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Giovanelli fulfills early promise with entry in By MICHAEL NEFF Legislative Reporter North Idaho News Network

BOISE - In the spring of 1983, a foursome of would-be political stars graduated from North Idaho College. All four majored in political science. Gino White went on to win election as student body president at the University of Idaho. Now he works as the statehouse lobbyist for the U of l's Associated Student Body. Rich Kuck is now a law student and student government's attorney general at the U of I. Gayland Schuler set off for Boise State University to seek bis fortune. There, he was active in student governmnt and eventually became the statehouse lobbyist for the BSU Associated Student Body. He now is pursuing a graduate degree at the Hubert H. Humphery School ol Administration at the University of Minnesota. But of the four, Tom Giovanelli probably took his political science degree most to heart. He is now serving as a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from Coeur d' Alene's District 2. . Giovanelli went to the U of I with White and Kuck. In 1984, at age 22, he took a semester off to pursue a seat in the Legislature. Incumbent Rep. Bob Scates, R-Coeur d'Alene, defeated him, and Giovanelli returned to the university to finish work on his degree. The degree requirements were completed in May 1986, Just as Giovanelli was gearing up for another run at the Legislature. The rest is history. Rep. Bob Speck, R-Coeur

d'Alene, stepped .down and Giovaneili knocked off Hayden Republican Bob Horton in the battle to see who filled Speck's seat. Now at age 25, Giovanelli is one of the youngest peoP.le ever to serve in the Idaho Legislature. He, White, Schuler and Kuch - the would-be politicians from North Idaho College - are all rising political stars. "You go through these periods where out of a class will surface a group that is extraordinary,'' said Tony Stewart, political science instructor at North Idaho College. "They came in most of them shy, and had not been that active in.high school. It'll be interesting to look down the road 10 years from now and see what they're doing." Freshman legislator is an unenviable position. American politics is based largely on seniorit,, and new legislators are told to be patient, to wait, and not expect choice assignments too soon. Getting any substantive work done is difficult until a member gets a ch4nce to learn the system. In fa~t. a favorite saying is it takes freshmen legislators a year before they can find the bathroom. But Giovanelli is a freshman wise beyond his years. In 1984, he worked for Gov. John Evans as an intern. His primary task was to track certain pieces of legislation and to report back to the governor on their progress. Having seen the process in action gives him an edge over other freshmen. "It's makes a tremendous difference Just sitting through a session. It helps to know who the players are," said Giovanelli.

The experience, in fact, enables Giovanelli to play big brother for fellow freshmen. "The hard thing about being a freshman is everybody forgets what it's like to be a freshman," he said. "They're not idiots. Everybody who gets

elected down here bas to be prettY bright, but they don't ~w the game rules.' 1be pOlicy-making end of politics, Giovanelli Is finding, ls quite different from the elective end. His wife, Debbie, describes the campaipa as "schizopbrenic; bittersweet." 1bere Is great tbrill in victory, she explained, but some candidates have to lose. And with Tom 1-1 In legislative races, the Glovanelll's know both sides of a campalp. 'Ibe campaigns, however, are all but forgotten

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"I'm surprised at how well I get along with the Republicans. U there's anything that bas been surprising it's been the fact that both parties have a great deal of respect for me," Giovanelli said. ·" It's no longer those Democrats or those Republicans. It's come down to a difference of philosophy." Debbie agrees. "After you've been through the war zone, it's very nice to come down here and meet the people on a personal level," Debbie said. For the Giovanellis, it's a good thing the camf.iign is over. As any couple that has been through 1t can tell you, a political campaign is not marriage therapr- But the fruits of a victory can be sweet, and enJoyed by both the candid3te and spouse. Debbie is still working on her political science degree, and is earning credits while working as an intern for the Senate minority office. Stewart, Tom's mentor as well as former teacher, helped secure the position for Debbie. Being able to be in Boise while she completes college credits means she and Tom can be to&ether.

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excruciating end. He was a strong-willed man, and obviously had prepared himself for the ordeal. Yet despite that, and the support of a loving family, he needed help in his struggle. Though the outcome was inevitable, Dad was determined to beat cancer. He intended to leave this world with his dignity. To that end, the Hospice caregiver was a godsend. In days, she learned the subtleties of my father's secretive nature, skillfully reading a concealing countenance to discover a ouiet. comoassionate

RIC CIARKE Page one man that took years for others to understand. She instantly \!OD his trust and quickly built on it in the Utile time remaining. She nurtured a friendship as if there would be no end.

How much strength he drew from her comfort and care is hard to say. I do know that she made a difference. And I know she was ~incere. She attended his funeral and genuinely shared our sorrow. Thanks in part to her, my father succeeded in maintaining his resolve and strength of character. He beat cancer a year ago this weekend. Obviously, I can't say enough about the mission of Hospice and the commitment of its volunteers. It's a stressful task- building an endearing relationship, then watchinj( it vanish. It takes its toll.

Hospice of North Idaho's volunteer force is depleted. It bas about half the number of caregivers it needs to operate effectively. Time also has become a factor. Volunteer coordinator Cindy Jett bas only a week to register the 10 prospective caregivers required to stage a training program. There's no denying that it's a tough job involving sacrifice. But it's not without reward. The giving goes both ways. Hospice clients return a special SN CWKE, Page 7

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someone who is being denied it, said Jett. "lt'sa real learning experience," she said. "It makes life a lot sweeter." Those interested in becoming a Hospice caregiver should contact Cindy Jett at 667-4537.

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Finland and its North Idaho connection You've beard North Idaho College officials complain their school charges one of the highest tuitions west of the Mississippi, haven't you? Taxing ceilings, shortage of state funds . . . things lite that tend to push tuitions straight up. But are they also reasons for NJC to charge fl ,750 for one three-week course? I should say

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course," Stewart said. "We don't go to China but it's essential to deal with Cblna an)'time you're comparing forms of Manilm." This summer, Stewart plans to repeat bis 1975 trip - regardless if enough students sign up to cover bis costs. "I'll go and pay my own way. This is definitely worth ll As a teacher I collect materials, take pictures," be said. "Tbe No. 1 reason to go is because when you get back you have the greatest appreciation of our democratic principles." NIC sophomore Cleo Snyder plans to take Stewart's travelina class this summer "because l would like to see for sure lf what I bear about life in the Soviet Union is really true," she said. Snyder, a political science student, said stie needs "more than texts, TV and newspaper accounts. I've beard so much over the years. I want to talk to Soviet officials, people myself. I think the lesson would certainly

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it's. for Leona Hassen's Studies Abroad in Finland. That's right. Hassen actually arranges one to three courses in Finland each summer, although she doesn't always accompany her

students. Sbe began the studies abroad program In 1975, two years after a group from the Silver convinced her to start a F languageclalsatNIC. ' "1l'bey showed so much interest. I thought there must be a way we could study abroad rather than go as typical tourists," Hassen said. Then-college president Barry Schuler told her- such a program was feasible with no budget if enough students signed ur it. That way each studeo could the cost NJC ctor to accompany them. The first year, NIC political science instructor Tony Stewart agreed to take bis ·~par:ative Politics of the U.S.S.R. and Chi-

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For Stewart's class, Hassen arranged - with help from Pbmllh IOUJ'Ce8 - speaien, actlvltles and room and board.

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seven students all the time," said Stewart. "But it was very fun. Tber.;w things. did things, beard th students in my regular classes don't experience."

For that first course, Stewart took bis students to Helsinki. Their mominp there were filled with lectures from Finnish government officials, arts repreNntatives and blstorians.

In the afternoons, Stewart lectured. Then the group toured the area and hobnobbed with the locals. After Helsinki, Stewart's class crossed the border in the Soviet Union, where they spent several days each in Leningrad, Novgorod, Moscow and boating on the Volfa River. " include Finland in the comparative study of governments

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group to Finland for what's proved to be NJC's most popular overseas offering: CUlturefest in Finland. Students in this course learn the Flnnisb language by using lt u they tour Relslnki and the neilbboring countryside. flle one course Hassen bas been able to maintain with nearly any enrollment is Fiber Arts study. No NIC instructor accompanies students of this class to Finland. Instead, a Finnisb coordl~ nator meets the students, takes

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them on tours of fiber arts shops and sightseeing and provides them with workshops on weaving and dyeing. ' Students spend four of the 21 class days on a farm where wool is raised and dyed, Hassen said. Although retired from teaching, Hassen continues as director of NIC's studies abroad program. With more time to devote to it, she's found more foreign studies she'd like to begin. "This is a forestry area and so is Finland. I've been looking into environmental studies," she said. She also envisions taking a genealogy class to Finland and Sweden. While the $1,750 price tag may sound good for three weeks in Fin-

land plus college credit, it doesn't include airfare. But, Hassen said, if enough students enroll, special group airfares are available. "Everyone who has gone with us to Finland plans to go back," Hassen said. "We call them our 'Finnophiles.' They make friends, learn so much. Our program leaves them with much more than an ordinary tourist would ever get." Registration for this summer's Studies Abroad program must be made by March 2 for Stewart's Comparative Politics course and by March 30 for the Fiber Arts and Culturefest classes. For information, call 769-3385.

