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Souter gains three more votes;
assured of committee backing
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 27, 1990
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, R-iowa, 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.
40,000 U.S. troops will leave Europe beginning in October
Three liberal Democrats not on the committee, Sens. Bill Bradley, D.N.J.; Frank Lautenberg, D.N.J.; and Barbara Mikulski, D.M.d., are among those being based on his lack of an aberrant position.
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.
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 unilateral pullout of troops from Europe is the largest by the United States since the mid-1980s, when the administration of President Ronald Reagan 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.
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 crisis and to ask Congress.
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 federal family planning assistance, which emerged as the latest battleground in the political war over abortion.
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.
A vote to limit debate fell 10 short of the necessary 60 votes, diminishing prospects of any election.
The Senate approved by a large margin another amendment Tuesday evening that would remove Bush administration regulations prohibiting the release of child pornography any information or counseling involving abortion.
The result was a Senate bill that contained provisions pushed by both anti-abortion and pro-choice 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 to allow the federal Senior Senate provisions on abortion. The clinics offer family planning and health services to the poor.
The family planning act's authorization expired in 1985, but services have been financed by Congress each year since then through continuing resolutions or catechall 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 advocate 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
"The most important thing for us is not only that the law is passed, but that it begins to work, said Aaron Sorkin."
imprisoned religious leaders and preached atheism
The law forbids the government from interfering with religious activities, improves the legal status of religious institutions.
Peter Reddaway, an expert on Soviet religion at George Washington University in Washington, said. "There is reason for optimism the law will be reviewed."
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'Peaks' viewers are tuned in for show's premiere
Kansan staff writer
By Jamie Elliott
From the nation's capital to KU, the addiction is spreading.
Cindy Snyder, Augusta senior and fan of the show, got hooked during summer reruns. She and her friends also wore "Dawn Fowler" season of "Pink Foam," with style.
Men and women, students and legislators, are tuning on Saturday for the 19th annual world to watch "Twin Peaks," a speaker David Lynch's mutant opera opera
"And Agent Cooper was wearing a vest. I'm sure of it."
"We're planning a party," she said. "I'm sure there'll be coffee and cherry pie.
Whether Agent Cooper, who was shot at the end of the season's cliff-hanging final episode, was wearing a bulletproof vest is just one of the mysteries waiting to be resolved in Sunday's season premiere.
Lara Flynn Boyle (left). James Marshall and Sherilyn Fenn star in ABC's blockbuster, "Twin Peaks."
Twin Peaks is a small town in Washington state. The show centers on the murder of the town's high school prom queen, Laura Palmer. After her body was found wrapped in plastic on a banker璃 FBI special agent Dale Cooper was called in to investigate. Jasper sherriff Harry S. Truman discover that beneath the small-town facade lurk darkness and deception.
There is more to each of the show's approximately 50 characters than meets the eve.
Agent Cooper, played by Kyle MacLachlan, takes copious tape-recorded notes for an unseen secretrent on the town's hot kitchen and cherry pie cheese.
Laura, the dead prom queen,
tutored a retarded boy, helped the
local sawwm owner with English,
worked with Meals on Wheels and
was a cocaine dealer with a penchant
for rough sex.
Jeannenett Bonjour, Lawrence graduate student, has been a loyal fan since the show's spring debut. The name David Lynch, well-known for films such as "Blue Velvet," has written books she was enough to draw her to the show. And as she said, "Once you start, you can't stop."
As far as viewers are concerned, it seems to be a love-it-or-leave-it program. According to Nielsen ratings, the show's premiere last season drew a whopping 33 percent share of the audience. But in the face of tough competition from "Cheers" on NBC, dresses dropped to an 18 percent share.
In preparation for Sunday's two-hour premiere, Bonjour and two friends reviewed the show's entire cast. The premiere will be at 8 p.m.
"We had our coffee and doughnuts, and Aaron brought a cherry pie," Bonjour said. "I love a good mystery." He described the diversity of the characters.
"It's very different from anything on TV," she said. "It definitely subverts the norm — 'Knows Landing' or 'Falcon Creat' — in its in the same 60 minutes, it's the same format, but with a more dynamic quality." David Lynch's films, the strange bizarre dark wonderful qualities are all there."
Bonjour said she also enjoyed the show's unconventionality.
The plot unfolds at a glacial pace, with plenty of red herrings to throw in. The plot revolves around episodes of last season's "Twin Peaks," viewers were given truckloads of information about the late 1970s and early 1980s, nothing that could absolutely answer
the question "Who killed Laura Palmer?"
"Every theory is plausible, but at the same time, there's a reason why we don't." said Aaron Rittmaster, Overland Park seni- and fan of the show.
Bonjour agreed.
"Everyone has a motive," she said. "It could be her father, or it could be that she isn't even dead." The victim also was in the dark about the killer.
"It's so weird," she said. "I don't think the person has even been introduced yet."
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