Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 27. 1990
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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, R-lowa, Herbert Kohl, D-Wis., and Patrick Leahy, D-VI, brought to 10 the number on the 14-member 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., on the committee. Based on his lack of an abortion position
40,000 U.S. troops will leave Europe beginning in October
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 access 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 Bush disstructured 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
Senate votes approval of family planning bill
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 Associated Press
A vote to limit debate fell 10 short of the necessary 60 votes, diminishing prospects of any majority.
The Senate approved by a large margin another amendment Tuesday evening that would remove Bush administration regulations prohibiting the use of fracking, raising any information or counseling involving abortion.
The result was a Senate bill that contained provisions pushed by both anti-abortion and pro-abortive groups.
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.
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 and the Senate Special Senate provisions on abortion. The clinics offer 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 pre-choice advocates with a surprisingly large 62-vote majority.
Senate Minority Leader Bole Doble, R-Kan., an abortion petition, voted with pro-choice advocacy 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 Soviet legislature formally ended decades of religious repression yesterday, passing a law on freedom of conscience at a time when so-called priests are flocking to churches in record numbers.
The law forbids the government from interfering with religious activities, improves the legal status
imprisoned religious leaders and preached atheism
"The most important thing for us is not only that the law is passed, but that it begins to work," said Richard J. Tidwell.
Peter Reddaway, an expert on Soviet religion at George Washington University in Washington.
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