Anti-harassment bill moves ahead By MICHAEL NEFF Legislative reporter North Idaho News Network

BOISE - The legislative attack on the state's white supremacists moved forward again Wednesday with final passage of a bill which desipates civil remedies for religious and racial diacriminatlon. The bill passed the House 67-8 Wednesday and now goes to the governor. All 10 representatives from North Idaho voted in favor of the proposal. Earlier the bill passed the Senate unanlmoualy. Rep. Steve Herndon, D-Sandpoint, explained the bill simply makes it difficult for a defenae attorney to convince a jury or judge that no civil law was broken in a barasament cue. Under existing civil law, the victims of re-

TERRORISM CONTINUED FROM eAGE 1 d'Alene, is still working through the Legislature. "The task force should be V!17. proud of their effort this year, '

said Givens. The new anti-domestic terrorism bill is missing the forfeiture clause of the original bill and makes no specific.mention of ftreanns. U a1ao doubles the maximum jail term of the previous bill, ~ it from five to 10 yean, and b1kea the maximum possible fine from ,10,000 to '50,000 dollan. The proposal is almost identical to a linillarfederallaw, except the penalties are more severe.

ligious or racial harassment can seek compensation, but Idaho Code does not specifically ~ that out. The proposed law is deslilled to give judges and juries a specific legaf reference designating special, general and punitive damages plus attorney fees may be sought by barasament victims. "'Ibis is a bill the Aryan Nations won't like. It will cost them money if a victim decides to sue them," said Rep. Jeanne Givens, D-Coeur d'Alene. Sen. Mary Lou Reed, D-Coeur d'Alene, said passage of the legislation establishes a civil remedies law as strong as any in the counrty. Hitting white supremacista in the pocketbook may be more a more effective deterrent than throwiDJ them in Jail, Reed said. · The civil remedies bill joins a similar piece of legislation passed in 1983 which provided criminal penalties for malicious racial or re-

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ligious harassment. Criminal penalties for such crimes are a maximum of five years in jail and a '5,000 fine. The civil remedies for malicious harassment proposal was one of a four-bill agenda sponsored by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations. The group's agenda also included a Martin Luther King Commemorative Day, the Anti-Domestic Terrorism Bill, and subpoena power for the Human Rights Commission. The Martin Luther King Commemorative Day bas already been signed into law and subpoena power for the Human Rights Commission bas been defeated. A revised version of the original domestic terrorism bill, sponsored by Rep. Dean Haagenson, R-Coeur

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Remote control cameras show interior of new Kootenai County jail facility, which is scheduled to open later this month.

Hospice ~booking, to open new jail C'OEUR d' ALENE - Guinea in jail? That's what Hospice o.f :'forth Idaho is planning for a fqitd raiser Wednesday.

Before Kootenai County's new

jail can be used officially, it must Ulldergo a test run to determine if

it's up to state safety standards. Kootenai County Commissioner

Frank Henderson decided the test run coul9 evolve into a major fund raiser for Hospice. So he contacted Tony Stewart, Hospice president. "It's going to be great. We're ~oing to book our guests into the Jail then invite them to eat dinner with the Hospice board," Stewart said. "It'll give the jail the test it

needs and help raise the funds Hospice needs.' Stewart invited 200 representatives of various community organizations to Wednesday's mass booking. Each must pay $50, collected from group members, to go to jail for the evening. , . Jail staff with the help of Hospice members will book th~ guests

and cook a chicken dinner fo1 them, Stewart said. The funds will go toward help ing pay the medical bills of loca cancer patients. "We're going to run through tbt whole system. It's an assimila tion," Stewart said. "I imagim this will be the lar~est booking th, jail will ever have. '

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1987

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I~~ho First District Judge Dar Cogswell of Sandpoint plans to retire July 1.

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~ :sANDPOINT - First District Judf.e Dar ~ e l l , described by afrosecutor as' the ex(et epitome of what a udge should be," an~ Wednesday that e is resigning and will ~urn to private practice. ,. :Cogswell, 59, said be will join the firm of Ceoke, Lamanna and Smith when bis retirement Wcomes effective July 1. :·"Pve never bad a day when something really ~ting didn't happen to me," be safd. "But stressful job, and you have to have a fO!D8er person to do it." ...;,~gswell, who celebrated his 20th anniveras a district judge in January, ls the second in the 1st District to retire in a year. e Watt Prather retired late last year and w,s succeeded by James Judd. ,: •His tenure on the bench ls one of the longest il(ldabo histol')', ,: -O>gswell said the increasingly heavy district e,Jurt caseload was one reason he decided to reWben be moved to Sandpoint as a young in 1955, be said, court wasn't even held ~ IUIDIDertime. ~~· Jaly and upat nobody went to " be said. "It was not QIIC'OIIUDCJD when we

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started in the fall to have only one jury trial." Today, Cogswell said, he disposes of between 350 and 400 cases a year by himself, and the magistrates often ban<lle three times that number. The judge said be wanted to return to practicing civil law, particularly workman's compensation and personal-injury cases. "It's an area of law I tborougbly love and miss," be said. "I might take a cr1mlna1 case if there's a good constitutional question involved, but I don't see that happening very much." Coowell said be opposed a bill in the Legislature to limit damage awards in personal-injury suits. "I've never seen a (personal injury) case where I thought the damages were excessive," be said. "U you put a proper case to the jury, they're either going to award the proper amount of damages for (tile plaintiff's) injury, or else deny him. I don't tbilik you should restrict the rildit of a jury to mate those decisions." 7rbe most far-reaching of Copwell's decisions was 1982's Beller v. Cenarussa, involving legislative reaPPortionmenl In that cue, Cogswell ruled that lbe Lqislature's reclistri~g plan Yiolated tbe state coastltatlon's probibitlon

redistricting plan, Cogswell devised his own, with the help of North Idaho College professor Tony Stewart. Legislators still are elected under Cogswell's plan. One of the many plaques and pictures on Coowell's office walls is a small block of wood with two Magic Markers and a bottle of whiteout attached. The inscription reads "The key instruments used to draw Idaho apportionment • p1ans." Across from that plaque is another of Cogswell's creations, a large painting of two ducks in flighl He said he doesn't get to paint as often as be wants to but hopes he'll have more time after be leaves the bench. "I ~ted that with a pretty broad brush because I needed some color in this office," he said. Bonner County Prosecutor Phil Robinson said be was disappointed ~~:en is leaving. "Without question I he's the best district ~§e I've ever worked with," Robinson said. 'Hes the euct epi!Ome of what a judge should be- fair, impartial, not a hint of impropriety." "Copwell's succ:essor will be nominated by the Idaho Judicial Council, a seven-member body c o ~ of two attorneys, one district judge and three laJ111811 and presided over by Chief aetnst dlvklinl coantles. ' tbe Lejslllatme ref1INd to draft a new Jllltlce Allan Shepard.

Coalition to announce formation Friday COEUR d' ALENE - A press conference to announce formation ~f the five-state Northwest Coalition on Malicious Harassment Inc. ts scheduled for 1 p.m. Fridal in the Bonner Room of the North Idaho College student union building. Tony Stewart of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations encouraged the public to attend the event in a show of support for the regional organization. "It's going to be a special day," be said. Stewart said coalition officers and a signing ceremony will take place at the time. The states involved are Oregon, Washington, Idaho Montana and Wyoming. The non-profit organization bas been incorporated in Idaho out of deference to the Kootenai County-based task force, which started the movement with last summer's Human Rights Celebration in Coeur d'Alene's Citr. Park. Formation of the coalition bas been "in the works" about six months, according to Stewart, a political science instructor at North Idaho College.

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pernment dally broke virtual of. ftclal silence on Raoul Wallenberg Saturday to report that the Swedilb diplomat, who vanished after •vinl ID8Df thousands of Hungarian Jews, died in a MOICOW Jail in

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1be Magyar Hirlap newspaper 111d in a full-page article that Wallenberg died in Moscow's in·

famous Lyubianb Prison "as a

victim of (Soviet dictator Joaef Stalin's) nality cult." Wallenc::°disappeared in 1M5. A secretary in the Swedish Embusy in Budapest, be is credited with saving 100,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi deportation and utermination by providing them with Swedlsb immigration per-

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Sweden sent him to aid Nazi victims late in World War II. Wallenberg was taken prisoner by Soviet forces in Hungary. In 1957, the So-

attack 10 years earlier, but rumon persisted long afterward that be was still alive. Earlier this year, the city of Coeur d'Alene received an award from the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States, honoring it for its human rights ef. forts. Magyar Hirlap said Wallenberg replarly visited Hungary from 1d8 on, and that be started bis bmnanitarian efforts in 1941, not 1944, when he began work at the

~ y also published what appeared to be new details about the disappearance of Wallenberg, based on an interview with Laszlo

Hertelendy, a member of a wellknown Hungarian family. The newspaper said Hertelendy was the last man to see the diplomat before be vanished from Hungary.

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5 states form board to fight 'hate crimes' By D.F. OUverla Suff wrltcr

COEUR d'ALENE - What began as a celebration to divert attention from the annual Aryan Nations World Congress last summer baa blossomed mto a five-state effort to combat racial and religious harass-

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press conference at North Idaho College to launch the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious

Harassment.

Master of ceremonies Tony Stewart, an NIC political science instructor, said the event marked the first time in U.S. history a private, non-profit organization with links to governors throughout a region

bad banded together.

