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PRE-LAW SOCIETY
Meeting Wed., Oct. 10
7:00 p.m. Rudder 701
PRE-LAW SOCIETY
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will speak on
‘LIFE IN LAW SCHOOL
AND BEYOND”
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OCTOBER 9,1990
6:00 PM
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Learn about the following companies and
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Monday, October 8 8:30-3:30
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Tuesday, October 9 8:30-3:30
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Advanced Micro Devices
Alcoa
Amoco Oil C.
Bell Northern Research
Bonner & Moore Consulting Services
Central Intelligence Agency
Cryovac Division of W.R. Grace Co.
Dow Chemical USA
Dupont
Electronic Data Systems
EMC Corp.
Houston Lighting & Power Co.
Intermedics Orhtopedics, Inc.
International Business Machines Corp.
Kimberly Clark Corp.
Lubrizol
National Security Agency
Occidental Chemical Corp.
Powell Electrical Manufacturing Co.
State Auditor’s Office
Teledyne Geotech
The Trane Company, Inc.
Arco
3M Corp.
Champion International
Chevron USA Inc.
Diamond Shamrock
Fluor Daniel
General Dynamics
General Motors Corp.
Hoechst Celanese
Lufkin Industries, Inc.
McNeil Consumer Products Co.
Mobil Oil
Motorola
Nalco Chemical Co.
Phillips Petroleum
Rhone Poulenc
Saturn Corp.
Southwestern Bell Corp.
Tandy Corp. - Radio Shack
Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Co.
Texas Instruments
Vetco Gray Inc.
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The Battalion
WORLD & NATION
10
Tuesday, October 9,1990
Nineteen killed
Korea fires
Israeli police shoot Arabs
JERUSALEM (AP) — In Jerusa
lem’s bloodiest rioting in more than
two decades, police opened fire
Monday on stone-throwing Palestin
ians at the Temple Mount sacred to
both Jews and Moslems. At least 19
Arabs were killed.
The violence erupted after Pales
tinians hurled a barrage of stones
from the mount onto thousands of
Jews gathered just below at the Wail
ing Wall, where they were celebrat
ing the festival of Sukkot. The wall is
Judaism’s holiest site.
The Arabs were apparently an
gered by rumors that Jewish extrem
ists planned to march onto the
Temple Mount, which is revered by
both Jews and Moslems but is under
Moslem control.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
expressed regret but insisted Israeli
forces were blameless.
“We are greatly sorry about the
blood spilled in vain,” he said.
The bloodbath sparked further ri
oting in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Arab reports said two Palestinians
were killed by soldiers, and 62 others
wounded. The army ordered cur
fews in several West Bank towns and
refugee camps to prevent the vio
lence from spreading.
to 18, with 125 wounded.
The discrepancy between the
Arab and Israeli casualty counts
could not immediately be explained.
“It’s very sad,” Police Commis
sioner Yaacov Terner said on Israel
army radio. But he insisted the Ar
abs started the violence.
top leaders
in scandal
Israeli Police Minister Roni Milo
said 19 Arabs died in the Jerusalem
clash and about 140 were wounded.
Arab hospital officials at first said 22
were killed, then lowered their count
He said authorities had repeat
edly assured Moslem leaders no Jew
ish march would be permitted on the
mount. He also said caches of stones
and flammable material found
proved that the Arabs had mounted
“a planned provocation.”
He said their aim was partly to di
vert world attention from the Per
sian Gulf crisis.
Terror, violence transform Kuwait
under Hussein’s command— refugees
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) —
By violence and stealth, Saddam
Hussein is rapidly transforming
Kuwait from a glittering emirate
to an Iraqi backwater, diplomats,
exiled officials and refugees say.
“The Iraqis are doing their best
to obliterate Kuwait’s identity and
seal it off from the outside,” said
one senior Western diplomat dis
placed by Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion.
“The world doesn’t realize how
successful they are.”
While noting that no accurate
count was possible, he estimated
that hundreds, if not thousands,
of Kuwaitis had been put to
death. Some were shot in front of
their families. Many others were
deported to Iraq.
Diplomats and Kuwaiti officials
in exile endorsed a recent Am
nesty International report of “a
horrifying picture of widespread
arrests, torture under interroga
tion, summary executions and
mass extrajudicial killings.”
Beyond that, the diplomats
and officials said, Iraq was carting
off everything from blood sup
plies in hospitals to traffic lights
and forcing citizens to exchange
Kuwaiti papers for Iraqi identity
cards.
They described a harrowing
climate of fear and repression,
which in recent days has trig
gered another exodus of Kuwaitis
into Saudi Arabia.
