UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 11, 1995
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Russian cease-fire ends
Truce crumbles within 4 hours
The Associated Press
GROZNY, Russia — Chechen rebels scrambled yesterday to reinforce their presidential palace during a cease-fire that collapsed in hours, heralding more fighting ahead.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
The proposed 48-hour truce, announced by Moscow early yesterday, was designed to allow both sides to gather dead and wounded while civilians fled Grozny.
Sniper fire sounded throughout the truce, which crumbled after four hours when salvos of Russian artillery slammed into the city center. Each side immediately blamed the other.
But it proved a fleeting pause in the battle for the Cheechan capital, devastated by a month-long siege and 11 days of a Russian ground attack launched to quell a secessionist uprising.
Chechen officials, rejecting Moscow's cease-fire terms as an ultimatum, again insisted on a Russian withdrawal before they would lay down their arms.
The bloodshed showed no sign of abating. Dozens of heavily armed Chechen fighters sheltered in the ravaged palace, where fighting has focused for days, ruled out peace or compromise.
The nine-story palace has withstood hundreds of shells and bullets, and whole floors have collapsed. Huge shell craters pock the surrounding square, and burned-out Russian armored vehicles litter the area.
Dead Russian soldiers lay in some rooms of the building, while other mangled bodies sat slumped outside. The bodies of dead Chechen fighters were placed in the corridors on doors and other makeshift stretchers.
Government leaders in Moscow and Grozny urged further negotiation, but harsh statements undermined the message.
"Russia is sending in reserves to annihilate our nation," said Col. Aslan Maskhadov, the armed forces commander in secession Chechnya, on
Chechen TV. "But our army will fight to the last — we are ready to die for our independence and our freedom."
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin emphasized the need for negotiations even as his government was issuing statements saying the "armed gangs" had violated the truce from the start.
Russia's strategy in Grozny is unclear. Its army has the firepower to reduce the palace and the city to rubble, and the lightly armed Chechens would not last long.
A few spectators gathered an hour before the inaugural ceremony began, braving subfreezing weather to listen to high school bands from Salina and Colby, the hometowns of new Gov. Bill Graves and LL Shelia Frahm.
TOPEKA — inaugural Day was made for music; marching tunes, gospel and pop singing, children's choirs, patriotic songs and, of course, "Home on the Range," the state's official song.
Inaugural ceremony a musical celebration
The Associated Press
Statehouse hallways were crowded with visitors and legislators, hoping to get their offices in order before both houses of the Legislature convened at 2 p.m. Lobbyists and visitors made the rounds.
Shella and Ken Frahm of Colby — the other Frehms, as they called themselves — traveled from western Kansas on Sunday night to attend the inaugural ball. They've known her namesake, the new lieutenant governor and her husband, since she served on the Colby Day Care Board two decades ago.
"We just want to see this through to the end," the "other" Sheila Frahm said.
Arriving early, they had perhaps the best spot to stand, just behind the yellow ropes that separated spectators from ceremony participants.
It was also Gov. Graves' 42nd birthday. The 50 members of the Salina Central High School Strolling Music group serenaded him with "Happy Birthday" as he walked through the rotunda on the Capitol's second floor.
The strings group performed "America the Beautiful" and other songs. They also played "On, Wisconsin," which director Susan Higbee said was really "On, Salina," the high school's fight song.
Salina Central marching band members watched as Strolling Strings walked around the second-floor rotunda playing. At one point, they paired off so that one partner could play the other's viola, violin or cello.
Were there any budding politicians in their group, spurred on by Graves' example?
Salina Central juniors and marching band Brenden Morgenthaler, Stephen Hardy and Alison Scott agreed that having bands and choirs from around the state gave the inaugural events a sense of community. And, of course, it was cool to be there.
"I haven't determined what I'm going to be, so I'm not going to rule that out," Hardy said.
Following the strings concert, 8.1, a group of University of Kansas students and alumni, sang a capella versions of pop songs and even "Amazing Grace." The group later sang the national anthem at the inaugural ceremony.
State revenues fall short by $9 million
The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. — State revenue from all sources during the first six months of the current fiscal year fell short of the revised estimate by nearly $9 million, the Legislative Research Department reported Monday.
Based on new revenue estimates made by the Consensus Estimating Group in mid-November, the state expected to take in $1.550 billion in the six months of July through
December but actually took in just $1.541 billion, or $9 million less than the projection.
Tax revenue fell $12.4 million short of the estimate, but interest and agency earnings revenue exceeded the estimate by $3.6 million.
The biggest tax shortfalls were in corporation income taxes, down $7.3 million; individual income taxes, down $2.4 million; retail sales taxes, down $1.6 million; and oil and gas severance taxes, down $1.3 million.
Corporation income tax revenue fell because the state paid out $13 million in refunds during December to corporations that had overpaid their taxes.
The $1.541 billion collected during the first half of fiscal year 1995 was 4.9 percent more than the $1.470 billion taken in during the same six-month period of 1993.
Compensating use and insurance premium taxes both came in $1 million above the revised estimates.
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