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Ship in Cuban waters;
U.S. rescue complete
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Lethal injec
tions of laboratory cats and dogs are
monitored by the federal govern
ment, but injections of drugs to exe
cute humans are not, a lawyer for
[ death row inmates told the Supreme
Court Monday.
■The court must decide whether
the Food and Drug Administration
properly decided it did not have the
power to regulate lethal injections in
14 states including Texas.
■Laywer Stephen Kristovich, argu
ing in favor of a federal study of le
thal injection executions, said the
FDA has a legal responsibility to
make sure the drug executions are
n|t cruel and unusually painful.
Jj But government lawyer Kenneth
^-Geller told the court that a ruling in
ineDoty favor of the death row inmates
Jwould mean federal agencies would
lose the power to decide when to
[hold an investigation and when to
[dismiss a complaint.
■if a ruling of the U.S. Circuit
■urt of Appeals for the District of
Columbia is upheld, Geller said, ev
er) federal agency — from the Secu-
Irities and Exchange Commission to
the National Labor Relations Board
— will be flooded with lawsuits when
they decide not to investigate a com
plaint.
■Kristovich said the FDA’s refusal
to issue guidelines on the use of
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starkly against decisions to review
drug use in other areas.
The FDA currently regulates use
of drugs in experimentation on state
prisoners and for killing laboratory
animals, to make sure they are
proper for their intended purposes,
he said.
“There is no substantial evidence
that these drugs will produce the
quick and painless death that they
are touted as doing,” Kristovich said.
The case was brought to the court
by the FDA after a lower court ruled
in favor of several Texas and Okla
homa death row inmates who had
challenged the untested use of the
drugs in lethal injection executions.
Since Charlie Brooks was exe
cuted in Texas Dec. 7, 1982, 13
states have joined Texas in enacting
laws allowing death by injections of
barbiturates and paralyzing drugs.
Lethal injections are authorized in
Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Massachu
setts, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey,
New Mexico, North Carolina, Okla
homa, South Dakota, Texas, Utah
and Washington.
While many state lawmakers and
prison officials argue the method is
similar to putting someone under a
general anesthesia, doctors and capi
tal punishment opponents argue
death can be painful in the hands of
untrained technicians.
The appeals court agreed with op
ponents.
United Press International
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A coastal
survey ship, which broke down off
the Cuban coast, was towed safely
into port Monday.
The 105-foot Seaward Explorer
was on a voyage to map the coast of
Haiti for the Navy when an engine
propeller shaft developed problems
Thursday night. By Friday morning,
the ship had drifted into Cuban wa
ters.
Because the Navy was concerned
the Cuban government might seize
the vessel and its five-member crew
for political purposes, the Navy or
dered the aircraft carrier USS Ni-
mitz and the USS Arkansas toward
Cuba for a possible rescue.
Both nuclear-powered vessels
were recalled when the Coast Guard
cutter Reliance, patrolling the Wind
ward Passage to intercept drug
smugglers and illegal aliens, took the
disabled ship under tow.
The Reliance towed the Seaward
Explorer to the Miami Beach Coast
Guard station shortly before 1 p.m.
EST Monday.
Coast Guard spokesman Bob Bae-
ten said that when the cutter arrived
on the scene Friday morning, a 70-
foot Cuban boat was assisting the
Seaward Explorer.
Navy officials said the Cuban pa
trol boat tried to take the survey ship
under tow, but “somehow cut its own
tow line.” The Reliance then threw
its line to the disabled vessel.
Capt. Peter Skipp of the Seaward
Explorer said the Cuban boat’s tow
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Teachers go on strike in Chicago
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(CHICAGO — Chicago public
school teachers, demanding higher
salaries and “serious negotiations,”
'went on strike Monday, shutting out
more than 430,000 students in the
nation’s third largest school district.
A 17.5-hour negotiating session
between the two sides broke off Sun
day with the board offering to re
store the rollback of deductions in
medical benefits “as soon as practi
cal.”
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CTU President Jacqueline
Vaughn said she hoped the dispute
could be resolved during talks that
resumed Monday between CTU and
Board of Education negotiators.
ucation’s final contract offer.
ITU members have been work-
without a contract since August,
ey are asking for a pay raise, re-
Bration of days cut from the school
year and a rollback of deductions in
finedical benefits the board imposed
last month to erase a $40 million def-
Vaughn said teachers should be
reimbursed for the medical benefit
deductions this month and charged
the board’s “too little, too late” offer
Sunday proved it had not been ner
gotiating in good faith.
“The fact that the board ‘discov
ered’ enough money at 5 p’clock
(Sunday morning) to offer to restore
the medical benefits ... confirms our
contention the board is hiding sig
nificant sums of money,” Vaughn
said.
Vaughn said classes could be held
Wednesday if the Board of Educa
tion made a “meaningful true offer”
during Monday’s negotiations.
Vaughn said if an agreement was
reached Monday night, the union
would need today to reconvene its
House of Delegates, which has the
power to call teachers back to work
for 10 days. During that time, CTU
members could vote on a tentative
agreement.
George Munoz, school board
president, said the board was unable
to meet the union’s demand because
of funding.
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the larger, heavier research vessel.
Skipp said the Cuban patrol boat’s
machine guns were uncovered but
were not aimed at the Seaward Ex
plorer.
Baeten said, “There were no com
munications established with the Cu
ban boat nor were there any inci
dents.
“They were acting within ac
cepted maritime practice, doing
what any mariner would do. They
were aiding a fellow mariner.”
Haiti aliens
fight for more
legal rights
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Su
preme Court, taking up a plea from
thousands of Haitian refugees,
agreed Monday to rule on whether
illegal aliens have a right to chal
lenge indefinite detention while they
await deportation hearings.
The justices said they would con
sider a lower court ruling that illegal
aliens do not have the same constitu
tional rights as citizens to challenge
incarceration or to ’press race dis
crimination charges.
The lower court said refugees
could not pursue a lawsuit claiming
the Immigration and Naturalization
Service discriminated against them
because they are black or a lawsuit
challenging their indefinitejailings.
Ina related case, the court agreed
to decide if the Immigration Service
can proceed with deportation of an
alien who, by reason of appeals, has
lived in the United States for seven
years and is thus eligible for legal
residence.
The Haitian legal battle began on
June 8, 1982, when U.S. District
Judge Eugene Spellman ordered the
release of nearly 2,000 Haitians
while their immigration status was
debated.
Spellman ruled INS officials in
Florida violated the rights of the ref
ugees by shipping them to remote
detention facilities, denying them ac
cess to legal aid and keeping them
confined indefinitely.
Officials of parks, libraries and
the public radio station planned spe
cial activities to keep students occu
pied during the comirtg strike.
were re-
Most of the Haitians
leased on parole to community
groups after Spellman’s ruling and
are still awaiting word from the INS
... ,. .i / . on their claims of political asylum,
A spokesman said the library had according to a lawyer for the Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals heard the case on a govern
ment appeal and ruled aliens await
ing deportation do not have a right
to parole.
expanded services and assigned li
brarians to homework centers. Pub
lic radio station WBEZ also planned
to broadcast elementary lessons ev
ery morning and high school lessons
during the afternoon.
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