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A-4 Pr Atuwta journal AND CONSTITUTION JANUARY 5, 1990... Bush guilty of a 'striking silence' on rights abuses, group contends By pean regimes to embed human rights protections in the law. The report lamented what it called a "downgrading" of the State Department's Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, which it said "has increasingly assumed a role of public irrelevance." Human Rights Watch did compliment the bureau for improving the accuracy and breadth of its country reports. ing the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe. But the report said that, with the relaxation of East-West tensions, the administration so far has missed the opportunity to make respect for human rights a cornerstone of the new order.

Mr. Bush did not raise human rights as an issue in his meeting with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Malta last month, for example, and the administration has not publicly called on the new East Euro to "a striking silence on abuses" in nations ranging from China to Israel to Colombia, Mr. Roth said. Human Rights Watch, which is based in New York and monitors and promotes human rights through five subsidiary organizations around the world, said President Bush and his administration did occasionally take what it considers positive actions.

These include policies pressuring South Africa to change its repressive racial system of apartheid, and support level public criticism against governments engaging in serious human rights abuses. Under President Ronald Reagan, "There was at least lip service to human rights," said Kenneth Roth, deputy director of the group. "We don't even see that from the Bush administration," he said at a news conference. Concern about human rights violations has been subordinated to geopolitical strategy and other priorities, leading Journal-Constitution Washington Bureau WASHINGTON A human rights group accused the Bush administration Thursday of pursuing a foreign policy showing "a widespread disregard for human rights" in its first year in office. A two-volume report released by Human Rights Watch detailed U.S.

policy toward SO countries, finding repeated instances of American reluctance even to World Report Friends wondering why late lawyer is mentioned in follow-up bomb letters Delta gets international flight threat Airline warns passengers but believes it's a hoax Continued from Al a classmate dropped out of Mercer University in Macon for six months to tour Northern colleges to debate about segregation. The pair was written about in a 1958 issue of Time magazine, which said the young men were defending in their debates the proposition that "racial segregation in the South should be maintained," although they did not personally feel that way. "Their goal was a gradual approach to integration, with sufficient time for Southern moderates to 'communicate with our the maga-zihe said. It continued: "Said Layfield, 'We were born and raised in the South, and we have been able to see the fallacy in That viewpoint is more in keeping with the man described by Mr. Poitevint, who iBMBBr ty Alt The Associated Press The tangled wreckage of a train blocks tracks Thursday near Sangi, Pakistan, after the country's worst rail accident, which killed at least 210 people and injured 700.

The train had been switched to the wrong track. Pakistan train crash toll is at least 210 Martelle Layfield Jr. Recipients told to contact him national attention when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 54 in 1987 that Georgia's death penalty is constitutional, despite statistical evidence suggesting that it is imposed more frequently against blacks who kill whites than whites accused of killing blacks. Jack Boger, an NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer in New York who argued the case for McCleskey on appeal, said he found any connection to the McCleskey case "remote." Judge Vance "was not a prominent person" in the 11th Circuit's McCleskey decisions, said Mr.

Boger, who added that, despite the names, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is not affiliated with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Investigators want to know how the bomber gleaned the names and addresses of his ju KARACHI, Pakistan Soldiers with acetylene torches cut into crushed railroad cars searching for victims of Pakistan's worst train wreck, which officials said killed at least 210 people Thursday and injured 700. Television showed rows of bodies wrapped in blankets near the wreckage of an overcrowded 16-car passenger train that was switched onto the wrong track early Thursday and struck a freight standing in a village station. Officials at the scene said 210 people were known dead and Pakistan Railways said rescuers had recovered 165 bodies. By Bert Roughton Jr.

Staff writer Delta Air Lines intensified security and notified international passengers Thursday after receiving a vague threat against its trans-Atlantic operations, airline and government officials said. The threat did not name a flight, city or day, and Delta said it considered the threat a hoax. The airline has 53 trans-Atlantic flights a week. After receiving the threat, Delta implemented an intensified security program for its trans-Atlantic operations, the airline said. Delta refused to discuss further details of the threat or what special measures it was taking.

The threat was received this week at Delta's Dublin, Ireland, office, said an informed source. It was not clear who made the threat or how it was communicated. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Richard Stafford said the agency was aware of the situation but refused to say what action, if any, was being taken. The intensified security will remain in place until the airline is satisfied the threat isn't real, Delta said. Neil Monroe, a Delta spokesman in Atlanta, said the airline must take the threat seriously even though officials doubt it is authentic.

"We really do believe it's a hoax, but we can't treat it that way," Mr. Monroe said. Gate agents began notifying passengers Thursday as they checked in at international gates, he said. Passengers were allowed to change to other airlines without penalty, even if they held nonrefundable tickets, he said. Of the approximately 500 passengers notified before the first two trans-Atlantic flights from Atlanta Thursday, only two changed their plans, Mr.

