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Supreme Court to review abortion
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court set the stage Tuesday for an
important election-year ruling on
abortion but left open the question of
whether it will broadly reconsider its
1973 abortion-legalizing decision.
The court said it will review a
restrictive Pennsylvania law that has
been substantially upheld by a federal
appeals court.
Activists on both sides of the abor
tion debate said they expect the court
to use the Pennsylvania case to under
mine its landmark Roe vs. Wade rul
ing. They said the decision likely will
make abortions far more difficult to
obtain even if states are not allowed
to outlaw virtually all abortions.
The Pennsylvania case will be
argued in April with a decision ex
- peeled by July.
The court was asked in competing
appeals from Pennsylvania officials
and abortion clinic operators to say
point blank whether Roe vs. Wade
remains the law of the land.
The court’s brief order Tuesday
was ambiguous. The justices said they
will study the Pennsylvania law’s
provisions but did not say flatly they
will examine the 1973 ruling.
The justices in 1989 allowed stales
to make it more difficult for women
Status of legal abortion rights
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to obtain abortions, but stopped short
of reversing the 1973 ruling.
In the Pennsylvania case, the 3rd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said
recent high court rulings eroded the
sweeping legal protection Roe vs.
Wade gave to women seeking abor
tions.
Abortion clinic operators appealed
the appeals court ruling which al
lowed regulations requiring doctors
to inform women seeking abortions
about fetal development and abortion
alternatives, establishing a 24-hour
waiting period before abortions can
be performed and requiring doctors
to keep detailed, public records of
each abortion.
United Nations tells Libya to extradite terrorists
UNITED NATIONS—The Secu
rity Council on Tuesday unanimously
adopted an anti-terrorism resolution
calling on Libya to hand over two
men charged with blowing up Pan
Am Flight 103.
The vote came after Libya told the
15-nation Security Council the Brit
ish and U.S. indictments against the
men were baseless and the matter
should be submitted to international
arbitration.
It was believed to be the first time
the Security Council has taken sides
in a legal dispute among member
slates. Although the resolution did
not use the word “extradition,” that
was clearly its intent.
The United States and Britain -
sponsors of the resolution with France,
which seeks four Libyans in another
airline bombing - have said that if
Libya defies the Security Council
resolution, it will consider imposing
economic sanctions within two weeks.
Possible sanctions could include
denying landing rights to the Libyan
airline and prohibiting sales ol air
craft and parts to the airline, diplo
mats said.
The resolution approved Tuesday
condemns the 1988 bombing of Flight
103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which
killed 270 people, and the 1989
bombing of a French airliner over
North Africa in which 170 people
died.
Japan tries!
to calm U.S.
TOKYO —A senior politician
retracted his accusation that Ameri
can workers are la/.y and illiterate
as Japan scrambled Tuesday to put
out the latest brushfire in its in
creasingly heated relationship with
its U.S. ally.
A government spokesman sought
to soothe American tempers over
comments by Prime Minister Kiichi
Miyazawa and the head of Toyota
Motor Corp. that appeared to back
away from an agreement to buy
more U.S. cars and auto parts.
The furor in America stunned
many Japanese, who are unused to
seeing Japan’s chronic trade sur
plus given such a central role in
U.S. politics as it has been in this
presidential election year.
Japanese politicians and busi
ness leaders have made disparag
ing remarks about U.S. economic
practices for years. The United
States, preoccupied with the Cold
War and economically healthier,
paid less attention.
“Many Japanese tend to be
lieve that Japanese is still a secret
language and no foreigners can
understand,” said Scizaburo Sato,
a political scientist and consultant
“But Japan is a big country now.
What Japanese leaders say is easily
translated into other languages. They
should be more cautious.
Few Japanese seem to dispute
negative characterizations of Ameri
can work and business habits. Many
say Americans have only them
selves to blame for Japan’s trade
surplus with the United States, which
the government said Tuesday rose
1.3 percent last year to $38.5 bil
lion.
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Russia prepares wish-list of aid
for international relief conference
MOSCOW — On the eve of a 47-country
conference to coordinate assistance bound for
the former Soviet Union, officials here are
making plans to handle the aid, staling their
priorities and assuring the West that the dona
tions won’t be wasted.
Russia has already presented a tentative
wish-list for the two-day conference that be
gins Wednesday in Washington, said Yevgeny
Ivanov, chairman of President Boris Yeltsin’s
newly established humanitarian aid working
group.
The needs include 2.5 million tons of meal,
1.5 million tons of sugar, and lesser quantities
of dry milk, macaroni, cereals and edible oils,
Ivanov said in an interview Tuesday.
The government also wants Western per
mission to auction off much of the donated
food to commercial distributors so the pro
ceeds would be available to supplement in
comes of the neediest citizens, including retir
ees, the disabled and large families, he said.
According to Ivanov, handing out Western
food would mean much of it could be stolen or
wind up in the wrong hands. Selling it gives
officials more protection against waste and
fraud while still making the products available
to the public, he argued.
The Russian government projects 54 mil
lion of its citizens will have to be helped this
winter because of skyrocketing prices, and
shortages of food and medicine.
Up to $5 billion in goods and loans will be
required to cover the anticipated needs, Ivanov
said. He met later in the day with Richard
Armitagc, State Department coordinator for
humanitarian assistance to the former Soviet
Union.
He also promised tough measures to combat
theft of foreign donations, although he ac
knowledged the food distribution system is rife
with corruption and black marketeering.
Raw weather limits number of raw bodies
at Princeton’s celebration of first snow
PRINCETON, N.J. — About 65 Princeton
University students threw aside their books •
and their clothes - for an annual romp in the
snow early Tuesday.
In a two-decade tradition, students bared all
but hats and footwear at the stroke of midnight
to run amid the flakes of what they declared
was the year’s first significant snowfall.
The light dusting was enough for sopho
more-class organizers, who had fretted that a
mild winter would deprive them of the romp.
Participants promised there would be a repeat
performance because of the low turnout in 20
degree cold. Usually, several hundred of Prin
ceton’s 4,600 undergraduates cavort in the
raw.
In-the-buff students ran laps around Holder
Courtyard on campus and did calisthenics.
Some ran downtown.
The event drew attention last fall, when
worried parents of a prospective Princeton student
wrote columnist Ann Landers. She advised that
the tradition wasn’t harmful.
The university administration generally looks
the other way.
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