University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 5, 1990
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More Americans will be flown out of Iraq, U.S. officials say
Another group of Americans will be flown out of Iraq and Kuwait Wednesday on a U.S.-government charter flight, the State Department said yesterday.
The State Department said late last month that at least 900 U.S. citizens remained trapped, including 600 to 700 in Kuwait and 300 to 350 in Iraq.
The approximate number of Americans who will board the flight was not disclosed, but officials said the total could be significant because a Boeing 747 has been chartered.
Almost all of them are adult males, more than 100 of whom have been detained by Iraqi authorities and taken to military and industrial sites. The Iraqis believe the presence of the Americans at these locations will deter a U.S. military attack.
House subcommittee approves bill concerning abortion rights
A House subcommittee approved a bill yesterday that would put into federal law a woman's right to an abortion as ruled in the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade.
He said that the Freedom of Choice Act was necessary to preserve the reproductive options women had had since the Supreme Court decision was issued in 1973.
"The language of the bill is drawn directly from Roe," said Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., chairperson of the House Judiciary subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights.
"It is clear from recent Supreme Court decisions that Roe is in jeopardy," Edwards said. "American women can no longer rely on the courts to protect their right to choose."
Bush hails accord that would decrease conventional forces
President Bush yesterday hailed a tentative accord requiring the Soviet Union to destroy thousands of tanks, artillery pieces and armored vehicles in Europe. He said it would decisively improve the balance of military power on the continent.
The Conventional Forces in Europe treaty would be the largest arms-control deal in history and the first in Europe since the end of World War II.
If final details are resolved, it will be signed by the 22 nations of the Warsaw Pact and the NATO alliance at the Nov. 19-21 Council summit on Security in Europe and Cooperation in Europe.
From The Associated Press
Gorbachev decree lets Soviets set own prices
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gorbachev moved to boost the output of Soviet businesses yesterday by allowing them, with certain restrictions, to negotiate their own wholesale prices.
A presidential decree on prices, released by the Tass news agency, was billed as a step toward a market economy. It was Gorbachev's second decree since the Soviet legislature on Sept. 24 gave him sweeping new powers to rescue the collapsing economy and maintain law and order.
Economists have said freeing prices to respond to market forces, rather than having them set by the government, is essential to curing the economy.
It is unclear, however, whether the decree frees prices enough to make a difference.
The decree says businesses can sign contracts with each other for 1991 using negotiated wholesale prices. But it then adds three restrictions. It says the prices must be based on those outlined by the Council of Ministers in June 1988, that profits over the minimum are taxed and that wholesale prices of some goods will remain fixed.
Finance Minister Valentin Pavlov told Soviet television the decree was a compromise but did not mention it.
A correspondent for the nightly news broadcast "Vremya" said the decree should put more goods
into the stores, by offering price incentives for increased production. Shortages have left many stores nationwide hare of such essential goods as flour, matches, cheese and bread.
Pavlov insisted the decree has no direct relation to retail prices and assured viewers that state subsidies will continue. But it appeared stores would not have had to pay more to receive wholesale stocks.
The finance minister said the decree was necessary so businesses can know what prices they pay.
In his first decree, issued one week ago, Gorbachev ordered businesses to fulfill supply contracts and the government to ensure distribution in 1991. In 2005, he approved a full supply contracts to government retailers.
Many workers and businesses are uncertain how they will fit in the market economy Gorbachev is trying to establish. They find it more profitable to work with the government than distribute them in the established structure.
The Supreme Soviet legislature is to choose a plan for switching to a market economy on Oct. 15. The most radical blueprint, written by economist Stanislav Stainskal, calls for jinking the central government from the state economy within 600 days by selling factories to private owners and breaking up collective farms.
Mazowiecki will run in first contested presidential election
Walesa faces former ally
The Associated Press
HWAISA, Poland — Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki announced yesterday that he would run for president of Poland against his former ally Clemens Lustig, the principal sponsor, Solidarity Charpierson Lech Walesa.
The decision opens the way for the first popularly contested race for president in Polish history and a competition that will involve the country's two best-known politicians.
When Mazowiecki became the first non-Communist head of government in the Eastern bloc in the summer of 1899, his nomination was engineered by Walesa.
Since then, Walena has accused Mazowiecki's government of being too slow to privatize the state-dominated economy and to dismiss former government positions of authority in government and industry.
Mazowiecki supporters accuse Walesa of personal ambition and demagogy. They advocate a more tolerant society with less stress on nationalism.
Mazowecki made his announcement on national television.
"The time for an answer has come and today I want to give this answer, a short one." Mazowiecki said. "Following great deliberations and consideration of all circumstances I have decided to express approval (to run for president) if my candidacy is put forward.
"One must move forward. One cannot retreat from the path Poland has chosen and fought for so much."
Elections are scheduled Nov. 25.
The presidency will be vacant because Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the former Communist leader, last month asked parliament to have his six-year term shortened after 17 months as president, citing public demands for a popularly elected leader.
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Mazowiecki, 63, a longtime Catholic journalist and former political prisoner, was an adviser to Walesa, 47, for most of the 1980s. He took part in the war against Saddam Hussein that helped to help Communist rule in Poland.
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