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WORLD & NATION
Friday, July 20,1990
Former presidents praise
Nixon at library opening
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) —
Richard Nixon, a political outcast no
more, basked Thursday in the praise
of three other men who held Ameri
ca’s highest office during a cere
mony where the word Watergate
was mentioned only once.
That mention, almost in passing,
came from George Bush.
The president, and former presi
dents Gerald Ford and Ronald Rea
gan, along with their wives, joined to
give the new Nixon Library and
Birthplace a festive send-off. It was
an occasion as red, white and blue as
the thousands of balloons that were
released at the end of the 2 1 /2-hour
ceremony.
Never before have four presi
dents of the United States shared the
same platform. Jimmy Carter, the
fifth living president, sent his re
grets.
Bush said that visitors for years to
come will learn of Nixon’s six crises
— the title of his first book — “and
the seventh crisis, Watergate.”
None of the other speakers men
tioned the scandal that drove Nixon
from office in .1974.
For Nixon, it was a major mile
stone in his relentless drive for ac
ceptance. The man who was elected
with the most votes in history had
been shunned by fellow Republicans
at their national conventions and
only in recent years has been invited
to their functions.
“This is a very special day for all
of us,” he told a crowd of more than
10,000. “Nothing we have ever seen
matches this moment, to be wel
comed so warmly.”
Bush led the tributes to the 37th
president.
“To occupy this office is to feel a
kinship with these and other presi
dents,” he said. “Each of whom, in
his own way, sought to do right and
thus achieve good. ... Each won
dered, I suspect, how they could be
worthy of God, and man.”
Bush, who as chairman of the Re
publican Party in 1974 urged Nixon
to resign, urged visitors to the $21
million library to “look at Richard
Nixon the man.”
Nixon, said Bush, “was the quin
tessence of Middle America” who
touched a cord with millions of citi
zens.
“He loved America’s good, quiet,
decent people; he spoke for them;
he felt, deeply, on their behalf.”
Ford, who served out Nixon’s
term, began his speech with “Mr.
President, Mr. President, Mr. Presi
dent. If I overlooked a president,
will he please stand up.”
Farthest stars become clearer
New telescope may improve sightfrom Earth
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new type of telescope
may allow ground observatories to see stars with a
greater clarity than the Hubble Space Telescope ever
could, and at a fraction of the cost, a researcher says.
Horace W. Babcock, the former director of the Car
negie Institution observatories, said in a paper to be
published Friday in the journal Science that new tele
scope systems now being developed hold the promise of
seeing stars as distant as those visible to a perfectly
working Hubble.
Babcock said the new system uses a mirror that can
be warped, or deformed, in a systematic way to com
pensate for the distortion of the atmosphere. The proc
ess is called “adaptive optics.”
“Adaptive telescopes in the infrared will not match
the resolution of the HST (Hubble Space Telescope),
but in the visible they may exceed it,” said Babcock’s pa
per.
He said in an interview that even if the new telescope
concepts fulfill their promise, there is still a need for ob
servatories in orbit because the Earth’s atmosphere scat
ters light in some parts of the spectrum, such as the ul
traviolet. Only telescopes in space, above the
atmosphere, could collect such light, he said.
But for visible light, he said, adaptive optics could al
low ground telescopes to match or exceed the capabili
ties of Hubble.
“These are more than just dreams,” said Babcock.
The European Southern Observatory in South
America already is experimenting with adaptive optics
and “has proven the value of these systems” in the in
frared portion of the spectrum.
To adapt the technique for the visible spectrum will
require more experimentation, he said, but researchers
have already proven elements of the system.
Installing adaptive optics in a new telescope, said
Babcock, would be “only a fraction of the total cost” of
the Hubble.
Women ponds Vo
Louisiana
abortion bill
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)
Two leaders of the national
abortion movement are unco:
fortable with Louisiana’s pi
posed new crime of “simplebi
tery of abortion,” but say thevn.
support it if it becomes law.
