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Hag compromise plan clears Judiciary Committee
by Jim Davenport
The Associated Press
The House Judiciary Committee has
approved, by a vote of 17-8, a compro
mise plan to remove the Confederate flag
from the Statehouse dome.
No date has been set for a full
House vote on the Senate-passed plan,
which would remove the flag from the
dome and legislative chambers and put a
similar one at a Statehouse monument to
Confederate war dead.
“I’m surprise, quite frankly, that it
was that strong,” House Speaker David
Wilkins, R-Greenville, said.
The bill had survived several earlier
tests, including a motion to kill it short
ly after the meeting began. That motion
failed on a 17-7 vote.
Rep. Jake Knotts, R-West Columbia,
complained the votes were set before the
meeting as Judiciary Committee Chair
man Jim Harrison, R-Columbia, met be
hind closed doors with about half of the
committee before the meeting began.
The Judiciary Committee also turned
back an effort to put the fate of the flag
up to voters in a referendum. Rep. Doug
Jennings, D-Bennettsville, said the state
Supreme Court last year admonished law
makers for delegating their authority to
voters when it overturned a referen
dum on video gambling. “The buck stops
right here,” Jennings said.
Supporters of keeping the flag where
it is vow to vote out Republicans in No
vember’s elections to punish those who
support the plan to take down the flag.
: Ron Wilson, the second-highest offi
cer of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,
said he would do whatever is needed to
make sure that happens. His group has
spent more than $240,000 on advertis
ing to increase pressure on lawmakers.
Ed Walker, the Sons of Confederate
Veterans’ second-highest ranking South
Carolina officer, agrees that Republicans
will pay. “The repercussions of what is
going on now are going to be devastating
to the Republican Party,” Walker said.
Wilson said that’s what defeated one
term Republican Gov. David Beasley in
1998 and ushered in a Democratic gov
ernor.
Walker said he knows that approach
won’t help the conservative Republican
agenda many flgg supporters embrace and
could hurt Republicans in the long term
as the Legislature takes up redistricting
in the next session.
But Walker turned the question back
to lawmakers. “That’s the big question
that’s got everybody wondering: What
are they thinking?”
Rep. Chip Campsen, R-Charleston,
offered some insight into that. He said he
loves the flag and he loves his boat. But
the flag is flying from the wrong place.
He said if he came home one night and
found his boat in his living room, he’d
move it outside immediately. “Boats be
long in the water,” Campsen said. The
flag belongs at a monument that honors
Confederate war dead, he said.
The bill could come up for debate
within two weeks, but Wilkins and Har
rison are not sure that will happen be
cause House members on Tuesday loaded
up the contested calendar with legisla
tion that would have to be debated be
fore the flag bill.
“You just work through the calendar
to get to it,” Wilkins said. “We have six
weeks to go. I fully expect the House to
take a vote on that bill that comes out
of committee before we adjourn.”
The repercussions of what is going on now are
going to-be devastating to the Republican Party.’
Ed Walker
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Jordan backs Palestinians on
all issues, foreign minister says
by Dana Budeiri
The Associated Press
Ramallah, West Bank — As Israeli
Palestinian peace talks enter a decisive
stage, Jordan said today it would back the
Palestinians on all issues and affirmed the
creation of a Palestinian state with east
Jerusalem as its capital.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul-Il
lah Khatib made the assurances in a news
conference following a meeting between
Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Palestin
ian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank
town of Ramallah.
The two leaders did not speak to re
porters.
Abdullah was accompanied by his
Palestinian wife, Queen Rania, during the
trip, his first official visit to the West Bank
since being crowned in March 1999. In
May, he visited the autonomous Gaza
Strip.
In a media briefing after the two lead
ers met, Palestinian Planning Minister
Nabil Shaath said Abdullah’s meeting with
Arafat was important for the peace
process. On Sunday, the king had held
talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Barak.
Khatib said the Palestinians have Jor
dan’s backing on all issues, “foremost
among which is the formation of an in
dependent Palestinian state on land oc
cupied in 1967, including east Jerusalem.”
Israel has said it would never relin
quish sovereignty over Jerusalem, in
cluding the eastern sector it captured from
Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. In peace
treaty talks, which are to resume April
30 in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, nego
tiators will try to formulate a treaty frame
work.
In addition to the status of Jerusalem,
they will have to agree on final borders,
the fate of Palestinian refugees and the
future of Jewish settlements in the
West Bank and Gaza, the areas claimed
by the Palestinians for their state.
Jordan has been the country most in
tricately linked to the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, and will be directly affected
by the outcome of any final settlement.
It has given refuge to the largest number
of Palestinian refugees, and is the care
taker of the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem.
“Jordan has vital national interests
that are affected by the peace process,”
Khatib said. “The only option available
for the whole region is to see this process
concluded with an agreement.”
The king has tried to restore Jordan’s
ties with the Arabs, which were strained
by his late father King Hussein’s pro
Wfestem outlook and warm relations with
Israel since the countries signed a peace
agreement in 1994.
Jordan controlled the West Bank and
east Jerusalem until Israel seized the ter
ritories in the 1967 Middle East war.
Hussein severed legal and adminis
trative links with the West Bank in 1988,
a year after the start of the Palestinian
uprising against the Israeli occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
‘Jordan has vital national interests that are affected
by the peace process. The only option available for
the whole region is to see this process concluded
with an agreement.’
AbduMllah Khatib
Jordanian Foreign Minister
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