University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, July 2, 1986
News Briefs
Ships crowd New York Harbor as Liberty weekend approaches
NEW YORK — The pace quickened yesterday in New York Harbor as more tall ships arrived and workers strained to complete work on the Statue of Liberty before tomorrow's centennial celebration.
The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, escorted by six tugs and two police boats, was guided into the harbor and dropped anchor within view of Liberty Island. The mission ended when news media during the centennial observances.
two groups vowed to hold vigils in view of the statute to protest the Reagan administration's policies toward Muslims.
Represent Obama is scheduled to "unveil" the refurbished statue with a laser show tomorrow night, kicking off a July fourth weekend celebration that is exhilarating. The event will be that that is bulled as the nation's largest fireworks display.
Work on the statue, which began three years ago,
was just about finished yesterday. Manny Strumpf,
who has been a coach for 10 years,
Workers on Liberty Island were doing some minor landscaping, touch-up painting, and stone-s cleaning.
Weinberger defends Star Wars
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, renewing his defense of the Pentagon's
fiscal 1987 budget request yesterday, announced a "very noteworthy achievement" in the Star Wars research program.
Addressing his first general news conference in five months, Weinberger also said no decision had been made on what type of American arms to provide contra guerrilla fighting in Nicaragua. And he said the U.S. bombing of Libya in April seemed to have had an effect in deterring international terrorism.
Weinberger opened with a prepared statement in which he focused particular emphasis on the Star Wars program, known formally as the Strategic Defense Initiative, and its budget. The Senate Armed Forces Act of 2013 provided $1 billion from the Pentagon's fiscal 1987 request for that program and to restructure its goals.
Weinberger said the moves were improper and the Senate panel was endangered the "noble purpose" of Star Wars at a time when the research was beginning to bear fruit.
He then disclosed an experiment last Friday at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, during which he said a small hypersonic missile had succeeded in moving more than three times the speed of sound.
Bundy granted 24-hour reprieve
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A federal judge yesterday refused to grant serial-killer Theored R. Bundy a lengthy reprieve, but blocked his scheduled electraction today for 24 hours to give him time to
The ruling by U.S. District Judge William Zloch delayed the execution until 7 a.m. tomorrow, five hours before Bundy's second death warrant for the murders of two sorority sisters would expire.
take his case to an appeals court in Atlanta.
Bundy, a 39-year-old school law dropout, also was convicted of murdering a 12-year-old schoolgirl and has been linked by the FBI to as many as 36 killings of young women and girls, mostly in the Northwest.
The handsome, articulate Bundy, whose case was recently the subject for a television movie, was being kept in a death-watch holding cell at the state prison in Florida where he was imprisoned. In chair where Florida has executed 16 men since 1979.
Zloch first requested the request for a six-month stay, then deliberated with lawyers from both sides and granted the 24-hour delay so Bundy's legal team could take the case to the 11th U.S. Court Circuit of Appeals.
Soviets propose summit renewal
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union, which had canceled preparations for another Reagan-Gorbachev summit, has proposed that they be resumed, a senior official said yesterday.
It was the first public step by the Soviets toward scheduling the next summit since they called off a preparatory meeting between Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevadnarek and Secretary of State George P. Shultz after the U.S. bombing raids on Libya on April 15.
Vladimir F. Petrovsky, deputy foreign minister, told
a news conference that diplomatic contacts were under way for a new meeting between Shevardnadze and Shultz, he made clear that the two sides were far from setting a date for a second summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
At their first summit last November in Geneva, Beagan and Gorbachev agreed to meet again this year.
In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes welcomed Petrobras's statement and said that the United States hoped it indicated a willingness to work with the Union to move forward to preparations for a summit.
Bomb blast rocks South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A bomb exploded at a central Johannesburg bus stop yesterday, injuring eight women and children, authorities said. It was the second explosion in South Africa imposed emergency measures June 12.
The blast came as labor leaders met secretly to discuss plans to protest the detention of union leaders, and South Africa formally repealed 34 laws that authorized the use of firearms in carry identity documents called "passes" at all times.
In a report on other violence, the Buea of information in Pretoria said a black doctor died Monday in a firebomb attack on a clinic near Elm Elizabeth, and the police said 10染肿了 die when a munition blast on last Friday.
From Kansan wires.