Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 5, 1991
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World briefs
Merion. Pa.
Senator dies in plane crash
Sen. John Heinz and six others, including two children, were killed yesterday when a helicopter collided with Heinz's plane over a schoolyard at midday, authorities said.
"Fifteen minutes later, there would have been two kids where the helicopter came down," Fiona said.
The collision occurred as the helicopter was checking the landing gear of the senator's plane, while the boat was moving.
The children killed were on the ground. Most children were in class at Merion Elementary and only a few were outside at the time of the fiery crash, said John Fowler, head custodian.
Heinz, a 52-year-old Republican, was an heir to the H.J. Heinz food empire. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Pittsburgh, in a special election in 1971 and was re-elected twice. He was elected to the Senate in 1976 and was re-elected in 1982 and 1988.
Tokyo
Faulty pump shuts down plant
A nuclear power plant was shut down yesterday when its water cooling pump malfunctioned, in the sixth report of trouble at a Japanese nuclear reactor in two months.
The malfunctions have led to growing opposition to the expansion of the country's nuclear industry. The country plans to generate 35 MW of electricity power by 1995, up from the present 26.6 percent.
The No. 3 reactor of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant, 120 miles west of Tokyo, shut down automatically yesterday as the level of cooling water fell in the reactor's pressure vessel, said Tadao Ishibe, a representative for Chubu Electric Power Co. Inc.
No radiation escaped outside the reactor Ishibe said.
Palm Beach, Fla.
Kennedy nephew denies rape
"Any suggestion that I was involved in any offense is erroneous, the 30-year-old medical student."
The Palm Beach Post quoted an unidentified source as saying Smith was listed in a police document as the suspect in the alleged rape of a 29-year-old woman. The newspaper said Smith's photo would be among those shown to the woman.
The source's connection with the case was not disclosed.
Smith, 30, was with the senator and the senator's son Patrick at the club Au Bar on the night of the alleged incident.
From The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russian leader Boris Yeltsin yesterday won sweeping powers to rule by decree in the biggest Soviet republic, greatly increasing his power, terms and stand up to his rival, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Russian Congress increases Yeltsin's power to reform
The Associated Press
The breakthrough on the eighth day of the stalemated Russian Congress of People's Deputies gives Yeltsin the means to try to override opposition and force Russia to join the Soviet president on a more equal footing.
"It will equalize their positions and will let them cooperate," said Alexander Ruskoy, leader of a newly formed group of Communist Party moderates, who broke with hard-liners on Tuesday.
But Yeltsin was given no enforcement powers, such as a long-discussed Russian army, and there was no assurance local officials would obey his decrees.
Yeltsin, who favors privatization of property and other radical reforms, has pushed through laws that conflict with the conservative steps taken by Gorbachev's national leadership. Yeltsin also has supported many of the 15 republics that are seeking greater rule or outright independence from the Kremlin.
The rivalry between Yeltsin and Gorbachev, one-time allies who split three years ago over the pace of reform, has hobbled any significant change in Russia. Yet Yeltsin ascended to the Russian leadership last year.
The power struggle was the background for the impasse at the Russian parliament, a 1,063-member body that was roughly split between reformers and conservatives. It followed from the hard-line bloc Communists of Russia.
"We hope to become a mediating group to find a way out of the Yellin-s-Gorbachev standoff," said Andre Dumayev, a co-leader of the 96-member group that calls itself Communists for Democracy.
Hard-liners at the parliament have been unable to gain a majority for a vote of no-confidence in Yeltsin, the initial reason for the session. And Yeltsin has been unable to persuade the Congress to amend the Russian constitution to provide for direct elections to a strengthened presidency.
Yeltsin offered the surprise a yesterday morning, and after orderly debate in the usually turbulent parliament, lawmakers voted 588-292, with 23 abstentions, to give it preliminary approval, for the process to debate minor matters, a tradition that had been expected to give final approval today.
The resolution gives Yeltsin and the Russian leadership the right to issue obligatory orders on the territory of the Russian Federation within the framework of existing laws.
It empowers it to take urgent measures for taking society out of crisis, defending the economic basis of Russia's sovereignty, providing for a transition to a market economy, reorganizing and financing the system of administration and law enforcement and averting, limiting and hating strikes.
The resolution transfers most of the parliament's legislative duties to its smaller working legislature, the Supreme Soviet, but keeps final authority in the Congress.
It also prohibits Yeltsin from dissolving the parliament and requires him to obtain agreement from local governments before imposing new rules upon them.
LA police chief will take leave at police commission's request
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Police Chief Daryl Gates was forced to take a 60-day paid leave of absence yesterday, pending completion of key investigative work. The officer is an African-American motorist by white policemen.
"I feel that I have been disgraced and defamed." Gates said. "I have no idea why this is happening with the White House."
The police commission, a civilian oversight agency investigating the incident, gave no reason for the shooting.
"We emphasize this action is not punitive in nature and results in no loss of pay or benefits for Chief Gates," the commission said. "More importantly, it should not be taken by the public as reflecting any conclusion as to whether the chief should be charged or disciplined in the future."
Mayor Tom Bradley asked on Tuesday for Galloway resignation, joining many critics of the police department.
Bradley, who lacks the authority to fire Gates, said the chief's response to the March 3 beating of Rodney King plunged the nation's second-largest city and its police department into a crisis.
"It is my hope that today's police commission action will give us all time to bridge the differences
that have grown between us since the Rodney King incident." Bradley said.
King was released from a hospital earlier this week and went into seclusion, his attorney, Steve Leavens said.
Lerman said King was still having trouble with his facial muscles and memory lapses.
Meanwhile, the president of the 8,100-member Los Angeles Police Protective League said officers were so angry that they might authorize some job action, such as a work slowdown or sickout.
The American Civil Liberties Union, leader in the campaign to oust Gates, said the furlough would help soothe wounds opened when the beating stopped. The humbling parts salesman trived out a new camera.
The commission appointed Assistant Chief David Dotson as interim chief.
Gates had said earlier he would not openly defy the commission if members tried to put him on leave.
"I would not dispute their authority," he said. "I understand that could be insubordination."
Also yesterday, two blue ribbon citizen's groups, paneled to conduct top-to-bottom reviews of the building's interior.
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