Monroe said. Last month, Northwest Airlines received a much publicized bomb threat, which named a specific flight. More than three-quarters of the passengers on the Northwest flight canceled their reservations after hearing about the threat. The Dec. 30 flight from Paris to Detroit went without incident.

"There's been so much attention on the Northwest situation, it generates additional activity," Mr. Monroe said. An official of tlie secret police, Maj. Alberto Gomez, said a group of men abducted Alvaro Diego Montoya as he was leaving the northern Bogota offices of his financial company Dec. 20.

Mr. Montoya is the son of German Montoya, Mr. Barco's secretary-general and closest adviser. Nuns believe contras behind fatal ambush MANAGUA, Nicaragua Roman Catholic nuns said Thursday that they believed contra rebels were responsible for an ambush in which two nuns were killed and two other members of the clergy wounded. "We know the area is full of contras," said Mother Superior Paquita Alcacer, head of the Immaculate Conception School in Managua.

"By logic, if they contras are capable of killing peasants, defenseless women and children, then there is no doubt" they attacked the pickup truck on New Year's Day. She said that "is what I think, which doesn't necessarily mean it's the truth, but I think so." U.S. health experts decry torture' in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti A team of health and human rights experts from Harvard University on Thursday denounced what they called the torture of four jailed activists charged with plotting to assassinate Haiti's military ruler. "The inability of the prisoners to get adequate and independent medical treatment amounts to a continuation of the original torture," said Dr. Matthew Dumont of Harvard's International Health And Human Rights Group.

Dr. Dumont, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, said the nine-member delegation on Tuesday visited Jean-Au-guste Mesyeux, Evans Paul, Marino Etienne and Frantz Patrick Beauchard in the national penitentiary. 0 Compiled from wire reports Moroccan coast safe from oil, experts say RABAT, Morocco Environmental experts said Thursday that nearly all the 19 million gallons of oil that spilled from a damaged Iranian tanker has dissipated and no longer threatens Morocco's coastline The tanker, Khark 5, was being tailed Thursday by Portugal's navy as it was towed toward the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. The patrol boat was under orders to drive the tanker away if it spilled more oil. Madeira is within the 200-mile territorial limit claimed by Portugal.

Five members of Spain's Cabinet met in emergency session Thursday night and recommended that the government prevent the Khark 5 from entering the Canary Islands, effectively canceling an earlier offer by Spain to let the tanker enter the Canaries. Drug cartel linked to Colombia kidnapping BOGOTA, Colombia The Medellin cocaine cartel kidnapped the son of President Virgilio Bar-co's closest adviser in retaliation for the government's crackdown on drug traffickers, a police spokeswoman said Thursday. attended Mr. Layfield funeral and has a picture of them with George Bush hanging on his wall. "He was a business and community leader," he said.

"If there was anything that was going to happen in Columbus that was good for everybody, Marty Layfield was somebody you wanted on your team. He crossed avenues with all people: Republicans, Democrats, blacks, whites." He added, "There's no linkage I would understand." Known as Marty to his colleagues, Mr. Layfield, who died at 51, practiced administrative, business and civil trial law. 1963 graduate of Mercer University Law School, he was a prominent member of the American Bar Association (ABA). Mr.

Layfield was active in civic affairs in Columbus, serving on the commission that crafted merger of the Columbus and Muscogee County governments, and as counsel to the Ledger-Enquirer. He also was on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal for six years and was chairman of that board for one year. Gary A. Hengstler, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, said the bomber's use of Mr. Layfield's name "strikes me as weird." "I knew Marty, and he was our chairman before he died, but I really don't know too much about what his tie would be" to the bomb attacks, he said, adding that Mr.

Layfield had a "standard litigation practice." He said Mr. Layfield's name was well-known in the ABA. The bomber also knew Mr. Layfield's name. In a letter to WAGA-TV disclosed last week, the author told anchor Brenda Wood to contact Mr.

Layfield at his home address in Columbus and give him the names of Judge Vance and Mr. Robinson, along with a secret code the bomber is using to identify himself. A separate letter recovered by law officials is similar in its request that the recipient contact Mr. Layfield, sources said. The bomber has sent "follow-up" letters to his targets, judges of the 11th Circuit and the Atlanta NAACP.

Those letters, as well as the WAGA letter, contained apparent references to the date Jan. 1, 1987. The ABA Journal for that date lists Mr. Layfield's name. That edition also features a series of articles on Georgia's death penalty statute, which gained national prominence through a series of 11th Circuit rulings upholding the death sentence against Warren McCleskey.

