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Page 12/The BattalionTuesday, October 4, 1988
Poll: Americans believe
government takes bribes
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans
believe bribe-taking is rampant in
the federal government, a Media
General-Associated Press poll has
found.
The national survey of 1,125
adults found deep skepticism of gov
ernment integrity. In the most crit
ical finding, an overwhelming 70
percent said they thought taking ille
gal payoffs for special favors was
widespread.
Fully half the respondents called
the government dishonest overall
and seven in 10 called it poorly man
aged. Even more, 82 percent, said
they were not surprised to learn of
recent corruption charges involving
the Pentagon.
On specific cases, a plurality said
former Attorney General Edwin
Meese III should have been charged
with crimes, and half opposed the
suggestion of a presidential pardon
for former national security adviser
John Poindexter, the highest official
charged in the Iran-Contra case.
Respondents were evenly split on
a pardon for Poindexter’s assistant,
former Marine Lt. Col. Oliver
North, who gained support through
his defense of his actions at congres
sional hearings last year.
The Reagan administration did
not carry heavy blame for the overall
doubt about government honesty.
While 43 percent said the adminis
tration had done a bad job of enforc
ing ethical standards, 40 percent
Man wounds
3rd-grade girl
on playground
MASCOT I E, Fla. (AP) — A gun
man in a camouflage outfit shot a
third-grade student on an elemen
tary school playground Monday, au
thorities said. The girl was reported
in stable condition with arm and
chest wounds.
The entire police force rushed to
Mascotte Elementary School in this
small central Florida community,
searching for the man who was still
at large, police dispatcher Cathy En
gland, said.
The gunman shot the girl just be
fore 1 1 a.m. as she played on the
school’s physical education field,
Betty June Cofield, secretary to the
Lake County school superintendent,
said. No one else was hurt in the inci
dent, and she said she did not know
how many shots were fired or what
kind of weapon was used.
The wounded girl was Leah Wil
banks, 9, of Mascotte, said Jean
Lowe of Orlando Regional Medical
Center.
Mascotte is a relatively small town
of 1,100.
It was the third school shooting
incident in as many weeks. Last
week, two little girls were killed and
nine other people wounded at a
school in South Carolina, while the
previous week, five people, none of
them students, were killed in a
shooting in and near a Chicago el
ementary school.
Delta resumes
court trial
on ’85 crash
FORT WORTH (AP) — Delta Air
Lines and the federal government
renewed their courtroom battle
Monday, with the resumption of a
federal liability trial focusing on a
1985 plane crash that killed 137 peo
ple.
The non-jury trial started again in
U.S. District Judge David O. Belew
Jr.’s court in Fort Worth after hav
ing been in recess since early Au-
s ust -
Delta Air Lines is attempting to
have the government share the
blame for the crash of Delta Flight
191 at Dallas-Fort Worth Interna
tion aj Airport.
At stake in the legal proceeding is
more than $100 million in claims
from survivors and relatives of vic
tims. Delta is attempting to have the
government pay some of those costs
and cover the cost of replacing the
Lockheed L-1011 jet destroyed in
the crash.
If Belew rules that the govern
ment should share blame in the tra
gedy, a separate trial will determine
how much the government should
pay.
Neither Delta nor the government
disputes the direct cause of the
crash. A a violent downburst of air,
or microburst, from a rapidly devel
oping thunderstorm at the edge of
the runway slammed the aircraft
into the ground. Meteorologists say
there is no known way to forecast a
microburst.
Delta officials claim a lack of com
munication between government air
traffic controllers and meteorolo
gists prevented the Delta flight crew
from getting the information they
needed on the bad weather.
said it had done a good job. The split
was insignificant given the poll’s
three-point error margin.
Also, 51 percent said the adminis
tration had done a good job of ma
naging the government, even
though most said the government
was poorly managed overall. And 55
percent did not blame the adminis
tration for the Pentagon scandal.
Democrats predominated in the
35 percent who did blame the ad
ministration for the Pentagon case,
which involves allegations of payoffs
in the awarding of military contracts.
But large majorities of all groups.
Republicans and independents in
cluded, were unsurprised by the
charges.
Similarly, majorities of all demo
graphic and ideological groups said
they believed taking payoffs was
widespread in the government —
from a low of 60 percent of Republi
cans to a high of 82 percent ol liber
als. Overall, just 20 percent of the re
spondents did not believe payoffs
were widespread.
Democratic presidential nominee
Michael Dukakis proposed tighter
ethics rules and sharply criticized the
administration for its ethical perfor
mance last week. But the poll, con
ducted Sept. 6-14, found respon
dents split evenly on whether
Dukakis or Republican nominee
George Bush would he better at en
forcing ethical standards.
In the Iran-Contra case, Poin
dexter and North have Id
charged with conspiring whileim
White 1 louse to sell arms to Inn
exchange for American hosiai
and to divert the proceeds loth!
caraguan rebels. Their triahvili
take place before the election;8i
has said he hopes North isacqu®
l ilts percent in the pollajn
that Poindexter should have8
charged; 30 percent said notanii
rest didn’t know. There kji
gr eater division on North: Fj
three percent agreed with
charges, 12 percent did not.
1 he breakdown was the saint
whethet President Reagan ski
pardon the men: On Poindei
it.ill said no and 30 percent yes;
North, 11 percent said he should
pardoned, 44 percent said not.
