Tuesday, September 28, 1999
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State lawmakers stress vital role of young voters in government
TOPEKA — The relatively low turnout among young voters is troubling because it suggests few adults will participate in politics in the future, Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Thornburgh is hoping to reverse the trend of young people voting in fewer numbers through Kids Voting Kansas, a program designed to get children interested in government.
The program started its annual Capitol Assembly today. About 30 high school students from across the state attended the opening session, during which Thornburgh spoke.
"The problem we're facing today is getting worse by the day." Thornburgh told the students. "When we start having voter turnout of 32 percent or 25 percent, do we really have a democracy?"
Thorntown noted that in 1972, after the U.S. Constitution was amended to decrease the voting age from 21 to 18, half of the eligible 18-year-olds cast ballots. By 1998, the figure had dropped to 32 percent.
"The long-term implications are horrendous," Thornburgh said. "What we see is that voting is a learned habit."
Kids Voting is a national project that starts teaching children in elementary school about politics and government and the importance of participation.
The national Kids Voting organization kicks off its own 200 campaign today with an Internet session with Arizona Sen. John McCain, who's running for the Republican nomination for president.
Lawrence High School will participate in the national session, which is scheduled to begin at 12:15 p.m.
120 p.m. The annual Kansas assembly is designed to teach high school students how to lobby local and state officials and get their peers involved in politics.
Thornhurth noted that elected officials spent a great deal of time worrying about how to get re-elected and where to concentrate their efforts. He told the high school students that officials worried more about older voters because they turned up at the polls in higher percentages than younger voters.
"What we have to do is make young people in Kansas a force in politics," he said.
Pinochet faces extradition to Spain
LONDON—Nearly a year after the arrest of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, a court finally is considering whether to extradite the former Chilean dictator to Spain for trial for alleged human rights abuses.
Former dictator disputes country's jurisdiction rights
A magistrate began considering evidence yesterday in an extradition hearing expected to last five days.
The Associated Press
The 83-year-old general, who was arrested Oct. 16 of last year while recovering from surgery in London, was not expected to attend the proceedings, which will delve only briefly into evidence, instead focusing primarily on extradition law.
primary officer of Deputy Chief Magistrate Ronald Bartle must decide whether the charges against Pinochet are extraditable crimes, whether Spain has jurisdiction and whether the legal paperwork is in order.
Pinochet — still under house arrest southwest of London — has aggressively fought his detention, arguing that only Chilean courts have jurisdiction to try him.
In remarks published Sunday in the Spanish daily *El Pais*, Chilean Foreign Minister Juan Gabriel Valides said the general's lawyers would present all the appeals that are necessary so that Pinochet would not go to Spain.
That means further legal wrangling in a case that already has proved complicated.
case that already had been Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, who began the indictment after investigating the alleged killings of Spanish citizens by Pinochet's regime, wanted to try the general on charges of genocide, kidnapping and torture — international crimes, he said, that could be prosecuted anywhere.
But lawyers for Pinochet argued that as a former head of state, he enjoyed immunity.
Britain's House of Lords ruled in March that Britain had the right to consider extradition for Pinochet — but rejected all charges except those of torture and conspiracy to torture after 1988, the year an international law against torture came into effect in Britain.
Garzon has since added dozens of post-1986 torture allegations to bolster his case.
torture injustice. Human rights activists said they were undaunted by the legal setbacks and the threat of further appeals.
"The major legal hurdle to Pinochet's prosecution was overcome when the House of Lords ruled that he has no immunity," said Reed Brody of the New York-based Human
Rights Watch.
But Chile continued to apply political pressure on Spain and England for Pinochet's release, saying his arrest violated the nation's sovereignty and threatened to undermine national reconciliation.
Phillips's 1974 book has been widely used. His supporters have argued for his release on humanitarian grounds, citing his age and failing health.
A Chilean government report acknowledged that 3,197 people died and about a thousand others disappeared during Pinochet's 1973-90 rule.
"Every month for him detained here in England is like a year for a younger person," said Peter Schaad, a friend of Pinochet's.
But Spain and England have so far refused to intervene in the legal process, which won't end even if Bartle allows the extradition.
Pinochet's lawyers can appeal, and after all legal options are exhausted, Home Secretary Jack Straw must give the ultimate approval.
Earlier this month, Pinochet came close to expressing regret about abuses committed after his 1973 coup against the elected President Salvador Allende, a Marxist.
"The pain of those who suffered was not alien to me in the past, nor now." Pinochet wrote in a letter to Chile. "I lament all the situations of belligerence and acts of violence that caused them."
Former vice president fell victim to ridicule and lack of funding
Quayle leaves GOP race
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Dan Quayle, the former vice president who had hoped to overcome long odds and ridicule to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, is giving up his White House dreams.
Campaign officials said Sunday night that he planned to drop out of the race yesterday during a Phoenix news conference. They called him the latest victim of George W.
Quayle: Could not raise enough money to compete.
Bush's GOP juggernaut.
Quayle's departure narrows the GOP field to eight major Republican candidates, and will increase speculation about the financial and politi-
ical health of the remaining contenders. There already is turbulence within the nomination race.
quayle's advisers said the former vice president decided to quit this weekend after consulting with his wife, Marilyn, and campaign manager Kyle McSlarrow.
The brain trust determined that Quayle could not raise enough money to compete deep into the primary season, even if he fared well in New Hampshire, the first-in-the nation primary state. Bush, a two-term Texas governor and GOP front-runner, has topped $50 million — five times that of his nearest challenger.
One of the biggest obstacles that faced Quayle was what one supporter labeled the "potato factor" — a reference to the day the then-vice president mispelled the word in a classroom full of school children. That and other miscues turned Quayle into a punch line for countless jokes, cementing for many Americans the perception that Quayle was ill-suited for the top job.
Quayle's announcement comes as the remaining campaigns prepare to file their October finance statements, which will disclose how well or how poorly their fund-raising operations are doing.
Israelis retaliate with air ground strikes in Lebanon
The Associated Press
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon—Israeli warplanes struck the Lebanon yesterday after a roadside bomb killed a top official of the pro-Israeli militia and seriously wounded his driver, Lebanese security officials said.
The Iranian-backed Hezbollah group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The roadside attack prompted large-scale Israeli air and ground retaliation. Security officials said Israeli warplanes raided suspected guerrilla targets, dropping at least 15 air-to-surface missiles over villages in Iqlim al-Tuffah, a guerrilla stronghold opposite an Israeli-occupied enclave in southern Lebanon.
There was no immediate word on casualties from the airstrikes. Hezbollah guerrillas maintain bases in the area that they use as launching pads for attacks against Israeli troops and their Lebanese allies.
Israeli ground troops also
sneiled valleys in the Tuffah province, killing a Hezbollah guerrilla and igniting a fire.
An Israeli army spokesman in Jerusalem said four militia members of the Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army were wounded in the clash. The spokesman and Lebanese security officials said guerrilla artillery also injured a Lebanese woman.
The bomb yesterday morning exploded as a car carrying Fawzi al-Saghir, a local SLA intelligence chief and another SLA official was passing the militia's outpost at Bait Yahoun, nine miles north of the border, the Lebanese officials said.
Saghir was killed instantly and his driver was seriously wounded, the officials said.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli military statement said the bombing killed one SLA militiaman. Two other militiamen and a Lebanese civilian were wounded, the military said. Two of the injured were flown to Israel for treatment.
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