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Thursday. October 8. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Iranians attack Saudi oil tanker after Iraq bombs oil installations
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iranian speedboats fired on a Saudi tanker yesterday and maritime executives predicted that more of the ships will refillate for Iraqi air raids on Iran's oil installations and shipping.
Spokesmen for the ship's owner said damage was slight and none of the tanker's crewmen was injured.
Iraq said its warplanes bombed
Reagan asks for $270 million in contra aid
a radio station at Elam in western Iran. Irans official Islamic Republic. News Agency said a man was killed and others were wounded.
Reports circulated that Iran was massing armed speedboats, which usually carry machine guns and shoulder-fired grenade launchers, off Kharg Island in the northern gulf.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, warning he won't be fooled by Sandinista "facades of racism" that day to approve $270 million in contraid aid as an insurance policy for peace in Nicaragua.
pact was only a beginning.
Reagan lauded recent steps taken toward peace under a regional accord, but he also said the
"Full, free and fair elections and the open society that alone can make them possible, including full human rights and expulsion of all Soviet and Cuban forces," these officials upon which any further agreement with the Sandinistas is built," Reagan said.
Two AIDS commission members resign
WASHINGTON — The top two members of President Reagan's AIDS commission resigned yesterday, underscoring continuing turmoil within the panel, which is scheduled to file its first report in two months.
Reagan had accepted the resignation of Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, chairman of the 13-member commission. The panel's vice-chairman, Dr. Woodrow A. Myers Jr., announced his resignation shortly after Mayberry.
A White House official said that
Montana bears get high on fermented corn
ESSEX, Mont. — Black bears and grizzlies have been bellying up to a natural bar in the Northwest.
corn derailed in 1985. Some of the corn was left at the site and has since fermented, said Loren Hicks, a wildlife biologist.
The animals have gathered around a railroad track where a train carrying hundreds of tons of
"We looked at one bear that was blotto," he said.
From The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force grounded its fleet of 68 new B1B bombers yesterday for a brief inspection of the planes' crew ejection system following a recent crash in which only three of six crewmen on the aircraft were able to escape.
In a statement, the service's Strategic Air Command said "this incident marked the growth of the Sept. 28 accident" at a training range in eastern Colorado.
The inspections will require about two hours per plane and are beginning immediately, meaning that the planes returned to service quickly. SAC said.
the Associated Press reported last week that the Air Force, in investigating the crash, had begun trying to determine why only three of the six crewmen on the plane ejected from the crippled aircraft. The plane apparently ran into a flock of birds during low-level flight practice, disabling two of the four engines and setting at least one of them on fire.
The Associated Press
Sources said at the time that the Air Force was concerned because, based on initial reports, it appeared that at least four and possibly all six of the crewmen should have been able to be hailed out safely.
Air Force inspects all B-1Bs
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The three who ejected escaped with minor injuries, but the other three went down with the plane and were killed.
Through the day yesterday, Bork shuttled between meetings with Reagan and Republican leaders on Hill. He refused to answer questions.
After a new spate of declarations of opposition, an Associated Press survey showed 48 senators who said they would vote to reject Bork and 34 who said that they would vote for him. Fifty-one "no" votes would defeat Bork's confirmation. Eighteen senators, including nine Democrats and nine Republicans, have not taken a stance publicly.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan told Robert H. Bork yesterday, "I urge you to keep going" in the battle for a seat on the Supreme Court, despite rapidly growing opposition to Bork's nomination and speculation that he might withdraw.
Senate Democratic Whip Alan Cranston said that his private count had 55 votes against the nomination, but Republicans said that enough senators were undecided that Bork could still win.
The Associated Press
"He will not decide anything today, and said he would be in touch," said Korologos, a lobbyist brought in by the White House to help Bork.
But Reagan, who has repeatedly declared he wants a Senate vote on Bork, told reporters who questioned him briefly at unrelated ceremonial events; we not changed my position. I have not changed my mind on anything."
And Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole said that after Bork met with GOP senators for a combination pep talk and strategy session. "If he were on the fence when he walked in, I think he's a little more determined to hang in there."
"I am thoroughly convinced that the ACU was correct in its decision to oppose him," Gottlieb said. "There are rights that people in this state take for granted that he doesn't believe exist."
Gottlieb and Littrell said their group opposed Bork's nomination despite declarations from Bork and his supporters that his views were not extremely conservative. Bork said he respected for judicial precedents. Littrell said such declarations were recent conversions.
Gottlieb also is one of more than 2,000 U.S. law school faculty members who has publicly opposed Bork.
Reagan tells Bork not to quit
David Gottlieb, ACLU of Kansas president and KU law professor, said his group would not ease up in its campaign against Bork's confirmation, a federal appellate judge.
TOPEKA — The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas urged President Reagan yesterday to withdraw his nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court and asked Kansans to pressure their senators to vote against Bork's confirmation.
ACLU asks Kansans to vote against Bork
had news conferences in Topeka and in Manhattan yesterday to discuss the group's opposition to Bork.
Gottlieb and Robert Littrell, a Manhattan attorney and a member of the ACLU's national board,
The Associated Press
Littrell and Gottlieb said the ACLU found particularly objectionable Bork's conservative views on questions of privacy, civil rights and freedom of speech and of the press.
Bork supporter Strom Thurmond, R-S-C, when asked if Bork indicated whether he would withdraw, said, "I forgot gotten an impression either way."
In the Senate, 10 Democrats declared their opposition: John Breaux of Louisiana, Richard Shelyb of Alabama, Alan Akman of Wisconsin, Wyclef Cower of Georgia, Lawton Chiles of Florida, Kent Conrad of North
Dakota, James Sasser of Tennessee.
Bob Graham of Florida and presidential hopeful Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee.
Meanwhile, one of Bork's strongest supporters on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, blamed Reagan's and White House officials' lethargy for Bork's confirmation difficulties.
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