Marines board Iraqi vessel
The world’s response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait involved
conlrontalion and conciliation on Sunday, with U.S. Marines boarding
| an Iraqi vessel and Soviet diplomatic renewing efforts to find a
resolution.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Paris for talks with
j French President Francois Mitterrand on matters including the nearly 3
J month-old Persian Gulf crisis. A Gorbachev envoy, meanwhile, held
talks in Baghdad with Saddam Hussein.
S In Iraq, 301 French nationals were told they had to wait another day
j for freedom. The Baghdad government said last week that they could
| return home, but the trip was delayed from Sunday until today.
| Diplomatic sources said the departure was put off because 26 other
French citizens were unaccounted for.
European Community leaders, holding a summit in Rome, pledged
| Sunday not to send official representatives to win the freedom of
hostages, and to discourage private missions.
In a joint statement, the leaders assailed the “unscrupulous” use of
hostages in the “vain attempt to divide the international community.”
In the latest naval confrontation, U.S. Marines boarded an Iraqi
J tanker after an Australian vessel and a U.S. warship fired warning shots
across its bow when it refused to stop, U.S. Navy officials said.
The ship, intercepted in the North Arabian Sea, was allowed to
proceed after a search party found no goods banned under the U.N.
sanctions.
As of Oct. 26, some 2,738 ships had been intercepted in the Gulf
region, and 282 ships boarded.
Supporters will reintroduce designation next year
House kills Niobrara River bill
The U.S. House early Sunday killed
the controversial Niobrara River sce
nic designation bill on the last re
corded vote of the year as foes of the
measure continued to criticize it in
Nebraska.
The measure passed Jhe Senate in
a voice vote late Saturday. In the
House, the bill got 62 percent of the
vote but needed a two-thirds majority
because it was brought up under sus
pension of House rules.
The House vole was 157-95. It
needed 11 more votes in favor to pass.
The bill would have extended
federal protection to a 76-mi lc stretch
of the Niobrara River east of Valen
tine.
The Senate version of the bill was
sponsored by Sen. Jim Exon.
Rep. Doug Bercuter, a supporter
of the bill, blamed its defeat in the
House on a sympathy vote for his
reining colleague, Rep. Virginia Smith.
She was the only Nebraska mem
ber of Congress opposed to the bill.
“On the very last recorded vote of
the 101 st Congress, she was not going
to be denied a sympathy vote,” Bercu
ter said from Washington.
“I am extremely pleased that rca
son and fairness triumphed over an
unprecedented and irresponsible piece
of legislation,” Smith said after the
vote.
“It is fitting that the last recorded
vote of the 101st Congress and of my
career represented such a great vic
tory'for my constituents and indeed
for the overwhelming majority of
Nebraskans who oppose this designa
tion,” she said.
Rep. Peter Hoagland has said sup
porters will reintroduce the bill next
year.
Details of the compromise legisla
tion were unveiled Oct. 19 by Exon,
Sen. Bob Kerrey, Bcreutcrand Hoag
land.
Much of the river lies in Smith’s
3rd District. She said she could not
support the plan because it requested
immediate designation, rather than
the study she said landowners want.
Smith asked that a yearlong study
be conducted as to whether the Nio
brara should be designated a scenic
river.
Under the compromise plan, the
federal government would have pro
vided technical expertise for protect
ing the river, but would have been
limited to 5 percent of river frontage
in acquiring land or scenic easements.
In Omaha on Saturday, opponents
of the designation said the federal
government would condemn land along
the river and eject landowners if the
designation takes place.
The National Park Service and
sponsors of the measure have said the
government has rarely used its power
of condemnation to control land along
such rivers.
Michael Pisansky of New Brighton,
Minn., spoke at a meeting of the
Nebraska Water Resources Associa
tion in Omaha. Pisansky owns land
along southeastern Minnesota’s St.
Croix River, which was designated in
1968 as part of the national system.
He said the Park Service has sued
him to obtain a scenic easement that
would allow him to keep his land but
would restrict its uses. An casement
is not the same as a condemnation. In
a condemnation, the government
acquires the land.
The Nebraska Water Resources
Association is a group dedicated to
managing the state’s waterways and
to water conservation and economic
development.
Former member sues church over announcement i|
Disciplinary practices ol a Lin
coln church will be at issue today
when the trial of a lawsuit filed nearly
three years ago by a former church
member begins in Lancaster County
District Court.
In January 1988, Beth L. Hald, 29,
sued Indian HillsCommunity Church
and its officials, saying they were
negligent in announcing to the con
gregation that her conduct was im
moral. She had confided to a church
counselor that she was involved in a
homosexual relationship.
Hald, who claims she was told
information exchanged at counseling
sessions would remain confidential,
is seeking an unspecified amount of
general damages, ihc says that she
has been publicly humiliated and
shunned by friends, has lost faith in
God and has suffered permanent
psychiatric injury.
Herb Friedman, Hald’s attorney,
said this is the first time such a case
has been tried in Nebraska. Though
constitutional protections of religion
have been tested before, it has not
been in this context.
“This particular case deals with a
religious body’s right to violate con
fidentiality promises under the guise
that the Bible told them to do this,”
Friedman said.
Church officials say their discipli
nary actions against Hald arc part of
their religious beliefs and are there
fore protected by the U.S. and state
constitutions.
Donald Witt, the attorney repre
senting the church and its officials,
declined to comment on the ease.
Named as defendants in the suit
arc the church, presiding minister Gil
Rugh, principal counseling minister
Virgil Ediger, counselor Frcnchy
Dennis and the board of ciders at the
time the lawsuit was filed.
According to the lawsuit, in late
1986 Hald went to Dennis regarding a
drug addiction problem. Dunng coun
seling she confided to Dennis about
her sexual habits and lifestyle. Hald
also confided in Gordon Opp, a member
of the board of elders.
In February 1987, Dennis and Opp
ordered Hald to change her lifestyle,
saying they would make her confi
dences public if she did not, the law
suit contends. Hald said she subse
quently resigned from the church.
On March 1, 1987, before about
700 people, Rugh announced from
the pulpit that Hald was engaging in
immoral conduct and sinful activi
ties, though he did not specifically
talk about a homosexual relationship.
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five to seven days and jury selection ]
could take up to two days.
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