University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 5, 1991
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Yale GTAs strike for union status
Hundreds of graduate teaching assistants at Yale University staged a one-day strike today and were joined on the picket lines by more than 1,000 members of two university unions.
The jobaction led to the cancellation of dozens of undergraduate classes taught by graduate teaching assistants and to the closing of some dining halls, but a university representative, Martha Matzke, said it was still "mainly business as usual."
The Graduate Employee and Student Organization, a group representing about half of Yale's approximately 2,200 resident graduate students, is the university's refusal to give the group union status.
Members of two unions representing about 3,600 Yale employees, including maintenance personnel, custodians, clerical and food service workers, joined the walkout in support of the student group. They said they were also demonstrating for a better contract for themselves.
The unions are currently negotiating with Yale for a new contract. Their current contract extension is $16 million.
Rival clans again traded fire in Somalia's shattered capital yesterday, the 18th day of fighting that aid workers said had killed 2,000 people and wounded 6,000 others.
2,000 die in Somalia clan strife
Nairobi, Kenya
Most of the casualties have been civilians hit by artillery barrages or attacked by bandits, according to aid workers with personnel in Honduras.
The fighting pits President Ali Mahdi Mohamed's Abgal clan against Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidi's Habar Gedir clan. Both clans are subgroups of the Hawiye clan, from which the ruling United Somali Congress draws its strength.
Each leader seeks to oust the other from their respective posts — Ali Mahdi is president and Aidid is party leader. Their rivalry erupted in violence once before, in September.
The United Somali Congress seized control of Mogadishu in January after ousting former President Mohamed Siad Barre in a month of heavy fighting.
In the current violence, Aidid claims to have ousted Alim Mahdi. He repeated the claim in a statement Tuesday, and said he hopes to face violence and establish a multiparty democracy.
Duke announces candidacy for 1992 GOP nomination
WASHINGTON — Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke pledged yesterday to wage an upstretch-wing presidential challenge to President Bush in "every杯 and cranvy in the nation."
The Associated Press
"Iam not a racist," the one-time Nazi sympathizer said as he announced his candidacy for the 1992 Republican nomination, barely three weeks after losing the Louisiana governor's race in a landslide.
But in the course of a 45-minute news conference, Duke ridiculed what he called the "broken English" of Japanese-Americans, grossly mispronounced the last name of New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and referred to the Democratic Party as the "party of Jesse Jackson and Ron Brown."
Jackson sought the Democratic nomination in 1984 and 1988, and Brown is the current chair of the Democratic National Committee. Both men are African-American.
Duke, 41, said that Bush had "sold out the Republican Party" on civil rights by promoting immigration policies that he claimed were undermining U.S. interests and essentially "essentially Christian ... and of European descent."
"We must begin to protect the integrity of our borders." he said.
The White House and Republican officials derided Duke's candidacy just as they had done in the Louisiana governor's race and in his unsuccessful 1990 Senate bid.
"He represents the worst in American politics," he said. "Fitzwater said. 'We stand for racialism.'"
Republican National Committee representative B.J. COOPER said, "He's not a Republican, he's a
charlatan. He will never, ever, any time, any where,
receive any assistance, support, anything, from us."
Duke, who briefly ran as a Democratic presidential hopeful in 1980, said he was running as Republican leader in 1992.
"Most Republicans agree with the things I stand for," he said at a news conference that was interrupted several times by demonstrators.
A woman who screamed "Nazi, you're a goddamn Nazi!" was escorted from the room; as a man who jumped on the platform waving'a sign that said: "David Duke — Nazis of the 90s."
The man with the sign later identified himself as Rabbi Aki Weiss of the Hebrew Institute in Riverdale, N.Y. Weiss also is president of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns.
Several dozen demonstrators cantiing anti-Duke slogans marched outside the entrance to the National Press Building, where Duke held his news conference.
Duke said he had a simple way of dealing with the huge U.S. trade deficit with Japan.
*We must go to the Japanese and say, 'You no buy our rice, we no buy your cars.' he said.
Asked why he chose to use such a derogatory method of phrasing his statement, Duke said he meant no offence but was trying to explain it in a way that people with "broken English" might use.
He vowed to try to enter every primary in the nation but said he could not get geared up in time to meet them.
