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WORLD & NATION
14
Thursday, March 1, 1990
Ortega calls halt to Contra attacks
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — President
Daniel Ortega declared a halt to attacks on the
Contras Wednesday and called again on the
United States to help dismantle the rebel force.
President-elect Violeta Barrios de Chamorro,
who joined Ortega on Tuesday in asking the
U.S.-backed Contras to put down their arms,
praised his move as a step forward.
“The causes of civil war in Nicaragua have dis
appeared,” Chamorro said at a news conference.
“There is no reason for war.”
She said the Contras, most of them based in
neighboring Honduras, “must lay down their
weapons and come home to work for the recons
truction of Nicaragua.”
Ortega said in a statement that he ordered all
offensive military operations against the Contras
to halt. He said the United States should help pay
for demobilizing and relocating the rebels.
Chamorro upset Ortega in an election on Sun
day that he clearly expected to win and agreed to
as part of a Central American plan for ending
the war.
Demobilizing the Contras is the trickiest issue
in transition talks that began Tuesday between
Chamorro’s 14-party coalition, the United Na
tional Opposition and the stunned Sandinistas,
who have been in power for more than 10 years.
Sandinista officials say they cannot give up
control of the armed forces and police as long as
the 10,000-man Contra army is intact.
Chamorro made it clear she expects Ortega to
keep his promise to turn over power and that her
government plans to run the army and security
forces.
“I’m the one who is going to give orders,” said
the silver-haired widow, who was chosen to run
against Ortega because of her powerful symbolic
value.
The 1978 death of her husband, oppositi
publisher Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, touchedo
the revolution that overthrew dictator Anastai
Somoza and put the Sandinistas in power.
She said the Sandinistas “have to turn overt
erything,” including the armed forces —the
ditional source of real power in Latin America
“The minister of defense will be a civilian,"
declared.
The current minister, Gen. HumbertoOrtet
the president’s brother, leads the Sandinistatrai
sition team. Chamorro’s son-in-law and
paign manager, Antonio Lacayo, heads
United National Opposition team.
The transition talks are expected to be cot
plex and delicate.
Ortega laid out tough Sandinista positions
Tuesday before thousands of cheering par
members.
Senate stops anti-abortion bill;
author refuses to accept defeat
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A bill that would ban most
abortions in Minnesota failed to get past a state Senate
committee Wednesday, but the author refused to con
cede defeat.
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The bill, which would prohibit abortions for “birth-
control reasons,” was drafted as model legislation by the
National Right-To-Life Committee in the wake of last
summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave states
more leeway to restrict abortions.
“A bill is always alive as long as the session is on,” said
Democratic Sen. Gene Waldorf after his bill failed on a
tie vote in the 16-member Senate Health and Human
Services Committee.
“A bill has been resurrected before,” Waldorf said.
“Committee defeat is not the end of action on a bill.”
The vote followed nearly seven hours of testimony
from state and national leaders on both sides of the
abortion debate.
Although Minnesota was long associated in national
politics with the liberalism espoused by former Vice
President Walter Mondale, an abortion rights sup
porter, it has been a stronghold of anti-abortion senti
ment.
As the lawmakers debated, nearly 2,000 pro-choice
activists chanting “Choice” exchanged taunts outside
the Capitol with a small group of abortion foes shouting
“Life.” No arrests were made.
Proponents say the legislation would be the toughest
enforceable anti-abortion measure in the nation, pro
hibiting an estimated 93 percent of the abortions per
formed in the state.
Court upholds state’s death penalty
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WASHINGTON (AP) — States
may make the death penalty the only
possible punishment for some mur
derers without violating the Consti
tution’s ban on mandatory death
sentences, the Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday.
By a 5-4 vote, the court upheld
Pennsylvania’s death penalty system
despite “some mandatory aspects.”
The decision removed a threat to
similar laws in 13 other states:
Texas, Arizona, California, Con
necticut, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland,
Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Ore
gon, Tennessee and Washington.
Most states have death penalty
laws, but many of them do not re
semble the Pennsylvania scheme.
Past Supreme Court rulings have
struck down state laws making death
the mandatory punishment for spe-
)lic
cific crimes, such as killing a police
officer, or for specific offenders,
such as prison inmates already serv
ing life sentences when they commit
murder.
Those decisions said the Eighth
Amendment’s ban on cruel and un
usual punishment requires that sen
tencing judges or juries be allowed
to consider aggravating and mitigat
ing factors.
But Pennsylvania law says, “The
verdict must be a sentence of death
if the jury unanimously finds at least
one aggravating circumstance ... and
no mitigating circumstance.”
Chief Justice William H. Rehnqu-
ist, writing for the court, said the law
does not make death mandatory de-
mitigating circumstances.”
He added, “The constitutionality
of a death penalty statute having
some mandatory aspects is not a
novel issue for this court.”
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He was joined by Justices Byron
R. White, Sandra Day O’Connor,
Antonin Scalia and Anthony M.
Kennedy.
“Death is not automatically im
posed upon conviction for certain
types of murder,” Rehnquist said. “It
is imposed only after a determin
ation that the aggravating circum
stances outweigh the mitigating cir
cumstances present in the particular
crime committed by a particular de
fendant, or that there are no such
Atlantis lifts
off despite
launch delay:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla
(AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis
aloft at last on a secret militar
mission after five launch debt
orbited the globe Wednesday in
public silence that NASAolficia;
said meant all was well.
Atlantis blasted off with ftt
military astronauts and a carfi
believed to be a $500 millionsp
satellite at 2:51 a.m., its 700-fo(
column of fire visible for hut
dreds of miles. It was NASA'
sixth attempt at launching tht
100-ton spaceship for the 1®
sion, one short a record forth!
most shuttle postponements.
“Thank goodness we can
nally stop meeting like thii
NASA administrator Richani
Truly told the launch team afe
Atlantis rocketed into orbit
was a tough one to get off, t
great job.”
Nothing was heard from At
lands’ all-military crew, am
launch director Bob Sieck said
“the crew was pretty quiet an:
very patient.”
“The fact that we haven
heard anything indicates that al
is going according to plan
added Bruce Buckingham,
spokesman for the Nation;
Aeronautics and Space Adminit
tration.
Liftoff, originally set for Feh
15, almost was delayed a
time because of bad weathen
Kennedy Space Center and a
emergency abort sites.
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