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The Onion River Co-op has supplies for making a wide
variety of natural gifts from Iip solves to bath oils.
Here's a sample:

Lavender Hand Cream
2 tsp grated beeswax

3 tsp Shea butter

I tsp cocoa butter

2 tsp avocado oil

2 tsp vegetable glycerin

)2 tsp liquid lecithin

800 |.U. vitamin E

2 drops lavender essential oil

I drop rosemary essential oil

Melt the beeswax, butters & oil together in a double boiler. Remove
from heat when melted. Add lecithin & vitamin E. Add glycerin, stirring
with a whisk as you pour. When the mixture is cool and almost set,
add the essential oils. Store in a wide-mouthjar.

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WASHINGTON —A gay bar near the
U.S. Capitol was the site of a tear-gas
bombing and police believe five U.S.
Marines were responsible.

The military equivalent of a ci-
vilian grand jury has been established
to look into the incident, which hap-
pened in July.

A tear gas canister was thrown
into the bar on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Several dozen patrons were evacu-
ated after smoke from the canister
filled the bar. No one was seriously
injured, but the bar’s owner said it
scared off customers for about two
weeks. ~
The bar is about a half-mile
from the Marine Corps barracks near
the Capitol where the five servicemen
are based.

The Marines suspected of in-
volvement in the incident are still on
the job but their off-duty movements
have been restricted.

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LOS ANGELES —— California Gov.
Pete Wilson tried to block it, but gay
and lesbian employees in the Univer-
sity of California system now have
domestic partnership health benefits.

The university's Board of Re-
gents approved the plan by a 13-12
vote with one abstention. The vote
came after the governor made two
last—minute appointments to the board,
provoking charges he was trying to
stack the board.

Both appointees voted against
extending the benefits togays and les-
bians.

The plan applies to 130,000
employees on the UC system’s nine
campuses.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If gay and les-
bian couples can't get married, nei-
ther can straights.

That’s the new policy of the
Edgehill United Methodist Church.

The Edgehill congregation de-
cided that until the United Methodist
Church begins allowing gay mar-
riages, it will not permit marriages of
any kind in, its chapel.

So Suzanne Prince married
Hunter Allen at a friend’s home.

“lithe United Methodist Church
wasn’t going to allow gay people to
get married in the church, I agree that
straight people shouldn’t either,” said
Prince, who's been married nine
months.

There have been similar pro-
tests elsewhere.The Rev. Jan Nunley,
rector of St. Peter’s and St. Andrew's
Episcopal Church in Providence, R.|.,
will preside over church weddings for
straight couples, but she wont sign
marriage licenses for them.

"I was in considerable anguish
over the fact that I can create a legal
relationship formixed-gendercouples,
but couldn't do that for same-gender
couples who've lived together for 25
years,” she said.

WASHINGTON — James Hormel is
being forced to wait to become the
United States’ first openly gay ambas-
sador

Two Republican U.S. senators
have blocked Hormel’s confirmation
vote and one of them plans to meet
with him in December.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Tim
Hutchinson, R-Ark., said he was not
implacably opposed to Hormel’s ap-
pointment as ambassador to Luxem-
bourg.

“The senator wanted to makes
sure this didn’t get pushed through at
the last minute," said spokeswoman
Susan Hensley “He definitely has con-
cerns about Mr. Hormel’s activism.

Hormel, a businessman and
an heir to the Hormel Meat Co. for-
tune, is on the board of the Human
Rights Campaign Foundation, the
educational arm of the nation’s lead-
ing gay-rights organization.

The other senator opposing
Hormel’s appointment is Republican
James Inhofe of Oklahoma.

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WASHINGTON — President Clinton
has endorsed expanding the defini-
tion of hate crimes.

The president says he sup-
ports a plan by Sens. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., and Arlen Spec-
ter, R-Pa., to expand current hate
crime laws to make it illegal to injure
someone because he or she is gay,
disabled, or a member of the oppo-
site sex.

“All Americans deserve protec-
tion from hate,”Clinton said at the first
White House Conference on Hate
Crimes. “We should make our current
laws tougher to include all hate crimes
that cause physical harm."

According to Justice Depart-
ment statistics, of the 8,759 hate
crimes reported last year, sexual ori-
entalion was a factor in 12 percent.
Race was in the lead, accounting for
63 percent of all reports.

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WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton be-
came the first sitting president ever
to address a gay and lesbian civil
rights group when he keynoted the
Human Rights Campaign's annual
dinner.

The president urged Congress
to pass legislation protecting gays and
lesbians from workplace discrimina-
tion. And he also lobbied for the con-
firmation of Bill Lann Lee, his em-
battled nominee to head the Justice
Department's civil rights division.

Clinton said the nation must
open its arms to all its citizens.

“We have to broaden the
imagination of America," he said.

“What counts is energy and
honesty and talent. No arbitrary dis-
linction should bar the way,” Clinton
said. “When we deny opportunity be-
cause of ancestry or religion, race or
gentler, disability or sexual orientation,
we break the compact. It is wrong and
it should be illegal.”

WASHINGTON —Vermont’s Senator
James Jeffords is pressing his legis-
lation that would end discrimination
against gays and lesbians in the work-
place.

The so-called Employment
Non-Discrimination Act was the sub-
ject of a major hearing before the
Senate Labor and Human Resources
Committee, which Jeffords chairs.

The panel heard testimony
about people who were blocked from
job promotions or were fired for their
homosexuality. .

Jeffords said he modified he
bill before he introduced it this year to
address concerns raised last year,
when it lost by a single vote, that it
would clog the courts with new law-
suits, give gays preferential treatment
or force companies to send the gov-
ernment statistics on the sexual ori-
enfation of their employees.

“The bill now prohibits the
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportu-
nity Commission) from collecting such
statistics and from compelling employ-
ers to do so,” Jeffords said.

A study released by Congress’
General Accounting Office found that
discrimination lawsuits havenot in-
creased significantly in the 11 states,
including Vermont, that have passed
their own anti-discrimination laws.

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CINCINNATI — A federal appeals
court has given the city of Cincinnati
freedom to discriminate against gays
and lesbians.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmeda ruling allowing Cin-
cinnati to implment a 1993 voter—ap—
proved city charter amendment bar-
ring enactment or enforcement of any
law_aimed at ending bias based on
sexual orientation.

The U.S. Supreme Court had
ordered the appeals court to recon-
sider its decision based on last year’s
case throwing out Co|orado‘s anti-gay
rights initiative.

The lawyer representing gay
rights advocates who sued Cincinnati
said the case was based on “very spe-
cious reasoning.”

“This is a renegade decision
approving a clone of the Colorado
ballot measure thrown out by the Su-
preme Court,” said Patricia Logue, a
Chicago attorney for the Lambda Le-
gal Defense and Education Fund.

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SEATTLE — Voters in Washington
refused to extend workplace protec-
tions to gays and lesbians.

An initiative on the November

ballot in Washington asked voters .

whether anti-discrimination provisions
covering the job should be extended
to gays.

The proposal would have pre-
vented employers from making hiring
and promotion decisions based on a
persons sexual orientation.

But the measure failed, along
with four other citizen initiatives on the
Washington ballot.