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Tuesday, October 6, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Trade official predicts difficulty for supporters of Canadian pact
WASHINGTON — U.S. Trade Representative Clayton K. Yeutter said yesterday that winning congressional approval of a far-reaching free trade pact with Canada would require a lot of effort on the part of supporters.
Despite initial optimism expressed by Canadian and U.S. officials, Yeutter said, obtaining approval of the agreement might be difficult, particularly over some of
its provisions, which include giving Canadians access for the first time to oil from Alaska's North Slope.
The accord, completed after 16 months of negotiations and just before a midnight Saturday deadline, calls for the elimination of all tariffs and most other trade barriers between the two countries by Jan. 1, 1999. It would create the world's largest open market.
China shoots down Vietnamese fighter jet
BEIJING — China said it downed a Vietnamese jet fighter yesterday in one of the most serious incidents along the tense Sino-Vietnamese border since the two former allies fought a brief war along their common boundary in 1979.
The official Xinhua News Agency said its air force shot down a Vietnamese MIG-21 yesterday afternoon after it intruded as far as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China.
The report said China's Foremen, Ministry had "made representations" to Vietnam's ambassador about the violation of Chinese air space.
"The Vietnamese authorities must adopt practical measures to put an end to such incidents, or they will be blamed," Xinhua said.
The duty officer at the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing said he had no information about the Xinhua report.
Early snowstorm kills six in New England
Six deaths were blamed on a weekend storm, which piled snow as high as 20 inches in New York's Catskills, and more than 200,000 people were left without electricity yesterday as New England was battered by its earliest snowstorm in a century.
Ski resorts opened early,but rising temperatures raised the
threat of flooding. Snow and fallen trees on roads kept thousands of tourists who had gone to see New York from their hotels in an extra, nightly movie, and imp.
Frosty temperatures extended deep into the South, while the West Coast was having a 100-degree heat wave.
Teen sentenced for hired killing of father
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A Long Island teen-ager who admitted hiring a classmate to kill her father to end years of sexual and physical abuse was sentenced yesterday months in prison for manslaughter.
announced the sentence.
Cheryl Pierson, 18, whose case had focused national attention on incest and domestic violence, fainted in her courtroom chair when Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Harvey Sherman
The former high school cheerleader had pleaded guilty to manslaughter for hire 19-year-old Sean Pica to kill her father, James Dennis. The judge had abused her sexually and physically for more than four years.
Pierson, an electrician, was shot to death in the driveway of his home in Selden as he left for work on the morning of Feb. 5, 1986.
From The Associated Press.
The official tally of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta shows that about 15 percent of AIDS victims will live longer than three years. But a detailed examination of long-term survivors suggests that the proportion to 5 percent hang on that long, said Ann Hardy of the CDC.
AIDS data forecast is gloomy
NEW YORK — The survival rate for AIDS patients is worse than official figures suggest, with up to 98 percent of victims succumbing less than three years after diagnosis, a researcher said yesterday.
Hardy presented her results at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a program to research on infections diseases.
The Associated Press
Hardy's findings came from a study attempting to determine why some people seem to beat the odds, with AIDS for an extended period.
She is studying a pool of 544 AIDS victims who were reportedly alive more than three years after their diagnosis, and she reports finding that some have died and that their deaths were not reported.
But when she began to search for such long-term survivors, she found that their numbers were considerably lower than official figures indicated.
Elsewhere at the meeting, two researchers presented reports differing sharply over whether the AIDS microbes are commonly through heterosexual contact.
Careful investigation of a few of the long-term survivors led her to calculate a survival rate that might be as high as 98 percent after three years, she said.
Doctors have known for some time that the virus can be spread through heterosexual contact, but the most widely held notion is that such spread is uncommon. Most AIDS victims develop homosexual contact, the sharing needles during intravenous drug use and other high-risk behavior.
