Wednesday, October 7,1992
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issue of The Journal of the
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forensic evidence are
indisputable," said Dr. George D.
Lundberg, the journal's editor, in
an accompanying article in this
"We got it right in 1963 and it still stands in
1992."
-Dr. Pierre Finck, only trained forensic
pathologist at Kennedy's autopsy
written form to a JAMA reporter
during an Aug. 19 interview in
Switzerland, was consistent with
interviews published by JAMA in
May of the two other pathologists
at the autopsy.
"These firsthand accounts of
the autopsy and the scientific
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"Both bullets struck from
behind. No other bullets struck
the president. A single rifle fired
both," Lundberg wrote, adding
that no conspiracy affected the
autopsy, its findings or its report.
Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, who argues
against the lone-gunman theory,
accused Lundberg, a pathologist,
of using his publication to protect
the image of his fellow
pathologists who conducted the
Kennedy autopsy.
Wecht, who is a forensic
pathologist, said Finck's new
account is at odds with testimony
he gave under oath in 1969 that he
was instructed to skip certain
autopsy procedures.
The pathologists' explanation
leaves unresolved many
questions, including how
Kennedy and Texas Gov. John
Connally could have been struck
by the same bullet and
discrepancies between the firing
of the shots and the timing of the
assassination as recorded on film,
Wecht said.
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SAN ANTONIO — The publisher of the
San Antonio Light, Hearst Corp., said Tuesday
thas agreed to buy Rupert Murdoch's rival
;xpress-News for $185 million and close the
light if a buyer isn't found.
A shutdown of the Light would end one of
he nation's fiercest newspaper wars, defined
or years by blaring headlines, lottery-type
;ames and behind-the-scenes shenanigans
among employees.
The agreement calls for all 1,000 Express-
News employees to retain their jobs. If a buyer
or the Light is not found, the approximately
Light employees would receive severance
benefits.
Hearst said it would seek a buyer for the
Light, a daily and Sunday newspaper that has
lost $60 million since 1987. If no buyer is
found, Hearst said it would "reluctantly close
the paper."
"Despite vigorous efforts to reverse the
trends, Hearst has concluded that the Light's
losses are irreversible particularly in view of
the fact that the number of cities which can
support two competing daily newspapers
continues to shrink," Hearst said in a
statement.
Hearst Corp. President and Chief Executive
Officer Frank A. Bennack announced the
agreement in separate meetings with
employees of both newspapers Tuesday
morning.
The Hearst purchase of the Express-News
from Murdoch's The News Corp. is subject to
federal antitrust review.
Murdoch, chairman and chief executive
officer of News Corp., said the employee
arrangement was essential to the deal.
"They waged a long and victorious contest
in the San Antonio market and no agreement
would have been possible without a guarantee
that they would all be offered continued
employment," Murdoch said in a statement.
Light and Express-News news department
employees learned of the deal in hastily-
arranged meetings. At the Light, telephones
rang constantly in a vacant newsroom as
workers met on another floor to hear the news.
Light employees said they were given a 60-day
plant closing notice.
Bennack and George Irish, publisher of the
Light, did not immediately return telephone
calls to The Associated Press.
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President opposes blockades of abortion clinics
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The Bush
administration urged the
Supreme Court on Tuesday to
keep federal judges from stopping
abortion clinic blockades, but a
lawyer for clinic owners said that
would cripple abortion rights.
Justice Department lawyer
John Roberts Jr. said the adminis
tration does not defend the tactics
of Operation Rescue members
and other anti-abortion protesters
who block access to clinics, but he
argued they should be held ac 1
countable in
state courts.
Those who
engage in un
lawful acts at
clinics lack the
necessary mo
tive — ill will
toward women
— to bring
their conduct
under federal
scrutiny,
Roberts said. "They are targeting
(women) not because of who they
are but because of what they are
doing," he said.
Deborah Ellis, a lawyer repre
senting Virginia abortion clinic
operators, said removing federal
court authority to issue injunc
tions against blockades would
leave women without adequate
protection.
Clinic owners would have to
turn to state courts for help, and
many local police departments
called on to enforce state court in
junctions say they lack the re-,
sources to deal with massive
demonstrations.
Ellis likened anti-abortion pro
testers who participate in clinic
blockades to Ku Klux Klan mem
bers who intimidated black stu
dents during the early days of
school desegregation efforts.
But Jay Alan Sekulow, Opera
tion Rescue's lawyer, said his
clients oppose abortion, not
women.
The legal and political battle
was waged outside the high
court's stately building as well.
On the public sidewalk in front
of the court building, dozens of
activists on both sides of the na
tional debate shouted slogans at
each other and vied for news me
dia attention.
Bush
NEWS ANALYSIS
Bush's veto record comes to an end
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - President Bush calls
his 35-1 veto record a "good streak." But the
first defeat couldn't have come at a worse
time.
The override of Bush's veto of legislation
to re-regulate the cable industry dealt a
major psychological setback at a time when
he nardly needed more bad news.
In a blatant gesture of kick-him-when-
he's-down, Democrats in the House
whistled, cheered and shouted "Four more
months" Monday night as Bush's perfect
veto record was broken.
It was almost as if Bush were already a
lame duck president.
When he was soaring in popularity, such
an override would have been unthinkable.
In the past. Bush managed to prevail even
when the measures he vetoed were
politically appealing.
In January 1990, he was even able to
persuade the Senate to sustain his veto of a
popular bill protecting Chinese students
from deportation after the House^ of
Representatives voted 390-25 to override.
But Democrats have managed to turn
Bush's veto strategy — a strategy that once
g ave him enormous leverage despite
emocratic majorities in both chambers —
into a weapon against him in the final days
of the campaign.
At the Republican National Convention in
August, Bush said he would use his veto pen
to hold the line on spending. Instead
Congress has sent him popular measures
that hold potential for political damage when
they are vetoed.
For example. Bush vetoed a bill requiring
employers to provide workers with time off
in family emergencies and he prevailed. But
he paid a price — giving the Democrats a
chance to claim he lacks commitment to the
family values he and other Republicans
trumpeted at their convention.
With the president unable to close the gap
with Democratic nominee Bill Clinton in
national polls, the cable-TV veto override
was just one more political sour note for
Bush.
To make matters worse, Democratic vice
presidential nominee A1 Gore was a sponsor
of the bill that nearly everyone but Bush and
the cable industry seemed to like.
The president's explanation for his defeat:
"We were overwhelmed by a very good sales
job on the part of the networks." Bush had
argued that the bill, while ostensibly seeking
to lower cable rates, would end up costing
consumers more.
Bush had focused on the Senate in trying
to persuade a group of GOP senators not up
for re-election this year to back him on the
veto.
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