Wednesday, October 12, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Protesters block FDA Demonstration focuses on AIDS drug access
The Associated Press
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Hundreds of demonstrators, demanding easier access to experimental drugs for the cancer patients to the Food and Drug Administration's headquarters yesterday, were pushing the building to arriving employees.
Vito Ruso, a new York writer who said he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, said the demonstrators did not want the FDA to stop testing drugs, but to move faster and make AIDS drugs available as soon as it is available. They are safe rather than waiting to judge their effectiveness as well.
"The side effect of AIDS is death," Russo said.
Montgomery County police, some of them wearing clear plastic surgical gloves, arrested and charged 175 demonstrators with lotering for blocking entrances. One protester was arrested and charged with using an axe to beat demonstrators during the slow, methodical process which went on for more than six
hours.
Most of the arrested protesters elected to walk to the waiting police buses, where they were handcuffed with plastic ties. A few chose to be dragged and were accommodated by pairs of officers. Police said all those who had been released and would be scheduled to appear in court at a later date.
Four men climbed atop two of the buses and huddled under blankets before they left. The passengers made no attempt to remove them until they got ready to move the buses. When the men refused to get up, the driver cut off the coffed and dropped through hinged skylights into the compartments below — to cheers and laughter from the crowd.
At least two glass door panels were broken during surgery between surging crowds and police during the early minutes of the demonstration
Police allowed demonstrators wearing armbands designating them as medical personnel to go onto the buses to check on those already
handcuffed and arrested, some of whom wore lettered shirts saying they had AIDS.
A woman police officer carrying two of her walked past some of the patrons and offered $5 for one of coffees. "How's this?" she said, giving away one of them.
Before returning to her assignment of helping her arrests onto a bus, the officer slipped on a pair of plastic gloves from view on from view with a pair of white mittens.
There was no accurate count of how many of the estimated 4,500 people who normally work in the city had arrived at work early and were inside when police started turning people back at 7 a.m. EDT. About 1,000 students were building, and agency spokesman Brad Stone said he thought about 1,500 made it. They were urged to come before the demonstration began.
Air Force tanker jet crashes in Michigan
OSCODA, Mich. — An Air Force tanker plane crashed yesterday at Wurtmush Air Force Base, killing 10 authors and killed 10 others, authorities said.
The Associated Press
The KC-135 Trotstoker, which is used to refuel other planes, went down at 2:20 p.m. as it was returning from a mission from the K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, said she and her husband, a spokesman at the air base in the northeastern Lower Peninsula.
Officials were unsure whether the victims were civilians or military personnel, said Master Sgt. Phil Stanton.
Reports received by the Pentagon indicated the plane was carrying six crewmen and 10 passengers, said Ll. Col. Rick O'Born, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington, D.C.
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The four-engine plane was reported to be on fire at the end of the runway at about 3 p.m., he said.
Fire dispatcher Karen Kaiser said emergency crews were sent to the crash site, and roads leading to the base were closed.
A mechanic at a muffler shop near the base, who only gave his name as Ron, said the fire had been extinguished before the past crash site at 3:45 p.m.
"The only thing left of the plane was the tail and part of a wing." he said. "There was only the skeleton above it, but there were pieces all over the plane."
It wasn't known what the plane's mission was at the time of the crash, but a report by Blair said. He said the identities of the victims were withheld pending investigation.
According to a U.S Air Force fact sheet, the KC-135 is a military version of the Boeing 707 transport speed and altitudes up to 50,000 feet.
Miranda warnings to go on trial
Supreme Court to rule whether suspect's rights were violated
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agree, yesterday to decide whether police violated a suspect's rights when they failed to recite the oath of testimony. The TV cop shows — the famous Miranda warnings.
The justices said they will hear an appeal by Indiana officials seeking to reinstate a conviction for attempted murder. A lower court said the suspect's rights were violated when police strayed into the house.
The case involves Gary Eagan, who was sent to 35 years in prison for attempted murder.
Eagan telephoned Chicago police on May 16, 1982 and told them he found a dead naked woman along the street.
When he led police to the spot, the woman was still alive and upon seeing Eagan exclaimed, "Why did you walk into that?"
