Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 54, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 November 1987 — Page 2

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50 killed in Sri Lankan bombing COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) A bomb exploded today at rush hour in a crowded area near downtown Colombo, and rescue workers at the scene said more' than 50 people were killed and many others were injured. The bomb went off at about 5:40 p.m. near the police station and a major bus stop in the Maradana neighborhood, about a mile east of the capital’s downtown area. There were piles of bodies on sidewalks, and seven ambulances were seen carrying away victims. At least 25 damaged cars and buses were seen. One bus was gutted by flames. Glass was shattered in buildings along the street. Rescue workers said at least 50 were dead and the toll could reach 70. Police issued no official report. At the scene, army troops fired in the air to disperse crowds as rescue workers tried to get the injured into cars and ambulances.

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WASHINGTON (AP) The fall of President Reagan’s second Supreme Court nominee leaves the administration in the same situation it faced five months ago, searching for someone who would appease conservatives and win approval in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Federal Court of Appeals Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, named to fill the seat vacated by retiring Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., announced Saturday that he had asked Reagan to withdraw his nomination because his views on law had been “drowned out in the clamor” over his use of marijuana in the 1960 s and 19705. One possible replacement nominee is Judge Anthony Kennedy of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who had been considered the favorite of White House chief of staff Howard H. Baker Jr. Kennedy arrived in the Washington area by Air Force jet late Saturday. The White House hopes to announce a new candidate early this week in order to achieve Senate confirmation by the end of the year, a

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senior White House official said. Robert H. Bork, Reagan’s first nominee to replace retired Lewis F. Powell Jr. on the court, was rejected by the Senate on Oct. 23. Another official said two finalists who lost out when Ginsburg was nominated will be given strong consideration again. They are Kennedy and William W. Wilkins Jr. of Greenville, S.C.,'a judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but others will be examined also, said the official, who, like the other official, spoke only on condition of anonymity. Terry Eastland, chief spokesman for Attorney General Edwin Meese 111, said Sunday, “We will just simply use the people on that list (the names of candidates under consideration at the time Ginsburg was chosen) and go back to it, and review it, and consider the relative merits of each of them.” But Kennedy faces opposition from some conservative senators, who, according to published reports, called Meese before Ginsburg’s

Conflicting signals from budget talks

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Republican leaders from the House and the Senate left a meeting with President Reagan last week confused about what was said and without a clear direction on budget priorities, reflecting both a split among Republicans and indecision in the White House itself, several participants in the meeting said Sunday. According to an account by one participant at Friday’s meeting, the president pounded the table and railed against the Democrats for proposing to raise taxes to cut the federal deficit, but at one point he said he would accept “as a last resort” a budget compromise that increased the gasoline tax and limited cost-of-living increases for Social Security and other programs to 2 percent.

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nomination was announced Oct. 29 and threatened to filibuster a Kennedy nomination. “I think March or April may well be too late,” Sen. Arlen Specter, RPa., said on ABC-TV’s “This Week With David Brinkley.” “I believe you’re going to see a very different political tone on this issue if we go until March or April. ... If President Reagan is going to make this nomination, it had better come to fruition before April. ” Another conservative member of the committee. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, said he would voice his opinions about any future candidate only after a careful review. “I had said that I would support anybody on the list, including Judge Kennedy, but I’ll tell you this: From here on in, I’m just going to reserve my judgment and I’m going to look them all over very carefully,” Hatch said on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation.” Hatch said nine candidates are in the running for the nomination.

But Robert H. Michel of Illinois, the House Republican leader, who also attended the meeting, interpreted Reagan’s remarks differently. “The president was never talking cost-of-living increases, absolutely not,” Michel said Sunday, acknowledging his own opposition to the proposal. But he said some other Republicans might have chosen to “hear what they wanted to hear.” While the reports of what was said at the meeting varied, the accounts provided a candid look at the internal deliberations concerning one of the most difficult issues confronting Congress and the president at a time when their ability to lead is being questioned. The proposal to cap Social Security increases and raise the gasoline tax was not offered in the top-level budget negotiations that

