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Gorbachev pledges new freedoms
NATION/WORLD BRIEFS
Moscow
Mikhail Gorbachev, opening the first human-rights conference ever held in the Soviet Union, promised yesterday to do all he could to end decades of human-rights violations and guarantee individual freedoms.
"You have come to the capital of a thousand-year-old state that is entering a new era in its history," the Soviet president said in his keynote address to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. "The great hallows of the new world."
Gerbach said he envisioned a new voluntary union of sovereign independent states whose overriding values are freedom, honor and dignity.
In the wake of the failed hard-line coup, the Communist Party's grippon power has been broken and the Soviet government reorganized to transfer power into the hands of the republics. The KGB secret police, which terrorized generations of Soviet citizens, is being revamped.
he called for early ratification of treaties reducing conventional forces and strategic weapons, and he urged the West to provide more assistance in the transition to a market economy.
As the conference's first order of business, the ministers of the 35 member nations voted unanimously to admit the Baltic republics of Estonia and Latvia to the Union and are gained independence from the Soviet Union.
Toronto
Canada civil-servant strike goes on
Trucks backed up at the U.S. border, air traffic was disrupted, and grain ships dwindled yesterday in the second day of a strike by Iraqi aircrew drivers angered by a threatened wage freeze.
I were no sign of a quick return to work by the Public Service Alliance of Canada, which told 110,000 its members to strike Monday. An array of essential services are carried from striking.
The union says the strike will continue until the Treasury Board, which represents the federal government, agrees to negotiate a pay raise.
The government says it plans to freeze wages this year and set pay increases at 3 percent for 1992 and 1993. The decision is not negotiable, it saves.
Daryl Bean, the union's president, said he had heard nothing from the Treasury Board or its president, Gilles Loiselle.
—From the Associated Press
Dahmer vows to claim insanity if found guilty
MILWAUKEE — Jeffrey L. Dahmer, who admitted to police that he had killed and dismembered 17 people since 1978, pleaded not guilty yesterday to 15 murder charges and said that if convicted he would claim insanity.
The Associated Press
The plea means that Dahmer would first be tried on charges he committed the crimes. If found guilty, a jury or judge would then determine whether he was insane and could not be held responsible for his acts.
But defense lawyer Gerald P. Boyle said there was a strong likelihood Dahmer would change his plea later. He might plead guilty to committing the crimes but ask the court to rule that he could not be held responsible because a mental disease or defect prevented him from realizing his actions were wrong.
I always found it somewhat inconsistent for a person to stand up in front of the court and tell a jury. 'My client did not commit this offense,' and then say later, 'Come to think of it, even if he did, he was insane at the time.' Boyle said.
If found sane, Dahmer would have to serve Wisconsin's mandatory life-in-prison term for each murder. If ruled insane, he would be sent to a mental hospital and could petition for his release every six months after one year of treatment.
Togain release, he would have to convince the trial judge he was no longer mentally ill and no longer
District Attorney E. Michael McCann said he was not surprised by the insanity defense but would vigorously fight it because of the possibility Dahmer could be freed someday if found insane.
posed a threat to the public or himself.
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Boyle said he did not plan to request a change of venue for the trial, saying police and prosecutors had thus acted correctly to limit the effects of pre-trial publicity that could bias jurors.
The judge granted a defense request that Dahmer be transferred to the Milwaukee County Jail from the state prison at Portage, about 100 miles west of Milwaukee, where he has been held since his probation on a child molestation charge was revoked last month. The move will make it easier for his lawyers to meet with him.
Dahmer, 31, a former candy-factory worker and Army veteran, was arrested after a partially hand-cuffed man flagged down police July 22 and took to a courtroom, where they found 11 dismembered bodies.
Police say Dahmer admitted killing 17 young males in the last 13 years, including a 14-year-old missing child, a 19-year-old hitchhiker near Dahmer's boyhoodhome in Bath, Ohio, three males at his grandmother's home in a Milwaukee suburb, and 11 men at his Milwaukee apartment.
Aquino rallies support for base Many legislators still oppose extension of U.S. presence
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino led tens of thousands of people yesterday on a march to the Senate, where she urged lawmakers to let citizens decide whether U.S. forces can stay for 10 more years.
The Associated Press
how years?
But senators said Aquino failed to sway opponents to support an agreement that would allow Washington to return Clar Air Base next year but keep Subic Bay naval base for another decade in return for $203 million in annual aid.
The current lease expires Monday. In a preliminary ballot, the Senate voted 12-11 Monday to reject the new agreement, saying the long-time presence of President Obama there has infringed on the country's sovereignty.
In Washington, senior officials said yesterday that they had been talking with several countries about expanding the United States' military presence elsewhere in the region if U.S. forces have to leave the Philippines.
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 11, 1991
Meanwhile, a small bomb that police said was concealed in the bed of delivery truck exploded in front of the Senate building while Aquino was inside. Police said four men and a woman were injured.
The march came after a rally during which Aquino accused senators of betraying her even though she had helped them win election in 1987.
During the rally, Aquino said the Philippines needed the money provided for in the agreement because of the economic crisis caused by the eruptions of the volcano. He also said that eruptions can seriously damaged Clark Air Base.
Sen. Ernesto Maceda, who was elected on the Aquino ticket, said the president tried very hard during the rally to recapture the spirit of the 1986 uprising and to demand dimand Marcos and propelled her to the presidency.
The crowd was estimated at 50,000 to 100,000, far short of the 1 million her administration predicted would show up to demonstrate popular support for the agreement.
"Unfortunately, after five years of hardship due to her own incompetence, the spirit of 1991 is no longer listening." Maceda said.
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