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Monday, September 19, 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE NEWS in brief
HONG KONG
China pledges to annul Hong Kong's elections
In the twilight of British rule, Hong Kong voters chose local governments yesterday in the colony's first fully democratic election, which China has sworn to annul.
The election was held under rules imposed unilaterally by Gov. Chris Patten after China, Hong Kong's ruler come 1997, refused to accept them.
The turnout, keenly watched as a barometer of Hong Kong's enthusiasm for democracy, suggested a mixed triumph for Patten.
At 33.1 percent, the turnout was less than 1 percent higher than in 1991. But a government registration drive almost doubled the electoral roll, and the number of ballots cast increased 67 percent, official figures showed.
"Ithink China should take into consideration that people have very strong support for the political reforms," said Stephen Tang, a political analyst, on Hong Kong's TVB channel. "They should seriously consider any move against the election result."
China has said it will disband all institutions filled through elections under Patten's rules. But its distaste for Western-style elections did not deter its supporters in the colony from campaigning vigorously.
Electing patriotic figures would restrain "the attempt to cause chaos and harm to Hong Kong's people's interests by the Pattern reforms," the China-backed newspaper Wen Wei Po said.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida Discovery's return may be delayed
With their mission accomplished, Discovery's six astronauts may have to spend some extra time in space.
Stormy weather was forecast for Kennedy Space Center at the 2:23 p.m. scheduled landing. NASA could send the shuttle to Edwards Air Force Base in California later in the day.
"It's pretty fatiging up here. I think a lot of us are looking forward to getting home, getting a good shower and some good old Earthbound things we enjoy," Discovery's pilot, L. Blaine Hammond Jr., said yesterday.
The shuttle blasted off on Sept. 9.
The astronauts released and retrieved a sun-gazing satellite, measured the damaging effects of their own steering jet exhaust on space structures, helped direct laser pulses at Earth for an atmospheric study and tested a new jet pack during a rare, untreated spacewalk.
Astronaut Mark Lee became the first human satellite in 10 years Friday when he disconnected his lifeline and used the jet pack to drift over the open cargo bay.
Lee's partner, Carl Meade, gave him a spin and a toss to see if the jet pack would steady an astronaut tumbling out of control. It did.
CIA officials ignored spy Aldrich Ames
WASHINGTON
More than a dozen active or retired officials either ignored warnings or overlooked complaints, allowing former CIA agent Aldrich Ames to spy for the Soviet Union for nine years, according to a report by the CIA's inspector general.
Chiefs, deputies and operating personnel in the CIA's security office are singled out for criticism in a 400-page draft of the report described in yesterday's editions of The Washington Post.
The newspaper quoted sources who have seen the draft as saying it criticizes CIA officials for failing to follow up on information about Ames' lavish spending in 1900.
The report was particularly critical of the security office's polygraph operation, which passed Ames in 1986 and 1991 despite indications that he lied on key financial questions, The Post said.
CIA official David French said yesterday that he had not seen the draft of the report, but that the final version was to be delivered to CIA Director R. James Woolsey soon. The inspector general is chosen independently and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
WASHINGTON
Clarence Thomas was so mentored during the Anita Hill sexual harassment hearings that he often sobbed before friends and once writed on his bedroom floor, according to a new book by his Senate sponsor.
Anita Hill hearings tortured Thomas
Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., also wrote that his own fervor to see Thomas confirmed to the Supreme Court led him to cross the "boundary of propriety" in trying to destroy Hill's credibility.
"It was a departure from anything anybody would say was fair," Danforth said in an interview. "But if you're there in an alley, and people are throwing rocks, you pick up a rock."
Danforth, who as Missouri attorney general hired Thomas in 1974 out of Yale Law School and later made him a top Senate assistant, was the prime Senate sponsor of Thomas' nomination in 1991 to replace Thurgood Marshall on the high court.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea
Volcano eruption evacuation
Authorities ordered the evacuation of 30,000 people from the city of Rabaul just hours before a nearby volcano began erupting early today.
