University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 23, 1991
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Capital punishment included in House anti-crime package
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday passed a $1.1 billion anti-crime package that would impose the death penalty on more than 50 federal crimes, help states hire more police and improve programs for youth offenders.
Final passage of the bill came on a 305-118 vote, capping three days of debate on legislation that would also provide money to increase security at schools in drug-ridden neighborhoods and test state prison inmates for drug use.
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Before the bill is sent to President Bush, it must be reconciled with a version passed in July by the Senate. The Senate's version bans nine types of semiautomatic assault weapons and includes a five-day waiting period for bandgun purchases.
The House last week rejected a ban on semiautomatic weapons but passed a similar waiting period for handgun
Bush calls for and receives limits on the appeal process of state prisoners.
purchases in May.
President Bush has indicated he would sign gun-control legislation if Congress expands the federal death penalty and imposed strict limits on the ability of state prisoners, particularly capital offenders, to appeal their convictions in federal court.
Before it passed the bill, the House voted 223-191 to reject a provision that would have allowed capital offenders
to avoid execution if they could show a locally disproportionate racial pattern in death sentences previously imposed.
ine Bush administration had threatened to veto the crime bill if it contained the provision.
The bill would impose the death penalty on more than 50 offenses, including treason, espionage, terrorism and political assassinations.
Seventy-three Democrats joined 150 Republicans as the House killed the measure.
The House adopted a Republican amendment that would allow executions if prosecutors proved that death resulted from "reckless disregard for life."
The bill also allows execution even if no deaths are directly linked to drug kingpins convicted of dealing in massive amounts of illegal drugs.
give amounts of regular wages Similar provisions are contained in the Senate bill.
North says that Bush knew about Iran-contra dealings
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Oliver North said yesterday that he was convinced that George Bush knew about many of the Reagan administration's activities for the Nicaraguan contras.
But the former National Security Council aide said in an interview that he did not personally tell Bush about the secrets of the Iran-constra affair, including the hidden diversion of arms sales money to the contras.
"I bet I prepared a couple of hundred thousand pages of memoranda that went up the chain of command and laterally to the vice president's office." No, he wasn't. He had said he wasn't aware of at least a good measure of what was going on" regarding the contras.
"I don't regard the vice president's knowledge of the situation in Central American to be something that's novel," he said.
North is promoting his new book
on the Iran-contra scandal
North's book, Under Fire: An American Story, asserts that President Reagan knew about all aspects of the Iran-contra scandal, including the diversion of arms sale money to the contras.
Bush has said that he did not know of North's secret contra resupply operation in 1985 and 1986.
Bush has said there was no arrangement to supply the government of Honduras with extra military and economic aid in exchange for Honduran support of the contras.
But Bush's office received documents showing such an arrangement, North said. The documents were disclosed at North's criminal trial in 1989.
"For someone not to have known that I was involved deeply in providing all manner of things to the Nicaraguan resistance had to be almost a conscious act of 'I don't want to know,'" North said.
North said his legal bills had totaled more than $5 million.
Brocks' mom loses teaching job after absence from work
Kansanstaffreport
A Russell woman who returned from Israel on Oct. 16 with her two daughters, former KU students, will not be able to retain her teaching job at Russell High School.
Russell High School Board released a statement yesterday stating that Marcia Brock's teaching contract would be terminated. The motion passed 7-0 Monday night.
Brock, who taught English and journalism, and her daughters, Sonya and Stephanie, disappeared mysteriously after attending a funeral in Russell.
Their disappearance received national attention because it was linked to the religious beliefs of an unorthodox group.
FBI agents found the women Sept. 26 in Washington, D.C., as they were boarding a plane bound for Tel Aviv, Israel.
The school board statement said the decision was made because Brock had broken her contract with the high school by leaving.
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