on the
mayor’s float was struck on he
bridge of his nose by a flying
phone book; he was not seriously
hurt
Grand Marshal and former
Spencer Platt/Newsmakers
Fans lean over barricades Monday to get a better view of the Yankees' victory parade in Hew York. The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets four games to one last week
in the dtyis first Subway Series since 1956. This is the Yankees' third consecutive World Series Championship.
Yankee Yogi Berra waved from a that followed the parade, John maybe the best team of all time. I But security could not protect
1952 Chrysler convertible while a Fogarty played his hit have no embarrassment, no hes- the few brave Mets fans,
grinning Giuliani joined Tone on "Centerfield” on a bat-shaped itation in saying that” Brooklynite Julio Santiago
die “trophy float” guitar and Yankee Derek Jeter Security was tight for the claimed he wasn’t thinking about
The Yankees’ 4-1 victory over wore sunglasses despite cloudy parade, with police barricades the parade when he put on his
the Mets was the first Subway weather. lining the streets even north of satin Mets jacket and headed into
Series since 1956 and it gave the Torre told the 1,000 invited City Hall. Employees in the area Manhattan. “Oh man, even the
team its record 26th World Series guests, “We may not have had the had to show identification before cops are telling me to take this
tide. best players, but there’s no ques- police allowed them into their thing off,” he said. “I need some
At the City Hall ceremony tion we’ve had the best team, and buildings. friends today.”
Israel showers missiles
on Arafat support offices
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM - Retaliating for the
killings of two Israelis, attack helicopters
unleashed missiles Monday night on
offices of Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat’s Fatah movement
Israel fired warnings to clear the four
offices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
before firing missiles, Israeli television
said The missiles started fires, but there
were no immediate reports of injuries.
The two killings were the first Israeli
deaths in the Jerusalem area since the
violence began last month. At least 45
Palestinians were wounded Monday in
other action.
“I don't know what the Israelis are try
ing to achieve through this language,”
Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erekat told
army radio. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Barak said “that violence will not be
rewarded or achieve anything. The prime
minister needs to listen to himself.”
Earlier in the day, Barak opened the
winter session of parliament and won a
temporary reprieve for his unstable,
minority government, warning
Palestinians there would “be no reward
for violence.”
The Israeli military said it zeroed in
on posts belonging to Arafat’s body
guards. known as Force 17. and his Dara
military organization, called the Thnzim.
“The army won’t let civilians, communi
ties and soldiers be struck,” the military
reported, apparently referring to the two
Israelis killed.
Ephraim Sneh, Israel’s deputy
defense minister, described the opera
tion as a “measured response.”
“There's almost no limit to what we
can do,” he said in a television interview.
In parliament, Barak's coalition
appeared safe from collapse for at least
the next few weeks.
The ultra-Orthodox Shas party,
Israel’s third-largest, said it would sup
port him for the next month, and Ariel
Sharon, the leader of the opposition
Likud party, told parliament he still had
n’t given up on the idea of joining an
emergency coalition with Barak’s gov
ernment
However, conflict with the
Palestinians remained on the boil, and
Arafat gave no sign of ordering an end to
the street confrontations.
In his speech to parliament, Barak
warned Arafat that he “would gain noth
ing through violence.”
“Neither will you,” shouted Issam
Mahoul, one of 10 Arab lawmakers in the
legislature, all of them angry over the
deaths of Israeli Arab citizens during
recent riots.
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Carnahan's widow
to serve if he wins
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROLLA, Mo. - Declaring “we worked as
partners” during 46 years of marriage, Jean
Carnahan said Monday she will accept
appointment to the Senate if her late hus
band outpolls his Republican opponent on
Election Day.
"With the support of my family and an
abiding faith in a living God, I’ve decided to
do what Mel would have wanted us to do,”
Carnahan said, standing on a back porch
festooned with Halloween decorations at
the family farm in Rolla. “To keep the cause
alive. To continue the fight for the values
and ideals for which he lived.”
Carnahan, 66, has never held public
office but was offered a Senate appointment
by Democratic Gov. Roger Wilson if
Missouri voters choose her husband over
GOP Sen. John Ashcroft.
She said her decision followed days of
consultation with her family. She said her
husband’s “vision for Missouri's families can
prevail, if we want it to.”
“A vote for Mel Carnahan is a vote they
can make,” she said. “They still have a
choice.”
No one has ever been elected to the
Senate posthumously, but at least three
dead people have gotten elected to the
House, two as recently as 1972.
Three widows of congressmen are cur
rently members of the House: Mary Bono,
R-Cailif., Lois Capps, D-Calif., and Jo Ann
Emerson, R-Mo. The three first won special
elections to succeed their husbands, won
“A vote for Mel Carnahan is
a vote they can make. They
still have a choice."
Jean Carnahan
Missiouri Gov. Mel Carnahan’s widow
re-election in 1998 and are running for re
election this year.
Ashcroft struck a congenial tone, saying,
“Mrs. Carnahan has always been kind to
me. She’s written and said things that are
very kind about me.
“This has been an unusual campaign
and it’s been a tragic campaign, a campaign
filled with sorrow.” But he also said his deci
sion to suspend his campaign for a week
after Carnahan's death may have hurt his
chances.
