NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 6, 1993
WASHINGTON
Clinton says China's actions could end nuclear moratorium
President Clinton ordered the Department of Energy yesterday to prepare for a possible resumption of nuclear testing, acting just hours after China detonated a nuclear bomb and shattered hopes for a global test moratorium.
It said Clinton had not decided to actually resume testing.
U. S. analysts and some members of Congress said that they interpreted Clinton's response as a diplomatic jab at China and a cautious way of keeping a U.S. test-resumption option alive rather than reflecting an intent to order a test anytime soon.
Current U.S. law says the government can conduct tests only to ensure the safety and reliability of existing weapons, not to test new ones. Any tests must be certified to Congress as necessary, and Congress can disapprove a proposed test.
"This is a positive approach he is taking," said Rep. Mike Kopetski, D-Dre, an architect of the 1992 U.S. test moratorium, which Clinton reaffirmed last July. "I think the president is showing restraint because he knows that just because China is acting like a rogue nation doesn't mean we should, too."
A White House statement said Clinton had ordered the Energy Department to "take such actions as are needed to put the U.S. in a position to be able to conduct nuclear tests next year."
Hours after its underground nuclear blast, China issued a statement saying its nuclear weapons were for self-defense and reiterating that it would join in negotiations starting in January to ban all nuclear weapons tests by the end of 1996.
THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON
AIDS lawsuit receives support
A dental group and AIDS activists expressed support yesterday for the government's first lawsuits, alleging that people with the AIDS virus were illegally denied medical treatment.
"We're very pleased," she said. "In a sense we feel that it's long overdue. The kind of blatant and horrible discrimination faced by the patients in these cases is not at all uncommon. It can cost people with HIV their lives."
"HIV-infected individuals should be treated with compassion and dignity," a representative for the American Dental Association said. "A dentist should not refuse to treat a patient whose condition is within the dentist's current realm of competence solely because the patient is HIV infected."
The department on Monday accused a Houston dental chain and a dentist in New Orleans of discriminating against patients with the HIV virus, which is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Lynora Williams, representative for the AIDS Action Council, praised the Justice Department for filing the suits.
WASHINGTON Wife claims insanity defense
WASHINGTON
The Virginia woman who cut off her husband's penis will try to prove in court that she was temporarily insane at the time, her lawyer said.
Attorney James Lowe said Lorena Bobbitt was repeatedly beaten and raped by her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt. After he attacked her in their Manassas, Va., apartment on June 23, she was seized by an "irresistible impulse" that caused her to reach for a knife and cut him. Lowe said in an interview in the November issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
She faces trial Nov. 29 on a charge of malicious wounding.
Lowe said he will argue that people who have been repeatedly abused or beaten often have an altered mental state.
Mrs. Bobbitt told police she mutilated her husband after he raped her when he came home drunk from a night out with a Friend.
The Supreme Court yesterday rejected Los Angeles Police Sgt. Stacey Koon's bid to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction in the Rodney King beating.
WASHINGTON
The court, without comment, turned aside Koon's arguments that he would pose no danger to the community if he remained free and that he would be vulnerable to attacks in prison.
High Court turns down Koon
A day earlier, the court refused to allow former Officer Laurence Powell, also convicted in the King beating, to remain free during his appeal.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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