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The University Daily Kansas
Nation/World
Monday, April 12, 1999
Brownback: Abortion hurting U.S.
Senator says policy draining workforce, Social Security funds
The Associated Press
EL DORADO — Sen. Sam Brownback said Friday that Social Security was in trouble in part because too many abortions meant too few workers available to pay into the system.
"A lot of people won't like this comment," the Kansas Republican said to an audience of high school and college students at Butler County Community College. "You can see a real impact in the abortion policy we've had in this country. We have a lot fewer people out here. You can see we have a lot fewer workers
coming on board."
At a later speech in Wichita, Brownback stopped short of that assertion.
Instead, he joked with Chamber of Commerce members that some had done their part by having children — and that more needed to get started.
A similar tongue-in-cheek comment brought chuckles from the young crowd in El Dorado.
"You all can have a lot more kids," he said, pointing to the students. "You need to think about having five or six more children in the family, instead of two or three."
Because there is no money in the Social Security Trust Fund, those currently working pay the benefits of those who are retired.
But this funding setup can work only as long as more people are paying into the system than are receiving checks. By
2013, as the baby boomers leave the work force, retirees will overwhelm the system.
Still, Brown b a c k ' s remark took some people aback.
"I don't think women should have on their
Brownback: Said lack of workers was hurting country.
backs fixing the economy of this country by having more children," said an older woman in the audience in El Dorado.
She also told Brownback he should not blame women who have had abortions for shortcomings in the Social Security system.
"I'm not blaming women," Brownback responded.
Brownback's prescription also includes setting up personal retirement accounts and bolstering the Social Security trust fund.
Friday marked Brownback's last day on a weeklong "town forum" tour of nine cities during the congressional recess.
About 100 people turned out in El Dorado and again in Wichita to listen to Brownback's ideas about saving Social Security, providing tax relief and paying off the national debt.
Niger's president slain
Military leader takes over government
The Associated Press
NIAMEY, Niger — The head of the presidential guard unit that diplomats and witnesses say assassinated Niger's president has been named the new leader of this West African nation, the government announced Sunday.
Daudou Malam Wanke was named president and head of the National Council for Reconciliation, which will lead Niger for a nine-month transition period, state-run radio reported.
Military spokesman Hamidou Djibrla said the military also had ordered the Supreme Court and National Assembly dissolved and the Constitution suspended, in what amounted to a complete ouster of the government of Ibrahim Bare Mainassara.
"The armed forces of Niger understand the gravity of the situation and decided to put to rest the institutional void created by the sudden death of Gen. Bare, Djibrila told journalists in Niamey.
Bare was killed Friday in a hall of gunfire at Nianey's airport as he prepared to board a helicopter. He was
buried Sunday in his home village,
185 miles east of the capital, Nianye
Although the exact motives for Bare's death remain unclear, he was not a popular figure. He seized power in an army coup three years ago from Niger's first democratically elected government.
He faced down repeated military mutinies and protests by students and civil servants, and earned opposition wrath by imprisoning some of their leaders. Bare's close relatives received lucrative government jobs while soldiers went months without being paid.
Officials did not say Sunday whether the transition program would involve elections or an eventual transfer to civilian rule.
Ireland's IRA opposes British-Irish peace plan
The Associated Press
DUBLIN, Ireland — Spokesmen for the Irish Republican Army said Saturday that the outlawed group opposes the latest compromise plan for making Northern Ireland's peace accord work.
The IRA's confidential briefings to Dublin journalists came one year to the day after eight Northern Ireland parties and the British and Irish governments struck the accord. It proposed creating a new Protestant-Catholic government for Northern Ireland that has yet to be formed.
The British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, on April 1 published a compromise plan that they said could quickly clear the way to forming the government. Northern Ireland politicians are to discuss it when negotiations resume Tuesday in Belfast.
The Ahern-Blair plan proposed that the IRA allied Sinn Fein party should be entitled to receive two posts in Northern Ireland's future government — but that the IRA in return must start to disarm within a month of the Sinn Fein appointments, and shortly before the
British government actually devolved powers to any of the government's 12 members.
The major Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, has refused to share power with Sinn Fein unless the IRA starts disarming. But Ulster Unionist leader Trimble, who would lead the government, welcomed the prime ministers' formula as a fair compromise.
By contrast, Saturday's IRA briefings — the identities and locations of the spokesmen were kept secret — emphasized the group's total opposition to any initiative that requires the IRA to start disarming.
Although the peace accord envisioned that the IRA completely disarm by May 2000, the IRA spokesmen said the accord did not make this a condition for Sinn Fein's involvement in the government.
The spokesmen for the IRA, which has previously vowed never to disarm, refused to discuss the prospect Saturday, the first anniversary of the peace accord, reached April 10, 1998. But they said disarmament should not be seen as a reward for the Ulster Unionists" "veto" over political progress.
NATO discovers possible mass grave
Finding comes as air campaign eases for holiday
The Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Saying it showed restraint in deference to the Orthodox Easter holiday, NATO nonetheless hammered Serb targets in
Kosovo on Sunday.
Western officials,
meanwhile,
expressed growing alarm over reports of atrocities in the province and said a possible mass grave site had been spotted.
Milocevic; Held responsible by NATO for 'enhancing cleansing'
Shortly after nightfall, a missile struck a residential area of the northern city of Novi Sad, the official Tanjug news agency reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties. About 20 minutes after the detonation, air raid sirens sounded in Belgrade.
In Belgium, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea showed aerial photographs of a site in Puso Selo, southwest of the Kosovo capital, Pristina. He said that from the air it appeared the ground had been freshly turned over, and that the site looked "somewhat similar" to aerial shots of mass graves seen during the war in Bosnia.
"I suspect that we are going to find more and more evidence of mass graves, mass executions, some pretty horrific stories." Defense Secretary William Cohen said on ABC's This Week.
About 400,000 people have fled their homes and are hiding in forests and mountains, terrified of Serb forces, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said Sunday
after talking to an ethnic Albanian political leader in Kosovo. Cook said NATO holds Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic responsible for these "victims of his ethnic cleansing."
British officials also said about 100,000 ethnic Albanian men are apparently missing. The estimate, based on fewer than expected men turning up among refugees crossing into Macedonia and Albania, revived speculation that the men had either been massacred by Serbs, joined the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army or were being hostage.
Many of the refugees managing to get across intermittently open borders — more than half a million — tell of their villages being burned and emptied.
In what was apparently a grim aftermath of a frenzy of violence, tape obtained but not filmed by Associated Press Television News showed a burned, deserted village just over the Macedonian border. Ethnic Albanians said it had been emptied in a recent assault.
Belgrade was unscathed in overnight air attacks, but 50 bombs hit in and around Pristina. The city's Slatina airport was hit more than two dozen times, the Serb-run Media Center said.
Shea said targets that were hit by NATO bombs and missiles included a fuel depot in Pristina, ammunition depots, bridges, communications facilities and air defense installations.
Yugoslavia's telecommunications system was beginning to collapse because "of the extensive damage inflicted on it" by the airstrikes, Tanjug quoted Dojiclo Radojevic, the telecommunications minister, as saying Sunday.
According to Yugoslav officials, 300 civilians have been killed and 3,000 injured during the bombing campaign. There was no way to independently verify the figures. Yugoslavia does not disclose military casualties.
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