NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, October4, 1991
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Little Rock, Ark.
Clinton enters Democratic race
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton joined the field of Democratic presidential candidates yesterday, promising to reinvent government to protect a middle class he said President Bush ignored.
NASA receives $2 billion for space station
Clinton, who calls himself a moderate Democrat, is the fifth prominent candidate candidately for president.
"We must turn this country around and get it working again." Clinton said during a speech interrupted by applause more than 50 times. He urged for middle-class Americans for a change."
At 45, he has been a rising political star since the 1970s. He was the nation's youngest governor at 32 when elected for his first term in 1978 is now the nation's longest-serving governor
Clinton declared his candidacy outside the Old State House in downtown Little Rock at a rally in Tulsa on Saturday.
Kinshasa, Zaire
Prime minister maintains power
Etienne Tshisekedi, the opposition leader named prime minister earlier this week, urged troops Wednesday to remain in Zaire as the military struggle with President Mobutu Sese Seko unfolded.
Mobutu told Western diplomats Wednesday that he was thinking about replacing Tsishkei di because of his refusal to give Mobutu's Population share of power in the interim government.
Thiskedhee held lengthy talks yesterday with opposition leaders and Mobutu supporters, but no progress was reported in efforts to form a new government after last week's violent riots.
But Zaire's state-run television continued to refer to Tishekedi as prime minister yesterday and gave no indication that Mobutu, Zaire's ruler for 26 years, could displace him.
-From The Associated Press
House votes 390-30 to give agency total budget of $14.3 billion for FY '92
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a bittersweet victory, NASA got $2 billion for a planned space station but suffered deep cuts in other projects, including a new launch system and a project to build an aircraft of flying 23 times the speed of sound.
The House voted 399-30 Wednesday to give the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $1.4 billion for fiscal year 1992, which began Tuesday, without cutting the space station money. A few hours later, the Senate moved the compromise bill on a voice vote.
The $80.9 billion bill, which also includes money for other government agencies, was returned to the House because of a dispute about language having nothing to do with space program. What that disagreement means to be sent President Bush for signing.
The money will enable NASA to start building the station, which it hopes to have in orbit by 2015.
astronauts by the year 2000.
NASA considers the space station the core of its planned research for the next several decades, research that will be used on the moon and expeditions to Mars.
For NASA, the project has meant taking money out of many other pockets and putting it into a station account that eventually will be $20 billion or more.
Among the programs being cut are the Orbiting Solar Laboratory, an infrared telescope, a new fuel pump for shuttle vehicles and the space station and the aircraft project.
To finance the space station, some programs of NASA have to be eliminated, reduced or stretched into future years, said Rep. Bob Traxler, D-Mich, chairperson of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees NASA.
Traxler led an unsuccessful fight earlier this year to kill the station.
Another congressional opponent, Rep. Dick Zimmer, R-N.J., predicted that the
space station would be squeezed out of the budget either next year or the year after by the same pressures that led to this year's controversy.
" Its funding is competing not only against fundering for other popular independent agencies but also against funding for our science and space programs," he said.
The overall spending bill also includes appropriations for housing, veterans and other programs, including $361 million for HOPE, the Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere program proposed by Housing Secretary Jack Kemp to help public-housing residents buy their apartments.
The bill contains $6 billion for the Enviro-
mental Protection Agency, as well as
$50 million to fund energy and water
programs.
NASA, which routinely has received year-to-year budget increases of 10 percent or more, will receive only a three-percent increase in the funding it had requested an additional $1.4 billion.
NASA space station
Here is a view of the proposed space station that NASA considers the core of its research for the next several decades.
Length
Electrical power supply
Bats of data to be
transmitted back to earth
Live-in U.S. astronauts
Cost for to build
353 ft.
56 kilowatt
50 million
per minute
Four
$30 billion
South African awarded Nobel Prize in literature
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden  Nadine
Brodschneider professor at the
1991 Nobel Prize-winning Wednesday
Gordimer's searing portrayals of human relationships in the racial maelstrom of South Africa have, in the past, been called unnatriotic by her own government.
The Swedish Academy, which awards the
winner of the annual awards ceremony,
had been "born of crying blood to peach."
The academy cited her "specifically feminine experiences, her compassion and her outrage."
Gordimer, 67, who is white, told reporters in New York that she writes about race and morality because "it's being lived by the people." Her kind of situation naturally fascinates me.
The African National Congress, of which Gordondier is a member, said, "In honoring Nadine, one of South Africa's outstanding writers, the people of the world pay tribute to all South Africans who stand for truth, human dignity and freedom."
Some of Gordierm's works, which include 10 novels and more than 200 short stories, have been banned in the past by the government, but they now are all legal.
The prize is worth about $1 million.
Her most recent novel, published in 1990, is "My Son's Story," about a married Blackman who falls in love with a fellow activist, a white woman. The academy said of the novel: "The relationship of the lovers is described with great tenderness. At the same time, the unyielding political reality constantly intrudes."
Gordimer "writes with intense immediacy about the extremely complicated personal and social relationships in her environment," the academy said. "At the same time, as she taught me — — and takes action on that basis — she does not permit this to encoach on her writings."
Gordimer's latest collection of short stories, "Jump," was published this year.
Gordimer said that despite recent changes in the government, the struggle against racial injustice is far from finished. "We've done a lot of good work," he be discouraged by difficulties on the way."
She said then, "Having lived here for 65 years, I am well aware for how long black people refrained from violence. We white people are responsible for it."
In December 1989, in a dramatic demonstration of her convictions, Gordier testified as a defense witness for 11 Black activists on trial for treason and terrorism.
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