Failed hijacking Chinese jetliner crashes into tw others during landing Page 6 Germans celebrate reunification of country By LARRY THORSON Associated Press Writer BERLIN The two Germanys ended 45 years of division with a blaze of fire works and the pealing of church bells today, declaring the creation of a new German nation in the heart of Europe. Near the ruins of Hitler's citadel in the city that symbolized the Cold War division of Europe, the German flag was hoisted to crown the dramatic rush to unify a Germany divided by World War II and the Communist Berlin Wall. Rockets burst in the sky over Berlin, illuminating the war-scarred Reichstag building and the Brandenburg Gate. The shower of fireworks also lighted the upturned faces of thousands of Ger mans, united in peace but troubled by the political and economic problems facing a united Germany. Chancellor Helmut Kohl President Richard von Weizsaecker and former leader Willy Brandt stood in the glare of floodlights at the Reichstag and joined in singing the national anthem as a vast party occurred across the land of 78 million residents. Millions of Ger mans and a watching world joined the ceremony by television. Today was declared a national holi day, but late yesterday police in Goet tingen, 66 miles south of Hanover, reported 1,000 leftist protesters opposed to unification rampaged through the city. Authorities said the radicals broke store windows and chanted "Never Again Germany!" and "Nazis out!" In Berlin, police detained seven peo- Over 400 pro•choice ralliers fill the rotunda of the Pennsylvania Capitol Building. Supporters were joined yesterday by Auditor General Birbara Hafer and other Parents oppose parental consent law By DANA DiFILIPPO Collegian Staff Writer HARRISBURG As almost 500 pro-choice sup porters and about 20 pro-life advocates crowded around waving signs, Karen Bell tearfully recounted her daughter Becky's illegal abortion and subse quent death and urged her audience to oppose parental consent laws. "She was my life, my dreams - I loved her maybe more than God," Bell said of her daughter. "But my girl lived in the wrong state." Bell and her husband William Bell spoke at the "Rally and Lobby Day to Keep Abortion Safe and Legal" sponsored by the National Organization for Women yesterday at the Capitol Rotunda. Seventeen-year-old Becky Bell died in September 1988 when she obtained an illegal abortion and con tracted pneumonia. Indiana state law requires minors to notify both parents when seeking an abor tion. Bell and her husband pleaded with rally partici pants to fight restrictive abortion laws and elect pro choice candidates. "Somebody butchered my daughter, - Bell said, her voice shaking. "If it can happen to Bill and I, it can happen to you and I don't want it to." "I appeal to you today as parents, because the parental consent laws do not work," William Bell agreed. "The law does not work. It did not force our daughter to come to us. It did not force our daughter the daily ple who were caught with paint and gas pistols. Another man was arrested in the Kreuzberg district after a policeman was stabbed in the arm dur ing a scuffle between police and about 500 youthful demonstrators. In the northern port of Rostock, authorities evacuated 23 Soviet Jews from a refugee center because of fears the center could become a target of rightist radicals. No incidents were reported. At least four people were injured and more than 10 arrested in scuffles between police and demonstrators in Schwerin, where some celebrated uni fication with the Nazi "Sieg-Heil salute, witnesses said. Police also reported clashes with youths in Leipzig and Hamburg. The ceremony marked return of a united Germany built on the ruins of Adolf Hitler's defeat in World War II and the end of Cold War antagonism that split Europe into competing blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. It came less than 11 months after the Berlin Wall was opened Nov. 9, 1989, by a tide of democracy that swept away Communist regimes across Eastern Europe. Fourteen schoolchildren from the for mer East and West Germanys carried the huge, 72-square-yard German flag and hoisted it up the 132-foot-tall mast in front of the Reichstag. Hundreds of thousands of people, waving German flags, crowded along the Unten den Linden thoroughfare and to appear before a pro-life judge. It forced her to make her last decision. "These laws punish the same people who are pro posing and suggesting that they foster family com munication, the same people that deny sex education and contraception to people," he added. "I think the message here is: no matter how caring and loving a family can be, for those of you voting for these laws, you have no more guarantee that your daughter will come to you than Karen and I had." William Bell encouraged protesters to register and vote and to mobilize others, especially young people, to vote. "We will inform them. This campaign will work, and tomorrow those young people will vote," he said. In a rally with little confrontation, pro-life sup porters stood quietly in the back of the Rotunda holding posters picturing aborted fetuses, labeled "The Face of Abortion." Pro-choice