University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 21, 1989
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Bombing destroys barracks
The Associated Press
LONDON — The IRA bombed a British arm barracks in western England early yesterday, but most of the men had been evacuated before the blasts, and only one soldier was injured.
$\wedge$ half-hour before the three explosions, a sentry spotted two intruders and fire warming soldiers, then woke up keeping soldiers and told them to get out.
Police set up roadblocks in the area of the Ternhill barracks following the pre-dawn blasts and said two suspects observed by the sentry were thought to be at large in a stolen car. They said they were searching for a car taken by a masked man from a nearby home at about the time of the bombing near Shresbury, 150 miles northwest of London.
The explosions shook nearby houses, started fires, blew out the wall of one accommodation block and destroyed the roof of another at the home of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Brigade. But Peter Hicks, an army spokesman,
It was the second IRA bombing in six months at a British Army barracks in Britain. In the last attack in August, one soldier was killed, and nine others were injured at the English barracks in north London. Security
was tightened at bases around the nation.
One of the 50 soldiers sleeping in the barracks at the time of yesterday's attack was injured slightly by a bullet. Most were away on weekend leave.
The battalion, part of the regiment whose colonel-in-chief is Prince Charles, is to begin a tour of duty this week in Northern Ireland, the domestic press agency Press Association said.
The outlawed Irish Republican Army, in a statement issued to Dublin news media, claimed responsibility for the bombing and other attacks would follow unless the British left the province.
"While Britain maintains its colonial grip on the north of Ireland, the IRA will continue to strike at those who oversee and implement Brits' government policy in our country," said the IRA.
WASHINGTON — A jury will be sworn in today for the trial of Oliver North, with the prosecution preparing a lineup of witnesses to testify that he tried to cover up the Iran-contra affair.
Jurv for North to be sworn in
Lawyers for the fired presidential aide plan to rebut the prosecution's case by showing that North had White House authorization for his activities. North, the main figure in the Iran-contra affair, was indicted 11 months ago with former national security adviser John Poindexter and businessmen Richard Secord and Albert Hakim.
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The latter three will be tried separately.
The latter three will win. Two central charges against North, accusing him of conspiracy and theft in diverting Iranian arms sale profits to the Nicaraguan guerrillas, were thrown out last month on national security grounds.
The jury of nine women and three men was selected Feb. 9. But the trial was delayed when the Justice Department protested that North might divulge classified material in the courtroom. After receiving assurances from Independent Counsel Robert Koehler, the judge on Wednesday dropped efforts to delay the trial.
The jurors have one thing in common: They had almost no exposure to North's nationally televised engressional testimony in 1887 in which he admitted, under limited immunity from prosecution, many details touching on the crimes with which he is charged.
North, a decorated former Marine colonel, is accused of 12 criminal charges.
The jurors include an electronics technician, a cashier and clerical worker who said, "I don't like the news," and an unempelled former office manager, called that North was "selling something to Iran."
Five charges include alleged laying to Congress in 1985 and 1986 by denying that he was assisting the contras. Four other counts allege that he lied to Congress about the charge, that he deserved documents in November 1986.
North allegedly helped prepare false chronologies, saying no one in the U.S. government learned before January 1986 that Hawk missiles had been shipped to Iran in November 1985. He also is accused of lying to the attorney general that the National Security Agency informed the arms sales to the contrasts, and with falsifying documents showing his involvement with the contrasts.
Witnesses against North include many of his former colleagues at the NSC.
Guard replaces on-strike hospital staff
The Associated Press
CRANSTON, R.I. — National Guard troops in combat fatigues bathed and fed patients yesterday at state-run General Hospital, after scores of nurses and attendants walked out in a contract dispute.
The state, citing a law against strikes by state employees, sought a court order forcing workers to return to the 480-bed, most long-term-care hospital. Superior Court Judge Antonio S. Almida said he would rule
Thomas Romeo, director of the state department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals, accused the members of Local 1350, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, of abandoning patients and endangering their lives.
"Not all the individuals up there right now know exactly what they're doing." Romeo said. "There's not a lot of tolerance for error."
Seven of the 110 guard members on duty yesterday had nurse's training; the rest were given non-medical training, washing, washing and dressing patients.
More than a dozen acute-care patients were transferred to other hospitals, and the facility stopped admissions.
A four-day sickout ended Jan. 31 when the Guard was called in.
Doctors reported as usual yesterday, but about one-fifth of the 89 attendants and less than half of the 13 licensed doctors were available. Of the new shift, officials said.
About half of the 26 registered nurses honored the picket line, said Dan Caley, an MIRH spokesman.
