VOL.101, NO.11
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Bush hints at economic help for Soviets
Leaders pledge cooperation in Gulf
The Associated Press
HELKSIKN, Finland — Mikaail Gorbachev wins hints of more economic aid from President Bush yesterday but rebuffed suggestions that Moscow would play a global second fiddle to Washington.
"It would be very oversimplified and very superficial to judge that the Soviet Union could be bought for dollars." Gorbachev told a joint news conference with the U.S. president at the close of their one-day summit.
The Soviet and U.S. leaders pledged to work closely in using commercial and diplomatic pressure on Iran, but Gorbachev stressed he Kuwait, but Gorbachev stressed he
was not following the U.S. lead in order to win American aid.
"We do not want to get caught up in a debate about prestige," he said when asked to respond to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's challenge to Mosul and Baghdad. East in order to prove that the Soviet Union was still a superpower.
"No single country, however powerful, will be able to provide the leadership which individual countries formerly tried to provide, including some countries which are represented here," he said.
Gorbachev and his entourage departed for Moscow last night.
During the seven hours of summit talks, the Soviet leader again balked
at sending troops or warships to bolster U.S. forces implementing a United Nations embargo against Iraq.
Gorbachev won a pledge from Bush that U.S. troops would withdraw from the Arabian peninsula at the close of the crisis. And the Soviet army, armed with tanks and aircraft, Soviet military experts remained in Iraq, down from 196 at the beginning
"They are leaving Iraq and the process is moving forward, so I don't think it's a problem," he said.
of the crisis.
Bush said the presence of the advisers was not a major irritant but that their removal would facilitate the transition of the United States of the Soviet position.
Bush said that he had asked Gorbachev neither to send a special message to Saddam — a former Soviet clent — nor to dispatch troops or weapons to join U.S. forces implementing U.N. sanctions against Iraq.
"I did not ask him to send troops in," Bush said. "If the Soviet Union wants to send troops in at the invitation of Saudis, that would be fire with me."
Iraqi minister travels to Iran seeks food and better relations
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — Iraq's foreign minister yesterday made his government's first official visit to Iran since the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, reportedly seeking to circumvent the US-backed militantism from the occupation of Kuwait.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarig Aziz met with his Iranian counterpart, Alkab Velayati, amid unconfirmed reports that rice and flour shipments already were coming across Iraq's northeastern border from Iran.
While Velayati reiterated Iranian condemnation of Iraq's seizure of
Kuwait last month, he also criticized the presence of U.S. and other foreign forces building up in the Porsian Sea, which has made it an official Islamic Republic News Agency
The visit has been publicized as laying the groundwork for a meeting between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and President Hasmi Raislamian.
The two are expected to meet for a peace treaty officially ending the hostilities between the two nations.
U.S. evacuees fly home
The overtures would free hundreds of thousands of Iraqi troops stationed along the 750-mile Iranian border.
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. — More than 300 weary U.S. evacues, including a man who hid in an air-conditioning duct for a week and escaped Iraq by posing as a dead mute Arab, got a chance after a 21-hour flight from Jordan.
Cheering well-wishers met the evacues yesterday evening with yellow ribbons, yellow carnations, teddy bears and American flags.
"I was lucky and smart enough to get away," said Jimmy Hawkins, an oil engineer from Dallas who worked in Kuwait and hid in a ceiling duct after the Iraq invasion "Americans can't go out. No way. If you don't have Arab friends, you're stuck."
The 305 evacues, more than half of them children, arrived at Charleston Airport aboard a chartered jet from Amman, Jordan.
The Boeing 747, which left Amman early yesterday, was delayed several hours because of an unexpected stop in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to let off several people for health reasons, the Permanan, a State Department official.
Gov. Carroll Campbell, wearing a yellow ribbon, and a crowd of more than 100 well wishers met the evangelists, who sang "God Bless America" as their plane touched down
Cheers rang out as mothers, their children clutching teddy bear gifts, entered the airport terminal.
Liberian rebels shoot president
The Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — A rebel faction shot Liberian President Samuel Doe in both legs and captured him yesterday during a battle in that nation's capital, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.
More than 60 people, including dozens of Doe's bodyguards, were killed in the fighting between Doe loyalists and rebels led by Prince Johnson, the BBC said. It said the battle took place outside the headquarters of a West African task force in Monrovia, Liberia.
Doe had left his fortified s斋 mansion to pay an unscheduled visit to the commander of the West African task force. LT. Gen Arnold Quaino of Ghana, the BBC's correspondent in Monrovia reported
Johnson and some of his fighters followed Doc, and a quarrel erupted, the BBC report said. The two sides clashed, rifles, machine guns and grenades.
Johnson's rebels wounded Doe in both legs and carried him off to their base camp, the report said.
cause camp, the report says. Johnson called the BBC and
declared himself president of Liberia until an interim government could be installed. Rival rebel leader Charles Taylor of the National Patriotic Front previously claimed the presidency.
The BBC said Johnson pledged to court-martial Doe.
Doe and Johnson had agreed to an informal cease-fire between their forces when the West African task force sailed into Monrovia two weeks after the forces opposed the West African intervention and continued fighting.
Rebels in the 8-month-old civil war have accused Doe of nepotism and stealing millions of dollars of state money. They also hold him responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians killed during the civil war.
Doe, who claims to have survived more than 30 coup attempts, seized power in a 1980 coup that ousted the former dictator and slaves who founded Liberia in 1847.
Doe had been holed up in his fortified seaside mansion in Monrovia.
State Treasurer Joan Finney makes her point while Gov. Mike Hayden waits to rebut in a debate Saturday in Hutchison.
