4 Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 14, 1988 Volunteers clean state beaches MEARS, Mich. (AP) - About 50 volunteers walked Oceansa County's 23-mile Lake Michigan shoreline yesterday, picking up hypodermicsyringes and other pieces of medical waste that forced the closing of the county's six public beaches. "Based on today's effort, it appears Oceana County is under control, but will continue to be constantly monitored," said Lowell Rinker, county civil defense spokesperson. In Lansing, Gov. James Blanchard announded yesterday that legislation to impose "the toughest criminal penalties in the nation for illegal dumping of medical waste" will be introduced in the fall session of the Legislature. Blanchard's announcement followed a meeting with 25 lawmakers Monday on the medical waste issue. Blanchard said he also will consult with Attorney General Frank Kelley on appropriate criminal penalties. "We will strengthen our protection of the Great Lakes by enacting legislation that will be the toughest in the nation against illegally dumping medical waste," Blanchard said in a prepared statement. "We will impose the toughest criminal pen- alties in the nation. And we will require ways to identify and track infectious waste to its source so we can prosecute to the full extent of the law." In Washington, Sen. Carl Levin and Rep. Dennis Hertel, both Michigan Democrats, introduced legislation yesterday requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a demonstration program for tracking medical waste in states bordering the Great Lakes. While five barrels of medical waste washed up on Oceana County beaches over the weekend, little was found yesterday by the search crew, Rinker said. Thugs continue violence in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP). - Thugs burned down an empty Roman Catholic chapel yesterday several hours after six people claimed responsibility for a massacre inside another church and promised more such attacks. Opposition figures charged that the military regime of Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy was behind the pre- dawn blaze yesterday that leveled the Chapel of Immaculate Conception in Port-au-Prince's Cite Soliel slum area. Reporters who arrived on the scene said they were chased away by hoodlums. The reporters said the hoodlums included one of the six people who appeared on television Monday night to boast about his participation in the Sunday massacre at the St. Jean Bosco Roman Catholic Church. At least six people died and 77 were wounded when thugs armed with machetes and guns burst into St. Jean Bosco during a Mass and attacked parishioners while police and soldiers stood by outside, witnesses said. The pastor of the St. Jean Bosco church, which was burned after the slaughter, is Rev. Jean Bertrard Aristide, a critic of Namphy's mil- itary government and a popular fig- ure among Haiti's poverty-sricken I -000 , yo I oo4e y masses. "The government has committed a genocide on an unarmed people. It is for the international community to put a stop to it," Sylvio Claude, head of the Christian Democrat Party and one of Haiti's most popular opposition leaders, said on Radio Metropole yesterday. The five men and one woman who appeared on government tele- vision Monday night claimed they were supporters of a rival priest, the Rev. Arthur Volel of the Chapel of Immaculate Conception. Opposition leaders said their story was concocted by the government to cover the real reason for the attack. e S.Africa Continued from Page 1 "We were in frequent contact with these three men prior to their detention without charge, and hold them in high regard," the U.S. statement said. "We will not press them to leave against their will." The statement said the United States does not offer asylum at its diplomatic offices. But it said these premises are inviolable under inter- national law and may not be entered by the host government without consent. The embassy said it was discussing the situation with the activists and the South African government. A colleague of the three, union activist Jay Naidoo, said he was seeking a meeting with U.S. Ambassador Edward Perkins to discuss the situation. Perkins is the first Black to hold the post. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Dukakis questions Bush's ability to face Gorbachev Michael Dukakis, who appeared yesterday in Sterling Heights, questioned how George Bush would be able to deal with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev "if he couldn't stand up to the ayatollah or say 'no' to Noriega." Meanwhile, the vice president preached the gospel of Republican prosperity and said America is a "rising nation again." GOP vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle announced to a Milwaukee audience that Dukakis had lost his top naval adviser. "His rubber duck drowned in his bathtub," Quayle said in another in a series of comments designed to undercut the Democratic candidate's foreign policy and defense credentials.; The Republican campaign was buffeted with more controversy yesterday when the co-chair of "Bulgarians for Bush" resigned after being identified in a newspaper report as the former head of a Nazi-aligned group formed in Bulgaria after World War II. U.S. trade deficit narrows WASHINGTON - The deficit in the broadest measure of U.S. trade narrowed sharply from April through June as overseas sales of American merchandise surged to a record high, the goernment reported yesterday. However, the good news was tempered by the fact that America suffered its first deficit in three decades in the trade category which includes investment earnings. The Commerce Department said the deficit in the current account shrank to $33.3 billion in the second quarter, a 9.8 percent improvement from a first quarter imbalance of $36.9 billion. It was the biggest quarterly improvement since a 20.1 percent drop in the final three months of last year. Guerillas hijack bus with nuns going to see the pope MESERU, Lesotho - Guerillas hijacked a bus yesterday carrying 60 nuns, schoolgirls, and other people traveling to see Pope John Paul II, who was expected in this tiny mountain kingsom, diplomats and sources said. Diplomatic sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the guerillas are believed to be members of the Lesotho Liberation Army, which had been fighting the left-wing regime of former Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan, who was deposed in a 1986 coup. The guerillas have been holed up in South Africa since. The pope was in Botswana yesterday and was expected in Lesotho today as part of a five-nation tour of southern Africa. Hurricane heads to Mexico Hurricane Gilbert, one of the strongest storms in history, roared toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula yesterday with 160 mph winds and torrential rains after lashing the tiny, low-lying Cayman Islands. The hurricane, traveling westward across the Caribbean Sea, was upgraded yesterday to Category 5, the strongest and most deadly type of hurricane. Such storms have winds greater than 155 mph and cause14 catastrophic damage. Gilbert, which devastated Jamaica and the Dominican Republic with flash floods and mudslides, has killed at least five people. Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Florida, described Gilbert as "a great hurricane" that is "in the top ten percent (historically) as far as intensity, size and destructive potential." He compared it's intensity to that of Hurricane Allen, which killed 2,000 people in the Dominican Republic in 1979. EXTRAS A Crazy clowns get hitched in madcap ceremony WHITMAN, Mass - Two clowns who fell in love at a clowns' convention took a shot at tying the knot in a ceremony that was a regular circus. "I take Chubby Cheeks to be my awful wedded husband," Sparkles the clown said in the weekend ceremony. "I promise to love, honor, and bathe him... And I will not nag at him for eating candy bars, ice cream, and cookies." Before the vows, Chubby Cheeks, trembling from matrimonial jitters, tried to make a run for it. "My mother cooks better than her!" he shouted as he tried to wobble to freedom in his white baggy pants and oversized shoes. He was headed off and returned to the side of his bride, where he said: "I take Sparkles to be my lawful-wedded wife, I promise not to eat peanut butter and cookies before going to bed, I will help with the housework, I promise to take out the garbage and hang up my clothers every night, and I promise to visit her relatives without any argument whatsoever." Chubby Cheeks, whose real name is Ed Savage, and Milly Fantucchio, who plays Sparkles, met at a Clowns of America International meeting three years ago. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: January through April - $15 in Ann Arbor, $22 outside the city. 1988 spring, summer, and fall term rates not yet available. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the National Student News Service. - .. r IF CARLOS SOSA GRANT JONES SUSAN KRUSE HOLLY A. V AN DEURSEN 11 MIT, Structural Engineering. 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