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Monday, March 2, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
France beefs up security force after sentencing militant to life
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ason and the Scorcheers
PARIS — France deployed military personnel yesterday to guard against terrorist attacks after the unexpected life sentence given to Lebanese militant Georges Brabian Abdallah.
Despite a prosecutor's plea for a light sentence, Abdallah, 35, was ordered to spend life in prison Saturday for complicity in the assassinations of American and Israeli diplomats.
Groups of police were seen patrolling the main Paris boulevards,
looking into and under parked cars for suspect packages. A force of 3,500 officers has been put on duty in the ballabal's trial opened a week ago.
Abdallah, believed to be a member of the leftist Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, was found guilty of complicity in the 1982 assassinations of Lt. Col. Charles Ray, an American military attacke, and Yacov Barsimantov, a second secretary in the Israeli Embassy.
JOHANNESBURG South Africa
IBM follows trend, pulls out of South Africa
JOHANNESBORG
International Business
Madea Corp. the U.S.
computer giant, yesterday completed its
aparathid payload from South
Africa and handed over its sales
network to a locally owned trust
called Information Services Managemen-
agement, a senior executive said.
Jack Clarke, IBM managing director, said the company handed its operations over to the trust, which was set up by IBM.
IBM is among dozens of American and European companies that have announced plans to create a "war against" protest Pretoria's discriminatory race poli-
He said IBM employees would be co-owners of the new company and would earn a share of its profits. IBM has about 15,000 employees, more than three-fourths of them white.
LONDON — Libya named a new prime minister and Cabinet yesterday, blaming personal differences in the old Cabinet for shipshod work that caused Libya to miss an important ministerial conference.
The company said no jobs were likely to be lost because of the move.
the new Cabinet holds or whether the abrupt changes came amid an internal power struggle.
But it was not known what power
Libva gets new prime minister and Cabinet
Col. Moamaram Gadhafi is the sole leader of Libya. He retains the position he held two revolutions although he holds no formal post in the administration.
WASHINGTON — Robert M. Gates has decided to withdraw this week as President Reagan's nominee for director of the CIA, according to a published report.
Gates won't pursue CIA post, paper says
Across the Country
The decision, which was not confirmed by White House or CIA spokesmen, came as Senate leader John Kasich, what the nomination was in trouble.
Gates reached the decision "without much prodding," the Washington Post reported in today's editions. The newspaper cited "well-informed administration and congressional sources."
However, White House spokesman Albert Brashear said late
yesterday, "Mr. Gates is still the president's nominee."
CIA spokeswoman Kathy Pheron said, "He hasn't withdrawn as nominee, and as far as we know he doesn't have any plans to do so."
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said yesterday that the Reagan administration would decide whether to withdraw the nomination.
Baker starts work as new chief of staff
No word of any such withdrawal has reached the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is reviewing the nomination, said David Holliday, a spokesman for committee chairman David Boren, D-Okla.
The former Tennessee senator has scheduled his first senior staff meeting for 8 a.m. today at the White House.
WASHINGTON — New White House chief of staff Howard Baker begins work this morning amid high hopes he will give the Reagan administration a fresh start and get its credibility back on track.
Before Baker was offered the White House post, he had considered seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
Baker was expected to bring in his own team promptly, replacing all of departing Donald Regan's key aides who came to the White House from the Treasury Department, where Regan served as secretary during the president's first term.
Began, who stormed out of the White House on Friday after learning from a television report that he
had been replaced, showed up at the White House on Saturday to wind up his affairs.
He will wrap up his work there and help with Baker's transition. During that period he will retain his White House pass but he has lost his chauffeur and Secret Service protection.
The New York Times reported yesterday that Regan's fate was sealed by first lady Nancy Reagan around Feb 18 during an argument the two had on the telephone. Regan reportedly insisted that the president hold a news conference shortly after the release of the Tower Commission's report on the Iran arms affair.
Nancy Reagan objected to the idea but Regan persisted and the first lady angrily told him, "Have your damned news conference!" and hung up, the newspaper reported.