Candidates claim debate victory
Bv David Roach
Kansan staff writer
HUTCHINSON — The heat was on Saturday at the state fair, where Gov. Mike Hayden and his Democratic challenger, State Treasurer Daniel Burned turned up the burners in their first face-to-face gubernatorial debate.
a lively crowd of about 3,000
people jammed the fair's Farm
Bureau Arena and swelleder
through temperatures in the 90s as
the season drew to a close.
Taxes, abortion, the death penalty
and a number of other issues.
The mostly partisan crowd, which was divided about evenly between the two parties, cheered and jeered as the candidates
answered questions that had been mailed in from across the state to WIBW radio in Topeka, which sponsored the debate.
Finney reiterated her proposal to finance property tax relief for the state by placing a 1 percent sales tax on 52 groups of products and services that are now exempt. She also added an optional form of taxation.
Hayden attacked Finney's plan saying it would hurt farmers.
Hayden did not outline his own plan.
Both candidates expressed support for the Margin of Excellence, but they took different approaches to financing it.
The Margin was the Board of
Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty from five other institutions to peer. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Hayden proposed an increase in the "sin tax" in general and in the cigarette tax in particular to finance the Martin.
Finney said that she had declared a moratorium on taxes and suggested financing the Margin with lottery proceeds.
"The people of Kansas are being taxed to death," she said.
ant-abortion legislation that crossed her desk. She accused Hayden of switching from ant-abortion pro-choice for political
Finney told the crowd that she would not instigate anti-abortion legislation but that she would sign
Hayden said he and Finney stood far apart on the abortion issue.
"I believe that abortion is a personal and private decision," he said.
Hayden said he would press for death penalty legislation and blamed Democrats for derailing death penalty legislation during his term.
Babies attend neonatal Med Center reunion
Finney said she would not sign death penalty legislation but would press the Legislature to put any new bill before the ballot for a public referendum.
Cody Decker enjoys cake at the KU Med Center.
Nurses reunite with toddlers
By Courtney Eblen Kansan staff writer
When Eric and Kyle Smith were born fifteen months ago, they were tiny enough to fit inside shoeboxes. The kids were about the size of a football.
Yesterday, Eric and his parents returned to the University of Kansas Medical Center to reunite with the doctors and nurses who cared for Eric at the Neonatal Unit, and to meet with their families. The toddlers returning for the NICU's fourth annual reunion
Since the Med Center's NIU opened in 1985 as a treatment center for critically ill newborns, more than 1,000 patients have been successfully treated there, such Chamberlain, who organized the reunion. The majority of them were born at the Med Center, but a few were transferred from other hospitals within a 100-mile radius.
"You look so different!" said Nancy Chamberlain, an NCU nurse when she saw Erie. "You didn't have curly hair."
The nursery has a capacity for 26 patients. Pictures of each baby's family cover the sides of nearly every miniature crib or incubator. Some parents place sterilized stuffed animals and blankets beside their babies.
Bill Tapner, chief of the department of neonatology, said that several children who were NICU patients have had recurring medical problems related to being premature.
Most of them were respiratory illnesses, but a few have had major heart surgery, he said.
Emilee Aryn Piotrowski will be three months old tomorrow. She was born at full term but with premature lungs, said Janice Piotrowski, Emilee's mother. At four weeks of age, Janice underwent unrelieved surgery for
pyloric stenosis, a blockage between her stomach and small intestine.
Emilee was transferred to the Med Center from Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, where she was born, via the Jaystork, the Med Center's special infant unit. Emilee more than a month to regain her birth weight of eight pounds.
"All of these children who are here today were very sick, gravely sick, when they were born," Topper said.
Amy Dempsey, a nurse practitioner in the NICU, said it often was easier for NICU employees to remember the parents than the children because the children had changed so much since being dismissed from the
As children ate complimentary chocolate cake by the handful, parents and nurses snapped photos of the youngsters and chatted about first steps, first haircuts and first words.
"I really is hard to put into words how wonderful these kids look," said Lynn Rasmussen, an NICU nurse attending the reunion. Rasmussen was one of the nurses assigned to care for Eric Smith.
But Mark and Lori Smith said the reunion was not a wrenching one.
Eric weighed two pounds and three ounces at birth, and had respiratory and liver problems, said Lori Smith. Eric's mother his brother Kyle weighed under two pounds, and he was less than a day after the twins were born, Kyle died.
"It's not bitter sweets at all," Lori Smith said. "It's exciting for me to see everyone again. And Eric's very active, very aggressive. He's already worn out one pair of shoes."
Wichita teacher to vie for Senate
Kansan staff report
Williams was appointed 72-17, over Democrat Fred Phelps. He was Kansas Democratic State Senate speaker in Topeka. They meet in Topeka.
TOPEKA - Dick William, a Wichita State University teacher, will run against Republican incumbent Nancy McCain in the primary.
Williams was appointed as a replacement for Bill Roy Sr., a Topkea Democrat who dropped from the race before the primary elections in August. Though Roy had stunned campaigning, he defeated Williams in the primaries.
Joan Finney, State Treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor, announced Williams' nomination to the Senate.
"We are going to show the state how to win a campaign without selling our souls to any special interests," she
Williams said that because he was a teacher, education on a national level would be a primary focus if he were
"This is an area of enormous need," he said. "We can't leave it all up to the local schools."
In addition to the appointment of Williams, Democratic candidates Bert Cantwell, Attorney General candidate; R.J. Dickens, Secretary of State candidate; Paul Feleliano, Insurance Commissioner candidate; and Sally Thompson, State Treasurer candidate, were introduced. Congressional nominees Jim Slattery, 2nd District member; Leroy Jones, 3rd District candidate and George Wingert, 5th District candidate also were introduced.