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State ousted from PageB-1 ff# f s3Tf •i^^??^: ; :' 7V v'T'' ; \T^ l ;1' i: ' , •^•^•^••W'Y' - • - The Hometown Newspaper of Mm Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 103 - No. 73 © Copyright 1»M, Quebec Pg^burgh, NY l^^Thureday, November 2,1995 Suggested Price: 50 c 32 Pages By DAVID CRARY Associated Press Writer MONTREAL (AP) - Chasten- ed by a narrow, nerve-wracking victory over Quebec separatists, Canada's federal leaders on Tuesday began the daunting task of trying to put the divided na- tion back together. The BOUChard separatists, isIike «y pfedgeVJo SUCCeSSOr mount tO Parizeau another t-ft— breakaway-at*- tempt in mostly Fren- ch-speaking Quebec. But under current law, it couldn't happen for a few years. They also fueled divisiveness by blaming their defeat on non- francophone immigrants. Police reported 40 arrests after sup- porters of the rival .sides brawled, and a homemade bomb was found at offices of the federalist Liberal Party. There was little celebration in the* federal capital, Ottawa, where Prime Minister Jean Chretien met with his Cabinet to discuss the impact of Monday's independence referendum. The federalists' narrow victory — 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent — kept Canada intact but drove home the message that Quebeckers, and many other Ca- nadians, want major changes in the federal system. \The No forces may have won the referendum, barely, but they clearly lost the broader battle,\ wrote commentator Alain Dubuc in La Presse, a French-language Montreal daily newspaper. Federal leaders \didn't unders- tand the depth of Quebeckers' dissatisfaction,\ Dubuc wrote. \They were incapable of propos- ing a message of hope to them and giving their vote some meaning.\ Quebec's separatist premier, Jacques Parizeau, caused a furor with his bitter non-concession speech Monday night in which he blamed big business and ethnic minorities for thwarting the will of the French nationalist majori- ty. \The sort of very negative pet- ty politics that he displayed were rather disgusting,\ said Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps. \He was looking for someone to blame, and in his agenda it's the ethnics, the non-whites.\ Staff PripibMike bbwd Challenger Mark Dame (left) and incumbent Clyde Rabideau (right) face questions at Seton Catholic Central School Wednesday. Thi%ioderator is Seton English teacher Louis Currier. Candidates have rematch at 8 p.m. By MITCH ROSENQUIST ___^ Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH - Mayoral can- didates Clyde Rabideau and Mark Dame squared off in a debate Wednesday, covering old ground but also harshly criticizing each other at times. Republican Dame critized Rabideau for increasing city spending $1.3 million in two years, planning street repairs to coincide with the campaign and gener- ally being a poor manager who is more interested in self-promotion than work- ing. Rabideau highlighted his ac- complishments, citing the creation of special events, the landing of Bombar- dier, delivering zero to minor tax in- creases, and helping improve the city's overall appearance, vitality and safety. But the debate, sponsored and run by Seton Catholic Central School students, also saw the pair trade stinging com- ments on such issues as personality, in- tegrity and the offering of positive ideas instead of negativism. Trading shots . Rabideau, at one point, gave up his response time to Dame so he could use it to explain his plans for the city instead of just criticizing. \If we go walk into your office, I'll Continued Pag* A-8 CE IN AMERICA In Lincoln's town, cabbies won't pick up black men By RAY LONG Associated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) - A few blocks from the tomb of the Great Emancipator, a notice posted at Lincoln Yellow Cab Co.'s headquarters made it clear that even getting a taxi can be a question of race. \Effective immediately Do not pick up any black males unless you feel it is safe,\ the note read. \If you do not feel safe with the way they look Do hot pick them up! There has been too many robberies lately, and they have all been by BLACK MALES.\ The sigh, posted on a bulletin board visible to customers, came down Wednesday shortly after an Associated Press reporter asked about it. Company manager Earl Reno said his lawyer advised him to take the sign down and \put up a sign that says do not pick up any suspicious-looking persons.\ The. issue of cab drivers being unwilling to pick up minorities has arisen before, most often in big cities. Last fall, former New York Mayor David Dinkins said a cabbie snubbed him by driving no more than 20 yards farther to pickup a white fare. Many blacks think AIDS was created to kill them By PAUL RAEBURN AP Science Editor SAN DIEGO (AP) - A survey of about 1,000 black church members in five cities found that more than one-third of them believe the AIDS virus was produced in a germ warfare laboratory as a form of genocide against blacks. Another third said they were \unsure\ whether AIDS was created to kill blacks. That left only one-third who disputed the theory. The findings held firm even among educated in- dividuals, said one of the survey's authors, Sandra Crouse Quinn, a health educator at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Rumors that AIDS was created to kill blacks have circulated in the black community for years, and the belief is endorsed by some black leaders, Quinn said. But researchers did not realize how widespread such beliefs were, she said. \They don't trust our public health data,\ said Quinn, who is white. The belief that AIDS is a form of genocide has serious health consequences, Quinn said: \If they believe AIDS is a form of genocide they are less likely to get tested, less likely to use condoms and less likely to participate in clinical trials.