"She's smoking away there like a chimney at the moment, spreading ash everywhere," said Leith Anderson, National Disaster and Emergency Services director of the volcano. "We believe we may have a major volcanic eruption within the next few hours or days."
SINGAPORE
Two teens suspected of vandalism
Two American teen-agers have been arrested on suspicion of vandalizing cars, four months after the caning of another American teen for vandalism strained relations between Singapore and the United States.
The two Americans, along with a British teen-ager, were taken into custody Saturday after a police chase, the *Straits Times* reported yesterday. They are suspected of stealing car emblems.
The names of the teens, ages 16 to 18, were not disclosed because police had not filed charges against them, the newspaper reported. Two Mercedes-Benz emblems were confiscated from them.
Ohio teen Michael Fay was imprisoned and flaged after he was convicted of spray-painting cars in a vandalism spree with several other teen-agers. The flogging caused a furor the United States over Singapore's stern justice system.
MONETA. Virginia
Elvis fans have theor of his 'death'
Dead men don't sweat.
That is one reason the Presley Commission, which is a sleuthing group of Elvis fans, claims to have proof the King lives.
The commission's report said threats from organized crime forced Elvis to stage a phony funeral with a persiring wax likeness inside a coffin — all so that he could enter the federal witness protection program.
After working on the theory for 21/2 years, the commission's writers, researchers and unidentified federal officials unveiled their report Friday at Camper's Paradise Resort in Moneta.
The 25 members used materials from several best-selling books purporting to show that Elvis faked his death and obtained hundreds of new government and medical documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
Serbs continue with ethnic cleansing
The commission said the body found in the bathroom of Graceland, Presley's Memphis, Tenn., mansion, on Aug. 16, 1977, actually was the cousin of the King's manager.
What mourners passing the King's catafalque saw was a wax dummy cooled by an elaborate system of dry ice and battery-powered, soundproof fans concealed inside the casket.
That, the commission said, explains why a dead Elvis sweats.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The heaviest shelling and gunfire in more than six months erupted yesterday in Sarajevo, wounding eight people and raising the prospect of new NATO air strikes.
the commander of U.N. forces in Bosnia, Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose, warned against unspecified measures against both the Muslim-led government and the Bosnian Serbs if the fighting did not stop. A U.N. representative said those measures could include NATO air strikes.
The Associated Press
Meanwhile, Serb nationalists pushed 1,300 exhausted, weeping Muslims from their homes and across front lines in northeastern Bosnia yesterday in a defiant drive to finish their ethnic purges.
In the Bosnian capital, mortar shelling, machine-gun fire and anti-aircraft fire could all be heard yes-
Rose said initial reports indicated that government forces started the fighting. That apparently touched off retaliatory fire from the Bosnian Serbs. Rose said the fighting was a clear violation of a NATO-enforced heavy weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo.
terdy. The fighting shattered months of relative calm in Sarajevo, which has been under Serb siege for almost 21/2 years.
"This fighting is seriously endangering the civilian population of Sarajevo," said representative Koos Sol, reading a statement from Rose. "If the fighting doesn't stop, he will take appropriate measures against both sides."
Sarajevo has enjoyed a semblance of normalcy since February, when NATO threatened air strikes if the Serbs did not withdraw their heavy weapons from around the city. But conditions have deteriorated in
recent weeks, with the closing of roads leading to the capital, sporadic shooting at aid flights and the cutting off last week of utilities.
The push showed the Bosnian Serbs' determination to remove the remaining non-Serbs from areas they control despite increasing international pressure and isolation.
The eight wounded yesterday included at least six civilians, one of them a 12-year-old boy. Sarajevo's streets were virtually empty, as residents who have only recently been able to walk through the city without fear, once again sought safety.
In northern Bosnia, the refugees flowing into Tuzla, a government-held city, coupled with those reportedly expelled from another Serb-controlled area Saturday, raised to as many as 9,000 the number of people forced out of their homes since mid-July.
Miss America faces challenge
The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The first deaf Miss America got a taste of the difficult task ahead of her yesterday.
