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Wednesday, June 10, 1987/Kansan Summer Weekly
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U.S. may escort Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf without allies aid
WASHINGTON — U.S. Navy ships will begin escorting Kuwaiti tankers in the Persian Gulf early next month and must do the job alone if American allies won't help, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told Congress yesterday.
Weinberger's comments, which were made hours after President Reagan's meeting with other western leaders at the Venice summit, gained diplomatic and symbolic allied support for his goal of protecting ships in the vital waterway.
Weinberger told the House Armed Services Committee that later this month, the Coast Guard would finish the paperwork needed to place 11 Kuwaiti tankers under the American flag. The Navy will begin escorting the ships when that administrative task is complete, he said.
Pressed by legislators about
when the U.S. escort role would actually begin, Weinberger declined to be specific, and said it would be "very shortly" after the end of this month.
Kuwait is an ally of Iraq in the nearly 7-year-old Iran-Iraq war and Iran has threatened to continue to target the Kuwaiti tankers.
Congressional fears about U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf have risen in the wake of last month's Iraqi missile attack on the frigate USS Stark that killed 37 sailors and Reagan's pledge to protect the Kuwaiti tankers.
A key concern in Congress has been the role of U.S. allies in Western Europe and Japan, which receive a higher percentage of their oil from the gulf than does the United States. Legislators have complained that allies of the United States should carry more of the burden of protecting the gulf.
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Crews clean up from train-truck accident
VINITA, Okla. — Salvage crews yesterday continued to clean up from a train-truck accident that killed one man, left 28 freight cars derailed and caused some of the first people at the scene to complain of skin and throat irritation from escaping fumes.
Area residents were allowed to return to their homes yesterday morning.
"We believe it's all safe out there now except right there at the scene," Craig County Sheriff Jess Walker said. He said crews continued to clean up methyl ethyl ketone that had leaked from overturned tanker cars.
an overturned car.
Residents from six nearby homes were temporarily evacuated.
The sheriff said the railroad brought in tanker trucks, and the tanker cars were emptied of the chemical.
"Some of the cars are still torn up." Walker said. "Three engines and two to three cars are still off the track out there. But the hazardous material we were concerned about. They have it all pretty well under control on that part."
Teen kills best friend in Russian roulette
BATON ROUGE, La. — A 14-year-old boy was charged with negligent homicide in the shooting of his best friend in a game of Russian roulette.
The 14-year-old, who was not
identified because he is a juvenile, began playing with the pistol, aiming at Nixon and pulling the trigger, police said.
Michael Nixon, 15, was killed Monday by a single shot from a 38-caliber pistol. He and another 15-year-old were spending the day at the home of his 14-year-old friend, police said.
Officer Jeff Wesley said the pistol did not fire the first time the youngster triggered the trigger. So, the boy spun the cylinder, put the barrel against Nixon's left arm and pulled the trigger again. The gun fired and sent a slug through Nixon's arm and into his chest.
Engineer found negligent in Hyatt collapse
TOPEKA — The Kansas licensing board for engineers has revoked the license of Jack D. Gillum, lead engineer during construction of Kansas City's Hyatt Regency Hotel where skywalks collapsed killing 114 persons.
incident.
Licensing officials have found Gillum negligent in the design of the Regency's suspended skywalks that fell July 17, 1981 during a tea dance. The incident also injured over 200 other persons.
Gillum, of St. Louis, voluntarily surrendered his license to avoid a disciplinary hearing before the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions, according to an order filed by the licensing board. As part of the action, Gillum agreed not to perform any engineering work in Kansas that would require a license.
Licensing officials in Missouri and several other states have taken similar action since the
In January 1986, the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors revoked the engineering licenses of Gillum, associate Daniel M. Duncan and their firm, GCE International Inc., for their part in designing the flawed support system that held the skywalks aloft in the hotel lobby.
Complaints by the board were upheld in November 1985 by a Missouri administrative law judge who found that the two engineers had shown "conscious indifference" to the welfare of the public through their work on the Hvatt.
Gillum and Duncan appealed the administrative judge's order in circuit court in St. Louis County, but the appeal was rejected late last year. Gillum and Duncan are appealing that circuit court finding.
Vietnam War deserter surrenders in L.A.
Douglas Beane, 39, a native of Rochester, VT, arrived from Sydney, Australia, at Los Angeles International Airport to voluntarily turn himself in. He was met by military guards who took him out a private exit.
LOS ANGELES — A Vietnam War deserter, who spent 17 years on the run in Australia, was taken into custody Monday when he returned to the United States to surrender, hoping to visit his sick father in Vermont.
Penny Verner, an attendant on the United Airlines flight, said Beane sat calmly and chatted with flight attendants.
"He said that when he went AWOL he lived in a village in Vietnam for a while before going to Australia," she said. "He seemed to be friendly. He was a
nice guy."
Beane, a private first class in the Marines, was to go to Quantico Marine Base in northern Virginia. There, authorities would decide the disposition of his case, which could range from discharge to court-martial, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman said.
In a telephone interview with a Vermont television station Monday night, the younger Beane said he hoped the Marines will look kindly on the passage of time since he fled and allow him to see his parents.
