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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, May 1. 1986
News Briefs
Judge dismisses suit by former governor
BOSTON — A judge yesterday dismissed a 12-count libel suit brought by former Gov. Edward J. King against the Boston Globe, an official of the civil official is expected to withstand even the most virulent criticism.
In a 52-page ruling, Superior Court Judge James P. Lynch Jr. came after two decisions by another judge not to grant the Globe request for a summary judgment. King charged that he was labeled by the Globe, columnists David Farrell and Robert Turner and cartoonist Paul Szepl in a series of columns, editorials and cartoons published during King's 1979-83 gubernatorial term.
Dalkon cutoff comes
RICHMOND, Va. — Bankruptcy court officials, bolstered by 48 employees hired at the expense of A.H. Robins Co. Inc., yesterday fielded a flood of last-minute claims of Dalkon Shield injuries from women trying to beat a midnight deadline.
Bankruptcy clerk Mike Sheppard said he expected between 275,000 and 300,000 claims to be filled against Robins, the company that formerly marketed the shield, an intrauterine device linked to spontaneous bleeding, septic abortions and even death.
Robins made less than $500,000 profit on the contraceptive but had paid $378 million to settle 9,200 claims before seeking bankruptcy. The other claims awarded could top $2 billion by the time all claims have been handled.
This art is hands-on
NEW YORK — An exhibit of artwork for the blind lets people caress President Reagan's face, grab Muhammad Ali's fist and touch the lips that sang "You're So Vain."
The exhibit, which opened Monday, features more than a dozen plaster casts of famous people's faces. The exhibits limbs, by artist Willa Shaltl.
Shalit has in the past four years made life masks of such memorable mugs as Whoipo Goldberg, Sophia Loren, Richard Nixon, Brooke Shields and Carly Simon.
From Kansan wires.
Shuttle debris backs up theory
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. — Two pieces of wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger's faulty right-side booster show the charred outline of a rocket $2_{1/2}$ feet wide, proving that a rocket joint failure doubled the shuttle and its crew, a top investigator said yesterday.
Also, NASA yesterday cleared an unmanned Delta rocket for blastoff at 5:18 p.m. today. The rocket will carry a weather satellite into orbit in NASA's first launch attempt since the explosion of Challenger.
An extra flight review was added to the schedule to ensure safety in light of the Challenger disaster and a military rocket failure this month.
NASA said that one personal cassette recorder had been recovered from the Challenger's smashed crew cabin but that it apparently had not been used by an astronaut during launch. The tape was too severely damaged to be played back.
NASA also has recovered tapes from three cooepit data recorders, but in each case prolonged exposure to salt water made it impossible to collect any data. Tapes from two computer memory units also were recovered but they were not used during launch.
He said a piece of burned rocket wreckage brought to shore earlier this week was the final piece needed in efforts to pin down the location of the fatal rupture in Challenger's right side booster. The search for wreckage from the giant rockets was called off Tuesday.
Col. Edward O'Connor, who is in charge of the huge shuttle salvage operation, said the search for debris
would be called off June 1 if all went well.
O'Connor said this piece of the booster rocket proved the symmetry of the burn around the joint, clearly indicating that the problem was a joint failure in the area that NASA had suspected.
"It not only buttresses the original conclusions, it kind of ties them into concrete and says that was absolutely a joint failure that occurred," he said.
O'Connor said the data would be useful to the Challenger disaster commission, which must submit its report to President Reagan by June
The rupture occurred Jan. 28 in a joint where the lower two of the right booster's four fuel segments were bolted together. Wreckage from the upper part of the burn-through was found April 13, and the piece referred to by O'Connor was the matching area from the lower fuel segment.
O'Connor said the precise area of the joint where the fatal leak first occurred was eaten away by green fire flames from the rupture.
Court bans race bias in jury
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a historic step yesterday toward wiping out racial bias in the courtroom, ruling that prosecutors who were trying to get a favorable verdict on wrongdoers just because they were black.
The justices, voting 7-2, overturned a 21-year-old precedent in finding that the Constitution barred at gun sighting during the jury selection process.
Writing for the court, Justice Lewis Powell said, "Selection procedures that purposefully exclude black persons from juries undermine public confidence in the fairness of our system of justice."
The decision reversed the Kentucky Supreme Court and said the conviction of burglar James Batson
should be overturned unless it could be shown that reasons other than race existed for removing all four blacks on his jury panel from it.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a separate concurring opinion, said the decision took a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries
Charles Ralston, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund, praised the decision, which overturned a 1965 ruling that allowed discriminatory use of the peremptory challenge, a practice by which attorneys may eliminate prospective jurors without giving a specific reason.
