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 found, but is still considered an infraction of the law.
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 under a drug offense. The cut would increase to 10 percent.
About half the states now allow suspension of drug offenders' licenses, but only a few, such as those in New Jersey and Maine, do so.
New parliament in Georgia to seek liberty from U.S.S.R.
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 rue multiparty voting in Soviet history
Parliament voted 238 to 5 with one abstention to elect Round Table leader Zvidi Gaksamkhoria, a 51-year-old author, as Georgia's president.
In Lithuania, Prime Minister Kaziimire Prunskiene 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
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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 the military force to push Iraq troops out of Kuwait.
The Associated Press
In a two-hour meeting, Democratic leaders insisted that Bush must seek congressional approval before taking military action in the war. He has already used 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 text.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Bush would follow the Constitution, but he added, "It'a a moral victory."
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 require 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 effort, 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 support for an either side," Senate Foreign Affairs Committeeuporter Borne Pell, D.R.I., said he left the White House.
Rep. William Broomfield, R-Mich., senior Republican 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 bulldozers and armored trucks yesterday and smashed a defiant community of radicals in the heart of Berlin.
Street and adjoining streets where leftist radicals had taken up positions.
Commuters watched as officers burst through the makeshift barriers after daybreak and battled police.
Armored personnel carriers and builduozers 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 buildings. Much of the street was
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Hall still has a winning way with a melody, but the charts are so clogged that they don't play unlikely "Change of Season" will produce a hit. No matter. Hall and Oates have made a move that will allow them to go long run . . . The Associated Press
Hall and Oates mix in works by other songwriters, including the Eurydicals David Stewart, without mention of their independent sound of "Change of Season."
They had no other choice, frankly. But the switch was handled artfully enough to succeed.
So how do they usher in the '98s?
By heartening back to the '78s. The comeback album, "Change of Season," is a welcome return to the lowkey, soulful sound this duo featured before making hits.
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This creates a bizarre love triangle and eventually leads to Anais forsaking the pristine French country home she shares with Hugo for the seedy streets of the French nightlife to be with June and Henry.
New Hall and Oates is welcome return
Anais and Henry, who share a common love for writing, quickly become friends. It isn't until Henry's wife, June, sleeps but gracefully with him. Tina Thurman, comes to visit from heat up that things begin to heat up.
she wants her husband as well as Anais.
Daryl Hall and John Oates were *great, great pleasure at the time*, but their string of early 1890s hits sounds *moderately today as* 28-minute drum solos.
June is a woman with few inhibitions. She uses sex to get what she wants, and it becomes evident that
It is this exploration into intimate companionship that Anais experiences in her new sexual freedom that sparked the Motion Picture Association of America to give the movie the Toning down that a screwing pornographic label on NC17 gives the movie the rating it deserves.
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It is director Philip Kaufman's delving into the issues of homosexuality, a topic many find too volatile to discuss in its current incarnation. Kaufman's portrait of the woman is not a pornographic representation of homosexuality. Although somewhat shocking to see on screen, it makes Kaufman look making it a video for local pern shops.
"Henry and June," is based on the diary writings of Anais Nih, the wife of Hugo, who named Higo. The tumultuous story begins when the couple meets Henry.
So bring your I.D., because this movie is for mature and open minded audiences only.
Kristine Curley, Special to the Kansan
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The new rating, which is called NC17, prohibits people younger than 17 from viewing the movie, even if accompanied by an adult
I knew "Henry and June," was creating a controversy in the movie industry, so much so that it received a new rating. But I didn't realize how enforced the rule was until the movie attendant asked me to see my driver's license.
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