In one incident, a Western dip
lomat said, Iraqi soldiers shot to
death five hospital workers when
doctors told them that a wounded
comrade they brought in was al
ready de’ad on arrival.
Saddam has entrusted the dis
mantling of Kuwait to a relative,
Ali Hassan al Majid, who two
years ago commanded a brutal
military campaign that crushed a
Kurdish uprising with the help of
poison gas, diplomats said.
“That gives some idea of Sad
dam’s thinking,” one Western
specialist observed.
As a result of the pressure, Ku
waiti government sources said
they were not encouraging armed
resistance which might provoke
even more violence.
Some 430,000 Iraqi troops re
ported to be deployed in occu
pied Kuwait and southern Iraq
outnumber Kuwaitis left in the
emirate.
Few sources were prepared to
be named since the Iraqis have
acted on published information
from refugees and exiles to target
reprisals, diplomats reported.
Increased checkpoints and
house-to-house search teams are
rooting out suspected dissidents
and Westerners on the run. Intel
ligence units search bank records
and private papers to hunt down
members of the emir’s family and
former officials.
Iraq has closed Kuwait not only
to journalists but also to the Red
Cross and humanitarian workers.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -
President Roh Tae-woo fired hisde.
fense minister and the powerful
chief of military intelligence Mondai
following allegations that the gw
ernment spied on more than 1,301
civilians.
Presidential spokesman Lee Sou
jung said Roh was holding the two
officials responsible and said tilt
government would take unspecified
reform measures “to meet with dt-
cumstances befitting the new era,”
Charges in the past week of the
military surveillance, including spy
ing on leading government and op
position politicians, have eroded
government claims that the armed
forces are politically neutral and no
longer figure in politics.
Roh moved quickly in aneffortto
diminish the impact on his govern
ment.
Roh’s office said Defense Minister
Lee Sang-hoon was replaced by Let
Jong-koo, 57, former anny chiefo!
staff. Lt. Gen. Cho Nam-pungwat
out as commander of the Defenst
Security Command and Lt. Gen
Koo Chang-hoe was in.
Lee Jong-koo once headed die
Defense Security Command undei
disgraced former President Chin
Doo-hwan, now in internal exile,
Politicians, citizens groups, law
yers and dissidents reacted in out
rage last week after army Pvt. Yoos
Suk-yang, 24, revealed the alleged
surveillance of civilians in thisnatioo
of 42.5 million people.
His political foes demanded that
Roh apologize publicly, that tht
command be dissolved, and that
measures be spelled out to prevent
further surveillance.
Kim Dae-jung, leader of the Pam
for Peace and Democracy, said Mon
day he would go on a t hunger stnkt
until the defense command was dis
solved.
“The military’s meddling in poll
tics aims at wiping out the demo
cratic forces,” he told a news confer
Ex-Klansman loses race
Conservative judges ,
, „ , , & . Duke draws supporters
c ange federal court Respite gop criticism
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The
federal appeals court in New Or
leans, a champion of civil rights dur
ing the 1960s and ’70s, has turned
solidly conservative.
“Around the country, the 5th Cir
cuit is developing the reputation as
the most conservative (federal) cir
cuit bench in the United States and
the least responsive to civil rights
and individual rights,” said William
Quigley, a New Orleans attorney
who often handles discrimination
said Paul Kamenar, legal director of
the conservative Washington Legal
Foundation, a non-profit law and
public interest center supported by
120,000 members.
He said conservative groups are
pleased to see the 5th Circuit follow
cases.
“That is a complete reversal of its
historical development as the most
vigorous protector of civil rights,”
Quigley said.
The 5th Circuit handles about
4,500 appeals a year from Louisiana,
Texas, Mississippi and the Panama
Canal Zone. Until the 11th Circuit
was split off in 1981, taking 14 of the
28 active judges and six of 11 senior
judges, the 5th also heard appeals
from Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
Thirty years ago, the 5th Circuit
was an activist liberal court that used
its judicial power to advance the
cause of civil rights in a generally
hostile South.
In 1981, author Jack Bass chroni
cled the deeds of 5th Circuit judges
and the personal consequences they
suffered in the his book, “Unlikely
Heroes.”
However, Ronald Reagan ap
pointed seven of the 14 current ac
tive judges, and President Bush has
appointed two more.
Now, some civil rights lawyers
joke that an update of Bass’ book
would have to be called “Predictable
Patricians.”
“I’d say the 5th Circuit is generally
more conservative” in recent years,
“(The 5th Circuit
Court of Appeals) is
carrying out the
Reagan plan to turn
back the clock (on
civil rights.) It’s
disturbing.”
