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Tuesday, November 10, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Bomb blast on Sri Lankan road kills at least 32 and injures 105
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A bomb exploded on a major road where thousands of commuters waited for buses home yesterday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 105, according to police.
Rescue workers, however, put the death toll at more than 50 and said it may reach 70. Bodies lay on the street and sidewalks in the
capital's Maradana neighborhood.
Soviets alter view on PLO role in Mideast
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
capital's Maradana neighborhood.
Whether the bomb was planted in a car or bus was not known. It is unclear whether a police station and a main bus stop slightly more than a mile east of downtown Colombo.
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union has dropped its demand for a separate seat for the Palestine Liberation Organization in any Mideast peace talks, an Israeli official said yesterday.
sidered acceptable by Israel and the United States.
Palestinians would participate as part of a mixed delegation with Jordanians, an arrangement con-
The Israeli official, who demanded anonymity, said Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevvardnadze relayed the change in Moscow's position at a meeting in September with Israelian Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
Supreme Court to rule on teen-chastity law
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said yesterday that it would decide whether a law intended to encourage premarital chastity for teen-agers violated the Constitution by promoting religion.
Life Act law is "deeply flawed."
Reagan administration lawyers say an April 15 decision invalidating the 1981 Adolescent Family
Life Act law is "deeply flawed." But American Civil Liberties Union lawyers say the law "authorizes the use of federal funds to subsidize religious indoctrination as a means of opposing premarital sex, abortion and birth control for teen-agers."
IRA admits to planting bomb at services
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — The Irish Republican Army said yesterday that it planted the bomb that killed 11 civilians and wounded 63 at war-memorial services, but said that the bomb went off prematurely.
In a statement to Irish news media, the outlawed IRA sought to excuse the high civilian toll by
saying that the 40-pound bomb should have blown up as soldiers marched by during the Remembrance memory for fallen British soldiers.
The IRA said British forces set off the bomb with high-frequency scanning devices that had jammed and neutralized other IRA explosives in the past.
Bankrupt tuxedo shop is puttin' on the Ritz
YAKIMA, Wash. — They're putting on the Ritz in Yakima, where 10,000 taxedos that belonged to a bankrupt rental shop are being sold for $19.95 each.
Terry Morton, 26, of Selah, said
he has sold more than 2,500 tuxedos since they went on sale 13 days ago.
Randy Fortier, 30, who bought two tuxedos, said, "I'll wear it to shoot pool. I can't go wrong."
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday the United States would take part in talks with Nicaraguan authorities if they engaged in serious cease-fire negotiations with the contra rebels.
U.S. may talk with Nicaragua
Reagan emphasized that such discussions — the first between the United States and Nicaragua in almost three years — would occur only if representatives of other Central American countries were also present.
The president outlined the U.S. position to a luncheon gathering of Western Hemisphere foreign ministers assembled here for the annual meeting of the Organization of American States. Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto was among the listeners as Reagan spoke.
The United States and Nicaragua have had no substantive bilateral talks since the latter half of 1984, when a series of meetings were held in Manzanillo, Mexico. By insisting that other Central American countries be a part of any future contacts with the Sandinistas, Reagan appeared to rule out a resumption of bilateral discussions.
Reagan's announcement apparently was linked to the surprise statement by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega last Thursday that his government would agree to open, through an intermediary, cease-fire talks with the U.S.-backed contras.
Reagan's remarks were consistent with the previous administration position that the United States would ease its stand on talks with the leftist Sandistas only if they first opened a dialogue with the contrasts.
Reagan said Secretary of State George Shultz "will be ready to meet jointly with the foreign ministers of all five Central American nations, including the Sandinistas' representative" if Nicaragua engages in "serious negotiations" with the contrast.
The statement appeared to suggest continued forward movement in the Central America peace agreement signed by five presidents of the region last August.
Judge reexamined for post
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Kennedy said to be likely nominee for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The White House called federal appellate judge Anthony M. Kennedy the front-runner for the Supreme Court nomination yesterday and subjected him to new background questioning as other Republicans doled out blame for the collapse of the Douglas Ginsburg nomination.
