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Show f 104 NUMBER 105 VOLUME 1 The Daily Utah T Nfe?! 11 HI THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH'S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1890 vfySDAY, MARCH 9, 17? Nukes still threaten U.S., Aspin says Former Secretary of Defense describes how nukes threaten country made careful and "rational calculations." "I don't think you could make the same sanity claim for someone like Saddam Hussein," Aspin said. The major force behind the new threat and the increased proliferation of nuclear weapons is the chaos in the former Soviet Union. BY SUZANNE SOFFE "There has been an increase in danger because of what's happening in Russia," Aspin Chronicle Staff Writer said. "The new nuclear threat will be a handful of According to Aspin, the old Soviet Union was nuclear warheads in the hands of a terrorist extremely concerned about the threat of proliferation. said former terrorist or a state," organization Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin in his lecture "Today, Russia is not doing as good of job dealing with future nuclear threat. policing proliferation of nuclear weapons as the Aspin described the old nuclear threat as old Soviet Union," Aspin said. Since the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the involving thousands of warheads in the hands of the Soviet Union, the United country, more specifically the States and its allies. military, has tound itscit in "The new threat is a differ"The new threat is desperate circumstances. ent threat," said Aspin. "Its According to Aspin, selling cerand nuclear certainly not on the order of different equipment is not in order to eat weapons magnitude as the old containly not on the order uncommon. cern." the old Military budget cuts most magnitude During the Cold War, there to Aspin, likely mean no budget at all according concern. nuclear weapons which were enough nuclear war force thousands of peowould heads and "deliverable sysAspin tems" to fundamentally ple out of jobs. Those experienced in the change and severely alter life manufacture of nuclear weapons could possibly on the planet. be hired by terrorist groups or other smaller "The world is a brand new place after the discountries interested in creating a nuclear the end the Soviet the of Union, integration of defense program. Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War," He also pointed out that there is no real polisaid. Aspin is is different. It the a quite cy in place to deal with the new nuclear threat. Today, danger "new and rather nasty threat with all new According to Aspin, the old policy, which actors ," Aspin said. proved successful, will not work in the world today. Aspin emphasized that the more serious conThe old policy system consisted of a combicern today is the mentality of the people in posnation of deterrents, arms control and session of nuclear weapons. Although Aspin called the former Soviet f Union an "evil empire," he recognized that they plan, it was satis- Although not a Today Anne glad to see DDO go is Viewpoint: Twitch: 7 Sexism in T1 Hollywood Sports: Women's hoops 10 advances with win if!- - i a threat Its The Nation .World LS U.S. diplomats killed KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) The white Toyota van carrying workers to the U.S. Embassy halted in the heavy morning traffic at a red light. A yellow Suzuki taxi also stopped, and two men with s leaped out. ' The gunmen methodically sprayed the van with bullets, firing first into the front windshield, then into the AK-47- back. blood-drenche- .for fool-proo- When they sped away, two Americans were dead or dying in the van's blue-gre- y as of (Sanson (Bum Gmffilfa see "killing" on page 3 factory for five decades. "We were able to avoid both capitulation and avoid a nuclear war," Aspin said. According to Aspin, in order to deal with the new nuclear threat we need an "eclectic combination of policies borrowing from both the right wing and the left wing." GREG CHRISTENSEN Chronicle Staff Writer 3 - One pushing layer-destroyi- - - , When the Senate Judiciary Committee met in Washington D.C. Tuesday morning, University of Utah professor Paul G. Cassell, spoke out against a 1966 Supreme Court decision, claiming it as a crime against justice. The Judiciary Committee convened to discuss reforming the criminal justice system. "It's main target should be the outdated and harmful Miranda rules," Cassell wrote in a Wall Street Journal article last week. In 1966, a U.S. Supreme Court case, Miranda vs. Arizona, established the right to legal counsel for criminal suspects. According to a study conducted by Cassell in 1993, prosecutions in crimes numbering in the tens of thousands have been lost because of the decision. Cassell, a professor at the College of Law, was invited to testify by Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to appear committee. before a According to Cassell, Congress made efforts to return to the procedures just two years after it had been passed, but ignored its enforcement. Cassell, whose interest in the Miranda ruling came from serving in the Reagan Justice Department, er pre-Miran- CHRONICLE PHOTO Mataalca Mlyata Have you seen news happen? Call The Daily Utah Chronicle and teUus about it: 581-704- 1 The Daily Utah Chronicle 240 Union Building University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 MauMra Mlyata professor tells Judiciary Committee Miranda ruling lets guilty criminals go free BY Say what? Arizona lawmaker is a bill to defy the worldwide ban on ozone Freon. Another wants a $500 bounty on any endangered Mexican wolves the federal government might try to reintroduce. The state already has a bounty of sorts on federal bureaucrats: a $1 million fund called the Constitutional Defense Council to bankroll lawsuits none have been filed yet challenging federal regulations. Buoyed by Republican wins in the November election, GOP lawmakers here have stepped up their attacks on the federal government. With their counterparts in other Western states, they're turn- see "ozone" on page 6 CHRONICLE PHUTO Former Secretary of Defense Les Aspin spoke to U. students Wednesday about the potential threat of nuclear weapons in the future. U. d, interior. A third was seriously hurt. No one claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack, Prime characterized by Minister Benazir Bhutto as PHOENIX (AP) S essay by our own photogToday's Chronicle features a photo-sk- i To check out more Reinarz. wiz Paul turned backshop rapher tubular moves like this one above, check it out on pg. 8. sent a brief to Congress in 1994 to "wake them up" to the 1968 amendment. "We want the Justice Department to get off the ball and enforce this statute," Cassell said after his return. Cassell is the first to take action against the Miranda ruling since its installation two decades ago. "No one's really done any studies since 1972 on confession rate. That's why Miranda has gone virtually unquestioned," Cassell said. The Miranda decision was originally described by the Supreme Court as a "carefully crafted balance designed to fully protect both the defendant's and society's interests." Part of Miranda's statutes include the "right to remain silent" warning police arc required to extend criminal suspects. "Less well known is that Miranda also obligates police to follow a series of procedural requirements for obtaining admissible confessions," Cassell wrote. "These rules have hurt law enforcement's ability to prosecute dangerous criminals." The Supreme Court has stated that the Miranda rules arc not constitutional rights themselves, but merely "prophylactic safeguards," designed to secure a suspect's rights to be free from coercion while main-sewell-know- n e "Miranda" on page 5 it Org. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT Non-Pr- of U.S. |