The coalition is an offshoot of the Human Rights Celebration, sponsored by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, held here in July, according to organizers of the new group. Meettno have taken place throughout t6e Northwest during the past six months to formulate it. The Rev. Bill Wassmuth, chairman of Kootenai's task force and newly elected president of the coalition, spelled out the new organiza-

tion's purpose: "To address the problem and threat of religious harassment and violence in the Pacific Northwest, and to present a united opposition to such activities." It plans to achieve that goal by: • Determining the scope of prejudice and monitoring the activities of racial and religious hate groups. • Assisting local communities to develop strategies to combat prejudice. • Providing education. • Encouraging uniform reporting of ''bate crimes". • Proposing or supporting legislative initiatives to combat hate groups. Wassmuth was joined at the head table by other officers: Oscar Eason Jr. of Seattle, Puget Sound Task Force on Human lfelations, vice president; Rosalyn Borg of Portland, American Jewish Committee of Portland, secretary, and Anne MacIntyre of Helena, Montana Human Rights Commission, treas-

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the papers, starting with Marvin Stem of the Anti-Defamation League from Seattle, as television news cameras recorded the event. A hand-painted sign overhead (See Bate crimes on page 6)

Hate cri01eS-<Continued mislabeled the organization, "Northwest Coalition on Malicious Harassment," rather than against and proclaimed "F.quallty for all." Wusmuth WU the laat to sign. When introduced by the emcee, Wassmuth received a standing ovation from the crowd of about 125 that joined reporten at the news conference. He bas gained national recopition for b1s work with the locaftask force. Additionally, many learned of him after b1s home was bombed last September by Aryan Nations members. Statements from four ..Northwest governon - Cecil Andrus of Idaho, Booth Gardner of Washington, Ted Scbwinden of Montana, and Neil Goldschmidt of Oregon - were read by their representatives. Wusmuth explained that Wyoming was unable to send a representative because its Legislature is still meetinl and its distance from Coeur erAlene. Wyoming was the only Northwestern state that failed to send a proclamation to Kootenai County last summer heralding the Buman Rights Celebration. The immediate goal of the coalition is to become known to civil rights groups and local~overnments throughout the on as part of a membenbip ve, accord1q to Waasmuth. Membenhip is open to anyone in accord with the coalition policies. Wassmuth said the coalition will be able to accoml)lisb things that local groups can't. For example, be said, the or~tion can fight "bate crimes' and promote legislative changes regionwide. It also can stage regional conferences and possibI7 sponsor advertisements ag81Dlt malicious harassment on Northwest television stations.

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After Friday's press conference, Montana's Anne MacIntyre said her state is concerned that more white supremacists might seek to locate there. Some already have, but "they're not as vocal as the ones in Coeur d'Alene," she said. She said the coalition will provide her state a valuable resource to combat religious and ethnic bate p-oups, particularly since its steermg committee includes members of the Kootenai County task force. In a separate interview, Portland's Rosalyn Borg said many in her state are aware of the work of the local task force. ~ Alluding to Richard Butler's Aryan Nations, she said, "It's a shame in such a beautiful part of the world that such ugliness exists."

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ÂˇCoalttion aims to hatt hate crimes harassment and violence; encourage uniform crime reporting; and support lelislative issues deA commitment to civil rights, signed to stop the problem. solidified tiy the high-profile ac" It is our creed that we will ,,.. tivities of Northwest white su- alwar,s do these thinfS in a positive premacists, on Friday spawned a way,' Wassmuth said. . regional corporation aimed at 'lbe organization's first activity halting hate crimes. will be to recruit individuals and Representatives froft'l Idaho, Washington, Montana and Oregon groups interested in promoting human rights groups and agencies civil rights to work with the coali- all with the blessings of their tion. Efforts will be made to acrespective state governors - were tively involve Wyoming, but at on hand at North Idaho College to present, the group does not plan to sign the articles of incorporation include Canadian provinces for Northwest Coalition Against some of which have been seeing an influx of Aryan Nations members Malicious Harassment. - in its ranks, Wassmuth said. Wyoming's attorney seneral When the white supremacist also has been asked to begin serv- movement became ''more highly ing as a liaison to the coalition, but visible through the use of symbols that state's legislature still is in and attracted more publicity," it session and be was unable to at- accelerated the idea that the entire tend, said Marilyn Shuler, bead of region needed to address racial Idaho's Human Rights Com- and religious harassment probmission and a member of the coali- lems, said Robert Hughes, medition's 19-member board of direc- ator for the U.S. Department of tors. Justice in Seattle, and another The Rev. Bill Wassmuth was board member. elected earlier in the day to serve Idaho, which earned the unas chairman of the group, formed deserved title as a haven for raafter six months of steering com- cists, could well be a model for mittee planning. improving human rights throughThe group's goals in dealing with out the region, Shuler said during a religious and racial hate groups Friday press conference attended , are to monitor and gauge their ac- by about 100 people. tivities ; educate about them; as"Idaho, after this last le~islative sist law enforcement ag~ncies and SN COAUTION, Page 8 communities in responding to their By TRUDY WELSH Presa staff writer

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COALITION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 11eS1ion, bas one of the strongest aeries of statutes in all 50 states to protect people from malicious harassment," she said. Montana bas no laws for specifically spelling out penalties for malicious harassment, said coalition board member .~e MacIntyre.

administrator of tbe Montana ·Human Rights Division, but measures could be fortbcoming if the "symptoms" begin surfacing in her state. She noted that there bas been a crossburning in Troy, Mont., and white supremacy groups have ~ trying to convince desperate farmers that their financial troubles can be traced to Jewish bankers.

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Harraament." Idaho's director of law enforcement recently expressed interest in instituting a standard system for reporting racially motivated crimes statewide. Uniform crime reporting may be extended throughout the Northwest if the proposed Idaho expe r iment works , sa id Wassmuth, whose home was the target of a bomb planted by individuals linked to the Aryan Nations

white supremacy group. 'Ibe goals of the reporting systems are better identification o bate crlmes, catching criminals fieeinl acroa state llnea and promoting the reports of incidents - even anonymously or by a third party. Representatives from all five states will be invited to the human rights celebration planned for July 18 in Coeur d'Alene.

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Battle against prejudice takes regional approach The fight against racism in the Pacific Northwest is snowballing. It bas ~wn from a small Kootenai County (Idaho) task force willing to take on white supremacists to a coalition encompassmg five states. Members of the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment expect to be invincible and tireless fighters against racial and religious harassment in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Wyoming. While the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations bas been effective on the local level, the problem of racial and religious harassment is a disease that will take a multilevel effort to cure. It wasn't enough for the task force to organize a celebration Âˇ1ast summer to show the world, through the lenses of still and television cameras, that the Northwest isn't full of bigots like the bunch attracted by the annual Aryan Nations World Congress in Coeur d'Alene. The task force wanted not only to celebrate brotherhood but also to organize to defeat those who would undermine it. The group's efforts bloaomed into a pact, endorsed by the governors of the five states, with a purpose: ''To address the problem and threat of religious harassment and violence in the Pacific Northwest and to present a united opposition to such activities." The Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment plans to discover the scope of prejudice, monitor racial and religious hate groups, help local communities fight prejudice, L

educate the .J?Ublic about prejudice, encourage uniform reporting of "hate crimes" and advocate legislation to combat hate groups. That's a hefty agenda, but it's one that is sorely needed to replace the blighted image that cross burninp and other white-supremacist activities have foisted on a region that hardly deserves to be muddied in such fashion. Lest we pooh-pooh the damage such an image can do, consider the recent decision bf Head Start officials to switch thm three-day regional convention from Coeur d'Alene to Boise â&#x20AC;˘ because black delegates feared for their safety at a meeting held in the shadow of the Rev. Richard Buller and friends.

''The choice was either to go ahead and hold an all-white convention here (in Coeur d'Alene) or move it," said Maggie Tallman, direct~r of the North Idaho Head Start profam who became interim regiona president in February. Ron Herndon, a black Head Start leader from Portland, says he will stay away from Nortb Idaho until the Aryan Nations followers all have left the region. How many other groups have made the choice to skirt North Idaho or are considering a similar move? But who knows what might happen if the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment sends a strong message that racists are persona non grata in the five states it encompasses?

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~eacher urges peers to loudly support By Cynthia Taggart ~taff conapondenl

COEUR d'ALENE - Northwest colleges and universities probably would have larger minority enrollments if they broadcast their support of human rights, says a local professor. Intrigued by a move last week by University of Idaho faculty members to pass a resolution condemning the practice of racial or religious hatred, Tony Stewart, North Idaho College political science teacher, wrote a similar resolution for bis fellow faculty members. "When I read what they had done at the U of I, I became very excited," said Stewart, a member of the Kootenai County

Task Force on Human Relations. "I don't know why the idea never occurred to me." Stewart envisions much more than the two North Idaho campuses registering their support of equal human rights. His resolution, he said, will be sent as a h , _.-1 sample document to STEWART community colleges and universities tbrouihout the Northwest. He hopes it will stimufate minority student

interest in the region's schools. "What we're doing is reaffirming our belief in the Constitution. That's something we all take for granted. By making loud statements, we're telling _people we don't Just believe In human rights, we're workIng bard to make sure they're in practice on our campuses," he said. "That's very reassuring to victims. Some may realize the Northwest schools are good places to be." Stewart's resolution, which the NIC faculty will vote to adopt Tuesday, declares faculty support of the five-state Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment Inc. and its goal to eradicate prejudice and bigotry.

