Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 15. 1990
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Legislation asks for suspension of all drug offenders' licenses
States must suspend the driver's licenses of all convicted drug offenders or risk losing part of their federal highway funds under newly approved legislation signed by President Bush.
The measure applies to all states and all illegal drugs, including the 10 states where possession of small amounts of marijuana has been legal, but is still considered an intrusion of the law.
About half the states now allow suspension of drug offenders' licenses, but only a few, such as Florida and Kentucky, are still allowed.
It calls for withholding 5 percent of federal highway funds starting Oct. 1, 1993, from states that fail to impose six month suspensions on drivers who violate traffic laws; the cut would increase to 10 percent Oct. 1, 1993.
New parliament in Georgia to seek liberty from U.S.R.S.
Georgia's new parliament declared yesterday it will seek full independence from the Soviet Union, which it accused of seven decades of "bloody terror and repression."
Georgian lawmakers met in Tbilisi, their capital, for the first time since a pro-independence coalition, the Round Table for a Free Georgia, wom Oct. 28 parliamentary elections. Those elections were the first true multiparty polling in Soviet history.
Parliament voted 238 to 5 with one abstention to elect Round Table leader Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a 51-year-old author, as Georgia's president.
In Lithuania, Prime Minister Kazimieris Prunkejnie said her Baltic republic might soon face a second Kremlin economic blockade. She sought help in advance from other Soviet republics, Western companies and former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart.
NATO, Warsaw Pact to sign accord ending military rivalry
The nations of NATO and the Warsaw Pact will officially declare an end to their military rivalry in a special statement drawn up for the week, sources in Vienna, Austria, said yesterday.
Last-minute details were still being worked on in Vienna to polish the 2=page non-aggression
But officials said it would be finished in time for signing Monday in Paris by the leaders of the 16 nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, remaining six of the crumbling Warsaw Pact.
From The Associated Press
Bush and Congress clash over war-making powers
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday clashed with leaders of Congress who were trying to limit his war-making powers, but he assured them that the United States military force to push Iraq troops out of Kuwait.
The Associated Press
In a two-hour meeting, Democrat leaders insisted that Bush must seek congressional approval before taking military action in the South. The U.S. refused to give any guarantee that he would do so.
"The president did not indicate either a commitment to do that or refusal to do that." Senate Bill 1067.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Bush would follow the Constitution, but he added, "If a's were to change, the nation could."
Although he acknowledged that only Congress had the authority to declare war, Baker said, "There are many, many circumstances and situations indeed where there could be action taken against U.S. citizens or against U.S. interests that would for a very prompt and substantial response."
Baker acknowledged sharp differences between congress and the White House about Bush's policies.
The debate centers on whether the War Powers Act is constitutional, Baker said. "We think there
are provisions in there that are clearly unconstitutional."
The 1973 act, prompted by congressional discontent over the way U.S. troops were used during the Vietnam war, requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours after U.S. forces are put into a situation where they may become engaged in hostilities. It also requires those forces to be withdrawn within 90 days if Congress doesn't declare war.
Fears of war in the Middle East were flamed by Bush's decision last week to send up to 200,000 more troops to the gulf, nearly doubling the U.S. military capacity, adding what Bush called an offensive capability.
Some lawmakers, including Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole, have called for a special session of Congress to vote on the gulf crisis, but that proposal appeared to be dead yesterday. "There is no longer a Senate side," Senate Foreign Relations Chairperson Claiborne D.R., I said as he left the White House.
Rep. William Broomfield, R-Mich., senior Rep. on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said there was a bipartisan agreement that "it would be just poor judgment to have it right now."
Baker said the huge buildup of U.S. troops did not mean the United States was plunging into war.
Police storm Berlin neighborhood Hundreds injured during march for affordable housing
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Thousands of riot troops stormed a barricaded neighborhood with builders and armored trucks yesterday and smashed a defiant community of radicals in the heart of Berlin.
Commuters watched as officers burst through the makeshift barriers after daybreak and battled for hours before driving hundreds of radicals from a row of tenements in former East Berlin.
At least 325 people were arrested and 70 officers and protesters were injured, including one squatter shot in the foot when a police officer's warning shot ricocheted, police said.
One officer and 15 squatters had to be hospitalized, they said.
About 50,000 people marched through eastern
Baltimore to denounce the police raid
and to demand afforda-
Many residents of eastern Berlin now get rent subsidies, a practice that will soon end.
The protesters tried to march to the street where the squatters lived, but police turned them back.
Yesterday's confrontation was the third in three days on Mainzer Street and the latest example of lawlessness in former East Germany, once strictly controlled by Communist rulers.
As many as 3,000 police, many of them paramilitary units brought in from other German states, were sent to the island.
Street and adjoining streets where leftist radicals had taken up positions.
Armored personnel carriers and bulldozers burst through several barricades and officers used clubs, water cannons and tear gas in pitched battles with the radicals.
After the fighting, Mainzer Street was filled with smoldering debris. Much of the street was torn up by the radicals, who used its cobblestones as weapons.
Bernin Interior Minister Erich Pazetold said the clash was marked by "unbelievable brutality" and was a "manifestation of hate."
Barebel Bohley, an activist who helped lead the peaceful revolt that toppled communism last year, denounced the police raid as an unnecessary use of force and said a peaceful solution could have been reached.
Most of the radicals involved in the fighting are anarchists from former West Berlin. Hundreds of radicals have taken over abandoned row houses in the eastern part of the city, and on vacant land where the Wall once stood.
Experts say eastern Germany's freedom from authoritarian rule and its dire economic problems, including a high unemployment rate and a lack of housing, have created a breeding ground for unrest.
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