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Bork accusations continue
Senator says nominee rewrote Watergate history to benefit
WASHINGTON — Robert H.
Bork was accused Tuesday of rewrit
ing history to make himself “the hero
of Watergate,” while former Attorney
General Elliot Richardson vigorously
defended the Supreme Court
nominee’s conduct in the firing of the
Watergate special prosecutor 14 years
ago.
Richardson told the Senate Judici
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ary Committee, “I think the nation
owes Robert Bork a substantial debt.”
But members of the special prose
cution team that investigated the
Watergate scandal made it clear they
felt otherwise.
Meanwhile, Sen. Alan Cranston,
the Senate’s second-ranking Demo
crat, said support for Bork’s confirma
tion has slipped so much that “I think
he’s licked.”
“According to my latest head
count, 49 senators are likely to vote
against Bork and 40 are likely to vote
for him, leaving 11 unpredictable,”
said Cranston, D-Calif. He said that
represented a loss of five favorable
votes since a headcount before Bork
began testifying.
At the White House, presidential
spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said
Bork himself has been meeting with
senators individually as part of the
continuing effort to win confirmation.
Fitzwater also said President Re
agan intends to lobby senators person
ally as well as on the telephone.
“We have four or five weeks before
the vote; there is plenty of time,” he
said.
The spokesman said Reagan is not
considering whom he might nominate
if Bork is rejected and “gets angry at
the very thought of even mentioning a
replacement.
Passengers hit ceiling,
floor in turbulent flight
NEW YORK — Passengers on an
Eastern Airlines jet bound for New
York said Tuesday they found them
selves smashed against the ceiling
and dodging flying dinner wear after
the plane hit severe turbulence on a
trip from Puerto Rico.
Hospital officials said 27 people
were treated for minor back and neck
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injuries in the turbulence, which
forced the plane to make an unex
pected stop in Bermuda.
Airline officials said 21 people
were injured.
The shaken and weary passengers
arrived at Kennedy International
Airport at 3:15 a.m. Tuesday. At least
10 were wearing neck braces, one was
in a wheelchair and some had blood
on their shirts.
The L-1011, carry 129 passengers
and 10 crew members, took off from
San Juan on Monday afternoon and
encountered the turbulence about 180
miles w'est-south west of Bermuda,
said Eastern spokesman Robin
Matcll. Flying at 33,000 feet, the
plane suddenly plummeted.
In Brief
Famous pilots make stopover in Beatrice
BEATRICE — Dick Rutan and Jea^a Yeager, who made aviation
history by flying their Voyager airc. ft around the world without
refueling, weren’t recognized at Beatrice Municipal Airport until
Yeager flashed her credit card.
“I was a bumbling idiot after I found out who they were,” airport
attendant Chuck Hubka said.
Rutan and Yeager stopped in Beatrice on Sunday to refuel their twin •
engine Beechcraft Baron airplane on a trip to Quebec.
Signatures gathered for school board recall
SCOTTSBLUFF—A petition drive to recall the six members of the
Scottsbluff School Board gathered enough signatures to force the
members either to resign or face a recall election.
The recall drive began last June after district patrons criticized the
board’s proposed 1987-88 budget. The group said the board was not
being sympathetic to the plight of many district patrons and was
spending too much money on unnecessary courses, non-certified staff
and administrators’ salaries.
Yale president slams ‘gay school’ article
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University President Benno C.
Schmidt Jr. has labeled as “drivel” an article in The Wall Street Journal
depicting Yale as a “gay school,” and a school officer said Tuesday that
homosexuals make up only “a minute fraction” of its population.
The Journal’s Aug. 4 article was a first-person essay on the Leisure
& Arts page by Julie V. Iovine, a 1977 Yale graduate who lives part time
in New Haven. Iovine quotes one Yale student who said she received a
notice calling one in four Yale students a gay.
