Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 29, 1991
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World briefs
Berlin
Ousted leader to face charges
One of the most powerful men in East Germany's ousted Communist leadership goes on trial today in a proceeding that is expected to be finally stalled into a regime riddled with corruption.
Harry Tisch, a hot-tempered member of the ousted ruling Politburo and director of the 9-million-member state labor union, will be the next governor. A deputy deposed government to be prosecuted in court.
Observers consider one of the most flairful
legends in the tech world, i.e., such a, one of the
company's most powerful ones.
For more than a year, authorities have alleged that the hard-line Communists routinely pundered the country's meager finances to provide luxuries for themselves, friends and
Miami
Noriega indictment remains
A federal judge rejected the defense's call to throw out Manuel Noriega's drug case yesterday, ruling that the deposed Panamanian leader was innocent of treason and government taping of his prison telephone calls.
The defense had asked U.S. District Judge
Henry Howler to dismiss the indictment on
ground of misappropriation.
Norigeia's attorneys accused the prosecution of improperly recording calls between Norigeia and their office. One of the calls was later leaked and telecast by CNN.
But prosecutors responded that Noriega had signed documents acknowledging that his calls were being monitored and taped.
Riga, U.S.S.R.
Differing views split police
Differing views split police
Hundreds of pro-Kremlin Latvian police men jeered the republic's president yesterday, reflecting the deep division in local law enforcement ranks over the issue of independence.
The 500 to 800 Latvian police officers — mostly ethnic Russians, Ukrainians and Byelorussians — jammed an auditorium at the University of Latvia for a four-hour meeting with the Baltic republic's leaders, including their boss, Latvian Interior Minister Alis Vaznis, as well as President Anatolijis Gorbunovs and Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis.
The police whistled and hooted when Vazin said he had tried to de-politicize the police force.
From The Associated Press
Racial segregation still present in Mississippi
The Associated Press
State accused of biased college admission policies
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court yesterday to rule that Mississippi continues to operate a racially segregated system of state colleges and universities.
The Justice Department, asking the high court to overrule a finding by a lower court, argued that Mississippi used racially based admission policies to disproportionately white and African-American state colleges.
The department argued that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals applied incorrect legal standards in its Sept. 28, 1990, determination that Mississippi segregated a segregation of its state higher education system.
Until James Mereedh was admitted to the previously all-white University of Mississippi in 1962, the state ran a segregated system of state colleges and universities.
Under state law, only whites could attend five of the universities and colleges, including 'Ole Miss, while three institutions admitted only African-American students.
In 1975, a group of African-American Mississippi students and taxpayers filed a suit accusing the state of using admission policies to ensure that
most African-American students would continue to attend the traditional African-American schools.
The Justice Department, which joined the law suit, has contended that Mississippi perpetrated rape by using the results of the American College Testing Program as the basic criterion for admission.
The minimum ACT score to gain admission to the traditionally white colleges is higher than the score students must achieve to attend the traditionally African-American colleges.
Mississippi's "continuation of a racially biased admissions process and perpetuation of the dual system through program duplication at the historically black and historically white schools — the nation's largest school system of African Americans to attend traditionally white schools, the Justice Department said.
The Justice Department petition, filed by Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, noted that the 5th Circuit's ruling had led to dismissal of a similar lawsuit in Louisiana.
U. S. District Judge Charles Schwartz cited the 5th Circuit decision in the Mississippi case when he dismissed the decade-old suit involving Louisiana's state colleges and universities.
Chinese student activists' trials closed to independent observers
The Associated Press
HONG KONG — Chinese student leader Wang Dan, who helped lead China's 1989 democracy movement, apologized for his actions before the trial of a Hong Kong newspaper reported today.
The Wen Wei Po newspaper said Wang delivered a 20-minute "self-defense" at the trial in Beijing, which ended Saturday. The trial was closed to foreign journalists.
"I feel sorry and full of guilt." Wang told the court, according to Wen Wei Po. "I am prepared to bare the legal consequences and will truthfully learn from the experiences."
Wang was a key figure in the student-led democracy demonstrations at Beijing's Tiananmen Square that were crushed by troops in June 1989. Hundreds of people were killed.
Wang was later listed first on a police list of most-wanted student leaders.
Four other democracy activists were sentenced at the trial, including veteran dissident René Sánchez.
mining. He received a seven year jail term.
Ren's sentence was the most severe imposed on
a dissident in recent trials stemming from the democracy protests. China's official Xinhua News Agency said he, unlike the others, showed no repentance.
In Washington, the State Department expressed disappointment over the prison sentences.
"We have seen no evidence that their offences consisted of more than a non-violent expression of political views," State Department representative Margaret Tutwiler said. "If so, these convictions are not true." The Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees the right of political expression,
As for the five who received prison sentences, Tutwiler expressed disappointment that the trials were conducted without independent observers present.
But she said the United States welcomed the 66 others whose cases were resolved Saturdays.
The absence of such observers raises concerns over whether the trials included due process and fairness.
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