World & Nation
hursday, June 27,1991
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House passes bill to allow tax-funded abortion counseling
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House
mi Wednesday overwhelmingly ap-
jrbved a bill to permit abortion coun
seling at taxpayer-financed clinics, a
Istep toward reversing a Bush adminis-
^pion ban and the Supreme Court rul-
; that upheld it.
the bill was approved 353-74 after
labbrtion opponents decided to pin
I their hopes on a veto by President
push rather than fight an amendment
[the : would block enforcement of the
[government's abortion counseling ban.
Ipush has said he would veto the bill,
las well as other abortion-related mea-
|su: s that have advanced in the House
th|s year. The approval vote on
Wednesday was well above the two-
thirds that would be needed to over
ride a veto, but abortion foes expressed
confidence they could mount enough
support to sustain such presidential ac
tion.
If all members are voting, 290 law
makers would be needed to override a
veto. But the vote on the overall spend
ing bill — appropriating $203 billion for
the departments of Health and Human
Services, Labor, and Education — was
not considered a true reflection of sen
timent on the counseling ban.
The measure to lift the ban has
"broad and deep support on both sides
of the aisle and in most cases regard
less of position on abortion because
this is even a more fundamental ques
tion, one regarding the honest
relationship between citizens and their
government," said Rep. John Porter,
R-m.
"I would urge the president to listen
to the medical profession and to listen
to people across this nation and sign
the bill when it comes across his desk,"
said Porter, who sponsored the coun
seling provision as an amendment to
the broad spending bill.
But Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ., said,
"This policy of the president is a good
one, and we will sustain a veto."
Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said the
amendment "is making doctors who
should be helping parents plan their
family recommend that they can also
exterminate this child ... and it's com
pelling the taxpayers to pay for it."
Lawmakers favoring abortion rights
have pushed through several abortion-
related measures this session by pick
ing up support from Republicans, but
it was unclear whether any of the mea
sures could get the two-thirds majority
necessary to override a veto.
Earlier Wednesday, the House ap
proved a District of Columbia appro
priations bill that would allow the city
to use its own money to pay for abor
tions for poor women.
The House has also voted to allow
military employees and dependents to
get abortions at military facilities over
seas at their own expense. Last week,
the House voted to preserve $20 mil
lion for a United Nations family plan
ning program that operates in more
than 140 countries, including China,
which seeks to enforce a policy of one
child per family.
The full Senate has yet to act on any
of the measures.
The ban was written by the Reagan
administration in 1988 but challenged
in the courts and never implemented.
The Supreme Court upheld the rule
last month.
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I LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia (AP) — Yugoslavia's federal govern-
m-nt dispatched warplanes and tanks in a show of force Wednes
day against two rebel republics. Armed Serbian citizens battled
With Croatian police in two towns, leaving seven dead and 13
wounded.
I The federal government, demonstrating its superior firepower,
se it warplanes over this city, the capital of breakaway Slovenia,
and army tanks traveled on several roads.
I Still, a full day after Croatia and Slovenia declared indepen
dence, and despite the renewed ethnic violence, the federal gov-
Srnment made no effort to physically confront either republic. It
continued to talk of a democratic solution.
The republics, for their part, continued taking small steps away
from the Yugoslav federation despite an apparently total lack of in
ternational solidarity with their secession.
The federal government, based in Belgrade, said its police were
moving to take control of border posts along the frontier with other
European nations. But there was no evidence they succeeded any
where.
Slovene police wearing bullet-proof vests and armed with auto
matic weapons guarded crossings or the border with Austria.
They raised Slovenia's flag and put up signs welcoming visitors to
an independent Slovenia.
[ Citizens and police in Slovenian towns and villages close to the
Italian frontier reportedly blocked roads to bar federal forces from
h aching border posts there.
|| Some 20,000 Slovenes coverged on a Ljubljana square for a sol-
ffinn ceremony in which the republic's new white, blue and red
flag was hoisted after the Yugoslav flag was taken down.
"Every man is born with a right to dream," Slovene President
Milan Kucan told the crowd. "Through work he can combine
dream and reality. Yesterday we linked the two."
The federal government called for Yugoslavia's six republics to
renew efforts to reach a "democratic agreement" on the feder
ation's future.
