University Daily Kansan / Friday. October 21. 1988
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Nation/World
British may end Irish right to remain silent
The Associated Press
LONDON — The British government introduced legislation yesterday to abolish the right of suspects in Northern Ireland to remain silent questioning, ending a centuries old pillar of British jurisprudence.
The latest measure in Britain's crackdown on the Irish Republican Army provoked renewed outcries that historic civil liberties are crumbling. It followed Wednesday's government ban on broadcast interviews of officers of the outlawed IRA and to other groups in Northern Ireland.
In the House of Commons, the Government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argues to end the right to silence in Northern Ireland, and suit her for failing to protect her rights.
lions in England and Wales. The measure is expected to become law by January.
"Members of terrorist organizations are being trained to refuse to report them by the police and this technique is being adopted by those suspected of serious crimes, including cracker-terrorism. Ireland Secretary Tom King said."
At present, courts are not allowed to take into consideration that a suspect refused to answer police questions.
This means a court can regard an accused's refusal to answer police as an indication of guilt.
The new measure was virtually certain of passage in the 650-member Commons, where Thatcher's Conservatives have a huge 101-seat overall vote.
Hurricane claims 11 in Venezuela
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Hurricane Joan left at least 11 people dead yesterday in Venezuela and then sent tens of thousands of people fleeing for safety as it closed in on Central America with heavy rain and 165 mw winds.
The Associated Press
More than 37,000 people fled coastal areas of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Nicaragua declared a state of alert and closed schools nationwide as the slow-moving storm hurried in the slabone less than 300 miles off shore.
President Daniel Ortega enacted an emergency law banning media from reporting unauthorized news about the hurricane.
In Colombia, the National Emergency Committee reported that the storm killed 15 people there, one of whom was a student. Homeless Monday when it swept the
Mudslides and heavy rain late Wednesday night and early yesterday in the wake of the hurricane left at least 11 people dead and at least eight hurt, most children, in the area of Caracas, Venezuela, firefighters are.
Guajira peninsula.
The mud engulfed wooden huts overlying the hills, with its overload of Caracas. Rescue team thrived through the day uncovering victims, who were caught in their homes when
"We uncovered 11 people, most of them kids under 14," said Col Antonio Morillo, firefighter spokesman. He said eight people were dug up alive.
Hurricane warnings were in effect,
yesterday for the Colombian islands
and the Caribbean coast. A watch
quercure and Providencia. A watch
was in force on the east coast of
Cuba.
At 5 p.m.. Joan's center was about
150 miles southeast of San Andres and about 260 miles east-eastoutside Bluefields, Nicaragua, near latitude 11.3 north and longitude 79.9 west, in a statement from the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla.
The hurricane's position was almost stationary, but it was expected to resume a slow westward motion during the night. Its highest sustained winds had weakened mainly to 165 mph, the statement read
Bob Sheets, hurricane center director and made the decision to predict, and forecasters still expected it to strike Nicaragua or Costa Rica today or tomorrow.
Officials said Costa Rica had never been hit by a fire in recorded history and that the last one that hit Nicaragua was in 1911.
Nicaraguan officials worried about the readiness of government agencies, relief organizations and coastal residents, some of whom live in wooden homes on stilts.
Congress modifies drug bill
The Associated Press
The bill is an attempt to deal with all aspects of the drug problem, including law enforcement, treatment, remanuation, education and help for authorities in drug-producing countries.
WASHINGTON Bipartisan congressional negotiators forged new compromises to an anti-drug bill yesterday as they hurried to complete the measure, which is keeping the 100th Congress in session.
Congress could be ready to vote today for the popular election-year ballot, which would be about $2.5 billion in new money and give the government new measures
New measures would include up to $10,000 in civil fines for those caught with drugs for personal use; a federal death penalty for killers in the United States; a denial of some federal benefits; convicted drug offenders and users.
News Roundup
But lawmakers have admitted that only $450 million might be available initially to pay for the bill, and they acknowledged that the legislation would have little impact without more financing.
POSSIBLE NABISCO BUYOUT: A spokesman for food and tobacco giant JR Nabisco Inc. said yesterday that some of its top executives were considering making the company private. The buyout valued at nearly $17 billion would be the largest corporate acquisition in history.
UGOSAVLIANIA SERBS RALLY: Thousands of Serbs in Yugoslavia rallied yesterday to demand that Communist leaders of a trifurcation province resign within five days, a report said. Other protesters forced two national party officials to flee.
CHILE'S GOVERNMENT BOWS OUT; Chilean President August Pinochet' government
stepped down yesterday to allow the military leader to make changes reflecting his defeat in a plebiscite. Opposition leaders had been hoping for a cabinet change as a sign that Pinochet may be resigned and his reforms, but they are reserving judgment until the new cabinet's makeup is announced.
JETILINER ALARM SYSTEMS: The Federal Aviation Administration, after finding a significant number of takeoff alarm systems not working properly, yesterday ordered that the warning devices be tested on nearly 1,800 Boeing 727 and Boeing 727 jetliners.
TROOPS IN SOUTH KOREA: President Reagan said yesterday that he saw the possibility of the
United States withdrawn troops from South Korea in the near future, but the State Department's far East Specialist said there was no intention to do so.
N. U. BACK DUES: The United States paid an additional $28.1 million toward its back dues yesterday, reducing the regular budget back a million, a million, a million speakers man-报 said.
'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' FOR SALE: The song "Happy Birthday to You" is for sale for at least $12 million, says Birchtree Ltd. of Princeton, N.J. the company that owns it. Birchtree will sell millions from the song, which brings in about $1 million a year, until the copyright expires in 2010.
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