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Monday, November 9, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Bomb in Irish community center kills 11; police official blames IRA
ENNISHILLEN, Northern Ireland — A bomb killed 11 people and injured 61 yesterday at a Remembrance Day ceremony for Britain's war dead in the worst Irish terrorist attack in five years.
No organization claimed responsibility, but the province's top police official said he had no doubt the outlawed Irish Republican Army had planted the bomb, and
that it was specifically aimed at civilians.
Iraqi officials report Iranian missile attack
Friends, relatives, soldiers and bandsmen dug with their bare hands through the rubble of the community center where the bomb was planted. The blast blew out buildings, killing a few and structure collapsed, trapping men, women and children against sidewalk railings.
BAGHADD, Iraq — An Iranian missile hit a densely populated section of baghdad yesterday, killing at least six children and four women and flattening apartment houses, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
Iraq said 106 people were wounded. The Iraqi news agency said the
blast demolished or damaged 30 houses and some shops.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), monitored in Cyprus, reported that Revolutionary Guards fired two missiles into the Iraqi capital in retaliation for Iraqi air raids against non-military targets in recent days.
Nursing home costs impoverish elderly
WASHINGTON — The high cost of nursing home care forces many elderly patients into poverty within a few months, says a congressional survey released yesterday.
Half of the couples with one spouse in a nursing home became impoverished within six months
Oklahomans love their uglv pickup trucks
ANADARKO, Okla. — People in southwest Oklahoma love their trucks even if they aren't pretty on the surface. They even have a contest to see whose pickup is the ugliest.
The top prize Saturday went to
Donna Sette and her son Jimmy, who won a set of four new tires for their rusty, dented old Chevrolet. The only condition in the contest was that the pickup had to be sufficiently road-worthy to be driven in the Veterans Day Parade.
From The Associated Press.
Court nominee pulls out; conservative seat at risk
Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, the president's second choice for the high court seat vacated by retired Justice Lewis F. Powell, announced Saturday that he had asked Reagan to withdraw his nomination. Ginsburg was admitted and the law had been "drowned out in the clamor" over his past masturbation vitae.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A key Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee warned yesterday that a delay in the selection of a new Supreme Court nominee might prevent President Reagan from placing a conservative choice on the high court.
"I would like to see us start the hearings on the same schedule, in early December," Spector said on Thursday. "This Week with David Brinkley."
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., praised Ginsburg for acting quickly in requesting that his name be withdrawn and said he would like to see the committee adhere to the same hearing schedule on a new nominee as the one planned for Ginsburg.
"I think we can get along with the work, and I think we ought to take the time that is necessary, but I have grave doubts about the talk of putting off the hearings until after the first of the year," Specter said. "I think we ought to take the time we need, and if we find, after we start, that we can't get it done as rapidly as we'd like, we take what time is necessary."
The chairman of the Senate panel. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., had decided to begin hearings on the Ginsburg nomination the week of Dec. 7.
"But starting at a reasonably early date I think is important," he said.
said he preferred speedy action, but emphasized the need for a comprehensive background check to avoid the surprise revelations of the Ginsburn nomination.
Sen. Howell Heffin, D-Ala., a Southern conservative on the committee.
"I would rather be right about this one and do it with deliberation than make a mistake."
Specter, however, strongly dis- asseed and warned against any da-
"I think March or April may well be too late," he said. "I believe you're going to see a very different political tone on this issue, if we go until March or April . . . If President Reagan is going to make this nomination, it had better come to fruition before April."
One judge mentioned Anthony M. Kennedy of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as a possible new nominee. Kennedy flew from California to the Washington area late Saturday.
Democrats admit to drug use
The Associated Press
Both Babbitt and Gore revealed Saturday that they had used marijuana in their younger days, but said they regretted the illegal drug use.
DES MOINES, Iowa - The major Republican and Democratic presidential candidates converged on Iowa yesterday amid controversy over whether past marijuana use should be an issue in the campaign.
The Associated Press
Dr. Dhrmanakus of the University and Bros. of Washington, Gov. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois said they had never used marijuana. So did Republicans Vice President George Bush, Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, former Gov. Pete du Pont of Delaware and Rep. Jack Kemp of New York.
and Sen. Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee, two Democrats who are back in the pack in most polls here.
marijuana use in the 1960s and 1970s.
AMMAN, Jordan — King Hussein opened a major Arab summit yesterday, calling for a common strategy against threats to the Arab world he said came from Iran and Israel. Nearly simultaneously, Iran reported hitting Baghdad with two missiles.
Hussein begins summit
The first full-scale Arab League summit in five years was attended by 21 leaders, many of them bitter political rivals.
With six Democratic and four Republican candidates in the state for a round of debates and party festivals, attention centered on former Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona
The acknowledgement of past drug use by the candidates was prompted by Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg's withdrawal from contention in the wake of his admission of
In the other opening speech, League Secretary-General Chelli Klibi demanded that Iran be expelled from the United Nations unless it embraced a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the 7-year-old Iran-Iraq war.
Hussein said in his 10-minute address, "Threats facing us are numerous. But the most serious is our fragmentation and internal bickering.
"There's no hope for us except in uniting stands and building our self-power to face the challenges to our country, the Lebanon, in Palestine and the Gulf."
He said the Persian Gulf war "no longer threatens only Iraq, but has spread to our brotherly Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It's not more wrt between Iran and Iraq, but ... a threat to the entire region and to international peace.
Hussein said, however, that the 39 year-old Arab-Israeli conflict was the Arabs' No.1 cause.
KNOW ABOUT ISLAM
One of the most puzzling questions which has perplexed man throughout history is the one regarding his own nature. Philosophers meditated, logicians argued and theologians asserted that man is inherently good or evil according to whatever persuasion they belonged to. Despite their best intentions, the question remains a lively one. Its liveliness stems from the fact that it seems to have remained unanswered to most people.
Muslims happen to be an exception. They feel they have a reasonable answer, a logical one. The three major religions of the world (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) agree on a crucial point: namely that of man's free agency. If man is a free agent, and consequently accountable for his deeds, he must be equipped by his creator to discern both good and evil. To argue that we are inherently sinful, does not leave us a chance for redemption since a person whose very creator fashioned him as sinful cannot be expected to recognize the path of redemption.
Moreover, we all seem to agree that God is All Wise. As such He could not have created a creature whose very nature is sinful and asked him to seek his own way to salvation regardless of whatever the means to salvation may be.
If we men are wise in our engineering education so as not to take an unnecessary chance or not to risk the future of a young engineer, how can anyone possibly expect the Lord to be less wise than we. The Lord gave Adam and Eve a chance to practice their free will before they were sent to earth. They did. They disobeyed God, ate from the forbidden tree and were sent to earth. This experience seems to have been necessary for them for it gave them an idea about what is expected of them on earth. Significantly, when they realized the wrong they committed, they asked God for forgiveness and He forgave them. And that is what we expect on earth. We are expected to obey the Lord's commandments inasmuch as we can. If we occasionally fail, we are to ask for forgiveness and we will be granted it.
A new engineering graduate, though he carries the professional title "engineer," is never trusted with the significant task of erecting a skyscraper for instance. Rather, he has to go through a training which exposes him to the variety of problems he may encounter in building a skyscraper. In other words, he has to be adequately trained if he is expected to be at all accountable.
The argument that Adam and Eve were sinful and consequently we are, is a remarkable slap on the face of anyone who attributes justice, fairness or wisdom to the Almighty. If one is going to inherit all the misdeeds of one's ancestors, one would wonder about the wisdom, fairness and justice of God. In fact, one would wonder about the purpose of one's own creation in its entirety.
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