The two secessionist republics previously said they might re
turn if Serbia dropped its opposition to transforming Yugoslavia
into a loose federation of sovereign states. But there was no sign of
ishxnpraxnjse Wednesday.
Court overturns
1989 conviction
Panel calls for retrial of police officer
MIAMI (AP) — A state ap
peals court panel Tuesday
overturned the manslaughter
conviction of a police officer
whose shooting of a black mo
torcyclist led to three days of
rioting in 1989.
Police doubled their shifts
Tuesday to head off possible
violence stemming from the
ruling, said department
spokesman Angelo Bitsis. No
disturbances were reported.
Officer William Lozano, 32,
was convicted of two counts of
manslaughter for fatally shoot
ing the unarmed black motor
cyclist in the Overtown sec
tion, sending the vehicle
crashing into a car and killing
the motorcycle's passenger.
The officer was sentenced to
seven years in prison and was
free on bail pending appeal.
In a unanimous decision, a
three-judge panel of the 3rd
District Court of Appeal said
"errors committed by the
lower court require that a new
trial be conducted."
The judge should have
moved the case to another ju
risdiction as the defense re
quested, the appeals court
said.
"No police officer in my po
sition would have received a
fair trial due to the threat of vi
olence on the part of the com
munity," Lozano said. "I look
forward to a new trial, and I
know in my heart a new jury,
not influenced by fear or vio
lence, fear of riots, will clear
myname."
The appeals court cited ju
rors' fears that an innocent
verdict would have caused
more disturbances after four
previous race riots that
stemmed from police killings
of blacks.
"We simply cannot approve
the result of a trial conducted,
as was this one, in an atmo
sphere in which the entire
community — including the
jury — was so obviously, and
it must be said, so justifiably
concerned with the dangers
which would follow an acquit
tal," the appeals court said.
Barry Greff, who rep
resented the family of the slam
motorcyclist, Clement Lloyd,
23, in a lawsuit against Lozano
and the city, said his clients
were disappointed.
"They feel Lozano received
a fair trial, and they agreed
with the jury's verdict," said
Greff.
Ellis Rubin, attorney for the
other victim, Allan Blanchard,
said he was not surprised by
the ruling.
The Jan. 16, 1989, Overtown
deaths sparked three days of
racial violence. The riot was
Miami's fourth in the 1980s.
All were linked to the killing of
blacks by police officers.
Bentsen reintroduces
bill to dean Texas lake
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
three-year fight may finally be
resolved this year over who will
pay to clean up salt pollution
that threatens drinking water
supplies for thousands of Texans
in the Panhandle and High
Plains.
Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen, D-
Texas, said
Wednesday
that he was
optimistic
about efforts
to include the
federal gov
ernment in fi
nancing and
conducting
the cleanup of
Lake Mere
dith.
The Panhandle lake is the
source of drinking water to
450,000 people in West Texas,
but naturally-occurring salt
could eventually render the wa
ter useless for human consump
tion, Bentsen said.
Bentsen first introduced legis
lation in 1988 authorizing the
federal government to finance
one-third of the cleanup costs. It
Sen. Lloyd Bent-
son, has reintro
duced the Lake
Meredith bill in
the Senate.
passed the Senate in 1989, and
the House approved it in 1990.
But the plan died last year dur
ing a conference committee dis
pute over an unrelated issue.
The Lake Meredith plan was
again approved in the House last
week, and Bentsen introduced
similar legislation Wednesday in
the Senate.
"I'm very optimistic about our
chances of adopting the bill this
year," Bentsen said. "The House
approved it recently, and I'D be
pushing hard for quick action in
the Senate."
Private and government stud
ies show that 70 percent of salt
entering the lake originates in a
shallow brine aquifer in New
Mexico, Bentsen said. The
aquifer is under artesian pres
sure and is leaking into the Ca
nadian River, which feeds Lake
Meredith.
A Bureau of Reclamation re
port in 1985 recommended the
most cost-effective solution
would be to intercept the brine at
the source by well pumping and
disposal by deep well injection,
Bentsen said.
Cost estimates haye ranged as
high as $9 million.
