University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 25. 1989
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House votes for quake aid Senate expected to pass $2.85 billion package
WASHINGTON -- Acting just a week after the nation's most costly natural disaster, the House yesterday voted to speed $2.85 billion in earthquake-reliief aid to Northern California.
The Associated Press
State lawmakers said more money would be needed later to finish the job.
The House approved the appropriation by a vote of 321-99. The Senate is expected to concur today and send the legislation to President Bush, whose spokesman indicated he would sign the bill.
"We were hit by 10 times the amount of explosive power of World War II, including the atomic bomb," Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Callif, told her colleagues before the vote.
"Please give us a chance to rebuild," said Pelosi, who represents San Francisco's heavily damaged Marina District.
Rep. Vic Fazio, D-Calif., leading his state's efforts to garner federal assistance, said that with the House vote. "We're off to a good start."
But he noted that the $2.85 billion was less than the state's delegation had sought and said efforts would be
made to increase the relief fund when the bill reaches the Senate, or in future legislation.
Still, the $2.85 billion package would be the largest single congressional disaster-relief appropriation ever, dwarfing the $1.1 billion approved just last month for the victims of Hurricane Hugo.
The $2.85 billion is a compromise between the $3.8 billion California representatives had sought and the $2.5 billion the Bush administration had proposed. Presidential spokesman Marlin Flitzwater said the imposition of such a promise because it was "pretty close to ours."
Here is how the $2.85 billion would be allocated:
-$1.1 billion would go to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to aid victims and local governments get back on their feet.
▶ $1 billion would go for bridge and highway repairs.
▶ $500 million would go to aid small businesses.
$250 million would be set aside for Bush to spend for the victims as he sees fit.
Damage estimates from the earth
quake have topped $7 billion.
A 50-foot section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toppled and must be replaced; double-deck highways on both sides of San Francisco Bay sustained severe damage; up to 1,000 homes in San Francisco alone are said to need extensive repairs.
At least 250 people died.
Earlier this week, the Independent Insurance Agents of America estimated damage from the quake at $7.1 billion. Damage from Hugo had been estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion and from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake previous record. $8.8 billion after adjustments for inflation.
Money allocated to the Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide for temporary housing, home repairs, unemployment payments, grants to families and assistance for local governments.
The $2.85 billion was approved as part of an emergency spending bill needed to keep the government functioning until Nov. 15.
The special legislation is needed because only two of the 13 annual appropriations bills for fiscal 1990, Morgan Oct. 1, have been signed into law.
E. GERMAN ELECTION: Egon Krenn warned East Germans yesterday to stop street demonstrations, but 7,000 marched in East Berlin after dark to protest his election as president.
The ritual election by the customarily docile parliament became dramatic when some members voted "no" for the first time.
In a speech afterward, Krenz said continuing weeks of pro-democracy protest could cause a rift between the situation, or confrontation."
At nightfall, lines of East Berliners carrying candles marched through the central district, chanting "We are coming to competition!" and "Eno, you are coming to competition!"
JEON, who asks
ISRAEL WILL NEQOTIATE:
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Arens has accepted in principle a
declaration of war by the U.S.
James A. Baker III for Palestinian
negotiation but with the proviso that the Palestine Liberation
Organization be excluded and the agenda restricted, the Israeli
Embassy said yesterday.
Baker's five-point proposal is designed to attract Arab support for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's plan for elections among the 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs on the West Bank and in Gaza.
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ances to Israel that it would have to be satisfied with the composition of the Palestinian delegation and that a three-way meeting would be held in Washington afterward. The United States, Israel and Egypt would attend with Egypt acting as liaison to the PLO.
Its key elements include assur-
FREIGHTER LEAKS OIL! Fuel on spilled by a wrecked Brazilian freighter has fouled 124 miles of coastline in western Norway's Sogneford. officials said yesterday
About 40 volunteers and government workers began cleaning up the mess with buckets and shovels on Monday, said Odd Arne Follum of the National Pollution Control Board.
Sticky sludge contested parts of the remote, sparsely populated coast when the Mercantil Marica leaked up to 35,000 gallons of oil on Monday. The ship ran aground during a storm near the fjord Saturday. All 35 crew members aboard the ship were rescued.
KIDNAPPERS OFFER DEAL:
Pro-Iranian kidnappers holding at least two U.S. hostages reiterated in a statement released yesterday from Lebanon their offer to trade their captives for Shiite Muslim comrades lailed in Kuwait.
"We renew our firm emphasis on the need to free our struggling brethren from the jails of the
collaborating Kuwaiti regime, and declare that the Mujahedeen (holy warriors) shall not rest until they see their brethren free," said Islamic Jihad.
The text was accompanied by a photograph of American Terry A. Anderson, the longest held of the 18 western hostages in Lebanon.
The statement was delivered to the offices of the independent newspaper An-Nahar and a West African agency in Muslim west Beirut.
SHERATON MOSCOW: Move over Intourist, here comes the Sheraton Moscow, a $75 million luxury hotel scheduled to open its doors by 1992, Soviet and U.S. officials announced yesterday.
The hotel will be built in the city center, Soviet Ambassador Yuri V. Dubinian said at the signing of a joint venture contract by Pan Am Group, and in the Soviet airline Aeroflot and the Moscow city government.
The city will provide a piece of choice real estate, Sheraton will supervise the construction and management of the hotel, and Pan Am and Aeroflot hope to stimulate business.
"We look forward to flying many planebanks of customers to the beautiful Moscow Sheraton," said Thomas G. Plaskett, chairman of Pan Am.
Couple abducted, robbed; wife gives birth, then dies
The Associated Press
BOSTON — A woman died of a head wound yesterday following the delivery of her baby, hours after she and her husband were abducted, robbed and shot by someone who apparently thought they were police.
Carol and Charles Stuart were located by the sound of police sirens in the apartment complex. A cellular telephone Charles Stuart used to call for help before he passed out.
Police had no immediate suspects in the shooting.
Carol Stuart, 33, a lawyer, died early, yesterday at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Just six hours earlier, she and her husband had left that same hospital after attending their birthing class. The couple lived in Reading, 13 miles north of the city.
The baby boy — his parents had planned to call him Christopher, a friend said — was delivered one month premature by Caesarian section, hospital spokesman Louise Homer said. The hospital would not disclose the infant's condition.
After leaving the hospital at about 8 p.m. Monday, the Stuarts were accosted by a man who got into their car and forced them to drive to an inner city neighborhood. There, they were robbed of their watches and other belongings and shot.
Police Deputy Superintendent Joseph Dunford said the gunman apparently thought the Stuarts were police officers because of the cellar phone in their car. Before shooting the Stuarts, according to Dunford, the gunman said: "I think you're five-O," slang for police.
Stuart, 29, general manager of a fur store in Boston's Back Bay, was in critical condition yesterday at Boston City Hospital with a gunshot wound in the abdomen.
State Police dispatcher Gary
McLaughlin got a few details from Stuart before he blacked out.
"A male party said he was just shot and his wife was shot in the head," McLaughlin said.
But police didn't know their location, so officers in patrol cars were told to flick their sirens on and off, one by one. The dispatcher was able to tell which police car was near the Stuarts' car from the sound of the sirens coming through the car phone.
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