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They will learn jujitsu self- defense and confrontation-avoidance techniques and hear about the risks of meeting sexual part ners from the Internet or in public cmising areas. The course is 18 hours long, spread over six Monday nights. It is funded with a $2,700 grant from the Police Property Act Fund. P penly gay Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe was stabbed in the stomach during an all- night party Oct. 6 at City Hall. He required three hours of surgery and remains hospitalized. Delanoe is expected to make a full recovery. Several internal organs were damaged, doctors said. -2* The attacker, Azedine Berkane, told police eeds has become the third British city to set he dislikes politicians and especially homosexu up a gay partnership registry, after London als. The 39-year-old Muslim said he has strong and Manchester. religious views that homosexuality is unnatural. As in the other two cities, the Partnership ‘‘Berkane is no ayatollah, hut he is a believer, Register and Commitment Ceremony grants and he told us that his religion prohibits homo few legal rights and obligations. It is seen as sexuality,” a police officer told the Agence mostly symbolic. France-Presse wire service. “Leeds is a thriving, dynamic and forward- The Paris daily newspaper Le Monde quoted one looking city,” Councilor Angela Gabriel told of Berkane’s neighbors as saying, ‘‘He did not like the Yorkshire Post. “T he introduction of com homosexuals, and he did not care who knew it.” mitment and partnership ceremonies will add Another neighbor said: “Here, we are all to our reputation as a city that welcomes homophobic because it’s not natural. It’s against diversity and tolerance.” Islam. There are no Muslim gays.” Paris Deputy Mayor Christophe Girard ARGENTINA called Berkane “clearly a deranged he C atholic archbishop of person.” He has been placed under investigation for attempted murder. I Santa Fe reportedly has been recalled to Rome permanently after Berkanes lawyer, Anna Salabi, revelations of his sexual relation denied Oct. 9 that the stabbing was ships with young seminarians. a hate crime. Edgardo Gabriel Stom i s alleged “I understand that public opinion numerous affairs and abuses are wants to explain this distressing act, Edgardo Gabriel detailed in a new book, Our Holy but there is no rational explanation Stom i Mother. Argentine gay activists say for the attack which cannot, for the time being, be described as either a political or the church has been aware of the truth for eight years, following its own investigations, hut man homophobic act,” she told AFP. “My client is a person who speaks in an incoherent way that aged to scuttle any scandal until journalist Olga W omat’s publication appeared. reveals great distress. He is totally depressed and completely dramatizes his life. He told investiga tors he did not like homosexuals, hut 1 have the PERU feeling he is lost.” he administration of Lima’s Pontifical Catholic University has distributed to each Berkane reportedly also told police he feels student a pamphlet describing homosexuality as “persecuted by a satanic cult,” AFP reported. a curable sickness. At the time of the attack, Delanoe was par ticipating in the “Sleepless Night” festival, dur Rector Salomón Lemer Febres said the ing which museums and tourist attractions stay brochure was prepared at the request of Lima open all night and special artistic events take Archbishop Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the place throughout Paris. City Hall was playing colleges chancellor. Several student organiza host to an electronic lounge music concert. tions denounced the pamphlet and charged that the university has lost its independence from the local Catholic hierarchy. UNITED KINGDOM n Anglican network has asked incoming Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan AUSTRALIA Williams to resign even before he takes his seat ydney has its first over-the-air gay television as leader of the worldwide Anglican Commu show. DV8 airs weekly on Channel 31 with nion, which includes the Episcopal Church in what the Sydney Star O bserver called an “eclec the United States. The conservative organiza tic mix of segments and a host of roving guest tion, Reform, is composed of 1,500 prominent reporters." Anglicans, including 500 priests. Producer Craig Payne is best known for his It said Williams must step down unless he large-scale party events. The program has received O L T A S
