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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, December 3, 1991
ON CAMPUS
Office of study abroad is accepting applications for Summer 1982 study abroad programs. Pick up applications at 203 Lippincott Hall.
International Studies and Programs will sponsor a lunch and lecture by Sveta Stojanovic, visiting professor for Soviet and East European Studies, at noon today at Alcove H in the Kansas Union.
- OAKS - Non-Traditional Students Organization will meet at noon today at Alcove I in the Kansas Union.
Kansas Ultimate Frisbee will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at 23rd and Iowa streets.
University of Kansas Anime will meet at 6 p.m. today at Room 315 in the Art and Design Building.
Students Against Hunger will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
■ KU Advertising Club will sponsor a club social at 6:30 p.m. today at Pizza Hut, 1606 W. 23rd St.
Association of University Residence Halls will sponsor a Residents' Environmental Action Coordinating Team meeting at 7 tonight at 101 McCollum Hall.
VOICE, peace pace organization,
will meet at 7tonight at Ecumenical
Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread
Ave.
■ KU Linguistics Colonyu will sponsor a lecture by Sara Rosen titled "Psych Predicates and Argument Alignment" at 7:30tonight at206Blake Hall.
Gayand Lesbian Services of Kansas will sponsor a support group at 7:30 tonight. Contact GLSOK at 864-3091 for location.
Fencing Club will meet at 8:30 tonight at 130 Robinson Center.
ON THE RECORD
- A car window was smashed and a purse and its contents valued at $522 were stolen between 6:45 and 8:45 p.m. Saturday from a car in the O-zone parking lot, KU police reported.
- A cellular phone and compact disc worth an undisclosed amount were stolen between 8 and 9:45 p.m. Friday from a car parked in the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall parking lot, KU police reported.
- KU police arrested Matthew Hartpence of Baldwin at 10:27 p.m. Saturday on charges of auto burglary and theft and Johnny Hendry of Baldwin on charges of aiding and abetting an auto burglary and theft, KU police reported. The two allegedly burglarized a car in the GSP-Corbin Hall parking lot, police said.
Ukraine challenges USSR
Sunday's independence vote in the Ukraine probably dooms the Soviet Union as a sovereign nation. The Ukraine has been an essential component of the Soviet Union.
Ukraine's role in the Soviet Union
- **Population:** 52 million, second largest republic in the Soviet Union behind the Russian Republic.
**Area:** 231,900 sq. miles third largest behind Russia and Kazakhstan; smaller than Texas, larger than France.
Agriculture: In 1985,
produced 46 percent of
total value of Soviet
agricultural output.
Grain
Produces 20 percent of the Soviet Union's grain.
Meat: More than 25 percent of the meat.
Sugar beets: Ranks first among Soviet republics in action of sugar beets.
Wine: Nearly 30 percent of the wine.
Steel and iron: Produces nearly 50 percent of the cast iron, about 40 percent of the steel, about 25 percent of the steel pipe.
Coal: Has 60 percent of bituminous and anthracite coal reserves; production is 25 percent of Soviet total.
Industry: Produces about 20 percent of Soviet inner and chemical
■ United Nations: Ukraine already is a member of UN General Assembly under an arrangement negotiated by Josef Stalin at the end of World War II.
Others: Russian President Belytsin Yeltsin and leaders of Canada and Poland have said they will recognize Ukraine's independence.
■ Moscow: It is uncertain whether Ukraine can legally secede, but there is little that the Soviet parliament and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who opposes independence, can do to stop them.
Sovereignty: Ukraine has announced plans to print its own currency and will need to establish citizenship laws, set up border posts, formulate passport procedures and open embassies abroad.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, World Book Encyclopedia, Compton's Encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, news reports
**Military:** Ukraine has announced plans to build its own armed forces and wants Soviet military forces removed.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Ukraine votes to secede
New independence deals severe blow to Union
The Associated Press
KIEV, U.S.S.R. - Ukrainians voted 9-10 for independence and elected former Communist Leonid Kravchuk as his president in a referendum to Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to preserve the Soviet Union.
"The Soviet Union has disintegrated," Kravchuk said yesterday during a meeting with people from the United States and a dozen other countries who observed Sunday's "An independent Ukraine is born."
He said the Ukraine would establish collective control of Soviet nuclear weapons with Russia, Byelorussia and Kazakhstan — the other republics where Soviet nuclear warheads are based.