-jDOviet troops seize building
conceit,
make:
is aqr MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet
to be®"black beret" riot troops seized
Lithuania's central telephone of-
fice on Wednesday and cut the
republic's communications for
UDIES about two hours before with-
drawing peacefully, officials
1 .skid.
ff^TwNo injuries were reported in
(cipate t ^ e takeover Q f the building in
rch stuc Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital,
ddrug g ut the incident could tarnish
no 0051 President Mikhail S. Gorba-
lunteers c hev's image in the West. He is
ted. scheduled to meet in London
INC t ^ ie G rou P of Seven indus-
1 afialized nations to seek aid for
his economic reforms.
Nikolai Panchenko, a duty of-
ficer at the Soviet Interior Min-
ffitry in Moscow, said the black
berets seized the building be-
a cause they suspected it was be-
ipg used by pro-independence
forces to store weapons.
I He said the troops confiscated
rifles, pistols and explosives but
did not make any arrests.
Lithuanian officials accused
the Soviet troops of planting the
weapons as a "provocation"
aimed at pressuring the republic
to abandon its drive for indepen
dence.
Telephone, telegraph and
telex links from Lithuania to
other Soviet republics and for
eign countries were cut for about
two hours. Radio broadcasting
also was temporarily disrupted.
Soviet troops have occupied
several key buildings in Vilnius
since the Baltic republic declared
independence on March 11,
1990. The bloodiest attack came
on Jan. 13, when Soviet army
troops and tanks stormed the
Vilnius television broadcasting
complex. Thirteen civilians and a
KGB officer died.
Soviet troops also have taken
over printing presses and cus
toms checkpoints. Gorbachev
and other top officials have den
ied ordering the seizures but
have not condemned them. Lith
uanian officials have vigorously
protested the seizures.
The black berets are heavily
armed, anti-riot commando
units. On Jan. 20 they occupied
the Interior Ministry headquar
ters in Latvia, killing four people
in Riga, capital of the Baltic re
public.
The black berets involved in
Wednesday's action said they
were acting under orders from
Soviet Interior Minister Boris
Pugo, according to Longinas
Vasiliauskas, a Lithuanian gov
ernment representative in Mos
cow.
Pugo's office denied to Lithua
nian officials that he ordered the
action, Vasiliauskas said.
An American news photogra
pher in Vilnius, Robert Tonsing,
said witnesses reported that
about 45 black berets in jeeps
and an army truck arrived at the
telephone building late in the af
ternoon. Each soldier was carry
ing an assault rifle, and at least
one held a heavy-gauge machine
gun, the witnesses said.
They said about 20 troops
were posted outside the five-
story building, and that the rest
ran inside, where they cut the
phone lines and ordered em
ployees to leave.
One worker. Rose Uzdavi-
niene, said the soldiers went into
a room that she knew contained
no guns. They emerged holding
some weapons and saying,
"Look what we found," she said.
Lithuanian parliament spokes
man Paul Pauparas later said the
soldiers produced
bullets and <
Droduced explosives,
a handmade pistol.
Iraq may have additional nuclear sites
Agency finds
more facilities
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — International investigators said Tues
day they have identified more suspected nuclear sites in Iraq.
As part of the agreement ending the Persian Gulf War, Iraq told
the International Atomic Energy Agency it had 24 nuclear facilities.
U.N. experts had identified one additional site in May and "se
veral more" since, said David Kay, deputy leader of the IAEA
team, which is working with the United Nations.
Kay would not divulge how many more were found or their
suspected purpose. His team is helping the U.N. Special Commis
sion to assess Iraq's weapons. Under the U.N. cease-fire resolution
on April 3, Iraq agreed to allow the United Nations to supervise de
struction of any chemical and biological weapons, short-range bal
listic missiles and nuclear weapons-grade materials.
Iraq has denied it has biological weapons, which a different
team is investigating.
The probe, which includes tours of the Tuwaitha research site,
19 miles southwest of Baghdad, will not be finished for several
months, Kay said.
If it proves the sites were part of Iraq's nuclear program — and
that Iraq was cheating in accounting for its facilities — the team's
report could damage Iraq's efforts to persuade the U.N. Security
Council to lift an economic blockade.
In Washington, a Bush administration official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said the International Atomic Energy team
has been denied entry to one site. The official declined to give any
further details, except to say, "This is clearly in violation of the
U.N. sanctions."
Iraq has said it has no nuclear weapons development program.
But an Iraqi scientist who defected several weeks ago claimed
Baghdad had falsified information it gave to the United Nations
and is hiding nuclear weapons-grade material.
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