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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, July 23, 1986
News Briefs
House votes to impeach judge
WASHINGTON — The House voted 406-0 yesterday to impeach a federal judge for the first time in 50 years, asking the Senate to throw Judge Harry Benson out because he was convicted of income tax evasion.
Invoking a rarely used constitutional power, the House approved four articles of impachment against Clalborne and sent them to the Senate where he must stand firm, he would be removed from his lifetime convictions.
No date for action in the Senate has been set. Senate Republican Leader Rob Dole of Kansas said that he would not be going to the Senate.
Claiborne, the only federal judge in history to be convicted and jailed while still on the federal bench, has returned to resign and continues to draw his $78,700 salary while serving a two-year prison term for evasion.
"The facts of this case are clear and compelling." said House Judiciary Chairman Pet罗迪, D-N.J., who also led the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon in 1974.
Reagan urges Mandela's release
WASHINGTON — President Reagan rejected the "emotional clamor" for punitive sanctions against South Africa yesterday and urged the white-minority movement to take action. The president's apartheid laws. He called for the release of black
leader Nelson Mandela and the restoration of his banned political party.
In a major address on South African policy, Reagan stressed the need to remain involved in South Africa, particularly economically, on grounds that reprisals against the black workers and have adverse effects, on the West.
"It would be a historic act of folly for the United States and the West, out of anguish and frustration and despair," he said.
Reagan urged the setting of a timetable to eliminate South Africa's racial segregation, called apartheid; the release of all political prisoners, including Mandela, head of the African National Congress; the legalizing of banned black political movements; and the start of a dialogue to construct a political system that rests upon the consent of the governed where the rights of the minorities are protected by laws.
Star Wars could cost $770 billion
WASHINGTON — Building and deploying a ground-and space-based "Star Wars" missile defense could cost as much as $770 billion for a system that would be able to destroy most of the first-cost estimate of the program concluded yesterday.
In the peak 10 years of spending, the cost for such a system to protect the United States and Canada from a nuclear attack by Soviet missiles and bombers would be $44 billion annually, or an additional $700 year in income taxes for an average family, the private analysis said.
The 97-page report by defense experts Barry Blechman and Victor Ugoff contained admittedly rough cost estimates of four different systems involved in the Defense Initiative, as "Star Wars" is known officially.
The report set up four different models whose costs ranged from $160 billion to $770 billion and assumed a defense intended to destroy Soviet missiles in only two planes, their flight, instead of four as envisioned by SDI planners.
The private study is the first serious attempt to analyze the cost of the ambitious and complex SDI
Nakasone re-elected in Japan
TOKYO — Prime Minister Yoshiko Nakasone was re-elected as Japan's chief executive yesterday in a parliamentary vote and reshuffled his 21-member cabinet to position but one and two top posts to three rivals.
Nakasone, who scored an unprecedented landslide in July 6 nationwide elections for his ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was re-elected to complete his present term ending in October in a special session of the
A short time later, Nakasome replaced 20 members of his Cabinet, retaining only Chief Secretary Masaharu Ugooda in the same post. Gotoda said Masaharu made a nearly "complete changeover."
Although Nakasone replaced the key posts of
foreign, defense, trade and finance ministers, his new Cabinet is not expected to change Japan's current economic policy.
The parliamentarian characterized the new Cabinet as "short term," since under present rules, Nakasone can only remain in power until the end of October. Under these rules, the legislature is considered routine procedures following elections.
LOS ANGELES — The "Twilight Zone" maulslaughter trial of movie director John Landis and four associates began yesterday as attorneys met workers to work out a system to speed up jury selection.
Emerging from a 90-minute meeting in the chambers of Superior Court Judge Roger Boren, lawyers said the first step in the jury-selection process, slated to begin tomorrow, will be to select a group of 150 jurors who can make a four- to five-month time commitment — the estimated length of the trial.
Once that group is selected, 15 jurrors a day will be questioned by attorneys and will fill out questionnaires containing about 70 queries about the case, attorneys said.
Landis, the first director ever to stand trial for a death on a movie set, and his four co-defendants are now charged.
From Kansan wires.
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