Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 17, 1991
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World briefs
Warsaw, Poland
Poland opens stock exchange
Poland took another step on the road to a market economy yesterday by opening its first stock exchange since 1939 - on the top floor of the old Communist Party headquarters.
When the session was over, four of the five employees in the privatized companies had risen and one was done with it.
"This is a historical moment, no exaggeration," Privatization Minister Janusz Lewandowski told more than 200 guests on the transaction floor.
Lewandowski said he hoped at least three more former state-owned companies would offer stock to the public next month.
Johannesburg, S. Africa
Winnie Mandela testifies at trial
Winnie Mandela, testifying yesterday in her trial for the first time, said she was hundreds of miles away when four youths were allegedly abducted and beaten at her home.
Mandela said she left her Soweto home for two nights in late December 1988, when the crimes allegedly occurred, to meet with people in the city. Brandfort about setting up a soup kitchen.
The wife of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela gave brief, flat answers to her questions.
"I was so outraged at such false and serious allegations," she said of the charges against her.
Palm Beach, Fla.
Kennedys' absences questioned
Police said yesterday that they wanted to know why detectives were unable to talk to the Kennedy family soon after an alleged sexual assault at their beachfront estate.
Detectives made a number of visits, including one soon after they first received the rape report about 2 p.m. on March 30, police representative Craig Gunkel said.
Each time, they were told members of the Kennedy family weren't there.
"The detective bureau did go up to the Kennedy mansion a short time after we got the report of the alleged sexual battery," Gunkel said. "The police department is looking into why themselves of the Kennedy home did not make themselves available to police detectives at that time."
From The Associated Press
Bush says he will help if Saddam leaves Iraq
WASHINGTON — President Bush said yesterday that he was willing to consider giving Saddam Hussein safe passage to a third country if that's what it would take to remove him from power in Iraq.
The Associated Press
At the same time, Bush said former President Nixon's suggestion that the CIA assassinate the Iraqi leader is unfounded.
Asked about his wife's suggestion Monday that Saddam Hussein should be tried and hanged for war crimes, Bush said. "I seldom differ with my brother and I don't know that I would differ with her here."
If offered a chance to broker a deal that would allow Saddam "to live a happy life forever more in some third country, with all kinds of conditions never to go back and brutalize his people again, I'd
"I might be willing to say, so far as our pressing charges, we'd be willing to get him out.
"We want him out of there so badly, and I think it's so important to the tranquility of Iraq that under that condition we might.
have to think about it," Bush said.
“But his crimes — do I think he's guilty of war crimes?” The environmental terror. The rape and pillage of Kuwait. What he's done to his own people. I would think there'd be plenty of grounds under which he would be prosecuted for war crimes,” Bush said.
But he said he knew of no negotiations to lure Saddam from power.
Asked about the idea of putting out a CIA contract on the Iraqi dictator, Bush said flatly, "I think that's unacceptable, and I'm not sure that's exactly what President Nixon said, either."
Death row inmates' rights cut
Supreme Court decision curtails ability to appeal
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, in a ruling that could hasten many executions, yesterday cut back on the rights of death row inmates to make repeated appeals of their convictions.
6-3 ruling in a case from Georgia was denounced by the dissenters as a drastic curtailment of free speech.
The court rejected arguments by death row inmate Warren McCleskey that Georgia officials violated his rights when they failed to give him a written statement from the inmate to whom McCleskey allegedly confessed the 1978 slaying of an Atlanta police officer.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said McClesky's failure to raise the issue during an earlier appeal in 1981 disqualified him from trying to use it in subsequent appeals.
The only exception to the new restrictions are those rare instances in which the defendant can show he is probably innocent of the crime, Kennedy said.
Kennedy said the burden was on defendants in such cases to prove they had good reason for not raising the issue initially and that their failure to prejudice their ability to defend themselves.
He said the new rules "should curtail the abusive petitions that in recent years have threatened to
undermine the integrity of the habeas corpus process."
process.
In other action, the court:
In other action, the court:
■ Ruled that states may tax cable television operators without having to levy the same tax on all other news media.
■ Ruled that lawyers who represent themselves in successful civil rights lawsuits cannot collect attorney fees from the losing side.
A proposal in Congress to limit habeas corpus petitions was introduced after a special study committee appointed by Chief Justice William Reed recommended time limits on death row appeals.
Habeas corpus is the system that permits convicted defendants to appeal to the federal courts for help when they claim their constitutional rights have been violated.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a dissenting opinion, said the court had tossed aside established proofs of innocence.
McCleskey's murder conviction was overturned in 1989 by a federal judge who ruled that the state had violated his rights in obtaining his confession to Offie Evans, a fellow prison inmate.
But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the conviction, ruling McLeskey forfeited his right to challenge the constitutionality of the confession by failing to raise the issue in 1981
McCleskey's lawyers said they lacked evidence to challenge the confession until 1987, when they obtained Evans' written statement after the Georgetown Court ordered police records were made public.
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