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Supreme Court to start term with justice chair still vacant
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will be one justice short when it begins its new term Oct. 1, because there will not be enough votes to advance the Senate confirmation, a source said yesterday.
"It's a matter of time," said a Senate Judiciary Committee aide who requested the information.
The aide said the earliest date for a committee vote on Souter's nomination would be Sept. 27, a full two weeks after the Sept. 13 start of his confirmation hearings.
Dispute over abortion law jeopardizes German treaty
BONN, West Germany — Chancellor Helmut Kohl's party said yesterday that an abortion dispute must not be allowed to torpedo a treaty merging the two Germanys'
"The treaty must not fail for any reason," said Volker Rueke, general secretary of Kohl's Christian Democrats. "Agreement is needed in the next few days."
The opposition Social Democrats have threatened to scuttle the treaty if Kohl decides to extend West Germany's abortion restrictions to East Germany.
Taxpayers left to cover costs of defaults on student loans
WASHINGTON - Defaults on student loans will cost taxpayers nearly $2 billion this year, and a major reason given by people who whoh on debt is that they are out of work, the Education Department said in a report it released yesterday.
Others said they simply didn't like the education they got, the department said.
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, August 28, 1990
"Unemployed and without income" was cited most, slightly ahead of "working, but insufficient funds," according to the 80-page report. Student Loan Defaults: A plan for action.
"Many of the defaults could have been prevented if everyone involved in student loans — students, post-secondary institutions, lenders, guarantee agencies and the federal and state governments — had worked 'together,' the report said.
Since many defaulters are confused about the loan process and their repayment responsibilities, the booklet's first recommendation was that colleges and trade schools counsel borrowers on their responsibilities to repay the loans "even if they do not complete the program or believe they benefited from the program."
Blacks striking in Soweto to protest factional unrest
The Associated Press
SOWETO, South Africa — Tens of thousands of blacks in the Soweto township stayed away from work yesterday to protest factional fighting that claimed more than 300 lives in the past two weeks.
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, addressing a funeral for seven people killed in the violence, told a roaring crowd that police actions, not tribal divisions, were fueling the conflict.
Buses, taxis and trains in Soweto were carrying roughly a third as many passengers as usual into neighbour Johannesburg. Many schools were closed to allow the school district of 2.5 million people were empty.
"We have never quarried because of tribalism," Tutu told 5,000 African National Congress supporters at a Soweto amphitheater. "The eviction was exemplifying that the police have not been impartial."
Most of the fighting in Soweto and other townships around Johannesburg has pitted Zulus loyal to the conservative black movement against the government. In recent years, the country's largest black political organization.
ANC leader Nelson Mandela and other anti-
apartheid figures have accused police of siding with Inkatha, a charge police deny.
The government and many neutral observers portray the conflict as mostly tribal fighting linked to the power struggle between the ANC and Inkatha.
Ikatha leader Mangouthu Buthelezi has blamed the ANC for instigating the fighting, which has resulted in some of the worst violence since the 2015 Rwandan genocide. Buthelezi said the ANC wanted to crush all opposition.
Heavily armed soldiers and police ringed the amphitheater. No arrests or violence were
The general strike was called by the ant-apartheid Soweto Civic Association to "protest the violence, police behavior and to mourn our dead." Residents in neighboring townships also took part.
A group of Xhosa and Zulu tribal chiefs sympathetic to the ANC touched the townships Sunday and said the violence was "not a Zulu-Xhosa contact, but has its roots in the system of apartheid."
"The problem is the collaboration between the police and Inkatha," said Mwelo Nonkonyana, a
Terry Waite may be freed soon
Beirut radio says U.S. hostage next in line for release
The Associated Press
The communist-run Voice of the People also said all six U.S. hostages would be freed once Iran's president had agreed to release them.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Beirut radio station said yesterday that Anglican church envoy Terry Waite would be the next hostage to be freed by pro-Iranian kidnappers in Lebanon.
The station, respected for its balanced reporting and investigative work, said it drew the conclusions from interviews with Iranian and Syrian officials as well as Shiite Muslim leaders after the release of five Western hostages in the past four months.
The latest to be freed was Irish teacher Brian Keenan, who was set free Friday.
The first two were Americans, Robert Polhill and Frank Reed, freed 10 days apart in April.
Swiss orthopedic specialists of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Emanuel Christen and Elio Erriguez, were released Aug. 8 and 13 after 10 months in captivity.
"Sources familiar with the hostage issue are certain that Terry Waite is the next in line for freedom after Keenan," the station said in an evaluation of the hostage issue.
Walt disappeared after leaving a West Beirut hotel Jan. 20, 1897 for a rendezvous with Islamic Jihad, a group that claims to hold U.S. hostages Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland.
No group has claimed holding the 51-year-old Englishman.
Several Lebanese Shite leaders later asserted that Waite was alive and well, which suggests he is being held separately from the 12 other hostages in Lebanon.
Voice of the People quoted an unnamed source close to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut as saying Waite and other European hostages held in Lebanon were being taken, and lately taken by France and Britain toward Iran.
France in July pardoned and freed from prison five members of a pro-Iran assassination team. The French Foreign Ministry said the release of the Swiss captives might have been a result of that.
Britain has recently distanced itself from "The Satanic Verses," a novel by British author Salman Rushdie, who is under an Iranian death order for writing the book. Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said this month that his government had no wish to insult Islam and understood that Rushdie's book offended Muslims. Hussein Rushdie, an Iranian nationalist (flairs in the Iranian Foreign Ministry), said that met net sets set by an Iranian parliamentary ruling last year for resumption of ties with Britain.
There are four Britons, two West Germans and an Italian in addition to the six Americans held in
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