\ Although she has not surveyed whites on the genocide question, Quinn said, \I think most whites would say this sounds bizarre.\ The wide disparity in world view between blacks and whites recalls the racial chasm in the reaction to the O.J. Simpson verdict, she said. Charles Hamilton, a political scientist at Colum- bia University, agreed. \You have to put those attitudes in the context of general disaffection about the effectiveness of the system to deal with problems,\ said Hamilton, who is black. \We still see this in response to why drugs are so prevalent in the black community: 'It's a conspira- cy. If it weren't that, police departments would crack down on it.'\ The issue of discrimination has special resonance in Springfield, in part because Abraham Lincoln spent most of his adult life here, but also because of the city's history since his death. In 1987, a federal court ruling brought an end to a system of commission government that op- ponents claimed was designed to dilute black voting power. The system itself was instituted after a 1908 race riot that prompted the founding of the NAACP. The latest 'episode drew sharp criticism from black leaders. \That's like saying all black people are robbers,\ said David Livingston, state president of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. \You can't judge a person by just looking at them. That's discriminatory and stereotyping.\ \You always have hopes that attitudes are changing,\ said Frank McNeil, a black city alderman who was a leader in overturning the commission gov- ernment. \I don't think that's anything that we haven't witnessed in the past. Something as obvious as a sign, I would think, goes a little bit far.\ McNeil said he will ask city of- ficials to seek evidence for poten- tial punitive action against the taxi company. Legal experts said a policy against picking up blacks also probably violates state and fed- eral civil rights laws. Reno denied that the note reflected an effort to discriminate, saying the com- pany does a large business with blacks. \I feel all I'm doing is trying to alert my drivers for their safety because that's what we're being robbed by, is black males,\ Reno said. The Lincoln fleet of 21 cabs, this city's largest, has been robb- ed about 10 times in the last 30 days by thieves who were carry- ing guns or knives or who put a hand in a pocket as if it held a weapon, he said. . WEATHER Occasional rain. High 50 to 55. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. INDEX Bridge D-4 Business News D-8 Classified D-2-7 Comics.. C-6 Editorial A-4 Entertainment C-7 N.Y. LotUry: 1-0-9. 'Pick 4'j 9-8-6$. Lotto* 4-7-12-30-3S44. The supplementary was 23. Pick 10: 3474-14-16-2&25-27-36-3V3543^5a54&61-62-79 New England: Pick 3': 7-7-1 . Pick 4': 0-3-1-8 Trl-Stat. M.gabucki: 9-12-14-16-23-24. Gang-rape case D.A. shunned in re-election bid By WILLIAM KATES Associated Pres* Writer CANTON (AP) - A district attorney who allowed five men to plea-bargain to misdemeanor charges after an alleged gang- rape ha,s been relegated to minor-party status in his bid for re-election on Nov. 7. Shunned by the voters in his own party, Republican Richard Manning also lost overwhelm- ingly in a Conservative Party runoff. He got on the ballot as the Right To Life Party can- didate by finding 12 party members to sign his nominating petition. His humble status has been enough to inspire something like pity from one archenemy. \We have to remember that Richard Manning is a human being. He is hqt;,3he devil incar- nate,\ said*Anne Monck, who left as the head of a woman's support group to work for Manning's defeat by Jerome Richards, the Democratic candidate in the race. Still, she asked, \Should he be district attorney? That is a ques- tion I think the voters will an- swer rather resoundingly.\ Richard Dudley is the Republican and Conservative candidate. Manning's undoing can be largely traced to an incident which occurred before he even took office in January 1992, after winning 56 percent of the vote the previous November in sprawling, rural St. Lawrence County. In October 1991, five men had sex with Krista Absalon after she had passed out from drinking too much in the Casablanca Restau- rant in Gouverneur, 20 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border. In June 1993, Manning made a deal with the men under which they were allowed to plea bargain to a misdemeanor charge, of sexual misconduct and fined $750 by a village justice. All avoided jail sentences. Manning defended the deal as the only way to convict the defendants. Absalon recalled nothing of the evening after passing out — she only learned of the incident later when the men allegedly bragged around town about it. That meant she was not- examined by medical personnel and, as Manning argued, he had no physical evi- dence to help prosecute the case. But the plea bargain gener- Continu«d Pag* A-8 1 Richard Manning AP Photo
