Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 152, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 February 1992 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC February 29,1992

Tsongas wants cease-fire in harsh campaign tactics

By the Associated Press Democrat Paul Tsongas is calling for a truce in the increasingly embittered presidential race, while President Bush is trying to position himself above the fray and the harsh television ads are still coming. “What’s happening now is not pretty,” Tsongas said Friday at a Beverly Hills, Calif., fund raiser. “It’s not healthy for the party. All we’re doing is playing into the hands of George Bush.” BUSH, UNDER assault from Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan, told reporters he wants to “put the emphasis on the good things about this country, about the fact that things are beginning to m0ve....” “But when you get into a campaign year, things are a little distorted,” the president told a cheering rodeo crowd Friday in Houston. He refused to comment on the escalating media war between the two campaigns, telling reporters that “I don’t think the president needs to get down there on that level.” THE FRACTIOUS Democratic presidential candidates, meanwhile, continued hurling barbs at each other, even as Tsongas asked party leaders to force peace on the field. The candidates swarmed across the South, West and Midwest in preparation for contests Tuesday in Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, Utah and Washington state. The Democrats scheduled a debate tonight in Denver and two more in Georgia and Maryland were on tap for Sunday, although all the candidates were not expected to attend both. THE LATEST Republican TV assault came in Georgia, where Bush began an ad Friday accusing Buchanan of sexism. “He even said women are less equipped psychologically to succeed in the workplace,” a narrator says in the 30-second spot. It also says Buchanan was wrong to oppose the Persian Gulf War and his isolationist policies would cost American jobs.

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The sexism charge stems from a 1983 column in which Buchanan wrote: “Women are less equipped psychologically to stay the course in the brawling areas of business, commerce, industry and the professions.” IN BLUNT ADS of his own, Buchanan has been charging Bush with, among other things, allowing taxpayer money to be spent on obscene art and trying to turn churches into an arm of the Internal Revenue Service by requiring them to report large donors. Buchanan blasted Bush in twin speeches to the Georgia House and Senate on Friday, then took off on a weekend whistlestop tour to towns and rural areas across a state he considers vital to his upstart presidential bid. Democrat Bob Kerrey used the Bush-Buchanan spat over arts funding to score points at a rally of some 400 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. “MR. BUSH’S economic program is economic smut,” said the Nebraska senator. “What I object to is 12 years that George Bush used billions of dollars of our funds to subsidize obscene economics.” Tsongas, in Beverly Hills, appeared to violate his own peace proposal with counter-attacks on Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and Kerrey, a former governor, both of

U.N. warns Iraq of ‘serious consequences’

UNITED NATIONS (AP) A year after the Persian Gulf War ended, Iraq has again refused to destroy Scud missile facilities, drawing a Security Council warning that continued defiance will bring “serious consequences.” The new verbal exchange Friday appears to put Iraq and the Security Council back on a collision course over cease-fire accords mandating the dismantling of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. THE UNITED Nations did not

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whom have criticized his call for a gasoline tax increase. He said each raised gas taxes in their own state. “We’re in a position now where we have to respond,” Tsongas said. CLINTON, SPEAKING to reporters in Seattle, said Democrats should get back to discussing their differing stands on issues. But before long he was rebuking Kerrey for contending that Clinton’s Vietnam-era draft record would make him unelectable. He hinted that Kerrey’s vote against use of force in the Persian Gulf makes him more vulnerable. “His votes may cause him a lot more problems since they’re a lot more recent in time and reflect on judgment, which is a very critical issue in terms of being commander-in-chief,” Clinton said. lOWA SEN. Tom Harkin, at a labor rally in Seattle, was critical of all three rivals as having muddled messages that sounded “a little like Republicans.” He accused Tsongas of embracing Reaganomics and said Clinton’s state ranks low in environmental and worker safety. The fifth Democrat in the race, former California Gov. Jerry Brown, exhorted about 400 people at a Denver rally to vote for him because “we want a voice in the Democratic Party in the West.”

say what action it could take, but the Security Council president on Friday did not rule out a military strike. “Stay tuned ... We all know what the council is capable of doing,” said U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, president of the 15-na-tion council during February. The council, whose five permanent members include the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia, authorized the allied crushing of Iraq’s occupation

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian stands with his so-called “suicide machine” in Detroit. Dr. Kevorkian hooks up a patient to the machine through an LV. and the patient can flip a switch to receive a fatal dose of a drug. A Michigan jury will have to

