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2The Daily Tar HeelThursday, October 26, 1989 World and Nation Earthquake homeless cowot From Associated Press reports SAN FRANCISCO More than 13,000 people were reported homeless Wednesday, and officials warned more houses could be lost in landslides near earthquake fissures. Children in the badly damaged Marina district returned to classes in their reopened school-turned-shelter. As Congress moved forward with relief packages worth billions, a survey found many Bay area residents gave low marks to the federal response to last week's devastating quake. California's Office of Emergency Services (OES) raised its count of dis placed people to 13,892, nearly double the figure previously reported. 'There's more people out (at shel ters) because of the recent rains," Bob Krueger of the OES said Wednesday, adding that a better reporting system also increased the tally. "I'm taking it one day at a time right now," said Lynn Carrere, who was East GeHrnaimy to allow more foreign trave From Associated Press reports BERLIN New leader Egon Krenz said Wednesday he will let East Ger mans travel abroad more freely but made clear that the Berlin Wall, a scar on the city for near three decades, will not come down. In further signs the communist na tion is moving toward at least limited reform, the official news agency ADN carried a series of reports that included a news conference by police to address accusations of brutality and a dispatch quoting a prominent dissident. Tens of thousands of young, skilled workers have fled to West Germany since September and throngs of pro testers fill the streets at home to de mand reforms in this rigid society. Late Wednesday, about 200 people carrying burning candles marched si lently through downtown East Berlin. 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"It's sort of wierd," said one girl. "We can't get to the gym. The yard is split in half for the Red Cross." A boy said some students felt they had sacrified enough. Landslides in the Santa Cruz Moun tains have already claimed scores of homes, and geologists warned of worse to come. Because of rain, huge sections of land in Santa Cruz County cracked by earthquake fissures are in danger of sliding this winter and burying hun dreds of homes. "What's happening today is fright ening to geologists who have looked at it," Professor Gary Griggs of the Uni versity of California, Santa Cruz, told let them proceed after a brief discus sion. No slogans were shouted. The marchers joined about 2,000 people at a vigil at a church at Alexan derplatz and later dispersed peacefully. ADN said Wednesday Wight that about 20,000 people joined in what it called a "march of hope" in the center of Neubrandenburg, a city north of Berlin. 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A survey in Wednesday's San Fran cisco Chronicle found 36 percent of Bay area residents polled found the federal response the the quake "fair' ' or poor. Forty-nine percent found it "excel lent" or "good," compared with 72 percent who felt that way about the local government response and a 59 percent positive rating for the state. Damage estimates have been set at $7.1 billion. Police said six people remained unaccounted for, and the death toll from the Oct. 17 quake remained at 63, in Wednesday he was interested in meet ing with Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, but "one has to under stand that I have to first attend to domestic political problems." He said he planned to discuss a summit date by telephone with Kohl, who said Tuesday he was ready for a meeting. Krenz spoke after meeting with Wolfgang Mischnick, parliamentary leader of the Free Democrats, junior partner in Kohl's coalition. Mischnick was the first senior West German politician to see Krenz since the ouster of Honecker, 77, a hard-liner who ran the country for 18 years and was Krenz's mentor. Krenz told reporters who accompa nied Mischnick that East Germans would be given greater freedom of travel by year's end. Under a more liberal law proposed Hlouse upholds Bosh From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON President Bush's veto of a bill to provide abortion assistance to impoverished victims of rape and incest was sustained in the House on Wednesday as a 231-191 vote to override him fell 5 1 votes short of the necessary two-thirds margin. . Though narrow in scope, the bill carried symbolic importance in the widening political struggle over the abortion issue, and proponents took their loss with a vow to keep the president's feet to the fire. But Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ., called it "a deci sive victory for the pro-life movement." "The president won a legislative victory today with use of a legislative minority," said Rep. Les AuCoin, D Ore. "He will put his party at tremen dous risk in the next election, and some of his allies on the House floor will not be returned." A Republican who supported the bill, Rep. Bill Green of New York, said Isn't on all new sets! with Student ID You Bet That's Specials JLet as help jjou tnaXntaCn that WhA 9 "-Polished LoolC r&jhtdown to jjourjlngertipsl ( I 942-2030 