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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 26, 1990
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Labor Party leads in Australia
The Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Bob Hawke's conservative challenger said incomplete election returns yesterday indicated that he was likely to fail in his attempt to block Hawke from serving a record fourth consecutive term.
Hawke, who has governed for seven years, said he and his Labor Party expected to stay in power with 168 seats in the 148-seat House of Representatives.
Andrew Peacock, the opposition leader of the Liberal and National
parties' coalition, said the Labor Party probably had the numbers in Parliament.
Peacock said he expected the election to result in a hung Parliament rather than a Labor Party or coalition government.
When counting stopped Saturday night, the Labor Party appeared to have won 73 seats, the coalition 70 and independents two. The Labor Party also had five seats before previous lower house, needs 75 seats for a working majority.
There was no further counting
yesterday, and the earliest results are expected today. The final outcome may not be known until Thursday, when mail-in ballots are counted.
Hawke, 60, said yesterday that he would continue in a caretaker capacity and that he expected to form a government that would keep him in power for another three-year term.
Peacock criticized the government for record 18 percent mortgage rates and a $100 billion foreign debt in this nation of 16.5 million citizens.
2,000 protest U.S. aid to El Salvador
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Some 2,000 demonstrators protesting U.S. policies in Central America marched in front of the Statehouse on Saturday, and several were arrested.
"Park Police spokesman Sgt. J.P. Farrell said 83 protesters were arrested and charged with demonstrating without a permit.
The group marched peacefully,
waved banners and called for a halt
to U.S. military aid to El Salvador as a light, steady snow fell.
The march commemorated the assassination 10 years ago of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. He was gunned down in the pulpit of the Salvadoran church where he frequently criticized right-wing death squads linked with the country's military.
"Stop the bombing, stop the war.
U.S. out of El Salvador, the protesters chanted as some of their number blocked the White House gates and were arrested.
Some lay on the icy ground as riot-equipped police calmly picked them up and deposited them in paddy wagons.
Among the participants were actor Ed Asner, long active in Central America demonstrations, and Jen McCarthy, a national worker who was arrested last.
Anglican Archbishop to quit in '91
The Associated Press
LONDON — The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, announced yesterday he will resign as leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans on Jan. 31, 1991.
Nation/World briefs
Runcie tendered his resignation a few weeks ago to Queen Eliza-Jameson, head of the state Church of England, said his spokesman, Eave Kentle.
He delayed making a public announcement, until yesterday's morning service at Canterbury Cathedral in southeast England. The service marked the 10th anniversary of his enthronement as the 102nd successor to St. Augustine.
The archbishop of Canterbury is spiritual leader of the Church of England and 26 other self-governing churches that make up the Anglican Communion, including the 2.3 million-member U.S. Episcopal Church.
TWO EARTHQUAKES: Two earthquakes rocked Costa Rica yesterday, damaging buildings, causing landslides and sending panic-stricken people into the streets. No injuries were reported.
The quakes, measuring 5.5 and 6.9 on the Richter scale, struck at 7:16 a.m. and 7:23 a.m. said, Waverley Person, an official at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. The epicenter of the quakes was located in the Pacific Ocean 80 miles southwest of San Jose, he said.
Federico Guendel of the Vulcanological and Seismological Observatory in San Jose said 60 aftershocks in the hour after the second quake.
The quakes were the strongest in the nation since 1983 when a pair of tremblers measuring 6.2 and 7.3 on the Richter scale rattled southern Costa Rica, causing widespread panic but no casualties.
ATWATER RELEASED: Republican National Chairman Lee Atwater was released from the hospital Sunday after physicians adjusted the medication he is taking for a brain tumor, an aide said.
Atwater, 39, underwent a radiation
treatment Saturday at George Washington University Hospital after being admitted on Friday, complaining of queasiness, said Leslie Goodman, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee.
A small, non-malignant tumor was discovered earlier this month on the right side of Atwater's brain after he collapsed during a speech and was rushed to the hospital. He is receiving radiation treatments five days a week to reduce the tumor.
AIDS MURDER TRIAL: The trial for an AIDS-infected inmate charged with attempted murder for allegedly biting a guard begins this week,
Gregory Smith, 26, is one of 10 prisoners around the country charged last year with trying to kill or injure law enforcement officers by attempting to infect them with AIDS, said Judy Greenspan, of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project in Washington.
"In some ways it it's almost akin to sticking a pin in a voodoo doll and hoping that someone will die," said Larry Gostin, executive director of the American Society of Law and Medicine, which recently completed a nationwide AIDS litigation project.
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