Kay Reiboldt, co-chair of t[<
conservative Eagle Forum, a;
Wednesday that the bill may id
be “a good piece of legislationfj
stopping abortion and (may)nJ
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go for a Supreme Court test." 1
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however, that if the bill becoml
law, the forum will supportitasl
challenge to Roe v. Wade, tfl
1973 Supreme Court decisiol
which defined a woman’s right I
abortion.
“If there’s even a chance that!
can overturn Roe, we’ll stand 1*1
hind it,” she said.
The bill would prohibit ah
lion except in pregnancies causcl
by cases of rape or incest oril
save the life of the mother. Abotl
tionists would face fines of up:|
$100,000 and 10 years athardlJ
bor.
It was approved by the Leyl
lature in the closing days of itsiJ
cent session and is now in tit
hands of Cov. Buddy Roemer
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ported an abortion bill approve!
earlier in the past session by tlf
Legislature but vetoed by Gov
Buddy Roemer.
That bill would have allowdl
abortion only to save the expet
tant mother’s life.
“It might he better if we coil
hack next year with another bill
Reiboldt said.
However, she and McDad
said they’re not asking Roemeri:
veto the bill. He has said he won
sign it, and must decide byjul
28 whether to veto it or let it be
come law without his signature
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors accused
one of Marion Barry’s security guards of using
cocaine Thursday, interrupting the guard’s testi
mony as the leadoff defense witness in the may
or’s drug and perjury trial.
Prosecutors also suggested that the guard,
Washington police officer James Stays, had told
another policeman the name of a Barry drug
supplier.
Stays denied he had made such a statement,
then the jury was sent out of the room before
prosecutors made the drug-use allegation in re
marks to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Pen-
field Jackson.
Jackson, rejecting defense objections, ruled
that Stays could be questioned about using co
caine but suspended proceedings to allow him to
consult with a lawyer.
After a lunch recess, Stays twice denied using
drugs when Assistant U.S. Attorney Judith Ret-
chin asked about the subject. On further ques
tioning from Barry attorney Robert Mance, Stays
also denied talking to the other officer about a
drug supplier.
Outside the courtroom, Barry accused the
prosecution of “satanic dirt-like tactics.”
The surprise developments came as Retchin
began cross-examining Stays, a member of the
elite 24-member security detail that accompanies
Barry to all his public and private functions. All
members are police officers.
The jury heard only this exchange on the sub
ject:
Retchin: “Did you tell Detective Goodwine (an
other security officer) that Willie Davis supplied
Mr. Barry with cocaine?”
Stays: “Me? No.”
After jurors were sent out of the courtroom,
Retchin told the judge, “The government has ev
idence that this witness has used cocaine.”
The issue came up after Stays testified he
knew Willie Davis, a man whom government wit
nesses have testified used cocaine with Barry.
Davis, a former aide to Birmingham, Ala.,
Mayor Richard Arrington, has not been called to
testify in the case.
After a 30-minute recess, Jackson ruled,ovt
the protests of Barry attorney R. Kennei
Mundy, that Retchin could pursue her line!
questioning.
“I deem Miss Retchin’s cross-examinationi
Mr. Stays to be related to the credibility of lb
witness," Jackson said. “The defense has ask
prosecution witnesses, at great length, abo:
their prior drug use.”
Mundy argued that Stays had no knowledge#
Barry’s drug use and had not told other secuni
officers the name of anyone supplying drugs!
the mayor.
Stays at one point had demanded to takeami
nalysis test to determine whether he used dnij
when asked about it by other police detective
working on Barry’s case, the mayor's attorne
said.
“He is anxious to come in here and answer
and lay any rumors to rest,” Mundy said.
“Officers from the Internal Affairs Division
have informed me that he (Stays) was not vvillir
to take a urinalysis,” Retchin retorted.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A
year after they tumbled out of the
smoke-choked fuselage of a shat
tered jumbo jet into a hot corn field,
survivors of United Flight 232 re
turned Thursday to give prayers of
thanks and sympathy.
A memorial service, forced into
an airport hangar by heavy rains, co
incided with the moment a year ago
when the plane tumbled in flames
while attempting an emergency
landing.
Many cried quietly as the Rev.
