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Emerald
U.S. continues to honor treaty
By William C. Mann
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United
States will continue to honor a nu
clear test ban treaty despite its re
jection by the Republican-con
trolled Senate, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright said Sunday.
A leader of anti-treaty senators
warned the administration that if
President Clinton again tries to
have the Senate ratify the treaty, “It
will be defeated.”
Appearing on CNN’s “Late Edi
tion,” Albright said Wednesday’s
51-48 Senate vote against the Com
prehensive Test Ban treaty—far be
low the 67 needed to ratify—“hurt
us internationally” and mystified
her colleagues around the world.
“What we’ve lost for the time be
ing is the real international leader
ship in terms of trying to make oth
ers live up to the CTBT,” she said.
“But I want to assure all your
viewers, around the world, that the
United States is going to live up to
the conditions of the treaty.”
She noted that Clinton was the
first world leader to sign the global
treaty, which has been signed by
154 nations and ratified by 51, in
cluding only 26 of the 44 countries
potentially capable of producing
nuclear weapons.
“The Republicans defeated a
major landmark treaty that would
really have helped generally in
controlling nuclear weapons and
our whole nonproliferation agen
da,” Albright said.
She did not say whether the ad
ministration would submit the
pact for the Senate to reconsider its
first treaty rejection since the
League of Nations treaty in 1920.
John Podesta, the White House
chief of staff, said, “The treaty re
mains before the Senate.”
The administration, he said on
ABC’s “This Week,” will “contin
ue to press the Senate to consider it
and to respond to the arguments
that have been made.”
Two leaders of the treaty oppo
nents, Sens. Jon Kyi, R-Ariz., and
James Inhofe, R-Okla., gave no in
dication such an appeal might suc
ceed.
“It will not come up again, be
cause the United States cannot
unilaterally amend the treaty,” Kyi
said on ABC. “It will not come up
again, and if it does, it will be de- .
feated.”
Inhofe suggested that Clinton’s
problem was that he failed to in
form the Senate of his plans before *
he signed the treaty in 1996. That
way, Inhofe said, the Senate would
have made clear it never would
have given its advice and consent
required under the Constitution for
a treaty’s ratification.
“What the president should
have done,” Inhofe said, “is come
to the Senate first and say, ‘This is
what we want to do. ... Do you
think that this is going be consent
ed to by the Senate, if we do pro
mulgate this?”’
Because of the treaty’s flaws, In
hofe said, the answer would have
been no.
Former nurse found guilty of murder
By John Kelly
The Associated Press
BRAZIL, Ind. — A former nurse
was convicted of murder Sunday
in the deaths of six patients who
authorities said were deliberately
given lethal injections at a western
Indiana hospital.
Jurors hearing the case of Orville
Lynn Majors told the judge they
could not reach a verdict on the
seventh count.
Majors, 38, could be sentenced
to life in prison.
“How could they do this to him?
He didn’t kill anyone,” Majors’ sis
ter, Debbie McClelland, said as she
paced the courtroom.
Majors had contended the pa
tients died of the ailments that put
them in the hospital, but prosecu
tors said the deaths were consistent
with injections of potassium chlo
ride, epinephrine or both. Police
found containers of those drugs at
Majors’ house and in his van.
The judge set sentencing for
Nov. 15. Majors faces a maximum
of 65 years in prison on each count.
Defense attorneys said they plan
to appeal the verdict.
The patients died in a 13-month
span at Vermillion County Hospi
tal in Clinton. Relatives of the seven
testified they saw Majors near the
patients just before they died, and
witnesses said they saw him give
injections to four of the patients.
The defense called family doc
tors of several patients as witness
es, who said their patients died
from the illnesses that brought
them to the hospital.
Once the verdicts were read, rela
tives of the patients who died cried,
hugged each other and clutched
portraits of their loved ones.
“There was never a doubt in my
mind,” said Paula Holdaway,
daughter of Dorothea Hixon, 80,
one of the six patients the jury
agreed Majors killed.
Amid the celebration, Majors’ el
derly parents, Orvil and Anna Bell,
remained in their front-row court
room seats with shocked expres
sions on their faces.
Prosecutors built their case
around the fact that Majors was
present, and often alone, when
each patient died.