Meese, attorney general s
1985, resigned this summer,sail
he had been vindicated of com
i i< >n allegations by a special pros#
tor s dec ision not to seek diai|
against him. The prosecutors
Meese probably violated taxl
and conflic t o( interest laws,bin
not file c harges because he haj
r\ idem e that Meese sought pets*
gain.
Fortv-six percent in the sow
howev er, said Meese should Is
been c harged with crimes, hi
pci c cut agreed with thedecisioiu
to c barge him and the remainiti
pci c cut had no opinion.
Supreme Court rejects killer’s appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court on Monday re
jected appeals by two convicted
Texas murderers sentenced to
death.
The court let stand rulings that
Michael E. Sharp and Maurice
Andrews received fair trials and
perly were sentenced.
Sharp was convicted of fatally
stabbing Brenda Kay Broadway
and her daughter, Christy Mich
elle Elms, 8, on June 11, 1982.
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Police said Sharp abductd
If toad wav and her two datighie
from a car wash in Kennit.
Andrews was sentenced to tit
for the shooting deaths of b
Angel Cranado, a jewein stoi
owner in Beaumont, and Artur
Melindez, who worked at ti
store, during an April 8. 19!
robbery.
The cases are Sharp vs. Tex;
87-6984, and Andrews vs.Tex
87-71 17.
Court agrees to hear issue of fees
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court on Monday
agreed to decide whether those
who win partial victories in civil
rights lawsuits — losing on the
central issue — are entitled to re
cover their attorneys’ fees.
The court said it will hear an
appeal by school teachers in
Texas who challenged anti-union
regulations.
T he regulations, adopted by
the Garland Independent School
District, barred teacher union
representatives from visiting
schools during regular school
hours or using school public ad
dress systems or other commu
nications facilities, and barred
teachers from using internal mail
or bulletin boards to discuss
union activities
I he 5th U.S. Circuit Court
Appeals upheld the reguhftoi
affecting unibh represeftatoft.
But the appeal* court said it vio
lates the free-speech and free*
sociation rights of teachers to ban
private conversations or prevent
them from using the mail or bul
let in boards.
The appeals court ruled
February that the Texas Statt
Teachers Association and tht
Garland Education Association,
which filed the suit and won pan
of t heir case, are not entitledtok
reimbursed for attorneys'fees.
At issue in the case acted
Monday is what constitutes a pit
vailing party.
T he case is Texas State Teach
ers Association vs. Garland Inde
pendent School District, 87-1751
Pope agrees to visit Finland in June
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope
John Paul II said Monday he will
visit Finland in June during an
expected Scandinavian pilgrim
age-
Receiving the credentials of
Finland’s new ambassador to the
Holy See, Richard Totterman,
the pope said: “I look forward
with anticipation to the visit
winch 1 propose co make in rin
land in June of next year.”
The pope accepted an inviii-
tion to visit the overwhe!
Lutheran region at a Vaticai
meeting with the area’s
Catholic bishops in Februar
1987.
The pope’s statement Mond?
was the first Vaticanconfirmatioi
of any stop.
Plane crashes at Rio de Janeiro field
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
(AP) — A twin-engine plane
crashed and exploded while mak
ing an emergency landing near
Rio de Janeiro, killing all eight
people on board, the Rio Airport
Authority said Monday.
The plane, belonging to the
Armar Air Taxi company, was
flying from the southeastern
coastal resort town of Buzios to
Rio on Sunday when the |*
asked to make an emergent
landing at the navy air base in &
Pedro da Aldeia, 90 miles easK 1 !
Rio, the base said.
The plane crashed near tk
runway and burst into flaifl*
killing the six passengers andl» f
crew members, the airport J*'
thority said. The cause of ik
crash was not known.
Anti-abortion activists lose in appea
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-
abortion activists in Houston lost
a Supreme Court appeal Monday
as the justices let stand an injunc
tion barring them from demon
strating at an abortion clinic.
1 he court, without comment,
rejected arguments that the in
junction violates the demonstra
tors’ rights.
Their appeal, among other
things, had urged the nation's
highest court to reverse its land
mark 1973 decision legalizing
abortion.
The Right to Life Advocates
Inc., an anti-abortion group, and
nine of its members are barred
from demonstrating at the Aaron
Women’s Clinic in Houston.
A state judge, acting on a law
suit filed by the clinic, issued the
injunction after members of the
group staged protests each Satur
day from Mav through July 1985.
A state appeals court upheld
the injunction, and the Texas Su-
pieuii_ VAHiil leiusctl lutcwc
t he case Feb. 10.
The injunction bars Rit
Fife Advocates Inc.,- the
members and “their serai#
agents and others acting inctf
cert” from “entering or tresp#
mg onto any portion of (the cl® 1 ’
ic’s) private property
It also bars “any demons!#
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those enjoined, and forbids(1)#
“to physically confront, inti®'
idate or harass any customer, I#
tential customer, employee, in' 1,
tee or tenant of the c
building” in which the clinicisb
cated.
The nine Right to Life me®'
hers named in the injunction art
Craig K. Andersen, j. (Jim)Bai'
ley, Lee P, Helmke, Gary Loik
Barbara A. Martone,
Martone, Kathy Mathems,Shell
McIntosh and Joseph ], Fesl.
The case is Right to Life AT 1
cates vs. Aaron Women’s Clinic
87-2002.
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