Platte Center robber blesses bank managers
PLATTECENTER—Three men robbed the PlatteCenter Bank and
apparently used two vehicles to escape Tuesday, said Platte County
Attorney Bill Kurtenbach.
He said the robbers tied up the three employees in the bank and took
all of the money from a teller drawer. As they left, one of them told the
bank managers “God bless you,” an eyewitness said.
Waste dump could be 100,000-year hazard
WASHINGTON — The planned disposal of so-called “low level”
radioactive wastes in state controlled landfills could saddle future
generations with deadly environmental hazards for more than 100,000
years, said the Radioactive Waste Campaign, a non-profit organization
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Military officer testifies
Navy intelligence overrated
WASHINGTON — The Navy underesti
mated the threat posed by Iranian mines when
it prepared to carry out President Reagan’s plan
to protect Kuwaiti tankers, the nation’s top
military officer said Tuesday.
1 think it’s eminently fair to say we made a
number of underestimates,” Adm. William
Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
‘‘Obviously, we didn’t want the Bridgeton to
happen,” he said, referring to the July 24 inci
dent when the first reflagged Kuwaiti tanker hit
a mine while it was being escorted by U .S. Navy
warships.
He said the Navy “probably overrated our
intelligence” about Iranian capabilities.
The Navy is now looking at ways to reduce
the number of ships and men in the region,
Crowe said, but he warned that it would be a
“terrible error” for the Democratic-controllcd
Congress to order a U.S. withdrawal.
Crowe said the Pentagon is “groping as to
what the long-term level of forces should be
there— We arc looking at ways to draw down
our forces to a more reasonable level.”
He said about 10 U.S. ships are in the gulf
itself and another 20 in nearby waters. It is
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costing about $20 million a month to carry out
Reagan’s program of reflagging 11 Kuwaiti
tankers and using Navy convoys to protect their
passage through the war-tom waterway.
Crowe spoke as the Senate was considering
a Pentagon budget bill that Democrats want to
use as the vehicle for a proposal that would halt
the reflagging program within 90 days unless
both the House and Senate approve it.
The amendment is backed by Democrats
who complain that Reagan should have in
voked the War Powers Act, the 1973 law that
limits a president’s authority to send troops to
areas of “imminent hostilities.”
Earlier Tuesday, the Senate voted 96-0
approval of an amendment to the bill praising
the U.S. military personnel who took part in last
week’s attack on an Iranian ship caught laying
mines.
The Senate also voted 98-0 approval of an
amendment banning all U.S. imports from Iran.
Minority leaders Bob Dole, R-Kan., the
measure’s sponsor, noted that in recent years,
the United States has imported $500 million to
$600 million worth of products annually from
Iran.
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Vice president tours death camps
at end of four-day visit to Poland
OSWIECIM, Poland — A somber Vice
President George Bush on Tuesday toured
Nazi concentration camps from World War
II and expressed the hope that the children of
the future “be spared the agony of this
horrible past.”
Both the vice president and his wife,
Barbara, were visibly moved as their Polish
guide, who was imprisonedat the Auschwitz
camp for five years, explained how the
Nazis systematically and sadistically gassed
or shot their 4 million victims.
Walking together under threatening
skies, the Bushes saw the small, dark cells
where prisoners were left to die standing up,
the gas cham bers where millions of men and
women were killed and the “Wall of Death”
where victims were shot through the head.
“They’re big on crematoriums. There’s
one over here, one over there,” Bush said
grimly as he walked past the crumbling ruins
of the building where the Nazis burned
bodies.
Bush, completing a four-day visit to
Poland, placed a floral wreath at a stone
memorial in nearby Birkenau. “Never
again, The American people,” was printed
on a white ribbon attached to the wreath.
Signing a guest book, Bush quoted a
saying, “In remembrance lies the secret of
redemption.”
At a news conference in Warsaw on
Tuesday morning, Bush said he would re
port to President Reagan that the basis exists
for “lasting, productive and mutually bene
ficial relations between our two countries.”