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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 29, 1991
Bush accepts invitation to second drug summit
Five South American nations plan to meet in U.S. in 1992
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush accepted an invitation from five South American presidents to attend a second international drug summit in the United States, his representative said yesterday.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwarter said the president would like to hold the summit early next year, perhaps on the second day of the conference 1990 drug summit in Cartagena, Colombia.
"Since that day in Cartagena when the president met with the presidents of Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, we have made tremendous progress, both at home and abroad." "Water was
That trip was accompanied by unusually heavy presidential security to guard against threats.
Fitzwater said that a second anti-drug summit of Andean nations had been proposed to Bush by the presidents of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Bush accepted the invitation and invited the participants to the United States for this summit and proposed that it be in early 1992, Fitzwater said in a statement.
He said Bush also decided to invite Mexico.
"We have made tremendous strides in the drug fight, both at home and abroad."
Marlin Fitzwater White House press secretary
The announcement of a second anti-drug summit drew praise from Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., head of the House Narcotics Committee and usually a Bush critic.
He called it welcome news in the face of a contempt torrent of drug trafficking and drug distribution.
Rangel said he had heard that San Antonio, Texas, was the proposed site of the summit. The administration acknowledged that San Antonio had said that no decision had been made on a site.
"The first summit was successful just on the fact that we had heads of state from one region sitting down as a group to talk about drug control," Rangel said. "The event was a model of what can be accomplished when we give the drug issue a high priority and a high profile on the international agenda."
The decision to include Mexico, Venezuela and Ecuador could not be more fitting, Rangel
"We would be remiss in holding such a conference and not including these countries as they, too, are greatly impacted by the drug crisis," he said.
Fitzwater's statement said that the first session brought the international effort against drugs into focus as no other event had. The conference also added its priority for many nations including Mexico."
Fitzwater said that cocaine consumption in the United States had fallen since the Cartagena summit.
"The drug malfaqs have been attacked, and trafficker routes have been disrupted throughout the region," he said. "Efforts against chemica- tions and money launderings are also improving."
The Associated Press
WICHTA — Gov. Joe Finney unveiled plans yesterday for a statewide program designed to help parents keep their children from using drugs.
The goal of the program, the Kansas Family Initiative, is to create a group of hundreds of citizens who can present ant-drug programs to parents in local communities. The governor described it as the first effort of its kind in the state.
"The best protection that a child has against drugs is a parent," Finney said. "Unfortunately, parents often feel ill to talk with their children about drugs."
Finney discussed the program during a speech at the Governor's Conference on Drug Abuse. She said it would begin with a series of regional meetings in December.
"Families working together can make all the difference," Finney said. "Yet they cannot do it alone. The most effective vision is one of state and local leaders collaborating with grassroots groups in a supportive partnership."
The program is sponsored by Finney's executive office, her office of drug abuse programs, the State Board of Education and the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. Also sponsoring it are the United School Administrators and the
National Federation of Parents.
The program is being financed with a $125,000 federal grant to the state Department of Education. Plans call for the initial round of training sessions to be conducted by a private Topeka agency, Mainstream Inc.
Joan Finney
"We must all join hands to form a wall against drugs." Finney said. "If any part of the wall is missing — teachers, law enforcement, parents, government officials, community leaders, children — then our wall will not hold together."
Finney said she hoped that by the end of next year, 5,000 Kansans would have completed training programs. The training should begin early next year, she said.
"As I visit with people throughout Kansas, I hear more and more concerns about drug abuse and its destructive effects on individuals, families, communities and our society as a whole," the governor said. "Drug abuse is a grassroots epidemic. It is not something that happens somewhere else or at some other time."
Doctor releases tape of suicide victims' last day
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Two disabled women wept and laughed on the eve of their assisted suicides as they explained the suffering that brought them to Jack Kevorkian, a video tape released yesterday showed.
"I thought about it for a long time, a long time. I have no qualms about my decision," Sherry Miller, 43, told Kevorkian in her parents home in an tape released by Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fever
"I want to die, and I know there's no turning back," she said, her voice faltering.
The videotape was recorded Oct. 22, the day before Miller, who had multiple sclerosis, and Marjorie Wantz joined Kevriankir in a secluded Oakland County cabin and killed themselves with devices he invented.
Kevrianan was expected to make his first public appearance yesterday since the suicides. He did not appear at the court hearing and an attorney read a statement from
Kevorkian in which the retired pathologist called for a national panel to explore doctor-assisted suicide and set guidelines.
Vekvarian, 63, will issue no other statements until the Oakland County prosecutor's office decides whether to charge him with a crime. Feyer said.
No charges have been brought against Kevorkian despite his apparent violation of a court order issued in January barring him from assisting suicide. The injunction followed dismission on DeKeylan's first three charge charges against Kevorkian for helping an Oregon woman commit suicide in June 1990.
charges could be filed.
In that incident, Kevorkian hooked Janet Adkins, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, to a device similar to one used by Wantz. 85 Adkins pushed a button, giving herself a lethal njction.
Prosecutors said it could take six weeks to determine whether Kevorkian violated the order with the latest deaths and whether criminal
Michigan has no laws against assisted suicide.
"We must grasp this opportunity to resolve these issues or risk slipping again into the dark age of ignorance and intolerance," Kevorkian said in his statement. "Let enlightenment and compassion be Janet's, Marjorie's and Sherry's legacy to us all."
In the hour-long videotape released Monday, Wantz told of previous unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide and escape the pain of 10 pelvic operations. The disease, papilloma virus, was not terminal.
Wantz, who lived in Sodus, said she unsuccessfully tried suicide on her own three times by inhaling carbon monoxide from a hose connected to a car. She said she two time tried overdosing on the sleeping medication Halcion.
"I tried loading a gun, but I didn't know," shew told Kevician. "If you do it yourself, you don't know what you're doing. I wish I could have done
it a year ago or two years ago."
The videotape, shot at the Roseville home of Miller's parents, showed both women chatting amiably with Kevorkian about details of their planned suicides. On several occasions, Kevorkian asked the women and their relatives whether they had second thoughts.
"I hate to see my sister kill herself." Gary Miller said. "But I think she has the right to say that she's had enough. I couldn't put the needle in her hand. I couldn't hold a pillow over her head. But I'm not going to step in and stop her."
Kevkarian, from Royal Oaks, spent about 20 minutes in the tape detailing the device he planned to use to administer blood samples into the women's bloodstreams.
The next day, Wantz died using the injection device but Miller breathed deadly carbon monoxide fumes and burned his throat. He proved too delicate for a needle.
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