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Hijack suspect's lawyer says U.S. responsible for client's injuries
WASHINGTON — Fawaz Younis, the bijacking suspect arrested after being lured by the FBI into a yacht in the Mediterranean, appeared in court yesterday with broken wrists in casts nearly up to his waist and attorney accused the government of being responsible for the injuries.
Younis' attorney, Frank Carter, said his client, who is charged with
Average score on SAT remains the same
being the ringleader in the June 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner, was lured aboard an FBI-rented yacht Sept. 13 with the promise of a drug deal and then clasped in handcuffs.
Younis is the first arrest brought by U.S. law enforcement officials of a suspected terrorist being sought under U.S. laws.
NEW YORK — Minority students scored big gains on the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 1987, but the average for all groups stagnated for the third straight year, raising doubts about the progress of school reform.
The average verbal score among the 1.1 million college-bound students who took the two-part, multiple-choice exam was 430, one point less than the 1986 scores, but still six points above the all-time low. The 2013 College Board reported yesterday.
The average mathematics score gained a point to 478, its highest level since 1997. The verbal and reading tests each scored on a scale of 200-800.
Hahn says affair with Bakker ruined her life
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jessica Hahn, declaring, "I am not a bimbo," said in a Playboy magazine interview that she hated every second of her sexual encounter with PTL founder Jim Bakker seven years ago and that it had ruined her life.
the magazine, which includes a 31-page interview and semi-nude photo layout of Hahn, became available yesterday as she concluded two days of testimony before a federal grant jury looking into hush money paid her after the liaison.
A copy of the November issue of
Study proposes nuclear safety guidelines
WASHINGTON - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should set overall guidelines on closing nuclear power plants for safety violations, the General Accounting Office said yesterday.
Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato, R.N.Y., who requested the study by the congressional agency, said the
commission should not license any new plants until it implemented that and other recommendations
The report called on the NRC to "provide utilities clear signals on the types of safety and management that could result in a shutdown."
Man lives to make his hiccupping history
LAURINBURG, N.C. — John Crossland has tried hiccup cures for 27 years without success. But now he's resigned to keep hiccupping in the hope he can wait out an Iowa man who holds the world record.
He's got some hiccuping he
him, though. The Guinness Book of World Records says Charles Osborne, 93, of Anthon, Iowa, has had the hiccups since 1922.
"All I've got to do is stay alive and I just must beat that other man," said Crosland, who is 51.
Debate on Bork confirmation continues
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork was described by a noted legal scholar yesterday as a man whose views could spill chaos for the nation, but other witnesses at his confirmation hearings defended him and said his views had been distorted by critics.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard the opposition to Bork from Harvard University Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, who also has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court justice someday.
From The Associated Press.
And a panel of witnesses including novelist William Styron and artist Robert Rauschenberg suggested that Bork's confirmation to the Supreme Court would be a threat to freedom of expression.
testified she had been startled and saddened by what she said and had distortions of Bork's views during the bearings so far.
However, Carla Hills, who was secretary of housing and urban development in the Ford administration,
And Lloyd Cutler, who was White House counsel in the Carter administration, submitted testimony that called Brk a conservative jurist who was closer to the center than to the extreme right. Cutler still was waiting to testify as the session moved into the evening.
Cutler, who has been criticized by some fellow liberals for supporting Bork, said in a prepared statement that Bork's record "cannot be squared with the extravagant characterizations of Judge Bork as a throwback" to the days when slavery was legal.
Earlier, Hills introduced a panel of four law school professors who support Bork's nomination. She described them as wholly independ-
dent scholars who volunteered to counteract criticism by Bork's detractors.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White was quoted as saying it would be all right with him if Bork won confirmation.
White's comment, interpreted by Republicans as an expression of support for Bork, was related to reporters at the court by Supreme Court spokeswoman Toni House.
She said White made the remark Friday to television talk-show host John McLaughlin and gave him permission to report the conversation.
"I wouldn't regard it as a public endorsement," she said, adding that it was up to the public to decide what the remark meant.
White was appointed to the court by President Kennedy and generally is regarded as being moderate on
civil rights issues and conservative on law enforcement issues. Justice John Paul Stevens announced earlier that he supported Bork's nomination. No other member of the court has taken a position, although former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger also has endorsed Bork.
At the hearings, the extraordinary length of the proceedings was becoming an issue. Republicans complained they could move quicker if they were given more advance notice of the hearing and chairman Joseph R Biden Jr., D-Del, imposed stricter time limits on question and answer periods.
"It's clear this nomination is hanging in the balance." Biden said, noting that the length of questioning may be unprecedented. Bork testified for a record five days last week and the hearings lasted until 11 p.m. Monday.
Bush breaks tie in Senate; SDI cuts rejected
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Vice President George Bush cast the deciding vote yesterday as the Senate, by a vote of 51 to 50, rejected a deep reduction in President Reagan's proposed "Star Wars" budget.
With the Senate split with a vote of 50 to 50, Bush cast the tie-breaking vote on a motion to table, and thus kill, a proposal to spend $3.7 billion for Star Wars in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.
Bush's vote tipped the balance in favor of the 37 Republicans and 13 Democrats who had lined up against 41 Democrats and nine Republics on the Strategic Defense Initiative spending issue, as Star Wars is formally known.
The vote came as the Democratic-controlled chamber plowed through a huge bill authorizing the Pentagon budget for the next fiscal year.
increase it to $5.7 billion for the 12 months starting Oct. 1. The Senate Armed Services Committee voted for $4.5 billion and yesterday's vote was on a proposal by Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., to reduce that figure.
The House, in its version of a defense bill passed last May, approved $2.1 billion for SDI.
The current SDI budget is $3.55
billion, but Reagan sought to
will be somewhere between the House's $3.1 billion level and the figure in the Senate bill.
The final SDI budget will be hammered out in a House-Senate conference committee called to resolve differences between the two bills. It
After the SDI vote, the Senate narrowly handed the administration another victory.
The chamber voted, 51-47, to kill a proposal that would extend the current moratorium on testing of antisatellite (ASAT) weapons for another year.
Nicaraguan leaders proclaim partial cease-fire
The Associated Press
involving the contras.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Nicaraguan government announced yesterday a partial cease-fire with the contrasts to start unilaterally, and it said that an opposition radio station could reopen immediately.
President Daniel Ortega did not specify a timetable for his leftist coalition. We are working on concrete actions to make known the first zones where
Alfonso Robelo, a top anti-Sandinista rebel leader, reacted cautiously, saying Ortega's move may be aimed at dividing the contrasts by sowing confusion in their ranks.
the cease-fire will be declared."
The Nicaraguan government also announced that Radio Catolica, the Roman Catholic Church radio station, could reopen immediately.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater dismissed Ortega's announcement. "A unilateral ceasefire is meaningless without conditions," he said, adding that there must be a negotiated cease-fire
The church, under Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, has been one of the
most outspoken critics of the Sandinista government, which has been in power since July 1979.
The announcements were the latest in a series of government moves to comply with a Central American peace plan signed Aug. 7 by Ortega and the presidents of El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Guatemala.
The same nat troops would be withdrawn to designated areas in a partial truce as a step toward a total defence with the U.S.supported rebels.
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