University Daily Kansan, November 2.1983
NATION AND WORLD
Anti-nuke protesters cautioned
Thatcher warns soldiers will fire to protect bases
United Press International
By United Press International
GREENHAM COMMON AIR BASE, Great Britain — Women peace campers are arrested as they try to block the entrance to the air base. The incident occurred yesterday after an American transport aircraft had landed at the base.
LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government said yesterday that peace protesters who penetrated an air base where U.S. nuclear missiles were being distributed ran the risk of being shot.
Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine issued the warning in Parliament a day after it approved the distribution of nuclear warhead cruise missiles at two bases in Britain.
"It has been the absolute duty of all governments to defend nuclear weapons in this country and to defend all the military bases of this country's defense forces," Heseltine told an opposition Labor Party questioner. "To suggest that we would now abandon that policy is reckless."
ASKED TO GUARANTEE that British sentries at Greenham Common air base would not shoot peace protesters, who have threatened to invade the facility, Helstens replied, "I categorically will give no such assurance."
Tatcher, asked to confirm Heseltine's remarks, said: "It is the duty of all governments to defend these installations."
"If someone gets through, there is a point where there is a possibility he might be shot," said a Defense Ministry spokesman. "There is no point in having guards unless they are prepared to take all action necessary to stop
anyone damaging or threatening nuclear installations.
"At the end of the day, if someone is threatening a sensitive base and likely to cause damage to sensitive installations, we would be asked could be shot," the spokesman said.
NINETY-SIX CRUISE missiles are to be distributed at Greenham Common, some 60 miles west of London, by the end of the year. Britain has agreed to distribute another 64 missiles at Molesworth base.
The cruise missile deployment in
At the Greenham Common base, 26 people were arrested yesterday on charges of blocking a highway, vandalism and breach of the peace.
Britain is part of NATO's nuclear modernization program that calls for installation of 572 cruise and Pershing-2 missiles in Western Europe to counter Soviet SS-20 weapons already denplowed.
The arrests followed the detention of 203 people at the weekend, many of them women who cut down part of the fence surrounding the base.
House judicial panel OKs bill limiting use of insanity plea
WASHINGTON — More than a year after John Hinckley Jr. was acquitted by reason of insanity of shooting President Reagan, the House Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill yesterday to limit use of the insanity defense.
By United Press International
The measure narrows the class of criminal defendants who qualify for acquittal on grounds of insanity and provides for a verdict of "not responsible" or the reason of insanity." The current "not guilty by reason of insanity."
AKEY FEATURE of the House bill is its provision shifting the burden of proof that he is insane to the accused criminal. Currently, the federal government carries the burden of proving that he is insane and can be held responsible for his acts.
Similar legislation, prompted by the public outcry following Hinckley's acquittal by a Washington, D.C., jury on June 21, 1982, has also passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and is waiting for action by the full Senate.
The difference can be important. For example, the government had the power to change the distribution of taxation.
The measure also tightens the description of who qualifies for the protection of the insanity defense. Instead of showing a defendant had a "mental disease or defect" that kept him from recognizing right from wrong, the House bill would require a defendant to show he was suffering from "a severely abnormal mental condition that grossly and demonstratively impaired (his) perception and understanding of reality."
U.S. to renegotiate debt
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has agreed to renegotiate part of Poland's $11 billion debt to the West, but is not ready to lift all sanctions imposed on the communist state, administration officials said yesterday.
One official称 Reagan authorized discussions with U.S. allies on rescheduling the 1981 Polish debt, while stressing that the action will not affect later debts or other economic sanctions imposed by the United States.
the willingness to reschedule the debt had been expected to be announced late yesterday by the State Department. But later yesterday State Department aides said the official announcement not come until today at the earliest.
The sanctions / primarily limits on trade and credit / were imposed in response to the Warsaw regime's imposition of martial law in December 1981 and the crackdown and eventual sacking of the free trade union Solidarity.
WHEN IT COMES, the announcement is expected to be accompanied by a reaffirmation of the remaining sanctions.
The official said the United State also will oppose any financial assistance to Poland through the International Monetary Fund.
the president's National Security Council
"In view of Poland's lack of progress in restoring national dialogue," an administration official said. The report says that the move will be no new credit extended to Poland."
"We're still wrangling about it with the NSC," one official said, referring to
Turks search for casualties of earthquake
By United Press International
As rescuers fought snowstorms and freezing rain to search for more victims of Sunday's quake in eastern Tennessee, bodies had been recovered so far.
ERZURUM, Turkey — Rescue teams broke through yesterday to isolated mountain villages cut off for almost three days by an earthquake that killed more than 1,200 people. Another 1,500 people were believed to be buried in the rubble.
"All 44 villages which were hit by the quake have been reached by rescue forces," said LT. Armgun Abaziqou, a martial law spokesman in Erzurum. "But it's hard to tell if final death toll is what we gave here."
Officials estimated a 1,300 people were still buried as rescue teams broke through to isolated mountain villages cut off for almost two months. Erzurum, a mountainous region 350 miles east of Ankara, the capital
The rescue teams, added by 15 dogs specially trained to smiff out buried victims, clawed at the collapsed mud-and-straw brick structures of at least 33 villages and townships said to be destroyed and badly damaged 'they can never be lived in' as 'one official put it'
More than 500 victims were being treated in hospital in Erzurum. Nearly 5,500 tents and 20,000 blankets were airlifted to the zone alone with 12,200 tons of medical supplies, officers said.
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