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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,
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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(
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hunting rifles fro
tempt to calm the
mourned 19 peopl
rally.
Tanks, armorec
diers patrolled the
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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
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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.
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