NATION
Friday, September 25, 1992
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Senate overrides Bush's veto
Family-leave bill still alive, moves on to U.S. House
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted yesterday to override President Bush's veto of the family-leave bill, shining a campaign-season spotlight on an issue Democrats think will wound Bush come Election Day.
Supporters of the legislation conceded that even with the Senate's 68-31 vote, a House override effort would probably fail. Nonetheless, Democrats relished the high-profile chance to contrast Bush's opposition to the bill with his rhetoric championing family values.
"Those Republicans who voted with us today chose families," said Sen. Al Gore, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton's running mate. "Those who voted with the Bush-Quayle position chose to say, 'Read our lip-service to family values.'"
The measure would require businesses with 50 or more employees to grant workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to care for newborn babies or sick family members.
Meanwhile, the Senate marked time on a wide-ranging tax bill, and a host of House-Senate conference committees labored to reach agreements on the various spending bills for the new budget year starting Oct. 1.
Others will be waged over abortion rights and cable-television rates.
The veto fight is one of several concerning social and consumer issues that Congress is picking with Bush in the waning weeks of the campaign.
Democratic leadership aides said a House override vote had not yet been scheduled, but supporters and opponents alike said they thought Bush's veto would be upheld. The House approved the bill 259-1 Novem-
ber 16. It was 280-1 Jan. It was two-thirds margin that would be needed if all 433 members vote.
"We'll sustain the president in the House," said Rep. William Goodling, R-Pa., leader of the measure's House opponents.
Behind the scenes, the effort to line up votes was gearing up quickly. Gore said he had spoken to House Democrats who were considering switching to support the bill. Forty-eight opposed it in last year's vote.
Asked if Bush himself would lobby lawmakers. Goodding said he was
aurb Bush would as soon as he got the message about the Senate's vote.
Bush vetoed the measure Tuesday, an act the White House did not announce until the evening network news broadcasts were over.
He has vetoed 32 bills, and Congress has failed in all of its 17 previous attempts to override him. Yesterday's vote by the Senate was the first time that chamber had voted to overturn a Bush veto.
The president and other opponents say the measure would drive up business' costs, eliminate jobs and shave other federal mandate at companies.
NASA to explore Mars for first time since 1975
The Associated Press
"it's the same old story we've heard for years and years on the other side of the aisle," said Bob Dole, R-Kan., Senate minority leader. "The government knows best. The Congress knowsbest."
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft stood ready yesterday for a mission to Mars, the country's first attempt to reach the red planet in 17 years.
A Titan 3 rocket holding National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars Observer was fueled for its scheduled 12:27 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today. Forecasters gave 70 percent odds of good launch weather.
"We should think of it ... as the beginning of what we hope will be a regular series of missions to explore Mars, which is the one planet besides our own that holds the most fascination for humankind," said Lennard Fisk, NASA's chief scientist.
The Titan's job is to hoist Mars Observer into low Earth orbit. Next, a Transfer Orbit Stage,TOS, is to be fired to send the spacecraft
zooming 450 million miles toward Mars.
The trip should take 11 months. The cost of the mission is $980 million.
The opportunity to go to Mars comes only every 26 months because of planetary alignment, and the Mars Observer must be off the ground by Oct. 13 or face a two-year wait.
It is the first U.S. spacecraft to be sent to Mars since Viking 2 in 1975.
"When we get our good ride from the Titan and TOS folk, we'll have a sip of champagne with them," said David EVans, project manager of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Arizona. In hand, he can't really open our champagne until we're at Mars in orbit and gathering good data."
The 2 l/2-ton spacecraft should arrive at Mars in August 1993. It's job is to map landscape and weather conditions. Measurements are to be made for one full Martian year, or 687 Earth days.
Boy claims abuse, seeks divorce from his parents
The Associated Press
Gregory Kinglesay, brown-haired and pale, sat in the back of the courtroom with members of the foster family he hoped to live with permanently.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Squirming and chewing a gum drop, a 12-year-old boy went to court yesterday seeing a divorce from his parents in a case that could help give children more protection against parental abuse.
A former sister-in-law, Jeanette Glenn, detailed instances of abuse and neglect, accusing Kingsley, 30, of being an alcoholic, a drug abuser and even a prostitute.
His mother, Rachel Kingsley, cried as she denied allegations that she abused, neglected and abandoned him for most of his life. In the past eight years, Gregory has lived with her only seven months.
Sobbing, Glenn said she hoped the two younger boys also could be taken from Kingsley because she thought
Kinsley would never change her ways.
Gregory said he felt unfounded and unwanted most of his life. He smiled occasionally in court and whispered to those around him.
Child welfare advocates and legal scholars said the case could establish a significant legal precedent, but some said it was unlikely to have much practical effect.
Charmaine Crouse Yoest, policy analyst with the conservative Family Research Council in Washington, said, "The ramifications are huge. You're looking at a fundamental shift at the way we view children."
Howard Davidson, director of the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, said it was unlikely that many children would be hiring lawyers to sever parental custody in the future. He said the case was mainly significant because it had attracted so much attention, not vice versa.
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Che Guevara: Broadway star
Che Guevara: Revolutionary figure
Che's Cafe: Overpriced Santa Monica restaurant
Don Colon: Christopher Columbus
Corazon: Heart
Celia Cruz: Queen of Salsa
Orale: All right!
Chorizo: Mexican sausage
Salsa: Chip dip/festive dance
Chicano: We may have an answer
La Llorona: Boogie Woman
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A BOWL OF BEINGS A revolutionary comedy about life, death and pizza
Presented by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 8, 1992
Liberty Hall
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall and Liberty Hall Box Offices; KU student tickets available in the SUA Office; Burge Union all seating is general admission.
This performance is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee, Swearthout Society, and the Kansas University Endowment Association. The 1992-93 New Directions Series is partially funded by a grant from the
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Half price for students. This performance includes adult language.