University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 13, 1990
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No resolution yet for conflict in Middle East
Israelis and Palestinians continue uprisings and violence
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops pursuing Palestinian stone-throwers fired tear gas into a U.N. clinic in Gaza City yesterday, and 66 infants and toddlers were treated for inhaling the fumes, the army said.
In Jerusalem, a 17-year-old Jewish seminary student going to prayers at the Western Wall was stabbed twice in the stomach. He was reported in moderate condition at a Jerusalem hospital.
Meanwhile, the army demolished the homes of three Palestinian families and sealed three others in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The house demolitions came on the first working day of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's new right-wing government, which has pledged to
"uproot" the 30-month-old Palestinian uprising.
Since the rebellion against the Israeli occupation began in December 1897, 77 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or civilians.
An additional 221 Palestinians have been slain by fellow Arabs, most on suspicion of collaborating with the Israelis in the violence. The Israelis have died in the violence.
An army official said the tear gas was fired into the U.N.'s Rimal Health Center in Gaza after an army patrol came under a barrage of stones and blocks. He said the rocks thrown from the clinic compound.
The official said on condition of anonymity that soldiers were barred from firing tear gas into enclosed
spaces.
Officials of the U.N. Relief and Work Agency, which runs the clinic, said the incident began when about six Israelis in civilian clothing ran into the building, apparently in pursuit of an Israeli man who had stoned their胞儿.
Dr. Zhihnli, director of the clinic, said there were about 200 pregnant women and babies inside a building when the tear gas was fired.
He said many babies were overcome by gas. "Most were treated at the clinic, and some were taken to Nasser Hospital," he said.
A U.N. relief agency spokesman, Rolf van Oye, said a complaint would be filed with the Israeli military government.
The Associated Press
U.S. government says the PLO needs to clean up its act
WASHINGTON — The Palestine Liberation Organization must discipline one of its top leaders as well as publicly condemn an attempted terrorist attack on Israel to avoid cutoff of its dialogue with the United States, Secretary of State James A. Baker III said yesterday.
Baker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "an extraordinarily large number of our allies and friendly governments" have urged the Bush administration not to precipitously cut off the contact begin in an effort to promote peace in the Middle East
However, Baker said the United States "will not allow our pursuit of peace to undercut our commitment to fight" terrorism, and I think the
PLO understands that.'
The dialogue began in December 1988 after PLO leader Yasser Arafat renounced terrorism and acknowledged Israel's right to exist.
Baker also:
In wide-ranging testimony before the panel, Baker summarized progress made at the recent U.S.-Soviet summit and reiterated administration hopes that a strategic nuclear weapons treaty can be sent to the Senate for approval by the end of the year.
■ Said the United States and the Soviet union could team up to sponsor peace talks in Angola, and a cease-fire could include agreement by the two superpowers to halt flows of arms to the warring sides.
Said the United States would not increase its ceiling on the number of Soviet Jews allowed into this country.
Predicted Soviet aid to Cuba eventually would be curtailed because of Moscow's increasing domestic needs.
Said the administration accepted that Congress would not approve a new U.S.-Soviet trade agreement until Moscow eased an economic embargo against freedom-minded Lithuania.
Praised recent multiparty elections in Czechoslovakia in which prodemocracy groups received a plurality. However, he said the administration would reserve judgment on the Bulgarian elections.
SOVIET PRESIDENTS MEET: Mikhail S. Gorbachev met the presidents of all three Baltic republics yesterday for the first time since the Soviet president called their steps toward independence illegal.
The meeting included the Baltic presidents and Boris N. Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, and Mikhail Kravchuk, president of Russia, to lend lemta today by passing a declaration
of sovereignty, although a non-binding one.
Nation/World briefs
The meeting appeared to mark a new stage in the diplomatic effort to end the impasse that began when Lithuania declared independence in March. Latvia and Estonia followed with resolutions setting transition periods to independence.
four decades yesterday and decided to swiftly demolish the rest of the Berlin Wall.
WALL TO FALL: A single Berlin government met for the first time in
City council members from both sides of the city gathered in East Berlin's historic Rotes Rathaus, a monumental red-brick building that was the seat of local government for more than a century.
The two councils agreed to begin today the final demolition of the wall
that split the city for 29 years.
"We are already now one city," said East Berlin Mayor Tino Schwiermann, who was elected in East Germany's first free local elections in May.
One section of wall is to remain standing as a memorial to the people killed trying to flee from East Germany to the West.
The demolition is to be completed
by July 2, when the two German states are to merge their economies in the major step to full unification. **MOBIL'S NEFTY PROBLEM:** Five states sued Mobil Chemical Co. yesterday, charging the company finally claimed its Hefty trash bags and grocery bags would decompose.
Mobil announced in March that it would stop referring to its Hefty bags as biodegradable because of confusion about what degradable means.
Lawsuit were filed by Massachusetts, Minnesota, Texas, California and New York, and Washington state were also expected to file lawsuits.
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Many Americans have chosen to break a law with which they passionately disagreed in order to highlight that law's shortcomings and perhaps bring about its change. Our society today is a racially integrated and relatively compassionate one because of their efforts. In this city where revelers, vandals, burglars, misogynists, rapists and drunk drivers frequently surface, the unduly harsh sentence accorded Mr. Creamer for trying to induce discussion is a gross miscarriage of justice which should be either modified or overturned.
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ALLEGEDLY DISRESPECTFUL MARK CREAMER
Because Mark Creamer has long been a contributing member of the community, many residents were shocked to learn of his recent jailing by District Judge Paddock. Mr. Creamer was sentenced to a six-month jail term -- Judge Paddock said he would consider a motion for parole in sixty days -- for smoking a marijuana cigarette in front of a police officer to protest President Bush's drug policy. According to the May 24 Journal-World, Judge Paddock said he sent Mr. Creamer to the jail after considering both his previous conviction for attempted possession of marijuana and apparent disrespect for the law.
Although Judge Paddock didn't realize it, Mr. Creamer's behavior in the moments preceding his arrest was inspired a by great respect for the law. Instead of enjoying his easily obtained joint behind closed doors, he did so openly because of his belief that "A law... people do not believe in... (and) do not obey, cannot be considered a good law" and thus should be changed.
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Did Judge Paddock know that the allegedly disrespectful Mr. Creamer was on the Community Development Grant Review Board for approximately two years?
Did Judge Paddock know that the allegedly disrespectful Mr. Creamer had been a member of the Plan '95 Design Committee which made recommendations to the Downtown Lawrence Association?
Did Judge Paddock that while a member of the Kaw Valley Soccer Board, the allegedly disrespectful Mr. Creamer also functioned as a coach?
Did Judge Paddock know that the allegedly disrespectful Mr. Creamer is a craftsman who created, for example, a kitchen sorter for recycling (it has separate compartments for glass, paper, tin, etc.) which earned the praise of Lawrence's committed Recycling Coordinator Pat Marvin?
Did Judge Paddock know that the allegedly disrespectful Mr. Creamer began a demanding five-year-stint as a single parent when his twin boys were but four and their brother but two?
Did Judge Paddock know that the allegedly disrespectful Mr. Creamer was on the Pinckney Neighborhood Association Committee which selected some of the playground equipment in Burcham Park?
Did Judge Paddock know that while this allegedly disrespectful college graduate -- his BA was in psychology and human relations --- was unemployed at the time of his trial, he had been a plumber's apprentice for five years before beginning his own plumbing business from which an injured wrist and bad back eventually drove him two years ago?
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