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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 6, 1992
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East German guards convicted
A judge yesterday convicted and then freed two former East German border guards who shot up to 30 bullets into a young man who tried to vault the Berlin Wall in 1984.
Defendant Uwe Hapke told Judge Ingeborg Temperwin of Berlin Regional Court that he was a product of his Stalinist upbringing.
The trial was the second of its kind since German unification, and its ambiguous outcome reflected the growing dilemma over who to blame for East Germany's crimes.
The case is part of a trickle of investigations into various Communist crimes that is finally reaching, and threatening to flood, countless German courtrooms.
Temperwin ruled that Hapke, 30, and codefendant Udo Walther, 27, were guilty of manslaughter in the Dec. 1, 1894, death of Horst-Michael Schmidt. The judge then suspended both sentences.
Algiers, Algeria Deaths reach eight in civil strife
Clashes erupted for a second day yesterday outside a courthouse in eastern Algeria after a Muslim cleric was sentenced to prison. Eight people have died and scores have been injured.
In Aligiers, 3,000 university students, including women wearing traditional veils, attended a service they carried a coffin meant to symbolize the death of their friend. ousted President Chadii Bendibt last month
A five-man committee took power after Bendjedi's departure, canceling a runoff in national elections that the Islamic Salvation Front was expected to win easily.
The violence in Batna, a city of 200,000 about 270 miles east of Algiers, has been the worst in a three-week national crackdown on the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front. Six people died in Batna on Tuesday and two died yesterday, state radio said.
United Nations U.N. getting tougher with Iraq
The Security Council increased pressure on Iraq yesterday, renewing its commitment to punishing sanctions and hinting that it might threaten further military action.
In a bimonthly review of sanctions imposed on Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait, the 15-member council decided to keep in place an 18-month-old treaty which all trade with Saddam Hussein's government.
Iraq has appealed repeatedly for an end to the sanctions, but the council pointed to Saddam's baggery and noncooperation with the world community.
Diplomats suggested that tougher action — possibly including a threat of military force — could be taken if Iraq does not fully cooperate with the war effort, chemical and biological weapons facilities.
"Stand by for further news," U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering said after chairing a closed-door council meeting.
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'Suicide doctor' held on two murder counts
Associated Press
PONTIAC, Mich. — Dr. Jack Kevorkian was arraigned on two murder charges yesterday in the deaths of two women who used his suicide machines after saying they could no longer bear their chronic illnesses.
Kevorkian's lawyer predicted that the charges would be dismissed. He noted that no change had been made in Michigan law since 1990, when Kevorkian helped an Alzheimer's patient inject herself with a fatal dose of drugs. A first-degree murder charge in that case was dismissed.
"There is no crime of assisting suicide in Michigan," Geoffrey Fieger, Kevorkian's lawyer, told Oakland County Circuit Judge
Richard Kuhn at a hearing. "Doctor Kevorkian assisted those two ladies. That is not a crime."
The new charges stem from the Oct. 23 deaths of Sherry Mill, 43 of Roseville, and Marjorie Wantz, 58, of Sodus. They were found dead in a cabin north of Detroit, hooked to devices invented by Kevorkian. One of his machines provided a lethal injection, and the other erupted a lethal gas.
Shortly before their deaths, the women made a video in which they described their pain and their wish to die.
Miller suffered from multiple sclerosis, and Wantz was afflicted with a chronic pelvic disease. Neither illness was terminal.
A medical examiner ruled that their deaths were homicides, not suicides.
Kuhn set bail at $5,000 on each murder count and ordered Kevorkian to refrain from assisting any more would-be suicides. Kevorkian was released after posting the required 10 percent bail.
The charges, which included one count of delivery of a controlled substance, were issued Monday by an Oakland County grand jury. They were kept secret until after Kevorkian's arrest yesterday.
County prosecutor Richard Thompson said, in announcing the indictments, that he had to prosecute Kevorkian after the medical examiner announced his ruling.
Kevorkian, 63, a retired pathologist, was arrested while walking near his Royal Oak home.
Coast Guard halts Haiti deportations
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard temporarily halted the repatriation of Haitian refugees yesterday at the request of the Haitian government but will resume the program today. U.S. officials said.
The officials, asking not to be identified, said Haitian authorities asked for the delay on grounds they could not assimilate large numbers of refugees at one time. Haiti agreed to resume the repatriations after consultation with U.S. diplomats.
According to the officials, two Coast Guard cutters with 508 Haitians aboard were halted just outside the country's territorial waters while the two governments worked out the agreement.
Since the ban on repatriating Haitians was lifted Friday, 381 refugees have been returned. More than 15,000 Haitians have been picked up by Coast Guard cutters since the exodus of Haitians began last fall
Marlin Fitzwater. White House representative,
said Haitian officials had backed for a election.
"We do want to repatriate in a way that is the most
effective possible," said Fitzwater.
He said there hadn't been any evidence of any retribution against the Haitians sent back to their homeland.
The repatriation program has received sharpterism from human rights and refugee groups on grounds that returning Haitians may be subject to persecution, impoverishment or both. Officials said there was no evidence any of the returned Haitians had been mistreated.
Legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate to halt the reparations. The House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee was scheduled later to consider legislation to impose a six-month moratorium on the forced returns.
Sen. Edward Kennedy,D-Mass., is seeking Senate action this week on his bill to suspend repatriations until Feb. 21.
"Reports of continuing violence and threats of violence in Haiti in recent weeks require us to give temporary protection to all Haitians unwilling to return at this time," Kennedy said in a statement.
Irish Protestants kill five in bombing
The Associated Press
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Protestant extremists raked a crowded betting shop with gunfire yesterday, killing five people and wounding nine others in what they called revenge for IRA violence.
The attack on the Roman Catholic gamblers raised the number of dead in political and sectarian violence to 12 this week, one of the grimmest in the province in years.
City residents were still absorbing news of Tuesday's shotgun attack by a distraught police officer on the offices of Sinn Fein, the legal political party that supports the outlawed Irish Republican
Army. The officer killed three Catholics and later took his own life.
Yesterday two women walked into the Sean Graham's betting shop in Belfast about 2:20 p.m. and opened fire with an assault rifle and handgun before making their escape. Police said the gunmen killed five people and injured nine.
Residents ran from nearby pubs when they heard the shots and screams. They said that the shop floor was carpeted with blood, bodies and the cartridges of spent bullets. Mothers and siblings of the dead were pulled away, crying and shaking.
The Rev. Anthony McHugh, a
Catholic priest, administered last rites.
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