Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 24, 1990
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Briefs
Training reserve replacements is costly business for military
The federal government has spent nearly $2 billion during the past five years to replace tens of thousands of military reservists who dropped out in 2015, according to a report published yesterday.
Military officials said that it was cheaper to discharge the dropouts than to take them to court for breaking their contracts, The Detroit News reported.
Army and U.S. Marine Corps officials said 7.8 percent of their troops — about 42,000 soldiers
Although reserve dropouts technically are deserters and are classified as absent without leave, the military labels them no-shows or unlikely participants, the News reported. Army and Navy report that
percent of their reserves — about 24,000 soldiers — stopped coming to mandatory drills during the past fiscal year, the news reported. They were removed from active reserve status.
All dropouts have to be replaced, and officials said it costs about $16,300 to train an Army reservist and about $12,200 to train a Marine reservist.
Training replacements cost the two military branches an estimated $375.8 million this fiscal year and nearly $2 billion during the past five years, the newspaper reported.
World Bank says it's learning from past ecological mistakes
The World Bank, often accused of financing large-scale ecological destruction, said yester-year
In its first annual environmental report, the bank said that nearly half the new loans approved in the past year would help the environment in some way.
A coalition of international environmental groups called the report "a blatant exercise in malpractice."
The World Bank makes about $20 billion in low-interest loans each year to foster development in poor and middle-income countries. Some critics charge that many of the loans, especially for hydroelectric dams or forestry projects, have done more harm than good.
It said changes had been put in place in the past year to make sure new projects take environmental concerns into account. Since October 1989, for example, borrowing countries have been required to draw up environmental plans for any new project that will have significant environmental impacts.
The report, covering the fiscal year ended June 1999, said that 11 of the bank's 222 new loans were intended exclusively for environmental projects, up from just two in fiscal 1989. They include helping Poland develop air and water pollution control policies and financing for a comprehensive environmental program in Madagascar.
Financing for 45 more projects is expected in the next three years.
From The Associated Press
GOP negotiators skeptical about Dole's budget plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said yesterday that Democrats were willing to consider a Republican idea for unsnaring stalled budget talks by placing a proposed capital gains tax cut into a separate package.
Mitchell's comment was the first indication that Democrats might be willing to explore the suggestion, which Senate Minority Leader Bole Dole, R-Kan., made Thursday. The fight about whether to slash the capital gains tax rate is perhaps the major hurdle remaining for the two sides to complete a five-year, $500 billion deficit-reduction package.
"We'd be prepared to consider it, to work, to see precisely what he has in mind, and to come up with some way to get this thing done," said Mitchell, D-Maine, or CRB's "Face the Nation."
Meanwhile, President Bush was reported to have expressed optimism about a budget agreement during a conversation with Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer.
Schaefer, who talked with the president at a Maryland golf course where he stopped for an 18-hole round en route to the White House from Camp Marmora, said the prospect of being he was about the prospects of massive furloughs.
starting Oct. 1 if the White House and Congress fail to reach a budget agreement.
Tens of thousands of federal workers live in the Maryland suburbs of Washington and Baltimore, where many of them work at Google.
After speaking with Bush, Schaefer said he told the president, "I'm very worried." He said the president had not been so worried.
Dole has suggested that the negotiators write two measures. One would contain tax increases and spending cuts.
The second bill would contain what he on the same program called "all the goodies." These would include the capital gains tax reduction, which Bush wants; a more expensive child care program, favored by Democrats; and tax breaks for the poor and for businesses.
The measure — which could cost $3 billion to $60 billion — would have to be paid for by additional taxes.
It is unclear whether Dole's suggestion to create two packages ever will become a formal GOP offer at the budget talks. Some White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Sununu, have vehemently opposed the idea. At a news conference Friday, it failed to endorse it but did not rule it out, either.
Discontent rising in Philippines concerning U.S. military bases
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Students and national leaders rail against the U.S. military presence in the Philippines despite opinion surveys that show sizable public support for the U.S. bases.
No prominent politician unequivocally supports the bases, which U.S. officials say pump $1 billion a year into the economy and provide 100,000 jobs in facing political instability and a possible recession.
The Philippines has much to gain from the presence of U.S. bases, but the opposition to them illustrates how much some Filipinos fear continued influence by their old colonial rulers.
"You must understand that other Asian peoples, the Singaporeans, and Japanese and the Koreans, can deal easier with the Americans because you are not so accustomed to their language." A diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity,
"For the Filipinos, it is different," he said. "The
relationship of ruler and the rulter is a heavy part."
"I can't trust you," she added.
Angry students last week backed a pullout, chanting "U.S. bases out" in demonstrations near the U.S. Embassy. U.S. officials were warned of attacks and assassinations by anti-bases extremists
week, no Filipino politician of national status expressed complete support for retaining them after their lease expires in September 1991. The former president and are expected to resume in about a month.
President Corazon Aquino said the United States and the Philippines should discuss the "orderly withdrawal" of the 40,000 U.S. troops, Department of Defense civilians and military dependents at Clark Air Base, Subic Bay naval base and four smaller facilities.
During four days of talks about the bases last
Aquino said yesterday in her weekly radio broadcast that she felt confident "our two countries shall arrive at an understanding that will be mutually acceptable and mutually beneficial."
Anti bases sentiment is strongest in the educated urban middle class that produces university professors, journalists and other opinion-makers. Activists are convinced that, by educating their "uninformed" countrymen, building opposition to the bases will be simple.
A survey in March by the Ateneo University found that 35 percent of the 1,200 Pollinated pollen nationwide were unaware that the United States maintained bases here.
Only 18 percent wanted the bases either phased out or closed immediately. Forty percent sup-
ported them.
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