advocates, boasting signs reading "Every ejaculation doesn't need a name" and "Hey Casey and Co.! You will NOT control MY body! See you Nov. 6th," punctuated the speeches with chants and cheers. Other schools represented at the rally included the University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, Franklin and Marshall College, Dickinson College and Susquehanna University. In your face ... . ,„.....,.. limo 0-' t*' ''. . " 1"; ' fi li rrt it w r: t 4 Lady spikers sweep i two games at home 0 ti Olt Page 11 C o l l e 111 June 17th Street that once were cut by the Berlin Wall. Fireworks exploded over the Reichstag as a replica of the Liberty Bell, donated to Berlin by the American people, pealed. "Germany is one again, Germany is sovereign," said German television. "Forty-five years after the unconditio nal surrender" of Nazi Germany "the two German states are united." Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere said of unification minutes before mid night, "What for most people had been only a dream has become reality." Then, Kurt Masur directed Beetho ven's Ninth Sympony as East Germany ceased to exist to the deep chords of the "Ode to Joy." City authorities had banned demon strations near the Brandenburg Gate, the 200-year-old monument that was a focus of celebrations. The broad thoroughfares around the Brandenburg Gate were thronged with tens of thousands of people hours before the historic occasion, and vendors sold food, drinks and souvenirs. Dixieland jazz, street musicians and organ-grinders played music that rang in the chilly fall air. Searchlight beams waved in a cloudless sky, and a tall crane dangled an old East German "Trabi" car 50 feet in the air just south of the massive stone gate. About 200 leftist radicals lined a police barrier outside the Schauspielhaus, blowing whistles and jeering at dignita ries arriving for a formal state ceremo- guest speakers. The ralliers later lobbied their representatives to support their views on abortion. ny hosted by the departing East German government. The radicals chanted - Germany, drop dead!" Kohl, 60, said in a statement to the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper that the new Germany will help stabilize Europe, and that it would not be a "rest less Reich" like Nazi Germany, which plunged Europe into its most disastrous war. The unification of Germany is a "European, indeed a world event of his toric rank," Kohl said. Several German newspapers pub lished the approved verse of the nation al anthem to be sung in unified Germany not the old "Deutschland Students watch ceremonies, share excitement of their country's unity By KEVIN NAFF Collegian Staff Writer Champagne and opinions were flowing last night as Ger man students gathered on campus to celebrate and discuss the event none of them thought possible. "It's a great historical moment, the Iron Curtain is brushed away. The Cold War is over, - exclaimed Jens Tartler at 7 p.m., the exact moment of reunification. "I would like to be there at the wall partying," said Jorn Mathea (graduate-business administration), as he and the others intently watched CNN and network coverage, groan- ing at the American commercials and promptly switching the channel. But the students' excitement was tempered by the compli- County residents wait for Herman By DANA DiFILIPPO Collegian Staff Writer HARRISBURG - Lounging on the shrimp-hued carpets outside the Capitol office of Rep. Lynn Her man, R-Centre, about 25 blue and white clad Penn Staters consulted their wristwatches. But Herman was nowhere to be found. The students and Centre County residents, partic ipants in yesterday's pro-choice rally, waited almost an hour to talk to the state representative. But Herman spent the lobbying day discussing issues other than abortion in caucus and on the floor of the state House of Representatives, angering many Centre Countians who complained about trav eling two hours to see him. "If he knew this was Lobby Day, he could at least set aside one hour of his very busy day. It seems like he's trying to avoid the issue," said Lisa Rupert, a Women's Resource Center staff intern. "If he won't listen to us now, he'll listen at the polls," said Katie Nurmi, Women's Resource Center staffer. Please see HERMAN, Page 10 Ueber Alles" verse but the third verse, which starts: "Unity and Justice and Freedom for the German fatherland." The verse admonishes Germany to "bloom," not to be "above all," the old mission that frightens some Europeans. Only a year ago the rush toward unity was barely starting. East Germans demonstrated for political freedoms and the right to leave their country. The Communist government opened the Berlin Wall last fall but was swept away anyway in a peaceful popular revolu tion. East Germans began to demonstrate for unification, which was taken up by Kohl and his government, and eventual- cated issues now facing the newly-united Germany. Tartler (graduate-economics), from Cologne, insisted that two Germanys still exist and true unification will not be com plete until all Germans are on the same economic level. Most of those in attendance agreed that much work is still required to achieve full unity, with one