VOL. 101, NO.28
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1990
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Fireworks, bells herald German unification
Thousands cheer end of 45-year separation
The Associated Press
BERLIN - The two Germanys ended 45 years of division with a blaze of fireworks and the pealing of church bells yesterday, declaring the creation of a new German nation in the heart of Europe.
Near the ruins of Hitler's citadel in the city that symbolized the Cold War division of Europe, the German flag was hoisted to crown the dramatic scene as a symbol by World War II and the Communist Berlin Wall.
Rockets burst in the sky over Berlin, illuminating the war-scarred Reichstag building and the Brandenburg gate. The shower of fireworks also lighted the uprooted faces of thousands of Germans, united in battle but troubled by the political and economic problems facing a united Germany.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other leaders stood in the glare of floodlights at the Reichstag building and joined in singing the national anthem as a vast party occurred across the land of 78 million residents. Millions of Germans and a watching world joined the ceremony by television.
Today was declared a national holiday, but late yesterday police in Goettingen, 66 miles south of Hanover, reported that 1,000 leftist protesters opposed to unification rampaged through the city. Authorities said the radicals broke store windows and chanted "Never Again Germany," and "Nazis"
out!"
The ceremony marked the return of a united Germany built on the ruins of Adolf Hitler's defeat in World War II and the end of Cold War antagonism. The victims were lodged by the United States and the Soviet Union.
It came less than 11 months after the Berlin Wall was opened Nov. 9, 1898, by a tie of democracy that swept away Communist regimes across Eastern Europe.
Fourteen schoolchildren from the former East and West Germany carried the huge, 72-squareyard German flag and hoisted it up the 132-foot-tall mast in front of the Reichstag.
Hundreds of thousands of people, waving German flags, crowded along the Unten den Linden throughout and June 17th Street that once were cut by the Berlin Wall.
Fireworks exploded over the Reichstag as a replica of the Liberty Bell, donated to Berlin by the city.
"Germany is one again, Germany is sovereign," said German television "Forty-five years after the unconditional surrender" of Nazi Germany "the two German states are united."
Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere said of unification minutes before midnight, "What for most people had been only a dream has become reality."
The dream becomes reality
Then, Kurt Masur directed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as East Germany ceased to exist to the deep chords of the "Ode to Joy."
City authorities had banned demonstrations near the Brandenburg Gate, the 200-year-old monument that was a focus of celebrations.
Dixeland jazz, street musicians and organ grinders played music that rang in the chilly fall
The bread thoroughfares around the Brandenburg Gate were thronged with tens of thousands of people hours before the historic occasion, and vendors sold food, drinks and souvenirs.
Searchlight beams waved in a cloudless sky, and a tall crane dangled an old East German "Trabt" car 50 feet in the air just south of the massive stone gate.
About 200 left radicals lined a police barrier outside the Schauspielhaus, blowing whistles and jeering at digitaries arriving for a formal state assembly by the departing East German government.
The radicals chanted "Germany, drop dead!" Kahl, 60, said in a statement to the Frankforter Allgemeine newspaper that the new Germany will help stabilize Europe and that it would not be a "restless Reich" like Nazi Germany, which plunged Europe into its most disastrous war.
The unification of Germany is a "European, indeed a world event of historic rank. Kohl said.
Several German newspapers published the approved verse of the national anthem to be sung in unified Germany — not the old "Deutschland Ueber Alles" verse — but the third verse, which
See GERMANY, p. 14
Senate passes German treaty
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday unanimously approved the treaty ending the post-World War II division of Germany and sent it to the full Senate.
The committee had hoped the Senate could act before the 6 p.m. CDT unification of West Germany and East Germany, but the Senate recessed for the evening without action.
President Bush congratulated Germans on the historic unification of their country and said that "44 years ago we were united." East and West are now behind us."
"At long last, the day has come," Bush said in a written statement. "Germany is united. Germany is fully free."
Senate confirms Souter for court
The committee voted 19-0 in favor of the treaty, signed in Moscow Sept. 12 by Britain, France, the Soviet Union and East Europe, States and East and West Germany.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 90-8 yesterday to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court. The only dissenting votes came from liberals who fear he will oppose abortion
he w a s approved less than 2% months after President Bush nominated to the high court
It was too late to put him on the court for the
David Souter
start of its session this week, but
Souter, 51, will probably participate
in its rulings well into the next
century
A Supreme Court spokesperson said that Souter would be sworn in Tuesday morning.
Souter becomes the 105th Justice of the Supreme Court, filling the seat vacated last summer by the retirement of Justice William Brenner.
Martin Fitzwater, presidential spokesperson said. "We're obviously very pleased that Congress confirmed this nomination. We think Judge Souter will be an outstanding justice for many years."
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Ultah, said,
"He's just exactly the kind of person
with a broad background that we
need on the Supreme Court. I think he
was one of the first instances of
ness. He's willing to listen. He's a
person of independence."
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairperson Joseph Biden, D-DeL., said that he supported Souter, but also opposed his next text-memorandum might not be so smooth.
"I want to express the hope that the administration will not learn the wrong lesson" from the lopsided Senate vote on Souter Bidan said. A recent article in *oswego*省另一省记者刊 "could well fall outside the sphere of acceptability," he said.
There was little doubt that Souter
would be a more conservative justice than Breman, especially on matters of criminal law. But Soetner's position is that a jury should abortion. would be harder to predict.
During three days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Souter declined to say whether he believed the court should overturn its 1973 ruling vs. Wade, which required conviction. He said he was open-minded.
On issues liberty of civil rights and religious liberty, his testimony indicated a far more moderate viewpoint than his record suggested.