From Kansan wires
Weather
From the KANSAN Weather Service
Skies will be sunny and temperatures will be mild today as the temperature reaches 55 degrees. Winds will be light from 5-10 mph. Tonight, skies will remain clear with the low dropping to only 35 degrees. Tomorrow, the warm highs will be bright and the ligh in the mid.
trend continues with light winds, clear skies and a high in the mid to upper 50s. EXTENDED FORCAST:
Wednesday Sunny 60°
Thursday Sunny 63°
Friday Sunny 67°
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CHORUS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MISREADS MUSIC
Reps, Jessie Branson, Betty Jo Charlton and John Solbach, K.U. Associate Professor (of Sociology) Bill Arnold, K.U. Professor (of Law) David Gottlieb, and Professor Emeritus (of Sociology) E. Jackson Baur are among those opposed to capital punishment.
The January 20th Journal-World attributes to Rep. Solbach the following statement: "I think it would be a grave error for Kansas to adopt a death penalty...(because) you have to break the cycle of violence."
Does Rep. Solbach believe that our country today would have Jews, blacks, Indians, dissenters and popular elections if those who contributed to the Allied victory in the devastating cycle of violence known as World War II instead had stood aside and waited for Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini and their respective lapdogs to run out of spiritual gas and cease destroying and killing?
Reps. Branson and Solbach (in the January 20th Journal-World) and Prof. Gottlieb (in the January 22nd Journal-World) claim that capital punishment unfairly discriminates against minorities because of the disproportionate number of blacks (according to Prof. Arnold, although 11 percent of the populace are black, 42 percent of those slated for execution are black) on death row. However, these riveting figures result from racial discrimination which is societal rather than judicial. For as long as our economic system both indiscriminately rewards activity in the private sector and superficially responds to the high rates of unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, infant mortality, illegitimacy, and violence suffered by blacks, it (our economic system) will continue to create black sociopaths whose pursuits earn for them a place on death row.
Some opponents of capital punishment think it is immoral (Rep. Charlton in the January 20th Journal-World, Prof. Gottleb in the January 22nd Journal-World, and Prof. Arnold in the January 29th Journal-World). One dictionary defines moral as "conforming to or proceeding from a standard of what is good or right." In his book, Punishing Criminals. Ernest van den Haag notes that:
to punish is to deprive people of a good, to inflict an evil in proportion to the crime. If life is the highest of goods, death must be the greatest of punishments and, therefore, appropriate for the taking of life. Liberty is second only to life and, indeed, sacred to many people. We do deprive offenders of it as a punishment. To be wrong, the death penalty would have to exceed some natural proportion, or limit, beyond which we cannot, or should not, go.
Our universally acclaimed Constitution prohibits the government from depriving any person of life without due process of law. While each murderer counting the days on death row has received, in the words of the Sixth Amendment, "'(a) public trial, by an impartial jury...(with) compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor... (and) the assistance of counsel for his defense;" the legal apparatus airily tolerates over 4,000 rapidly developing unborn babies being mutilated and killed by grasping abortionists every day.
Consider for a moment this frightening excerpt from Newsweek's December 8th issue. In an article entitled "The Troubling Question of 'Fetal Rights'," which discusses at what point "denying care to the unborn...(should become) a crime," four presumably informed Newsweek reporters agree upon:
The proposition that women should nurture any fetus they intend to bear seems unobjective. But the details lead to an ethical mine field—particularly as physicians learn to treat fetuses so young they could still be legally aborted (International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society President) Mark Evans believes that mothers have a duty to allow such proven procedures as transfusions in cases of Rh disease. Yet society does not require fathers to give up a kidney or even donate blood to a dying child; if we (society) do not ask people to risk thier health for an actual life, we have any right to require such sacrifice for a potential life?
Although favoring abortion-on-demand still don't realize it, a material organism cannot experience so much as one moment of "potential life" because it is either living or nonliving. Therefore, by the standards of our Constitution and culture, nothing is more immoral than the brutal procedure the 1973 Supreme Court converted into a vocation.
While the chorus against capital punishment consists of thoughtful and concerned individuals, it continues to overlook the composition-in-question's salient features and thus remains guilty of misreading the music. William Dann 2704W, 40th Street Terrace
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