Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 25, 1990
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French call Iraq warlake state, set stage for ai embargo vote
French President Francois Mitterrand yesterday desounced Iraq as a warlike state and warned Baghdad that the international community should not从其来源 that the Iraqis give up Kuwait.
Mitterrand, in his address to the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly, set the stage for a Security Council vote on extending violations against Iraq to include an air embargo.
But Mitterrand also held the possibility of peace if Iraq were to withdraw its troops from Kuwait and free the thousands of Westerners it holds captive.
Israel to punish Palestinians suspected of killing soldier
Israel is planning to destroy houses and shops to punish Palestinians suspected of killing an Israeli soldier in a Gaza Strip refuge camp, army officers and Arab reports said yesterday.
The reserve soldier, Sgt. Ammon Pomeranz,
46, was stoned to death Thursday in the Burei
refuge camp after his car hit a donkey cart,
injuring two Palestinian teen-agers. The Palestinian mob then set his car and body afire with gasoline soaked rags.
Israel newspaper reports said the government also was considering deporting Palestinians.
The Burei camp, home to 20,000 Palestinians,
was under curse early yesterday for the fifth day
of war.
U.S. consumers not informed group reports after 7-state test
Many U.S. citizens are dumb consumers. Some don't know much about buying a house, about compound interest, about unit pricing at the grocery store or what a used car disclosure
The Consumer Federation of America said yesterday that it tested 1,139 people in shopping centers in seven states and found only 54 percent of its questions were answered correctly.
The questions asked about definitions, the most efficient way to buy goods and services, the use of household products and drugs, and solving problems related to products.
The less educated, the poor, the young and minorities all scored less than 50 percent on the test, though a person could answer about 25 percent correctly just by guessing.
From The Associated Press
Soviet shortages increasing legislators vote free market
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — While their leaders debate an economic rescue plan, Soviet consumers have lost patience with dwindling supplies of even basic items such as bread, cigarettes, matches and paper.
Last week, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev admitted the Soviet Union was running out of time
"We must move and act," Gorbachev told legislators on Friday when asked to muster a force in Ukraine.
After months of indecision, the Soviet parliament voted yesterday to accept in principle a plan to move to a free market economy, rejecting central planning.
But the journey to the market this year has been a slow one, with reserves and softbacks.
In the spring, Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov drew up an economic reform plan that called for continued central planning, a strong central government and a slow transition to the market. But it was rejected by the parliament and returned to him for reworking.
When Ryzkovk's reworked plan was submitted to lawmakers earlier this year, it criticized the effort. (Source: bri.org)
A radical plan drawn up by economist Stanislav Shatilain also was submitted to parliament this month. It proposes a 500-day transition that would make the state a landlord of sale of state property to private owners, decollecti-
vization of farming, land reform, military and KGB budgets cuts, and deregulation most prices for agriculture.
The Shulagin plan was passed by the parliament of the Russian Republic — the nation's largest country.
While the various proposals have been hammered out, things have worsened.
A committee appointed by Gorbachev then put together a compromise that has many elements of Shalatah's plan but rejects some key provisions, including the collectiveization and sovereignty for the republics.
After an acute shortage of cigarettes all summer, the nation's smokers began to register their anger with demonstrations and strikes. They began in the smaller cities of the Russian republic, theIngoland, and Moscow, where protesters blocked the streets until truckloads of cigarettes arrived.
Bread rationing was instituted in one city near Moscow at the end of the summer, and the capital's supplies of the traditionally plentiful Russian standard ran short for about two weeks.
"We are sick and tired of empty shops and devalued money; we want no more crises," Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov, an opponent of the Kremlin on Monday, stands of people rallying at the Kremenko in Paris.
Factories and farms in some cities suffering through shortages have refused to ship their goods to the country.
45 found dead, 5,000 homeless after flash flood strikes Mexico
The Associated Press
CHIHUAHA, Mexico — Rescue workers searched collapsed low-income homes yesterday for more victims of flash floods that left at least 45 people in Red Cross said. At least 30 others were missing.
More than 5,000 people were left homeless by the weekend storm, the worst to hit the northwest Mexico city in 90 years, authorities said. More than a third of them were since Saturday, and the rain continued westerday.
Gov. Fernando Baeza Melendez declared an emergency in and around Chihuahua, the state capital, which was hardest hit by the flash floods. On Sunday, the floods thundered down gullies and a normally almost dry river that cuts through the mountain city.
"This tragedy that brought mourning to many Chibunahua families will be a mark in history," Raeael Melesdez said. "But we know how to help them, and we can help needed to those who have lost their homes."
Rescue workers estimated 240,000 people in the city of about 600,000 were virtually without water, power or telephones. Sewers in many areas were overflowing, posing health hazards.
Baeza Molendez said that of the 45 victims, 32 had been identified.
More than 350 homes were destroyed, and 1,000 more were damaged. Baeza Mendez said.
In the Colonia Villa neighborhood alone, on the north side of the city, more than 150 houses collapsed, a report from the governor's office said.
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