Biden said that he was troubled by Souter's refusal to declare support for abortion rights and by the judge's ruling on his case. But Biden voted to confirm Souter.
"He's about the best we can expect, from my perspective, from this administration." said Biden.
sen Alan Cranston, D-Calif., the Senate Majority Whip, said that if the court overturned Roe vs. Wade because of Souran, Cranston would request legislation to create a federal statute legalizing abortion.
Hatch, an abortion foe, said opponents were applying single issue politics to their decisions.
All nine voting against Souter were Democrats: Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, Brock Adams of Washington, Cranston of New Jersey, Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Edward Kennedy and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. Sonie Pete Wilson, R-Calif, did not vote.
"I hope that the littmus test mentality is not used in the future," Hatch said. It would make it "almost impossible for any great nominee to make it on to the court. And Judge Souter is a great nominee."
The debate yesterday was interrupted at one point when a protester who shouted, "you murderers." The protester was charged with disrupting an orderly session of Congress, U.S Capitol Police said.
Police say lighting doesn't deter rape
Speaking out
Wendy Griswold, Women's Student
Marcie Gillilland, Women's Student Union member, said although group members did not know of specific cases, they assumed that raps happened on campus because studies show that many raps were not reported.
Welsh said lighting was not an
Chris Kronn, Manhattan senior, accuses the University administration of not acting on behalf of student concerns. About 80 students protested about several issues in front of Watson Library yesterday. See story page 3.
"Most people take campus lighting and tie it to crime," said Burdel Welsh, KU police spokesperson. "Many people have the tendency to associate poor lighting and rape. But if you're concerned about rape, and you think it's a direct result of poor lighting, you're wrong."
Senate praises Persian Gulf action
See LIGHTING, p. 2
No rapes on campus have been reported to the KU police this semester
Senator after senator rose to say Bush could not use the resolution as justification for future military moves. In fact, debate seemed aimed at stating what the document was not than what it was.
The Associated Press
Union member, said that increased campus lighting was important even if it did not deter rape because it made women feel safe.
WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmily approved a resolution yesterday praising President Bush's actions in the Persian Gulf and supporting continued deployment of U.S. troops to deter Iran aggression.
In six protests on campus since Sept. 14, women's groups have demanded an increase in the amount of campus灯光 to deter rape on
However, KU police officials said that campus lighting did not necessarily deter rape, and they have state statistics to back them up.
But the debate leading up to the 96 v vote spawned nervous echoes of 25 years ago, when a similar act opened way to escalation of the Vietnam War.
Kansan staff writer
"This resolution is not an authorization for the use of force, now or in the future." said Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell. D-Maine This resolution is not a blank check The resolution is not a Gull of Tankin Resolution."
In 1964, Congress approved a resolution giving President Johnson the authority to retaliate for an attack on two vessels in Vietnam's Gulf of Mexico for the latter was used as authorization for a widening of the U.S. war effort.
"Sexual terrorism is a way society subgulates women by making them afraid." Griswold said.
Yesterday's vote came a day after the House approved a similar resolution on a 380-29 vote. Senators said they thought it was important to send
By Debbie Myers
The resolution "strongly approves the president's leadership" in winning approval of eight resolutions in the United Nations Security Council to expand entitlement on Iraq and call for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Kuwait.
Kennedy said he was voting against the measure because it could "easily be used by President Bush as approval in advance by Congress of military action against Iraq, up to the launching of the launch of an all-out war."
a signal of U.S. unity by giving legislative support to Bush's moves to date.
It also states that "The Congress supports continued action by the president in accordance with the decisions of the United Nations Secu-
Voting against the measure were Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass; Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.; and Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.
city Council and in accordance with United States constitutional and statutory processes ... to deter Iraqi aggression and to protect American lives and vital interests in the region."
But Mitchell said the resolution speaks only about actions already taken.
More gulf coverage p.9
Regents propose 5-year faculty reviews
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
A recent Board of Regents report that examines the process by which university faculty nationwide are evaluated has some KU faculty members concerned about the need for the future of faculty review.
Frances Ingemann, Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said the report could appear to be an attempt to deprive the delegates to undermine the tenure award.
"There are a number of implications there." she said.
But Regent Don Slainson said he requested the report because he thought the Regents needed to have a understanding of the tenure system.
He said that the report did not reflect a Regents desire to change the way tenured faculty were reviewed at Regents schools.
"I wouldn't anticipate that," Slawson said. "But I haven't had a chance to read the report vet."
The report will provide a national context for the Regents when they examine faculty review procedures at Kansas schools, he said.
The report does not acknowledge existing faculty review processes at Regents institutions.
The Regents report strongly supports a stringent five-year review of faculty because it would ensure the quality of Regents schools.
Some members of SenEx said that an attempt by the Regents to add a five-year review to the University's annual review would be public relations work. SenEx said it would gain legislative and public support for the Margin of Excellence.
Koplik said the Regents would examine the thoroughness and accuracy of tenured faculty reviews at the seven Regents schools.
But Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said the report was not intended as a precursor to a change in policy.
One reason for discussing the issue is to make sure that the Regents can be confident of their faculty review processes when they request more money as part of the Margin proposal, Koplak said. Another reason is that faculty will have a mandatory review age will be lifted for university faculty.
"We just simply want to learn more." Koplik said.
SenEx will propose a special meeting of University Council on Nov. 8 to discuss the issue and will invite Konik to attend.
William Scott, presiding officer of SenEx, said the report probably reflected the beliefs of the staff members involved in writing it.
"I think this is not necessarily the attitude of the Regents," he said. "I do think the report in its present form does try to argue to an additional review process. It says we do not require institution processes people have used."
KU faculty evaluations usually are conducted by department chairper-
See TENURE, p. 2