High court of 8 begins term
Bork suffers setback from majority leader Byrd, 2 others
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Still one justice short, the Supreme Court began its 1987-88 term by acting on about 1,000 cases yesterday, agreeing in one to decide the right of private clubs to keep out women and racial minorities.
The court said it would review a New York City law that prohibits private clubs with more than 400 members from adopting exclusive membership policies. Numerous other cities have similar laws.
Bork's Supreme Court hopes suffered major new setbacks yesterday as Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a conservative Democrat, and two liberal Republicans declared opposition to his confirmation.
Meanwhile, the eight Supreme Court justices generated a flurry of activity as they returned from a three-month summer recess.
But the justices refused to free the prestigious Bohemian Club from a California court order that it stop refusing to hire women.
scutting the prosecution of Michael K. Deaver, the former presidential audio charged with lying to a grand jury and pleading guilty. Deaver's trial is to begin Oct. 19.
The club's 2,000 members, all of whom are men, include President Reagan, former presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford, and members Bush and several Cabinet members.
At the White House, Reagan said he would continue to fight for Bork's confirmation
Byrd had been publicly undecided, even suggesting that he and other Senate Judiciary Committee members should send the nomination to Senate floor without taking a stand on it when the committee votes today.
For the first time since 1971, the high court began a new term without nine members. President Reagan's nomination of Robert H. Bork to replace the retired Justice Lewis F. Powell is in danger of being denied
-Voted to consider reinstating a contempt-of-court citation against the Providence Journal for publishing information the FBI obtained while illegally spying on a reputed Mafia boss. A federal appeals court had exonerated the Rhode Island newspaper, ruling that a judge's order barring publication was "transparently invalid."
But yesterday he called the nomination "doomed," said President Reagan shouldn't have picked Bork in the first place, and suggested that withdrawing the nomination "would spare Mr. Bork."
—Agreed in a case from North Carolina to consider broadening the remedy for workers who claim to be victims of racial harassment.
Senate confirmation.
-Refused to allow publication of an unauthorized biography of J.D. Salinger that includes quotations from letters the novelist wrote.
in other action, the court:
"Turned down an appeal aimed at
-Refused to spare former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, from going to prison if they refuse to supply documents to a grand jury.
Iraqi planes hit five tankers
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iraqi planes struck five tankers in raids yesterday on Iranian oil targets at both ends of the Persian Gulf, and Iran fired a missile into Baghdad.
The missile was the first to strike the Iraqi capital in nearly eight months. Authorities there said it killed hundreds of people, but they did not give names.
Iranian missile fired into Iraqi capital kills 'many people'
Japanese owners ordered their ships out of the Persian Gulf, where Iran and Iraq have been at war since September 1980.
Three crewmen of a U.S. Marine helicopter were rescued and a fourth was listed as missing after a crash during a night operation in the central gulf, the Navy said. It reported no "hostile activity" involved in the second helicopter crash since U.S.
In Baghdad, people living near where the missile struck told The Associated Press they heard and felt a strong explosion at 10:07 p.m. They described it as similar to explosions in previous missile attacks.
The 564.739-ton Seawise Giant and four other tankers were reported damaged at the makeshift Larak Island oil terminal in the Strait of Hormuz. The gulf's northern southern entrance, Iraq said its French-built oil terminal was closed and raid the Larak terminal and another on nearby Lavan Island.
A military spokesman said on state radio that many people were killed. Ambulances raced into the area, and police sealed it off. Officials would not say precisely where the missile landed
Chartered tankers shuttle oil south from Iran's main oil export terminal at Kharg Island in the northern gulf, which comes under air attack almost daily. Tankers of other nations pick up the crude oil and petroleum products at Larak and Lavan.
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months ago.
Iraq says its air force has attacked 21 ships in Iranian waters since the end of August, but its planes seldom make the long flight to attack the
Hormuz island terminals.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency filed an urgent dispatch under the headline "Thunderning Missile Gives a Rude Awakening to Baathist Regime," a reference to Iraq's ruling Baath Social Party. It claimed the missile hit a military training center.
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