"My hopes are that they will take into consideration the time," said Beane. "I want to see my family. I would like to see my parents, at least."
He said he wanted to obtain Australian citizenship.
Nation and World North's former secretary testifies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former White House secretary, told congressional committees Monday that she helped him shred a stack of documents until the shredding machine jammed, then walked out of the White House with other papers hidden in her clothing.
Hall said she took internal office notes past White House guards in her boots and behind her back in her clothes on Nov. 25, the day President Reagan fired North as a national security aide. She said she gave the documents to North's attorney at the time, Thomas Green.
Testifying under a grant of immunity from prosecution, she also described altering documents at the direction of North.
years, spoke of unquestioning loyalty to him and said she didn't object or ask for explanation when he ordered her to alter memos.
"I was just purely doing my job," Hall said.
The 27-year-old part-time model, who was secretary to North for four
She said North had earlier emptied his office safe of documents while she put "maybe a foot and a half" of them into the shredding machine. She said when the machine jammed, she called the White House's crisis management center, and a repairman made a quick repair.
"I believe in Colonel North, and I know there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this," Hall said. "I did as I was told."
One alteration she described concerned a 1985 memo from North that
The shredded documents included copies of North's telephone logs and computerized interoffice memos that National Security Council officials used to communicate with one another.
referred to the possible sinking or seizure of a ship carrying weapons to Nicaragua. The alteration was made obvious, she acknowledged, because the NSC letterhead paper used for the altered version was new and did not exist when the original was written
Hall described putting through a call from Reagan to North at a hotel shortly after North had been fired. She talked to North later and recalled, "He said the president called him an American hero, and he just didn't know." She said North didn't explain the last part of that comment.
Hall defended her former boss as hardworking and loyal to his nation and president, and she also defended her own actions.
"I was a dedicated and loyal secretary and performed my duties in an exemplary manner," she said.
Under questioning, Hall said she did not recall ever hearing North say that proceeds from the sale of arms to Iran were going to aid the contra.
She added, "I can type."
However, she described retying several drafts of a memo that mentioned the diversion of profits. She said she could not recall if a final report was anyone other than herself, North and South. A security Adviser John Poplexter.
"He said, 'Make sure you pay back the money; it's not mine,''' Hall said.
At another point, Hall told ot asking North for a small loan for a weekend trip to the beach in June 1985 and said he gave her three $20 traveler's checks, totaling $60, drawn on a Central American bank.
She said she found it unusual that the checks were Central American, but said she didn't ask North why, and he didn't volunteer an explanation.
Discontent aimed at farm aid lender
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators accused the Farmers Home Administration in stern terms Tuesday of providing insufficient aid to debt-ridden growers while the head of the agency replied that the lawmakers were attempting to fan discontent.
"Either we've been lied to in South Dakota or we're being lied to here." Sen. Duschel, D-S.D., declared. He swiftly added he felt certain that the root of the problem must lie in Washington and not his home state.
The dispute with Farmers Home Administrator Vance Clark erupted over the degree of discontent among farmers over recent policies of the
agency, which for decades has been known as the lender of last resort in U.S. agriculture.
FmHa said earlier this year that he would revamp its rules as part of a fiscal tightening, setting off a storm of criticism from lawmakers who said the move would wipe out many of their farm constituents. The agency is currently reviewing ways to modify the plan.
Daschle and Sen. Kent Conrad, D.N.D., said that in all of their visits to our home states they are beset by counterfeits from farmers about the agency.
greater at such home-state meetings than it really is because farmers who are content with the agency's performance stay home.
Clark contended that a spark of discontent with the agency appears
"It's more than a spark," Daschle said.
gasoline on that spark," Vance said. Vance expressed opposition to legislation sponsored by Conrad that would enable the Agriculture Department to reduce farm operating and ownership loans to the market value of the collateral.
He called the bill a $7.6 billion giveaway of public funds.
Conrad objected that the loss to the government under such a program
"We've already lost that money," Conrad said. "We've just never admitted to ourselves that we've lost it."
"That's correct." Clark said.
Conrad then asked why, since much of the money was already lost, the amount could not be reduced. Clark said the legislation carried an implication that the government would continue to lend money to those in arrears.
Biden joins Democratic presidential field
"I'm saying that we cannot go on with the farmers who are four years or more delinquent," Clark said.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Sen.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday
officially entered the race for the 1988
Democratic presidential nomination.
Talking of bitter truths and hard choices but promising to rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, Biden, 44, echoed the words of John F. Kennedy. He said his generation was ready to reclaim its general legacy
and lead the country.
The Delaware Democrat said the overriding issue was what kind of nation the children would inherit. He said policies could be made that would lead to quick but false prosperity and consume the future of the country's children, or a more difficult path could be taken that would guarantee the future for children.
Biden was introduced by Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Iran-Contra Committee.
"We are going to call on Biden to lead this nation, to restore our honor," Inouye said to the crowd of about 2,000.
Other Democrats who have announced their candidacy for the
presidential nomination are: Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, former Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois. Sen. Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee will announce his candidacy June 29, an aide said yesterday.
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