University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 8, 1991
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Bush challenges NATO leaders to affirm U.S. military presence
The Associated Press
ROME — President Bush won assurances yesterday from NATO leaders that they still want America's help in defending Europe. In a landmark decision, he signed an old Warsaw Pact adversaries to join them in "a new era of partnership."
NATO also adopted a slimmer military structure in acknowledgement of the end of the Cold War and prepared to call on the Soviets to put their armaments under the control of a single central authority.
"We must clasp the outreached hand of the people whose freedom has at last been won by a combination of their courage and our resolve," said Bush.
"We have lost our former enemies," NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner said in opening the meeting. "We all rejoice in that."
But it was Bush's challenge to NATO that dominated the opening sessions of the two-day summit. Bush pledged the United States would never abandon its nuclear program, and the allied allies they must say whether they need or want America in their drive
toward closer European union.
"If, my friends, your ultimate aim is to provide independently for your own defense, the time to tell us is today," Bush told the allied leaders.
Britain and Italy declared that a NATO political declaration to be issued today spells out what Italian politicians called an "undoubtful answer."
"Europe does want to maintain the trans-Atlantic partnership, including the military aspect" said De Michels. But France, the prime advocate of the West Europeans assuming their own power, reacted coolly to Bush's statement.
"We wish the American presence to remain in Europe," French President Francois Mitterrand's representative Jean Musiellä said.
Bush asked during a closed session whether a French-German proposal this month for a European army was intended to exclude the United States.
Despite the tension, the alliance adopted a new strategy which underlined continuing cohesiveness.
The leaders agreed to invite the
Soviet Union and eight other former communist countries to join a new North Atlantic "cooperation council."
The others are Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria
and the three Baltic republics of
Latvia. Lithuania and Estonia.
The council is due to meet for the first time at an East-West meeting in Brussels on Dec. 20, marking the first time the Western allies have invited East European nations to participate in their defense affairs.
The council would meet at the ministerial level once a year with more frequent meetings among the nations' ambassadors.
The alliance's new strategic policy announced in a finalized communique yesterday called for fewer soldiers, and less reliance on nuclear weapons.
It said the new risks would come from ethnic rivalries, territorial disputes and economic tensions in the democracies of Eastern Europe.
De Michelis said, "We can consider the Rome summit a sort of new birthday for the alliance."
Senate approves abortion counseling
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday completed congressional action on a bill that would allow federally paid abortion counseling. President Bush has vowed to vet the measure.
The Senate vote was 72-25, more than to overturn a veto. But the House vote on Wednesday fell short of the two-thirds majority that would be needed to pass the bill over Bush's objections.
The measure was included in legislation providing $205 billion for health, education and labor programs for the new federal budget.
Supporters of lifting the counseling restrictions - which they call the gag rule - urged Bush to sign the legislation. They argued that pregnant women who use federally financed clinics have a right to know about abortions.
"The disagreement here is over whether a poor woman is entitled to basic information," said Sen. John Chafee, R-L.I., has led efforts to work out a compromise with Bush.
But after the House approved the measure by only 272-10, support for the ban predicted that the president would be able to pry
The vote showed convincingly the strength of anti-abortion forces in the House, Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., said after Wednesday's vote.
Both the House and the Senate previously approved the bill. The latest vote was on accepting a House-Senate conference report reconciling differences.
On the eve of the vote, a group of Republicans charged
that the bill utilized budget trickery to provide $4 billion for programs by pushing outlets into the next fiscal year. They urged rejection of the measure, and opponents of the gag rule said it resulted in reduced votes for the bill.
"What you see here is a legislative shell game," said House Mipority Leader Robert Michel. R-III.
Bush has threatened to veto any bill negating the counseling ban. Seeking to avoid what could be the first override of his veto, Bush released a memo Tuesday aimed at persuading lawmakers that the restrictions would not be interpreted strictly. But opponents said Bush's memo had no legal effect.
"The White House memo is designed to get the administration off the hook on the gag rule and provide its gag-rule supporters in the House protection," said Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore.
The ban against abortion counseling was imposed by the Reagan administration in 1988, continued by Bush and upheld by the Supreme Court in May this year.
"This is not a gag rule," Smith argued. "It's a prenatal care rule." It's about taxpayer-subsidized abortion advocacy.
The restrictions never have been implemented because of court orders blocking them. Unless legislation is enacted holding off the counseling ban, the restrictions are expected to take effect in several months.
Opponents of the restrictions have complained that they violate freedom of speech and the doctor-patient relationship. They also say the prohibition unduly affects women who have been assisted clinically because they cannot afford a private doctor
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