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Senate unable to kill Bush's veto
of bill protecting Chinese students
WASHINGTON - The Senate
on Thursday voted to uphold Presi
dent Bush’s veto of a bill protecting
Chinese students from deportation,
handing him a narrow foreign policy
victory in his first showdown this
year with the Democratic Congress.
The vote was 62-37, short of the
two-thirds margin needed to override
a presidential veto.
Just before the vote, Bush had
renewed his promise that students
would be fully protected even with
out the legislation. “No student, as
long as I’m president, will be sent
back,” he said.
The issue, which would affect an
estimated 40,000 Chinese students
studying in the United States, look on
added importance as the year’s first
test of strength between Bush and the
Democratic-controlled Congress and
as a referendum on the president’s
China policy.
Republican Sen. William Cohen
of Maine said in floor debate that he
would vote against the president to
uphold “America’s symbol to a world
that is struggling to throw off the
chains of dictators.”
But Sen. Frank Murkowski, R
Alaska, said the issue was “really a
political challenge to the president’s
constitutional authority. I believe the
challenge is ill-advised, works against
our national interest, and is likely to
cause a further deterioration of our
relationship with China.”
In the days before the vote, the
White House had mounted a fierce
lobbying blitz which included tele
phone calls from Bush and other top
administration officials to wavering
senators and personal visits from Vice
President Dan Quayle.
Former President Richard Nixon,
who laid the groundwork for modem
U.S.-China relations with a diplo
matic opening in the early 1970s,
telephoned some senators to say Bush’s
position was in the long-term inter
ests of the United States.
Spire says historical society nit-picking
LINCOLN - Attorney General
Robert Spire said Thursday he will go
to court if necessary to force the
Nebraska Slate Historical Society to
stop its stalling and make records on
Indian remains and burial goods avail
able to the Pawnee tribe.
In the most strongly-worded state
ment that Spire has issued during the
continuing controversy, he said that
“both the open records law and LB340
require the Historical Society to make
its records on human skeletal remains
and related burial goods available to
the tribe.
“When? Now. I repeat, Now,”
Spire said.
“Now means cut out the stalling
and legal nil-picking,” he said. “It
means act like responsible, caring
fellow citizens.”
Spire said he had an obligation to
see that the laws were followed.
“Therefore, I shall take whatever
action is necessary to assure that the
Stale Historical Society meets its legal
obligations, both with regard to the
Nebraska Open Records Law and the
provisions” of the skeletal remains
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law, Spire said.
Under LB340, Indians may reclaim
a limited amount of skeletal remains
and burial goods.
James Hanson, historical society
executive director, said in an inter
view that “I am quite frankly anxious
to have a settlement on this... we’ve
had everybody’s opinion on it and
now I’d like to have a judicial rul
ing.”
The society has filed action in the
Lancaster County District Court,
arguing that it is not a state agency
within the meaning of the open rec
ords law and doesn’t have to provide
information the Pawnee have sought
under that statute.
In an earlier, official opinion, Spire
said the historical society was a state
agency covered by the open records
law.
He said this week he was shocked
and disappointed by the society’s
decision to file suit against the Pawnee
Tribe of Oklahoma and the Native
American Rights Fund.
Spire said the society “clearly has
both a legal and ethical obligation to
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deal with the tribe and its legal repre
sentatives responsibly.”
The Pawnee have asked for docu
mentation and records showing how
the society is preparing to comply
with its request, under the open rec
ords law, for information on the remains
and artifacts it is holding.
The historical society’s suit con
tends that the skeletal remains legis
lation doesn’t require that any infor
mation be delivered until next sum
mer and that the society isn’t subject
to the open records law.
Hanson said the historical society
“is in an effort to comply with LB340,
and we find a pretty interesting and
difficult conflict... that’s why we’ve
asked for a declaratory judgment, to
gef the courts to tell us how to pro
ceed.”