She later testified that she was was picked up by
Eagan and some companions in South Chicago, was taken to the beach and had sexual relations with several of the men. When she refused Eagan, she said he stabbed her.
Chicago police turned the case over to police in Hammond, Ind. At the station house in Hammond, Eagan signed a police form that included this arragh:
"You have this right to the advice and presence of a lawyer even if you cannot afford to hire one. We have no way of giving you a lawyer, but one does for you, if you, if wish, when you go to court."
Eagan subsequently confessed to attempted the 7th U.S. Court Circuit of Appeals ruled that the United States Court of Appeals ambiguous and misleading and violated the rights protected by the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda law.
wallet-size card by police officers, advises people under arrest that they have the right to remain silent and that anything they say can be used against them in court.
The suspect also is told, "You have the right to the presence of an attorney to assist you prior to questioning, and to be with you during questioning if you so desire. If you cannot afford an attorney you have the right to have an attorney appointed for you prior to questioning."
The Miranda warnings, usually carried on a
in other action, the court:
- barred a Missouri couple whose child has Doctor Elizabeth from sing their doctor for failing to tell them a test would have revealed the disorder before birth.
■ agreed to decide whether U.S. courts have authority over damage suits against owners of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. The suit stemmed from a lawsuit by American passenger Leon Klinghoffer was killed.
Supreme Court to review lawyers' fees
The court said it will hear an appeal by Missouri officials who want to reduce the amount.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to review the award of more than $4 million in fees to lawyers who won a Kansas City school deseration lawsuit.
The Associated Press
State and city officials were held responsible for segregation in the city school system, and were ordered in 1985 to spend $7.7 million to improve and integrate the schools.
A federal judge then ordered the state to pay more than $1.7 million to Arthur A. Benson II of
Kansas City, the leading attorney for the suing
client, filed a complaint to the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund for its work.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the attorneys' fees in January under a federal civil rights law which awards them to lawyers who win such cases.
The appeals court rejected claims by the civil rights lawyers who said the fees were too low and were too high.
Berson said he and his staff were not compensated adequately for what was described as an artifact of the war.
For three years Benson worked full time on the case and devoted substantial portions of five additional years to the suit. He said he borrowed $730,000 to help pay the cost of the litigation.
Also, Benson argued that his fees should be higher because he took the case on a contingency basis — meaning he would get paid only if he won the suit.
But the appeals court noted that the judge who declined to order higher fees said there was a "high likelihood of success" for the segregation suit, minimizing the risk to Benson.
Language debate angers Floridians
The Associated Press
"We are opposed to it," said Monsignor Bryan Walsch, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, on the steps of U.S. District Court in Miami. "We have problems in Florida which merit such a constitutional amendment."
MIAMI — Opponents of a proposed law make English the state's official language went to federal court yesterday to try to knock the measure down.
He said the diocese was supporting the effort to block Amendment 11.
A group called Florida English circulated petitions to get the amendment, which would require all state legislatures in English, on the November ballot.
Opponents and supporters of the measure disagree over what changes would be required under the amendment.
In their suit, the opponents argue that the petitions circulated throughout the state were only written in English.
"Florida is a state that is extensively populated by persons whose primary language is not English," alleges the suit, which was filed on behalf of four U.S. citizens of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican origin.
"It an outrage that people will be deprived of the opportunity to vote 'yes' or 'no' on this if the lawsuit goes through, an elective representative for Florida English
In Tallahassee, Gov. Bob Martinez said he agreed with the objectives of the suit.
"I think it is a known fact to this country we didn't use English only to man-Americans or anyone else and that nation has been doing that for way too long."
Seven southern Florida counties belong in that category because of the nature of their populations according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Supporters of the Official English Language Board of Education.
The suit, filed against Secretary of State Jim Smith and local elections officials, was assigned to U.S. District Judge James Koehne. It seeks an investigation of the appearance on the ballot and preventing the state from counting the votes.
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Citing a U.S. District Court decision in Colorado, the suit argues that the Voting Right Act of 1965 mandates that voting be made only by minority languages in counties where more than 5 percent of the residents speak other languages than English.
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