Jurors never saw statistical stud
ies that linked#Majors to as many
as 130 of 147 deaths at the hospi
tal. Special Judge Ernest Yelton,
fearing the deluge of information
would overwhelm the jury and bog
down the trial, didn’t allow prose
cutors to use the studies.
Irene rains on Floyd-weary North Carolina
By Emery Delesio
The Associated Press
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurri
cane Irene drenched southeastern
North Carolina with nearly half a
foot of rain Sunday as it churned up
the coast, unleashing more flooding
in a region still saturated by record
floodwaters from Hurricane Floyd.
A flurry of beach town evacua
tions preceded the storm, North
Carolina’s third hurricane in two
months. Torrential rains in front
of Irene’s core swamped dozens of
roads, and National Guard troops
were called out to sandbag against
rising flood waters.
The National Hurricane Center
in Miami said there was a chance
Irene and its 75 mph winds might
skirt the North Carolina coast
without coming ashore. “It’s too
close to call,” said meteorologist
Bill Frederick.
But the greatest concern was
rain, not wind, and the eastern
coastal plain, inundated by Hurri
cane Floyd just four weeks ago,
was especially vulnerable to more
flooding.
By late afternoon, up to 5 1/2
inches had fallen in parts of east
ern North Carolina, with several
more inches possible, said the Na
tional Weather Service.
State public safety secretary
Richard Moore said the worst
flooding was expected in the Fayet
teville area and along the Cape Fear
River, expected to crest 20 feet
above flood stage later this week.
No deaths had been reported in
association with the storm in
North Carolina by Sunday night.
Irene has been blamed for three
deaths in Florida and two in Cuba.
A flash-flood warning was is
sued for a 100-mile-by-5 0-mile
swath of eastern North Carolina
straddling Interstate 95 between
Fayetteville and Rocky Mount.
Gale-force winds were measured
at the coast, and a tornado was re
ported by radar over Jacksonville
on Sunday morning.
Irene initially was expected to
come ashore near the South Caroli
na line Sunday night, but then it
picked up speed and tacked to the
northeast, a path that may guide it
along the coast. At 5 p.m., it was 115
miles south-southwest of Wilming
ton, moving northeast at 14 mph.
A hurricane warning was post
ed from north of Edisto Beach,
S.C., to Cape Hatteras. A tropical
storm warning was in effect north
of Cape Hatteras to Virginia.
An evacuation order was issued
for several beach towns near
Wilmington, and people living in
low-lying areas and mobile homes
were encouraged to seek shelter.
Many left homeless by Floyd were
evacuated from temporary trailer
villages to shelters.
“I’m getting to the point where I
can’t take it any more,” said Her
bert Person Jr., 48, who lost his
Princeville home and was living
in a government trailer park when
he was evacuated to a shelter. “I’ve
worked hard all my life and paid
taxes, and now I feel like I have
nothing.”
The prospect of more flooding
from Irene disheartened others
still recovering from Floyd, which
drenched eastern North Carolina
with up to 20 inches of rain on
Sept. 16.
“I can only imagine the frustra
tion and anxiety I have seen on peo
ple’s faces, having to move again
into shelters and not knowing what
they will find when they go back,”
said Moore. “It’s devastating.”
The American Red Cross report
ed at least 410 people were staying
at 40 shelters Sunday night.
State officials prepared for Irene
by activating 300 National
Guardsmen, opening 39 Guard ar
mories and putting 10 water res
cue teams on standby in anticipat
ing of flooding.
Because of Floyd’s destructive
ness —at least 49 deaths and some
6,000 homes destroyed and billions
in damages — people were taking
Irene very seriously, Moore said.
“If anything, people are going to
err on the extreme side of caution,”
he said, adding that heavy rainfall
could keep eastern North Carolina
rivers above flood stage all week.
In South Carolina, dozens of
church services were canceled,
draw bridges were locked down
and the Charleston International
Airport was closed. Up to 6 inches
of rain fell in parts of the state.
Across the state line, Catherine
Angel and her four children loaded
up with steaks and videos in
Wrightsville Beach outside Wilm
ington. She said the oil lamp and
floating candles were ready, too.
“It’s just the primitive nature of
man to huddle around the camp
fire when nature’s threatening. It’s
just the beach version,” she said.