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Tuesday, September 22, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Official suggests states lead way in formulating AIDS-related laws
WASHINGTON — The federal government should not bar discrimination against AIDS patients or impose confidentiality requirements even though some state approaches may not work, the Reagan administration said yesterday.
"I'm not ruling out a federal role in this," Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen told the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health.
Filipinos protest assassination of leftist
But he said states should lead the way in resolving the difficult confidentiality and discrimination questions arising from the AIDS crisis — at least until they prove they're not up to the task.
Subcommittee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has introduced a bill requiring confidentiality of test results and barring discrimination against those who have AIDS or are infected with the virus.
MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of people demonstrated nationwide yesterday against purported fascist influence in the government and the assassination of a young leftist leader.
President Corazon Aquino, meanwhile, ordered changes in military commands.
In Cebu City, about 350 miles south of Manila, the New Patriotic
Alliance said it held the government responsible for the Saturday shooting of its national secretary-general, Lean Alejandro, because of the government's inability to defend the people.
Noel Tabasa, regional general secretary of the social activist organization, announced a break with the Aquino administration.
Fire. explosion may have sunk Titanic
PARIS — Spokesmen for a salvage expedition that surveyed the wreck of the Titanic said yesterday that an explosion and fire, rather than an iceberg, may have caused the luxury liner to sink.
caused by a blast, said Jacques Montlucon, who is overseeing the preservation of artifacts retrieved from the ship.
That theory arose after divers discovered a hole in the front of the wreck that appeared to have been
"The form of the metal, pushed out rather than in, indicated an explosion, perhaps from a coal fire," Montlucon said.
Razing work begins on Spandau prison
BERLIN — Wrecking crews began tearing down Spondan prison on yesterday, and souvenir hunters were offering $55 for each brick from the huge, sprawling lookup where former Nazi deputy fuerher Rudolf Hess lived alone for 21 years.
Hess, 93, Spandau's sole inmate, hanged himself in the prison yard Aug. 17. Plans call for the prison to be razed and the site turned into a shopping center for British soldiers stationed in West Berlin. The 600-cell structure is in the British-controlled sector of West Berlin.
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Syracuse transcript shows he finished near bottom of class
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden admitted yesterday that he was wrong when he boasted at a campaign appearance earlier this year that he had been in the top half of his law school class.
The Delaware senator, his campaion rocked last week by admissions of plagiarism, acknowledged his law school records showed he finished near the bottom of his class at Syracuse University.
He also admitted in a statement released late yesterday that he had made several other errors during a campaign coffee on April 3 in Claremont, N.H. But he also defended some statements in at the same event, which was tapped by GCNAN, the public service cable network.
On the tape, Biden was irritated by persistent questioning about what
law school he attended and how well he did.
"The first year in law school, I decided I didn't want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay and went back to law school and in fact ended up in the top half of my class," Biden said.
Biden's transcript, which he released at a news conference Thursday, showed he had finished 76th in a law school class of 85.
"I think I have probably have a much higher IQ than you do," he shot back at the questioner.
Biden has been the center of a storm of controversy in the last 10 days about his law school career and his failure to credit others for speech rhetoric he used. He also revealed that he committed plagiarism as a law school freshman in 1965 and took a course over to make up for the
The Legal Times of Washington reported yesterday that Biden's plagiarism at law school leaked out after the former law school dean discussed it at a dinner early this month.
The weekly publication said that Craig Christiansen, dean of the law school until Aug. 15, talked about the incident during a Sept. 4 dinner with three other law school officials.
Christensen later denied he mentioned anything specific in Biden's record.
error.
And Biden also admitted last week he had used parts of other politicians' speeches without credit, but he said those were minor mistakes.
those were in prison.
The tape of Biden was aired April 10 and 12 as part of the network's "Road to the White House" series, C-SPAN spokeswoman Nan Gibson said.
Lawyers question Bork's views
'Judicial temperament' concerns bar association panel
WASHINGTON — American Bar Association lawyers challenging Robert H. Bork's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court are concerned about his comparatively extreme views respecting constitutional principles, ABA officials revealed last night.
The disclosure came at the end of a long day and evening of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, during which Bork was attacked by civil rights leaders as a protector of privilege and power. In four former attorneys general as a man of rarely raised legal distinction
The ABA testimony was submitted by Harold R. Tyler, head of the
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association panel that reviewed Bork's record for more than two months. Tyler told the committee that four of the 15 panel members, because of concerns as to Bork's judicial temperament, think he is not qualified.
Tyler said that by judicial temperament the dissenters meant his compassion, open-mindedness, his sensitivity to the rights of women and minority persons or groups, and comparatively extreme views respecting constitutional principles.
Tyler said a fifth member of the panel voted "not opposed" to Bork. He said that according to ABA standards "not opposed" means the candidate is found to be minimally qualified but not the best available
candidate.
candidate.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uahat, attacked the integrity of the four dissenters.
He said they based their opposition to Bork on political reasons because they were allied with liberal causes and organizations that have bitterly opposed Bork.
It was previously disclosed that the panel voted 10-5 in finding Bork well qualified — its highest rating for prospective justices. The large number of negative votes is unusual for a Supreme Court nominee.
Hahn says she wants truth told
Tyler also revealed that one member of the ABA committee expressed reservations about Bork's role in 1973 in obeying President Nixon's orders to fire Archibald Cox as special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal.
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Hahn, a former church secretary,
entered the federal courthouse here
at 9 a.m. and left early in the
afternoon, saying the grand jury
wanted her to return Tuesday for
more testimony.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A drained and tired Jessica Hahn testified yesterday before a federal grand jury investigating the PTL ministry, answering questions about her sexual liaison with Jim Bakker and the subsequent payoff that led to the TV evangelist's downfall.
"I'm just really drained and tired," she said during a lunch break. "I want it all to be over. I also want to cooperate."
Hahn said she would do whatever needed to be done while the investigation continues.
She added that she tried to be as truthful as she could in her testimony about a 1980 tryst with Bakker and subsequent payments she received
The sexual encounter occurred in a Florida motel room when Hahn was
The grand jury is looking into allegations of misconduct at PTL, from which Bakker resigned last March after the incident with Hahn was disclosed.
Hahn said she agreed in 1980 to accept $265,000 for her silence but broke the agreement after Bakker mentioned the encounter. The payments stopped after that. Hahn's lawyer, Dominic Barbara, said his client received $20,300 before payments stopped.
Hahn said she posed for semi-nude pictures in Playboy magazine and submitted to an interview with the magazine in order to tell her side of the story. The interview and pictures are due out this week.
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