Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 5, 1991
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Nation/World briefs
Sao Paulo Brazil
Brazilian activist killed
A gunman killed a well known union leader who opposed the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the National Rural Workers Movement said yesterday.
Expesito Ribeiro de Souza, president of the Farm Workers Union in Rio Mata, a town in the Amazon state of Para about 2,000 miles northwest of Manaus, where he head Saturday night as he was leaving his office.
Violence is chronic in the vast Amazon region, where ranchers and loggers already have destroyed about 10 percent of the rain forest. Scientists say the destruction adds to the greenhouse effect and could change the world's weather.
New York
Tranquilizer killed 12.
Earlier, the city's associate health commissioner Richard Alkins, had said it was assumed the lethal drug was heroin mixed with tentanyl pentyl tentanyl or was a combination of all three.
Police said yesterday that the drug that killed 12 people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut during the weekend was a surgical transitoril caller fentanyl and contained no heroin.
Police Chief Anthony M. Voelker, head of the Organized Crime Control Bureau, displayed a one-dose packet of the drug labeled "Tango and Cash."
Scranton, Pa.
Aide lied about drugs
A former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh lied about his cocaine use to get his federal job, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Zubrod, in his opening argument to the jury in Henry Barr's cocaine-compasory trial, accused the former official of lying about drug use on a federal form and in an interview with the FBI when Barr worked as an assistant to Thornhill in 1988.
Lying on the interview allowed Barr to get the federal job and receive access to sensitive national security information, Zubrod told the jury in U.S. Middle District Court.
Bart. 47, is believed to be the highest ranking present or former federal official to face drug
From The Associated Press
Attorneys cite former trial as tainted by FBI
TOPEKA — Attorneys asked a judge yesterday to grant a new trial to former American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier, contending that his 1977 conviction in the slaying of two federal agents resulted from tainted evidence and a campaign of intimidation by the FBI.
The Associated Press
"This is a situation where, I think, the integrity of the law is involved." said William Kunster, one of four lawyers who represented Peltier at a habeas corpus hearing.
A habeca corpus hearing is one in which the person detaining a suspect must justify the deten-
Peltier, 46, was convicted of the slayings in June 1975 of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Carolina, seen in the movie "Jane with the Lizard," worth, serving two consecutive life sentences, since Feb. 7, 1976.
Peltier said that his trial was first scheduled for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, then moved to Fargo.
He believes that the presiding judge, persuaded by misinformation supplied by the FBI concerning threats posed by the Indians, decided that Peltier was guilty before the trial even began.
He also said that the judge, by rejecting witnesses prepared to speak in Pellier's favor, denied his evidence.
Peltier's lawyers argued that Peltier should be granted a new trial because new evidence suggested that the gun he allegedly used during a shooting incident had not been recovered, could not possibly have been the murder weapon.
However, Lymn Crooks, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota, told the judge that Peltier had raised all these issues before the trial judge and counsel. The judge heard of Appeals and that all appeals had been rejected
Group protests activists' trial
The Associated Press
LONDON — Leading pro-democracy dissidents have not received fair trials in China, the international human rights group Amnesty International said today.
The London-based group said it had protested in writing to the Chinese government about the dissidents' imprisonment and their trials, which it fell hard off of international standards.
"These trials are the latest and most visible stage in the Chinese government's repression since the June 4, 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests." *Amnesty International said.*
The organization has estimated that at least 1,000 people were killed and thousands injured in the attack.
The recent trials were closed to foreign journalists and independent observers, and defendants were apparently unable to hire lawyers of their choice or call witnesses in their defense, the group said.
The human rights organization said that at least 19 leading pro-democracy protesters had been tried since prosecutions of prominent dissidents began in November.
"Twelve of them have so far been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to seven years for 'counter-revolutionary' offenses," Amnesty International said.
Hundreds of less prominent dissidents already have been tried, others may be on trial in provincial cities, and it was unclear what happened to thousands of others arrested after the protests, the group said.
China cracks down on Catholic bishops, priests
The Associated Press
ROME — At least 23 bishops, priests and laymen were arrested in the latest crackdown on Roman Catholics in China, a church missionary bulletin reported today.
Aia News, published by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, said the arrests were made Dec. 13-14 in Baoding and Yixian in the province of Hebei.
The publication said the arrests were apparently made to prevent the celebration of religion.
China broke relations with the Vatican in 1957 and allows worship only under the gaze of the state-sponsored Chinese Patriotic Catholic Church.
An unknown number of Chinese Catholics remain loyal to the pope and practice their faith
Amnesty International said it welcomed the official release of more than 60 people detained since 1989. It called on the Chinese government to publish a list of all released
Treat Yourself!
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts New Directions Series Presents
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co. in
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co.in
The Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Mid America Art Alliance Program
a massive piece of theater that uses dance, drama, speech and spectacle to construct an epic of love and joy, faith and betrayal, race and sex*
8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1991
Hoch Auditorium
Presented with the support of the Mid American Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Art additional funding provided by the KO Student Senate Activate Fee and the Swanty Society.
Special thanks to this
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