Duke said he was not ruling out running as a third-party candidate. And he said at some point, he might throw his support to conservative columnist Patrick Buchan, who is expected to enter the GOP race.
Jury finds Keating guilty in savings and loan failure
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Charles Keating Jr. was convicted yesterday of securities fraud for deceiving the public through the sale of junk bonds at his Lincoln Savings and Loan. Investors lost more than $250 in the business collapsed in the largest theft failure in history.
Keating was found guilty of 17 of 18 state securities fraud counts that he faced in the wake of Lincoln's impeachment and his taxpayers more than $2.6 billion.
Keating, who turned 68 yesterday, donated $1.3 million to the "Keating Five" senators and paid colossal salaries to relatives. He also said the verdicts were read before Superior Court Judge Lance A. Ito.
Keating grimly looked on as the court clerk polled the jurors to make sure they all agreed with the verdicts. He faces up to 10 years in prison because he was convicted of six or more of the counts against him.
At one point he peered, looking sadly to a front row in the court, where two of his sons-in-law, Bradley Boland and Robert Wurzelbacher, sat staring at the floor. Beside them, chewing at
knuckle and also looking down, sat Keating's longtime secretary, Carol Cassick.
Jeri Mellon, coordinator of a support group of Lincoln investors, squeezed the hands of fellow bondholders as every guilty verdict was read.
The largely blue-collar, eightwoman, four-man jury had to decide a complicated case: whether Keating was guilty of failure in a lawsuit against the six investor details of how his financial empire was crumbling.
The 20 investors named as victims were among thousands who lost $250 million when Lincoln collapsed.
The bond sales took place at Southern California branches of Irvine-based Lincoln. For the most part, Keating stayed at his Phoenix headquarters, but prosecutors tried to weave a web of circumstantial evidence linking him to the bond sales.
He contended that lawyers carefully crafted the bond sales program, including warnings of the bonds' risks. He maintained that regulators repeatedly approved the sales and that he was never told of any deviations from the strict sales guidelines.
Smith's accuser gives emotional testimony in rape trial
The Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In three hours of stunning testimony, William Kennedy Smith's accuser told a jury yester- day that he raped her on the law of his famiily's estate.
"I thought he was going to kill me," she said, sobbing.
thought he was going to kill me."
The woman said that she screamed and tried to fight Smith off, but that he slammed his body on top of hers and said, "Stop it, bite!".
The 30-year-old woman's court appearance was the first time she had faced Smith since the Easter weekend the rape allegedly occurred.
*He had on the ground, and I was trying to get out from under him because he was climbing on the roof.
"I was yelling 'no' and 'stop' and I tried to get my arm out to him off of me, and he slammed it to the ground," she said. "And he pushed my dress up and he rape me, and I
CNN, which has covered the trial extensively, inadvertently showed the woman's face during her testimony. The network called it an accident.
Although the woman's face was electronically shielded on television by a gray blot, she briefly was seen several times when the camera chanched angles.
CNN representative Steve Haworth said an outside production company processing the TV pool "feed" from the trial in West Palm Beach, Beach, Fla., "had a momentary lapse that led to the brief exposure of her face or part of it. The network, like many news organizations, has a policy against identifying rape victims by name or showing their faces.
As Smith left the courthouse after the woman's testimony, he scoffed at her allegations.
"Obviously, we saw some very sad and some very dramatic testimony," said Smith, who is Sen. Edward Kennedy's nephew. "But I've been living with these allegations, with this damnable lie for the past eight months and I hope everybody will be patient as I have been and allow me the opportunity with Roy's help to defend myself in the coming days."
He was referring to his lawyer, Roy Black, who got into only brief cross-examination before court recessed for the day. He was to continue today. The woman initially pleaded a poor memory when he quizzed her about details of the hours before she met Smith.
If convicted, Smith, 31, could be sentenced to 41/2years in prison.
In court, Smith stood up as the slender, dark-hairied woman in a dark gray suit and pearl's identified him as the man she met at a trendy discotheque.
At one point, she sobbed so strenuously that the prosecutor asked her if she wanted a break. She said she wanted to continue.
Asked, "Did you consider this an act of love?" she caught her breath and said, "Oh God, no."
She said she ran in terror from the man she had thought was "a nice guy" when they met at the nightclub earlier that night. She suggested he underwent a personality change, suddenly pouncing on her without warning.
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