Steven Shapiro, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, called the decision a long overdue correction of one of the lingering inequalities in the criminal justice system.
In a companion case, the justices said a black defendant who faced the death penalty for killing a white person had a constitutional right to question potential jurors about racial attitudes.
The 7-2 opinion, written by Justice Byron White, set aside the death sentence of Willie Lloyd Turner of Virginia, saying there was an unacceptable risk that racial prejudice encouraged juries to vote to impose the death penalty. Turner, who is convicted of killing a white jeweler.
The effect of the second ruling is limited only to death - penalty cases, but the jury selection decision will affect all criminal trials.
Police patrol near summit site
United Press International
is scheduled to begin Sunday.
TOKYO - Police searched the headquarters a Western economic summit and the hotel housing the U.S. delegation yesterday as part of extraordinary security measures to radicals from disrupting the summit.
Official says U.S. offered disaster aid
Police patrolled the city in helicopters and on boats in the masts near the Geihinkhan state guest house. Police also inspected the summit of the world's seven largest industrial nations. Police also inspected some vehicles. The summit
Police also checked all 911 rooms at the Hotel OKura, near the U.S. Embassy and the ambassador's residence, where the U.S. delegation stay. Guests not in the U.S. summit were barred from the hotel.
A recent series of rocket attacks by Japanese radicals on high-profile targets, including the U.S. Embassy, has prompted police to mobilize 30,000 officers on round-the-clock patrol to defuse the situation. The radicals, who are members of leftist groups, have vowed to disrupt the
Several hundred officers inspected the 2,057 rooms of the New Otani Hotel after police closed it to the committee. They also the summit office and press base.
A police spokesman said officers found no unusual objects when they searched the rooms in the New Otani with metal detectors and with a long-handlebed probe containing a light and a mirror to check hollow spaces above the ceilings of guest rooms at the New Otani.
At a news briefing, White House spokesman Larry Speaks told reporters that Reagan had ordered a federal task force to monitor the effects of the fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant 80 miles north of Kiev.
BALI, Indonesia — President Reagan expressed his deep regrets to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev over the Soviet nuclear disaster and offered U.S. assistance, a spokesman said yesterday.
United Press International
Speakes said Reagan sent a message to Gorbachev on Tuesday that was transmitted to the Soviet charge d'affaires in Washington.
"The president expressed his deep regrets to Gorbachev and offered humanitarian and technical assistance." Speakes said.
So far there has been no response from the Kremlin.
News of the disaster shadowed Reagan's trip to the Tokyo economic summit and his three-day stopover in Bali for talks with Asian leaders.
Reagan was scheduled to meet with Indonesian President Suharto and the foreign ministers of the United Nations on his final day in Bali.
The ASEAN leaders were ready to present many complaints to Reagan about U.S. trade policies and what they feared was a new wave of protectionism.
Libya orders deportation of Europeans
United Press International
The reports came as officials in Rome ordered the Libyan People's Bureau, or embassy, to reduce the size of the mission by 10 people, including a diplomat accused of spying.
Italian Foreign Ministry officials said Libya on Tuesday ordered 33 Italian technicians who were working for four Italian companies to leave. The British Foreign Office said Libya was expelling 19 Britons in retaliation for Britain's deportation of 22 Libyan students. The Spanish Foreign Ministry said 36 Spaniards were expelled in retaliation for the ouster of 11 Libyans from Spain.
Britain, Spain, Italy and the nine other European Economic Community countries decided April 21 to reduce the size of Libyan missions in Europe and restrict the movements of Libyans because of alleged Libyan involvement in international terrorism.
Italy, which plans to expel a total of 50 Libyan, told the Libyan mission in Rome to cut its staff by 10. Among the ousted Libyans was a diplomat, Mohamed Ghadhari, who was accused of spying, the Foreign Ministry said.
Tensions have been particularly high between Libya and Britain because of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's decision to permit U.S. bombers based in Britain to attack Libya, the April 15 U.S. air raid on Libya.
Britain sent home 22 Libyans last week
A Foreign Office spokesman yesterday said Libya on Tuesday told five British companies operating in exspel specific numbers of people.
British Telecom, a communications company, was told to expel nine employees, he said. The highway consultants Rendell, Palmer and Tritton were ordered to send home two employees; Ernst and Whinney, another road firm, one; a third road company, Scott, Wilson and Kirkpatrick, three; and sewer companies Howard Humphreys, four.
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