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Wednesday, July 1. 1987/Kansan Summer Weekly
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German World War II bomb found in London; Citizens take shelter
LONDON (AP) — Police emptied the streets, evacuated apartments and closed pubs. More than 500 people took shelter in community halls where soup kitchens and beds were set up hurriedly. Ambulances and fire engines stood by.
London held its breath for more than 30 hours until late yesterday afternoon while army experts defused a World War II bomb dropped by the German Laufwaffen near Tower Bridge that was buried 21 feet deep near the banks of the River Thames.
But this was 1987, not 1940-41 when the German war machine rained hundreds of thousands of bombs on London to soften the British capital for an invasion that never happened.
This bomb was found while a construction crew was working on a site where abandoned Victorian warehouses were being converted into apartments in southeast London's Docklands area.
Construction foreman Michael Killeen said he thought his workers had hit a cast iron pipe at about noon Monday while using a pile driver on the site.
"We picked it up and then let it drop. It was only then we realized it looked like a bomb and called the police," he said. "Thank goodness I didn't break it or we would all have been goners."
have been cut off.
It was actually a 2,200-pound device, one of the largest the Germans dropped over Britain during the Blitz which killed more than 15,000 Londoners and damaged or destroyed 3.5 million houses.
nolesons. Londoners had nicknamed this particular type of bomb "buffern" because its round shape with a wide band around the middle reminded them of Air Marshal Hermann Goering, the head of the German Air Force.
Soviets pass laws for economic reforms
MOSCOW (AP) — The Supreme Soviet passed laws yesterday designed to reform the economy and to lay the legal groundwork for Mikhail S. Gorbachev's liberalization plans.
The Supreme Soviet is the nation's nominal parliament, and its passage of the laws was a formality.
With a unanimous show of hands, the 1,300 deputies of the Supreme Soviet passed three laws that the Communist Party Central Committee endorsed at its semi-annual meeting last week.
One measure is the keystone of an economic reform plan to reshape industry by giving more power and responsibility to local managers and restricting the role of bureaucrats based in Moscow.
Factories and other enterprises
will be expected to make a profit. They also will be allowed to set some prices and fix production plans on the basis of guidelines issued in Moscow.
All the legislation is linked to campaigns for increased labor efficiency and discipline, official accountability, and wider citizen participation in decisions, begun by Gorbachev after he became Communist Party chief in March 1985.
The other laws adopted on the final day of the Supreme Soviet's two-day summer session implement clauses of the 1977-Soviet constitution that provide for national discussion of important government decisions and court redress for abuse of power by officials.
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Conservative favored for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top administration aides discussed about a dozen possible Supreme Court nominees with Republican Senate leaders yesterday, but gave no indication who President Reagan would choose to succeed retired Justice Lewis F. Powell.
Attorney General Edwin Meese III and Howard Baker, White House chief of staff, met with Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
Thurmond said after the meeting that 10 to 12 names were on the White House list of finalists.
The four men then met with Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D.W.Va., and Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del, chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
A Senate Republican source, speaking only on condition he not be identified, said the list included Judge Robert Bork of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. A staunch conservative and advocate of judicial restraint, Bork is considered the favorite for the nomination.
Bork is best known nationally as the solicitor general who fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973 on the orders of President Richard Nixon.
Meese said it was likely that Reagan would make his choice by the end of next week, possibly sooner.
Bakkers looking at sites for new ministry
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Jim and Tammy Bakker said yesterday that they were looking at three locations for a new ministry while their lawyer battles for the PTL and its lucrative theme park, Heritage USA.
Potential sites include a locations in California, Florida, and Gatlinburg, where Bakker said the couple would make their permanent home.
Bakker deflected questions about his struggle with the Rev. Jerry Failwell for control of PTL and questions about the 1980 sexual encounter that eventually cost him the television ministry.
Bakker, dressed in white pants and a blue T-shirt, spoke yesterday while signing a 20-foot replica of the U.S. Constitution with his wife, Tammy, wearing a red jump suit.
"In order to take PTL from Jim and Tammy, you've got to make Jim and Tammy look as bad as possible. And the people who have taken it are working day and night to destroy us," Bakker said during a news conference at the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce.
Nation and World S. Korean president might accept reforms
Mountain resort's celebration of the document's bicentennial, marked the Bakkers' first meeting with the media since they arrived here last week.
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Meese broke ethics law; inquiry to continue
Meese is the subject of a criminal investigation by independent counsel James McKay, who will determine, among other things, whether any of Meese's $60,000 was invested in scandal-plagued Wedtech Corp.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Edwin Melee violated federal law because he failed to get approval from the Office of Government Ethics when he invested $60,000 in a limited blind partnership, the director of the ethics office said yesterday.
The ethics law which Meese violated contains criminal penalties. Martin said, however, that he has not delved into the question of whether they would apply in Meese's case, because of the criminal investigation of the attorney general being conducted by McKay.
tin, director of the Office of Government Ethics, said in a letter to Congress.
The 1978 Ethics in Government Act "contains specific requirements for the creation of blind trusts, including necessity of approval by our office," which Meese did not obtain, David Mar-
Martin made the statements in a letter to Rep. Gerry Sikorski, D-Minn., chairman of the House Civil Service subcommittee on human resources, which oversees federal ethics requirements. Sikorski announced that he will hold congressional hearings on the Meese issue.
Direct presidential election soon may be permitted
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Chun Doo Dwan was expected to announce today that his government will put into effect the democratic reforms he rejected before nationwide protests began June 10.
The former army general was to address the nation on television. Officials said he would agree to a direct election to choose his successor, in place of the present electoral college system, and other reforms the opposition demands.
the opposition, Security forces were ordered off maximum alert yesterday for the first time since protests aimed at ousting Chun's authoritarian government began three weeks ago.
Riot police withdrew or took up posts in back streets. Newspaper and television reports showed smiling
Chun met yesterday with Roh Tae Woo, head of the governing Democratic Justice Party, who startled the nation on Monday by demanding that Chun accept the reforms and end the unrest.
officers packing up gear or relaxing in the sup.
Officials said Chun met with his Cabinet and his advisers later yesterday and ordered them to start work on implementing key reforms which included releasing political detainees, restoring freedom of the press and granting autonomy to local governments.
Roh, also a former general, helped Boring Chun to power after President Park Chung Hee was assassinated in 1979, and was Chun's personal choice to succeed him as president next
February. The day the protests began, June 10, was the day a party convention endorsed Roh's candidacy.
In his statement Monday, Roh threatened to quit both the party leadership and presidential candidacy if Chun did not accept the reforms. Whether he consulted Chun in advance was not certain, but there were indications he did not.
Roh said he would meet with Kim Young Sam, leader of the main political opposition, to begin talks on constitutional reform.
proceed smoothly," Roh told reporters.
Opposition leaders have said Chun should have a largely ceremonial role until his seven-year term expires in February.
The party chairman, who has tried to present himself as a moderate, said after the 70-minute meeting yesterday at the Blue House presidential mansion that Chun "accepted in principle" all the reforms.
"Since basic agreement has been reached on the form of government structure, talks on other matters will
Discontent that led to nationwide protest began in April, when Chun declared that all discussion of constitutional change would be postponed until after the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and that his successor would be chosen by the electoral college, which favors the government.