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The Senate is in the midst of its first impeachment trial in more than half a decade. Senators are hearing arguments in the ca of Nevada Judge Harry Claiborne, a convicted tax evader, who has refud to give up his at on the Federal bench. Linda Wertheimer has more. "The procutors are members of the Hou of Reprentatives, prenting the ca for impeachment to the Senate, the defen Judge Claiborne and his attorneys. Judge Claiborne's attorney makes the argument that although Claiborne plainly did fail to pay the income tax he owed, he did not willfully evade tax. He made a mistake. Further, that the federal procutors who brought the ca against him were engaged in a vendetta to remove the judge from the bench. The procutors from the Hou argue in return that the government's conduct is not on trial, Judge Claiborne's is; that the evidence against him which resulted in his conviction is sufficient to convict him here as well. The Senate has t aside two days for this trial. I'm Linda Wertheimer at the Capitol."
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A Hou committee issued a report on the shuttle Challenger disaster today. In it, the panel blames pressure to fly the shuttles twice a month for the accident that killed ven astronauts. And it says that pressure still exists within NASA, endangering future flights of the shuttle program. NASA today postponed the rollout of the space shuttle Atlantis onto the launch pad, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Rai
n and lightning storms were in the area and the Space Agency decided not to take a chance moving the shuttle. It's scheduled for ven weeks of tests, including some to check out an astronaut escape system. The rollout has been rescheduled for Thursday. (Editor's note: There ems to be a mistake in the first news item. "More than half a decade" in
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The first impeachment proceeding in the United States Senate in fifty years began today, the trial of Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne of Nevada. Judge Claiborne is a convicted felon, now rving a prison term for income tax evasion. He has refud to resign from the bench and has demanded a trial in the Senate, the only constitutional means of removing a federal judge from office. NPR's Linda Wertheimer is following that trial.
孤山岛Early this morning, the presiding officer of the Senate, who was at that time Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, summoned Senators to a historic occasion, a trial in the Senate. The Senate will now proceed, he said, as a court of impeachment.
"The Sergeant at Arms will make the proclamation."
"All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment while the Hou of Reprentatives is exhibiting the Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against Judge harry E. Claiborne."
That was the Sergeant at Arms, Ernest Garcia, who then rang the bells for the Senators to appear for a live quorum. At least fifty-one members of the Senate must be prent during this trial. As the Senators filed in, they saw sitting at long tables in the well of the Senate the procution and the defen. The procutors are members of the Hou who exhibit in the constitutional term the articles of impeachment to the Senate. The defen, Judge Claiborne and his attorneys, including a former Senator, Howard Cannon of Nevada. The two tables face the one hundred desks of the Senators who will rve as judge and jury in this trial. The attorney for the defen led off with some prefatory remarks. Oscar Goodman told the Senate that Judge
自己制作灯笼Claiborne insisted on this trial becau he believes that he is innocent. But the center of the argument made by Judge Claiborne's attorney is that the judge was rail-roaded into prison by over enthusiastic procution. "He has been caught in the vortex of a constitutional crisis, a situation that has to affect every member of this body, becau, God forbid, it could happen to them where Judge Claiborne became victimized as a result of a vendetta of the Justice Department, and the strike force,
and a special agent in charge of the FBI who came to the Nevada dert to bury the American flag there."儿童谜语大全7一9岁
Attorney Goodman's charge was answered in prefatory remarks again by Congressman Henry Hide of Illinois, a member of the Hou, in effect acting for the procution.
"Judge Claiborne isn't here becau of any alleged misconduct by the government. He's here becau he was tried and convicted beyond a reasonable doubt given the presumption of innocence by a jury of twelve people. His motion for a new trial was denied, his appeal to the ninth circuit was denied, his motion for rehearing and ban was denied, and his Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court was denied. That's why he's here."
Judge Claiborne was convicted of income tax evasion, willfully filing fal returns which failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars of income. Claiborne's defen is that he make a mistake but did not commit a crime, and further the procutors pursued of a vendetta against him. Members of the Hou argued that whatever the procutors' conduct, it is Claiborne who is on trial in the Senate. Congressman Peter Rodino, Chairman of the Hou Judiciary Committee argued that Judge Claiborne's contention that he made a mistake is simply not credible.
"According to Judge Claiborne, an individual can hire the most incompetent
tax preparer, participate in the most irresponsible treatment of basic tax concepts, create sales of asts that do not exist, fail even to bother to read the return, enjoy a refund of thousands of dollars, and simply wait for an audit."时间就是金钱
Late in the day, Judge Claiborne spoke in his own defen. "I wanted to talk to you." He said to the Senators. "I wanted you to e me. I feel," he said, "like a piece of meat torn between two dogs." "I want to be honest with every member of this body. I would much rather, right today, be almost any place than here. But I knew when I was convicted that this was the place that I had to come."
Claiborne told the Senate that young Turks in the Justice Department are head hunters looking for procutions which will gain them the most publicity. The Senate is deciding now in clod ssion what to do about the articles of impeachment against Judge Claiborne. Impeachment requires a two-thirds votes of the members prent. I'm Linda Wertheimer at the Capitol.
Most information on the movement of nuclear weapons in this country is classified for reasons of curity. But some new details are becoming public that suggest that the transporting of nuclear weapons for maintenance and production is much more frequent than is generally known. NPR's Da
vid Malthus reports that on any given day, it is likely that US nuclear weapons are being transported on the nation's highways, in the air, an d at a.
America's nuclear arnal is constantly in flux. Older warheads are retired and dismantled as new ones are built. Some elements of nuclear bombs, like radio active tritium becomes stale over time and must be refurbished. There are changes in storage sites, quality control checks. This routine maintenance and production requires frequent movement of nuclear weapons and
components. It is accomplished through a large transportation network that includes specially designated cargo planes of the Air Force, freighters under the control of the Navy, and a fleet of highway tractor trailer rigs operated by the Department of Energy. DOE, which overes the production, asmbly, and testing of nuclear weapons, has forty-five custom-built trucks to transport the weapons to more than one hundred military installations in twenty-two states. Headquarters for the transport operations is Albuquerque, New Mexico. Department spokesman Ben McCarty says the truck fleet logs over four million miles a year hauling their special cargo.写心情的作文
"They'll be carrying nuclear weapons, special nuclear materials, such as plutonium or highly enriched uranium and classified non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons."
Once delivered to military storage facilities, the weapons often are then transported by air or ship to bas around the world. The military, following standard practice, refus to discuss its nuclear transportation operations. However, the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal rearch group bad in Washington, has ud the Freedom of Information Act to obtain military documents on tho operations. They were made available to NPR.
Air Force Memoranda state that nuclear weapons are transported, "almost on a daily basis." The militar y airlift command refers to the missions as "the bully beef express." The Air Force documents show that last year the bully beef crews flew more than a thousand nuclear weapons flights. Recently, the Navy revealed, perhaps inadvertently, in public documents, information that indicates some of its nuclear weapons are ferried across the Atlantic in commercial cargo ships operated by civilians. The ships reportedly carry a small contingent of Navy personnel for curity and communications, but it appears that the freighters rely heavily on their anonymity for curity.
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