NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 14, 1991
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Washington
Congress rejects Soviet aid plan
Democratic leaders in Congress abandoned yesterday a proposal to use Pentagon funds to help stabilize the economy.
The plan, which two weeks ago seemed headed for Congressional approval, was scuttled by a sudden surge of anti-foreign aid sentiment on Capitol Hill. The Russian inclusion included no direct financial aid to the Soviets.
The decision came as top State Department officials prepared for three days of talks next week with a senior Soviet delegation seeking new ideas for enhancing Soviet Union through its economic and political crisis.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and President Bush agreed to the talks at their Moscow summit in July, said senior Gorbachev adviser Alexander Yakovlev. The Soviet team will hold general brainstorming discussions rather than specific negotiations, he said.
New York
Airlines compete for lowest prices
A price war has broken out as airlines attempt to lure passengers during the slow winter months.
Delta Air Lines became the latest to join the fray this morning, matching USAir's offering of roundtrip domestic fares as low as $138. That sale, which was not matched by American, United and Northwest.
Also Tuesday, Trans World Airlines offered halfprice international business fares but excluded the Northeast from the promotion.
American said yesterday that it would not match the TWA sale.
"We just don't feel it's the right thing to do at this time." American representative John Hotard said.
Most others have hesitated on matching the TWA sale, although Continental said it would match both sales, while excluding its lucrative Houston-London and Denver-London routes.
Pan Am and America West said yesterday that they were still studying both sales.
Atlanta
Condom use needs to be consistent
Many women who say their partners use condoms regularly are getting sexual infections anyway, according to a report released yesterday.
Although Magic Johnson has urged young people to use condoms and have safe sex, a researcher who discussed the study stressed that the message must couple should use condoms every time they have sex.
Just knowing that condom use is right is like getting the Pill and putting it in your pocketbook instead of your mouth, said Dr. Ruby Senie of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
In a study at three clinics in New York City, 21 percent of female patients with sexually transmitted diseases reported they were using condoms regularly. Senie said.
"We still have women with current infections giving a history of condom use... can't blame the condoms. We believe that good use, consistent use, would be protective," she said.
The Associated Press
Gorbachev threatens to quit
MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gorbachev has threatened to resign unless leaders of the Soviet republics sign a new Union Treaty by December, the independent Interfax news agency reported yesterday.
The Associated Press
Gorbache made the threat Tuesday during an appearance before a commission he appointed to investigate the KGB's role in the failed hard-line coup in August, Interfax said.
The news agency quoted Gen. Sergei Stepashin, the commission chairperson who is also a lawmaker in the Russian legislature.
"President Mikhail Gorbachev believes the new Union Treaty may be signed in December," Interfax reported. "If it is not signed, he will resign from his post."
Gorbachev has on several previous occasions threatened to resign unless the republics or national lawmakers backed his policies.
Gorbachev and the leaders of the largest republics were scheduled to sign a new Union Treaty on Aug. 19, the day on eight man-emer
Mikhail Gorbachev
gency committee announced it had taken power and that Gorbachev was under house arrest
After the failure of the three-day coup, the republics said the treaty had to be rewritten to give them an even larger role in managing
their economies and other affairs.
Gorbachev hopes a new Union Treaty can be based on a new economic cooperation treaty signed by 10 of the remaining 12 republics.
Kryuchkov is one of 15 former high officials charged with treason after the coup.
Interfax also quoted Stepashin as saying the commission showed Gorbachev documents disclosing the active involvement in the coup of top KGB officials, including then-cairperson Vladimir Kryuchkov.
Stepashin said the commission had evidence that the KGB eavesdropped on telephone conversations of lawmakers and top government officials. Interfax did not elaborate.
Louisiana GOP members face tough choice
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Republicans may be deciding more than whether to vote for their party's unofficial gubernatorial candidate, former Klan leader David Duke, in Saturday's run-off. They may be denied a state House seat or a Senate seat if elected by a political force.
Duke and former Gov. Edwin Edwards knocked out incumbent Buddy Koerner, a recent GOP convert hacked by the Republican primary attackers.
That leaves party members with a choice most would rather not make — a Republican with a background as a white supremacist or a populist Democrat. Doe is running for president being rebuked by President Bush and national party leaders.
"We're split badly right now," said Linda Talbert, a state GOP central committee member. "After 20 years of building a 'Don't vote for Edwards' base, it's very hard now for people to go into the booth and pull that lever."
"There are those of us who feel not pulling it is going to be worse though. Worse for the state and the party."
A voter survey completed three days ago showed Edwards ahead. Fifty-two percent of the respondents to the poll said they would vote for Edwards, while only 26 percent said they would not. This group was decided. They used a margin of sampling error of 8 percent.
Edwards still led by about 40 percent after adjusting the survey for the "hidden vote" of people who do not admit they are married.
Bryan Wagner, a member of the state GOP central committee, said the party was facing disaster.
"We have always made up for our smaller numbers by great organization, now the organization is floundering,"
State party officials have made no endorsement in the runoff election. Roemer and former Gov. David Treen put aside their long, bitter rivalries with Edwards, saying they would vote for him.
"We've sort of boxed ourselves into a real uncomfortable position," said Ed Miller, 64, a district chairperson for 15 northern Louisiana parishes "Our people are real conservatives of all a lot of what Duke says, even those who don't like Duke."
Treen said the party would face problems if Duke wins.
Dennis Burke, 42, supported Roemer before the primary. He has jumped to the Duke campaign, devoting 14 or more hours a day and about $2,000 to the effort.
"Whether he's a significant factor remains to be seen," Treen said. "I don't believe he speaks for mainstream Republicans, but he will continue to try to use the party for his own agenda." Treen said.
"Never mind his past, he's saying what people believe." Baike said of Duke. "We're not worried if that's bad for the population."
The Louisiana governor's race
On Nov. 16, Louisiana voters will choose between two candidates with your different political views.
David Duke
very different political views.
Age: 41
Education: Bachelor's degree, in history, Louisiana State University
Profession: Writer, speaker
Major political post:
State representative, 1989
1970s: Openly espoused Nazism, worked with National Socialist White People's Party; former grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan; quit in 1980
Party: Self-proclaimed conservative Republican;
Edwin G. Edwards
Louisiana's vital statistics
Age: 64
Education: Law degree, Louisiana State University Law School
Profession: Lawyer
Major political posts:
Governor, 1972-80, 1984-88;
Representative, U.S. Congress,
1965-72; State senator, 1964-65;
La. Supreme Court justice, 1980
1980s: Was a habitual
gambler; twice tried, but never
convicted, on federal corruption
charges
Party: Democrat
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