Gregory Clapper, a United Method
ist minister from Le Mars, led the as-
It’s been an emotional
roller coaster for all of us,
but even so, the
remembering has been an
important part of the
healing process.”
— Al C. Haynes,
United captain
sembled survivors and families of
victims in part of the 23rd Psalm.
Some survivors described feelings of
guik.
When Air National Guard jets
roared off to form a “missing man”
formation, some clasped hands over
ears and held clenched fists to their
mouths.
“It’s been an emotional roller
coaster for all of us, but even so, the
remembering has been an important
part of the healing process,” said
United Capt. Al C. Haynes, who led
the crew of the DC-10 in guiding the
plane to the airport, where it cart
wheeled while attempting the emer
gency landing.
Haynes told the crowd of several
hundred it was important for all in
volved to deal with the painful mem
ories of the crash.
“Somehow, we must find a way to
take them away from our present
and make them part of the past,”
Haynes said.
Many survivors said returning to
the site of the crash helped them
deal with tragedy.
“I wanted my boys to know that
Sioux City is a place where normal
things happen, that it’s a place of
mending as well as catastrophe,” said
Brownell Bailey of Bowmar, Colo.
Bailey’s wife, Francie, was one of
112 people who died when the plane
crashed after an engine broke apart,
severing a hydraulic system that con
trolled the plane. There were 296
people aboard the July 19, 1989,
crash.
Survivors and their families, plus
Sioux City rescuers, were allowed to
walk around the crash site Thurs
day.
“I have a lot of memories of some
pretty gruesome things, and we both
feel guilty that we walked away un
harmed while so many others
didn’t,” said Sharon Bayiess, who
with her husband, Brad, of Littleton,
Colo., escaped with minor injuries.
“I knew it would be hard to come
back,” she said.
Soviet newspaper reveals
Gorbachev ’ s private life
for first time to Russians
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail S.
Gorbachev’s 79-year-old mother
only recently got a new color tele
vision to replace her old black-
and-white set, still bakes her own
bread and complains that her son
never visits.
In an unusually revealing story
about the family of a Soviet
leader, the newspaper
Komsomolskaya Pravda reported
Thursday that the only privilege
given to Maria Pantelyevna Gor
bachev are the KGB agents who
provide security down the road
from her small house in the
southern Russian village of Pri-
volnoye.
The KGB is there not so much
to guard her from the many jour
nalists who find their way to the
farming village where Gorbachev
was born, but to keep ordinary
citizens from pestering her with
petitions for her son, the newspa
per said.
Until recently, the private lives
of Communist Party leaders and
their families rarely appeared in
the state-run media, but under
Gorbachev’s policy of greater
openness, or glasnost, many re
strictions have been lifted.
Although the Western media
have reported on Gorbachev’s
roots and his family, such infor
mation is unfamiliar to Soviet
readers.
Thursday’s front-page article,
titled “Home of the President,”
was complete with an old photo
graph of a young, plump Gorba
chev reclining in a field wearinga
jaunty beret.
Gorbachev’s widowed mother,
the newspaper said, still does the
chores around the house and
bakes her own bread, even
though a collective farm baker)’
was built several years ago to feed
the village’s 3,000 people.
A new paint job on her house
and the color TV that recently re-
C laced the old “Rekord” model
lack-and-white set “have not cost
the state or the party one ko
peck,” wrote Komsomolskaya
Pravda correspondent O. Shapo-
valov.
Not long ago, a rumor spread
that Mrs. Gorbachev was moving
to Moscow and selling her house,
the newspaper said.
Residents of Privolnoye were
ready to make inquiries about
buying her house, but she told
Nikolai Dorokhov, her neighbor
and secretary of the party organi
zation of the collective farm:
“I have already lived in Mos
cow. I don’t see my son hereandl
wouldn’t see him there. He leaves
home at 6 a.m. and returns late in
the evening. ... I will not go any
where.”
Gorbachev last visited his birth
place 3>/2 years ago, the newspa
per reported, and while he was
there spent only 40 minutes in
side his house and another 40
minutes talking to villagers.
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