student predicting it would take five years to develop the East German economy to Western standards. "The East German economy is destroyed now, but it can be rebuilt and could be an example to the Soviet Union," said Benno Hundgeburt (graduate-business administration), from Cologne. About 10 to 15 Germans, all from the West, attended last night's event, which was held in a television room at McKee Please see STUDENTS, Page 10. More aircraft bolster U.S. forces in Gulf By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Writer The United States bolstered its forces in the Persian Gulf yesterday with the arrival of the aircraft carrier USS Inde pendence, and France fired warning shots at a freighter suspected of violat ing the U.N. embargo on Iraq. As the gulf crisis entered its third month, U.S. military sources in Saudi Arabia said Baghdad has strengthened its forces in southern Iraq and Kuwait and has now deployed nearly half its 1 million-man army to defend the occu pied territory. In Jerusalem, jitters over the pro tracted crisis jumped to the surface when a faulty siren signaling air attack sent Israelis scurrying into bomb shel ters. The mishap took place less than 24 hours after the government announced it would distribute gas masks to all Israeli citizens. Senate puts Souter on Supreme Court By STEVEN KOMAROW Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate voted 90-9 yesterday to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court. The only dissenting votes came from liberals who fear he will oppose abortion rights. The New Hampshire jurist was approved less than 2 1 2 months after he was tapped as President Bush's first nominee to the high court. It was too late to put him on the court for the start Learning disability services return after two months By JENIFER HANRAHAN Collegian Staff Writer Services made unavailable at the beginning of the semester for students with learning disabilities will be restored, University administrators announced yesterday. The decision was made after two months of negotiations between the Uni versity and the College of Education. C. Gregory Knight, vice provost and dean for undergraduate education, said it will be several weeks before the pro gram can be fully implemented again. Weather Today sunny with gusty southwester ly winds, high 70. Mostly clear, breezy tonight, low 53. Increasingly cloudy and windy tomorrow with some showers and thunderstorms, high near 70. by Bob Tschantz Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1990 Vol. 91, No. 62 20 pages University Park, Pa. 16801 Published independently by students at Penn State k:)1990 Collegian Inc. ly approved by Moscow and the Allies. The Soviets agreed to let united Ger many remain in NATO and to remove their troops by the end of 1994, although Germany is paying Moscow $9.5 billion to finance the withdrawal. The Allies will keep troops in West Berlin until the Soviets leave. The last formal steps to clear the way for unity were taken mostly by the for eign powers who defeated Nazi Ger many and retained legal powers as occupiers in Berlin. In New York on Monday, President Bush and Soviet Foreign Minister Edu ard Shevardnadze were present for the signing of a declaration of a suspension of the Allies' special powers. The 79,000-ton Independence, along with its battle group and four mine sweepers, sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, gateway to the gulf, on a visit expected to last several days. The mission was described as a com bined "show of strength" and training mission. It was the second time that a U.S. car rier has entered the strategic, narrow waterway. The USS Constellation did so in 1974 on a peacetime training mission, according to Navy records. Lt. Cmdr. Mark Walker, a Navy spokesman, said the Independence will be "a visible demonstration of the oper ational capabilities of a carrier battle group to our friends and allies in the region," and was not meant to increase tensions. There are 15 U.S. ships currently in the gulf along with two hospital ships. Twenty-two more are deployed just out side and possibly in the Strait of Hor muz. of its session this week but, age 51, he'll probably participate in its rulings well into the next century. The Supreme Court announced that Souter would be sworn in as the first item of business next Tuesday morning, before the court begins the second week of its session. At the White House, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said: "We're obviously very pleased that Con gress confirmed this nomination. We think Judge Souter will be an outstand ing justice for many years." "We are trying to find the most effi cient way to administer the program," said Knight. The services will be available pending the hiring of a learning disability spe cialist and a graduate assistant to coor dinate the program, said Brenda Hameister, coordinator of the Office for Disability Services. The College of Education will remain involved in the program, but will no longer be responsible for providing the supervisors and the daily management of the program, Hameister said. The Please see SERVICES, Page 10.
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