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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 6, 1989
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Tanker captain turns himself in
Judge compares ecological damage to atomic destruction at Hiroshima
The Associated Press
VALDEZ, Alaska — The captain of the Exxon Valdez surrendered to police yesterday, and salvage crews freed the tanker from the reef that ripped its hull and spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil.
Fired tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood, 42, surrendered to police on New York's Long Island, and a judge set his bail at $500,000, up from a prosecutor's recommendation of death he had been sought since Saturday. A warrant on midemember charges of operating the tanker while drunk.
"These misdemeanors are of such a magnitude that has never been equaled, at least in this country." Judge Kenneth Rohl said as Hazelwood was arraigned. "He's got to think about that. We have a man destruction that has not been equalled, probably, since Hiroshima."
Prosecutors said that Hazelwood would be arraigned and asked if he
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These misdemeanors are of such a magnitude that has never been equaled, at least in this country. He's got to think about that.'
Judge Kenneth Rohl
wanted to waive extradition proceedings.
If he agreed, he would be sent to Alaska to face charges.
Hazelwood is charged with operating a ship while under the influence of alcohol, reckless endangerment and negligent discharge of oil. The charges carry a combined maximum penalty of 3 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
FBI officials in Washington said they also were investigating whether Hazelwood could be charged with misdemeanor theft. The Act, which prohibited negligent dis
charge of pollutants into navigable waters.
Hazelwood was fired by Exxon a week ago after the National Transportation Safety Board said tests on the vehicle did not show disaster that he was drunk.
Exxon said it had changed its policy because of the spill and that it now required crews to be aboard prohibited, four hours before sailing.
Cleanup crews continued to skim mayonnaise-thick oil from Prince William Sound, but progress was slow and the oil had spread over an area of 60,000 acres. The animal death toll rose and salmon hatcheries remained endangered.
One hundred claims have been filed with the company for damages, including 40 on Tuesday alone. The claims have come mostly from fishermen. Exxon has settled only four. Fourteen lawsuits have been filed.
Salvage crews pumped compressed air into the $125 million ship
and floated it off Bligh Reef, 25 miles from the port of Valdez. From there, it began a 30-mile journey under the control of six tuggs to a remote cave and land for temporary repairs, picking its way through scattered icebergs.
The ship was refloated at 10:35 a.m. Alaska-Hawaii time, hours before the tide reached its peak yesterday.
Oil has floated over 2,000 square miles, soiled 800 miles of beaches and killed thousands of animals, including 30 sea otters, officials said.
Favorable weather, however, has kept it offshore from a national park and additional coastline outside Prince William Sound.
In Washington, Sen Alan Cranston and Rep. Mel Levine accused the federal government of covering up the possibility of a major spill and the cleanup technology. The California governor asked President Bush to cancel oil leasing off the California coast pending a review of the program.
Vietnamese troops to leave Cambodia
The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Vietnam said yesterday that it would withdraw from Cambodia by Sept. 30, nearly 11 years after an invasion that ended the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and started a civil war.
Vietnam had said previously that it would remove its remaining soldiers, estimated at up to 70,000, by September only if a political settlement was reached but would be out by 1990 in any case.
Yesterday's announcement, issued as a joint statement in Phnom Penh, Hanoi and Vientiane, capital of Laos, said that any conditions were attached.
It said that an international commission including Canada, Poland, Indonesia and India was welcome to meet the concerns of the military for an end to outside military aid.
"Vietnam will withdraw from Kampuchea (Cambodia) all of her forces by the end of September 1989."
the statement said. It was read to reporters by Hun Sen, premier of the government Vietnam installed in Phnom Penh after the invasion.
If foreign countries continue to aid resistance groups, the government in Phnom Penh reserves the right "to call on other countries to give assistance to the Kampuchean people to defend themselves," the statement said.
The three countries recommended revival of an international controls and supervision commission established by the 1954 Geneva Agreement
The way would be eased also for normalization of relations between China, which supports the resistance. Russia, Soviet Union, which backs Vietnam.
