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 declared 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 who fail to comply; the cut would increase to 10 percent, Oct. 1, 1995.
About half the states now allow suspension of drug offenders' licenses, but only a few, such as Florida and New Jersey, are allowed.
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 Kaziimire Prunkeiia 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 Pac
Bush and Congress clash over war-making powers
The Associated Press
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.
In a two-hour meeting, Democratic leaders insisted that Bush must seek congressional approval before taking military action in the war. He said he refused to give any guarantee that he would do.
"The president did not indicate either a commitment to do that or refusal to do that." Senate Finance Committee said.
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 on U.S. citizens or against U.S. interests that would call for a very prompt and substantial response."
Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Bush would follow the Constitution but he added, "If a man were to win the presidency, he would
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 20,000 more troops to the gulf, nearly doubling the U.S. military and 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 a huge gap between us and him," Senate Foreign Relations Chairperson Chalborne D.R., D.L., as 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
Street and adjoining streets where leftist radicals had taken up positions.
BERLIN — Thousands of troop troops stormed a barricaded neighborhood with buildoizers 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
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
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