Only one of the 117 attendants scheduled to work at the state Institute of Mental Health reported for work yesterday morning, said Rome. The institute also is staffed by union members.
Twenty of 24 licensed practica-
nurses and about 25 of 61 attendants
reported for the 3 p.m. shift, although
of those may have been held
over from the morning shift, said James Benedict, hospital director.
Gov. Edward DIPrete called out the Guard late Sunday after the union voted 4-1 to reject a proposed 33-cent an-hour raise offered in return for sessions on staffing. These concessions included a reduction in overtime.
Under that offer, attendants' salaries, for example, would have gone from $16,600 to $17,600.
The union, which has 1,300 members, about half of whom work at General Hospital, is upset with a new policy that does not replace absent employees and so does not curb overtime.
TOWER NOMINATION: President George Bush yesterday concluded after reading a final FBI report on embattled Defense Secretary-designate John Tower that there was nothing in the files to destroy Tower's nomination. White House officials said.
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Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said that Bush had gone over the 140 page report on Tower, a former U.S. senator from Texas, during an Oval Office meeting with White House counsel C. Boyden Gray.
"The president urges that, Sen. Tower be confirmed as soon as possible."
"The report shows no reason why Sen. Tower should not be confirmed, in our judgment," Fitzwater said.
RESHAPING FOREIGN AID: A government report released yesterday in Washington D.C. called for a radical reshaping of U.S. foreign assistance programs because current aid concepts are based on a world that no longer exists.
"The challenges of today's problems, and tomorrow's, cannot be met with yesterday's solutions, suitable as they may have been to yesterday's problems," said the report, issued by the administrator of the Agency for International Development, Alan Woods.
The 158-page study said the aid program no longer seemed able to fulfill its original mandate of helping poor countries achieve the transition from dependency to self-sufficiency.
A principal conclusion of the report called for radically reshaping future assistance programs to face new realities and to complement the contributions to development of the U.S. private sector in providing humanitarian aid, education and overseas investment.
MIDEAST PEACE TALKS: The Soviet Union yesterday invited Egypt's president to Moscow and scheduled meetings in Caro, Egypt, with Israel and the PLO in quest of a Middle East peace conference.
But Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Arens said that after 90 minutes of talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak they had made no progress on the key obstacle blocking a peace agreement in Israel's refusal to talk with the PLO.
Cairo was the focus of new peace efforts with the arrival Sunday night of Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Stalin on a five-day Nationale East tour.
ILLEGAL DRUGS: A West German company suspected of playing an important role in building a poison gas factory in Libya said yesterday that it had produced and shipped an illegal drug known as "Ecestasy" to the United States.
A spokesman for the Imahauseen Chemie company of Lahr said that the company manufactured and shipped MDMA but that Imahausen was not aware the substance was covered by West Germany's strict drug laws.
The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that MDMA, which stands for methyldeoxymethamphetamine, had been placed on the controlled substance list recently, and that the company was not aware of the change.
U. S. HOSTAGES: Five relatives of hostages held in Lebanon said yesterday in Michigan that they hoped the Bush administration was intensifying efforts to secure the captives' release, but didn't really know what was being done.
"George Bush, both in his inaugural address and a press conference afterward, without prompting, brought up the hostage issue," said Larry Anderson, another of hostage Terry Anderson. "Reagan never once, in four years."
The relatives were in oakland County, north of Detroit, Sunday and yesterday for events publicizing the hostages' plight. The activities were planned by Ernest May of Pontiac
Central American refugees face strict immigration laws
The Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Central Americans applying for asylum in the United States will get an answer in as little as one day and will be subject to immediate imprisonment if turned down, officials said yester-
The Immigration and Naturalization Service staff in southern Tex. will be increased by 500 to patrol the border and speed up the weeding out of frivolous asylum claims, INS Commissioner Alan Nelson announced.
More jails will be built to hold people who are turned down pending their appeal or deportation, he said.
A group called the Brownsville Ad Hoc Refugee Committee criticized the new INS policy as a "mean-spit attempt to deter political refugees from applying for political asylum."
we intend to send a strong signal to those people who have the mistaken idea that by merely filing a frivolous asylum claim, they may stay in the United States." Nelson said.
The changes came the same day that the INS was allowed to reinstate a policy that restricts people who are seeking axes from leaving southern Texas while they await decisions.
Before Dec. 16, the INS allowed Central American asylum-seekers to check in at its south Texas district, then travel anywhere in the United States while their cases were reviewed. But after that date the INS began to pay in the Brownville area during the review, forcing them to live in tents and trying the patience of residents and relief agencies.
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