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August 3, 1987 THE DES MOINES REGISTER 3 A initial PA to probe Meese predicts Bork will achieve quick OK 1 in 4 felons avoids time behind bars ROBERT TED BORK KENNEDY 1.2 ..:4 W. Mil 1 think they're going to vote against the filibuster," Meese said on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley." Senator Ted Kennedy Mass.) told a cheering crowd of liberal activists in Rosemount, 111., that they must fight the nomination of Bork to the Supreme Court and work for national health insurance. Kennedy, accompanied by nephews John and Michael, spoke briefly to more than 1,000 people at the Midwest Academy-Citizen Action Retreat, a gathering of political organizers from around the country seeking to develop a new progressive agenda. Organizers said lie made the speech on his way to Indianapolis for the International Special Olympics. Kennedy said Bork's opposition to From Register Wire Services WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) At torney General Edwin Meese predicted Sunday that Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork would gain quick confirmation in the Senate. Meese acknowledged that a num ber of senators are still undecided, but said that after the Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on the nomination, there will be enough votes to break a possible Senate filibuster and to confirm Bork. "I think that most of those unde- cideds, by the time they see Judge Bork in person, by the time they examine his history and background, and by the time they evaluate his ca pabilities, his philosophy, his approach to the judiciary, I think they're going to vote for him, and I Van gunfire LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (AP) A motorist in a van reportedly shot at another driver on the Golden State Freeway late Sunday after a day of calm on Southern California roads that have been plagued with violence, authorities said. The shots that a driver said were fired at her from a rust-colored van did not hit her or her vehicle, said Cal ifornia Highway Patrol officer Bill Burdick.

The woman, who was "rather hys terical on the phone," reported seeing MEED disrupts calm a flash of gunfire from tne van's window as she was driving on the freeway in Sylmar, he said. No one was arrested. The incident followed a quiet day on the roads. Officer Diane Lowery said more people are taking the time to alert authorities about potentially violent drivers, and this cooperation may help reduce the wave of violence that has lasted since mid-June, claiming four lives and injuring about a dozen 1964 civil-rights legislation, which required equal access to hotels, restaurants and other public accommodations, made him unqualified to sit on the Supreme Court. He also said Bork has a history of conservative, pro-business rulings.

"Bork now says he has changed his mind about the civil rights law," Kennedy said. "But Robert Bork could not find room in public accommodations for blacks and Hispanics, and the Senate of the United States does not have to find room for Robert Bork on the U.S. Supreme Court." on freeway people. Meanwhile, police, aided by witnesses, had several suspects in custody Sunday and were searching for others after the traffic violence that has been mainly on freeways and highways spilled onto city streets Saturday. Three people were wounded by gunfire in separate traffic confrontations Saturday and seven others were hurt by a chain-reaction collision that authorities allege was the result of a roadway confrontation.

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The 110-mile water pollution and flood control facility is the nation's largest civil works project. If the EPA finds a pattern of willful neglect in safeguarding workers, the federal government could withhold further financing for the project or could bar certain contractors from working on it. Police urged to develop policies to deal with AIDS WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Police departments can protect their officers from the possibility of contracting AIDS by developing clear- cut policies, such as hand-washing and the use of protective gloves, the federal government said Sunday. The National Institute of Justice said the procedures are needed be cause law enforcement officers come in frequent contact with drug addicts, prostitutes and others who are among the chief victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Police departments "should establish easily understood procedures to help police personnel prevent the transmission of the virus while at the same time protecting everybody's constitutional rights," said James Stewart, director of the institute, a Justice Department agency. Navy begins building ships with steel superstructures WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Breaking a trend that began after World War II, the Navy is building ships with steel rather than alumi num superstructures, in part because the lighter metal was found to crack, officers say. "Aluminum cracks at a much lower stress than steel. It doesn't have the inherent strength," Rear Adm.

Myron Ricketts said. "And significantly more maintenance is re quired with aluminum than steel." The Navy is designing ships with low steel superstructures, moving the sensitive gear down into the steel hull where it can be better protected, said Ricketts, who is in charge of design and engineering for Naval Sea Systems Command. Police outnumber activists at rally over AIDS panelist NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) Activ ists for gay rights, protesting the ap pointment of Roman Catholic Cardi nal John O'Connor to a national AIDS panel, were outnumbered four-to-one by police Sunday in front of St. Pat rick's Cathedral.