IRA blamed for fatal bombing

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) The outlawed Irish Republican Army planted the bomb that killed 11 civilians at a memorial ceremony for Roman Catholics and Protestants who died in two world wars, police said. Twenty-one of the 63 men, women and children injured in the Sunday attack were still in hospitals today, five of them in “very serious condition,” police said. Police earlier put the numbered of injured at 61. Restaurants and bars in the town closed early Sunday night in respect for the victims in the blast in this County Fermanagh town 10 miles from the Irish border. It was the worst terrorist attack in Northern Ireland in five years. The bomb blew out part of a community center where townspeople, officials and soldiers gathered to mark Remembrance Day. No warning was given. Seven of the dead were over 60 years old and at least 13 of the injured were children. No one immediately claimed responsibility. But the province’s top police official, Chief Constable Sir John Hermon, said, “I am satisfied beyond doubt that this was the work

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continued on Capitol Hill the same day. A scaled-down plan to reduce the deficit by S3O billion without affecting the gasoline tax or Social Security was offered instead by Michel. Several of the Senate Republican negotiators who were pushing the broader proposal, which some Democrats had also indicated an interest in, said they felt the chance for a major deficit-reducing proposal was lost because Reagan did not make, or at least did not articulate, a firm decision in the meeting. “We’re always looking for signals that he will go the way we want,” said one participant, who left the White House meeting without a clear impression of what conclusions were reached. “I’m looking at it through my own eyeglass perspective. I’m looking for a signal that the

Dole candidacy official

RUSSELL, Kan. (AP) Senate Republican leader Bob Dole today formally opened his GOP presidential bid wrapped in small-town Kansas nostalgia and declaring “I offer a record, not a resume.” “I offer the strength and determination molded in America’s small-town heartland and tempered during a career of public service to bring common-sense answers to the complex problems facing America in its third century,” Dole said in remarks prepared for delivery at his formal announcement. Dole, 64, enters the race as one of two GOP front-runners, the other being Vice President George Bush. Dole’s announcement swing was designed to underscore his ties to the Midwest, where he faces key early tests of his ambitions. He brought his announcement to his tiny hometown of 5,600 and said “I have carried the spirit of this

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of the IRA” and that it was aimed at civilians. The IRA is fighting to drive the British out of the predominantly Protestant province of Northern Ireland and unite it with the Roman Catholic Irish Republic. The Rev. lan Paisley, leader of the Protestant majority’s Democratic Unionist Party, said it was “amazing” the community hall was not searched before the annual ceremony. He said police told him that because the hall belonged to the Roman Catholic Church there could have been very serious reaction if they used dogs to sniff out any explosive. The center of Belfast was sealed off later, when police found a 1,200pound bomb “primed and ready for . use” in two oil drums in the back of a hijacked van, said Belfast police Sgt. Michael Glover. The driver was arrested, he said. A British army bomb-disposal team took five hours to disarm the device, Glover said. The van hadbeen commandeered at gunpoint in West Belfast earlier Sunday, he said. Prime Minister Charles Haughey of Ireland condemned the Enniskillen bombing.

president could accept a cost-of-living limit and a gasoline tax and more revenue so we could achieve a monumental package” that would cut the deficit by SBO billion to SIOO billion over two years. The detailed account of the conversations in the White House meeting provided by one participant and corroborated by a second appears to show that, Reagan at one point agreed he could accept a deficit-reducing proposal with a gasoline tax and a limit on Social Security increases. But the account of the meeting also shows that Howard H. Baker Jr., ’ Reagan’s chief of staff, one of the administration’s negotiators in the budget talks with Congress, did not think congressional Democrats would accept such a plan.

place with me throughout my life.” In his announcement, Dole sought to distinguish his record from that of the Reagan administration, saying the federal deficit “is the single greatest threat to a prosperous and dynamic America.” “Since the deficit problem began, every administration and every Congress has tried to postpone true reckoning,” Dole said. While he praised President Reagan as “making a difference,” Dole made it clear he’ll chart his own path as a candidate. “Ronald Reagan set us on a new course and history will be grateful,” Dole said. “But the Reagan record is not something to stand on. It’s not something to run on. It’s something to build on.” Most polls have shown Bush ahead in the GOP race, with Dole in second and the remainder of the Republican field trailing badly.