It says the faculty opposes discrimination, segregation and tile white supremacist doctrine of racial superiority. It also encourages racial, social and cultural diversity on the NIC campus. Stewart acknowledged that the public tends to take most resolutions lightly. But, "this is different," be said. "We're saying a small group that sends a loud message of hatred is in error, that the,'re wrong. This Isn't like declaring a special day in honor of flowers." Last year, the Kootenai County task force received resolutions against racial hatred from 240 of the 2,000 city, county and state governments from which ft sought resolutions. The number of colleges in the Northwest

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is much lower than the number of governments, Stewart said. But the idea is the same. "By making resolutions lllte this, we make news. News makes conversations and from those conversations, awareness grows," he said. "I've seen this issue snowball from a conversation with six people in 1982 to a five-state venture this year.' While Stewart's focus in on faculties at other campuses, students and other employees also may join the bandwagon, be said. "We're very aware of human rights here," be said. "But with this resolution we could sow the first seeds of activit).' on other campuses. I believe in strength in numbers." Âˇ

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· MOSCOW - Faculty at the University of Idaho condtnlned bigotry and welcomed "all men and women of geod will" to campus in a resolution unanimously appfoved Tuesday. •Quickly and without discussion, the school's Faculty ~cil signed off on the one-page statement on rac1am and discrimination, prompted by groups in the regfi)n that promote racial hatred. p •"Although these zealots comprise only a small mindrity of [dabo residents, their exposure in the news media bas nevertheless created the erroneous percepti6n that a large part of the area's populace shares ~ir views," the statement said. •Recruiters and counselors at UI suggested the resolution because of comments from prospective students who feared life OD the Moscow campus because of the Hpydeo Lake-based Aryan Nations.

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rhe life of (Pat) Reilly is growing politically By MICHAEL R. WICKLINE Presa staff writer

Patrick Reilly is either a quick learner or a natural. Prior to coming to North Idaho College last fall, Reilly was a political novice. He bad no political experience, just strong leanings toward the Democratic party, and admiration for his uncle, lieutenant governor candidate Terry Reilly, who died in a plane crash last spring while on the trail. On Wedn y, the 21-year-old will officially become the president of the Associated Students of North Idaho College. He soundly trounced bis opponent, Sbabab Mesbab, 267-46 in last week's election. Following a semester at Boise State Univenity and a year at a communi~ college north of San Diego, CaW., Reilly opted to enroll at NIC with his parents' en-

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couraJ.ement because of the school s dyslexia program. Administrators at Maricosta Community College in Oceanside, CaW., biked the grades of students hindered by dyslexia by one letter in each course. Reilly wanted no part of that poli~. as be doesn't believe it helped him overcome the disability. Reilly tasted politics quickly after arriving at the NIC campus. "I was up here and didn't know L- ... anyone, and all of a sudden I was Âˇ sought out by the Democrats up here. And within two meetings, I was elected chairman of the Young Democrats," be recalled on Monday afternoon. Political science professor Tony Stewart said, "He just got very interested in the political process." Interest led to involvement. In September, October and Novem- , ,... Âˇ... allLY, Page 7

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ber, Reilly and several other students spent many boun working on Democratic campaigns in the area. Reilly, who spent a lot of time working for former Gov. John Evans in bis race against U.S. Sen. Steve Symms, rememben waking before dawn to distribute campaign literature to homes on election day. "There are many excellent students in politics, but you don't see ones like Pat who can put the houn in and still get his work done," Stewart said. "He has tremendous energy. He can go on for boun, boun and houn." In addition to heading the NIC Young Democrats, Reilly became a member of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations' NIC chapter and the Idaho State

Intercollegiate Legislature, which holds mock legislative sessions. When Stewart encouraged him to run for president of ASNIC, Reilly jumped full bore into bis cam-

1>8!fciic1nâ&#x20AC;˘t think I stood much of a

chance because the other guy had been here for three years," Reilly said modestly. So he spent more than 100 houn campaigning for the presidency. He knocked at rooms and the homes of many NIC students to make himself known. And be distributed fliers and bung up posters with the help of nine volunteers. Reilly campai~ on increasing communication between students and their government through the student newspaper and other channels, and strongly supporting higher education funding. Ed White, who was elected vice president of the NIC students this

spring, said, "(Reilly) went after bis position more than anyone else on campus." (White, 29, of Cataldo, is the brother of Gino White, president of the University of Idaho students last year and the NIC students a few years ago.) Instructor Stewart agrees. "He was just an excellent campaigner," said Stewart. "I think he's a natural, comin~ from a politically active family.' Fellow Democrat and state Sen. Mary Lou Reed of Coeur d'Alene has observed both Terry and Pat Reilly. "He's a born leader and a born doer with a real intensity about caring about what's going on and about other people," Reed said of Pat. "He's very much bis uncle's nephew." The Reillys are a tight-knit bunch in Boise who rarely discuss politics during family get-togeth-

ers, Pat said. In fact, the only time that Pat discussed politics at length with his late uncle was last Easter, a few weeks before Terry's death. After completing bis studies at NIC next spring, Reilly hopes to earn bis bachelor's degree at Boise State University. But bis first obligation, be said, is to his dad and the family-run business, Reilly's Church Supply. "I have a lot of political ambitions, but I'm not sure I'll ever get the time," be said. What are his political ambitions? Reilly said be would like to run for a seat in the Idaho Senate because there is "more quality debate" in that smaller chamber than in the House of Representatives. He quickly added, "maybe it's because Terry was in there."

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Forum on constitution scheduled for Thursday A public iQrum on "The Constitution at 200 : A Bicentennial Review" will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in North Idaho College's Student Union Building. The forum, which is one of a series of eight statewide public forums, will look at the contemporary significance of the Constitution. First District Court Judge James Judd, NIC political science professor Tony Stewart, and Idaho Supreme Court Justice Robert C. Huntley Jr., will be in the forum. "We all respect the U.S. Constituion, but very few of us think about what that document means to us and that it is the basis of all our freedoms,'' Judd said.

"The brilliant men who came together in Philadelphia worked over the summer months to develop a new form of government defined by the needs of the struggling new na-

tion. It was unique at the time and it bas survived to this day," he added. Stewart will discuss the present challenge to the Fifth Amendment, keying specifically upon moves to change the Miranda decision. "The legal right of the accused against compulsory self. incrimination is one of the oldest and longest struggles in the triumph of individuaf liberty," he said. "The forefathers saw the need for these guarantees and made it a constitutional right when they wrote the Fifth Amendment." Thursday evening's forum is sponsored by the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association and funded by the Idaho Humanities Council. Copies of the Constitution will be given to those in attendance as a remembrance of the 200th birthday of the Constitution.

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By Drew DeSilver Staff writer

COEUR d' ALENE - OK everybody, pop quiz time. Put down your coffee cups, pick up your pencils and answer the following questions: • George Washington was inaugurated in; (a) 1776, following the Declaration of Independence; (b) 1782, after the Revolutionary War; (c} 1787, after the Constitutional Convention adjourned; (d) 1789, after the Constitution was ratified. • True or false? A state can give money to religious schools provided it gives it to all religious schools equally. ' • True or false? The U.S. Constitution guarantees every citizen the right to a free public education through high school. U you scratched your head over those, you're not alone. In fact, a recent Hearst Corp. survey indicated that a majority of Americans have a hazy notion at best of just what their Constitution says. That's why the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association and the Idaho Humanities Council are sponsoring a ~series of public forums on the Constitution this year, the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention. State Supreme Court Justice Robert Huntley, 1st District Court Judge James Judd and North Idaho College political science professor 1ony Stewart will discuss the present-day implications of the Constitution's basic principles at the Coeur d'Alene forum, which will be held tonight at 7 at NIC.

Alan Minskoff, who will moderate the discussion, said many people treat the Constitution as a relic rather than as a living document. "People see the Constitution as sacrosanct and the original framers as almost holy men," Minskoff said. "At one forum a guy walked up to me and said, 'I think it's God.' " That attitude often keeps people from studying the Constitution and, hence, from knowing how the federal government works. The Hearst study, for example, found that a majority of those surveyed could not identify the Bill of Rights as the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. "We've found that, while Idahoans are a little better, people really don't have a basic understanding of their rights and how the , §OVernment works," Minskoff said I, ' People tend to honor and revere the Constitution rather than read it and understand ll" There have been four forums so far this year, at Boise. Twin Falls, Pocatello and Idaho Falls. Each attracted between 50 and 100 people, Minskoff said. Huntley, Judd and Stewart will each make brief speeches on how the Constitution relates to modern life and then take guestions from Minskoff and the audience. Stewart said his topic will be the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination, particularly as developed by the Supreme Court's famous Miranda decJ.Sion. By the way, the answers are (d), false and false.

