UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 24, 1994
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THE NEWS in brief
BALTIMORE
Fired NAACP chair seeks injunction to stop his removal by group board
The Rev. Benjamin Chavis is suing the NAACP to get his job back, saying the board of directors violated its own bylaws when it fired him.
The lawsuit filed Monday contends that the board of the civil rights group didn't grant him a proper hearing or record its vote to oust him.
"What I want the NAACP to do is practice the principles it preaches. "Chavis told ABC News.
A hearing on the lawsuit was held yesterday in Superior Court in Washington, D.C. Chavis is seeking a preliminary injunction that would prohibit the organization from removing him.
Chavis argued that his removal was done in violation of the NAACP's rules and could damage his reputation.
NAACP attorneys argued that Chavis had abandoned his responsibilities by agreeing to settle a sex-discrimination complaint without telling the board of directors.
RELJING
China accused of holding activists
The Chinese government has adopted a new tactic for punishing many political and labor activists, detaining them without trial and making them disappear in the justice system. A U.S.-based human rights group has charged
In an address Monday before a U.N. human rights conference in Geneva, Xiao Qiang, chairman of Human Rights in China, said at least 17 Chinese dissidents had been arrested since March.
The families of 16 have received no information on their whereabouts, Xiao said, in spite of a law requiring notification of kin.
One who disappeared this year is China's most famous political prisoner, Wei Jiansheng. He was released last fall just months short of completing a 15-year sentence for advocating democracy. But police detained Weil in March for alleged violations of his parole, and police have not released his legal status.
WASHINGTON
ACT scores up, freshmen behind
National ACT college entrance exam scores improved slightly for the second year in a row, but most freshmen still aren't ready for calculus or chemistry.
Scores rose in 1994 because high school students, especially growing numbers of women, are taking more of the
courses needed to prepare for college, test officials said yesterday.
This year's average score on the American College Testing assessment was 20.8, up from 20.7 in 1993.
WENATCHEE, Washington Boys commit 'coldblooded murder'
A transient was killed with numerous shots to the head and chest after he threw rocks at boys who disturbed him by firing guns. Two 12-year-olds were held Monday for investigation of murder.
The boys were shooting at logs along the Columbia River on Saturday and had been yelled at by another transient for firing too close, police Detective John Matney said.
The youths moved and were shooting again when the victim killed at them. Matney said.
When they ignored him and kept shooting, the transient threw rocks at them, Matney said.
"At that point, they planned between themselves to hunt him down and kill him." Matney said.
Both boys shot the man, reloaded and shot again, he said.
Exxon Valdez captain sued for $1
Claimants seeking $15 billion from Exxon Corp. as punishment for the 1989 oil spill said Monday they want just $1 from tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood.
"He lost his job, he is no longer financially secured," plaintiffs lawyer Brian O'Neill said as the trial's third phase opened in federal court. "With respect to Capt. Hazelwood, enough is enough."
Hazelwood was skipper of the Exxon Valdez when it hit a charted reef in Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude in the nation's worst oil spill.
The jury already ruled that Exxon and Hazelwood were reckless in causing the tanker wreck.
BLUE RIVER, WISCONSIN Man has 240-mile lawnmower ride
BLUE RIVER. Wisconsin
No driver's license? No problem for Alvin Straight, 73. Straight recently completed a 240-mile trek on his lawn mower from his home in Lauren's northwestern Iowa to visit his brother in southwestern Wisconsin.
Neither brother can see well enough to get a driver's license, but neither wants to let someone else drive.
When Straight learned that his 80-year-old brother, Henry, suffered a stroke, he knew he had to visit. He bought a 1966 John Deere lawn mower, got a 10-foot trailer to haul gasoline, clothes, food and camping equipment and took off on July 5.
Straight made it to within two miles of his brother's house near Blue River on Aug. 15, when his mower broke down again. A farmer stopped and helped him push it.
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