University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 11, 1990
Nation/World
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Sandinistas leading strike in Nicaragua
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Supporters and opponents of a Sandista-led strike clashed in the capital yesterday, turning the city into a chaotic mix of roadblocks and gunfire. The strikers showed no sign of easing their heaviest pressure yet on the U.S.-backed movement.
Late Monday night, President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro called out the army and police to restore order. Both are controlled by the Sandiuna
Police and army troops pulled down roadblocks and cleaned up after street bonfires yesterday, but did not outstrike governments ministries and state-owned businesses they occupy.
Whether the army and police ultimately will back Chamorro's new government or let the strike widen is considered a crucial issue in the outcome of the series of walkouts, now in its second week.
"We mustn't repress the people," one policeman said.
Labor leaders say 90,000 people are taking part in the strike. Chamorro's government declared the action politically motivated. Claiming it was politically motivated.
Gunfire spread from the working-class neighborhoods of eastern
Managua to the central section at the offices of the pro-government radio station Radio Corporation, where there is government civilization were staying
The civilians said they were protecting the station from Sandinistas who wanted to burn it. They said they had tended up to 20 wounded people in the radio station but there had been no deaths.
At least three people have been reported killed and about 100 wounded since the strike turned violent Monday.
Many of the pro-Sandinista groups at the roadblocks were armed with Soviet-bike AK-47 assault rifles, standard issue in the Sandinista army.
Thousands of the rifles were distributed to Sandinista sympathizers after the Sandinistas lost the presidential election to Chamorro on Feb. 25, ending 10 years of revolutionary rule. Government demands that the weapons be returned have been largely ignored.
The Sandinistas remain the largest single political force in the country. Chamorro won the elections with the backing of a 14-party coalition that ranged from the far right to the Communists, and had in common little more than a distaste for the Sandinistas.
NASA blamed for inadequate testing
WASHINGTON — An unsuccessful binder for the manufacture of the Hubble Telescope mirrors proposed a test that might have detected any focusing flaw but NASA chose a company that did not include testing in its protocol, a NASA official said yesterday.
The Associated Press
James R. Thompson Jr., deputy administrator of NASA, told a Senate hearing that Eastman Kodak Co. had included final maps of the telescope's optics system when it bid on the project in 1977.
systems contract to Perkin-Elmer Corp., now called Hughes Danbury Optical Systems Inc., which did not offer the testing. The space agency never ordered the tests on them, that they were too expensive.
NASA officials gave the optical
Thompson did not say why Perkin-Elmer was selected for the contract, for which the company bid $400 million, but NASA spokesman Bill Sheehan said later that in any process strength and weakness were evaluated; perkin-Elmer had on balance more strength." Other sources said that the firm's experience with spy satellites weighed in
its favor.
A procurement officer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center said in a telephone interview that information about the competitive bids could not be released without a formal request. Sen. Alore Gore, D-Tenn. and chairman of the Senate Commerce space subcommittee, told Thompson that inadequate testing was the common denominator in the telescope problem — and the current grounding of two space shuttles due to hydrogen leaks.
Meanwhile, Hubble Space Telescope experts said at a news conference that they had moved
closer to determining which of two mirrors on the spacecraft had been cut to the wrong prescription.
"All of the evidence is beginning to point toward the primary mirror and not the secondary mirror." project scientist for the Hubble.
The telescope has two mirrors, a 94-inch primary and a 12-inch secondary, that are suspects in the focusing flaw that has hand-capped Hubble. Experts are working to determine which mirror was ground wrong in order to correct optics on replacement instruments that will be installed in the future.
SOURCE REVEALED: A television reporter told a judge in San Antonio the name of a confidential source yesterday and was immediately arrested but survived two weeks of a six-month contempt of court sentence.
Nation/World briefs
KMOL reporter Brian Karem was jailed June 27 for refusing to say who arranged a telephone interview with jailed capital murder suspect Henry Hernandez. Hernandez and his brother, Julian, are charged in the March 1989 shooting death of a San Antonio police officer, Gary Wil
liams.
Karem yesterday identified the source as Deborah Ledesma, a cousin of the Hernandez brothers.
"We hope the operation can begin by the end of the week," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Rome.
ALABANISTS SEEK REFUGE. Thousands of Albanians seeking asylum in foreign embassies in Tirana will be ferried to Italy under an agreement with the United Nations and the United Nations, the Italian Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
He spoke on condition of anonymity. Another source said it could begin as early as tomorrow.
A representative of U.N. Secretary General Javier Pererez de Cuellar was in the Albanian capital, Tirana, negotiating the departure procedures on behalf of a dozen embassies where Albanians have taken refuge, he said.
CRISIS IN BULGARIA: Bulgaria's first freely elected Parliament in 58 years faced a constitutional crisis
yesterday as it convened its inau gural session without a president.
Peter Malaenov resigned the presidency Friday after admitting he suggested in December that tanks be used to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators rallying against communist power.
Midenov had been instrumental a month earlier in toppling Bulgaria's hard-line leaders, but the Communist Party remained in control of the government. The party later renamed itself the Socialist Party.
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A TRIBUTE TO POLITICS WITHOUT PERSPECTIVE
Neither those who think UFO kidnappings occur nor those who believe our country is moving forward because both the number of employed people and gross national product are increasing are correct. An article in the June 28 New York Times conclusively refutes the second of these two theses.
Of the 2.4 million reports of child maltreatment occurring in 1989, more than 900,000 were officially substantiated. Some 1,200 to 5,000 of these children died and more than 160,000 were seriously injured.
This article discusses a report the United States Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect recently presented to Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan. The panel said that our child-protection system, "a complex web of social service, legal, law-enforcement mental health, health, educational and voluntary agencies", is failing to protect the "hundreds of thousands of children...being starved and abandoned, burned and severely beaten, raped and sodomized, berated and belittled... each year.
"Although there is no typical profile of the juvenile murderer, most have been found to share at least one factor in their backgrounds: they have been subjected to some kind of physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse -- in short, they are already psychiatric casualties before they pull a trigger or lift a fist."
According to the July 1 Kansas City Star, a recent issue of the American Psychiatric Association's publication contained the following statement by its new president:
When governing entities hand over tax dollars to their respective chambers of commerce for the purpose of recruiting already successful corporations while they overlook the growing problem of child abuse, these politics without perspective help the affluent, ignore the needy and thereby hasten our nation's decline.
A few vipers materially benefit when governmental organs committed to accommodation categorize as work published stories about UFO kidnappings even as the number of functional illiterates in our midst is rapidly increasing.
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