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cance of the Constitution. The Coeur d'Alene meeting will be held today at 7 p.m. at the North Idaho College Student Union Building. "We all respect the U.S. Constitution but very few of us think about what that document means to us and that it is the basis of all our freedoms," said keynote speaker District Judge James Judd. "The brilliant men who came together in Philadelphia worked over the summer months to develop a new form of government defined by the needs of the struggling new nation. It was unique at the time," he said, "and it has survived to this day.'' The forum will also include Tony Stewart, political science professor and North Idaho College chairman of the Division of Social Sciences, who will discuss the present challenge to the Fifth Amendment through the attack on the Miranda decision, and Justice Robert Huntley, Idaho Supreme Court. "The U.S. Constitution at 200" is sponsored by the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association and funded by the Idaho Humanities Council. Copies of the Constitution will be distributed to guests. The program is open to the public and free of charge.

THE SPoKEsMAN-REvlEw Thurs., May 7, 1987, Spokane, Wash.

Seniors celebrate in Rathdrum Lawmakers who promise to help applauded By Cynthia Taggart Staff correspondent

RATHDRUM - North Idaho senior citizens Wednesday applauded legislators who promised to work on easing their financial woes. "I'd be willing to look at legislation to encourage tax breaks and incentives for businesses that hire senior citizens," said Rep. Jeanne Givens, D-Coeur d'Alene. But, yelled one of her listeners, "Work on something that lets us work without hurting os financially." That seniors receive lower social security payments when they bold part-time jobs was only one concern expressed by the 50 participants in Wednesday's Older American's Day celebration at the new Rathdrum Senior Center. Some seniors wanted to know how to interest business in the issues of older people, how to protect themselves from financial disaster when their spouses need constant medical care and why there aren't price controls for seniors on limited incomes. Mostly, though, the senior audience rallied around the idea that youth isn't everything. "We're not over the hill, we're on top of the hill," shouted Spirit Lake Sf>nior Archie Bengtson, prompting cheers and applause. "This center is an example that we're alive, we're doers." And from another senior: "Nine out of 10 of us are capable of working very productively most of the

time if someone would just let us and our benefits wouldn't suffer." â&#x20AC;˘ Tony Stewart, North Idaho College political science instructor, told the group the senior population is growing. In 1985, people over 65 numbered 25 million and represented 12 percent of the nation's population. By 2030, seniors will number 65 million, he said. State Sen. Mike Blackbird, D-Pinehurst, Alamae Cox, chairwoman of the Association for Inner Community Development, and Alan Wasserman, director of Idaho Legal Aid, emphasized to the audience the voting power of senior oltizens. "Seniors played an important role in the governor's veto of the phone deregulation bill this year," Wasserman said. "It'll be back. You must continue to exercise your strength." Cox urged her listeners to work on state legislators to create better health education programs for seniors. "I don't want to put anyone out of business, but if we stay healthy we reduce the need for shelter care," sbe said. "Long-term care is expensive and the bills are often picked up by taxpayers." Rob Beck, personnel director for the city of Coeur d'Alene, told the audience bis city uses seniors as a community resource. "We staff boards and commissions with senior volunteers so we can take advantaJe of all the experience they have," he said. "Bemg older doesn't mean you're not needed anymore. We want to put your experience to work."

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School's beach gets new name COEUR d'ALENE - Beachgoers along Lake Coeur d'Alene will have a gathering place with a new name this summer. The North Idaho College Board of TruStees Wednesday named the school's 3,000-foot beach YapKeehn-um (Yop-kane-um}, the Coeur d'Alene Indian phrase for gathering place. Rep. Jeanne Givens, D-Coeur d'Alene and a member of the tribe, told the board the area where NIC sits had been an Indian gathering' place long before Fort Sherm;in was built there in the late 19th century. Political science instructor Tony Stewart asked the board last month to give the beach an Indian name for historical reasons and to promote a good relationship with the tril;>e. The tribe and the college will erect a sign which will explain to beachgoers that the spot was a gathering place for the Coeur d'Alene, Flathead, Pend Oreille and Kalispell tribes for centuries, Givens said. In other business, the board also approved offering the Jobs Plus economic development effort use of college equiP.ment and personnel as NIC's contnbution. President Bob Bennett said the in-kind donations would total about $20,000 over four year and help Jobs Plus meet its financial goal.

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MOSCOW - A one-p~ge tion that condemns racism and discrimination has won final approval from University of Idaho faculty members. The resolution, a response to white-supremacist activities in the state, criticizes "zealots who espouse extreme prejudice and hostility toward certain racial, ethnic and religious groups and who intimidate them, harass them and violate their rights." It calls bigotry "intellectually abhorrent and morally reprehensible." "I want the record to show that I am strongly in favor of this statement," U of I President Richard Gibb said Thursday at a year-end faculty meeting. "I do not believe that the things we have seen happening in this area reflect the posture of the people in this community or the state."

Rights struggle continues

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Friday, Juty 10. 1987

By KATHIE BERTIN Press staff writer

Nationwide indictments of white supremacists appear to have bad a slight affect on the group's movement in North Idaho, but the struggle for human rights is by no means over, the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment's president said today. Since the 14 indictments were issued by an Arkansas grand jury, the Aryan Nations group baled north of Hayden Lake bas kept a low profile, said the Rev. Bill Wassmuth, who helped found the coalition. Richard BuUer, self-proclaimed bead of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations) was one of the supremacists indicted OD federal sedition charges. " It certainly appears that they've been keeping their beads down," Wassmuth said. Meanwhile, the coalition, which was formed in response to Butler's plan to make the Northwest a haven for white supremacists, is continuing to work against bate groups. Although the coalition is In its formative stages, and bas not yet bad a visible effect OD the Aryan Nations, Wassmuth believes the coalition ls causing aome concern among the neo-Nazis. "The coalition will unite the people who believe in the principles of the constitution, the people who believe in the rights and dlgnlty of human beings," Wassmuth said. As a matter of policy, neither the Kootenai County Task Force on . Human Relations nor the coalition Please ... RJGlfll. page

RIGHTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 plan to confront those participating in the congress, Wassmuth said, but it is difficult to predict what the supremacists might do. Instead the human rights groups will encourage a positive portrayal of human rights and equality. " Saying 'yes' to that is the best way to say 'no' to racism," he said. Even if the supremacist movement is snuffed by the incarceration of its leaders, Wassmuth added, the coalition and task force will have plenty of work to do. " Neither group exists soley to oppose the Aryans,'' he said. "Our goal is to support the rights and dignity of people." Despite charges from various groups that the Aryan Nation concept is on the decline, Aryan spokesman (and sell-proclaimed international "conspiratologist")

Richard Masker has predicted that more than 250 supremacists will be at the congress. Kootenai County law enforcement officials say that estimate is probably high. Oscar Eason, a Washington ~ resentative on the coalition, does not foresee an immediate end to hate groups in the Northwest. " We will not bring any end to racial hatred in this century," he said in a telephone interview Thursday. ''The best we can do is stem the tide." The coalition is actively promoting membership and educating people about malicious harrasament and human rights, said Marilyn Shuler the coalition's spokeswoman and director of the Idaho Human Rights Commission. Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana and Wyoming all have backed the coalition's objectives. "This is an effort to educate ourselves and present a united

front, " Shuler said. " Racism throughout the United States is on the rise - it's an appropriate time for us to be uniting against this." Rosalyn Borg, an Oregon representative on the coalition, encouraged groups to step forward and take a stand against racism. "If you remain silent, then by your silence you acquiesce to what the white supremacists are trying to do," she said. "By not remaining silent, we send a loud message to the white supremacist movement that we in the Northwest are not going to tolerate that kind of activitv. Racism is wrong. " We.don't want to be a homeland and a haven for people who want to spread that kind of hatred," Borg said. Most coalition members said they plan to attend Human Rights day July 18, sponsored by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations.

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Teacher says Finns . . know Soviets best By Cynthia Taggart Scaff writâ&#x20AC;˘

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That's what North Idaho College political science teacher Tony Stewart believes after returning this week from a three-week visit to Finland and the Soviet Union. "I would recommend to our leaders to consult with the Finns on what's going on in the Soviet Union," Stewart said Friday. "They're so astute. I truly think they've learned the Soviet mind." Stewart and three NIC students left for Finland June 13 for NIC's class on "Comparative Politics of the Soviet Union and China." While in Europe, the group attended daily seminars with Finnish and Soviet officials, historians, linguists and artists~ visited landmarks and talked with residents. "U there's anything that came out loud and strong, it's their fear toward us," said student Cleo Snyder. She spoke with Soviet factory workers through an interpreter. "It all revolves around the nuclear issue. They had the impression we're not interested in solving the situation." Stewart visited the Soviet Union in 1975, but wasn't allowed to travel as extensively as he was this time. That, along with many other things, shows how the country's polici!5 are changing, be said. (Premier Mikhail) Gorbachev seems to be mixing some changes with controls," Stewart said. "Experts say he's trying to change the economy with limited political concessions." Promoting tourism is one of Gor-

bacbev's plans to stimulate the Soviet economy, Stewart said. Another way is through decentralization. " All the taxis used to be owned by the state. Now individuals can own them and they pay fees to the state," be said. ''They're starting to experiment with loosening u1>_." Through meetings with Finnish journalists and government officials, Stewart concluded the Soviet Union is in the midst of its most tremendous struggle since the Russian Revolution. Apparently Gorbachev wants to make changes to bring economic health but the old guard clings to the days of Joseph Stalin, be said. "Gorbacbev's followers are the young, the intellectual," Stewart said. "He's gotten rid of the old guard members at the top of the party. But they're still widespread and a lot to contend with." People with whom Stewart talked seemed in support of Gorbacbev's new policies. "I asked some people what they thought of Gorbacbev's openness and they said we bad to understand they're not unhappy with their life now but this gives them hope for a better life," ne said ''They were very careful about what they said." While Stewart and his students toured the country, the Central Committee of the Communist Party met and appointed three new members and the Supreme Soviet approved Gorbachev's policies. Stewart and his group couldn't witness the action but were shown the buildings, he said. "When I was here before, they wouldn't allow people even to see the buildings," be said.

