6 Tuesday, April 30, 1991 / University Daily Kansan are on sale now at the Ticket Office in Allen Field House Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Cost: $75.00 Cost: $75.00 Sports Package Includes: · 5 Home Football Games · 16 Home Basketball Games Get your tickets now to catch all the action next year! Court will decide if accused abusers may query children The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to take a new look at the right of alleged child abusers in question their young accusers in court. The court said it would hear an appeal by an Illinois man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl. The justice said they would decide whether young children who are available to testify must take the witness stand in such cases when other witnesses have testified that the child told them they were abused. In another matter, the court, complaining about being burdened with frivolous appeals, voted 6-3 to crack on some of the people who file them. In an unsigned order, the court changed one of its procedural rules so it could strip some poor people of the privilege of filing appeals without having to pay a $300 filing fee and significant printing costs. The three dissenters called the action a serious mistake that created an unfair distinction between the rich and the poor. In the child-abuse matter, the justices last year said the constitutional right of defendants to confront their accusers was not absolute. The court allowed states to shield young witnesses from face-to-face confrontations with child-abuse defendants — permitting use of videotaped testimony, witness testimony and mony by those who interviewed the alleged abuse victims. But the court said judges must have evidence that the child faced the risk of serious emotional trauma. In the case of the Illinois man, the child, identified as S.G., did not testify at his trial. But five witnesses—the child's babysitter, her mother, a doctor, a nurse and doctor—said S.G. told them she was assaulted. An Illinois appeals court ruled that S.G.'s statements to the babysitter, mother and officer were spontaneous made soon after the attack The appeals court said the statements the child made to the doctor and nurse some time later also were admissible. "Whether the (alleged victim) is Tax on Indian-owned lands to be evaluated The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to decide whether states and counties may be permitted Indian-owned land on reservations. The court, setting the stage for a ruling that could have broad significance for tribes and their members, said it would study a dispute about taxes imposed on land within a Yakima American Indian reservation in Washington state. A ruling is expected in 1992. The Yakima Nation and Yakima County, Wash., each asked the justices to review a ruling announced by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last June. The appeals court partially reversed a decision by a federal judge who had killed a lawsuit by county officials seeking to impose property taxes and taxes on the sale of American Indian land. In reviving the suit, the appeals court said property taxes — but not sales taxes — sometimes are permitted on what are known as fee lands" on American Indian land, vally owned, either by the tribe or individuals, in contrast to federally owned reservation land. unavailable is totally irrelevant to the determination of whether an out-of-court statement of that declarant Earthquake devastates towns in Soviet Georgia, killing 40 is admissible under an exception to the hearsay rule," the state court said. The Associated Press MOSCOW — A strong earthquake hit Soviet Georgia yesterday, setting off rockiesides in mountain villages at least 40 people, authorities said. The quake also was felt in neighboring Armenia, which was devastated by a 1988 earthquake that killed more than 60,000 people or injuries were made in Armenia. Police representative Zurab Kadzhaya in the Georgian town of Kutzai, near the epicenter, said last night that about 40 people were killed and that buildings in five mountain towns suffered widespread damage. The official Tass news agency earlier reported 30 people killed. It was not immediately known how many people were injured. Fears prevail that the death toll will rise as rescuers search collapsed buildings in villages isolated by severed communications. An aftershock as powerful as the initial earthquake struck the region at 9:33 p.m. (2:33 p.m. EDT), Tass said. U.S. Geological Survey representative, Timothy Park, Calif., said the aftershock registered 6.2 on the Richter Scale. Soviet Interior Ministry troops already in the region to quell unrest were ordered to the disaster area to aid in rescue efforts. The initial quake struck at 12:13 p.m. (5:13 a.m. ekst) in north-central Georgia among the sparsely populated villages and towns in the Caucasus Mountains. It measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, according to the Soviet Union's Central Seismic Station. The quake's epicenter was near Dzhava, a town of 11,100 people about 60 miles northwest of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. In a report from Dzhava, Soviet TV showed collapsed buildings, as well as other buildings with gaping holes. Rescuers standing at a mound of rubble, with their hands and removed large stones in search of further victims. The independent Interfax news agency said a kindergarten, a high school, a hospital and a printing house — in addition to 30 homes — were among buildings destroyed in Dzhava. The evening televisionprogram "Vremya" showed rescuers pulling 4/29/91 Knight-Rdder Tribune News an injured woman from a badly damaged building in Dzhava. Another woman sat stunned outside a large house with her arm in a sling. Veggie bill turned down in Colorado The Associated Press DENVER — A bill that would have mixed negatives about vegetables was vetoed by Colorado Gov Roy Romer. The so-called "veggie bill" was intended to prevent uninformed challenges to the wholesomeness of food products. It would have allowed food producers to sue those who falsely disparage their products. President Bush's distaste for broccoli would not have been under the measure. But the bill would have applied to the scare that resulted when sprayed on apples to make them more attractive, was said to be harmful to humans. State Rep. 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