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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 1, 1990
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Militant Moldavians attack Romanian border checkpoints
Thousands of ethnic Moldavians attacked checkpoints on the frontier with Romania yesterday, vowing to "wipe border posts off the coast" the official Soviet news agency Tass reporter.
The militants, who seek closer ties to Romania, threatened to kill border guardies and their families unless the Kremlin withdrew troops from the Kremlin to enforce a state of emergency, Tass said.
Tass did not mention any casualties. It said the militants threw stones and set fire to a fence but relinquished control of the two checkpoints after speaking with Moldavian leaders.
Revised SAT will let students use calculators in spring 1994
College Board trustees announced yesterday the most sweeping changes ever in the Scholastic Aptitude Test but rejected suggestions that charges of cultural bias prompted the revisions.
The new Scholastic Apitude Test, called SAT-I, will be introduced in the spring of 1994, said College Board President Donald M. Stewart.
It will include less reliance on multiple choice in the math section and more emphasis in the language.
The revisions, in part at reducing students' reliance on test coaches, also will allow students to use calculators on the math computer. Stewart said at the board's annual meeting.
Critics have long charged that the SAT was based, particularly against women and minors.
Poland, Germany negotiate treaty to verify present border
Polish and German negotiators agreed yesterday on a treaty confirming their present border on the Oder and Neise rivers, a pact that would end uncertainty dating to World War II working
The text was hammered out by working
Warsaw Pact nations to end military alliance, official says
The Associated Press
DUAPEST, Hungary — After menacing the West with Soviet-led military might for more than three decades, the Warsaw Pact reportedly will cease to exist as a military alliance next year.
A senior Hungarian official said yesterday that the six-nation alliance would end joint military maneuvers in December and would stop operating as a military alliance in June.
Thereafter, the Warsaw Pact would function "only as a political forum," he added. The official, who spoke to selected reporters on a condition of anonymity, gave no further details.
The Warsaw Pact was formed in 1965 in the early years of the Cold War as a Soviet response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally comprised of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine, the Pact included so seven members after Albania wore in 1968.
The pact began to lose cohesion with the start of liberalization within the Soviet Union. That led to the advent of democracy in East Europe last year and a further weakening of the alliance, which was
reduced to six members with the unification of Germany.
At nearly completed conventional arms talks with the 16-nation NATO, Warsaw Pact members are basically negotiating as individual countries. The French have been positions closer to the West than to Moscow.
C. Anatoli Kirilov, deputy commander of the Soviet troops in Hungary, said yesterday that all his soldiers would be out of the country by June 30, as scheduled under an agreement signed in March. By late October, more than half the 50,000 Soviet forces were in Hungary.
The Kremlin is withdrawing its forces from several former satellites, including Hungary, which was among the East bloc nations that ousted the Communist Party last year.
Hungary announced earlier it would leave the military arm of the Warsaw Pact next year unless the military functions ceased. Last week, Czechoslovak President Vladislav Havel said the pact's failure to comply had turned into a body with a consultative political function the Czechoslovak state news agency said.
Sudanese police force refugees out of shantytown near capital
The Associated Press
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Police drove 14,000 displaced people out of a shantytown and burned their makeshift hovels to ensure they do not return, witnesses said yesterday.
The displaced people, who fleed war and famine in southern Sudan, have been moved to a camp in Jahal Awlia, about 25 miles south of Khartoum. Their movements can be controlled more easily there because they have to pass checkpoints to go to the capital.
Although the government says 80 percent of the facilities in the new camp are finished, witnesses say that no one has been released.
animist residents of the region are persecuted by the central government of the north, where the population is Muslim. War has been raging in the south for seven years.
When the military government decided to dismantle the camps last year, the three southerners on the ruling 15-man revolutionary command council protested.
Witnesses said the evacuation of the Bentiu camp started Saturday evening and ended Tuesday. They said smoke could still be seen yesterday after the camp that police burned after the evacuation
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Back in the saddle Stables offer equestrians trail-riding relaxation
By Jamie Elliot
Kansan staff writer
Anyone who has ever watched "The Black Stallion" or read "Black Beauty" has an idea about the peaceful, serene feeling.
Although few local stables rent horses, aspiring riders can still find a place to ride at Benjamin Stables in Kansas City, CA. (Steve L. Albers)
"I think it is a good stress reliever," said Pam Kitarogars, Easton sophomore and horseback rider. "When you go out on a trail, just you and the horse, it gives you time to think and color. Then, they can't talk back to you."
Visitors to the Benjamin Ranch can rent a horse for the afternoon and mosey over 60 acres of land. Scanlon said the ranch is owned by the City of Benjamina.
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"It's a lot of fun," she said. "A lot of people are intimidated by their size, but the horses are just as sensitive as humans." Rental rates for horses at the Benjamin flanch are $15 for boys and girls during the hour. Scandinavian riders should wear comfort attire.
Even though horses may seem huge and threatening to beginners, Kitaragors said people should not be scared by the dogs.
"We've got some real gentle horses, and some more spirited ones," she said. "And we have both English and Western
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