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Friday, October 16. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Dole says Senate debate on Bork nomination will begin next week
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said yesterday that debate on Robert H. Bork's Supreme Court nomination probably would begin at the star of next week.
A vote might be possible by Wednesdav. Dole said.
Republicans in the Senate have rebuffed Democrats' demands for a vote this week, arguing that at least three days would be needed
to make the pro-Bork case. So far, 54 senators have said they oppose confirmation, all but ensuring defeat when the vote does come.
Law stands to cut $23 billion from budget
Dole told reporters, "We're try-
ing to get something worked out"
on a voting time. "In any event,
we'll start Monday."
Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., has been pushing Republicans unsuccessfully for agreement on a voting time.
WASHINGTON — The Gramm-Rudman budget law will slush more than 10 percent from military programs and nearly 9 percent from domestic agencies next month. That will be the case unless President Reagan and Congress approve a bill to reduce the deficit, the Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday.
The $23 billion in cuts, about half from military programs and the
rest from non-defense spending,
would take effect automatically on Nov. 20 under the newly revived law.
The report by the non-partisan CBO was the first step toward implementing the cutbacks. Although only a prelude to official White House estimates due next month, it is likely that individual programs would be hit by the across-the-board reductions.
Big-chested cheerleader settles lawsuit
LOS ANGELES — A $1 million lawsuit filed by a teenager who claimed she was kept off a high school cheerleading squad because her breasts were too big has been settled with a public apology from the school district.
parents will cheer about for many years to come," said attorney Gloria Allred, who filed the suit on behalf of Vicki Ann Guest.
This is a victory students and
Rock slows efforts to free girl in well
The Associated Press
MIDLAND, Texas — A frightened toddler trapped for more than a day 22 feet down an abandoned backyard well talked to her mother and cried yesterday as anxious rescuers pounded their way through solid rock with jackhammers.
Eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell into the well at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday while playing with other children at a private day-care center run by her aunt and her mother.
Midland Police Chief Richard Czech said yesterday night that the rescuers had hit much harder rock than they had anticipated. But he was still unaware of how likely maybe by six in the morning, if the good Lord's willing, we'll be done."
Floodlights were turned on as dusk fell yesterday. Dozens of friends and neighbors gathered to wait and pray for the sunshine. Reba Gayle McClure, 17, Jessica was
Earlier yesterday, Midland police Cpl. Jim White said he listened to the child through a microphone that had been lowered to her.
their only child.
"the only thing I heard her say is
mummy." The rest is just crying and
dreaming.
Rescue workers using hand-held hydraulic drills inside a shaft sunk 64 inches away from the abandoned well had chiseled about 40 to 50 inches through solid rock but still had about two feet to go, Midland Fire Chief James Roberts said.
"If you would have asked me yesterday morning early, (I would have said) we wouldn't be here said. "The rock has been much harder."
An earlier, smaller pilot shaft was drilled to within six inches of the well, but the later drilling was on a shaft 12 to 20 inches wide, one through which a rescuer could fit, Roberts said.
The rescue of Jessica McLure
Knight-Ridder Graphic
U.S. supertanker set afire by Iranian missile
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iranian gunners fired a missile into the anchorage off Kuwait's main oil terminal at dawn yesterday, hitting an American-owned supertanker and setting it ablaze. No injuries were reported.
From The Associated Press.
been a Chinese-made Silkworm launched from the occupied Faw Peninsula in southern Iraq about 50 miles away.
The fire was brought under control after five hours. The tanker, which flies the Liberian flag, had about 1 million barrels of oil aboard, but only one cargo hold was hit and pollution experts described leakage as minimal.
Four Kuwaiti tankers flying the U.S. flag escaped harm. They had arrived at the Al-Ahmadi anchorage two days earlier.
Shipping executives and U.S. officials said the missile that hit the 275.937-on Sungari may have
Iraq said its warplanes hit two large ships in simultaneous attacks at 6:30 p.m. yesterday, but there was no immediate confirmation of either raid from marine salvage officers based in the Persian Gulf.
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