— Ron Wilson,
attorney
the trend of most federal courts re
cast in Ronald Reagan’s conservative
mold.
“Overall, the trend is one the con
servative community is pleased with
... judges who will interpret law
rather than impose their own per
sonal views in decision-making,” said
Kamenar.
Ron Wilson, an attorney who has
handled numerous discrimination
cases in New Orleans, said the 5th
Circuit “had a good history. It led
the way” in civil rights break
throughs. “But now you see the re
trenchment. It’s carrying out the
Reagan plan to turn back the clock.
It’s disturbing.”
“In the past, those deprived of ba
sic rights could turn to federal
courts,” Wilson said. “Now, the feel
ing is you can get a better shake in
some state courts.”
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ex-Ku
Klux Klan leader David Duke is
making it clear he won’t disappear
from Republican politics despite the
criticism heaped on him by GOP
leaders during his strong but unsuc
cessful campaign for the Senate.
But Duke, a state representative
from suburban New Orleans, drew
instant repudiation from party lead
ers once again after Saturday’s elec
tion.
As Duke was piling up 44 percent
of the vote against incumbent Demo
crat J. Bennettjohnston, Republican
National Committee chairman Lee
Atwater was denouncing the ex-
Klansman.
“We have taken the unusual step
of censuring Duke and as far as the
Republican Party is concerned, he
does not exist,” Atwater said in a
telephone interview late Saturday.
“This •is the first political action
I’ve taken in many, many moons,”
said Atwater, hospitalized in recent
months for treatment of a brain tu
mor. “I can’t think of a better way to
spend my political energy than de
nouncing David Duke and every
thing he stands for.”
RNC spokeswoman Leslie Good
man continued the criticism in an in
terview Sunday.
“He’s a charlatan and a phony and
he’s looking to hang his views on any
mantle of legitimacy that he can
find,” she said.
At a news conference Sunday,
Duke laughed off suggestions that
he might again run for president, as
he did in 1988 as a Democrat and a
Populist. A run for governor of
Louisiana is more likely, he said,
adding that he will be a force in na
tional GOP policy.
Duke drew 44 percent of the volt
in Saturday’s election despiteoppo
nents’ constant campaign focus on
his past as a KKK leader withtiesto
Nazi groups anti his sale of Nazi lit
erature even after taking office Iasi
year as a state legislator.
Goodman said Duke’s unexpec
tedly high share of Saturday’s volt
was to a Targe extent a protest lodged
by voters fed up with an entrenched
Democrat — three-term incumbenl
J. Bennett Johnston, who won the
election Saturday with 54 percent.
“All Republicans hope yesterday's
defeat was the end of Duke's politi
cal career,” Goodman said.
But Louisiana state Sen. BenBa
gert, a Republican whose candidacy
was so badly overshadowed by
Duke’s that he eventually dropped
out of the race, said Duke’s strong
showing may only be the beginning
of the mischief he can makeinGOF
politics.
part
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Bagert accepted some of tht
blame for failing to get his messagf
across to voters. But, he said, na Juesd
tional party officials must share tht ‘Was
blame because they failed toenth
siastically support and finance 1
candidacy.
“Now, because of their error,til
idness, the Republican party hash
David Duke, the same destructive rui1 '
force that Jesse Jackson hasbrough;
to the Democrats,” said Bagert.
Television ads by President
weren’t aired until late in the cam
paign because of Bagert’s poor
nances. He dropped out oftheract
Thursday, saying his internal pel
showed he was drawing just enougl
late support from Johnston to riil
putting Duke in a runoff.
PHI ETA SIGMA
Honor Society
general meeting
Oct. 9 7 p.m.
Rudder 301
Prison population reaches record
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
number of inmates in state and fed
eral prisons jumped 42,862 during
the first half of 1990 as the nation’s
prisoner population reached a re
cord 755,425, the Justice Depart
ment said Sunday.
The 6 percent increase during the
six-month period was only slightly
less than the record 46,000 jump
during the first half of 1989, said a
Bureau of Justice Statistics study of
state and federal prison populations.
It helped pace a record annual in
crease of 80,000 prisoners from
June 1989 to June of this year that
Stephen D. Dillingham, the bureau’s
director, called “the largest growth
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prison population grew by 8 percet
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year while the number of sia«
prison inmates increased 5.8
cent, the study said.
Federal prisons hold near!'
60,000 inmates. The enactment^ ipi
mandatory minimum sentence!
particularly for drug crimes and ft )istric
peat offenders, have helped s«
the ranks of federal prisons.
The prison population gro"il
created a weekly demand of 1,®
new beds for inmates, the
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