McCleskey, a death row inmate, is black; Atlanta police Officer Frank Schlatt, whom he was convicted of killing during an attempted furniture store robbery in 1978, was white. McCleskey's gained Barr expected to join conservative legal foundation in Atlanta dicial and legal targets, and if he had access to the ABA Journal. John D. Marshall, Georgia State University assistant vice president for legal affairs, said an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms asked the GSU law library Wednesday for lists of persons who signed into the facility in November and December. The GSU law library is the only one in the metro area that keeps a sign-in list of users.

He said he is awaiting a subpoena before he turns over the information. In other developments: Several sources, who did not want to be named, said FBI agents and police went into all DeKalb County schools Saturday, Sunday and Monday, checking typewriters and copy machines for possible matches to the threatening letters. The WAGA letter, sent by a purported group calling itself Americans for a Competent Federal Judiciary, apparently referred to last summer's reassignment of veteran DeKalb teachers to majority-black schools to comply with a federal desegregation court order. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson and U.S. Rep.

John Lewis (D-Ga.) will join religious and civil rights leaders at a news conference this afternoon to call for legislative and community action to respond to bigoted violence. Atlanta police removed a bomb-like device Thursday morning from the Kroger supermarket at 725 Ponce de Leon Ave. N.E. Police spokesman Keith Williams said bomb squad technicians X-rayed the device and could not determine whether it was actually a bomb, so they packed explosives around it and blew it up just to be safe. Investigators said the package bore no relationship to the devices used by the bomber.

On Tuesday, Mayor Jackson's law offices received a telephoned bomb threat, a City Hall source said. Police teams with dogs trained to sniff out explosives searched both his law office and his office at City Hall, the source said, but did not find anything. Staff writers Robert Anthony Watts, Mark Sherman and Adam Gelb contributed to this article. dolph Giuliani of New York City made an unsuccessful bid for the mayor's office last November. Mr.

Barr, 41, was appointed federal prosecutor in 1986. During his tenure, Mr. Barr's office successfully prosecuted Swindall for lying to a grand jury, and Fulton County Commissioners A. Reginald Eaves and Chuck Williams and DeKalb County Commissioner John Evans for extortion. Earlier this year, Mr.

Barr's office won indictments against Fulton County Sheriff Richard Lankford on 27 counts of extortion and income tax evasion. Mr. Barr left the actual prosecution of cases to his assistants, bat he was a familiar figure on televised news conferences. Mr. Barr has been called a skilled lawyer who specialized in criminal defense work when he was in private practice in Atlanta and Cobb County.

He became active in Republican politics in Cobb County shortly after he moved his practice there from Atlanta in 1984. He served as party counsel, and later, county chairman, in 1985. Mr. Barr was born in Iowa City, Iowa, but his father was a civil engineer and the family moved often throughout his childhood. He lived in the Middle East, Far East and Latin America and developed a strong interest in foreign affairs.

Mr. Barr, a 1970 graduate of the University of Southern California, received a master's degree in foreign affairs from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In 1971, as he pursued his master's degree, Mr. Barr went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency when George Bush was its director. He remained there until 1977, when he received a law degree at Georgetown University.

Continued from Al liberal interpretations of pension law. The foundation also has filed reverse discrimination suits on behalf of individuals. Observers speculated that, by resigning, Mr. Barr is taking a step toward running for public office, possibly for a seat in Congress. If he runs for an elected post, Mr.

Barr would be following in the tradition of such men as Thomas E. Dewey of New York, and James Thompson of Illinois, who used the office as a springboard to elective office. Former U.S. Attorney Ru Bones of dinosaur with monstrous mouth found in Colorado have dubbed the dinosaur because it was found near the town of Masonville, was about 50 feet long and probably weighed at least four tons. The bones include the jaw and portions of the neck and tail vertebrae of only the third Epanterias ever discovered, and they are the first bones from that member of the allosaur family found in more than half a century, said paleontologist Robert Bakker of the University of Colorado.

Mr. Bakker said the discovery strengthens the theory that dinosaurs entombed in the MorrisonjFormation, which dates to 130 milp lion years ago, and elsewhere in North Ameri ca evolved rapidly. "On average, the rule is that big animals tend to get bigger until they go extinct. The incredible size of Epanterias indicates there was some sort of an evolutionary arms race going on," Mr. Bakker said.

The Epanterias was as long as the more famous Tyrannosaurus Rex and "heavier than the average circus elephant," he said, but what really set it apart was its mouth. The beast could expand its enormous jaw much like a modern snake, making it possible for it to devour its neighbors in giant bites. From wire reports DENVER The remains of one of the most ferocious dinosaurs that ever roamed the earth a giant, ugly beast with a jaw so big and powerful it could devour a 1.400-pound fellow dinosaur in a single gulp have been discovered near Fort Collins, Colo. The discovery of the fossilized bones of a njeat-eating dinosaur predating the fearsome tyrannosaurus rex strengthens the theory that dinosaurs evolved rapidly before becoming extink, a scientist said Thursday. Tfte "Monster of Masonville," as scientists.