NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 13, 1991
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Moscow
Arms sales to Afghanistan to end
The United States and the Soviet Union announced today they have agreed to halt all arms shipments to the combatants in Afghanistan's 12-year-old civil war.
"Discontinuation of Soviet and U.S. arms supplies to the conflicting Afghan sides is one of the crucial elements of this agreement," Pankin said.
The statement by Secretary of State James A. Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also called on other nations to stop sending weapons to Afghanistan's government and Muslim guerrillas.
Havana, Cuba
Castro blasts cut in Soviet troops
Cuba is angrily criticizing Mikhail Gorbachev's plan to withdraw thousands of Soviet troops from the hard-line nation, accusing him of inappropriate behavior for failing to discuss it beforehand with Havana.
Reacting just hours after the Soviet president's announcement Wednesday in Moscow, Fidel Castro's government also disputed the United Nations' beachies said were in the Caribbean island nation.
Gorbachev's announcement after a meeting with Secretary of State James A. Baker removes a significant irritant in U.S.-Soviet relations, thus improving Moscow's chances of getting badly needed Western aid and loans.
Gorbachev did not give a timetable for withdrawal of the forces.
Sacramento, California
Legislators approve fair labor bill
legislators approve fair labor bill The state Senate has approved legislation that would ban job discrimination against homosexuals in most instances, setting the stage for a difficult veto decision by Gov. Pete Wilson.
The Senate's 25-10 vote Wednesday sent the bill back to the Assembly, which passed a broader version in June and was expected to approve the revised bill yesterday.
"Anyone with a sense of elementary fairness recognizes that everybody is entitled to a job, if they are willing to work and if they have the president Romy David Robert, D-Los Angeles"
Wilson, a Republican, said earlier this year that he probably would sign the measure. Bill opponents had threatened to put the issue through by referendum on June's ballot.
From The Associated Press
Democrats press Thomas on abortion, privacy views
WASHINGTON — Frustrated Democrats accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas yesterday of evading questions about his retreat from past positions and unreasonably refusing to say how he would approach future cases.
The Associated Press
how you the womans will do.
"That's the most inartful dodge I've ever heard."
Sen. Joseph R. Biden, the Judiciary Committee chairperson, told Thomas after the nominee said he "could not sit here and decide" whether unmarried couples had a right to privacy.
Thomas eventually said sexual relations and childbearing by unmarried couples were protected by a privacy right, but not before Biden said, "It's getting more like a debate to get information."
Despite such complaints — and questions by several Democrats about whether Thomas had undergone a confirmation conversion and was disavowing previous statements to win votes — there did not appear to be a solid opposition to the nomination.
Thomas continued to turn aside questions about his views on abortion, finally telling Sen. Kebkohl, D-Wis. "Whether or not I have a view irrelevant."
On the subject of changing positions, Koni asked Thomas, "Why is it inappropriate for us to make an evaluation of your career based on all of what you have written and said?"
Kohl suggested that Thomas was telling the committee to just view him on what he was saying this week, and the senator asked if that was the right thing. He said Republicans were rebuffing the committee came to Thomas'
defense.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uttah, said Thomas had been
asked about abortion 70 times, compared to the 36 questions about the issue that were asked last year at David Souter's confirmation hearing. Souter was confirmed despite his refusal to answer such ques-
"Idon't understand why you are being treated differently than these other confirmable people,"
President Bush, asked at a news conference about the credibility of Thomas' claim that he did not have an opinion on the landmark 1973 court decision legalizing abortion, said simply, "That's a question for the Senate to decide."
A federal appeal judge since last year, Thomas. 43, was nominated this summer to replace retired Justice Thurgood Marshall. Both men are African-American, and the record in contrast to Marshall's liberalism.
Biden, D-Del., seemed exasperated at Thomas's insistence on law espoused natural law principles (1967).
"That strikes me as something different than what you said in many previous speeches," Biden
Biden reminded Thomas that during another speech that year, Thomas had praised Justice Antonin Scalia's "remarkable dissent" from a Supreme Court decision as showing how "we might relate natural rights to democratic self-government and thus protect a regime of individual rights."
**Phrases:**
"I have not in any speech said we should adjudicate cases by directly appealing to natural law," Thomas told Biden.
Faction supports hostage release
Shiite Muslim kidnappers want jailed Arabs freed in deal
The Associated Press
In the latest sign of progress, Palestinian and Israeli representatives negotiated the return of the remains of an Israeli serviceman in exchange for his body. The Palestinian to return home, a Palestinian official said.
Despite such obstacles, there was optimism that the hostage ordale could end with a phasel release of Arab prisoners held by Israel. Israeli prisoners of war and the 11 Westerners missing in Lebanon.
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The body of Samir Assad, an Israeli sergeant captured in Lebanon in 1983, was flown to Vienna, Austria, in preparation to return to Israel, said Gaiss Alamarai, a member of the ruling pollutist of the
United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, in Teheran for talks with Iranian officials, said he thought momentum toward a resolution of the hostage issue was building.
"Iam moving in that direction, as you know," said Perez du Celler, who has sparheaded diplomatic efforts to win the hostages' freedom. "I have already gotten good results, which I hope will be the beginning."
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Yesterday's statement came from the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad. It was accompanied by a picture of American Terry Anderson, whom the group is calling "the most antiquated photo was relapsed by the group last month."
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Shiite Muslim kidnappers said yesterday that they backed efforts to arrange a comprehensive hostage deal but renewed demands that jailed comrades in Europe be freed as part of any swap.
Anderson, 43, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was kidnapped March 16, 1985. He is the longest-held Western hostage.
In the statement, Islamic Jihad urged Perez de Cuellar to keep trying to arrange a deal.
Lucia di Lammermoor
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