Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 28, 1991
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Singapore
Four Pakistani hijackers killed
Commandees burst into a Singaporean jetliner on the airport tarmac yesterday and killed four Pakistan hijackers minutes before the hijackers would start slaying passengers, officials said.
The attack on the hijackers, who were armed with knives and explosives, ended a nearly nine-hour ordeal for the 126 passengers and crew, who included three U.S. citizens. Two commandos and two crew members were slightly hurt.
Police said the hijackers, who seized the plane on a flight to Singapore from Malaysia, were identified as a number of people detained in Pakistan and a thousand of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Washington
Bush disputes general's claim
In an embarrassing public flap, President Bush yesterday disputed Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf's claim to have urged further fighting to cause great destruction in Iraq's army at the time Bush ordered a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War.
Bush said all hands had been in total agreement that the time had come to halt, but Schwarzkopf remembered it differently, and the foundation had been, you know, continue the march.
Schwarzkopf, the highly acclaimed architect of the allied victory against Iraq, told an interviewer that history would second-guest him. A day before his opening an escape route for fleeing Iraq forces,
The White House and Pentagon moved swiftly to challenge the general's version of events, as related to television interviewer David Frost. In a written statement, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Schwarzkopf had raised no objection to terminating hostilities.
Further, Cheney said both Schwarzkopf and Gen Colin Powell, chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were consulted and made the recommendation to Cheney and to the president that the U.S. had achieved its military objectives and agreed that it was time to end the campaign.
Beirut
Some hostages could be released
A Lebanese newspaper reported yesterday that some of the Western hostages held in Lebanon would be released for Easter.
words in Arabic and did not give further details. It was unclear whether the report, which said diplomatic sources expect the release of some of the books published at the time referred to the Western Easter or Sunday or the Orthodox Easter on April 7. Lebanese often celebrate the whole week in between.
The missing Westerners are six U.S. citizens,
four Britons, two Germans and an Italian.
The longest held is the U.S. journalist Terry Anderson, 43, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press. Anderson was kidnapped March 16, 1985. **Press**
Governor of Virginia eyes '92 presidential campaign
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first African-American to be elected governor, authorized supporters yesterday to raise money for a possible campaign for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination.
Wilder was yoy about his intentions, saying repeatedly he planned to complete his term as governor, which runs through 1994. But he said he was aware that he was in gauging support for a 1921 presidential run.
With President Bush enjoying record postwar popularity, the Democratic presidential field is virtually empty. "There is a great deal of fathery as far as Democratic candidates are concerned."
In just over a year as governor. Wilder has ruled out raising taxes to erase a $2 billion budget shortfall, instead generating some criticism at home by laying off state workers and cutting spending for education, transportation and other services.
These same actions have brought him praise on the national level, however, as he has advocated a Democratic Party that sheds its liberal tax-and-money policy. His supporters in what he refers to as a "New Mainstream."
Wilder said he would be taking that message on the road this summer after the Virginia Legislature.
"I am not a candidate . . . I have not jumped in," Wilder said.
But he acknowledged that he did not discourage supporters from making the important first step toward a Wilder presidential run.
the Wilder for President Exploratory Committee filed organizational papers with the Federal Election Commission yesterday, including a letter from Wilder authorizing the fund. A commission representative said that under agency regulations, the letter was considered a formal declaration of a Wilder candidacy, whether or not Wilder intended it as such.
Wilder, 60, is considered a long shot for the nomination but is often mentioned as a strong possibility for the vice presidential slot on the Democratic ticket. For now, he is the best-known Democrat to take a formal step toward entering the race.
Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas has said he would run for president. He is the first Democrat to announce such intentions, although he has not officially entered the race.
Tsongas a visit to Iowa, whose caucuses will be the first test of the 1992 campaign, helped him make up his mind. He met with party activists and legislative leaders Monday and Tuesday.
"I needed a live audience in a state that was new to me to get the reaction," he said.
His similarities to Michael Dukakis, another Greek-American liberal from Massachusetts, are a liability. Tsongas acknowledged.
He said that he also expected questions about his health. Cancer forced him from the Senate in 1985 after one term, but Tsongas said he had recovered fully.
Tsongas, 50, a partner in a Boston law firm, described himself as a pro-business liberal. He vowed to build voter confidence in the Democrats' ability to handle the economy.
Tsongas filed a declaration of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission last week. The commission by law will not recognize Tsongas as an official candidate until he reposes raising $5,000.
Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, who lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon in 1972, is the only other Democrat who has said he was too much for Clinton to forget Gore JR. D-Tern., said he was thinking about it.
Other Democrats mentioned as possible candidates include Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Lloyd Bentens of Texas and Bob Krierey of Nebraska; House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri; and Mario Cuomo of New York and Bill Clinton of Arkansas.
Hospital to give spousal benefits to gay, lesbian domestic partners
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A New York hospital will provide spousal benefits to partners of its gay and lesbian employees, becoming the largest private employer in the United States to do so.
Among other things, they would have to make sworn statements that they were each other's sole claimant.
Montefiore, based on the Bronx, is the largest private business in the country to recognize gay relationships, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
It is "the most significant step for the domestic partnership movement to date. It also marks an important step forward for the equal rights of
lesbians and gay men," said William B. Rubenstein, director of the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Justice Center.
Montefiori Medical Center, which has about 9,000 employees, said Tuesday that gay couples would be eligible for such coverage as long as they were married. But the numbers are similar to those of heterosexual married couples.
The change is also significant because the trend among cost-conscious private businesses is to stay in line with their own business models.
"Montefiore has a long history of equal and fair treatment of all employees. We see this policy as a part of our commitment to the principles of equity." said hospital representative Barbara James.
Janes said the new rule would apply only to couples that were unable, by law, to marry.
Several cities let homosexual couples register as domestic partners, although the recognition does not necessarily carry the legal benefits of marriage.
Among such cities are San Francisco, Seattle,
Mapsapalco, Hollywood, Calif., Santa Cruz,
Cruz, Pasadena.
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