University Mali y J 1 1 W i i i doubles cluding 39 from the collapse of double decked Interstate 880 in Oakland. New aftershocks did not damage the structure as crews continued to dis mantle it. An aftershock of 4.5, the strongest in four days, was registered at Tuesday evening, and a 3.7 shock fol lowed Wednesday morning the lat est of about 3,500 aftershocks since the quake. Buck Helm, the 1-880 survivor, remained in serious but stable condi tion. "He's doing well," said Phyllis Brown, a spokeswoman for Highland General Hospital in Oakland. Also improving were 6-year-old Julio Berumen and his 8-year-old sister, Cathy, who lost their mother in the I 880 collapse. Some 500 letters to the children and more than $25,000 in checks have flooded a fund set up at Summit Bank in Oakland. On Wednesday, BankAmerica Corp., announced it would give $1.1 million to quake relief programs. by the Communist Party's ruling Polit buro, passports and exit visas would be available for travel to any other coun try. It also would drop current require ments that family members remain behind as insurance the travelers would return home. Officials in East Berlin say financial obstacles must still be resolved. East German marks are not exchangeable outside the country, and officials are unlikely to release much of their hard currency reserves for Western travel. Strict curbs on foreign travel have been a prime source of complaint by East Germans, joining with limits on speech and political activity to propel the mass exodus. A Western reporter asked whether easier travel to the West would make the Berlin Wall obsolete. Krenz said, "The wall has a very different meaning than what is implied in your question. ' ' "President Bush may well have stumbled on the one issue that could cost him re-election." The vote, in which 42 Republicans joined 189 Democrats in the unsuc cessful bid to enact the bill over the president's veto, left intact an 8-year-old ban of federal financing of abor tions for poor women, except when their lives are threatened. The disputed provision would have permitted Medicaid abortions for women who are victims of rape or incest, and who "reported promptly" to authorities. It was part of a spending bill that now goes back to the House Appropriations Committee for revision. Smith and other abortion opponents said the vote demonstrated they can overcome future efforts to weaken the prohibition on most Medicaid abor tions, adding that it shows the political ground has not shifted in favor of abor tion rights, as some strategists argue. "They made the mistake of thinking That All You Can Eat Calabash Style Fish Dinner served with cole slaw, hushpuppies Oo valid Sun.-Thurs. nights through Oct. 31 at 1-40, Chapel HillDurham, 493-8096 967-8227 Atlantic Ave. at Spring Forest Rd., Raleigh 790-1200 Lunch: 1 1 :30-2:00 Sunday-Friday Dinner:5:00-9:00 Sunday-Thursday 5:00-10:00 Friday & Saturday Subpoena said to threaten institution of From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON The Justice Department said Wednesday that a court decision allowing former Presi dent Reagan's papers to be subpoe naed for an Iran-Contra trial "raised a serious question" about the institu tion of the presidency. Comments by chief spokesman David Runkel appeared to signal that top Justice Department officials were studying the possibility of support ing Reagan in any challenge to sub poenas for notes and diaries for use as evidence by former National Se curity Adviser John Poindexter. Runkel emphasized that the de partment has not formulated a posi tion on Tuesday's ruling by the trial judge in Poindexter's case and wouldn't do so without consulting Reagan's private attorney. But the spokesman said,"The judge's decision would allow for the subpoenaing of material from Presi dent Reagan that dealt with discus sions he had when he was president. We intend to take a look at that." Bush to announce safety move WASHINGTON Moving to ease consumer concerns over food safety, President Bush is preparing to announce a streamlining of regula tions so that dangerous chemicals can be taken off the market more quickly, sources said Wednesday. The administration's new policy for dealing with pesticides and other chemicals in foods is aimed at giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greater flexibility in dealing with food safety issues. EPA Administrator William Reilly declined on Wednesday to provide details of the impending policy an nouncement, but told reporters "it's responsive to a number of problems this agency has had in administering our pesticide law." veto 00 abortion aid this was a one-round fight," said Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn. "Some members who were panicked by pro-abortion propaganda in the last few weeks are going to be surprised, because the final tale hasn't been told on how this issue is cutting across the countryside," he said. "We're now beginning to see some victories on our side of the issue." The House vote came two weeks after pro-choice lawmakers surpised even themselves by winning on a 216 206 vote that added the amendment expanding Medicaid abortions to the appropriations bill for labor, health