University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 25, 1989
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Federal judge has interest in Missouri abortion case
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The federal judge who declared parts of Missouri's abortion law unconstitutional said he was just as interested as anyone else in what the supreme Court did with the case.
"I'm waiting with great interest to see what the court does," said U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright. "I don't think they will reverse it outright, but they could trim it back some. If they do reverse it outright, it will sure cause a lot of turmoil."
Wright declared main provisions of the Missouri law unconstitutional May 18, 1987. The Supreme Court is to hear arguments in the case tomorrow in what possibly could lead to changes in the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling that has led to constitutional right to an abortion.
The Missouri law was passed in 1986 but never took effect because of court challenges.
Among provisions ruled unconstitutional by Wright were a ban on public hospitals from performing abortions not vital to the mother's life, a legislative decision that the governor made, and the requirement that women having an abortion past the 16th week have it done in the hospital.
Soviet activists want gas antidote
The Associated Press
18011M. U.S.S.R. — Georgians who are hospitalized with damage to their central nervous systems asked the government yesterday for an investigation, saying they were dispersing a pro-independence demonstration.
Givi Gumbaridze, Georgian party chief, spoke to some of the first foreign correspondents allowed into Georgia since the demonstration in Tbilisi, capital of the southern republic.
Several dozen of the approximately 120 people still hospitalized signed a letter containing the appeal for an antidote. The letter was addressed to President Mikhail Boraчев.
Foreign Ministry spokesmen in Moscow have denied accusations by Georgian activists that troopers used chemical weapons in the confrontation April 9, but the Georgian Communist Party chief confirmed yesterday that some of the 20 deaths were caused by gas.
Nodar Notadze, a literary scholar and one of 40 members of a commission investigating the attack
on the protesters, said Georgian representatives would take the plea to a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee that begins today in Moscow.
Nino Dijavakhishvi, also on the commission, said at least 700 people had been injured. Iza Ordzhonikidze, a third commission member, said 600 of them had been poisoned.
Ordonzhikidze said half of those still hospitalized were children who became ill days after the clash. They came from a contaminated school next to the demonstration site.
Vakhtang Bochurischhil, a doctor who teaches at Tbilisi Medical School, said yesterday. "It is a crime that the military still will not tell us what substances were used."
He was interviewed at Hospital No. 2 of Health Ministry Department No. 4, where most victims are being treated. The hospital usually is reserved for the Georgian elite.
Bochurishvili said the army and the Interior Ministry soldiers who broke up the protest "were
like Nazi troops, the SS."
On Saturday, the Defense Ministry newspaper Krasnasy Zveeda identified one chemical used on the protesters as an incapacitating agent called cheremukhua. Its main ingredient is chloracetophenone. A Western military attachie in Moscow has a substance was similar to tear gas, but stronger.
Malkahz Zaalishvili, a molecular biologist on the commission, said the gas became poisonous in high concentrations.
He and several other doctors said another gas used caused irregular paralysis of the central nervous system, memory loss, blackouts, headaches and nausea.
Dijavakhishvili, a morphologist, said military officials refused to acknowledge that nerve gas was used. Ordzhonikidze said 14 of the 20 people who died did not appear to have been seriously beaten and were believed to have been killed by the gas. A decision will depend on autopsies.
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A $\Delta \Pi$ Seniors,
Wishing you success...
Wishing you success...
Life is a series of beginnings...
that bring us closer to the realization of our dreams.
—Edith Schaffer Lederberg
Congratulations!
We'll Miss You!
Love, the Women of Alpha Delta Pi
1989 Jayhawker Yearbooks are for sale at the Kansas Union for $25.
If you have purchased a yearbook, you may pick it up at Hoch or the Kansas Union. Bring receipt and KU I.D. The yearbook will be available Monday, April 24 to Wednesday, May 5 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. or stop by the
Jayhawker Yearbook office, room 427, Kansas Union. 1982-1988 yearbooks are $5 at the yearbook office.
The Tri-Delts want to wish the Best of Luck to all graduates, and especially the Tri-Delt Seniors.
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The Men of Alpha Tau Omega wish the Graduating Class of 1989 Congratulations and Good Luck!
The women of Chi Omega
Chi Omega would like to congratulate all graduating seniors and wish them the best of luck for the future.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Windsurfing
The weather is about right for the fun to begin! Everyone Welcome Beginners to Advanced Lessons Available
Mistral and Hi Fly
DEMO DAY
April 29 at Clinton Lake
For more information, call Alan at 842-5202 or KU Info at 864-3506.
Congratulations and Best Wishes Graduates
—from the
1988-1989
Interfraternity Council
SCoRMEBE
Student Council for Recruiting . Motivating and Educating Minority Engineers
- Congratulations to our graduating seniors *
Nicole Anderson Gilberto Soto
Lisa Arzy Mark Tucker
Kim Ellison Kevin Turner
- Karen McMurray
- Terry Smith
- Ruth Turner
- December graduates
Annual Awards Reception Saturday, April 29,1989 6-8 p.m.
Summerfield Room of the Alumni Center All minority engineers and parents are welcome to attend!