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Souter gains three more votes; assured of committee backing
Supreme Court nominee David Souter gained three more votes on the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, assuring his approval by the panel when it votes today.
The endorsements by Sens. Charles Grassley, Riowa, Herbert Kohl, D-Wis., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., brought to 10 the number on the 14-member panel publicly in favor of Souter's nomination. None had come out against him by late last night.
Three liberal Democrats not on the committee, Sens. Bill Bradley, D.N.J.; Frank Lautenberg, D.N.J.; and Barbara Mikulski, D.Md., have supported his position, based on his lack of an abortion position.
40,000 U.S. troops will leave Europe beginning in October
Cheney said his decision was made in consultation with the NATO allies and was in anticipation of a 23-nation Conventional Forces in Europe agreement being reached by year's end to reduce substantially troops and military equipment across Europe.
The United States will begin withdrawing 40,000 troops from Europe next month and start closing down units in January, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said yesterday.
The unilateral pullout of troops from Europe is the largest by the United States since the mid-1960s, when the administration of President Kennedy restructured the U.S. commitment to Europe.
The decision, while not directly related to the buildup of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf area, would give the Pentagon flexibility in fielding troops to relieve U.S. troops in the gulf region.
Universitv Daliv Kansan / Thursday, September 27, 1990
Bush to support $21.5 billion
weapons sale to Saudi Arabia
President Bush has decided to sell $7.5 billion in new weaponry to Saudi Arabia in immediate response to the Persian Gulf crises and to ask the United States for another $14 billion next year, sources said.
The package, which was to be submitted formally to Congress today, includes M-1A tanks, TOW*ant anti-missiles, Bradley fighting vehicles, trucks and armored personnel carriers, said congressional and administration sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
From The Associated Press
Senate votes approval of family planning bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted yesterday to require federally supported family planning clinics to notify parents of teen-age girls who seek abortions.
The action came on an amendment to a bill renewing the federal family planning assistance, which emerged as the latest battleground in the political war over abortion.
A vote to limit debate fell 10 short of the necessary 60 votes, diminishing prospects of any further change.
The bill was already under a veto threat, however, and the vote was one in a series of conflicting and confusing Senate actions that left the bill facing an uncertain future.
The Senate approved by a large margin another amendment Tuesday evening that would remove Bush administration regulations prohibiting the use of certain medical information or counseling involving abortion.
The result was a Senate bill that contained provisions pushed by both anti-abortion and pro-abortion groups.
In the House a similar version, extending the life of family planning services provided through Title 10 of the Public Health Service Act of 1970, was approved by the Energy and Commerce Committee without action of the controversial Senate provide health services to the poor and family planning and health services to the poor.
The family planning act's authorization expired in 1983, but services have been financed by Congress each year since then through continuing resolutions, or catchall spending measures.
The Senate's vote Tuesday night to end the administration's prohibition on abortion counseling provided pro-choice advocates with a surprisingly large 62 vote majority.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., an abortion opponent, voted with pro-choice advocates in support of the amendment, producing an initial 63-35 vote. But more than an hour after the vote was taken, Dole asked that his recorded vote be changed to "no."
Dole, who arrived late for the vote, simply made a mistake, said his press secretary, Walt Riker.
Religious repression ends in U.S.S.R. with new law
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Russian legislature formally ended decades of religious repression yesterday, passing a law on freedom of conscience at a time when Soviets are flocking to churches in record number.
The law forbids the government from interfering with religious activities, improves the legal status of religious organizations and gives Soviet citizens to study religion in homes and in private schools.
The Soviet constitution has long guaranteed freedom of worship, but in the past the Communist Party's ideological opposition to religion as the source of the masses' made that guarantee hollow.
In practice, the government discouraged religious services, closed churches and synagogues.
"The most important thing for us is not only that we are passed, but that it begins to work," said Adolphine.
imprisoned religious leaders and preached atheism.
Peter Reddaway, an expert on Soviet religion at George Washington University in Washington, said, "There is reason for optimism the law will be respected."
He noted that official tolerance for religion has increased since President Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power in 1985. Gorbachev's mother is a practicing member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and last year he acknowledged he was baptized as a child.
He said Western experts estimated that a quarter of the 285 million Soviet people practiced suicide.
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