Heather Whitestone, a plucky 21-year-old collegan from Birmingham, Ala., told photographers to stop shooting pictures as she tried to read a reporter's lips on her first full day wearing the crown.
"You keep flashing. You make it hard for me to see his lips. Can you hold on for a minute?" she asked.
Later, she turned the tables on a reporter. "Let me know what you don't understand," she said when he look puzzled in response to answer she'd given.
Whitestone, who became deaf at age 11/2 after a reaction to a diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus shot, has 5 percent hearing in her left ear.
A junior at Jacksonville State University, she reads lips, uses a hearing aid and knows sign language. But she said exclusive use of sign language limits what the hearing impaired can achieve.
Whitestone needed six years of speech therapy to learn how to say her last name.
Whitestone said that the most handicapped person in the world was a negative thinker and that her mother told her when she was a child that the last four letters of "American" spelled "ican."
Her platform centers on telling young people — not only those with disabilities — that anything is possible. She said Sunday she would try to spread that message during her reign as the first disabled Miss America.
"It'll be a shot in the arm for deaf children everywhere," said David Updegraff, superintendent of St. Mary's School for the Deaf in Buffalo, N.Y.
Victims fight for restitution
Associated Press
BOSTON — Eight years ago, Kathy Tennihan was beaten so severely her eyes swelled shut. For months afterward she crawled because she was too terrified to stand.
Today the attacker is free after serving 61/2 years for assault and battery with intent to murder.
But Tennihan, 46, still pays with mental anguish, and she believes her attacker ought to be paying still, too. The anguish has prevented her from working full time, she said.
She is pushing for a state law to make financial restitution a mandatory part of punishment for violent crimes.
At least two other states have laws requiring attackers to make recovery payments to their victims. And the new federal crime bill requires sex offenders and child molesters to compensate their victims for all losses, including the cost of psychological therapy.
Judges and victims' advocates say mandatory financial restitution can be unconstitutional and tricky to enforce. But they also say it could help eliminate the disparity between
the criminals who serve their time and forget and the victims who bear scars for the rest of their lives.
"Lots of times victims feel left out of the criminal process," said Marshall Dayan, a Durham, N.C., lawyer who has been court-appointed defender in dozens of capital cases. "It seems to me that there's a place in the system for making the direct victims of crime a part of it. That place, to me, is having the offender make restitution directly to the victim."
In all states, victims and their families can turn to victim compensation funds to be reimbursed for lost wages, medical bills and funeral costs.
Richard Pompelio, a lawyer from Sparta, N.J., knows the flaws in the system personally and professionally. His son was murdered in 1989, and since then Pompelio has pushed for greater compensation for crime victims and their families.
New Jersey, like most states, caps compensation at $25,000. Pompello said that cannot pay for the years of psychological therapy many of his clients have needed after being sexually assaulted.
The Associated Press
Church cashes in on self-help trend
A century later, her followers have added mass marketing and sales.
BOSTON — Mary Baker Eddy combined religion and science when she wrote the bible of the Christian Science Church.
Church officials are seizing on a dramatic upswing in sales of religious, New Age and self-help books to spread their belief that prayer can heal injuries and illness.
"People are going to bookstores for answers and for help, and so this book that has helped thousands, perhaps millions, ought to be there," said Virginia Harris, who heads the church's five-member board of directors.
The church has repackaged the book, "Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures," adding the mainstream message "Over 8 million
copies sold" to the cover and an index ("Devil; see also Satan").
While a previous edition was available in 600 specialty bookstores and Christian Science reading rooms, the new one, subject of a 12-city promotional tour, will be in bookstores nationwide Oct. 1.
"Jesus went into the marketplace. We have to go to where people are," Harris said. "It's the malls of today and the bookstores in those malls where people are going for answers."
... We've seen the demand grow, the demand for answers, spirituality and healing. There's a reaitake-charge-of- my-own-well-being attitude in this country."
Sales of religious titles increased 249 percent from June 1993 to June 1994, according to the Ingram Book Co. of LaVergne, Teen., the world's largest book distributor.
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