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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1981 *
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Senator votes ‘present’ in protest against abortion stance
Senate committee votes 17-0 in favor of O’Connor!
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WASHINGTON — The Senate
(Judiciary Committee Tuesday
nanimously recommended San-
ira Day O’Connor be the first
oman Supreme Court justice.
The vote of 17-0 meant the full
Senate could confirm her historic
omination as early as Wednesday
- plenty of time for O’Connor to
claim her seat when the Supreme
Court reconvenes Oct. 5.
Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala.,
saying he was dissatisfied that
O’Connor had declined to give her
“judicial view” on abortion during
three days of confirmation hear
ings last week, cast a mild protest
vote of “present. ”
O’Connor, an Arizona appeals
court judge, is assured Senate
confirmation. While a number of
conservative senators still grum
bled private misgivings about her
votes on abortion when she was an
Arizona legislator, there was no
chance serious opposition would
develop.
Even Denton, who questioned
O’Connor at great length about
abortion, said he would not vote
against her because her reluctance
to answer was partly a defect in the
confirmation process.
“Thus, Mr. Chairman, my vote
is to respond ‘present,’” Denton
concluded after reading a four-
page prepared statement.
Sens. John East, R-N.C., and
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, voted
for confirmation but joined in a
statement read by East saying
they have reservations about
O’Connor’s responses to abortion
questions.
While she said abortion is per
sonally “repugnant,” O’Connor
refused under repeated questions
to say whether her votes on the
matter as a member of the highest
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MONTEREY, Calif. — Some
where off the coast of California
rims a whale with a tale about
! two fishermen who got away.
It sounds like a fish story but
; two fishermen have the Coast
Huard as a witness.
It began when the 36-foot
shing boat Mary Syres apparent-
hit the whale off the coast of
lonterey Monday.
The whale hit back — hard. So
hard that Norman Longacre, the
boat’s owner, had to cut his en-
gine.
“It was a bunch bigger than my
boat, ” said Longacre, who said the
whale appeared to be a humpback
between 50 and 65 feet long.
Then when Longacre and
Richard Hallbrook tried to restart
the engine, the whale banged the
boat again. They tried once more
and again the whale struck the
boat.
“We tried to start the engine,
but he wouldn’t let us go so we
idled and drifted,” said Longacre.
The two frightened men drifted
for almost three hours, radioing
for help. The whale swam along
side and occasionally nudged the
boat.
Shortly after dawn, a Coast
Guard 40-foot cutter showed up
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NEW YORK — A state Sup-
me Court judge dismissed the
;anian government’s suit to re-
up $50 billion it claims the late
tab of Iran and the royal family
pie before going into exile.
State Supreme Court Justice
ing Kirshenbaum told Paul
0 Dwyer, a former City Council
esident who now represents Ira-
ian interests, New York was an
appropriate forum for the litiga
tion.
The events in the complaint
occurred in Iran, he said, and trial
in New York would require Ira
nian witnesses and place an “un
necessary heavy burden” on the
state court system.
The suit, filed in November
1979 but delayed by State Depart
ment requests, claimed the late
shah looted the Iranian treasury
and accused him and his family of
resorting to murder, torture and
international corruption.
Kirschenbaum told O’Dwyer to
go to an international court.
O’Dwyer said that “doesn’t
make sense at all” because there is
no international forum to hear the
O’Dwyer said he would appeal
because the ruling was “the most
inconsistent decision that has ever
been rendered in this court.”
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■HOUSTON — A power com-
panv applying to operate the $2.7
bill ion South Texas Nuclear Pro
ject told a federal government
ienjnvo!f Cens ' n g board there have been
= n a | IfiPree clashes between construc-
nninifer 011 wor kers and quality-control
Inspectors during construction,
the ik® ^ staternent submitted by
Houston Lighting & Power Co.
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ignflict, a one-punch fight, but
ot of duAVAg testimony it was disclosed
oo fr in another case a worker pulled a
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|fore the Nuclear Regulatory
mmission said there was no
iattern of intimidation” of quali
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f , : ject were granted a motion to
Bestion each of three witnesses
while the other two were outside
the room.
Former project quality control
nager G. Thomas Warnick said
B brief fist fight March 7, 1979,
maxed a two-day dispute be-
een a construction engineer and
inspector. He also told of two
idents in November, 1979,
en an engineer “threatened to
jme across the table” after an in
lector and when a worker pulled
nife because he thought the en-
ineer was using his ladder.
‘Warnick said in each instance
those involved were either repri-
|anded, moved to another job or
fed.
The NRC board is considering
ether HL&P has shown the
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merit a license to run the plant.
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and — acting as a decoy — led the
whale out to sea, permitting the
Mary Syres to scurry to Monterey
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“The whale was sort of playful
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Taylor said. “He swam along with
us and once we got going fairly
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The skipper said the two fisher
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Marine experts said the whale’s
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court would reflect that personal
view.
East said O’Connor’s responses
to other issues dear to conserva
tives — in favor of the death penal
ty and preventive detention and
against compulsory school busing
— indicated she would be a good
justice.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,
another conservative, issued a
prepared statement giving O’Con
nor unqualified support.
“Judge O’Connor made it clear
that abortion is not something she
supports,” Hatch said. “She made
it quite clear that she doesn’t be
lieve her own personal beliefs
should really color or influence
the decisions she’ll make later a|!a
justice on the U.S. Suprenie
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O’Connor told her confirma
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in judicial “activism” — making
law instead of merely interpreting
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And she said she does nbt
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used in excluding damaging cri
minal evidence on technicalities.
But abortion cropped up again
and again — largely because some
anti-abortion senators interpreted
several of her votes in the Arizona
state senate to be in favor of abor
tion.
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