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WORLD & NATION 7
Friday, October 27,1989
Bush approves $3.45 billion bill
to rebuild quake-stricken area
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Bush’s
signature Thursday added $3.45 billion to help
Northern California heal the wounds of a killer
earthquake, as residents and businesses tear
down what can’t be fixed and look to the emo
tional salve of a World Series and Halloween.
Crews were starting to tear down some of the
“red-tagged” buildings — those determined un
safe — and demolition went on at a 1 Pi-mile
stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland.
For the First time since the Oct. 17 quake, tolls
were charged on the Golden Gate Bridge on
Thursday, partly because an average of $ 107,300
a day had been lost and partly because the free
ride seemed to encourage driving at a time when
officials are trying to persuade people to use
public transportation.
The quake closed the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge and parts of several highways, in
cluding a collapsed section of Interstate 880.
While officials have reported record use of mass
transit, commuter roads have been clogged daily.
Bush signed the aid bill just nine days after the
7.1 magnitude temblor rocked the area and
called it a sign of nonpartisan compassion, but
V^learly his signing this bill shows
he hasn’t forgotten us and has
continued to keep his eye on
Northern California.”
— Art Agnos,
San Francisco mayor
one California congressman predicted his dele
gation would be back, hat in hand, in the spring.
“We have done a little better than a down pay
ment,” Democrat Vic Fazio said. He said the cur
rent bill would help provide “some sustenance,
some security, and some comfort in their hour of
need.”
“Clearly his signing this bill shows he hasn’t
forgotten us and has continued to keep his eye
on Northern California,” San Francisco Mayor
Art Agnos said.
Aid has come in many forms:
— The Red Cross has collected $7 million.
— Costa Rica said Thursday it is sending 2,500
pounds of coffee beans to San Francisco, a city
where just about every coffee shop has a cappuc
cino machine.
— Enough donated food has been stockpiled
in Watsonville, a hard hit community south of
San Francisco, to feed the whole city of 27,000
for two months, the Salvation Army said.
— And the 26 Major League baseball teams
pledged $1.4 million for relief from the quake —
which caused an estimated $7.1 billion in dam
age.
Soviet Union pledges cutbacks
on nuclear forces in Baltic Sea
Florida man
faces death
for murder
Man also sentenced
for ’88 Texas killing
DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — An
Ohio man already sentenced to
death in Texas and Indiana faces
another death sentence in Florida
after pleading guilty Thursday to
the stabbing death of a 14-year-
old girl.
Michael Lee Lockhart of Wal-
bridge, Ohio, entered the plea to
the capital murder charge here
Thursday, said Evelyn Pettit, ad
ministrative assistant in the Pasco
County courthouse. He was
charged in the death of Jennifer
Colhauer.
Pasco County Circuit Judge
Maynard Swanson set the sen
tencing phase of his trial to begin
Nov. 13, Pettit said.
Lockhart already has been sen
tenced to death in Texas for the
1988 shooting death of a Beau
mont, Texas, police officer. Offi
cer Paul Douglas Hulsey Jr., was
fatally shot at a Beaumont motel.
Lockhart also was sentenced to
die for the 1987 rape-stabbing of
a 16-year-old Griffith, Ind., girl
in her home.
Texas investigators have said
Lockhart bragged that he killed
between 20 and 30 people during
a crime spree in Texas, Indiana
and Florida.
HELSINKI,v Finland (AP) — So
viet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
said Thursday that Moscow will cut
its nuclear forces in the Baltic Sea
and will destroy four aging subma
rines and the nuclear missiles they
carry.
Gorbachev also said the Soviet
Union has removed all tactical nu
clear missiles that could strike the
northern European region and will
take certain types of sea-launched
nuclear weapons out of the Baltic
Sea.
In a 45-minute speech to Finnish
business leaders, politicians and
other guests on the second day of a
three-day visit to Finland, Gorba
chev repeated his hope to eliminate
nuclear weapons from the 148,600-
square-mile Baltic Sea.
“We are prepared to come to
agreement with all the nuclear pow
ers and the Baltic states on effective
guarantees for the nuclear-free sta
tus of the Baltic Sea,” he said in a na
tionally broadcast speech in Helsin
ki’s Finlandia Hall.
Gorbachev said the Soviet Union
was taking the steps unilaterally,
dropping previous conditions that
Western countries first agree to a
nuclear-free zone.
In Washington, White House
press secretary Marlin Fitzwater
said, “We do not believe nuclear-free
zones contribute to security in Eu
rope.
“Most of these proposals have
been designed to affect NATO de
terrence capability while leaving So
viet nuclear weapons intact,” Fitzwa
ter said. “On the other hand, we do
appreciate the intent of this and if it
can develop into something con
crete, why, that might be a hopeful
sign.”
Later, Fitzwater revised his re
marks, saying, “In fact we do not
consider this a hopeful sign.”
Gorbachev said the steps were a
follow-up to a speech he gave two
years ago in the Soviet Union’s
northern port of Murmansk, in
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former
HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce in
formed a House subcommittee to
day he will again refuse to answer its
questions about mismanagement
and political favoritism at the de
partment he led for eight years.
Because he plans to invoke his
constitutional right against self-in
crimination, Pierce, through his at
torneys, asked the panel to cancel a
hearing Friday and another session
next week at which he has been sub
poenaed to testify.
Pierce, who headed the Depart
ment of Housing and Urban Devel-
which he first proposed a nuclear-
free zone in northern Europe. Two
NATO countries in the region, Nor
way and Denmark, do not permit
nuclear weapons in their territory in
peacetime.
Gorbachev said the Soviet Union
already has taken two of its six Golf-
class submarines out of operation
from the Baltic Sea and pledged to
destroy the remaining four.
opment throughout the Reagan au-
ministration, said that forcing him to
appear would subject him to unnec
essary adverse publicity and be “pu
nitive.”
It was not immediately clear
whether the subcommittee would
grant the request, but a congressio
nal aide said there were no plans to
cancel Friday’s hearing.
Pierce’s attorneys, in a letter to the
House Government Affairs subcom
mittee on employment and housing:
“Upon the advice of counsel, Mr.
Pierce will again invoke his rights
under the Fifth Amendment of the
Constitution.”
Former HUD director
pleads 5th amendment
Pierce wants hearing canceled
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