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Miin PnM Oik Mill SrTiw • 776-27H6 Collt|l« Stl'lo*-764.0010 WORLD & NATION Thursday, April 6,1989 Activists dispute abortion rights, prepare to battle for legislatures WASHINGTON (AP) — Both sides in the abortion rights dispute are mobilizing to battle for the state legislatures that will decide the highly charged issue if the Supreme Court, re shaped by Ronald Reagan, retreats from the 1973 decision legalizing abortions. “We are the majority,” proclaimed Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women, after a rally Sunday sponsored by abor tion rights activists that attracted at least 300,000 people to the nation’s capital. But opponents of abortion point as signs of their political strength to their election victories, particularly in 1978 and 1980, and to their strength in state legislatures. Both sides are anticipating that the high court, made more conservative with Reagan’s three ap pointments, will by early July allow states to place some restrictions on abortion. Arguments in the Missouri case will be heard April 26. The ruling could significantly alter the court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decison, which gave women the right to have abortions. If the justices, as expected, restore to the states some powers to regulate abortions, the high- stakes battles for state legislative control could have a profound impact on the ongoing battle to control the redrawing of House districts to con form to next year’s Census. The national Republican and Democratic chairmen already have designated reapportion- ment as their top political priority for the next two years. Republican chairman Lee Atwater contends that Democratic control of a majority of state legislatures has resulted in drawing House district lines that have solidified the chamber s Democratic majority. While the controversy over abortion crosses party lines, successes by candidates wanting to make abortion illegal are more likely to benefit Republicans, while those of candidates favoring the right to an abortion tend to favor Democrats. “We think there’s a sleeping giant on our side,” Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the Na tional Right to Life Committee, said. “It could turn around the intensity of pressure on politicians,” Kate Michelman, executive direc tor of the National Abortion Rights Action League, said. “It will become a dominant issue in state legislative races all across the country.” After the 1973 decision, opponents of the right to an abortion mounted a political cam paign designed to elect their supporters to Con gress and state legislatures with the eventual goal of amending the Constitution to outlaw ah tions. r ' Such activists were prominent in camnaio against Senate liberals in 1978 and 1980. " 111 “In 1980, we made a net gain of ten in theSe ate,” Johnson said, referring to the election ir which Republicans gained control of the Senat for the first time in a quarter-century. ' Johnson said he can still count a solid majontv in the House behind his organization’s stand on abortion issues, but conceded he’s in the minoriiv in the Senate. Johnson said it would be easier to spur into ac tion opponents of the right to an abortion “once they know (their state) legislature has really m the power to do something.” But Michelman predicted that her sidewillbe spurred to action once women realize they could lose the ability to choose whether or not to have an abortion. “This is the issue that is going to bring youm people into the political process,” she said. Still on the books in 25 states and the Distria of Columbia are anti-abortion laws in place when the Supreme Court invalidated them in 1973, brownsvill ides blame humai tank cult of drug deaths of a dozen a University of le: bodies were found Tuesday just sout border. "It was horrible, sheriff of Camei southernmost in 1 human slaughterb The dead inch J student who d Mexican town of across the Rio Brownsville, durin vacation March George Gavito said Troops dispel Soviet rally Week of ethnic unrest leaves at least 18 dead MOSCOW (AP) — Troops fired shots to disperse a rally Monday in Soviet Georgia, and the Kremlin sent Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze to try to end a week of ethnic unrest in his southern home land that has left at least 18 people dead. A general strike closed schools, stores and factories, and halted some mass transit in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital of 1.2 million people 1,650 miles southeast of Moscow, residents said. The government has sent in troops and tanks to quell ethnic strife and pro-independence movements in the mountainous Caucasus repub lic that is the vegetable and fruit bas ket of the Soviet Union and was the birthplace of dictator Josef Stalin. As many as 1,000 people ignored the restrictions and massed at Tbilisi State University at midday to “to in form each other about what was going, on and decide what to do next,” said Zhankarashvili, who was at the,gathering. “The military stood there with their tanks and frightened the peo ple off,” he said. “They shot in the air,” he said, adding that soldiers beat two students. The crowd scattered, with some flee ing into a university building, he said. The delegation from the ruling Politburo was led by Shevardnadze, a Georgian who displayed sympathy to nationalists in his 1972-85 tenure as the republic’s Communist Party chief. The Politburo official in charge of party personnel, Georgy P. Razumovsky, also went to Tbilisi, Gerasimov said. Sergei Dandurov, a nationalist who also was at the meeting, said troops jumped from armored per sonnel carriers and fired into the air. Shevardnadze had just returned from London, and Gerasimov said he postponed a trip Wednesday to East Germany because of the unrest. The government newspaper Iz- vestia reported that cars moved through the capital Monday in a col umn with their horns honking, headlights on and flags of mourning for those killed in the strife. Some people donned black ribbons' in mourning and protest, residents said. Government raid results in arrest of drug kingpins, crooked police officials On Sunday, a clash between troops and pro-independence pro testers killed at least 16 people and injured more than 100, according to Soviet officials. Nana Byelovami, a nurse at the Central Republic Hospital in Tbilisi, said a 23-year-old pregnant woman who was beaten and a 50-year-old woman who inhaled tear gas during a clash died in addition to the 16. Zurab Zhankarashvili, a member of the Helsinki Watch group, said from Tbilisi that 50 people were killed Sunday and 560 injured. His report could not be confirmed inde pendently. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen nady I. Gerasimov said Tuesday had been declared a day of mourning. Without providing details, he said all the deaths announced Sunday were civilians, and that they included 10 women and six men trampled when soldiers broke up the protest. The unrest and strike went on Monday despite a ban on public gatherings, imposition of an II p.m. - 6 a.m. curfew and patrols by sol diers in tanks. MEXICO CITY (AP) — The gov ernment struck another dramatic blow against corruption with a raid that resulted in the arrest of the god father of Mexican drug trafficking and six crooked police officials, Mexico’s attorney general said Mon day. Attorney General Enrique Alvarez del Castillo told reporters that the arrest of drug kingpins like Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was “one of the top priorities” of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari’s administration. The weekend sweep that led to the arrest of Felix Gallardo and three of his aides also netted the top federal anti-drug official in the drug lord’s home state and five other high-ranking police officials, Alva rez said. “We will press on, regardless of where it leads,” Alvarez said. The sudden, swift raids were the third dramatic example of Salinas’ determination to attack corruption in Mexican society. In January, he put the long un touchable leader of the corrupt oil workers’ union behind bars; in Feb ruary one of Mexico’s top stockbrok ers went to jail. Felix Gallardo, thought to head a ring that smuggled up to two tons of cocaine monthly into the United States, had been sought for years but had “obtained protection from di verse authorities,” Alvarez said. The attorney general called Felix Gallardo “the number one drug traf ficker in Mexico.” He said that ra dios, high-powered weapons and 124 grams of cocaine were also seized. Authorities believe Felix Gallardo may have been involved in the 1985 slaying of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. However, Alva rez said Felix Gallardo had disap proved of the decision to kill Cama rena and that he had not obtained any evidence linking Felix Gallardo directly to the killing. Felix Gallardo was arrested Satur day night in Guadalajara. In a statement, the attorney gen eral’s office said the raid by Federal Judicial Police agents was the result of Salinas’ vow to clean up drug dealing and corruption in Mexico, and U.S. authorities welcomed the news of Felix Gallardo’s arrest. One of Gallardo’s numerous busi nesses was surrounded by soldiers on Sunday, and army troops contin ued to patrol the city. Soviets locate submarine on sea floor MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet navy has found its nuclear sub marine at the bottom of the frigid Norwegian Sea and believes elec trical problems may have caused a fire and explosions that sank it, a newspaper reported Monday. The government newspaper Izvestia said rescuers had found the bodies of 19 of the 42 sailors killed when the sub sank north of Norway on Friday. Tass, the official news agency, said the 27 survivors were hospi talized in serious condition at Murmansk, a Soviet Arctic port, and investigators were able to in terview them for only minutes at Poli( in at hunting rifles fro tempt to calm the mourned 19 peopl rally. Tanks, armorec diers patrolled the lie’s capital, Tbilis gatherings and an a time. It also said a government com mission praised the crew for “bra vely and intelligently” working to shut down the sub’s nuclear reac tor. “According to preliminary in formation, the lire started be cause of a short circuit,’ Izvestia said, quoting navy investigators in Murmansk. It said the submarine carried 10 torpedoes, two of them nuclear-tipped. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov and the newspaper reiterated previous Soviet statements that there was no danger of radioactivity being released from the torpedoes or the reactor. President Mikha ered it a “sacred” others should ha^ opinions freely, bu actions, reported Social Democratic chevon Tuesday. \ttori of viol Izvestia said search crews had determined the sub’s location but Gel asimov said whether it could be raised was not yet known. Norwegian defense officials in Oslo said the Soviets had a sal vage vessel at the site, but spokes man Erik Senstad there was no indication whether an attempt would be made to raise the sub from nearly 5,000 feet below the surface. Vadim Rozanov, press attache at the embassy in Oslo, said Soviet vessels were in the area to test tor radiation, paralleling studies by Norwegian scientists, but I don know if there are any plans to sa vage the submarine.” If the ship was a Mike-class ves sel, as believed in the West, it would contain some of the nios advanced Soviet technology. COME HEAR REGGIE WHITE REGGIE IS AN ALL PRO DE FENSIVE END FOR THE PHILA DELPHIA EAGLES. Nicknamed, “THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE,” REGGIE IS AN INSPIRATION TO ALL ATHLETES TO EXCEL IN SPORTS AS WELL AS IN LIFE. 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