NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday,November 20.1992
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Russia to cut submarine fleet
Yeltsin announces intention to halt production soon
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — President Boris Yeltsin said yesterday that Russia would probably stop building submarines in the next two or three years and had withdrawn all strategic nuclear weapons from the Far East.
His comments in South Korea's parliament stunned some aides in Moscow. The announcement on submarines came as a surprise, said Yuri Andreyev, an adviser on converting military factories to civilian production.
"Halting production will cause serious problems for enterprises producing subs, but we shall try to accelerate their conversion and to cope with this problem," he said.
The International Institute for
Strategic Studies estimated that Russia had 86 submarines of various types stationed with its Far East Fleet, including 25 Yankee and Delta class submarines at the Pavlovskoy base, just north of the Korean Peninsula on the Sea of Japan.
During a visit focused on winning economic aid and investment, Yeltsin also said he had settled disagreements over Russia's debt with South Korea and cleared the way for a $15 billion natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Seoul.
Intrust-buildingmoves, Yeltsinindicated he would abrogate a 1961 defense agreement with Communist North Korea, and he handed over the "black box" containing the flight recorder of Korean Airlines Flight 007, which was shot down by Soviet jets in 1983 after violating Soviet air space.
The flight recordings, transcripts of which were released by the Yeltsin government earlier this year, contained conclusive evidence the South Korean pilots were on a standard
civilian flight and did not know they had entered Soviet air space.
"The blank wall of distrust and estrangement that divided the two countries collapsed," Yeltsin said after his talks with South Korean President Roh Tae Woo.
Yeltsin told reporters that Korean and Russian experts had discussed projects totaling $20-$30 billion to develop the Russian Far East and convict military plants to civilian use, the daily Izvestia newspaper reported.
Yeltis gave few details on the removal of nuclear weapons, but it appeared to be part of the short- and medium-range nuclear arms cuts agreed to by President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in fall 1991.
Russia has an estimated 60 SS-11 nuclear-tipped missiles at Svobodny and 45 Bear strategic bombers at Ukraine, just north of the Chinese border within range of Korea, according to the Military Balance handbook published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies;
Yeltsin also told reporters that he saw no major obstacles in improving Russo-Japanese relations, including solution of the dispute over a handful of islands that prompted him to cancel a planned visit to Tokyo in September, ITAR-Tass said.
Japan has refused to formally adopt a treaty ending World War II hostilities with the Soviet Union until Moscow agrees to settle the issue.
Yeltsin sent a clear signal that he was withdrawing support from North Korea's isolatonist Communist regime and would stop supplying it with offensive weapons and nuclear technology. Investia reported.
Russia and China backed North Korea during the bloody 1951 to 1953 conflict that ended with the partition of the Korean Peninsula into the Communist North and capitalist South.
"Democratic Russia denies the logic of the Stalinist policy which split the world into hostile camps and unleashed the Cold War," Yeltsin said. "Russians have denounced such politics."
Educating teen-agers mav slow AIDS spread
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The high number of U.S. teen-agers having risky sex is slowly dropping, and schools are increasing education about AIDS, federal health authorities reported yesterday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged schools to begin education about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in kindergarten and intensify it by the ninth grade.
That doesn't mean discussing condoms with first-graders. Kolbe said.
"HIV education can be most effective when it's integrated as part of a comprehensive kindergarten-through-grade 12 health education program," said Lloyd Kolbe, the CDC's director of adolescent and school health. "It's just as important as science and math."
"In the early grades it's important that young people start to understand that they can influence their own health," he said, advocating that courses gradually become more specific. In New York City, AIDS education begins with general discussion in kindergarten; fourth graders are taught how HIV is transmitted, and sixth graders are told of the risks of anal sex. The curriculum's effectiveness is still being evaluated.
"The debate will come down to where people draw the line to introducing lifestyles to young people who are unaware of them," said New York City school board member Michael Petrides.
Figures in the CDC report came from yearly surveys of about 12,000 teen-agers conducted in 1989, 1990 and 1991, Kolbe said, and showed decreases in numbers of teen-agers having sexual intercourse and in numbers of partners. Condom use, however, was up only 2 percentage points, to 48 percent, from 1990 to 1991. Students weren't asked about condoms in 1989.
"We're cautiously optimistic that young people may be beginning to reduce the risks for HIV infection," Kolbe said. "We think that school programs are extremely important."
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Negotiators from the United States and Europe reported good progress but no final breakthrough yesterday in their effort to avert a global trade war that would triple the price U.S. citizens pay for European white wine.
U. S. Trade Representative Carla Hills said that both sides were "quite close together" in all the areas under dispute and that there would be further talks soon.
Frans Andriessen, the chief trade negotiator for the European Community, also expressed satisfaction with the results of the two days of negotiations.
Neither official, however, explained what roadblocks had developed or where the differences between the two sides had been narrowed in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade discussions.
Failure of the Washington talks to produce a breakthrough means
that the threat of a trade war between the United States and the 12-nation EC remains a possibility.
The United States announced earlier this month that it was slapping 200-percent taxes on $300-million worth of European products, primarily white wine, because of a failure to reach agreement on the removal of subsidies that the Bush administration claims cost U.S. farmers $1 billion in lost sales annually of soybeans and other oilseed products.
Those tariffs are scheduled to go into effect Dec. 5 unless the soybean issue is resolved before that time.
GATT Director General Arthur Dunkel said that if the United States and the European Community could resolve their differences he was ready to restart negotiations over the entire agreement as early as next week in Geneva with the goal of completing the document by year's end.
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