Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-21-1989 The BG News April 21, 1989 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 21, 1989" (1989). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4938. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4938 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. THE BG NEWS Vol. 71 Issue 115 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, April 21,1989 Jurors ordered to begin North deliberations by Harry F. Rosenthal The judge was specific in his Associated Press writer instruction about North's con- tention that he acted under or- ders from top White House offi- WASHINGTON — The jury in cials and, ne assumed, with Oliver North's Iran-Contra trial Reagan's approval. was dispatched Thursday to de- "Neither the president nor cide the guilt or innocence of the any of the defendant's superiors former White House aide with had the legal authority to order the judge's admonition that no anyone to violate the law," one, including the president, had Gesell said. "the legal authority to order "Our country is governed by anyone to violate the law." the rule of law. You have heard North has said he had authori- testimony indicating that other ty from superiors including, he government officials may in believed, President Reagan, for some respects have concealed many of his actions on behalf of facts known to them, and some the Nicaraguan rebels at a time ranking above or below the de- when official U.S. aid was ban- fendant may have engaged in ned. conduct similar to that charged Because of the lateness of the against the defendant on trial." hour, jurors were sent to the But, he said, the conduct of nearby hotel where they will be others was no justification for sequestered, and ordered to be- North's conduct and "you are gin deliberations on Friday. not to judge defendant's guilt or U.S. District Judge Gerhard innocence based solely on the Gesell told them "your job is to actions of others." Truck Lagoon BG News Brock Visnich decide the facts" in the first trial The judge's charge was de- (Left lo Right) Spencer Gabriel, senior botany major, Nate Purdy. BG terpersonal communications major, cool off in the back of Purdy's stemming from the mid-1980s layed for a half day by a prob- alumnus. Brad Snedeker. freshman education major, Scott Weber, pickup truck on new fraternity row Thursday afternoon. They said they affair in which profits from lem involving jurors who may senior hospitality management major, and Jeff Reinhardt. senior in- decided to fill the truck with water because it was cheap and unique. arms sales to Iran were diverted have given misleading answers to aid the Nicaraguan rebels. in pre-trial questioning. Abortion issue investigated firsthand Sen. Biden Editor's Note: This is the last in Stacey, a University fresh- probably being unrealistic." years ago but for a reason quite discusses a series about abortion. The man, is one of those statistics. Stacey said she believes different from that of many names of some women have She became pregnant at 16 and women should have the right to women — she was raped. been changed in this article. the baby was due her senior an abortion if they encounter an "There was really, in my opin- policies year of high school. After weigh- unplanned pregnancy, but ob- ion, no other choice," she said. ing her options and life goals, jects to women who use it for "I wasn't going to carry a ra- Stacey decided to have an abor- birth control. pist's baby for nine months." by Dennis Robaugh by Beth Thomas tion. "It isn't birth control but it's She was 20 when attacked by a staff reporter special assignment reporter "I wasn't prepared to have a an option to fix a mistake," man with a knife. Marie was a baby," she said. "I wanted to go Stacey said. She said she and student at The Ohio State Uni- to school and you can't have a her boyfriend used birth control, versity and the campus was Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms While the battle of legal, ethi- in the Soviet Union may be an cal and moral aspects of abor- baby and go to school." but not properly; she went on deserted because it was Spring She said the decision was birth control pills after her abor- Break. advantage to the United States if tion is being waged in the U.S. U.S. foreign policy changes to Supreme Court, the issue is a difficult for her, and two years tion. Despite the myth that raped later she still has mixed feelings "I wasn't smart, but I learned. women do not get pregnant, meet the times. personal one for University stu- Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., dents who have faced unplanned about it. I won't have to do it again. Marie did. Her decision to abort "I can't imagine what today "You've got to live with your the pregnancy does not haunt said in a speech to more than 100 pregnancies. cumstances, she does not be- people Thursday night that the would be like if I hadn't done it, decision," she said. "Sometimes her. lieve the Court should make the About 1.5 million abortions are Stacey said, but added that she I do regret it, but mostly I know "It was utter relief that it was U.S.'s Soviet policy needs to be decision for them. updated as a result of changes in performed annually in the U.S., feels sorry because she and the it was the right thing to do at the no longer inside me. I didn't re- "It's our body and we should with an estimated 5,000 occur- father broke up around the time time." gret the decision at any time," the world's economic and politi- be able to decide." cal climate. ring in Northwest Ohio, accord- the baby would have been born. she said. Many people have a miscon- ing to the Center for Choice in "Maybe we would have stayed University graduate student Although she said she does not "This period of American his- Toledo. together." she said, "but I'm Marie also had an abortion two believe in abortion in some cir- U See Abortion, page 5. tory is a watershed period," he said. "The last was after World War II, when the United States emerged as the first world power." Navy consoles families Biden said "stunning Race, exam collide changes" have taken place this year and U.S. foreign policy has of 47 blast casualties not adjusted to these changes. Test sites moved around Beta 500 "The Soviets themselves have were reserved a year in advance and acknowledged the collapse of by Jeff Batdorf have been scheduled far inside build- by Joe Taylor Navy poUcy is for each family that the Soviet brand of commu- staff reporter ings located away from the Union Oval, Associated Press writer loses someone on sea duty to be visited nism," he said, referring to where the race takes place, she said. by a chaplain and a Navy officer who Gorbachev's reforms aimed at While the Beta 500 may bring action, According to Nelson, about 4,000 stu- offer assistance and counseling. improving the economy. "(It) fun and excitement to some students, it dents take the exam and with examina- NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Teams of Jack E. Thompson Sr. was told about cannot compete with capitalism. may bring headaches to those taking tion spaces being moved farther from Navy chaplains and officers went from the death of his 22-year-old son, Jack Jr., They will lose an economic the English proficiency exam. the Union Oval, the available space for father and mother to wife to sister or by Navy representatives in Greeneville, battle in competition or change Donna Nelson, acting director of the classrooms has decreased. Because of brother Thursday, 47 times over, to Tenn., where the young man had been a their system.' general studies writing program, said this, more students will be taking the break the news about who was killed star football tackle in high school. Biden said the Soviet Union's last year students taking the exam exam in the same room. aboard the USS Iowa. "He came to me after he graduated Silans to remove 500,000 troops complained about the noise level com- She said the exam is scheduled a from high school and said, 'Daddy, I'd rom Eastern Europe is a sign of ing from the crowd who was watching week before finals to allow proper time "It's the hardest thing we do," said only go to college to play ball,' " Thomp- their economic inability to sup- the race. for professors to evaluate essays and Cmdr. Doug Palmer, acting base cha- son recalled. "I told him if that's the only port a massive military. Since the exam and the race fall on grade students. Blain for the sprawling Norfolk Naval reason, he should go to the Navy. That "Four years ago I suggested the same Saturday once again this "We cannot schedule the exam on a ase that is home port for the stricken makes me feel a little bad." this would happen," he said.