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All it does is take someone else’s life.” Taking it all in stride, Bush com plimented Chantee and two other students invited to speak for doing a good job expressing “what’s on your heart” without worrying “if people agree with you or not.” Bush, who has advocated the death penalty for drug kingpins and for those who kill law enforcement officers, was presiding over a cere mony honoring the Los Angeles- based DARE (Drug Abuse Resist- ence Education). At the ceremony, part of Bush’s continuing efforts to promote his new anti-drug strategy, three Wash ington area students who are mem bers of the DARE program were in vited to read essays. While the other two stuck to drug themes, Chantee used most of her allotted time to attack the death pen alty. Saying “probably thousands” of innocent prisoners have been exe cuted, she argued that death penalty proponents “miss the point that the prisoner has a family too.” “The guard that turns on the switch to electrocute the prisoner is just as much a murderer as the per son who has committed the crime,” she said. “The guy who kills the prisoner must feel guilty afterwards. But I guess they get paid for it,” she said. “If I had one wish, I’d wish that the death penalty never existed.” “DARE has taught me to make my own decisions and not let friends make them for me,” she added. Chantee, a student at Arlington’s Thomas Jefferson Intermediate School, later told reporters she was unaware of Bush’s strong support for the death penalty for certain crimes. She indicated she had not in tended to be provocative, but “I don’t like the idea of people getting killed. It was just a topic I wanted to write about.” Maria Sheehan, a White House aide who helped coordinate the pro gram, said that the three students were picked to speak by local leaders of the DARE nroeram. The two other students read somewhat less controversial essays. Janine Waters, 12, also of Thomas Jefferson Intermediate, said, “If people offer you drugs, just turn away and say no. Or change the sub- ject.” And Borris Torrico, 13, of Wil liamsburg Intermediate School, also in Arlington, said, “When you’re older and you want to get a new car, like a Porsche, you can save up for it and not use it on drugs or on alco hol.” Bush told the student speakers, “It’s not easy to get up in front of a big, scary audience like this and do such a good job — say what’s on your heart, not worry if people agree with you or not.” Worst mine disaster in five years kills 10, leaves three injured WHEATCROFT, Ky. (AP) — Methane gas ignited in a flash “like a flame thrower” in a coal mine Wednesday, killing 10 miners and burning three, authorities said. It was the nation’s worst coal mine disaster since 27 miners were killed in 1984 in a mine in Utah, said Frank O’Gorman of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administra tion. There was nothing to indicate that anyone was trapped underground at the Pyro Mining Co.’s William Sta tion Mine in western Kentucky, said Nancy Toombs, a secretary for state Commissioner of Mines and Miner als Willard Stanley. The ignition point of the fire about 9:30 a.m. CDT apparently was near part of a mining machine that was being dismantled to be moved, O’Gorman said. Thirteen miners were in the vicin ity when the explosion occurred, state Police Capt. Robert Forsythe said. Three miners escaped with burns. Rescue teams were sent into the shaft to remove the bodies, state trooper Ed Brady said. Police sealed off the area around the mine and families of the dead miners were directed to a company headquarters building just outside Wheatcroft, a town of about 300 people. The exact cause of the fire was not immediately known. But MSHA spokesman Sam Stafford said such fires are usually caused when a piece of metal equipment hits stone and causes a spark. Stafford said such fires are small but “like a flame thrower.” O’Gorman said the dead were be lieved to have died of carbon mon oxide poisoning. Methane, the major ingredient of natural gas, is found naturally in coal seams. Mine ventilation systems normally keep it below explosive concentrations. The mine, which the state mining agency says employs 380 miners on three shifts, is about 140 miles south west of Louisville and 40 miles southwest of Evansville, Ind. Mayor Larry Cowan, who worked 23 years in mines, said most people of the town earn their livings in the coal industry. “We know, invariably, it could happen, but it’s always supposed to be someone else,” Cowan said. The injured were taken to Union