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DI April 18 University of Iowa RIVERFEST 1988 in conjunction with CHICANO/INDIAN AMERICAN STUDENT UNION present 20TH CENTURY SPANISH-AMERICAN POETRY READING (in Spanish) Directed by Prof. Julio Duran-Cerda MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1988 7:00 PM SOUTH ROOM, IMU Co-sponsors: A.D.E.L.A., "Los Bailadores Zapatistas," Sigma Lambda Beta, U.I. Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee Court overturns ruling on sacred Indian forestland [[End header]] Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON-- The Supreme Court, backing away from its once staunch protection f rights of religious minorities, ruled Tuesday that the government need not bend its rules or alter its plans to accommodate a citizen's practice of his religion. On a 5-3 vote, the court overturned a lower-court ruling and said the federal government could build a logging road through a California forest that was considered sacred land by Indians. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor conceded that the road "could have a devastating effect on traditional Indian religious practices" because tribal burial sites would be disturbed. But that harm to religious practice need not deter the government, she said. "However much we might wish it were otherwise, government simply could not operate if it were required to satisfy every citizen's religious needs and desires," O'Connor wrote for the court. DI April 20, 1988
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DI April 18 University of Iowa RIVERFEST 1988 in conjunction with CHICANO/INDIAN AMERICAN STUDENT UNION present 20TH CENTURY SPANISH-AMERICAN POETRY READING (in Spanish) Directed by Prof. Julio Duran-Cerda MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1988 7:00 PM SOUTH ROOM, IMU Co-sponsors: A.D.E.L.A., "Los Bailadores Zapatistas," Sigma Lambda Beta, U.I. Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee Court overturns ruling on sacred Indian forestland [[End header]] Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON-- The Supreme Court, backing away from its once staunch protection f rights of religious minorities, ruled Tuesday that the government need not bend its rules or alter its plans to accommodate a citizen's practice of his religion. On a 5-3 vote, the court overturned a lower-court ruling and said the federal government could build a logging road through a California forest that was considered sacred land by Indians. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor conceded that the road "could have a devastating effect on traditional Indian religious practices" because tribal burial sites would be disturbed. But that harm to religious practice need not deter the government, she said. "However much we might wish it were otherwise, government simply could not operate if it were required to satisfy every citizen's religious needs and desires," O'Connor wrote for the court. DI April 20, 1988
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