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Wednesday, August 26, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Bush says he'll join Republicans in October 'Firing Line' debate
WASHINGTON — Vice President George Bush, under fire from his Republican campaign rivals for refusing to debate them, announced yesterday he would participate in a televised forum in October.
Bush twice turned down invitations to appear on public television's "Firing Line" program to debate with his six rivals for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
"I will be there," he said
The two-hour live debate will be broadcast from Houston on Oct. 28.
"I know there has been considerable discussion about the 'Firing Line' debate," Bush said in a statement.
Producers of "Firing Line," moderated by William F. Buckley, discussed several dates for the appearance by the Republican candidates.
Bomb threat empties 3 brothers' school
ARCADIA, Fla. — A bomb threat forced temporary evacuation of an elementary school yesterday when three brothers exposed to the AIDS virus arrived for their second day of class under court orders.
Later, a caller to the school administrative offices simply said "boom" and hung up, said DeSoto County Sheriff Joe Varnador. After the first call, the school was
searched and no bomb was found, said Larry Browning, school superintendent.
"We'll get to the bottom of this, particularly if they call again, and I'll press charges," Browning said, calling the incidents "hurtful to the school district, the children and the taxpayers."
He said tracers were being put on school telephone lines.
Clues indicate flap setting caused crash
WASHINGTON - Investigators have turned up additional evidence of an incorrect flap setting on the Northwest airline that crashed near Detroit but remain unsure whether pilot interference or mechanical problems kept an alarm from sounding, officials
said yesterday.
Meanwhile, hospital officials at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor yesterday said that the lone survivor, four-year-old Cecilia Cichan, had been told that her parents and brother died in the crash.
CIA official tells of contra aid
Task force chief didn't want to speak out against bosses
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A senior CIA official told Congress he "got a little too rambunctions" in aiding Nicaragua's contrast last year, then sat silently while his superiors gave misleading answers to Congress to hide U.S. involvement in supplying the contras.
Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA's Central American Task Force, said in declassified testimony released yesterday that he reluctantly decided against speaking out when his bosses told the House Intelligence Committee last Oct. 14 that they knew nothing about the crash of a resupply plane in Nicaragua a week earlier.
"I am troubled by it then, I am troubled by it now," Fiers told the Iran-contra committees on Aug. 5. "I
am not very happy about it. Probably it was the most difficult decision I have made in my life."
But he told the committees that as part of the Reagan administration, he did not want to break ranks with the CIA and be the first to tell the story.
He acknowledged that he had directed that supplies be dropped to the contras fighting along Nicaragua's southern front.
In other testimony, released by the committees after sensitive portions were blacked out, Fiers said:
much of his guidance in the Iran-contra affair directly from Casey, who died in May of a brain tumor.
■ that fired National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North had a close relationship with former CIA Director William Casey, but that he did not know what the two men discussed. North has said he took
From The Associated Press.
North, after an interagency meeting on the contras, began passing around photographs of a clandestine resupply airstrip being built in Costa Rica. To do so was "dumb," Fiers said, because "it clearly indicated an involvement that was something more than a facilitator at that point in time," late 1985 or early 1986.
Fiers had been questioned by the grand jury investigating the Iran-contra affair about matters including the Costa Rican airstrip.
a $20,000 performance bonus he received from the CIA for 1986 did not constitute a bribe from Casey, but he kept the check in a drawer for three months.
Gorbachev calls for U.N. summit
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said yesterday the Security Council's 15 member nations should hold a summit meeting to discuss how money saved through disarmament could be spent on economic development.
He also proposed that the United Nations create an international fund into which the savings could be paid for distribution to developing countries.
Gorbachev's suggestions came in a message read by Vladimir F. Petrovsky, a Soviet deputy foreign minister, to the 140-nation International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development.
"It would be useful to discuss in principle the problems of disarmament and development at a special meeting of top leaders of member states of the U.N. Security Council," Gorbachev said.
No suggestion was made about when the meeting should occur.
The American U.N. Mission declined immediate comment on Gorbachev's message.
Other permanent council members are Britain, China and France. Current non-permanent members, serving two-year terms, are West Germany, Bulgaria, Congo, Italy, Ghana, Zambia, Japan, Argentina, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
The United States opposes linking disarmament and development. It refused to send representatives to the disarmament and development conference, which began at U.N. headquarters on Monday and is to run through Sept. 11.
Referring to the U.S. boycotts of the meeting, Gorbachev said: "Obstacles erected by the opponents of disarmament on the road toward the conference have confirmed once again the interdependence of disarmament and development and the urgency of the task."
Labeling protects tobacco industry
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Tobacco companies that place warning labels on cigarette packages are protected from lawsuits stemming from smokers' illness or death, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The family said that Palmer smoked three to four packs of L&M cigarettes a day until his death and that his death was advanced by the tobacco company, which they said failed to provide adequate warnings about smoking risks.
The decision by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston stemmed from a $3 million lawsuit filed in 1983 against Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co. of Durham, N.C., by the heirs of Joseph C. Palmer of Newton, a heavy smoker who died from lung cancer in 1980.
Lawyers for Liggett and Myers said the federally required warnings about smoking hazards shielded the company from liability.
In April 1986, U.S. District Judge A. David Mazzone ruled for the Palmers, saying juries were free to find that reasonable manufacturers would have included stronger warnings in addition to those required by federal law.
The appeals court said the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, hammered out by Congress in 1965 with much debate and controversy, pre-empted the Palmer family's state-based claim.
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