21 protesters arrested before Gorbachev rally gets started in Havana
Hun Sen dismissed suggestions from reporters that Vietnam was moving up the withdrawal date because of Soviet pressure before the visit to Beijing next month by President Mkailh Gorbachev.
The Associated Press
Most of those arrested had planned to take part in a pro-Gorbachev demonstration at the Soviet Embassy on Tuesday night, said Elizardo Sanchez, a local human rights activist.
HAVANA — At least 21 Cubans who support the reforms of President Mikhail Gorbachev have been arrested, a leading dissident said yesterday, the day the Soviet leader left Cuba.
Among those arrested was Samuel Martinez Lara, leader of the ProHuman Rights Party. He was the
Government spokesmen have confirmed that some arrests were carried out starting Tuesday morning but have not given precise figures.
principal organizer of the demonstration, which was canceled.
Police presence was heavy Tuesday night outside the embassy, where Gorbachev attended a reception.
Several people who were monitoring developments in the area were taken into custody, Sanchez and other witnesses said.
Sanchez, interviewed on "CBS This Morning," said he was doubtful that Gorbachev's reforms had rubbed off on Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
"I did not have a great deal of hope," he said. "We never expected to result from this visit. We trust that we can Weibuns can do for ourselves."
NORTH CANT SHOW TAPE: U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell yesterday blocked former White House aide Oliver North from using videotaped congressional testimony by John Poindexter that North says would show that his boss authorized his actions.
Gesell said that the three-hour selection of tape North's lawyers wanted to show at his trial "distorts the record" of the 30 hours of testimony Poindexter gave Congress in 1987.
North's lawyers had argued that excluding the videotape would be unconstitutional, but Gessell said the constitutional claim was misplaced. The judge said that North sought no material that, "if excluded, would arguably deprive him of his due process rights."
BAKER, SHAMIR ENCOURAGED: Secretary of State James A. Baker III said in Israel Thursday that he was encouraged by suggestions to have the Shamiri and Shamimi for settling the Arab-Arab dispute.
Baker commented after a two-hour meeting with Shamir, which the secretary called "very productive, useful and very friendly." For his part, Shamir said he had offered some
For his part, Shamir said he had offered some ways to solve problems in the Mideast.
"I feel we have started a very serious discussion. Our conversation was very friendly."
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Shamir said,
Details were not immediately disclosed.
Shamir said last week that he would propose elections among the 1.7 million Palestinian Arabs who live under Israeli control on the West Bank and in Gaza, with the aim of picking leaders to negotiate with Israel over the Palestinians' future.
Shamir said after the session with Baker that he would pursue bring peace to the Mideast with President Bush on Thursday at the White House.
NAMIBIAN FIHTOING: South Africa called yesterday for black nationalist guerrillas to surrender or face intensified police action in the five states that has left at least 250 people dead in Namibia.
Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organization, said his guerrilla fighters had no intention of leaving the South African-controlled territory, a newspaper
U. N. officials said that peacekeeping reinforcerions might be added into Namibia as part of umbrella operations.
Angola's news agency reported from Luanda that it had received a plan to U.N officials, but no details were given.
The fighting between South African led security forces and SWAPO guerrillas began Saturday, the day a U.N.-supervised independence plan began in Namibia.
The battles continued for a fifth straight day yesterday, and territorial authorities said 179 guerrillas, 21 members of the security forces and an undetermined number of civilians had been killed in the most intense combat of the 23-year war.
COMPANIES WOO INDIANS: In Oklahoma City, representatives of several out-of-state manufacturing companies hoping to get supply chains in the country began making their sales pitches yesterday.
The winners could earn as much as $20 million, by supply component parts for chemical-resistant suits the Sac and Fox Industries will manufacture under a Department of Defense contract, said James Branum, corporation president.
The tribal corporation was granted a $30-million contract by the Defense Logistics Agency to produce 491,000 special suits designed to protect wearers from dangerous chemicals.
Bruman said the contract could be extended to a million if the tribal operation be the delivery triumph.
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