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Thursday, October 26,1989
House fails to overturn veto;
Representatives say Bush erred
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classes in their reopened school-turned-shelter.
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ages worth billions, a survey found many Bay
area residents gave low marks to the federal re
sponse to last week’s devastating quake.
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raised its count of displaced people to 13,892,
nearly double the figure previously reported.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush’s veto of a bill to provide
abortion assistance to impoverished
victims of rape and incest was sus
tained in the House on Wednesday
as a 231-191 vote to override him fell
51 votes short of the necessary two-
thirds margin.
Though narrow in scope, the bill
carried symbolic importance in the
widening political struggle over the
abortion issue, and proponents took
their loss with a vow to keep the
president’s feet to the fire. But Rep.
Chris Smith, R-N.J., called it “a deci
sive victory for the pro-life
movement.”
“The president won a legislative
victory today with use of a legislative
minority,” said Rep. Les AuCoin, D-
Ore. “He will put his party at tre
mendous risk in the next election,
and some of his allies on the House
floor will not be returned.”
Rep. Bill Green, R-New York,
who supported the bill, said “Presi
dent Bush may well have stumbled
on the one issue that could cost him
re-election.”
The vote, in which 42 Republicans
joined 189 Democrats in the unsuc
cessful bid to enact the bill over the
president’s veto, left intact an 8-year-
old ban of federal financing of abor
tions for poor women, except when
their lives are threatened.
The disputed provision would
have permitted Medicaid abortions
for women who are victims of rape
or incest, and who “reported
promptly” to authorities. It was part
of a spending bill that now goes back
to the House Appropriations Com
mittee for revision.
Smith and other abortion oppo
nents said the vote demonstrated
they can overcome future efforts to
weaken the prohibition on most
Medicaid abortions, adding that it
shows the political ground has not
shifted in favor of abortion rights, as
some political strategists argue.
“They made the mistake of think
ing this was a one-round fight,” said
Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn.
“Some members who were pan
icked by pro-abortion propaganda
in the last few weeks are going to be
surprised, because the final tale
hasn’t been told on how this issue is
cutting across the countryside,” he
said. “We’re now beginning to see
How Texans voted. . .
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here is
how Texans voted in the 231-191
roll call Wednesday by which the
House upheld President Bush’s veto
of a $156.7 billion spending bill that
would have liberalized rules on fed
eral payment for abortions.
A “yes” vote is a vote to override
the veto.
Voting yes were 189 Democrats
and 42 Republicans.
Voting no were 59 Democrats and
132 Republicans.
X denotes those not voting.
Present denotes those who voted
they were “present” at the time of
the vote but did not vote “yes” or
“no” on the issue.
There is one vacancy in the 435-
member House.
Democrats — Andrews, y;
Brooks, X; Bryant, y; Bustamante, y;
Chapman, y; Coleman, y; de la
Garza, X; Frost, y; Geren, y; Gonza
lez, y; Hall, n; Laughlin, n; Leath, n;
Ortiz, y; Pickle, y; Sarpalius, n; Sten-
holm, n; Wilson, y.
Republicans — Archer, n; Armey,
n; Bartlett, n; Barton, n; Combest,
n; DeLay, n; Fields, n; Smith, X.
some victories on our side of the is
sue.”
The House vote came two weeks
after pro-choice lawmakers surpised
even themselves by winning on a
216-206 that added the amendment
expanding Medicaid abortions to the
appropriations bill for labor, health
Officials say 13,000 homeless in SF
Some students were upset to find 175 dis
placed people still in their school when it re
opened.
“It’s sort of wierd,” said one girl. “We can’t get
to the gym. The yard is split in half for the Red
Cross.” A boy said some students felt they had
sacrified enough.
Landslides in the Santa Cruz Mountains have
already claimed scores of homes, and geologists
warned of worse to come.
Because of rain, huge sections of land in Santa
Cruz County cracked by earthquake fissures are
in danger of sliding this winter and burying hun
dreds of homes.
“What’s happening today is frightening to ge
ologists who have looked at it,” Professor Gary
Griggs of the University of California, Santa
Cruz, told county supervisors Tuesday. “I think
there’s a cause for alarm, but not instant alarm
until we’ve had more rain.”
The Senate approved a $3.45 billion quake re
lief package Wednesday, and sent it to the
House, which had passed a $2.85 billion measure
just a day before. The Senate bill tacked on $600
million for Small Business Administration emer
gency loans.
