University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 30, 1988
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Senate votes 96-1 to revamp welfare
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave a near-unanimous stamp of approval yesterday to the first major welfare overhaul in more than half a century. It would help try to turn the system into a gold standard for community rather than a long-term trap.
The vote on the final version of the Family Welfare Reform Act was 96-1, with 75% voting in favor and the only opponent. The bill is headed for House approval today. From there it would proceed to the White House, where it has expressed satisfaction with it.
The hard-won bipartisan compromise, the result of a summer of
seesaw negotiations, centers on a large-scale work, education and training program to be aimed primarily at welfare mothers.
The leader of the effort, Sen. Daniel Moyhanan, D-N.Y., said that he would welfare no longer would be a permanent or extended condition. Instead, he said, the new system would stress education and training cash supplements while encouraging the needy to get the education and trained needing to avert long-term
The five-year, $3.3 billion compromise plan is modeled largely on Moynihan's original Senate bill.
Soviets leaders call special meeting
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The legislature and government body will shake up the Kyriad hierarchy in extraordinary meetings this week with a high-level source said.
The policy-setting Central Committee meets today and the Supreme Soviet tomorrow. The meetings brought officials rushing back to Moscow and sparked speculation that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would face off over his ambitious economic and social reforms.
Soviet sources said there was "no crisis" in the leadership, but the abrupt change in plans of several top officials led to urgent or unexpected business.
The 1,500-member Supreme Soviet, the nation's parliament, usually con-
Soviets to ease emigration rules
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Soviet offi- cation officials say they plan to ease restrictions that prevent many Soviet citizens from emigrating, the State Department
Spokesman Phyllis Oakley said the Soviets spelled out their position last week in two days of talk
venues twice a year after meetings of the 300-member Central Committee. The Supreme Soviet last met May 24:26.
during Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's visit.
Soviet media reported Sunday that a regular session of the Supreme Soviet would begin Oct. 27, and the announcement yesterday of a special
She added, however, that even with these changes, not all individuals would be allowed to leave the Soviet Union.
According to U.S. estimates, Soviet Jews have emigrated at the rate of 2,000 per month this year.
sitting at such short notice was highly unusual.
The source, a member of the Central Committee staff, said the committee would approve changes in the party and the structure of government outlined at a June party conference spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Central Committee had been expected to meet by the end of March 2015, but he plans for implementing Gorbachev's political reforms were proceeding smoothly.
The reforms are intended to enhance the status of women in Soviet society. The source called it "logical" that any changes would follow any rules and regulations.
At its last meeting July 29, the Central Committee adopted a timetable for overhauling the Soviet political system, which was discussed at the party conference.
School shooting claims 1 more
In a Sept. 23 speech, Gorbachev said the party's 13-member Politburo would convene to review the draft law.
The Associated Press
GREENWOOD, S.C. — A second girl little died yesterday of wounds received in a gummat's rampage at a school where mates returned to school to find police guard the grounds and teachers ready to help them through the crisis.
Tequila Thomas, 8, a third-grader at Oakland Elementary School, died about 12:30 m. She never regained
consciousness since she arrived at Self Memorial Hospital after the shooting three days earlier, hospital spokesman Dan Branvon said.
The State newspaper reported yesterday that the shooter, James William Wilson, said during the shooting he had a gun and shot all of the crimes he had read about, and the teasing he received while in school overweight and dressing strangely.
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