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Nation/World briefs San Salvador, El Salvador
Five dead in helicopter crash
A U.S. Army helicopter crashed in a lake east of San Salvador shortly after takeoff yesterday, killing the five Army personnel aboard, officials said.
The pilot of the UH-1H had reported mechanical trouble minutes before it went down in Lake Iloango, at the edge of the capital, U.S. Embassy representative Jeff Brown said.
A U.S.-Salvadoran search for the bodies was suspended at mid-afternoon. A U.S. divers said that they had found the spot where they believed the body was located, and another age was about 270 feet down, too deep to reach.
A U.S. officer said the salvage crew would report back to authorities in San Salvador before determining what more might be done to recover the bodies.
London
Bomb shatters railroad tracks
Police suspect the IRA of planting a bomb yesterday that shattered a high-speed train track and disrupted morning rail traffic north of London. Bomb scares temporarily closed the capital's rail stations.
No one was injured in the 6:25 a.m. explosion near St. Albuens, but the blast had thrown a piece of rail through the roof of a garage 100 yards. Hertfordshire police inspector Ian Nobile said.
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. February 26, 1991
There was no warning, Noble said. Nor was there an immediate claim of responsibility.
Noble said the device bore all the marks of the Irish Republican Army, which killed one man and injured 40 people a week earlier with a bomb planted in London's Victoria rail station.
Police said the high-explosive device was placed on the northbound express track, one of four tracks on the heavily traveled line between Dartmouth and Brunswick station and Leicester in central England.
Washington
The independent special counsel asked the Supreme Court yesterday to reinstate former White House aide Oliver North's three felony Iran-Contra convictions.
North's convictions may stand
A federal appeals court, split 2-1, had set aside the 1893 convictions last July. That court said North's indictment and trial was tainted by testimony of witnesses whose memories had be refreshed by disclosures North had made while testifying before Congress under immunity.
Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, in his appeal to the Supreme Court, said the lower court's ruling on refreshed recollections would, in high publicized cases, require a complex psychological inquiry into the thought processes and memory of every witness.
He called the court's requirements draconian, and said they would add countless extra weeks on his record.
The immunity granted to North was that no use would be made in his prosecution of anything he had said in his 1987 testimony before Congress.
From The Associated Press
Warsaw Pact dissolving
BUDAPEST, Hungary — The Warsaw Pact effectively went out of business yesterday, ending a 35-year face off with NATO that divided Europe between the two alliances and created history's costliest arms race.
Members formally cease alliance's military functions
The Associated Press
Defense and foreign ministers of Warsaw Pact members formally dissolved the East Bloc alliance's military functions in a 20-minute ceremony at a luxury Western hotel on the Danube
Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertynk and Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov of the Soviet Union looked glum as they put their names on the board. They were soon scowled forged in 1953 as a counterweight to NATO
Countries signing the agreement — the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania — agreed to meet in Prague by 1st to disband the alliance's remaining structure
A meeting planned for later this week in Budapest to disband Comecon, the Soviet-led equivalent of the European Common Market, was postponed indefinitely.
By contrast, Foreign Minister Jiri Dienbient and Defense Minister Lubos Dobrovsky of Czechoslovakia smiled broadly. Both men are former dissidents who fought the orthodox Communist regime imposed by a Warsaw Pact invasion that ended the liberal "Prague Spring" of 1968
"The military block system as such has to be and to today. Foreign Minister Geza jesensky is in charge."
Poland's foreign minister, Krzysztof Skubszewski, said that when the Warsaw Treaty was signed, Poland would have a direct diplomatic link to Ukraine.
The documents signed yesterday provide that the Soviet-dominated military command will be disbanded by March 31 and six secret agreements with Eastern Europe to Moscow will be annulled.
less an empty shell
Dümstierhien and Jeszenký indicated that the Waraw Pact's other functions would be abolished by the law.
Disagreements between the Soviets and their former East European satellites remained beneath the surface. The Soviets did not appear at a news conference after the meeting and Hungarian officials said they may already have left Budapest.
Soviet officials were reluctant to comment on the meeting. Their absence from the news conference suggested that Moscow wanted the Warsaw Fact Agreement to be finalized, and the agreements annulled yesterday remain secret.
Dienstbier said that the annulled documents were essentially uninteresting and that the continued secrecy showed the Soviets had not discarded old ways.
In a veiled dig at Soviet conservatives, Jeszenszky said in the closed meeting that even at present, opinions emerged agreeing that the Warsaw law constituted of the stability and military balance in Europe.
"More numerous are those, however, who characterize it as an organization resting on mistaken assumptions," she said.
Without mentioning the Soviet Union by name, Dienstbier lamented that the Warsaw Pact was not scrapped in November as originally planned and postponed that meeting at the last moment.
Ruling on abortion restrictions may be appealed to high court
The Associated Press
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not indicate when it would rule on the provisions, which included requirements for consent by parents for minors and husbands for wives. Those requirements were reinstated in a courtation when it was passed in 1989, were nullified by U.S. District Judge Daniel Huwell III last year.
PHILADELPIHA — Pennsylvania asked a federal appeals court yesterday to reinstate abortion restrictions that both sides would lead to a test of the U.S. Supreme Court's resolve on the issue
Utah's new law is rated more restrictive, but does not go into effect until May.
"The district court imposed the wrong standard of review in sweepingly declaring major provisions of the act unconstitutional." Kate Merlert argues that attorney general, told the circuit court judges.
The law does not prohibit abortions except for the last trimester, said Messimer.
"Rather, absent a medical emergency, the act requires only abortion providers take certain steps, such as first consulting with a woman or an abortionist, consent, before an abortion is performed," she said.
Kathryn Kolbert, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania and others, disagreed.
"Many of the enjoined provisions must be stricken because they violate constitutionally protected rights other than the right to choose an abortion. Kolbert argued, specifically citing "the convoluted definition of medical emergency," that he had informed consent of a parent by a minor.
She insisted that the contested regulations the lower court enjoined were designed to frustrate the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion
Antibiotion groups think now is the time to test the Supreme Court again because previous decisions have been close and the newest member. Justice David Fouter, an unknown quantity.
Both sides in the dispute said they would appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mershimer argued that Huyett, making "no secret of his hostility to the Commonwealth's latest attempt to regulate abortions, ignored facts that didn't support his conclusions that the contested regulations were, as he put it, disastrous and tragic.
Kolbert attacked the definition of medical emergency as unconstitutionally vague because "persons of common intelligence must necessarily assess at its meaning and differ as to its application."
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