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Quiet swearing-in for Souter marks first day as a justice
Justice David H. Souter took his seat on the Supreme Court yesterday in a solemn, hushed ceremony that contrasted sharply with the loudness of the debates issues he will help decide on the divided court.
After taking an oath to "do equal right to the poor and the rich," the 105th justice in U.S. history spoke briefly with reporters and then began work by sitting silently through an hour of oral argument on an arcane question of securities law.
Souter, whose views on most controversial topics remain largely unknown despite three days of Senate questioning, joins the court at a time when the future of legalized abortion, affirmative-action laws, church-state law and other major issues hang in the balance.
The Supreme Court sent an unsettling message yesterday to public schools that refuse rent space to outside religious organizations following such access for non-religious groups.
Free-speech violation ruling upheld in appeal to high court
The justices, without comment, turned down the appeal of a Centennial, Pa., high school that had been forced to rent weekend use of its auditorium to the Campus Crusade for Christ.
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 10, 1990
A federal appeals court ruled that denying such access would violate the group's free speech rights.
Aid to Angola stirs hot debate among Washington politicians
With passions running high on both sides, proponents urging the United States to provide aid to rebels in Angola are facing their toughest battles ever as the administration seeks to overcome a powerful challenge by House Democrats.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III is using rhetoric reminiscent of the Cold War in his efforts to maintain the U.S. program for the anti-communist rebel movement
Baker said in a recent memo to House Minority leader Bob Michel, R-III, that votes for amendments to cut off the 4-year-old program to kill off the killing, more stalemate and more suffering.
This is "the absolutely worst time" to halt the aid, Baker said, arguing that the program had forced the Angolan government to negotiate seriously on reaching a cease fire and schedule an end of fair elections. Four rounds of peace talks have been conducted in Portugal since April.
From The Associated Press
Knife-wielding youths stab 8 people in South Africa
The Associated Press
DURBAN, South Africa — Blacks armed with knives went on a rampage yesterday and stabbed eight Whites, raising the specter of new racial violence, authorities said.
About 20 young Blacks stole knives from a store and began stabbing people along a street near the courthouse.
"They were in a berserk state and were lashing out with knives at anyone who was near them," witness Robert Trulock told the independent South African Press Association.
Two suspects were shot and wounded by police, and seven were arrested, police said.
The attack may have been racially motivated, said police Lt. Nina Barkhuizen. Police were investigating the attack and its victims at the gates of the Pan Africanist Congress, a militant black opposition group, she said.
Despite deep racial divisions and widespread violence in South Africa, few cases of Blacks were exposed.
Law and Order Minister Adrian Vlak conceived the violence and called for private citizens to be held accountable.
"It might be somebody trying to provoke a reaction from the White population," said Thabo Mbeki, a spokesman for the African National Congress.
The Black youths took the knives from a store
specializing in weapons from the Far East, Bark- huizen said.
They then ran down a street next to the beachfront and stabbed Whites, witnesses said.
Bleeding victims staggered into the lobby of the Lonsdale Hotel and collapsed in front of horrified guests.
Eight people, ranging in age from 15 to 85, were hospitalized with stab wounds, Barkhuizen said. A hospital official said three of the victims were in serious condition.
Patrick Lekota, an ANC official in Durban,
called the attack "a desperate attempt to discredit
the government."
Fighting in the townships has eased recently, but strained relations remain between the White-led
ANC leader Nelson Mandela accused security forces of fanning the violence, possibly at the behest of right-wing elements who oppose governmental action, and endangering the apartheid system of racial segregation.
The government denied the charges and challenged accusers to provide proof. Vlak said yesterday that affidavits supplied to the government pursued backing the accusations had proved to be particularly useful.
Both the ANC and Inkatha oppose apartheid but differ on the shape of a future South Africa.
Committee approves defense bill
$297 billion House measure would cut troops by 77,000
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee approved a $297 billion defense bill yesterday that would cut deeply into President Obama's largest weapons and trim 77,000 from U.S. troop totals.
By voice vote, the panel adopted a spending plan that would halt production of the B-2 stealth bomber and slash $2.4 billion from Bush's proposal. It also charged $4.7 billion on the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The bill's provision for major weapons programs follows the lead taken by the full House last month, when it approved separate legislation that outlined requirements for funding for the current fiscal year which began Oct. 1.
But the Appropriations Committee broke ranks with the House measure on the issue of reducing the 2.1 million U.S. troops on active duty worldwide.
The House-approved bill recommended a troop cut of 129,500, including 50,000 in Europe. The committee bill, which would appropriate actual funds under ceilings set by the defense authorization bill, would cut 77,000 troops with 50,000 of the total coming from Europe.
The Bush administration's spending plan for iscal 1981 provided a troop cut of 38,000.
Some Republican House members precluded the White House wouldn't be satisfied with the committee bill, especially with its wholesale cuts in strategic programs.
One of the bill's provisions was $800 million for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services, commonly known as CHAMPUS.
The bill was criticized by Rep. David Ohey, D-Wis., charperson of the panel's subcommittee on the environment.
Obsy complained that the bill failed to finance the expected costs of Operation Desert Shield, the two main objectives of the war.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has estimated that the cost of the operation could increase to $15 billion in fiscal 1991. The administration was investigating whether funds separately in a supplemental spending bill.
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