Deputy Inspector Edward Fitzger ald said about 300 officers were stationed outside the cathedral, com pared with about 75 demonstrators. Fitzgerald said the police were present in case there any disrup tion of the Mass, which is a misde meanor." jeWjitstciT GANNETT NEWSPAPER Published Monday tnrouoh Saturday DES MOINES REGISTER AND TRIBUNE COMPANY 715 Locust Street Des Moines, la. 50309 Vol. 139 No. 34 August 3, mi CHARLES C.

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Box 957, Des Moines, la. WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) One of four convicted felons in a survey of 28 state court systems received probation instead of a prison or jail sentence, the government reported Sunday. The study issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics also concluded that a third of the offenders convicted of drug trafficking in 1985 were given probation. Of 2,600 offenders convicted of homicide in 1985, the report found that 8 percent were given probation.

In addition, 84 percent of those convicted of homicide were sentenced to prison, 1 percent were given jail terms of less than a year and 7 percent received combined jail and probation sentences. Overall, 74 percent of the people convicted of seven major felonies in state courts in 1985 were sentenced to prison or jail while 26 percent were given probation with no prison or jail time to serve. Of 3,100 people convicted of rape, 16 percent were sentenced to probation, 65 percent were sent to prison, 1 percent sent to jail and 17 percent received a combination of jail and probation. The figures total 99 percent, not 100 percent, because of rounding, the study said. Of 16,400 offenders convicted of drug trafficking, 32 percent were given probation, 27 percent were sentenced to prison terms, 6 percent were sentenced to jail terms, 34 percent received a combination of jail and probation and 1 percent were given other sentences.

Also placed on probation were 13 percent of those convicted of robbery, 24 percent of those convicted of aggravated assault, 25 percent of those convicted of burglary and 38 percent for larceny. Of the offenders convicted of homicide who were sent to prison, 25 percent received life terms and the oth ers received an average of nearly 16 years. The average prison term for offenders convicted of rape was slightly over 13 years, nearly 9 years for robbery, nearly 7 years for aggravat ed assault, 5V4 years for burglary, nearly 4 years for larceny and nearly 5 years for drug trafficking. Movie star dies Silent screen queen Pola Negri known for her "vamp" portrayals in the 1920s and her romances with such stars as Rudolph Valentino and Char lie Chaplin, died Saturday in a San Antonio, Texas, nospital. She suffered from an inoperable brain tumor com plicated by pneumonia, doctors said Sunday.

Negri, who retired to San An tonio about 25 years ago, was born Apollonia Chalupec in what is now Poland. Her birth was reported variously as being in 1894, 1897 or 1899. Votes of lowans Following are roll call votes of Iowa members of Congress for the period July 22 through July 28: SENATE VOTES Approved, 50 to 47, motion to table an amendment to tne bill to Increase the public debt limit, which would have established a new set ol deficit-reduction targets to balance Ihe budget by tvW, rather than bv 191 as provided In Ihe Gramm-Rudman-Holllngs balanced-budget law, and would have established an automatic triggering mechanism if deficit goals were not met. For Tom Harkin, Democrat. Against Charles Grasslev, Republican.

Defeated, 25 to 7), amendment to Ihe bill to increase the public debt limil to ease the yearly deficit-reduction targets under the Gramm-Rud-man-Hollings balanced-budget law by requiring a maximum annual deticil reduclion of $36 million and to provide for automatic triggering of across-the-board budget reductions it deficit goals were not met. Against: Grassley, Harkin. Defeated, 47 to 49, motion to waive requirements of Ihe Congressional Budgei Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of an amendment to the bill to Increase Ihe public debt limit lo ease the yearly deficit-reduction targets under the balanced-budget' law, and to provide for automatic across-the-board budget cuts If deficit goals are not met but allow the administration some leeway in deciding which military programs would bear the heaviest cuts. For: Grassley. Against: Harkin.

Approved, 92 to 0, resolution expressing the support of the Senate for General John Vessey in upcoming negotiations with the Vietnamese to resolve the problem of Americans missing In Southeast Asia and other issues of humanitarian concern. For: Grassley, Harkin. Defeated, 18 to 74, amendment to Ihe postal service employee appeal rights bill to extend to supervisors and management personnel ol the Unlled Slates Postal Service the same procedural and appeal rights with respect to certain adverse personnel actions as are afforded lo federal employees. In the nature of a substitute, that would have included all postal service employees under provisions of the bill. Against: Grasslev, Harkin.

