University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 14, 1989
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Student gives Bush death-penalty talk
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who advocates the death penalty for some drug crimes, received a surprise lecture during an anti-drug program yesterday from a 13-year-old who called the punishment murder.
"To me, killing someone that has committed a very serious crime is wrong." Chanette Charles, a seventh grader from nearby Arlington, Va., told a Rose Garden ceremony. "It it does it. It does it is take someone else's life."
Bush, who has advocated the death penalty for drug kingpins and for those who kill law enforcement officers, was presiding over a ceremony honoring the Los Angeles-based DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education).
At the ceremony, part of Bush's continuing efforts to promote his new anti-drug strategy, three Washington- area students who are members of the DARE program were invited to read essays.
While the other two stuck to drug themes, Chantee used most of her allotted time to attack the death penalty.
Saying "probably thousands" of innocent prisoners have been executed, she argued that death penalty proponents "miss the point that the prisoner has a family, too."
"The guy who kills the prisoner must feel guilty afterwards. But I guess they get paid for it," she said.
"If I had one wish, I'd wish that the death penalty never existed."
marix sheehan, a White House aide who helped coordinate the program, said that the three students were picked to speak by local leaders of the DARE program. "We let them say what they wanted," she said.
The two other students read some
less, controversial essays.
Janine Waters, 12, also of Thomas Jefferson Intermediate, said, "If people offer you drugs, just turn away and say no. Or change the subject."
And Borris Torricio, 13, of Williamsburg Intermediate School, also in Arlington, said, "When you're older and you want to get a new car, like a Porsche, you can save up for it, and not use it on drugs or on alcohol."
"My turn," Bush joked after the three students had made their presentations.
He told the student speakers: "It's not easy to get up in front of a big, scary audience like this and do such a good job — say what's in your heart, not worry if people agree with you or not."
Bush praised the DARE program as an organization that has "manned the front lines" in the drug war. Signing a proclamation making today National DARE day, Bush said, "These kids have dared to excel, and they are succeeding."
The ceremony came as the White House and Congress continued to wrangle over how to fund the president's $7.9 billion drug program.
SOUTH AFRICANS PROTEST:
More than 20,000 peaceful protesters in Cape Town sang songs of freedom and waved banners denouncing police brutality yesterday in the biggest anti-government march ever permitted in South Africa.
Police stayed out of sight as marchers led by Black leaders and Cape Town's white mayor clogged a mile-long route leading from St. George's Anglican Cathedral to City Hall.
Organizers described the march as a historic occurrence in this racially divided country.
"We have scored a great victory, for justice and peace." Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu told a crowd of 1,800 Black, white and mixed-race marchers who packed City Hall while thousands of others stood outside.
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He said acting President F.W. de Klerk should have been present "to see what this country is going to become: a technicolor country."
DEMANDS CONSIDERED:Tens of thousands of people were told at a rally last night in Baku, Azerbaijan, that the communist authorities had agreed to consider ethnic demands that touched off a wide-spread strike, a witness said.
All Aliev, a member of the grassroots People's Front group, who attended the rally in the southern republic's capital, said speakers announced that Azarbayjan's Supreme Soviet, the legislature, would review the demands tomorrow.
He said in a telephone interview that the legislature would consider pressing for an end to the special status given in January to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakb region; adopting a law on the republic's sovereignty; pressing for release of political prisoners; and granting the People's Front legal status.
ROBERTS HOSPITAL CLOSING
Evangelist Oral Roberts said yesterday that his Tulsa, Okla, hospital and medical school would close by Jan. 1 to help make up for a $25 million deficit caused by a crippling decrease in donations.
A $30 million endowment would be needed to keep the medical complex, which Roberts has long considered a symbol of his medical missionary work, the evangelist said.
CONGRESS' GIFT ROCKS: Environmentalists tried a new tactic yesterday in their dispute about Exxon's cleanup of oil-stained beaches in Alaska. They brought blots of the still-polluted beaches to Washington.
Messengers from the National Wildlife Federation spread out across Capitol Hill to deliver plastic bags of oil-stained Alaskan rocks to every member of Congress.
Rock samples also went to the White House, to other key members of the Bush Administration and to the top executives of Exxon Corp., in New York, according to
spokesmen for the federation.
BROTELI RELICS UNEARTED: Archaeologists digging just three blocks from the White House have unearthed thousands of relics from Washington's notorious old red-light district where Civil War prostitutes earned their nickname entertaining Gen. Joseph Hooker's troops.
Shoveling beneath an asphalt parking lot just south of Pennsylvania Avenue in the shadow of the Commerce Department this summer, investigators found perfume bottles, gandy buttons, costume jewelry, garter hooks and a long-forgotten cellar full of whiskey and beer bottles.
IRAN DISTRUSTRS U.S.1.Ayatollah Ali Khameenis said yesterday the United States still resisted Iran's 10-year-old Islamic revolution, and that any conciliatory gestures by the Bush administration toward his country could not be trusted.
Airline smoking ban divides U.S. Senate
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Tobacco-state lawmakers vowed yesterday to grind the Senate to a procedural crawl unless attempts to ban smoking on all airline flights were dropped, but their unbowed opponents said they welcomed a showdown.
by cigarette industry supporters. the filibuster is aimed at killing legislation by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D.N.J., that would expand current airline smoking restrictions to all domestic flights.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, planned a vote today on whether to block a filibuster
Tobacco-state senators said they would accept a permanent version of the current smoking ban on two-hour airline flights. But Mitchell scheduled the vote after ban opponents said they would try to block the
Senate's work unless advocates of tougher restrictions dropped their efforts.
Lautenberg said he would press his legislation, saying, "We won't succumb to threats."
Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., said tobacco-state senators would accept the permanent ban on two-hour flights, which the house passed Aug. 3. The restriction affects four-fifths of all flights.
But he said unless smoking opponents accepted his offer, he would slow consideration of the $11.9 billion transportation spending bill for next year that contains the cigarette restrictions.
Airline employees and health groups have pressed for a total smoking ban on aircraft, claiming that cigarette fumes can cause cancer and other diseases for everyone aboard a flight.
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