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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s
:,600 judges, facing persistent death threats
Srom drug traffickers, threatened Sunday to
itrike if the government doesn’t give them better
protection.
Also Sunday, the army said it had captured a
luspected drug trafficker wanted by the United
States for extradition. Carlos Gomez Zapata is
not on the U.S. Justice Department’s list of 12
vanted drug traffickers.
Residents of this capital city of 6 million en-
iured another night of bombings Saturday as
nmbs exploded in a theater, a city bus compa-
|iy’s garage and at a neighborhood headquarters
nf the ruling Liberal party.
The three bombs injured two people, national
police said.
In the last month, 103 bombs have killed six
people and wounded 130.
Colombia’s judges, fearing for their lives, said
in a statement issued through their labor union,
the National Association of Judicial Workers,
that they will go on strike if immediate action is
not taken to address the dangers they face.
Since 1981, about 50 judges and 170 judicial
employees have been killed. Antonio Morales,
president of the Association of Judicial Employ
ees, has said at least 1,600 of Colombia’s 5,000
judges have been threatened with death in the
last 12 months.
“We don’t see any will on the part of the gov
ernment to increase security for our lives,” the
president of the judges’ union, Antonio Suarez
Nino, said in the communique.
The judges repeated previous demands for
bulletproof cars and vests, guards with metal de
tectors at their offices and other security mea
sures.
Judges in Colombia earn about $400 a month.
In interviews last month many said they were
forced to take buses to work because they
couldn’t afford cars. A compact car here costs
$20,000.
Monica de Greiff, who resigned as justice min
ister last week after being threatened by drug tra
ffickers, said she was promised $19 million in
U.S. aid earlier this month for the purpose of
protecting judges. But the union said it has heard
nothing since about the aid.
The anti-drug crusading newspaper El Espec-
tador, in a column by its editor, Juan Guillermo
Cano, accused Colombia’s congress Sunday of
being cowardly and corrupt.
“It is not a very admirable congress. Better yet,
it is cowardly. . Cano said in a signed column
in the Bogota daily.
all legislatures to examine abortion laws
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pro-choice forces appear to have
jseized the momentum in the nation’s
renewed battle over abortion, but
anti-abortion activists say they ex
pect the tide to turn as legislatures —
and the Supreme Court — return to
[session this fall and winter.
So far, a half-dozen states have
[emerged as early legislative battle
grounds, but most lawmakers ap
pear reluctant to open the door that
was unlocked by the Supreme Court
[in July.
“I would say it’s basically a stand-
>ff,”said Lydia Neumann, a spokes-
lan for the Planned Parenthood
[Federation of America, which favors
iccess to abortion.
In the nation’s two governor’s
aces this fall, pro-choice candidates
lave used their viewpoint for its po
tential political advantage, while
nti-abortion candidates have
sought to shift attention away from
the issue.
In New Jersey, Republican James
lourter moderated his strong anti-
tbortion views and is widely per-
teived to have been hurt — either by
lis views or by his waffling. Demo-
:rat James Florio strengthened his
iro-choice stance.
In Virginia, Democrat Douglas
Wilder is aggressively advertising his
pro-choice position in hopes of gain
ing ground on Republican Marshall
Coleman, an anti-abortion candidate
who is considered the front-runner.
Burke Balch, state legislative coor
dinator for the National Right to
Life Committee, insisted that a
strong anti-abortion position was not
a political liability. But in general, he
conceded that pro-choice forces
have had the upper hand in the two-
and-one-half months since the Su
preme Court upheld Missouri abor
tion restrictions.
He said the balance would shift
this fall, when legislatures begin to
consider specific bills and when the
Supreme Court begins another
round of abortion rulings.
More states will take up the abor
tion issue in January, when most leg
islatures return for their 1990 ses
sions.
An Associated Press survey of
the 50 legislatures suggests that
abortion will be a major issue.
DC-10 bombing investigation begins
PARIS (AP) — Bodies of people who died aboard a
French DC-10 arrived in Paris on Sunday for autopsies
that may give clues to the type of bomb that blew up the
jetliner, the government said.
Prosecutors said in a statement they have opened an
investigation into “murders, voluntary destruction of
goods, use of explosives” and other crimes connected
with “a terrorist enterprise of subversion or damaging
the security of the state.”
The case was assigned Saturday night to investigating
Magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere, a terrorism specialist
known for his work in breaking up the extreme-left
French group Direct Action.
All 171 people aboard UTA Flight 772 were killed
when it exploded in midair over southern Niger in
northwest Africa. The flight was en route from the
Congo to Paris after a stopover in N’Djamena, Chad.
About 40 bodies arrived at Le Bourget airport Sun
day aboard a DC-8 cargo plane and were taken immedi
ately to the Paris morgue for identification and autopsy,
the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Autopsies should indicate whether the passengers
and crew inhaled gases that would provide clues about
what explosive blew the plane apart. The Transport
Ministry said Saturday that evidence left no doubt that
an explosion caused the disaster.
Authorities have been unwilling to speculate about
who might have placed a bomb aboard the flight. A pre
viously unknown group calling itself the Secret Chadian
Resistance sent statements to Western news agencies in
Beirut on Saturday claiming to have bombed the flight
as part of a struggle for “the complete withdrawal of all
military colonial forces from Africa.”
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