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WORLD & NATION 7
Thursday, September 14,1989
Bush’s ideas for drug crime death penalty
criticized by 13-year-old DARE member
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush, who advocates the death
penalty for some drug crimes, re
ceived a surprise lecture during an
anti-drug program Wednesday from
a 13-year-old who called the punish
ment murder.
“To me, killing someone that has
committed a very serious crime is
wrong,” Chantee Charles, a seventh
grader from nearby Arlington, Va.,
told a Rose Garden ceremony. “It
does not solve anything. 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.”
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