A survey in Wednesday’s San Francisco
Chronicle found 36 percent of Bay area residents
polled found the federal response the the quake
“fair” or “poor.”
Forty-nine percent found it “excellent” or
“good,” compared with 72 percent who felt that
way about the local government response and a
59 percent positive rating for the state.
Damage estimates have been set at $7.1 billion.
Police said six people remained unaccounted
for, and the death toll from the Oct. 17 quake re
mained at 63, including 39 from the collapse of
double-decked Interstate 880 in Oakland.
New aftershocks did not damage the structure
as crews continued to dismantle it. An aftershock
of 4.5, the strongest in four days, was registered
at T uesday evening and a 3.7 shock followed
Wednesday morning, the latest of about 3,500 af
tershocks since the quake.
Buck Helm, the 1-880 survivor, remained in
serious but stable condition. “He’s doing well,”
said Phyllis Brown, a spokeswoman for Highland
General Hospital in Oakland.
Also improving were 6-year-old Julio Beru-
men and his sister, Cathy, 8, who lost their
mother in the 1-880 collapse. Some 500 letters to
the children and more than $25,000 in checks
have flooded a fund set up at Summit Bank in
Oakland.
On Wednesday, BankAmerica Corp., an
nounced it would give $1.1 million to quake relief
programs, in addition to $250,000 already do
nated to the Red Cross.
And state aid has begun to flow. Santa Cruz
County got a $356,460 check from state Control
ler Gray Davis on Tuesday. The check is 75 per
cent of the money the county already has spent
on earthquake response.
Northern Ethiopia faced with new drought
ADIERADOM, Ethiopia (AP) —
When the first rains fell in April,
Debre Medhiro Wolde-Mariam
planted sorghum on his patch of
sandy land and hoped for plentiful
rain and a repeat of last year’s good
harvest.
He got neither.
All Debre, 76, had in October
were dry stalks, not even suitable to
feed his bullock.
And he wasn’t alone. Eritrea,
Ethiopia’s northernmost province, is
dotted with patches of scorched
crops, and relief workers say the
crop failure could threaten nearly
1.7 million people with famine next
year.
“In severity, the situation is as bad
as it was in 1984-85,” David Morton,
operations director at the U.N.
World Food Program said. The
1984-85 drought and famine killed
as many as one million people, most
of them in northern Ethiopia, de
spite one of Africa’s largest-ever re
lief operations.
To stave off famine deaths, the
agency has appealed to international
donors for 241,000 tons of emer
gency food to feed an estimated 1.5
million Eritreans and 200,000 refu
gees from its southern neighbor,
Tigre.
Those figures, however, do not
take into account foodless peasants
living in areas now under rebel con
trol.
Tigre and Eritrea are home to in
surgencies that have waged 15 and
28 years of war respectively against
Ethiopia’s government. The Eri
trean rebels are talking with Presi
dent Mengistu Haile Mariam’s
Marxist government and have re
mained quiescent behind battle lines
forged last year.
However, the Tigrean rebels have
intensified their fight. Having won
control of their homeland, they are
engaged in a successful campaign
that has brought them into the heart
of Tigre’s southern neighbor, Wollo
province.
On Oct. 15, the Eritrean rebels
appealed for 270,000 tons of emer
gency food it said would be needed
for 1.4 million people in areas it con
trolled. It urged nations to send the
food into the guerrilla-held areas
from across the border in Sudan, a
route used successfully in the past to
feed Eritrea’s hungry.
Taken together, the rebel and and
U.N. figures would indicate nearly
the whole of Eritrea’s population of
some 3.2 million is threatened with
famine.
In Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, 15
miles north of Adieradom, officials
say the traditional drought indica
tors are beginning to appear: child
malnutrition is on the rise, water is
being rationed and peasants are be
ginning to sell at very low prices live
stock they can’t feed.
Isaak Tsegay, the province’s dep
uty administrator, said peasants al
ready were seeking relief food
“when they should be harvesting.”
Relief officials say they have little
food to distribute, with only 10,000
tons of emergency food in stock al
ready tabbed for 161,477 needy peo
ple displaced by the civil war.
The only additional supplies ex
pected are 27,000 tons of wheat
promised by the United States, Brit
ain and the 12-member European
Economic Community which is due
before the end of the year.
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and education programs. For the
first time in nearly a decade that the
liberal language had passed the
House, although the Senate had ap
proved it.
Leaders of the move to liberalize
Medicaid abortions said they still try
to pass this legislation by adding sim
ilar language to other bills.
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