MORALITY BY REFERENDUM? THE CITIZEN, Prince George - Monday, November 6, 1978 - 5 Vote ramifications go far beyond 'gay' fringe International \_/ by PETER CALAMAI Soutliam News Services SAN FRANCISCO - In the Victorian mansions along Castro street here, every other apartment window displays a sign proclaiming: “No on 6”. That makes sense. Proposition 6 would outlaw homosexual teachers, a move seen by the homosexuals who congregate along Castro street as a direct threat to personal liberty. But the ramifications of Tuesday’s (Nov. 7) voting in the most populous state of the U.S. extend far beyond the frightened "gay” community of this city. Three questions among the perhaps four dozen separate votes facing many state residents will give California’s direct democracy its toughest test in years. Although the concept of voter-initiated referenda has been around here since 1911, the rest -N The world BRIEFLY v J Two fires claim 19 victims by Associated Press Firemen in Des Moines, Iowa, found 10 charred bodies in a burning department store after they were told everyone was out of the building. In Honesdale, Pa., a coroner said arson caused the blaze that killed at least nine residents of a landmark hotel. Both Sunday morning fires destroyed their structures and left crews searching for more victims today. The Iowa fire in the Younkers department store may have claimed an 11th victim, officials say. Nine store employees are listed as missing and only eight bodies remain unidentified. Six persons are missing in the hotel fire in the rural northeastern Pennsylvania town, said Coroner Robert Jennings, who added: “There is no doubt that it was a suspicious fire and I believe it was arson.” Des Moines Fire Chief Lee Williams said he has no idea what caused the department store fire but that it obviously spread “with an explosion-like force.” Firefighters found the bodies hours after Younkers security director Michael Wilson had said he thought everyone was out of the building. Talks continue WASHINGTON (AP) -Progress is still being made toward the completion of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, but Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has told his negotiators that there should be a strong link between the pact and a solution to the Palestinian question. U.S. state department press officer George Sherman, acting as spokesman for the talks being held here, said Sunday that agreement has nearly been reached on certain nonmilitary aspects of the proposed treaty. Discussions on the military portion of the treaty were scheduled for today. Stunning defeat VIENNA (AP) — Austrian voters have rejected a $650-million nuclear plant and dealt a stunning political defeat to Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and his Socialist party. Kreisky conceded defeat but declined to comment when asked whether he will resign, as he had hinted before Sunday's vote. He said he would discuss the results with leaders of the Socialist party today. Austria’s first plebescite since the Second World War yielded 1,606,308 no votes and 1,576,839 yes votes. Ballots were cast by 64 per cent of Austria’s five million eligible voters. India riot NEW DELHI (AP) -Swordswinging Sikhs charged police in the streets of New Delhi and police responded with tear gas and rifle fire. Authorities said three persons were killed, more than 100 hurt and 317 arrested. “Police fired to save constables from being butchered with swords,” Police Commissioner J.N. Chaturvedi told reporters after the violence Sunday. He said more than 50 policemen were hurt. Authorities said the Sikhs also hurled rocks and torches at police in a riot that began when members of an orthodox group attacked an assembly by members of theNirankaris, a breakaway group from the Sikh mainline sect. of North America started to take notice only this June when Proposition 13, a radical tax relief measure was overwhelmingly approved, sparking similar tax revolts across the U.S. and much political talk in Canada. If the sociological cauldron of California is any guide, letting the disgruntled public bypass government is neither cheap nor terribly informative. Aside from the cost of the actual election, supporters and opponents of the three most controversial propositions will have spent well above $6 million on campaigning and propaganda by next week. The largest single chunk of money is being lavished on saturation advertising by the tobacco industry in a $4 million battle against Proposition 5, a move to segregate or ban smoking in public indoors. Although 30 states have laws LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -Trooper Larry Foster choked down sobs as he described his heroic rescue of a five-year-old boy from a fiery auto crash. He couldn’t put aside the helpless feeling of failing to save five members of the boy’s family. The family was returning home from a funeral in Mississippi. “There were three others in the front and two in the back,” restricting smoking (and many cities have bylaws), only in Utah and Minnesota are the statutes comprehensive as the proposal initiated here by anti-smoking groups. Yet the thoroughness of Proposition 5 may prove its downfall. Under the proposed law, smoking would be outlawed at an indoor jazz concert. But legal during a rock concert in the same place. High brow events such as opera, ballet and theatre would be legis- Foster, a seven-year veteran of the Kansas highway patrol, said as he recalled Sunday’s head-on collision between the Foster car and a pickup truck, which claimed six lives altogether. “At least four of them were alive. They were screaming for help, but I was helpless. “I just couldn’t get the car apart. I couldn’t get in to get them. They were still alive and lated smokeless while indoor smoking would remain legal at prize fights. wrestling matches, casinos and roller derbys. Spotlighting such contradictions, the tobacco industry is trying to defeat Proposition 5 by ridicule. Supporters argue that any minor failings could be corrected later by legislative amendments once the important principle that non-smokers have equal rights is legally recognized. The highly-polarized debate I couldn’t get in to get them. It was such a helpless feeling. “You just can’t imagine what it’s like to watch four people die, especially when you can’t do anything about it-when you just have to stand there and watch them die.” The lone survivor, five-year-old Ulysses Briston of Westminster. Colo., owes his life to the 37-year-old trooper, who grabbed a fire extinguisher and slammed it through a car window