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the Senate. Giovanelli said he thought the civil remedies bill was the stongest of anti-terrorism measures. "It hits them where they live, in their pocketbooks," he said. " These people think that they're heroes - going to jail doesn't mean anything to them. To have to pay the people they hate money is probably the most abhorrent thing that they can think of." The third human rights bill, the first bill passed by legislators last year, affirmed Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday. Rep. Jeanne Givens, D-Coeur

d'Alene, was also instrumental in promoting human rights legislation, Reed said. Giovanelli called for Idaho to work with the five-state Task Force on Human Relations to rid the Northwest of white supremacists. "It's not enough to j11St take care of this problem in Idaho,' ' he said. "If they just move on to Washington, that's no good." As a result of the human rights legislation, racists will soon start to " trickle out" of North Idaho, Sverdsten predicted. "It's going to take quite a while to really see a significant change,'' be added.

I Wednesday, July 15. 1987

Human Rights Celebration events to cover the gamut By MOLLY ANSELMO Presa staff writer

Local and state agencies have

scheduled a variety of events during tbe next several days aimed at promoting ethnic harmony and setting the stage for Saturday's Human Rights Celebration. 1be events kick off at 9 a.m. Thursday when Raebel Haspel, president of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States will dedicate the collection of boots in the human rights section of the Coeur d'Alene Library. 1be boots recently were purchased with the $5,000 given to Coeur d'Alene when the city received the first-ever Raoul Wallenberg Civic Award earlier this year for its pro.motion of human rights. More than 230 volumes of books aimed at readers young and old comprise the human rights section.

The books cover a wide spec-

trum of human rights issues, including the Holocaust of World War II, black issues and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, said Julie Meier, director of the Coeur d'Alene Library. Coeur d' Alene Mayor Ray Stone and Kootenai County Undersheriff Larry Broadbent of the Idaho Human Rights Commission also will speak at the dedication. The highlight of the week's activities will be the " Human Rights

Celebration Day" in the city park on Saturday. Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus and Haspel, who is visiting from New York, will be joined by local officials including Stone and the Rev. Bill Wassmuth, president of the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment. Âˇ The day-long celebration, sponsored by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, will begin at 10:30 a.m., with the speeches beginning at 11 a.m. At noon, members of the Coeur d' Alene Indian Tribe will join in a special dedication ceremony at the North Idaho College Beach. The beach will be officially named " Yup-Keehn-Um ," an Indian phrased meaning "the gathering place." Entertainment, ethnic arts and crafts displays, and a food fair are scheduled from 1 p.m . to 5 p.m. in the park. Entertainment will include guitarist and singer Dan Hibbard, the BLT Band, Jenon Chalem, who will perform Israeli folk songs, and Darlene Peters, who will present the " Indian Prayer to the Four Winds." Tacos, Swedish meatballs, German sausage, Italian ice cream, Chinese egg rolls, Indian fried

bread and venison jerky, Greek baklava and bagels with lox and cream cheese will be among the ethnic food offerings. Also on Saturday, members of

the Idaho Human Rights Commission will bold their annual meeting at 9 a .m. at The Coeur d'Alene, A Resort On 1be Lake. Topics of discussion will include Idaho law in relation to discrimination against the handicapped, and an update by Wassmuth on the progress of the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harrassment. On July 24, a time capsule highlighting the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will stop in Coeur d'Alene as part of a nationwide tour. The public is invited to view the time capsule, which will be on display from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a .m . at the clock tower near the city beach. The seven-foot-long time capsule, weighing 500 pounds, contains memorabilia on the life and work of King. 1be orignal draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech ; his Bible and robe; books, records and videotapes; and other artifacts of his life will be included. For a contribution of one dollar, local residents can have their name, city and state " laser-inscribed" on a miniature replica of the Liberty Bell, which will be placed inside the time capsule before it is entombed. In January, 1988, the time capsule will be embedded for 100 years at a historic site ir. Washington, D.C.

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Wallenberg inspires activist Rights leader fights in name of imprisoned hero By D.F. Oliveria and Drew DeSUver Staff wrltcn

COEUR d'ALENE The thought of her hero languishing in a Soviet prison for these past 42 years is sometimes disquieting for Raebel Haspel. "rm here because he's there," Haspel said Thursday, looking out of The Coeur d'Alene resort to the picturesque marina and lake beyond. The New Yorker bas spent six years fighting for Raoul Wallenberg's release from a Soviet prison after first learning of the unSUDI "Righteous GenWe." The accompllsbments of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee bf the United States, which she beads, encourages her. She bas crisscrossed the continent arousing sentiment for Wallenberg's

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Tbunday morning, she delivered .the keynote adclress during the dedication of the new Hwnan Rights Section of the Coeur d'Alene Library. She will be one of three featured speakers Saturday morning, along with Gov. Cecil Andrus and the Rev. Bill Wassmuth, at the second annual Haman Rights Celebration. En route to Idaho, sbe delivered four speeches about Wallen-

berg during a stopover in Denver. She will address the Rotary Club at a l_uncbeon today. Wallenberg is her passion and bis release the theme of her prayers. At 32, the Swedish diplomat was taken prisoner by the advancing Russian army near Budapest at the close of World War D. He hasn't been seen since, although reports smuggled out of the Soviet Union a year ago indicate he's sWl alive. U so, be will be 75 on Aug. 4. Wallenberg is credited with saving more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews designated for extermination by the Nazis. In January, Haspel's committee presented Coeur d'Alene with its first Wallenberg Civic Award in honor of the community's valiant fight against the spread of neo-Nazism here. The $5,000 stipend accompanying the honor launched the new library collection. Haspel fielded questions while waiting for an airplane tour of the Aryan Nations compound north of Hayden Laite. "I would like to see what and whom I'm dealing with," sbe said of the flight arranged by Mayor Ray Stone. She noted that she bad grown up with the spectet of the Ka Klux Klan in her native Salls-

bury,N.C. Like Wallenberg, who didn't hesitate to dine with notorious Nazi Adolph Eichmann, Haspel, who is Jewish, said she would be willing to meet with Aryan Nation members under the right cir-

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"I certainly wouldn't want to meet them in a dark alley," she said. "Maybe I could convince them there's a better way." Upon her first visit, Haspel said she was struck by North lclaÂˇ ho's natural beauty and the enormity of its human rights accomplishments. "I'm awed that a city as small as Coeur d'Alene bas managed to spearhead a human rights action that has caught the attention of the entire nation," she said. Haspel challenged Coeur d'Alene residents to take up Wallenberg's cause by writing to President Reagan, their representatives and even Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev asking for bis release. She said she would like to see mention of Wallenberg in the national platforms of both major political parties. llaspel also encouraged residents to write to the U.S. Stamp Commission asking for a postage stamp in Wallenberg's honor. (See WaUeabert OD page 20)

Wallenberg-<eontinued from page 1,>~rlier in the day, Haspel ad- quet of white roses bf library board Chairman Norm GlSSel. He said the Coeur d'Alene Library for the they were symbolic of the flowers dedication of its new collection of tossed by Polish factory workers to materials on the Holocaust, racism Jews imprisoned behind the Warand human rights. saw ghetto wall during World War "I look at this library and see a n. "There are no walls to the dignisign saying 'Human Rights Collection,' and l know the effort all of ty of man, there are no walls to the you have put into living the concept intellect of man, there are no walls of human rights and brotherhood to man's search of freedom,'' Gissel and love of your fellow man,'' said. Haspel told the audience. Haspel said the white roses reThe collection of 311 books and minded her of the White Rose, a se20 videotapes, housed in the li- cret society of German university brary's Nelson Memorial Room, students who opposed the Nazi govhas been on display behind three ernment during the war. Many locked bookcases since the library were executed for their efforts to began acquiring it in February. On help the Jews. She said she was particularly Thursday, the cases were opened pleased that so many tiooks in the and the books began to circulate. Twenty-nine bad been che<-ked collection were for youn~ters and hoped it would enable â&#x20AC;˘ your chilout by closing time. Besides books on Wallenberg, dren and their children's children Nazism and the Holocaust, the col- to look forward to a future of freelection includes works on racism in dom and loving brotherhood." the United States, Jewish culture, The ceremony's most emotional the internment of Japanese-Ameri- moment came when Linda Byron cans during World War ll, and re- and three of her children perlated topics. formed "This Land is Your Land." "This is only the be~inning of the Byron played guitar as Grace, Dahuman rights collection,'' Lih:dry vid and Martha sang Woody Director Julie Meier i?.romised Guthrie's decades-old words: "Nobody living can ever stop Haspel and the gatherin~. 'We hope someday to fill that entire room, if me/ From walking down that freenot more, with these wonderful dom highway / Nobody living can books." make me turn back/ This land was Haspel was presented with a bou- made for you and me." dressed a crowd of 100 gathered at

