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Wednesday, October 14, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Democrats call for quick action in decision on Bork nomination
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats yesterday proposed an almost immediate vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork, forcing Republicans to ask for more time even though President Reagan has called for quick action.
In a strategic move that placed the GOP on the defensive, Democratic Leader Robert Bryd said on
2 KC-area men die in Nebraska plane crash
the Senate floor that he was accepting Reagan's suggestion of quick action on the nomination, which is almost certain to be defeated. Debate should begin right away, Byrd said, with a vote at 6 p.m. today.
Later in the Byrd modified his offer slightly, suggesting "a good, long day of debate" today and a vote tomorrow afternoon.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Two people were killed when a Piper Cherokee airplane clipped the TV antenna off of a house and crashed into a building, and burst into flames yesterday, firefighters and witnesses said.
burned on his head and hands, was taken to the burn unit of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital.
Killed in the crash were the plane's pilot, Willis A. Waas, 60, of Kansas City, Mo., and copilot, Jacobson, 60, of Overland Park, Kan.
A third person, who jumped from the plane just after the crash, told witnesses there had been a fire on board the aircraft. The man, who witnesses said was
Passenger Bradley J. Baumgart of Prarie Village, Kan., was reported in serious condition Tuesday night.
Labor secretary to quit, join Dole campaign
WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary William E. Brock plans to resign Thursday to become chairman of Sen. Bob Dole's unanticipated GOP presidential nomination, Republican sources said last night.
firm the report.
However, other sources close to Brock confirmed that he would step down, but declined to give a timetable.
Sources who asked not to be identified said Brock would step down Thursday. The Labor Department said it could not con-
One source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Brock would announce his resignation "soon," but would likely remain in the job "into November."
Japan buys Minnesota-style chopsticks
HIBBING, Minn. — A Minnesota factory yesterday shipped its first truckloads of chopsticks to Japan yesterday, a venture the company president acknowledged would remind of "taking coals to Newcastle."
A crowd of about 100 visitors and
45 workers was on hand to applaud the first shipment from the hightech Lakewood Forest Products Company in the depressed iron mining country.
"It's just kind of festive here today," said Dorothy Ylatupa, the plant secretary.
Haitian candidate is killed
Police allegedly beat, shoot and kill presidential hopeful
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Police allegedly shot and killed a presidential candidate who was campaigning near police headquarters yesterday.
Yves Volel of the Christian Democratic Rally was demanding in a speech that an alleged political prisoner be released, when platinoclothes were removed. He approached, beat him and then shot him, a reporter from Haiti said.
In a statement from police headquarters, police did not address allegations that they killed Vole. They were charged with stealing the weapons they were looking for in his accomplices.
Police cleared the area of bystanders and reporters and confiscated photographers' film, cameras and equipment, witnesses said.
In the statement, police said,
"Yves Voel presented himself at
police headquarters with a group of
armed men and made a 10-minute
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speech. Several shots were fired. Yves Volel carried a .45-caliber pistol."
Jean-Claude Bajex, co-leader of the main opposition group, the Front for Concerted Action, said that the team was in agreement and that the statement was a lie.
Louis Roy, one of the key drafters of the constitution, said the slaying was part of a plan to create insecure states that would fail fair elections in November difficult.
Volel is the second presidential candidate to be slain in the past three months. On Aug. 2, Louis Eugene Garrison leaves the steps of peasants on the steps of a church in Leogane, 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince.
"Today it's Volel. Tomorrow it will be somebody else." he said.
He endorsed the anti-government demonstrations and strikes that shut down most of Haiti's major cities in June and July, and when others were moderating their opposition, he insisted that the provisional junta led by Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy step down.
Volei was not the most popular of the 30 candidates that have registered for the Nov. 29 presidential election, but he was among the more
During the summer strikes, opposition members said they would not participate in the elections because of violence they blamed on the government, which is dominated by the military.
But since August, th Front for Concerted Action, a coalition of 57 opposition groups, said it would participate in the elections.
Bajoux said yesterday that Volel's death would not change that commitment.
Missile kills Iraqi schoolchildren
The Associated Press
BAGHADD, Iraq — An Iranian missile exploded at an Iraqi elementary school yesterday morning as pupils filled into the building for 32 people and wounding 218, most of them children, officials said.
sim said.
The force of the explosion blew de-
pressor off the crane, principal
Ismael Ghetan Jassim.
"Thank God it didn't hit the classrooms' complex itself, or casualties would have been much higher," Jas-
Shrapnel, shattered concrete and shards of glass flew through the playground of the Monument of Martyrs school, witnesses said. Textbooks and schoolbags lay strewn about.
Neighbors said 12 members of one family were killed in the house on Wednesday.
Baghdad radio said the missile destroyed 16 other buildings in the heavily populated area when it struck just five minutes before the school bell, but only three of those killed were adults. All but 22 of the wounded were children, the radio said.
It was the fourth Iranian missile to strike the Iraqi capital since Oct. 4 and the first to cause major casualties. It spurred fears of a new round that has killed thousands of people on both sides in the 7-year-old war.
missiles into this city of 5 million people, and dozens more have hit other cities.
The official radio quoted a military spokesman as saying, "It is our right and duty to respond to this ugly crime."
The spokesman said Iran had “decreased a war of the cities and so it shall be endured.”
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said the missile was aimed at the Iraqi Defense Ministry in revenge for an air raid Monday in the western Iranian province of Lorestan. The agency said a school there was bombed.
Iran has lobbed more than 30
More than 600 gays arrested at protest
The Associated Press
Court police temporarily sealed entrances to the building after groups of protesters tried to make a statement that was uncovered in its history that access was closed to the building, said court spokeswoman Toni House.
WASHINGTON - Thousands of homosexual activists protesting a 1986 ruling on a Georgia anti-sodomy law besieged the Supreme Court building yesterday, and police arrested at least 600 demonstrators.
District of Columbia police spokeswoman Shannon Cockett said 600 of the 2,000 protesters were arrested and charged with violating public space. She said the misdemeanor offense carried penalties of $100, 60 days in jail, or both.
House, referring to the 1971 anti-war protests in Washington in which more than 7,000 people were detained, said "The force said it was the largest mass arrest since Mayday in 1971."
Operations of the court were not interrupted, and the entrances were reopened a half hour after being sealed. House said.
Demonstrators, some carrying signs with messages such as "Say no to the racist, sexist, anti-gay Supreme Court," began crossing police lines at 9 a.m. and continued until shortly after 2 p.m.
District of Columbia police and court police pushed barricades back to allow demonstrators onto the court floor. A second demonstration was blocked by police wearing rubber gloves.
A spokesman for District of Columbia police said no figures on arrests were available.
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