‘Suicide Doctor’ will face twin charges of murder

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) The judge who ordered Dr. Jack Kevorkian to stand trial for first-degree murder says a jury must decide “who activated the ... death devices” that killed two women. District Judge James Sheehy said Friday the fact that Kevorkian supplied the machines didn’t warrant putting him on trial. BUT HE SAID it wasn’t clear what happened in the secluded cabin where Marjorie Wantz and Sherry Millet died Oct. 23. “Only Dr. Kevorkian and his sister were present in the cabin to witness the deaths, and no testimony was presented as to who activated the two death devices,” the judge said. “Causation has become a ques-

of Kuwait. The U.S.-led forces halted their offensive a year ago Friday. AN IRAQI letter sent Friday to the U.N. commission overseeing destruction of Iraq’s weapons says Iraq should be permitted to convert its Scud missile project to nonmilitary, civilian use. Before the Security Council meeting, Pickering described the letter as “seven pages of ‘no’ ” to the U.N. order to destroy the weapons. A non-binding, but strongly worded Security Council statement read aloud by Pickering demands Iraq immediately comply with U.N. Scud demolition teams and all other U.N. provisions. AU ER THE meeting, Pickering read a statement urging a highlevel Iraqi delegation to hurry to New York to discuss the issue. Iraq

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decide if he is guilty to the two counts of murder that a judge says he must answer to. Michigan does not have a law against assisting suicides. (AP photo)

tion of fact, and questions of fact are decided by jury trial.” SHEEHY ALSO dismissed a drug trafficking charge against Kevorkian, and scheduled a March 12 arraignment on the two murder counts. Kevorkian, who remains free on a SIO,OOO personal bond, faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted. The 63-ycar-old retired pathologist first gained nationwide attention after a Portland, Ore., woman with Alzheimer’s disease killed herself in 1990 using his suicide machine. A JUDGE LATER dismissed a first-degree murder charge against him in that case because assisted suicide isn’t illegal in Michigan. But Kevorkian was ordered not to

is expected to send envoys in March. A 12-member U.N. team charged with destroying missile factories, headed by British ballistics expert Christopher Holland, was expected to leave Baghdad this afternoon for its headquarters in Bahrain. Another team of chemical weapons experts are to remain in Baghdad until about March 8. That team is blowing up more than 400 rockets with damaged chemical warheads. DURING THE war, Iraq fired Scuds on Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations. The truce resolution called for elimination of Iraq’s Scuds as well as nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Some of the weapons have been destroyed or seized by U.N. teams, but Iraq has repeatedly lied about its arms capabilities and attempted to conceal facilities. “The members of the council emphasize that Iraq must be aware of the serious consequences of continued material breaches of (gulf war cease-fire) Resolution 687,” said the statement read by Pickering. PICKERING declined to elaborate on the possible “serious consequences.” But earlier Friday he said “no option is ruled in and no option is ruled out” when asked

Man used mob threat to force sex on woman

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) A man who told a woman they would both be killed by the mob if she didn’t have sex with him was convicted on charges of rape, sodomy and coercion. The woman believed Jon Allen’s story and had sex with him as often as twice a week for eight years, Assistant Monroe County District Attorney Alicia Elston said Friday. “BASICALLY, HE just told her if she didn’t perform sex acts with him, he or she ... would be killed by the mob,” Elston said. “She truly believed him for eight years.” Allen, 32, of Hamlin, was convicted in state Supreme Court on Thursday of three counts each of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy, and one count of second-

assist any more suicides. In last October’s deaths, both women suffered from painful but not terminal illnesses. Wantz, 58, of Sodus, died from an injection of lethal chemicals, and Miller, 43, of Roseville, from inhaling carbon monoxide. Kevorkian’s supporters said he shouldn’t have to stand trial for helping people who wanted to die. “HE DIDN’T murder anyone, and I can’t believe it’s gone this far,” said Karen Nelson, a friend of Miller’s. But a medical ethicist praised the decision. “We need to know who took the final steps in that cabin,” said Reinhar Priester of the Minnesota Center for Biomedical Ethics.

about a military attack. “I hope the Iraqis understand that the council is sending a very firm message not to repeat the mistakes of the past,” Pickering said. He said the Security Council is “greatly concerned that these Iraqi actions are all part of a giant stall.” But Iraq’s acting U.N. ambassador, Samir al-Nima, said his government stands by its proposal for conversion of certain Scud facilities. “WE ARE OPPOSED to anybody being a supergovemment to decide exactly what we should destroy or keep. We don’t think that’s fair or objective,” he said. Under the U.N. cease-fire resolution, Iraq must destroy all missiles with a range greater than 93 miles. All major Middle Eastern cities, except Kuwait City, are more than 100 miles from the Iraqi border. Iraq must also agree to a longterm weapons monitoring plan a provision opposed by Saddam. Besides military action against Iraq, the council could tighten the economic sanctions and close loopholes. Food, medicine and humanitarian supplies are not prohibited, but supplies could be limited further. The council also could require nations to reduce Iraq’s diplomatic personnel abroad.

degree coercion. He faces eight-to-25 years in prison for each of the rape and sodomy charges. The coercion charge is a misdemeanor. An April 14 sentencing was set. ELSTON SAID the victim was blindfolded during the sexual encounters, and Allen told her he had a listening device so mobsters could tell whether their orders were being followed, Elston said. Elston said Allen apparently got the idea from a episode about organized crime on the victim’s favorite soap opera. The victim went to the police in 1990 after hearing family members discussing a similar incident involving Allen and another woman.