Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 5, 1989 ~~ 0 III Associated Pres A crowd of about 10,000 East German refugees stand outside the West German embassy in Prague. They are waiting to board buses bound for West Germany. East Germans attempt final exodus PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) - East Germans jammed Western embassies, swam rivers and lined railroad tracks in at least four Soviet Bloc nations yesterday in a desperate bid to catch what could be the last freedom trains to the West. The flood of would-be East Ger- man emigres in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany' came as the beleaguered government in East Berlin said it would allow one more exodus of disillusioned cit- izens., The agreement covered an esti- mated 11,000 weary refugees who had converged on the West German kEmbassy in Prague, but there were reports thousands of others through- out the East bloc were hoping to take part. In Prague, the first of 15 trains began carrying East Germans to the West late yesterday. Cheering and waving, whistling derisively, ec- static refugees hurled their now- worthless East German money from the windows. A crowd of Czechoslovaks ap- plauded as the first group left the embassy area to board buses to the train station. Helmeted riot police ar- rived and pushed the onlookers back, stifling the cheers. Two East Germans who boarded the first train said they had arrived in Prague after illegally crossing the heavily guarded East German-+ Czechoslovak border. They said they were part of a group of six people who managed to sneak across but were spotted by Czechoslovak guards who opened fire. In the confusion, the two escaped but the other four have been unheard of since. In Communist East Berlin, po- lice scuffled yesterday with 50 East Germans attempting to gain entry to the U.S. Embassy, witnesses said. Earlier, officials said,18 East Ger- mans entered the embassy seeking passage to the West. Witnesses re- ported about 100 East German police scuffled with the would-be refugees in front of the embassy. There were no reports of injuries. Witnesses said police also cleared the area of 200 bystanders. In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said of the situation at the U.S. Embassy: "We're talking to the East Germans about it and trying to get them to help resolve the problem through their emigration policies." East Germany, hoping to end the embarrassing exodus of its young, skilled citizens before the Commu- nist nation celebrates its 40th an- niversary this weekend, closed its border Tuesday with ally Czechoslo- vakia to keep its people home. "We knew it was our last chance," one East German refugee said about fleeing to Prague. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Possible Mich. waste sites named LANSING - Two counties in the Lower Peninsula and an Upper Peninsula county were identified yesterday as possible homes for a low- level radioactive waste dump. James Cleary, commissioner of the Michigan Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority, said the areas were in St. Clair and Lenawee counties, in the Lower Peninsula, and Ontonagon County in the Upper Peninsula. Cleary said the three areas were selected from three percent of the state that wasn't excluded from the site search under environmental criteria. Three candidate sites, which may be within one or more of the areas announced yesterday, are to be selected for the disposal site by January. Then, it will take 12 to 18 months to pick a final disposal site which would be in operation by 1995 and accept waste from Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. GOP seeks campaign reform LANSING - A growing wave of political action committee money controls part of the Legislature's agenda and the fund raising system must be changed to end deepening public cynicism, GOP lawmakers said yesterday. To change it, the lawmakers unveiled a bill aimed at shifting the focus of fund raising from PACs to individuals. The measure would restrict PAC fund-raising season to the final nine months of general election years, forcing candidates to rely on individual contributions for 15 months out of every two years. It also would require legislators to report speaking fees of more than $100. House Minority Leader Paul Hillegonds, sponsor of the House version of the measure, said the bill is designed to break the influence that single- issue groups can wield in the Legislature. Sen. Dan Degrow (R-Port Huron) said PACs gained their influence in part because lawmakers became lazy about fund raising. House repeals catastrophic health insurance program WASHINGTON - The House bowed to an avalanche of protest yes- terday by voting to repeal the catastrophic health insurance program en- acted just a year ago as the first major expansion of Medicare. The 360-66 vote was a virtual mirror image of the 328-72 vote by which the measure passed last year en route to signature into law by then- President Reagan. After the repeal vote, the House immediately turned to consideration of a plan that would restore a small part of the program. However, even that modest attempt by architects of the original plan was defeated, 269-156. Although the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act was enriched as it rolled though Congress under a bipartisan head of steam last year, the ini- tial push came from Reagan, who asked for a way to shield elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries from the financial ruin of major illness. High court urged to allow cities to regulate 'adult' businesses WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court was urged yesterday to bolster communities' power to crack down on adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters and other sexually oriented businesses. Several justices vigorously challenged claims that a Dallas licensing ordinance violates the Constitution's free-speech guarantees, while they seemed to react more warmly to arguments by a lawyer for Dallas supporting the ordinance. The ordinance, which took effect in June, requires sexually oriented businesses to obtain a license issued by the city police chief, who has broad discretion to deny one. The court previously has empowered cities to use zoning laws to limit the locations of sexually explicit businesses, requiring them to be concentrated in one area or spread out. But a ruling in a Dallas case, expected by July, could give communities enhanced control through licensing laws. EXTRAS Dirty towels end official's career BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - President Saddam Hussein was so shocked by the dirty bathroom and dirty towels in a district governor's office that he fired him, an official announcement said yesterday. " If the governor himself is not clean and tidy, how will we manage to raise the standard of our people," Saddam was heard saying on television earlier in the week while visiting the office of the governor of Darbandikhan, 188 miles northeast of Baghdad. He was shown at the time inspecting the private bathroom in the office of the governor, Mustafa Fatah. Television viewers heard Saddam angrily rebuking Fatah because the facility and the towels were dirty and declaring that the government would fire any governor who failed to look after his district's hygiene. A decree issued yesterday by the ruling Revolutionary Command Council confirmed Fatah's early retirement and demotion to a lower grade pension. 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The sentences are to run concur- Younis said the two Americans rently. After the sentencing, Younis's at- torney, Frank Carter, promised to appeal the case on "20 different is- sues." He said that the question of U.S. jurisdiction is a critical one and that "I don't think it (the hijacking) had anything to do with Americans whatsoever." Assistant U.S. attorney Ramsey Johnson urged Robinson to impose sentence of life imprisonment, but the judge said he wouldn't because I CLAW WOOD 11 A Ji L7 7 LA. J-" no one was killed in the hijacking. Jordanian sky marshals aboard the plane were beaten, but there was tes- timony at Younis's trial that he ordered the violence stopped. But the judge said a lengthy sen- tence must be imposed because time "will never wipe out in the minds" of the passengers and crew the "terror" they experienced. 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