Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Friday, August 31, 1990
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Nation/World briefs
Plastic juice box banned in Maine
A back-to-school quiz: What lunch box fixture will be history in school lunchrooms or cafeterias?
Answer: The juice box, that soft-sided, single-serving container. The Legislature has outlawed it because the bonded layers of the juice box that keep the contents fresh dey recycling.
Maine's unique ban on the sale of most beverages in aspiic packaging takes effect Saturday, just as children prepare to return to school. Parents are told what to pack in their children's lunch boxes.
While the timing of the law was, by all accounts, coincidental, it has left parents scrambling to replace the drinks packed in bed inEMENT-8 ounce containers that come with the law.
"I don't know what we're going to," said Linda Ball of Portland, as her 3-year-old son, Billy, selected a three-pack of fruit juice at a supermarket. "Those glass things," she said, pointing to a nearby display of single-serving bottles. "We're afraid they'll hurt his teeth."
U.S. agrees with U.N. vote:
Man causes global warming
The United States joined 73 other nations yesterday in agreeing that man's activities are causing the Earth's atmosphere to heat up.
After four days of meetings to consider the most extensive scientific investigation of the Earth's climate, the delegations had not met until a night on recommendations for possible action.
But scientists and environmentalists said the consensus on the U.N.-sponsored report was a breakthrough because the United States acknowledged human activity is producing gases which are changing the climate and warming the globe.
The United States, the largest producer of carbon dioxide, has blocked any international agreement to place mandatory restrictions on gases that may lead to a "greenhouse effect."
Armenian government forces surrender of nationalist army
MOSCOW — About 250 militant Armenian nationalists gave up their weapons yesterday after the republic declared a state of emergency and removed their headquarters with soldiers, police and tanks.
The Associated Press
The surrender was an important victory for Armenia's parliament, which declared independence from the Soviet Union last week. By reining in the militants with forces under its direct control, the parliament dramatically emphasized its power and unified the central Soviet government were involved.
Lawmakers had voted unanimously Wednesday to outlaw the militant group, which called itself the Armenian National Army. The vote followed a night of violence in which militants attacked a gas station, killed a legislator and fired automatic rifles at a rival organization's headquarters.
The militants, bolted up in three buildings in the republic's capital of Vereenan, at first ignored an attack on their positions.
p. m. Wednesday or face a military showdown, Armenian officials said.
After several hours of fruitless negotiations between parliamentary representatives and Armenian National Army leaders, about 500 government soldiers and police moved into the buildings about 1:30 a.m. yesterday. They met no resistance. Soviet media reported.
They did not explain their reasons for surrendering.
"This was the quietest night in the republic in the past six months," Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan told the 230-member parliament yesterday. "The people have seen that the republic has a real government and that this government works."
The group is thought to have comprised a ten- hundred hard-core fighters and many more sympathizers. It claimed to serve as a voluntary militia protecting Armenians from attacks by militants in the neighboring republic of Azerbaijan.
Poland's reforms too slow, Walesa says
The Associated Press
GDANSK, Poland — On the eve of Solidarity's 10th anniversary, Prime Minister Madelez Mazowiecki returned to the union's birthplace yesterdays and insisted that she be siped with the leaders they helped in power.
Poland put itself at the vanguard of Eastern Europe's democratic revolution when it installed the region's first non-Communist government a year ago. However, since then, that government has fallen afoul of Solidarity chairperson Walesa and other critics who say it should move faster to jettison the remaining trappings of four decades of Communist rule.
Mazoweicki, who came to the Gdkans shipyard yesterday with five of his ministers, was asked during the 45-minute meeting to explain why his government has not moved faster to create a free-
At a separate news conference, the union's founder, Lech Wesala, directed harsh criticism at Mazowiecki's Solidarity-led government. Walesa said the year-old non-Communist government has been too slow in democratizing Poland's Parliament.
market economy and dismis Communist holders from government and managerial positions
Wales was absent from the meeting hall at the northern not
It was in the same hall that Walesa, with Mazowiecki — then an adviser — at his side, signed the accord with the Communist Party in August 1987 and bid for Europe's first independent workers movement.
At his news conference yesterday, the chairperson of the 10-year-old union said he was still fighting for fulfillment of 'the 1980 strikes' 21 demands. Walesa said that meant bringing Poland to full democracy by free parliamentary and presidential elections.
Walesa also accused the Mazowiecki government, which he helped create, of moving too slowly to replace the present Parliament, where 65 members are elected. The opposition recently dissolved Communist Party or its allies.
Without mentioning Wales by name, Mazo-wiecki replied to the accusation: "This government has not been, is not and will not hinder political changes.
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