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New Haitian prime minister ratified
Thirty-five of 81 deputies not present at vote in apparent protest
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Abare plurality of the National Assembly ratified the appointment of Jean-Jacques Honoret as prime minister yesterday, the state-run Radio Nationale said.
Thirty-three of the 46 deputies who were present approved Honorat's appointment; 'no' votes weren't tabulated, so it was not clear how many of the other 13 deputies were opposed or abstaining.
The 46 deputies were five more than the minimum necessary to form a quorum. The 46 deputies were eight more.
Thirty-three of 46 members of Haiti's National Assembly approved the prime minister's appointment.
Deputies. The 35 absent deputies apparently were protesting the formation of a government to replace President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was overthrown in a Sept. 30 coup.
Honorat, appointed by interim President Joseph Nerette last Friday, said his government would hold elections within three months and "will tolerate no infringement of constitutional legality or violation of inalienable human rights."
Sources told The Associated Press that in face of mounting international pressure, Honorat was having trouble finding credible candidates for a
national-consensus Cabinet. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity.
The coup, which left at least 200 dead and hundreds wounded, was condemned by the Organization of American Nations and by many member nations.
Honorat said that Haiti would be "forced to its knees" in event of a world embargo but that effective boycott steps had not yet been taken. He said the international community was backing off from its hard stance and demanding only that Haiti "conform to democratic norms."
High-school graduates are ill-prepared for college demands. Kassebaum savs
The Associated Press
TOPEKA—Sen Nancy Kassbeau
said yesterday that too many students
graduating from high school were not
interested in what they would
encounter in college.
"We need to encourage higher standards in high school," Kassebaum told more than 100 educators and state officials. "We're concerned about a false education on Postsecondary Education.
"I'm not blaming the institutions, nor the teachers nor the administra-
Kassebaum said that universities should not be forced to offer such courses as remedial reading to incoming students who do not read well
enough to make it through college.
"It trivialize the college educa-
tion in its issuabsa said. "It unfair to
students."
She also said if people did not return to a basic respect for learning, schools would not improve no matter how much the local governments pour into education.
Kassebaum, who was on the Maize, Kan., school board before being elected to the Senate in 1978, said schools needed to build a learning foundation in students during the elementary school years.
She emphasized that grade-school students should be able to attend high school.
hoods.
"Our students deserve to have as good schools in their neighborhoods as we can give them." Kass b e a u b m said the community the best should be right there in one's own neighborhood.
Kassebaum also said ever increasing college tuition could reach a crisis point soon. She said educators and lawmakers needed to examine alternatives, such as three-year bachelor's
or a four-year program.
NancyKassebaum
"The ability to take some risks and try to see what works and doesn't work is very important," she said.
She said some lawmakers in Washington wanted to develop a more generous assistance program for students. Some even wanted to make postsecondary educational assistance an entitlement program.
Such a policy could have unforeseen consequences that could result in the federal government spending money they didn't have and spending that they could not control, Kassebaum warned.
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Researchers find high rates of suicide among farmers
Older farmers often told counselors that the "only way to salvage the farm was to die, and the family would have enough insurance to maintain and keep the land," she said.
The Associated Press
WAUSAU, Wis. — The suicide rate among male farmers in the Upper Midwest during the 1980s was nearly double the national average for white men in some of those years, according to a study released yesterday.
The study found that 913 male farmers killed themselves from 1980 to 1988 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana as they struggled with record indebtedness, unstable prices, falling land values and drought.
The National Farm Medicine Center, did the study, said it would conduct more research to determine whether a link existed between the farm crisis and the suicide rate.
"I think this is profoundly disturbing because there is no profession where an occupational hazard ought to be suicide," said Kenneth Robbins, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin.
The study, based on information from public-health agencies, found 44 suicides for every 100,000 farmers and ranchers in 1890, researcher Paul Gunderson said.
After peaking at 58 suicides in
1982, the rate fell to 42 suicides per
100,000 farmers in 1985. It was 50,33
suicides per 100,000 farmers,
respectively. Gunderson said.
Nationwide in 1980. 31 suicides occurred for every 100,000 white males age 20 or older, he said. The
Robbins said that when face with losing their land, farmers often feel they've failed their ancestors and children.
figure for 1988 was 22 suicides per 100,000.
"The they are losing a multigenerational legacy," he said. "You have lost everything you get your selfesteem from."
Virtually all the farmers who killed themselves were white, except in South Dakota, where one in five was American Indian.
In North Dakota, some bankers began calling mental-health officials to warn of impending foreclosures, said Myrt Armstrong, executive director of the Mental Health Association of North Dakota, which runs a crisis line for farmers.
Experts said the drop in suicides after 1882 could be attributed to increased awareness of the farmers' plight, which reduced their sense of isolation and contributed to improved services, such as credit counseling.
A study of the half of the decade, conducted by Gunderson and others for the Minnesota Center for Health Statistics, found that injuries, alcoholism, terminal illness, family problems and the poor economy contributed to many of the suicides.
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