Hanson said the society board
decided at its September meeting in
Kearney to hire legal counsel. Lin
coln attorney Ed Perry filed the suit
for the society. Hanson said Perry
was being paid with private funds and
“this action is not funded with any
state appropriated funds.”
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Colombian jetliner
crashes in New York
COVE NECK, N. Y. - A Colom
bian Boeing 707 jetliner with more
than 140 people aboard crashed in
fog and rain Thursday night while
on approach to Kennedy Interna
tional Airport, authorities said.
Numerous injuries were reported.
A vianca Flight 52 en route from
Bogota crashed at about 9:45 p.m.
in a sparsely populated area of
northern Long Island, a Kennedy
airport official said.
Numerous ambulances and heli
copters were at the scene, but there
was no immediate report of* the
number of injuries, nor of any deaths.
CBS-TV reported that doctors on
the scene said at least 80 survivors
were being cared for there.
The jet broke into four pieces
upon impact, said Coast Guard Petty
Officer Jeff Crawley. There was
less than half a mile of visibility
and it was raining at the time of the
crash, according to the National
Weather Service.
The tower at Kennedy lost con
tact with Flight 52 at 9:34 pjn.
when the Boeing 707 was about 15
miles northeast of the airport after
a five-hour flight, said Port Au
thority Police Officer Phil Mon
touri.
“It was coming in from Bogota
and supposed to land at eight
o’clock,” Montouri said. “There
was no radio communication at ali
to the tower. It just went down.”
The airliner went down in the
town of Cove Neck, located at about
the same place where the tower *
lost contact, said Officer Peter
Franzone of the Nassau County
police. The plane carried 142 pas
sengers and a crew of seven, au
thorities said.
Crawley said several cutters and
boats were en route to the area just
in case some debris or victims were
in the water.
‘ ‘ We have reports that the crash
is on land and that it's in four major
pieces,” Crawley said.
Control tower officials said the
plane may have lost one of its four
engines.
The area of the crash is near
Oyster Bay Harbor on the north
shore of Long Island, just south of
the Sagamore HiU National His
toric Site, home of President Theo
dore Roosevelt It is a isolated,
wooded area of expensive homes.
The New York City Emergency
Medical Service, asked for help by
Nassau County police, sent five
ambulances and a Mobile Emer
gency Room Vehicle to the crash
scene, an EMS spokesman said.
According to Radio Colombi
ana, Flight 52 left Bogota with a
stopover in Medellin, the city named
for its notorious cocaine cartel, en
route to New York.
Bush asks for increased funds \
for war against drugs in 1991
WASHINGTON - President Bush
Thursday proposed a national drug
control strategy for 1991 that includes
a budget of $10.6 billion, a 12 percent
increase over current spending of $9.5
billion.
The strategy also designates five
regions — New York, Los Angeles,
Miami, Houston and the Southwest
border of California, Arizona, New
Mexico and Texas — as high-inten
sity drug trafficking areas eligible for
millions of dollars in additional help
this year and in 1991.
The document, released by the
White House in advance of a speech
by Bush, is an updated version of the
strategy he presented last September.
The updated strategy developed
by national drug control policy direc
tor William Bennett does not repre
sent a switching of gears. It says the
fundamental principle “remains
unchanged: to make drugs undesir
able and hard to gel through a mix of
supply and demand policies.”
The strategy emphasizes “the
crucial role that state and local gov
ernments play -- and must play -- if a
national drug strategy is to work.” To
that end, it calls for $2.6 billion in
1991 to be sent to the states for law
enforcement, treatment and drug
prevention efforts, a 108 percent in
crease over the past two years.
Overall, said Bcnnctl’s budget
director, Bruce Carnes, the money is
split 71-29 between supply and de
mand efforts.
Last September, the Bush admini
stration sought $7.9 billion for the
war against drugs in 1990, but Con
gress increased that to $8.8 billion.
The current proposal also is subject to
congressional approval.
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