"If this ends up costing me the election,
I still believe it was the right thing to do,” he
said.
Carnahan’s name remains on the ballot
because it was too late to remove it.
Attention quickly turned to his widow, a
longtime Democratic activist with a bache
lor’s degree in business and public adminis
tration.
Volunteers mounted a "Still for Mel!”
campaign and most polls showed the race
still in a statistical tie, with Carnahan gain
ing a slight edge when participants were
told of the plan to appoint his widow.
KKK's 1-55 adoption appealed
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court is
coming to grips with a dispute over whether
states can keep the Ku Klux Klan out of their
Adopt-A-Highway cleanup programs.
Almost every state has such a program,
and at least 10 have rejected Klan requests to
join. Missouri wants the high court to hear
its argument that it should be allowed to bar
the Klan from adopting a stretch of highway
because the organization violates anti-dis
crimination laws.
Missouri says the state cannot be forced
to post signs “suggesting that the state
approves of, and is grateful for, the Klan’s
participation in the Adopt-A-Highway pro
gram.”
But Robert Herman, the Klan’s lawyer
from the American Civil Liberties Union,
said Monday, “If nothing else the First
Amendment stands for the proposition that
the government has no right to exclude you
or treat you in a different manner because of
the viewpoints that you express.”
A federal appeals court ruled last spring
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that the state unconstitutionally kept the
Klan out of the program because of its views.
The court said, “The First Amendment pro
tects everyone, even those with viewpoints
as thoroughly obnoxious as those of the
Klan, from viewpoint-based discrimination
by the state.”
On Monday, the Supreme Court asked
the Clinton administration to give its views
on the case. The justices are not expected to
decide whether they will hear arguments in
the dispute until after the Justice
Department files its brief. The government
supported the state in the appeals court
After Missouri lost before a lower court,
signs went up last November designating a
one-mile stretch of Interstate 55 south of St
Louis as having been adopted by the Klan.
A man was fined $100 last February for
sawing down one of the signs.
As in almost every state, Missouri’s pro
gram allows groups to “adopt” a stretch of
highway and do cleanup work on it. The
state saves money, and the groups’ efforts
are acknowledged on signs posted along the
highway.
The Associated Press
■ Texas
Funding withdrawn
from Southern Baptists
CORPUS CHRISTI - Texas’
2.7 million Baptists dealt a
severe blow to the Southern
Baptist Convention on Monday,
withdrawing $5 million in fund
ing, on the grounds that the
denomination is becoming too
conservative.
After a brief, civil debate, the
6,000 representatives of the
Texas Baptists approved the
move by a sizable majority.
Texas accounts for 17 per
cent of the members and 13
percent of the money that sup
port Southern Baptist
Convention programs.
Earlier this month, former
President Carter severed ties to
the Southern Baptist
Convention because of its
"increasingly rigid" creed.
In recent years, the
Southern Baptists have barred
women pastors, declared that
wives should “submit gracious
ly’’ to their husbands, boycotted
Disney and issued resolutions
condemning homosexuality.
■ Maryland
JFK's sister remains
in critical condition
BALTIMORE - Eunice
Kennedy Shriver, the sister of
former President John F.
Kennedy, remained in critical
condition Monday, a week after
entering Johns Hopkins
Hospital for treatment of a post
operative infection.
“Her family continues to be
grateful for and to ask for the
prayers and support of people
everywhere,” said her son Mark.
Eunice Shriver, 79, had a
benign pancreatic tumor
removed Oct. 12, and her doc
tors said they expected a full
recovery after her Oct. 21
release.
However, doctors discov
ered a postoperative infection
when she was readmitted two
days later after complaining of
pain, her family said.
■ Washington, D.C.
Ginton: Republicans
in House should say sorry
President Clinton says con
gressional Republicans owe the
nation an apology for his
impeachment, and despite
their statements that the matter
is over, “They haven't necessari
ly put their abuse of power
behind them.”
In an interview in Esquire
magazine’s December issue,
Clinton said the investigation
into his affair with Monica
Lewinsky and his subsequent
impeachment was not about
pursuing the truth or the best
interests of the American peo
ple.
It was about politics, power,
“the Republicans and their wel
fare,” he said.
“Unlike them, I have apolo
gized to the American people
for what I did wrong, and most
Americans think I paid a pretty
high price,” Clinton said.
"They never apologized to
the country for impeachment,
they never apologized for all the
things they’ve done.”
■ Maine
Military personnel fired
for obesity can sue
PORTLAND - Thousands of
former military men and
women kicked out of the armed
forces for being too fat or out of
shape can sue the Pentagon for
taking back their enlistment
bonuses.
A federal judge ruled last
week that a lawsuit filed by
three people who say the
Pentagon illegally took back
their bonuses can be expanded
to a class-action suit.
Many of the 20,000 people
discharged for obesity from the
Army, Navy, Marines and Air
Force between 1992 and 1995
lost all or part of the money they
received when they signed up,
plaintiffs’ lawyer Michael
Feldman said.
The money amounts to
thousands of dollars for many
of the plaintiffs, and as many as
5,000 to 10,000 people could
join in the lawsuit, he said.