and education programs. It was the first time in nearly a decade of trying that the more liberal language had passed the House, although it had easily cleared the Senate. Abortion-rights supporters picked up 15 votes on the override vote. But some of those who switched positions said they did so for other reasons, since the Poland's secret police try to fit reform model From Associated Press reports Freed from watching opposition WARSAW, Poland The secret activists many now hold posts in the police will disband undercover units East bloc's first non-communist gov- and turn off listening devices to try to win back "public acceptance and Dres tige" and a place in Poland's reforms, commanders said Wednesday. CORRECTION A coupon running in the 1990 class schedule book let advertising $50 off standardized test prepera- tion is for the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, 2634 Chapel Hill Blvd. in Durham. 489-8720 or 489-2348 & trench fries $6.95 (witn tnis coupon; SEAFOOD RESTAURANT presidency News in Brief Man approaches Quayle's car WASHINGTON A man who slugged Sen. John Glenn Wednesday after muttering "the earthquakes are starting" had been detained by po lice Tuesday after approaching Vice President Dan Quayle's motorcade, officials said. Michael Breen, who was arrested after hitting Glenn in the jaw at a tree planting ceremony, was the same man detained for two hours Tuesday after breaking through a police line and trying to approach Quayle's motor cade, U.S. Capitol police said. Breen, 3 1 , of Washington, tried to pass a letter to Quayle's motorcade but was stopped before he got close to the car, said a Capitol Police spokes man. Breen was not arrested Tues day, the spokesman said. Warhead ingredient disappears WASHINGTON Three-quarters of a test shipment of tritium, a key ingredient in nuclear warheads, was lost between buildings at a Ten nessee weapons plant, according to government documents released Wednesday. The documents said investigators could not rule out theft as in explana tion for the disappearance, though no evidence of a theft could be found. Ironically, the test was arranged as part of an internal investigation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory into the cause of discrepancies in the amount of tritium shipped from the lab to commercial buyers. Jim Alexander, an Oak Ridge spokesman, said Wednesday he did not know whether the tritium in the test shipment had been recovered. He said efforts to resolve the discrepan cies in commercial shipments dating back to 1985 were continuing. vote affected the entire $156.7 billion spending bill. Fifty-nine Democrats and 132 Re publicans voted to sustain the veto. Eleven members did not vote, in cluding Rep. James Courter, a Repub lican who is running for New Jersey governor and who has been accused of waffling , on the abortion issue, His opponent, Democratic Rep. James ' Florio, voted to override and later said Courter "chose to say this was not an issue of enough importance to adjust his schedule to be here." Smith, the anti-abortion leader, at tributed most of the switches to other issues but said there were "a few mar ginal members who have capitulated." House Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash., said Democrats had not decided on their next move. House Democratic whip, Bill Gray, D-Pa., said he did not think Democrats would attempt to add similar abortion language again to the same appropriations bill. eminent security forces can turn to fighting an alarming rise in property crimes spawned by Poland's economic ensis, the officials said. 'The functionaries of the security service not only fully accept these changes, but are aware that the changes are irreversible," said Jerzy Karpacz, deputy chief of the secret police. "If any are found with a different view, they will have to leave the force." Karpacz was joined by the deputy commander of the police and the spokes man for the Interior Ministry at a news conference that opened the secret de partment to unusual scrutiny. "It is obvious that the understanding, interpretation and realization of the job of ... the Interior Ministry depends di rectly on the broader social and politi cal conditions of the country," said spokesman Wojciech Garstka. . "That is why there will be changes perhaps the deepest in postwar his tory in the way some responsibilities in the Interior Ministry will be imple mented." The despised secret police long symbolized Communist control by fear. They are remembered as executors of Stalinist purges, clandestine monitors of the opposition and interrogators of activists. Three rogue officers and their com mander from the so-called "Third Department," which spied on religious associations, were convicted of the 1984 kidnapping and murder of Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic Solidarity priest whose bound body was dumped in a river. The third department and five other units, including those responsible for surveillance of citizens loyalty and protection of the agricultural, manu facturing and arms industries, have been liquidated in the reform drive, Garstka said.
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