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f RIGHTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE A-1 The area's human rights movement bas gained momentum since the bombings with the naming of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, the presentation of the Raoul Wallenberg Award and increased law enforcement on issues of racism and denial of civil rights. "What has happened in the past year was not just show and splash ... it will have long-lasting results," Wassmuth said. In an often-emotional address, Haspel, president of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States, said Coeur d'Alene was on the cutting edge of human rights and was a " flaming arrow flying in the hearts of our people." Haspel said she laughed at a reCoeur d'Alene Press photo by Ed McKmark made by the Rev. Richard MemberS of the BLT band were among several groups that Butler, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Na- performed at the Human Rights' Celebratlon. The memberS are tions). Quoting from a news arti- Bob Simmons, Lynn and Tee Nichols. cle, she said Butler setued in the Northwest because it suited bis group's " Nordic heritage and culture." She explained how Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who bas been missing since World War II, protected 110,000 Hungarian Jews from death in Budapest. "When Mr. Butler talks about bis Nordic heritage, I kind of have the feeling be doesn't have the full picture," she said, drawing scattered laughs from the audience. Coeur d' Alene Tribe Chairman Andrus also spoke, praising the Ernie Stensgar said bis ancestors "marvelous attitude that you peocame to the beach pray and conple of this area have fostered. template nature. "We are not going to permit a "This area has been a place of little group which preaches the learning, so when I see this educanonsense of intolerance to ruin our tional center, I'd like to think my good name." ancestors are smiling," said Afer the formal speeches, many Stensgar, glancing toward the NIC of the crowd walked the short discampus. tance to the college beach, which The dedication was arranged by was officially dedicated and reofficials of NIC and the Kootenai named " Yap-Leehn-Um," or " The County Taskforce on Human RelaGathering Place." For centuries, tions and the Coeur d' Alene Tribe. the beach was a meeting spot for Musical and cultural exhibits dancing, games and fishing for Inand an ethnic food fair rounded our dians of the Coeur d'Alene, Pend the remainder of the day-long Oreille, Flathead and Kalispell evE:Dt. tribes.

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Idaho celebrants urged to keep fighting biases By Drew DeSllver Staff writer

COEUR d' ALENE - Idaho has come a long way since the first Human Rights Celebration last July, but more needs to be done, the Rev. Bill Wassmuth told about 500 people gathered Saturday for the second annual festival. In the year since the first rally was staged by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment bas been formed, the Legislature bas passed laws aimed at violent racists and Coeur d'Alene bas received the Raoul Wallenberg Civic Award for its efforts to combat the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations group. But much more remains to be done to combat prejudice of all ~ . Wassmuth said. 'That is a growing, learning process that none of us can be said to have completed,'' Wassmutb told the crowd hiside the auditorium at North Idaho College's Communication Arts Building, where many of this year's events were held. Wassmutb, pastor of St. Plus X C&tbollc Church 1D Coeur d'Alene, la cbalrman of the task foree and president of the newly formed

Northwest Coalition. Despite the presence of Gov. Cecil Andrus, Attorney General Jim Jones and Raebel Haspel, president of the New York-based Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States, attendance was about half last year's figure of almost 1,000. Organizers blamed overcast skies, cool weather and a change in location for the smaller turnout. The task force decided to bold the celebration indoors instead of City Park because of the weather. Two weeks ago, the task force triggered controversy when it rescinded its invitation for a self-described witch from Coeur d'Alene to sing British folk songs at the celebration. The invitation was withdrawn after task force members learned that The Spokesman-Review and sr.karie Chronicle planned to publish an article on the woman, Jo Staples. But on Saturday, Wassmutb apoloaized to Sta_ples and the half-dozen wltches, or Wiccans, who bad come from S ~ to supnort her. ''I make mistates,"''-he said. "Tbe task force makes mistakes. We have tblngs to learn about each (See lallo a pqe 18)

Idaho other when we make mistakes, but that's why we're here." Two of the women walked out during Wassmuth's address, but Staples said she was ready to put the incident behind her. "I think he's realized the mistakes he's made and now we can all work together," she said. Staples said she bad been invited to join a support group set up by the task force to help people who bad been harassed or iliscrimlnated against because of their race, religion or ethnic background. "I think with my religion and background I can help people take affirmative action to stop them from being harassed," she said. After statements were read from the governors of Washington, Oregon and Montana, Andrus praised the task force and the _people of Coeur d'Alene for standing up to the Aryan Nations, who are based near Hayden Lake. "The people of Idaho are united," Andrus saia. "In every comer of this state they agree that we are not going to permit one tiny group which preaches the nonseme of intolerance to ruin our good name. We are not going to be polarized, but neither will we be intimidated." At noon a stretch of beach on the NIC campus was renamed "YapKeebn-Um,'' an Indian phrase meaning "the gathering place." The beach was dedicated to the Coeur d'Alene tribe, which, along with other Indian tribes in the Northwest, used it as a place to camp among friends and family.

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The Rev. Bill Wassmu~ and Gov. Cecil Andrus at Human Rights Celebration Saturday. Ernie Stensgar, chief of the Coeur d'Alenes, said the renaming symbolized the close relations between bis tribe and the college. "When I see this educational center out here, I like to think my ancestors are smiling, because the teaching is still going on,'' Stensgar said. "We're proud that our cblldren come to this college and make the great leap up to universities."

fried bread and beef jerky, and bagels with lox and cream cheese. American cuisine was represented by ribs and submarine sandwiches. Across campus at the communication building, Darlene Peters of the Clallam tribe performed the Sioux "Prayer to the Four Winds" for about 200 people. Peters was one of several entertainers performing in the auditorium, including a corps of bagpipers and Jenon Cbalem of Spokane, who sang Israeli folk songs. , After her dance, Peters talked about learning to live in the white man's world without giving up her heritage. She said she and her adopted father, a Sioux, often get into arguments because Sioux society is patriarchal while Clallam is matriarchal. _ _ __

Wassmuth received loud applause when be said. "Instead of tlie Coeur d'Alene tribe thanking us for naming tbis beach, maybe we should say to the Coeur d'Alene tribe, 'Thant for letting us be here.' After al , it was theirs first." The ethnic food fair inside the student Union Building featured Chinese egg rolls, German sausages, Slfedisb meatballs, Indian

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"He calls me a Clallam woman and a fish eater, and I call bim Sioux man and a dog eater," she said. "We have a great time." But despite their differences, she said, be gave her a home and a family after her natural parents died. "As long as we can live with other people we'll never be alone," sbesaid.

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COEUR d'ALENE - Gov. Cecil Andrus and Raebel Has~l, president of the. Raoul WallenThe daylong lestl.val will berg Conmuttee of the United States, are scheduled· to speak at Coeur d' Alene's second annual Human Rights Celebration today. . .' include remarks by~Gov. The daylong festival, which is sponsored by tile Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations will begin at 10:SO a.m. at City Park with a musical overture. Speeches by Andrus, · , , .• HaspelJ task force president the Rev. Bill from 1 to 5:30 p:m. Darlene Peters will present Wassniuth and others start at 11 a.m. .. the "Indian Prayer ·~ the Four Winds,' Jenon AJ noon, members of the Coeur d'Alene Indi- Cbalem · will perform Israeli follt songs, and an tribe will join Andrus, Kootenai County Com- other entertainers will ·include the BLT Band missioner Frank Henderson, North Idaho Col- and guitarist/ singer Dan Hibbard. lege President Bob Bennett, and other The ethnic food.fair will feature tacos, Sweddignitaries to rename a stretch of the college's ish meatballs, German sausage, Italian ice beach in honor of the Coeur d'Alenes. . cream, Chinese egg rolls; Indian fried bread and The beach's new name, "Yup-Keehn-Um," venison jerky, Greek baklava .and bagels with means " the gathering place" and recognizes its lox and cream cheese. his~ as a gathering place for the tribe. Also on hand will be a group of witches from Indian culture wiITbe highlighted in activities Spokane and Seattle. A controversy erupted last

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week when the task force withdrew its invitation to Jo Staples, a self-described witch from Coeur d'Alene, to perform folk songs of the British Isles at the celebration. Instead, said Tracy Kenoyer of Sumner, Wash., the witches will help the task force set up tables for the celebration and then just watch. She said they will wear pentagrams and other symbols of their religion, which they call Wicca, but have no plans to perform any ceremonies or meet with task force members. "We J'ust .felt, well, we'll meet them this weeken and find out about tbem and get to know them,'' she said. "I don't think it would be right for us to approach them. It will be better for them to approach os; that way we'll know they really want to talk.'' In case of rain, the food fair will be held in the Kootenai Room of the Student Union Building at NIC and all other events will be held in NIC's Communication Arts Building.

