Briefs: Gender gap, Chung return, arson verdicts, NAACP ethics
Washington reports on a widening political gender gap amid budget and campaign finance focus. Connie Chung returns to ABC after CBS exit with newsmagazines and substitute anchoring. In Mobile three white youths convicted of torching St Joe Baptist Church, a hate crime charge dropped. NAACP board members admit thefts as others face investigations. A Detroit doctor argues bone marrow transplants offer the best five year survival for breast cancer, countered by a rival medicoess view.
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St. Joe Baptist Church
Naacp National Board
NAACP
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Association
Detroit
William Peters
Craig Henderson
Peters
Supreme Court lets stand California Proposition 209 ban
The Supreme Court let stand California Proposition 209 banning race and gender preferences in hiring and school admissions. The decision leaves lower court rulings intact and could prompt other states to consider similar measures, while drawing praise from supporters and sharp warnings from opponents about reduced remedies for discrimination.
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Westwood
Los Angeles
Supreme Court
California
Washington
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The
Pacific Legal Foundation
Rosenbaum
Martha Davis
NOW Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Davis
9Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Coroner retreats on taking corneas amid backlash
Los Angeles county coroner actions shift after scrutiny over removing corneas without relative consent and selling to an eye bank for 215 to 335 dollars per pair. The eye bank resells to transplant centers up to 3400 dollars. officials say permission will be sought when possible.
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Coroner’s Office
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Times
Anthony Hernandez
Doheny Eye and Tissue Transplant Bank
Eisenhower Wins 1952 Election Over Stevenson
In 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson to become the president.
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Adlai Stevenson
Smoking bans not hurting California bar sales study says
A study in the American Journal of Public Health finds smoking bans in seven California cities and counties did not reduce bar or restaurant business. Stanton Glantz of UCSF notes minimal declines within normal fluctuations while opponents call the report flawed. California plans a statewide bar smoking ban begin Jan. 1 amid lawsuits by the National Smokers Alliance.
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San Francisco
National Smokers Alliance
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