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University Daily Kansan, April 3, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Special prosecutor named for Meese financial inquiry
WASHINGTON — Washington lawyer Jacob A. Stein was named as special prosecutor yesterday to probe the financial dealings of Edwin Meese and charges of cronyism that had blocked his confirmation as attorney general.
Acting on a request from Attorney General William French Smith, a special three-judge court named Stein as an "independent counsel" under the Ethics in Government Act to investigate whether Meese violated any criminal law.
President Reagan has nominated Meese, a longtime friend and now White House counselor, to succeed Smith as the head of the Justice Department and the nation's top legal official.
Stein, 59, was given the authority to "investigate any allegation or evidence of violation of any federal criminal law by Mr. Meese developed during the independent counsel's investigation."
Stein defended Kenneth Parkinson, a lawyer for Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President who stood trial for the Watergate coverup, which inspired passage of the Ethics in Government Act. Parkinson was acquitted.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan told Congress yesterday that he was committed to the development of a satellite-killer system and that he had ruled out any new negotiations with the Kremlin to ban such futuristic space-age weaponry.
Reagan wants satellite-killer system
In a 16-page report to Congress, Reagan said that "significant difficulties of verification" and the broad range of technology that could be used to disable or destroy satellites in orbit stand in the way of effective arms control initiatives in space.
The president also underscored the need for a capability to destroy Soviet satellites that now track U.S. forces around the world and would be used to target them for attack in the event of war.
Sikh gunmen kill leader in India
NEW DELHI, India — Sikh gunmen killed an opposition leader yesterday in the northern city of Amritsar, sparking rioting by members of rival religious groups, officials said.
The federal government sent in troops and imposed a 48-hour curfew in the Nikhs' holy city. 225 miles northwest of New Delhi.
The violence pushed to 118 the number of people killed since Feb. 14 in religious clashes and terrorist attacks in Punjab state, Haryana state and New Delhi.
Officials said the latest clashes broke out after two Sikh gunmen opened fire on a shop in Amritsar owned by Harbans Lal Khanna, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The attack killed him, his bodyguard and a customer.
Senate rejects Salvadoran aid cuts
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday rejected, 63 to 25, a move by Sen. Edward Kennedy to reduce emergency military aid to El Salvador from $62 million to $21 million.
A vote also was expected on an amendment by Sen. John Melcher, D-Monl., to trim the amount to $35.4 million, but that move also was expected to be defeated.
Canada, U.S. battle over sea border
Sen. Bob Kasten, R-Wis., arguing against the cuts, said that the recent presidential election in El Salvador had been successful but that the effect of the election would be blunted if the United States lessened its support.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Canada and the United States faced each other yesterday for the first time at the world's highest court to settle a dispute over the sea border of the Georges Bank fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine.
Canadian Justice Minister Mark MacGuiguan, opened his country's case before a panel of five judges in a chandeliered chamber of the International Court of Justice.
International Court of Justice
At issue is Georges Bank, a rich fishing ground off the northeast coast of the United States and south of the international border in the Gulf of Maine, which is claimed by Washington.
Bomb blasts cause blackout in Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile — Three-fourths of Chile's population went without electricity yesterday after nine simultaneous bomb blasts destroyed high-tension towers in the latest of a series of anti-government attacks, police said.
The blackouts followed mass demonstrations against the military government last week that left six people dead. A bomb detonated under a passing police bus late Friday, killing a police colonel and injuring more than a dozen policemen and passers-by.
Florida iurv recommends life term
MILTON, Fla. — A jury recommended yesterday that Judi Buenoano be sentenced to life in prison for drowning her paralyzed son to collect $100.000 in life insurance money.
The jury deliberated about $1 \frac{1}{2}$ hours before recommending that Judge George Lowrey sentence the 40-year-old mother of three to life in prison.
Lowrey, under Florida law, is not bound by the jury's recommendation. He scheduled final sentencing for June 6.
The jury found Buenoano guilty Saturday of poisoning her 19-year-old paralyzed son, Michael, and drowning him on a 1980 canoe trip by dumping him overboard. He was wearing metal leg braces and had no life jacket.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 4-3-84
Locally, today will be cloudy and cool with a 40 percent chance of showers and a high in the mid-40s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Today rain will fall in the Southeast, the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and the upper Pacific coast states.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low in the low 30s.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy won a low in the low 50s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer with a high around 50.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansan incorrectly reported Thursday and Friday the charges filed Wednesday in Douglas County District Court against Shannon Brooks, 1515 Engel Road. Brooks was charged with one count of forgery.
Nicaraguan rebels mine main waterway
By United Press International
Nicaraguan rebels said yesterday that they mined a 36-mile stretch of Lake Nicaragua, the country's largest inland waterway, expanding a campaign to halt water traffic in which 12 ships have struck mines in three ocean ports.
"Rafael Hasun has fallen victim to assassins' bullets, enemies of El Salvador and the enemies of liberty," an ARENA statement published in a local newspaper said.
Voice of Sandino, the clandestine radio station of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, or ARDE, which opposes the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, said the 90-mile-long Lake Nicaragua was mined "from the mouth of the river Sapoa to the town of Colon" a distance of about 30 miles.
