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NEWS BRIEFS

Homophobic Marine kills Okinawa man in drunken rage

Tokyo A Marine from Pennsylvania on trial in the killing of a Japanese man may have snapped in a drunken rage at what he believed to be gay advances, the Marine's lawyer said August 10.

When his trial opened, Pfc. Christopher A. Glidden, 18, of New Castle, Pa., admitted striking Seiyu Yokota on the head once with a flower pot and three times with a block of concrete outside a bar near his base on the southern island of Okinawa in April. New Castle is about 15 miles southeast of Youngstown, Ohio.

But Glidden challenged charges that he intended to kill the 33-year-old carpenter, said Minoru Uechi,. Glidden's lawyer.

In the trial, Uechi said alcohol and a homophobic rage had rendered Glidden mentally unstable.

Uechi told the court Glidden snapped when Yokota tried to fondle his buttocks outside a bar where the two men had been drinking. He said Glidden was afraid. He said Glidden was raped by a male relative when he was 15 and sexually assaulted by a classmate when he was 13.

Prosecutors did not specify what sentence they would demand, Uechi said. Initial proceedings lasted about 90 minutes. The next session was set for Sept. 14.

Glidden is charged with killing Yokota on April 11 in Kin, a town of about 10,000 that borders Camp Hansen, where Glidden was assigned to a reconnaissance unit.

Seattle Nazis bomb gay bar

Seattle Three men charged in connection with a Tacoma NAACP meeting hall bombing were ordered held without bail after FBI agents testified the attack was part of a larger plot to incite a "race war."

In addition, an FBI agent testified August 4 that one of the men admitted to the pipe bombing of a Seattle gay bar two days after the NAACP incident.

Mark Frank Kowaalski, Jeremiah Gordon Knesal, and Wayne Paul Wooten, are charged in the incidents. They belong to a neo-Nazi group called the Church of the Creator and planned to carry out a series of attacks on synagogues, military installations and rap musicians, the FBI contends.

Also on August 4, an FBI agent testified that Knesal told authorities that he and Kowaalski threw a pipe bomb into the chimney of the Elite tavern in Seattle July 28.

The chimney does not extend into the bar and the bomb caused no damage to the interior, Seattle FBI head William Gore said. No charges had been filed in that case as of August 4.

No one was injured in either bombing, which came amid a rash of other bombings and arson fires against two other NAACP offices and a synagogue in California.

However, the FBI said investigators so far had found nothing to connect the Tacoma attack to the others.

France extends health benefits to gay couples

Paris-France has extended medical benefits to non-working partners in same-sex couples.

The new law did not attract public attention until it took effect August 4, though it

was passed in March and letters explaining it were circulated around France in May to officials dealing with benefit claims in the state-run health system.

The order is a milestone for gay couples in having their unions officially recognized. Court rulings in recent years leaned the other way, with judges refusing to consider

such couples eligible for state benefits.

Besides gays, others covered include jobless adult children still living with their parents and not covered by special student benefits.

Jersey rights survive challenge

Trenton, N.J.-A federal judge has dismissed a suit that charged a state law banning discrimination against gays infringes upon religious and speech freedoms.

U.S. District Court Judge William G. Bassler, sitting in Newark, threw out the lawsuit by the New Jersey Orthodox Presbyterian Church after state officials stressed that religious groups can prohibit the hiring of gays "based on sincerely held, First Amendment-protected religious beliefs."

Bassler, who made his decision August 11, did not rule on the church's contention that it could be sued under the anti-discrimination statute if it distributed literature opposing gays. The judge said he could not rule on this case unless there was a pending suit against a church member.

Kansas City gets hate crime law

Kansas City, Mo.-People who commit hate crimes against gays and others in Kansas City may now face a stiffer punishment.

The City Council voted 11-1 August 12 to pass a hate crimes ordinance that levels tougher penalties against criminals who act based on discrimination.

The new law enhances fines against people found guilty of a crime motivated by a victim's "race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability, handicap or health-related condition." It had been under work for several months.

The ordinance raises the minimum fine for a hate crime from $1 to $300.

Activists surprised by Joint Chiefs nominee

Washington-Gay rights leaders voiced surprise August 11 when they learned that President Clinton had nominated Army Gen. John Shalikashvili to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hours earlier the advocates had held a news conference to denounce another general they had believed was a front-runner for the job-Joseph P. Hoar, head of U.S Central Command.

"I don't know that much about him," Tanya Domi, director of the Military Freedom Project at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said of Shalikashvili. "Right now, I'm relieved that it is not Hoar and we'll have to take a wait-and-see attitude on Shalikashvili."

Gay rights and feminist leaders objected to Hoar, who was commander of the Parris Island, S.C., Training Depot in 1987 and 1988-a period when more than 200 Marines were investigated in a witchhunt for lesbians. A total of 65 women were discharged and three were imprisoned.

News reports had placed Hoar on a short list of possible nominees to replace Gen. Colin Powell, who is retiring as Joint Chiefs chairman Sept. 30.

Gregory King, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay lobby, said his group had not “raised a red flag" on Shalikashvili's nomination.

No skating for gay couple

Franconia, Va.-A lesbian couple was asked to leave a roller rink because they held hands and skated together during a designated couples' period.

Clarity Haynes and Lynn Borowitz were part of a group of friends who went skating

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