County Hospital in Morganfield for treatment of burns, Brady said. Their condition was not immediately known. Senate allots $221 million for state military projects WASHINGTON (AP) — A Sen ate appropriations committee voted Wednesday to spend $221 million on military construction projects in Texas next year, setting aside money for Red River Army Depot, Brooke Army Medical Center and Naval Sta tion Ingleside. Under the spending plan for fis cal 1990, $39 million would go to the renovation of the Army Depot in Texarkana, $22 million would be used to complete construction of the homeport near Corpus Christi, and $53 million would finance the re- g lacement Army medical center in an Antonio. Although the Senate appropria tions subcommittee total is what President Bush had sought, it is $40 million less than the $261 million ap proved by the House for Texas mili tary construction projects. An aide to Sen. Phil Gramm, R- Texas, said the additional money in the House version is targeted for barracks projects at Fort Bliss and Fort Hood and for four National Guard installations. East Germans continue migration to West PASSAU, West Germany (AP) — Thousands of East Germans crowded refugee camps Tuesday to begin building new lives in the West after crossing the border from Hungary. Officials said the emigre flood could exceed 15,000. Communist East Germany is sued a strong, formal protest to Hungary’s reform-minded gov ernment for permitting the exo- dus and demanded the movement be halted. Both East Germany and Hun gary are Warsaw Pact nations. Most of the new East German emigres are skilled young work ers and their families, fed up with conditions in their hardline homeland. Many of them went straight to relatives already living in West Germany. East Germans who had camped outside the West German Embassy in Prague, Czechoslova kia, also hoping to go West, gave up after promises they would not be punished. Some had been there for weeks. Typhoon Sarah blamed for deaths, damage t TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Ty- hoon Sarah lashed Taiwan with eavy rains and high winds for a second day on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and leaving nine missing, officials said. They said the typhoon set off landslides, immobilized transpor tation, flooded crops and broke a Panamanian freighter in two. The 12,000-ton Lung Hao with 26 Turkish and Indian crew broke apart Monday off Hualien, 110 miles southeast of Taipei, and rescuers still are looking for five crew members believed stranded on the vessel. Four sailors swam ashore Mon day, and 17 were rescued Tues day. Hualien was the hardest-hit area, with four people reported dead. An Australian teacher, Jona than B. Watts, 26, died Monday when swept into the sea while touring the harbor there with other instructors from a nearby English-language center, police Stockings stop sewage; several sick HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — Hundreds and possibly thou sands of people became ill when pantyhose clogged the sewage system in the town of Orivesi and caused drinking water to be con taminated, newspapers reported Tuesday. Local officials in the southern town said dozens of pantyhose had blocked the sewers, causing overflowing and contamination of water pipes and the water ta ble. The blockage was discovered Monday. “It looked like someone had deliberately stuffed a whole year’s supply of tights into the pipes,” Heikki Seppala, a local construction engineer said. Half of the doctors on duty and nurses at the local health cen ter fell ill, the reports said. First Lady plans tour of Texas next week SAN ANTONIO (AP) — First Lady Barbara Bush is planning to tour the restored Majestic Theatre and campaign for liter acy programs on a Texas trip ten tatively planned for next week. Sondra Haley, Mrs. Bush’s deputy press secretary, said Tues day that the first lady is consid ering a three-city tour of Texas earlv next week. While White House officials say the trip is not definite, Jocelyn Straus, a San Antonio Republican activist and a longtime friend of Mrs. Bush, said she has learned that the first lady definitely will make the trip. “She will be here (next) Tues day,” Straus said. “She wants to see the building and what we’ve done.” I CarePlusN^iii Presents Roc, The Good Doc “The side effects of dating!” Got your foot stuck in your mouth? At CarePlus Medical Center we can take care of all your minor emergencies. We’ll set your breaks, fractures, sprains and stuck joints straight. 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