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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 16, 1991
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Stockholm, Sweden
Elections end dominance of Social Democrats
The Social Democrats, founders of Sweden's welfare state, suffered their worst defeat in nearly 60 years yesterday as voters turned to non-socialist parties offering tax cuts, more choice and less bureaucracy.
Inflation and growing concerns about government efficiency have shifted the prosperous Swedes' support away from the party that has governed for 55 of the past 59 years and has shaped a system that provides cradle-to-grave services in exchange for some of the highest taxes in the world.
Projections also showed that the Christian Democrats, with 7.6 percent of the vote, would win a party-wing battle with 6.6 percent, would enter parliament for the first time.
The Social Democrats and Left Party won 155 seats, a loss of 22, and the Greens were knocked out altogether, winning less than 4 percent.
Based on projections from 398 of 720 key districts, Swedish television reported that the non-socialist bloc would win 170 seats in the 349-member Riksdag, or parliament, five short of a majority.
According to the projections, it was the Social Democrats' worst election since they came to power, even worse than during 1976-82, when three non-socialist coalitions and governments ruled.
Nicosia, Cyprus
Iraq: Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani predicted yesterday an agreement on Kurdish autonomy could be reached within days, the Iraq News Agency reported.
Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, met with Defense Minister Hussein Kamel Hassan and Izairah Ibrahim, vice chairperson of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council, the state-run agency said. The report gave no details of the proposed autonomy plan.
The Iraq News Agency, monitored in Cyprus, also quoted Barzani as saying measures were being worked out to return Kurdish refugees to the northern city of Kirkuk.
Nearly 2 million Iraqi Kurds fled to the Turkish or Iranian borders after their failed uprising against President Saddam Hussein in the weeks following the Persian Gulf War.
U. S. troops spent more than two months in northern Iraq helping resettle Kurdish refugees and guard against reprisals by Saddam.
"We have sent an envoy to the minister of interior and the governor of Kirkuk to prepare for their return," Barzani said.
—From The Associated Press
Iowa's Harkin announces entry into Democratic presidential race
WINTERSET, Iowa — Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin entered the Democratic presidential race with a poplistist's fiery call to "take back government from the privileged few" and return the party to its roots.
The Associated Press
Harkin spelled out a campaign aimed at "the people who pull the load and pay the taxes," those he said had been betrayed by "the greed and selfishness of George Herbert Walker Bush and J. Danforth Quayle."
He dismissed his difficult odds against President Bush, even as he touted his bid to "start investing here in America."
"There are those who say that we're a long shot, that we can't win," Harkin said. "I'm here to tell you that George
Herbert Walker Bush has feet of clay, and I intend to take a hammer to them.
Harkin was elected to Congress in 1974 and was in the House of Representatives for 10 years before defeating Republican Sen. Roger Jepsen. He was re-elected last year and spent the
summer testing the presidential waters.
Harkin's candidacy sets the stage for a battle within the Democratic Party between liberal activists who play an large role in the nominating process and conservative ones, until the party cannot win the White House until it moves more to the middle.
Democratic National Chairman Ronald Brown said Harkin's candidacy would show voters "there are sharp alternatives to the do-not republican Administration of George Herbert Walker Bush."
The only other candidate to announce his intention to pursue the Democratic presidential nomination is Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, the nation's first elected African-American governor.
Rights conference unites East, West
The Associated Press
MOSCOW—The human rights chasm that separated East and Westis narrowing. For the first time, the United States, Western Europe and the Soviet Union are united at a large human rights conference.
The 38-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which begins the second session of a four-week-long meeting today, has been a major set of deliberate thinking on issues that long have separated Moscow from the West.
Western foreign ministers who attended the opening sessions generally liked what they heard: Soviet patients to give international human rights aid in national law, to allow some freedom of movement and to protect minorities.
tries, was set up to implement the 1975 Helsinki Final Act on human rights. The meeting will continue until Oct. 4.
The CSCE, which groups the United States, Canada and European coun-
One key issue CSCE delegates face now is enforcing human rights standards and protecting minorities. They also are discussing ways to strengthen democratic institutions and develop mechanisms to resolve conflicts.
refuges, armed conflicts, interethnic hatred, loss of life and destruction of cities and villages, it must make sure that minority rights should be respected by all states throughout the continent," declared Gorbachev.
Despite the potential for continued ethnic conflict, both Gorbachev and Secretary of State James A. Baker III Baker predicted a world without East-West barriers.
"If Europe is to avoid a flood of
Gorbachev said the new Soviet nation of free and democratic states and republics would become the great Eurasian democracy, one of the bulwarks of the new world.
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