HOUSE VOTES Defeated, 141 to 265, amendment to Ihe Medicare catastrophic illness Insurance bill that sought to modify language requiring a physician to Indicate in his own handwriting on the prescription form that a brand-name drug was medically necessary in order tor Medicare to reimburse for a higher-price drug when a generic was available to provide thai only a handwritten notation or box checked would be required. For: Jim Ross Llghtfool, Republican. Against: Fred Grandv, James Leach, Tom Tauke, Republicans; David Nagle, Neal Smith, Democrats. i i LC 1 GAS-FIRED CONDENSING On strike Valerie Harper, star of the NBC series "Valerie," has walked off the show in a contract dispute. Barbara Brogliatti, a spokesman for Lorimar-Telepictures said Sunday that Harper asked to renegotiate her contract for "more money than anyone in their right mind would want to pay." Filming of the series continues on schedule without its star.

But Brogliatti said that if Harper does not return to the show this week, the series will be recast and damages that could reach the "hundreds of millions" will be sought. Tuition raises mulled by some Illinois schools SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (AP) The bargain education boasted by Illinois' public universities could become more expensive in the coming year. Three of the state's four university systems are considering a second semester tuition increase because of MIDWEST BRIEFS Gov. James Thompson's decision to slash their funding 4 percent below last year's level.

All of the state's public universities have already increased tuition by about $50 per student or roughly 4 percent for the 1987-88 school year. Loan guarantee restores jobs at Minnesota plant FAIRMONT, MINN. (AP) A $4.5 million Farmers Home Administration loan guarantee will allow a large food processing plant in this south-central Minnesota community of 10,000 to reopen, possibly as early as next week, officials say. ConAgra based in Omaha closed the plant May 1 as part of a nationwide consolidation of operations, putting about 500 people out of work. The new local operator is Fairmont Foods Inc.

The startup will be mod est, employing about 100 people with in 30 to 60 days. The plant will make soups and deli products. Illinois inmate attempts suicide by biting himself URBANA, ILL. (AP) An inmate at the Champaign County Jail charged with harboring a "national pornography kingpin" tried to commit suicide by biting himself and is recovering under guard at a local hospital, authorities said. Erik Kimble, 20, tried to kill him self Saturday by biting a vein in his arm, said Lt.

Kenneth Roderick of the Champaign County Sheriff's Depart ment. Kimble was arrested Wednesday with John David Norman, 59. in Congress Defeated, 190 to 242, amendment to the Medicare catastrophic Illness Insurance bill, In Ihe nature of a substitute, that sought to provide for a J2.150 cap on out-of-pocket expenses, to be financed largely through increases In Ihe Medicare Part premium. For Grandv, Leach, Llghtfoot, Tauke. Against Nagle, Smith.

Defeated, 1S7 lo 244, motion to recommit Ihe Medicare catastrophic Illness insurance bill lo Ihe committee with Instructions that it determine the extent of the tax burden or additional payments required ol senior citiiens as a result of drug benefits to persons under age 65 who have AIDS and to report back with recommendations lo prevent such additional financial burdens lo Ihe elderly. For. Grandv, Llghtfool, Tauke. Against: Leach, Nagle, Smith. Approved, 302 to 127, bill to provide protection aoainst catastrophic medical expenses by expanding Medicare benefits, the cost to be financed by raising Ihe Medicare premium and Imposing supplemental income-related premiums.

For. Leach, Nagle, Smith. Against-. Grandv, Llghtfool, Tauke. Approved, 409 to 5, rule under which the bill to designale Sept.

17, 1987, as Constitution Day and lo make such day a legal public holiday was considered. For Grandv, Leach, Llghtfoot, Nagle, Smith, Tauke. Approved, 237 to 162, amendment to designate Constitution Day, Sept. 17 of each year, as a National Day ol Recognition rather than making Sept. 17, 1987, a legal public holiday.

For Grandv, Leach, Llghtfool, Tauke. Against: Nagle, Smith. Approved, 418 to 0, resolution expressing the support of the House for the upcoming negotiations between General John Vessey and the Vietnamese to resolve the problem of Americans missing in Southeast Asia and other Issues of humanitarian concern. For Grandv, Leach, Llghtfool, Nagle, Smith, Tauke. Approved, 237 to 181, bill suspending the deportation of Illegal Immigrants from El Salvador and Nicaragua pending completion and review by Congress of a General Accounting Office report on the conditions of Salvadoran and Nlcaraguen refugees.

For Leach, Nagle, Smith, Tauke. Against. Grandv, Lightfoot. CORRECTIONS CLARIFICATIONS Tne Register strive lor accuracy and fairness. Errors In our news columns mm be corrected this space.

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