In Guatemala, leftist rebels yesterday fired mortars on buildings housing the former army officers training school in a fashionable section of Guatemala City, causing serious damages but no injuries, an army
"Iake Nicaragua has been mined and is a war zone that is dangerous for civilian shipping." Voice of Sandino said. It warned civilians "not to travel these waters so that an unnecessary loss of human life can be avoided."
In El Salvador, the far-right ARENA party condemned the "cowardly assassination" of a top adviser to presidential candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, the fifth rightist politician slain in recent months by suspected guerrillas.
Colon is on the southern shore of the lake on a narrow strip of Nicaragua land that borders Costa Rica. The
Most shipping on Lake Nicaragua carries domestically consumed food and merchandise.
Rio Sapo empties into the lake in southwestern Nicaragua, forming part of the border with Costa Rica.
Twelve vessels have struck mines in three ocean ports mined by ARDE and the Honduran-based Nicaragua Democratic Force since March.
"(A) the old Polytechnic School, where they keep Defense Ministry records, two mortar shells landed in offices and another in a courtyard. Others damaged Roberto Pieroiri. Dominguez told a news conference.
Guatemalan army spokesman Francisco Djalma Dominguez said that the attack on the heavily guarded former Polytechnic School, which was used to train the Army in computer skills, led to the Organization of People in Arms, known as ORPA.
Court will consider 'moment of silence' case
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether the Constitution allows a "moment of silence" for quiet prayer or meditation in public schools.
At the same time, the high court unanimously overturned an Alabama law allowing public school teachers to lead students in spoken prayer. The court ruled that such sponsored prayer from public schools 22 years ago.
The justices' agreement to consider the constitutionality of a "moment of silence" for public school students gave hope to school-prayer advocates, who failed last month to persuade Congress to pass
A moment of silence — allowed by 24 states including Alabama — provides students with a chance to pray, mourn, and remember.
The justices will hear arguments on the issue this fall from the state of Alabama and its Mobile County school board. The state and the county school board must decide whether the ruling that invalidated the minute-of-silence statute.
constitutional amendments making prayer part of the school day.
The administration supported Alabama's bid for review of the question, arguing that "permitting children to maintain a moment of silence presents no objection to the Constitution's bar against state aid to religion.
the federal appeals court in Atlanta struck down
Alabama's moment-of-science law as well as its statute allowing teachers to lead students in prayer
In other action yesterday, the justices agreed to decide whether the government must give a reputed New Jersey mobster documents regarding investigations of him
But they refused to aid author Emma Lee Paul in her copyright infringement suit against Alex Haley, author of "Roots."
The court also:
Surge in construction is largest since 1946 boom
- handed down a 9-0 decision bolstering the government's power to investigate charges of discrimination by employers.
- voted 7-2 that drug enforcement agents do not need search warrants to inspect packages suspected of毒品
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Commerce Department reported yesterday the biggest explosion of construction since the post-World War II building boom, and said builders spent 6.9 percent more on labor and materials in February.
The surge was exceptionally strong for office buildings, single-family houses and apartment buildings as well as highway and street projects, the target of last year's additional nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax.
Even after adjustment for inflation, the latest increase was 6.8 percent in volume.
The 6.9 percent increase from January was the biggest one-month jump since the 8.1 percent gain in April 1946, during a period when building rebounded after the war, department spokesmen Adren Cooper said.
The department's survey of construction spending follows most of the
largest projects in the country and samples many of the smaller ones.
The incremental progress in the enormous amount of construction spending under way at any one time usually produces unremarkable adjustments in the annual rate from month to month.
"It's an excellent number overall, much stronger than what I had hoped for," said economist Michael Sumrall of the National Association of Home Builders.
New private construction generated February spending at an annual rate of $242.8 billion, 7.8 percent above January.
But the 15.5 percent increase in office building construction to an annual rate of 20 per cent is due to
Public construction reached $22.2 billion, 2.3 percent above the previous month.
Single-family house construction was up 5.9 percent while apartment construction gained 3.3 percent.
Congressman is guilty of hiding his finances
WASHINGTON — A federal court jury found Rep. George Hansen, R-Idaho, guilty yesterday on all four counts of filing false financial disclosures by omitting an $87,000 silver profit and loans involving Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt.
By United Press International
The jury deliberated just three hours before finding Hansen guilty, making him the first congressman convicted under the Ethics and Government Act of 1895 of election law violations.
Hansen said that "until the appeals process is complete, I still consider myself innocent, and I consider myself innocent anyway."
"I'm a bit bloodied but unbowed." Hansen told reporters outside the federal building last night.
The Idaho Republican could re-
Hansen's lawyer, Nathan Lewin,
said that he would immediately ask
for a new trial on the grounds that
errors were made in the proceedings.
Judge Joyce Hens Green gave him
a deadline of April 30 to do so,
and Judge Allison will have
until May. 14 to reply, and
the judge said that she would not
sentence Hansen until after she
rules on those two motions.
Hansen's wife, Connie, 50, and his younger daughter, Joanne, 23, a White House employee, were in the courtroom when the verdict was delivered. Neither showed any emotion.
celeva a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each of four counts in the indictment for April 1983 by a federal grand jury
Hansen, a 33-year-old conservative, was charged with filing false financial disclosure statements from 1978 through 1981.
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