University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 16, 1990
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Soviet protesters want party out
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Thousands of people defied a ban on protests in Dushanbe, the violence-torn capital of Tadzhikistan, to demand the resignation of the entire local Communist Party leadership. Soviet media reported yesterday.
A crowd estimated at 8,000 also demanded jobs for tens of thousands of unemployed, better housing and an end to the sale of pork, which the
largely Muslim population is forbidden to eat, the official news agency Tass reported.
Another demonstration outside the main government buildings attracted 2,000 to 5,000 people who chose a committee that reconfigured the settling problems peacefully. Tass and other sources reported.
Mansur Sultanov, deputy chairman of the Tadzhik branch of Gostelradio, said that there were no shootings or riots yesterday, but Tass reported that bands of armed militants roamed the streets.
Authorities declared a state of emergency Monday.
The news agency reported that 18 people had been killed and 200 injured since the violence began Saturday night in Dushanbe, 1,600 miles southeast of Moscow, near the borders of China and Afghanistan. It said 57 soldiers were among the wounded.
Reagan's testimony to be private
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The press and public will be barred from attending former President Ronald Reagan's videotaped Iran-contra testimony today in Los Angeles, a federal judge ruled yesterday. An edited version will be released later, he said.
U. S. District Court Judge Harold Greene requested a request to allow 12 news organizations to attend Reagan's deposition but said he would release the tape as soon as classified material was removed.
Reagan will be questioned in connection with the trial of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who contends that the former president authorized his activities in the affair.
Poindexter faces trial March 5 on charges of conspiracy, obstructing Congress and making false statements.
Pointexter's lawyers unsuccessfully argued this week that Reagan's testimony would deny him a fair trial. The Supreme Court of the United States, ecutors have, finished presenting
The Bush administration yesterday voiced support for Reagan's attempt to assert executive privilege and avoid turning over more than 30 diary excerpts to Poindexter.
their case.
The Department of Justice has said executive privilege was applicable to a president's diary entries covering the conducting of official business during his tenure as chief executive. The department said that Poindexter had not given sufficient reasons for the privilege to be waived.
NEW PRESS POLICY: President Bush complained testily yesterday about news accounts that he said portrayed him as deceptive. He said he would hold fewer news conferences and initiate a new approach toward reporters.
"From now on, it's going to be a little different . . . We've got a new relationship," Bush told reporters traveling with him on Air Force One to the four-nation Colombia drub summit.
"It will be pleasant. It will be fun. But it's different," said the
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president, who has averaged one question and answer session with reporters each week since taking office 13 months ago.
KOHL FACES OPPOSITION:
Opposition leaders yesterday accused West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl of using the East German crisis to enhance his political standing and secure a place in history as the man who unified Germany.
During a raucous, insult-filled Parliament session, Kohl in turn
accused the opposition of being allied with the old Communists who ruled East Germany with an iron fist.
BARRY INDICATED: Washington Mayor Marion Barry, undergoing treatment in Florida following his January arrest for drug possession, was indicted yesterday on eight counts of perjury and possession of a controlled substance. A federal grand jury brought the charges after a 14-month probe.
Chicago pair sentenced in child abuse case
abuse of Lattie's brother, Cornelius.
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - A man was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for the murder of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son, who was beaten, burned, stuck with pins and forced to hang upside down in a closet. The woman was sentenced to life for letting it happen.
Lattie, described as a quiet boy with dark eyes, died in 1987 from a severe blow to the head, authorities said.
The life sentences Circuit Judge Michael B. Getty delivered carry no possibility for parole. The couple also received 30-year sentences for the
Cornelius, now 8, testified that Campbell tied Lattice's wrists to his ankles and hung him upside down in the closet. Cornelius said that his friend was once up on Lattice and that he too was once up in the closet for two days.
throw a screaming Lattice into a bathub of hot water, scrubbing the boy with a rag until his skin started peeling off.
Campbell, a 40-year-old former steelworker, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in December.
Getty said the evidence that Campbell was mentally ill and that Abraham had not participated directly in the execution, them insoluble for the death penalty.
He told about seeing Campbell
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