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Jaruzelski will step down early to assist in Poland's transition
President Wojciech Jaruzelski, the only Communist leader to survive politically after democratic revolutions swept the Eastern bloc, told Parliament yesterday he will resign early to help Poland complete its transition to democracy.
Solidarity chairperson Lech Walesa has already declared his candidacy for president, and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Waleńcynia adviser and ally, also is considering running
Jarueliski's announcement came amid increased calls for his resignation to make way for a new president.
Souter hearings end in Senate;
committee may vote next week
The Senate Judiciary Committee completed
hearings on Supreme Court nominee David
Souter yesterday with all signs pointing to quick
approval.
Committee chairperson Joseph Biden, D. Del,
tentatively set a committee vote for Sept. 27,
while confident Republicans were already looke-
ward to the timing of a vote by the full
Senate.
Senate GOP Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior member of the judiciary panel, said there should be a quick final vote so that Souter could take his place as the nation's 105th Supreme Court justice in time for the start of the fall term Oct. 1.
De Deklar to appoint groups to investigate recent violence
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 20, 1990
President F. W. de Klerk, responding to criticism from Blacks that he is not doing enough to quell factional violence in South Africa, said it would have special units to investigate four recent incidents.
D Kleirk also announced an amnesty for individuals or organizations turning in illegal firearms and explosives by Oct. 1, and offered further information leading to discovery of such weapons.
WASHINGTON — The Army yesterday ordered 62 reserve units in 27 states to report for active duty in support of the U.S. military buildup in the Middle East and to respond to 24 other units to prepare for possible call up.
Army calls up reserves
The Navy said it was activating 3 reserve units for construction support duties
The Associated Press
Also, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he approved "imminent danger pay" for the more than 150,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen deployed in Afghanistan under Desert Shield. The pay is retroactive to Sept. 1.
The Navy said the three units it was activating included 165 reservists, but it noted that not all of them were available.
up. The units are in California, Colorado and the District of Columbia.
The Army said 28 Army National Guard units and 34 Army Reserve units were being activated, effective today. Most of the units provide transportation support, while others include specialists in law enforcement, mediva, water supply and chemical defense.
The units are from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Greenspan assesses crisis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairperson Alan Greenspan told Congress yesterday that the Persian Gulf crisis had piled "new and substantial risks" on an already fattering national economy.
In an assessment of U.S. economic prospects, Greenspan said the jump in oil prices since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 had increased the threat of both higher inflation and a recession.
But the chairperson of the central bank rejected suggestions that U.S. economic policy-makers were in effect being held hostage by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Private economists said Greenspan's pessimistic comments reflected the tough choices facing him. Nermally rising unemployment and other signs of sluggish growth would prompt the central bank to slash interest rates in order to spur demand.
But, while increasing the money supply, this measure probably would lead to an increase in prices. And the oil price shock already has put the country in the grips of its worst bout of inflation in nine years. Consumer prices are climbing at an annual rate of 6.2 percent.
He conceded that the Federal Reserve's job of promoting non-inflationary growth had been made more difficult by the unfolding events in the early 1980s. But as we saw, still he had the tools to mitigate the economic fallout.
Financial markets had been eagerly awaiting Greenspan's first report on economic conditions since the Persian Gulf turmoil began. But for the most part they reacted with disappointment as the Federal Reserve chief seemed to dash hopes of a quick move to lower interest rates.
Lawmakers desert budget talks
The complaints came as Congress' five highest-ranking leaders met for *a twelfth* with three
WASHINGTON — Rank-and-file members of Congress began deserting party leaders over the
The Associated Press
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Ren Fest activities treat KC
Costumed characters greet people at the festival gate.
By Jamie Elliot
Kansan staff writer
The village rises out of the Kansas prairie like a mirage, turrets, towers and arches rising, flags waving. One-half mile north of Interstate 70 in Bonner Springs, the Renaissance is back.
One step through the arches of this village and a person is transported back 400 years. Inside the stone and wood walls, food shops line the paths, offering roast turkey drumsticks and potatoes from baskets, pottery and glassware.
Dancing schoolgirls are seen winding a maypole. Richly affronted women wear long velvet gowns with full skirts and tight bodices, topped by towering cone-shaped hats or wreaths of flowers.
The men wear tight pants and long boots with long, open shirts and feathered hats. Flute and pip music fills the air along with the aromas of grilling foods and the shouts of venom in a crowd, a crowds cheering knights.
This is 1990. The scene is from this year's Renaissance Festival, a yearly benefit for the Kansas City Art Institute.
The festival, which is open Saturday and Sundays, began the first weekend in September and will run through October. Student admission is $8.75 at the rate.
“Basically, it is unique entertainment. There is nothing like it in a 100-mile radius,” said Martin English, entertainment director of the festival “We try to keep it as authentic as possible It’s like stepping into a movie.” There’s electricity, no modern-day things. It’s really a whole lot of fun.”
The Renaissance Festival, now in its 14th year, has changed and grown
immensely, English said.
Where can you find a place to live in Lawrence?
Anlon O'Brien, a Kansas City artist, took up face painting last weekend at a booth at the festival. Sunday she worked from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., creating paintings of painting dragons and other designs on children's and adults' faces.
Divine's three brothers played war with shields and swords while he sat still for the painting and picture-taking by his parents. Divine's weary-eyed son, his family had found "more than enough" to do and see at the festival.
English said almost 300 crafters would show items for sale at the festival.
"This year, we have over 300 performers and stage entertainers — jugglers, magicians, fire-eaters and four full-armed jousts jerry-can street characters in all costume; villagers, a royal court, king and queen."
O'Brien used watercolor crayons and glitter, adhered with Vaseline, to paint a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cheek of 5-year-old Todd Divine.
"The first year, it run three or four weekends and 20,000 or 30,000 people came out. In our 14th year, we're running 20,000 people, and we see 165,000 people a year."
English said one of this year's new attractions was a historical figures series, where people have a chance to meet famous historical people. So we are going to the Shakespeare and Joan of Arc. This weekend visitors can meet Henry V.
After 12 trips, Judy Bellome still finds more than enough to do at the festival.
"There's a lot of little kids out here, but there's a lot of big kids too," she said. "There's a lot of things to do for the whole family."
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"You can walk through, smell the foods, pick whatever you want. I like to hit the jewelry and pottery booths . . . and eat. There's always something new, and you can find your old favorites too."
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Inaugurates the 1990-91 Season Presently
ITZHAK PERLMAN, Violinist
Tickets on sale in the Mallory Hall office, student ticket vouchers for the SUA Foundation, Kauai Union, all of which are valid until May 31, 2014.
8:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 3, 1900
Samuel Sanders, Plianist
"He is the consumate master of the violin-exuberant,
Presented with the support of the G. Janse H. Ganz Foundation in memory of K. H. Ganz, the Kansas Arts Commission, and the National Redemption for the Art; additional support provided by the EW Student Activities Office; and special acknowledgment from Special thanks to this year's Very Important Partners: Special Harkins, Garden; Jaysa Foots Producer; and Kalile Mae.
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You should know:
In 1987 the US federal
17% paid interest on the national debt.
government spent $798 billion dollars.
38% of this went to military spending.
4% was spent on education.
2% was spent on environmental protection.
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