while bystanders screamed for him to get away from the blazing wreckage. The boy was in fairly good condition in hospital with first and second-degree burns on his legs and face. Killed in the crash were his mother, Terresa Brinston, 20, of Westminster; his aunt, Sonja Betts, 39, and her children, Rodgelle Betts, 18; Andrae Betts, 17, and Zac-carias Griffin, 22, all of Commerce City, Colo. The sixth victim was Richard Jones, 19, of Topeka, Kan. has obscured even straightforward medical matters such as persons being allergic to cigarette smoke. and “secondhand smoke” constituting a danger for sufferers from heart and lung disease. But the smoking debate shines like a beacon of logic and reason in comparison to the furore over Proposition 6. “One-third of San Francisco teachers are homosexuals. I assume most of them are seducing young boys in toilets," says John Briggs, a “born-again’’ Christian and member of the state Senate from Southern California. Senator Briggs sponsored Proposition 6 and a proposal to expand the crimes covered by the death penalty (Proposition 7) as his double-barrelled gambit to win the Republican nomination for governor. Although Briggs withdrew in defeat from the gubernatorial race, he has continued to PARIS (AP) — An unrepentant French Nazi collaborator who claimed “only lice were gassed at Auschwitz’’ has sparked a national furor over anti-Semitism reminiscent of last century’s Dreyfus Affair. The remarks were made by 80-year-old Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, who was commissioner for Jewish affairs in France’s Second World War Vichy government, in an interview published Oct. 29 in L'Ex-press magazine. They came during a United Nations-sponsored debate here over how the world press might prevent future Nazi-style propaganda. And they focused attention on recurrent anti-Jewish incidents in France. Among other responses. President Valery Giscard d’Estaing admonished L’Ex-press, and government prosecutors began investigating whether Darquier could be punished. In the interview, Darquier. who lives in exile in Spain, said mount a holy crusade over Proposition 6. While the supporter of Anita Byrant stresses protection of family life as the reason to persecute gay teachers. Briggs’s underlying goal appears to be the extirpation of all homosexuality. “Homosexuals do not want to fight. Their sexual role and their gender are confused. Where are we going to get our armies to protect us? And where are we going to maintain the will of our normal people to breed children to be turned into that lifestyle? and the answer is that you are not.’’ Briggs told the Los Angeles Times. '1 hat newspaper opposes Proposition 6. as does almost every other major institution and public figure in this state. In Hollywood especially, too many people still bear scars from McCarthyism to remain silent a second time in the face the Jews had plotted to control the world, making Jerusalem the capital. At one point, he denied that the Nazis had exterminated six million Jews. “This figure is an invention, pure and simple-an invention of the Jews, of course.” he said. “The Jews are like that: they're ready to do anything for publicity.” He denied charges that he sent 75,000 Jews to Germany, and he said the Germans used gas chambers only to delouse people before internment. Among the first to react was Health Minister Simone Weil. No. 3 in the French cabinet, a Jew who was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 14. She lost most of her family there. “I/Express was wrong to publish the interview without more commentary and photos of wartime atrocities.” she said,asking whether it was not expecting too much of the general public to see the interview as L'Express portrayed of persecution for individual beliefs. As with the smoking question. the controversy has muddied the legal and scientific facts about homosexuality. But opponents of Proposition 6 point out that existing state laws allow the firing of teachers who proposition or proselytize their students. Even letters to the editor question whether teachers are important “role models” turning students to homosexuality. “Time and time again, our children witness grown men throwing their arms around each other after a score, patting one another’s fancy after a free throw, dancing gaily in the end zone and now, we have seen them kiss after clinching a baseball pennant," wrote a Pasadena resident. Widespread backlash to Briggs's outspoken campaigning has helped sway public opinion polls around on it as a blow against anti-Semitism. Giscard d’Estaing issued a statement saying freedom oi the press should include respect for “truth and decency." L’Express. in its issue released Sunday, defended publishing the interview, saying: "Far from making racism indecently commonplace, this document, on the contrary, shows that it is. like all totalitarianism, a permanent danger." The interviewer. Philippe G a n i e r • R a y m o n d. had repeatedly challenged Dar-quier’s assertions and, as context. added historical extracts to point out obvious contradictions. Proposition 6. from an initial majority in favor to a slim majority opposed now. But California’s recognized tolerance of lifestyles from the zany to the outright crazy does not extend to crime; a recent poll showed 69 per cent favored the death penalty, giving Briggs’s Proposition 7 an edge. Popular approval of statutory measures —initiated by petitions from at least five per cent of the last gubernatorial vote — so often more a safety valve for public displeasure than a route to alternate government. Measures successful with California voters in the past have been totally or partly reversed when challenged in the courts. But the direction which public morality could take in the United States may well be signalled by how California votes Tuesday on its three hot potatoes. front-page news in Paris newspapers and commentators discussed it at length. In the cafes, it brought denials of anti-Semitism in France-and some new anti-Jewish remarks. On Friday, government prosecutors began assembling information to see whether there is a case against Darquier for glorifying war crimes and inciting racial hatred. They could either try him in absentia or attempt to have him extradited. Anti-Semitism is still a sensitive subjectin P’ranee. 80years after the storm over a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, who was condemned to Devil's Island for passing military secrets to the Germans. LUNCH WAS BURNED Wife stabbed to death UNION, N.J. 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