University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 28, 1989
Nation/World
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Spill cleanups, inquiries begin
The Associated Press
CLAYMONT, Del. — A prematurely dropped anchor may have contributed to an 800,000-gallon oil spill in the Delaware River that had hundreds of workers today gathering mechanical skimmers could suck up.
The spill was one of three that occurred in U.S. waters during the weekend.
More civil and military workers were pressed into service to clean up the Delaware oil, and the state sued in federal court to recover damages from the owners of the Uruguayan tanker that caused the spill.
In Texas, tropical storm Allison
slowed the cleanup of a 240,000-gallon spill in the Houston Ship Channel. Off Rhode Island, most of the estimated 420,000 gallons of oil from a grounded Greek tanker no longer threatened the shore
About 450 Delaware National Guardmen and 255 workers hired by a private contractor worked from Monday to Friday. Delaware shoreline early Monday.
"Our staff was here until 9 o'clock Monday night calling in people," said Nana Cunane, president of a private cleanup company. The crew of boat owners to join our boats out there. Every day, more and more people are coming."
Coast Guard hearings were to begin yesterday on the spills off Rhode Island and Texas, which resulted from a collision of the tanker Rachel-B and an oil barge owned by Coastal Towing C. of Houston.
Among those scheduled to testify in Providence, R.I., was Capt. David G. Leonard, a harbor pilot who The New York Times said tried to warn the tanker it was heading into dangerous waters.
Coast Guard officials said there was no evidence of mechanical failure and that the ship's captain, Iakovos Georgeudis, said he had erred in plotting the ship's course and by not having a pilot guide the ship at
the mouth of Narragansett Bay
Along 20 miles of the Delaware River, workers in boats scooped up blobs of congealed oil larger than the goo into large trash bags.
Federal officials said shoreline damage in Pennsylvania and Delaware was light because the oil congealed instead of spreading across the surface of the water. Winds and tides spared New Jersey.
Delaware Fish and Wildlife officials found about 25 Canada geese soaked with oil on milk near the mouth of the Christiana River, which feeds the Davenport River, Coast Guard spokesman David Oney said.
BEJING — Nine more people were put on trial for rioting during the suppression of China's democracy movement, including one accused of disemboweling a dead official media reported yesterday.
Nine put to trial in China reform
China's legislature is scheduled to convene tomorrow to endorse the hard line against dissent that began with the army assault June 3-4 on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. More than a dozen of those who have and 27 have been executed since the riot The 13 Americans ordered out of the
The Associated Press
Among the nine defenders in the trial, which began Monday in Beijing, was Zhang Jianzhong, 28. The Beijing Daily said he took part in the demonstrations since April 17, and when the army moved in, silk a dead soldier's stomach opened and the officers' claims paid charges against the other defendants included arson, robbery, theft and inciting others to riot.
country have prepared to leave.
U. S. officials said China asked the United States to delay the start of a Peace Corps program, which was the latest cultural exchange to be threatened or suspended because of the crackdown.
Civil rights promoters call for greater efforts
News Briefs
CHICAGO — Civil rights leaders urged the Bush administration yesterday to devote as much attention to overturning Supreme Court decisions on job discrimination as repealing the high court sanction of flag burning.
"We are asking this administration to express the same reverence for equal employment opportunity." Nancy Creater, a Chicago employment discrimination activist told Attorney General Dick Thornburgh after his speech to the annual convention of Operation PUSH.
The Supreme Court has invalidated minority set-aside quotas for local
public works contracts, made it harder for plaintiffs to prove employment discrimination and gave white males the right to challenge affirmative action plans previously approved by courts.
"This administration is fully committed to eliminating every form of discrimination in our society and will zealously enforce every law of the land, not as an adversary, but as an ally," Thornburgh said.
CONVICTION OVERTURNED: A federal appeals court day overturned the conviction of former Reagan administration aide Lyn Nofziger for illegally lobbying his White House colleagues months after he left the government.
In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court said Nofitzger's 1884 conviction must "be set aside because it is not based on a finding that he had one of each element of the offenses" he was accused of committing.
"You are free to question the integrity and commitment of the president and the attorney general." Thornburgh said.
"The government was required to prove that he had knowledge of all of the facts making his conduct criminal," U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jude Buckley said in his ruling Buckley argued Judge Stephen Williams. Both are Reagan opponents to the court.
Judge Harry Edwards, a Carter administration appointee, dissented, saying there was "no basis for闹urning Notziger's conviction."
The case against Noziger, Reagan's White House political director in 1981, was the first major test of the revolving-door provisions of the Ethics in Government Act. The law imposes a one-year ban on lobbying former government colleagues once an upper-echelon employee leaves service in the executive branch.
**SPY GAMES:** A U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who defected to the Soviet Union in 1986 complaining of FBI harassment actually was a long-time Soviet spy, a newspaper said yesterday in disclosing his
death at the age of 32
ine disclosure that Glenn Michael Souther had been "a staff member of the KGB" was a rare admission of Spy voting.
The military newspaper Red Star published an obituary signed by the KGB collegium and his "work comrades" the man it called Mikhail Yevgenievich Orlov. It said he died suddenly June 22, but did not give a cause of death.
SOVIET BOWS TO PRESSURE:
Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov bowed to pressure yesterday from the new legislature and withdrew seven of his Cabinet nominations, the first time elected Soviet representatives have forced such officials from taking office.
Six nineteen were rejected in first-ever confirmation hearings last week before committees of the new 542-member Supreme Soviet, and then at least one other person was rejected during committee work.
The premier could have taken the fight for his first choices to the full Supreme Soviet this week, but he said in a speech to the lawmakers that he would submit new candidates.
This Supreme Soviet is the country's first full-time representative legislature. It is a branch of the larger Congress of People's Deputies, which was chosen this spring in the first national multi-candidate Soviet elections in seven decades.
The Tass news agency said the Supreme Soviet later confirmed 60 nominees for work in government ministries and committees.
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