University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 2. 1988
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Nation/World
Mexico's new president sworn in amid protests
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office yesterday as opponents protested in congress and in the streets, and he promised to push for political and economic modernization.
Salinas, a 40-year-old economist,
succeeds President Miguel de la
Madrid for a six-year term. He
inherits an economy threatened by
both recession and inflation, growth
squeezed by a $102 billion foreign
debt due to the government's aid
after loss of autonomy that reduced
earnings about 50 percent.
he said efforts to reduce Mexico's foreign debt would begin immediately.
The new president outlined a vision of modern Mexico in keeping with his free market ideas, in which a paternalistic state would give way to a partnership of political parties, business, labor, citizens' groups and the church.
"We are walking out because we don't want to endorse with our presence the legitimacy of the Salinas de Gortari government," said Jaime Hernandez, one of the delegates.
About 140 delegates from the National Democratic Front walked out of the Legislative Palace just before Salinas was inaugurated, and members of the National Action group held up signs declaring "Fraud."
Florida doctor cleared in wife's mercy killing
The Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A doctor charged with killing his terminally ill wife with a drug overdose after she unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide was cleared of all charges yesterday in a case sparked by a TV interview.
Peter Rosier, a physician who said he wanted to end his wife's suffering from cancer, was found innocent of killing the girl, attempted murder and conspiracy.
I and conspiracy
The state charged that Rosier
obtained Secondal sedatives for his wife to commit suicide, administered morphine when the Secondal only left her comatose, and eventually manipulated her adoptive father and brothers into finishing the job by smothering her.
The charges were brought after Rosier appeared on a television interview and described administering the drug overdoses to his wife, Patricia, who was 43 when she died Jan. 15, 1986. Prosecutors contended he hoped to profit from her death with a book about it.
Acid thrown on lawyer
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — A Holocaust survivor splashed acid in the face of a lawyer who represented convicted Nazi war criminal John Demanjuk yesterday at a funeral for another Demanjuk attorney who committed suicide.
the injured lawyer, Yoram Shefel, was reported in satisfactory
condition at Jerusalem's Haddassah Hospital's eye unit, where he was transferred for treatment after the incident. The attorney complained of blurred vision and pain in his left eye and will be kept under observation for several days.
Police identified the assailant as Yisrael Yehezkeli, who was detained after the attack at Jerusalem's Sanhedra Cemetery.
--morning.
Officials said they would look at the forecast late last night before giving a go-ahead to fuel the spacecraft again for a launch today in a three-hour
NASA will attempt launch again
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Weather permitting, NASA will try again today to send Atlantis on a secret military mission after abandoning yesterday's attempt because of violently shifting 104 mph winds in the shuttle's flight path.
The Associated Press
Air Pressure weathermen said there was a 70 percent chance that conditions would be satisfactory at sunrise but would deteriorate by later in the morning.
period beginning at 5:32 a m CST. If the weather looked bad, NASA would wait until tomorrow.
looked bad, Nassau. NavyCmdr Robert L. Gibson and his four-man military crew, dressed in uncomfortable, bulky flight suits, had been lying on their backs in cabin seats for nearly five hours yesterday when the decision was made to quit.
They were not heard from publicly because NASA, operating under strict Air Force secrecy requirements, did not carry the usual shuttle-to-launch control conversations over its radio circuit.
Using all the resources at its command, including high-altitude weather balloons, radar and a
shuttle pilot flying through the clouds, NASA continuously sampled the weather before finally calling it quits.
Rain had left the area and skies had begun clearing, but eight miles above the Atlantic Ocean winds exceeded hurricane force.
Such winds could cause serious damage to the shuttle's wings.
Lawrence B. Williams, NASA engineer, said the blasts were so powerful and erratic that the shuttle's computer could not be programmed to safely adjust its flight path.
Nabisco will sell for $24.53 billion
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The possibility of a corporate breakup yesterday loomed over RJR Nabisco Inc. after Kohlberg Kravig Roberts & Co. agreed to buy the food-and-diamgret giant for $24.53 billion, but the buytore specialist said there would be no "wholesale" selloff.
be no "wholesale seniors"
Meanwhile, RJR's debt ratings sank and a spokesman for a major RJR bondholder that had suded RJR said his firm might sue Kohlberg also.
After an exhaustive bidding free-for-all overseen by a special RJR directors committee, Kohlberg triumphed over the JRJ management group led by chief executive F. Ross Johnson late Wednesday.
Kohberg's package of cash and securities was valued at $109 a share for each of JRJ's 225 million shares, making it the biggest takeover agreement in history.
Kohlberg principal Henry Kravis told journalists in New York that there would be "no wholesale dismemberment" of JRJ, although "obviously some businesses will have to be sold."
Nevertheless, many said it was certain Kohlberg would have to sell at least part of JRJ's wide-range food operations, which include Nabisco crackers, Life Savers candies, Del Monte fruits and other valuable brand products, to service the enormous debt acquired to engineer the deal.
No decisions have been made on what to shed. Krayis said.
New York-based Kohlberg is the undisputed leader in leveraged buyouts, in which it puts up a small amount of money and borrows the real repaying the debt of the acquired company's assets or both.
earnings, assists in Basketball,
Although Kravis said it considered the fight for
JRJ over, Johnson and his chief backer, Shearson
Lehman Hutton Inc., hinted they were not finished
Shearson said in a statement, "From what we know, our bid was the best. We are mystified about the process and the standards that the board used to reach its decision."
News Roundup
NURSING HOME INSPECTIONS: The most recent surprise inspections of the country's nursing homes showed that 43 percent failed to meet food sanitation standards and nearly 30 percent didn't properly administer drugs or ensure good personal hygiene, the government reported yesterday.
arms deals involving sale of U.S. weapons to Iran.
BHUTTO CHOSEN: Benazir Bhutto became the first woman to lead a Moslem nation when the president of Pakistan chose her yesterday to be prime minister, the post his father held when he was deposed and hanged a decade ago.
RESOLUTION TO U.N.: Arab diplomats said they would introduce a resolution today to move the General Assembly from U.N. headquarters in New York to Geneva. The move was in response to the United States' retusal to issue a visa to Yasser Arafat. A ranking U.N. official said approval was certain.
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY DECEMBER 1, 2, & 3
of the largely ceremonial post Gorbachev assumed Oct. 1.
**CRASH KILLS ISRAELI:** Amiram Nir Sisker, 38, an Israeli who was linked to the U.S. Iran-contra affair and who briefed Vice President George Bush on arms deals with Iran, apparently died in a plane crash in Mexico, officials said yesterday. Engine failure may have been the cause. Nir was an important liaison in secret
SOVIET POLITICAL STRUCTURE: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev won nearly unanimous presidential yesterday of a more dynamic political structure. Elections will be held March 26 for a new 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies that will choose from among its members a smaller, more active Supreme Soviet. The reform also creates a strong presidency in place
CHOSEN FOR PROMOTION: Lt. Gen. Colin L. Powell, White House national security adviser since 1987, has been chosen for promotion to full general and command of all Army troops stationed in the United States, President Reagan announced yesterday. Powell, 51, would become only the fourth black officer to attain four-star rank in the U.S. armed forces if the Senate confirms the right.
BIRTH DEFECTS STUDY: Women who took vitamins around the time they got pregnant were much less likely than other women to have babies with birth defects of the brain and spine, a comprehensive study has found. But researchers said they didn't know whether to credit the vitamins or some other factor they couldn't measure, such as the women's diets.
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