Ukrainian leaders also said they would move quickly to draw up a new constitution balancing the executive and legislative branches, form an army from Soviet troops in Ukraine and use the country's republics and issue a new currency.
Neighboring Poland recognized the Ukraine as an independent state yesterday, apparently the first country to do so.
Representatives said the United States was moving toward full diplomatic recognition of the Ukraine. White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said it would be some time before final decisions were made, but he hoped the United States planned to recognize Ukraine independence.
He said that a special envoy would go to the Ukraine this week and that
Secretary of State James A. Baker III planned to visit Moscow and Kiev later this month to discuss the transition to independence.
In a wave of nationalism and economic discontent, about 90 percent of the Ukraine $37.5 million eligible borders turned out Sunday and 90.5 percent of them voted "yes" on the independence referendum, the Cen-
Gorbachev made no immediate comment. He had said before the election that the secession of the second richest and second most populous republic would be "a tragedy, a very great tragedy for the union."
Ivan Silayev, the Kremlin's top economic official, said the result of the referendum depended upon what steps were taken next.
Bus wreck injures Haskell students
The Associated Press
TJERAS, N.M. - A van carrying students from Haskell Indian Junior College hit a patch of ice and overturned several times on I-40, injuring all eight passengers yesterday afternoon, authorities said.
At least one person in the van was critically injured, said Annie Olson, representative for the hospital at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Bernallillo County sheriff's representative Ernie Watson did not disclose the names of the students.
He said the accident occurred about
eight miles east of the Tiieras exit.
The van was traveling to Lawrence from Gallup, where the students had spent the weekend, Watson said.
The van skidded on ice, flipped several times and landed on the shoulder of I-40, he said.
Four people in the van were taken to University Hospital, where Olson said three men were in satisfactory condition and a 47-year-old woman was critically injured. Investigators said two other people taken to Presbyterian Hospital were released. Two others were taken to St. Joseph Hospital North. Their conditions were not immediately known.
President takes part in Hanukkah festival
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush celebrated Hanukkah at the White House yesterday, calling the Jewish festival of lights a reminder of history's first recorded battle for religious freedom.
Bush received a menorah from a group of Jewish schoolchildren from Virginia and played dreaded (a holiday song) for the president. He presided Dan Quayle and his wife.
said.
The holiday, which began Sunday night, recalls the sacred oil that burned for eight days on a candlelabrum in the temple in Jerusalem after a battle won by the Maccabees.
"Hanukkah reminds us of the power of faith and the power of praise," Bush
It also reminds us of the struggle that the Jewish people have borne for literally centuries, the president said.
He vowed to never forget that we must act to combat anti-semitism, racism and bigotry.
He said that the light of the menorah shines more brightly than ever this year thanks to the rebirth of freedom in Eastern Europe, the humanitarian airlift of Ethiopian Jews and the Middle East peace efforts.
The visiting children — from Temple Beth-eil school in Richmond, Va., and the Rudin Torah Academy and the Jewish Community Day School of central Virginia — recited traditional blessings and sang two Hanukkah songs for the president.
Use of food stamps peaks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Enrollment in the federal food stamp program surged to a record in September as millions more Americans sought the government's help to buy groceries and feed their children hot lunches, the latest Agriculture Department records show.
September enrollment in federal food programs rose sharply from a year ago, including a 3.26 million increase in food stamp participation and a 1.3 million jump in the number of low-income children receiving a free lunch at school, according to USDA figures obtained yesterday.
The figures show that there were a record 23.76 million Americans receiving food stamps in September, up from the first record in 1990 and 29.50 million in September 1990.
the national school lunch program also surged dramatically, the USDA numbers show, from 11.1 million in September 1990 to 12.4 million in September 1991.
The number of children receiving free or reduced-price lunches under
Children receiving free lunches account for 42.2 percent of the 42.5 million school lunch being served in the city, 40.3 percent of lunches were free
A representative for the Agriculture Department's Food and Nutrition Service, Phil Shanholtz, said that the surge in food stamp and free school lunch participation could be due both to the economy and to changes that have made the programs more accessible. The WIC increase could be due to an increase in available funds, he said.
"Anybody who says the recession is getting better hasn't read these statistics. These figures represent real people — our neighbors, friends and family — and they're hurting," said Rep. Tony D. Hall, D-Ohio, chairperson of the House Select Committee on Hunger.