Kennedy, who was flown to Washington less than two weeks ago to be interviewed for the court vacancy, was brought back Saturday by an Air Force jet after Ginsburg withdrew in the uproar following his admission that he had used marijuana.
"I think it's fair to say he is the leading candidate," White House
After 12 years as a conservative member of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, to which he was appointed by former President Gerald R. Ford, the 51-year-old jurist is being characterized by the White House as the front-runner for the Supreme Court vacancy the president has been unable to fill since summer.
President Reagan, meanwhile, said that harassment from outside rather than inside the administration forced Ginsburg to withdraw. Reagan and other White House officials denied that Ginsburg had been abandoned after his drug-use admission.
spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said of Kennedy.
"I stood by and declared I would not withdraw him. He voluntarily made that decision on his own," the president said.
However, conservative Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, said Ginsburg wanted to fight it out, but "gutless wonders" on the White House staff undermined the nominee and forced him to bow out.
Hatch blamed Reagan for failing to assert enough leadership in the unsuccessful nominations of Ginsburg and Robert H. Bork. "It's time for Ronald Reagan to take charge of the White House," the senator said.
FBI Director William Sessions disclosed yesterday that background investigations including 143 interviews with more than 100 people over the past four years failed to turn up
evidence of Ginsburg's marijuana use.
Sessions raised the possibility that people who may have lied to the FB1 would be prosecuted.
Attorney General Edwin Meese III met with Hatch and other senators yesterday to discuss Reagan's third attempt to fill the vacancy left by the retirement in June of Lewis F. Powell.
Before Ginsburg's selection, the possibility of a Kennedy nomination faced opposition from Senate conservatives, but was regarded as generally acceptable to a majority of Democrats.
Sen, Jesse Helms, R.N.C., said at the time that some semen believed Kennedy was too liberal, and the senator said he had a filibuster if he were nominated.
A Democratic source from the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaking only on condition he not be named, said Democratic committee members placed Kennedy in their "least controversial" category among possibilities mentioned by White House officials.
Uncertainty plagues Wall Street
Investors edgy about resuming computerized trading
From The Associated Press.
The Associated Press
The re-emergence of program trading, a controversial technique involving instantaneous buying and selling of stocks and stock-index futures, made traders even more anxious and kept many investors on the sidelines.
NEW YORK — A jitterty stock market tumbled again yesterday as the dollar extended its slide on world currency markets.
Beginning its fourth week of business since the 508-point plunge of Oct. 19, Wall Street continued to be anxious about the battered dollar and Washington's slow progress in trimming the federal budget deficit.
session.
"It's still nervous, it's still tense, it's still uncurled," said Monte Gordon, vice president and director of research for Dreytus Corp. "It's a challenge, but we're in the process of recovering from a trauma."
The Dow Jones industrial average, which tracks the value of 30 of the biggest U.S. companies, fell 58.85 points, or 3 percent, and closed yesterday at 1,900.20. Most of that occurred early in the day. The average then moved in a fairly narrow range through the rest of the
And it had a new worry: the potential reappearance of computerized program trading, which had been banned after the October stock market crash. For the first time since then, the New York Stock Exchange relaxed all restrictions on program trading, which has been blamed for wild swings in stock prices and may have played an important role in the collapse.
It was the ninth largest one-day point drop for the Dow, adding to Friday's 26.36 point decline and last week's net loss of 34.48 points.
On the NYSE, two stocks fell in price for every increase. About 160.90 million shares changed hands, the lowest daily volume since the Oct. 19 plunge and sharply below the average volume of 459.90 million posted in the first week of the crisis.
The value of all U.S. stocks fell by $15 billion, accounted for to the will sighs "Jury's decision."
The New York and other exchanges moved closer to normal operating hours by staying open until 3:30 p.m. EST, a half hour shorter than usual. The exchanges have been operating on curtailed schedules since the crash.
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