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O IBM Corpoation 1991 News Digest Thomas, panel spar on privacy, abortion WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nomi nee Clarence Thomas told senators at the open ing of his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he thinks the Constitution grants a basic right to privacy, but he declined to say whether that includes a right to abortion. Thomas spent the afternoon sparring with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on such touchy legal matters after opening his testimony with an emotional account of his rise from poverty in rural Pin Point, Ga. He paid tribute to the grandparents who raised him and all those “who gave their lives, their blood and their talent; but for them I would not be here.” During questioning, Thomas sought to dis avow his earlier advocacy of a “natural law philosophy” that Senate Democrats suggested could be invoked to lessen personal privacy and to outlaw abortions. “I don’t see a role for natural law, or natural rights, in constitutional adjudication,” Thomas told Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., the panel’s chairman. Thomas said he had written extensively in favor of a natural rights philosophy “from a political theory point of view” rather than as a basis for judicial decisions. “There is a right to privacy,” Thomas told Biden. “I think the Supreme Court has made clear that the issue of marital privacy is pro tected.” Asked about the high court’s 1973 decision extending the privacy right to abortions, Tho mas said: “I do not think at this time I could maintain my independence as a member of the judiciary and comment on that specific case.” But Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said, “Con firmation of a nominee should not turn on a commitment to prejudge an issue.” ■ ■" . I Tyson to surrender, answer rape charge INDIANAPOLIS — Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will surrender to authorities today and answer charges that he raped an 18-year-old Miss Black America pageant contestant. Tyson is scheduled to appear at 9:30 a.m. EDT in Marion Superior Court, where the charges against him will be read and a plea entered on his behalf. Before that, Tyson will be booked at the Marion County Jail and required to post $30,000 bail. A tcnta . tive trial date likely will be set and Tyson will then be freed on bond, authorities said. — “This will be handled like any other booking unless there are any adjustments that have to be made to ensure there’s no disruption of (the police department’s) or the sheriff’s duties at the lockup,” Marion County prosecu tor Jeffrey Modisett said. “He will be processed, fingerprinted and booked,” Modisett said. “Since bail has already been set, it will be a simple matter of him posting bail.” Modisett predicted Judge Patricia Gifford would set a trial date sometime in the next 70 days. Delays in the start of trials are routinely granted when requested by attoipeys for either side. " Tyson, 25, faces a maximum sentence of 63 years if he is convicted on the charge of rape, two counts of criminal deviate conduct and one count of confinement for the alleged assault July 19 in an Indianapolis hotel. Tyson is due to challenge Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship of the world on Nov. 8 in Las Vegas. Dahmer enters not-guilty plea MILWAUKEE— Jeffrey L. Dahmer, who admitted to po lice that he killed and dismem bered 17 people since 1978, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 15 murder charges and said that if convicted he would claim insanity. The plea means Dahmer would first be tried on charges that he committed the crimes. If found guilty, a jury or judge would then determine whether he was insane and could not be "■ held responsible. Defense lawyer Gerald Boyle said there was “a strong likeli hood” that Dahmer would change his plea later. He might plead guilty to committing the crimes but ask the court to rule that he couldn’t be held responsible because of menial disease or defect. “I always found it somewhat inconsistent for a person to stand up in front of the court and tell a jury my client did not commit this offense and then say later, come to think of it, even if he did he was insane at the time,” Boyle said. Gorbachev promises effort on human-rights reforms MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, opening the first human rights conference ever in the Soviet Union, promised Tuesday to do all he could to end decades of human-rights viola tions and guarantee individual freedoms. “You have come to the capital of a thou sand-year-old state which is entering a new era in its history,’’ the Soviet president said in his keynote address to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. “The great Eura sian democracy will become one of the bul warks of the new world.” In the wake of the failed hard-line coup, the Communist Party’s grip on power has been broken and the Soviet government reorganized to transfer power into the hands of the repub lics. The KGB secret police, which terrorized generations of Soviet citizens, is being re vamped. Gorbachev said he envisioned a new volun tary union of sovereign independent states whose overriding values are freedom, honor and dig nity. He called for early ratification of treaties reducing conventional forces and strategic weapons, and urged the West to provide greater help in the transition to a market economy. The ministers of the 35 CSCE member nations voted unanimously to admit the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which gained independence from the Soviet Union four days ago. . Their foreign ministers took seats in an international forum for the first time, sitting at the large oval table with representatives of every country in Europe, plus the United States and Canada. French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas praised Gorbachev, saying “without his reso lute action ... we wouldn’t be here. “Let us rejoice in the victory of the demo crats,” he said. “Their victory is also our vic tory.” Nebraskan Editor Jana Pedersen, 472-1766 Managing Editor Diana Brayton Assoc News Editors Stacay McKenzie Kara Walls General Manager Dan Shattll Production Manager Katharine Pollcky Advertising Manager Todd Sears Sales Manager Eric Krlnael Publications Board Bill Vobejda, 436-9993 Chairman Professional Adviser Don Walton, 473-7301 The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board. 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