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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 16, 1990
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Briefs
Nicaraguan violence continues; police arrest ex-contra leader
Former contra rebels exchanged gunfire with police and holed up in churches in several Nicaraguan towns yesterday in a fast-rising insurgency, four police officers dead and 23 people injured.
Police in Managua arrested a former contral leader thought to be involved in directing the violent rebellion that began Oct. 31 in southeastern Nicaragua.
An Interior Ministry spokesperson said that police who raided Sanchez's office early yesterday found wepons and hand grenades and had evidence that linked Sanchez to the rebellion.
Aristides Sanchez Herdacia, the arrested former contra leader, was political adviser to the now-disbanded, U.S.-backed Nicaraguan resistance and a former member of its directorate.
The Department of Defense said yesterday that it notified Congress of a $281 million sale of the Boeing 737.
United States sells ammunition and armored vehicles to Egypt
Up to 136,000 rounds of 120mm ammunition
used by Egypt for the new M-1A main battle
machine.
The Pentagon also said it was selling to Egypt 40 U.S. made M-841A Recovery Vehicles, which were armored vehicles used to haul disabled tanks from the battlefield. The deal is worth $70 million.
Gorbachem remains confident before address. Italian reports
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will be ready for political battle when he addresses the legislature today in Moscow and is confident his will prevail, an Italian leader said yesterday.
"I feel Gorbachev will be the master of the situation," said Achille Occhette, leader of the Italian Communist party. Occhetto met with the Soviet president in Moscow.
The official Tass news agency, in a commental said that Gorbachev would face a moment of trouble, whichasks to lawmakers about the crumbling economy and about campaigns by separatist-minded republics.
From The Associated Press
Bush: U.S. needs fresh air
President signs bill tightening air-pollution standards
WASHINGTON — President Bush, saying every American "deserves to breathe clean air," yesterday signed an extensive overhaul of the nation's air curb acid rain, urban smog and toxic chemicals.
The Associated Press
Richard Ayers, chairperson of the National Clean Air Coalition, said the legislation was a case in point.
Susan Murher, president of the Sierra Club,
wished fresh air after a 10-year晕动 as "a breath of
fresh air after a 10-year晕动."
The cost of adhering to the regulations is expected to be as much as 42% billion a year.
Bush said the bill, which updates and tightens federal air pollution standards for the first time since 1977, was the most significant air pollution legislation in U.S. history.
The goal of the legislation is to cut acid rain pollutants by half, sharply reduce urban smog, and to eliminate most of the toxic chemical emissions from industrial plants by the turn of the century.
Environmental groups temporarily put aside their differences with the president on other issues to praise his effort on clean air. But they said the effectiveness of the legislation would require aggressive enforcement by the federal government.
But Ruth Caplan, executive director of Environmental Action, said Bush's signature marked 'only the first step toward cleaning up our air.' He added that that must be implemented through regulation.
"This bill means cleaner cars, cleaner power plants, cleaner factories, and cleaner fuels. And it means a cleaner America," Bush said at a packed White House ceremony.
"While business supports the act's clean air objectives, its costs to American consumers and workers cannot be sugar-coated," said William D. Fay, administrator of the Clean Air Working Group, a coalition of 2,000 businesses and trade associations.
The new law requires tougher emission controls on cars and requires service stations to sell cleaner-burning gas. It mandates new equipment in thousands of businesses and requires factories to capture smog-causing pollutants and toxic chemicals.
Industry representatives, facing large compliance costs, were more mute in their approval
Bush's signature capped a decade-long debate about anti-pollution rules. The legislation was the product of 16 months of intensive wrangling among candidates, and negotiators about myriad technical provisions.
It also requires coal-burning power plants to cut in half sulfur dioxide emissions, which cause acid rain.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee opened trial-like public hearings yesterday on the "Keating Five" with the panel's lawyer declaring that the lawmakers helped the owner of a failing savings and loan fight an all-out war with federal regulators.
Special counsel Robert Bennett said in his opening statement that Sens. Alan Cranston and Dennis DeConciato were important players in Charles Keating Jr.'s strategy to stave off federal rules and that Sen. Donald Riegle Jr. played a much greater role than he now contended.
Keating contributed $1.3 million to campaigns of — and causes favored by — the five senators.
Although Bennett denied his role was prosecutorial, Sen. David Pryor, D-Ariz., testified told him, "You're beginning to reach personal conclusions about what is relevant and what is not relevant."
The Associated Press
Bennett responded, "It's less my conclusion and more the objective evidence."
Speaking in a packed hearing room, Bennett said Sens. John McCain and John Glenn played lesser roles.
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six-senator committee, Alabama Democrat Howell Helfin, somberly told the subjects of the inquiry, "Many of our fellow citizens apparently believe that your services were bought by Charles Clinton," he said in his office, that you traded your honor and your good names for contributions and other benefits."
Before Bennett spoke, the chairperson of the
Hearing starts for five senators embroiled in S&L controversy
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