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Mondav. November 10. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Minister who visited Nicaragua says Hasenfus will get 30 years
ATLANTA — Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph Lowery, who traveled to Nicaragua to observe the trial of Eugene Hasenfus, returned to his pulpit yesterday and predicted that the captured U.S. flier would get 30 years.
"There is no doubt about his guilt," said Lowery, a United Methodist minister. "I said to Mr. Hasenfus that God may have spared his life to make him an instrument of peace. I just hope the whole incident will help us understand we should send medical, not military aid, and tractors, not guns."
Hasenfus, a former U.S. Marine, was captured when Nicaraguan troops shot down his plane loaded with combat gear, killing two other Americans. Hasenfus said he was on a government-backed mission to take the gear to the contras.
A verdict in the Hasenfus case was expected next week. Former Attorney General Griffin Bell was in Nicaragua to help represent Hasenfus but was not allowed to meet with him.
Catholics at odds on sex issues
WASHINGTON — American Catholics strongly reject the views of their bishops on a host of sex-related issues, ranging from women's rights to abortion and birth control, an independent Catholic group said yesterday.
"On the emotionally and politically charged question of abortion, the Catholic people are at odds with the absolute moral and legal prohibition favored by the church leadership," said Catholic Forces For a Free Choice in a new study of about 200 polls, studies and articles dealing with Catholic attitudes.
learning with Catholic attitudes
The 16-page study, "A Church Divided — Catholics"
The conference opened its annual meeting in Washington today.
Attitudes about Family Planning, Abortion and Teenage Sexuality," was the first in a series of planned reports by the group's "Bishops Watch" project, which monitored and reported on the political activities of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Catholic Conference.
Frances Kissing, president of Catholics for a Free Choice, said the next two Bishops Watch reports would examine the church's role in the debate over the long-delayed Civil Rights Restoration Act and the church's expenditures aimed at limiting legal abortion and family planning.
Aguino warns against coup plan
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino warned "self-appointed messiahs" in the military yesterday that she would call people into the streets if needed to defend her rule.
This, her strongest statement on persistent coup rumors, came during a televised speech on the eve of her four-day visit to Japan.
The president said that while she was gone, she was ordering the military to "repel any attacks against our units or centers of government as well as any threat to the security of our people."
Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, the chief of staff, put the military on maximum alert. Guards increased security at the Defense Ministry and at armed forces headquarters at suburban Camp Aguinaldo.
The Manila Chronicle newspaper, meanwhile said that one threat linked Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile to officers who were disenchanted with Aquino's government and its peace policy toward communist rebels.
N.Y. addicts to get free needles
NEW WORK - A limited number of New York City heroin addicts will soon be getting their needles courtesy of taxpayers as part of an experimental program intended to slow the spread of AIDS, officials said yesterday.
Joseph, speaking on a WNBCT-V news show, said the extremely rapid spread of the disease among New York City's 220,000 drug addicts made it imperative that officials try new ways to control the problem.
City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph said several hundred addicts awaiting entrance to a methadone treatment program would begin to get the drugs at a local hospital clinic within the next few months.
"We've got to see if this might be a way to stop the spread of the virus," he said, "and we are hopeful we can get something off the ground in the next couple of months."
But State Health Commissioner David Axelrod said he was dubious that any such program would reduce the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome among addicts and warned that it would invite abuse.
No. 2 Chernobyl reactor started
MOSCOW - Technicians have restarted a second reactor at the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant in preparation for full-scale operation, the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, said yesterday.
The testing of the No. 2 reactor came after the return to service of the No.1 reactor in September at the fourreactor station. Both units were heavily contaminated by the April 26 fire that killed 31 people and spread radioactivity.
The accident was the worst atomic power plant disaster in history.
The article noted that "much attention was given to hydraulic tests." Soviet officials said the explosion and fire were caused by unauthorized tests that involved disconnecting the emergency pumping system of the No. 4 reactor. The tests lead to the unit's fatal overheating.
The urgency of restarting the nuclear plant so soon after the disaster had been demonstrated by a series of warnings in the official press about possible electricity shortages this winter.
Although Western experts predicted that the No. 3 reactor would be abandoned because of its extreme contamination, the official press reported plans to restart it next year.
The wreckage of the No.4 reactor is being entombed permanently in concrete. It will remain radioactive and a potential danger for thousands of years.
Boston loss sparks racial tension
AMIHERT, Mass. — Ever since the Red Sox lost the World Series, black and Hispanic students say life in this small college town 100 miles from Boston's Fenway Park has become a nightmare.
A fight in Amherst between white Red Sox fans and black boosters of the New York Mets injured a bystander after the final game of the series and unearthed racial tensions at the University of Massachusetts that spread to nearby colleges in the Connecticut River Valley.
A racial slur was painted on the steps of Smith College a week after the World Series. Rumors floated that a student in a Ku Klux Klan outfit at a Halloween party won a prize for the costume. A woman complained of harassment.
“There's a sense of vulnerability and terror, of a state of siege on the part of minorities,” said John Grayson, an assistant professor of religion at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley.
Mount Holyoke senior Michele Mitchell said a University of Massachusetts student voted a racial insult at her and shoved her away from a copier at a university library the week after the game.
Mitchell and classmate Erin Fields organized a racism workshop at Mount Holyoke that drew 600 students Friday.
From Kansan wires.
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