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EDITORIALS

Looking for justice behind prison bars Members of the Kootenai County (Idaho) Task Force on Human Relations have found soul mates of sorts in an unlikely spot: behind bars at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. The Asian Reform Alliance Association bad invited task-force member Norm Gissel, a Coeur d'Alene attorney, to speak at its banquet - the single event this year at which it is allowed to have outside guests. Gissel and an-

The Asian Reform Alliance Association is a rarity behind prison walls - a truly multiracial organization dedicated to 'preserving our Asian heritage and culture and promoting human progress of all people' other task-force member, Marshall Mend, accepted the invitation, not knowing what they would find. Prisons, after all, are hardly known for the spreading of brotherly love. More often than not, news from within the walls is about hatred, violence and racial unrest. That's why it was such a pleasant surprise to discover the commitment , of the association - a year-old, 37member grass-roots or'-anization - to fulfilling its goal of 'Âˇpreserving our Asian heritage and culture and promoting human progress of all people." What began as a group to help incar, cerated Asians overcome language . barriers, obtain greater vocational and educational opportunities for all prisoners and communicate with the world beyond the walls is a rarity in prison - a truly multiracial organization. The cornerstones are unity and positive attitudes buttressed by religious faith.

Gissel and Mend came back enlightened and impressed but sWl unsure of the role the task force might play other than offering encouragement. The answer lies in the words of Juan Banegas, emcee for the banquet: "We need to build a bridge between ourselves and the community!' The task force can be a span in that bridge. Most of us never will visit the penitentiary - you don't exactly just drop in and ask for the Cook's tour. But we need to know that a group such as the Asian Reform Alliance As.,ociation exists and what we can do to help it fulfill its aims, which would make life inside the penitentiary walls more livable. Ban~, in bis remarks at the banquet, ed about the need for bilingual people to help inmates such as the Cambodian who is isolated because of a language barrier. The penitentiary's sole Vietnamese prisoner is luckier a countryman who is a Pasco social worker occasionally drives 100 miles round trip to se"e as an interpreter, but the red tape involved in setfing up those visits keeps them infrequent. Working on that problem may well be out of the Kootenai County task force's purview - fighting bigotry in North Idaho is a full-time job that leaves little time for oning prisonei:s' rights. But the force can be a conduit for getting information about prisoners' needs to others who may be inspired to take on that cballenge. The Asian Reform Alliance Association, while still in its infanc:y, holds out promise of being a group that can make a difference, setting an example for penal institutions across the coun-

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Coalition adds 'diverse group' Anti-harassment organization receives 50 responses to letter By Cynthia Taggart Staff WIiiÂŤ

OOEUR d'ALENE - Religious, racial and political organizations in tbe Northwest are among those tbat bave joined tbe Northwest Collltlon Against Malicious Harass-

ment, Inc; Tbe coalition has received more than 60 responses to the 3,000

membersblpfnvitations it distributed ID mid.June, said Bill Wassmuth, coalition president. Tbe five-state coalition was formed ID April. It accepts as members any orPDization with five or more mem6en that supports its religious and racial

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Waasmath said the new members represent "a pretty diverse group" and uceed the membership expectatiODB be bad for the end of July. Some of the groups new to the coalition are tbe Catholic and Episcopal dioceses of Idaho, the Oregonldaho United Methodist Conference, the Idaho League of Women Voten, the associated students of Boise State University and the University of Idaho, and the Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene Chambers of Commerce. Each organization pays $25 per year to belong to the coalition. The money is used for general operation of the group and mall and phone costs, -Wassmuth said. The

organization bas no paid employees. The membership fees also will help the coalition finance its first convention, scheduled for Oct. 2325 at the Holiday Inn in Coeur d'Alene and The Coeur d'Alene re-

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The three-day convention will feature workshops conducted by representatives of the Atlantabased Center for Democratic Renewal and the Anti-Defamation L.eague on such topics as bow to deal with bate groups. Wassmuth said five civil rights leaders will speak to convention participants. Ile won't release the speakers' names unW all five have confirmed their participation in the convention. The coalition's growing visibility throughout the Northwest motivated officials of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla to invite coalition members to speak with prisoners. Today, Coeur d'Alene real estate agent Marshall Mend and attorney Norm Gissel, coalition members, will discuss racial harassment with Walla Walla's Asian-American prisoners, Wassmuth said. "They've bad some concerns about harassment in the penitentiary system and asked us to address those," be said. "They're (Mend and Gissel} are just going down to talk, nothing else."

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50 groups agree to join rights alliance Northwest unites against harassment The Associated Press

COEUR D'ALENE - More than 50 organizations have agreed to join the newly formed Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment, the coalition's president, the Rev. Bill Wassmuth, said Satu rday. " We are receiving memberships dally from a truly cross section of Northwest groups," Wassmuth said in a news release. F orma tion of the coahtion was announced April 3 in Coeu r d'Alene. The group's intent is to add ress the threat of religious and racia l harassment and to c ombat religious and racial hate group a ctivities. Wassmuth also heads the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, which was formed in response to the whitesupremacist m ovement in northÂˇ em Idaho. Or ganizations tha t have joined the anti-harassm ent coalition, Wassmuth said, represent a spectrum of religious, governmental, educational, business, political, civic and hu man-rights interests in the North west. Wassmuth said they include: the Idaho League of Women Voters; the Washington and Idaho human rights commissions; the University of Oregon and North Idaho College; the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region; and the Catholic and E piscopal dioceses of Idaho. The coalition plans its first conÂˇ vention Oct. 23-25 in Coeur d'Alene.

THE COEUR D'ALENE PRESS Monday, Auoust 3. 1987

Rights coalition grows to more than 50 members In less than two months, more than 50 orga nu.ations have responded to the invitation to join the Coeur d'Alene-based Northwest Coalition aga inst Malicious Harr assment, the organization's president said today. The Rev. Bill Wassmuth, a Catholic priest and president of the 4month-old organization, said he was pleased with the number and the diversity of the groups that have offered their support. A broad range of religious, governmental, educational, business, political, civic and human rights groups are represented on the membership roster, be said. " We' re excited about the response so far and about the prospect of other groups joining," Wassmuth said. He added that be expected the coalition's first convention to further boost membership. The convention is scheduled for Oct. 23-25 in Coeur d'Alene. The coalition is in the process of securing several prominent civil rights leaders to serve as speakers, Wassmuth said. Tentative plans a lso include informational workshops sponsored by the Center for Democratic Renewal, an Atlantabased organization that documents incidences of racial harassment. The 22-member coalition board of directors made its first call for

members at an April 3 press conference announcing the group's intent to address the problem of religious and racial barrassment, and to work to combat the activities of religious and racial bate groups. Among the groups that have responded are the Catholic and Episcopal dioceses of Idaho; Idaho League of Women Voters; University of Oregon ; North Idaho College ; the Associated Students of Boise State University; OregonIdaho United Methodist Conference ; Washington-North Idaho Conference of the United Cburcb of Christ; Spokane and Kootenai counties ; the Chamber of Commerce organizations of Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene; U.S. Forest Service (Pacific Northwest Region); Jewish, black, Indian and Asian-American civil rights groups; several law-enforcement agencies and a variety of busi-

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and Washin,rton. The city of Coeur d'Alene Jut week became one of the coalition's newest members. Any organization interested in joining the coalition can contact Wassmuth at the group's headquarters at 625 E . Haycraft, Coeur d ' Alene, or call 765-5504 or

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Corwin, Alfred Hitchcock, Sammy Kahn, John Wayne, Pearl Ba1 ley, Kitty

Dukakls, George Burns-- and not only celebr1t1es, but the 1nterestlng characters he enjoyed and savored as If they were rare gems. Ed loved to collect th1ngs-- lndlan bowls, Curtis photographs, Edvard Munch and Ansel Adams posters, treatises on trout, medical books, classic books, hats, back-packing gear, a Japanese fireman's coat, Calder, Mlro, western art, volumes of National Geographic Magazine. At the 1984 Olympic games, he relished the chance to bu1ld on his collection of Olympic pins. And he traded for them with the enthusiasm of a 11ttle boy. This passion for collecting demonstrates the breadth of Ed's wide-ranging Intellect and underscores hls passion for culture, art, music, athletic achievement-- for the nobler pursuits In life. Ed would have flt In very well In Periclean Athens, In the court of the Medicis, as an explorer of the New World. Ed was a Renaissance man. Ed was a man for all seasons. And we were so lucky that he shared hls season with us. I can't capsulize Ed's personal lty In these remarks. I can't begin to describe the depth of our loss. Ted and I were his step-sons. But we loved him like a father. And If Ed left a single mark on our lives, a standard for us to emulate, It would center on the profound Integrity which he demonstrated In his personal and professional 11fe. His Integrity rang out In his clear voice, his unequivocal opinions, his ab1llty to make life and death decisions, his recognition or what mattered and what didn't, his personal courage, his tncredlble res111ence, and finally, 1n his phenomenal endurance In three battles with a terrible dtsease. What better way to honor Ed, than to attempt to display 1n our 11ves the tremendous courage and lntegr1ty he showed In his life? It won't be easy. Alec, Adam and Tony can't replace his love and devotion. My Mom can't replace his sweet and tender love. And they loved each other so very much. We can't replace his friend.ship and warmth; for when they made Ed Davis, as the saying goes, they broke the mold. But I know that Ed would want us to carry on, to embrace 11fe, to discover new

worlds, to maintain the high standards he set In his life. On Thursday, we travel with Ed to sun Valley. Ed loved that part of the world. I think he would like the Idea of lying near Hemingway, surveying the peaks or the Sawtooth Mountains. For 1t was Hemingway who said or a departed friend:

"Best of all he loved the Fall, The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods, The leaves floating on the trout streams, And above the hlHs, the high blue windless skies, Now he w1ll be a part or them forever."

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