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DATE: FRIDAY, May 7, 1993                   TAG: 9305070010
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SENATOR WINS FIGHT AGAINST INSIGNIA

A Senate committee bowed to the nation's first black woman senator Thursday and killed legislation to extend the patent on the 95-year-old insignia of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-3 against renewing the design patent after Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Ill., objected that the insignia bears the image of a Confederate flag.

"We should not as a nation, as a Congress, give our imprimatur to a symbol that is so inflammatory, that is so divisive and that is so painful to so many people," Moseley-Braun said.

- Associated Press 


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