UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 17, 1994
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THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON
Kansas plant to benefit from Saudi plane deal; thousands of jobs saved
Saudi Arabia will purchase 50 planes from the American aerospace industry for $6 billion, an exultant President Clinton announced yesterday. He called the hard-fought agreement "a gold medal win for America's businesses and workers."
Clinton, speaking in the Roosevelt Room, said the purchase would be financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank and would support tens of thousands of jobs in Washington, California, Kansas, Missouri, Utah, Arkansas and several other states.
The commercial planes will be built for the oil-rich kingdom by Boeing Co. of Seattle and McDonnell Douglas Corp. of Long Beach, Calif., proving "that we can compete," Clinton said in a splashy White House ceremony.
Rep. Dan Glickman, a Kansas Democrat whose district includes a Boeing plant at Wichita, told Clinton: "We thank God it is our job."
Saudi Arabia chose the American firms over foreign competitors. Britain, France and Germany all had lobbied in behalf of Airbus Industrie, the big European consortium.
Just how many Americans will be hired or kept on jobs they were apt to lose in a weakened industry was impossible to know for sure. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown estimated 100,000, saying every billion-dollar increase in exports means 20,000 new jobs for Americans.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Mandela offers concessions
Nelson Mandela offered concessions yesterday to white and black conservatives who want regional autonomy, saying the ANC is doing everything possible to avert civil war.
There was no immediate reaction from the conservatives, but Mandela's gesture did not meet their demand for independent homelands. The groups have vowed to boycott the first election to include South Africa's Black majority and are raising threats of political violence.
Mandela said that leaders of the African National Congress had approved drafting a constitutional provision allowing consideration of a white homeland and that they had dropped demands for a single-ballot system in the April 26-28 election.
The ANC remains opposed to establishing territories based on race, but Mandela said he was willing to discuss white fears and try to work out a solution.
"The matter is on the agenda, and we are prepared to hammer out a solution which is agreeable to all parties." he said.
Allowing two ballots — one for Parliament and another for regional legislatures — would give regionally based groups such as the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party a chance to establish power bases. A single ballot would likely give the huge ANC control of national and provincial legislatures.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Surrender of guns is pledged
U. N. commanders announced pledges by Bosnia's warring parties yesterday to move their heavy guns from Sarajevo or put them under U.N. control by NATO's deadline of midnight Sunday.
NATO threatened last week to order air attacks on any howitzers, mortars or anti-aircraft guns not withdrawn from the city. Members of the alliance have indicated it would accept the weapons being put under strict U.N. control that prevented combatants from retaking possession.
Gen. Jean Cot, chief of U.N. peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia, said he received pledges to meet the deadline from leaders of both the Bosnian Serbs, who have besieged the city for 22 months, and Bosnia's Muslim-led government:
"There are guarantees that as of the 20th of February, weapons from the Serb side and the Bosnian side will be under our control," Cot told reporters at Sarajevo's airport.
But there were few outward signs of compliance. U.N. officials confirmed no new weapons had been placed under their control since Sunday, when 36 were reported to have been surrendered.
U. N. officials said the Serbs moved some guns away from Sarajevo but would not give any figures.
WASHINGTON ACLU charges bias in testing
The American Civil Liberties Union charges that girls are being denied their fair share of National Merit Scholarships because the qualifying test is biased against them.
A complaint was filed Tuesday with the Education Department by the ACLU's Women's Rights Project on behalf of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing.
The center, known as FairTest, is a Cambridge, Mass-
based organization that is critical of standardized testing.
It charges the Educational Testing Service and the College Entrance Examination Board with violating U.S. education law that bars recipients of federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex. The college board sponsors and the testing service administers the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test-National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Surveys done by FairTest show that boys account for about 60 percent of the National Merit Scholarship semifinalists and winners.
The College Board said it had not seen the complaint and could not comment on its specifics. But it said that on the basis of FairTest's news release it considered the charges without merit.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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