VOL.101.NO.11
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1991
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Thousands protest Azerbaijani elections
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The southern republic of Azerbaijan held its first popular presidential election yesterday, but its current leader, a former Communist chief, was the only candidate on the ballot.
About 80,000 people carried blank ballots to Freedom Square in Baku, the capital, to protest the election, the independent Turan news agency reported. The protesters called for the resignation of the government, urged the creation of strike committees and demanded access to the republic's news media, Turan said.
Despite the protest and a call for a boycott, voter turnout was heavy, and President Ayaz Mutalibu was expected to win approval easily. news agencies reported. In one-candidate elections, voters can approve or reject the candidate.
Muitailab, leader of the republic since 1990, called the election in June, two months before a coup attempt by hard-line Communist Party members led to the disintegration of the party. He quit as leader of the Azerbaijani Communist Party after the coup.
A Soviet television report last night quoted employees of the election commission in Baku as saying Mualibov's election "can be considered a fait accompli." The Soviet news
agency Tass said.
Official results were expected as early as today.
today.
An opposition figure from the Social Democratic Party withdrew his candidacy last week to protest what the Popular Front of Azerbaijan called undemocratic elections. The front called for the balloting to be postponed because the opposition had not been able to organize.
In Baku, the Popular Front of Azerbaijan said the presidential election had been tainted by voting irregularities. It said that election observers were not allowed in some polling stations and that officials handed out multiple ballots to some people so they could vote on behalf of their families, Turan reported.
Such elections were a hallmark of Soviet politics before President Mikhail Gorbachev took power in 1985 but have been rare in recent years under his democratic reforms.
Scarce goods, such as sugar, sausage, candy and cookies, were put on sale at polling places to attract voters, the Popular Front said.
The election commission estimated that 83.7 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.
Mualiboy, $3 is an economist and technocrat who rose through the Communist Party
ranksto head the republic
After the failed coup, Mutalibov quit as Communist Party leader in the republic and seized party properties. Azerbaijan joined other republics in declaring independence from the Kremlin.
Vagif Samedoglu, an opposition leader, told an anti-election rally that the Kremlin supports Mualibov because he does not demand complete independence, Turan reported.
Turan said the leader of the Popular Front, Abufaş Velhibey, urged government opponents to rally again on Friday to protest the election.
The republic of 7 million, whose population is predominantly Muslim, is engaged in a conflict with the neighboring republic of Armenia, whose population is predominantly Christian. The dispute centers on Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave composed of a mainly Armenian population but is controlled by Azerbaijan.
In Stephanakert, the principal city of Nagorno-Karabash, only the Azerbaijani population voted, Tass reported. Tass said six people were killed and four seriously wounded in violence Saturday between Azerbaijanis and Armenians in the enclave.
Some Soviet troops leave Lithuania after recognition of Baltic freedom
VILNIUS, Lithuania — A convoy of Soviet trucks and armored vehicles left this capital city for Russian territory yesterday — two days after the Soviet Union recognized Lithuania's independence.
Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis has asked repeatedly that all Soviet troops leave Lithuania by the end of the year.
Yesterday's departure had been forecast by Lithuanian government sources and a newspaper Saturday, and photographers and camera crews were on hand.
Sixteen trucks and nine armored personnel carriers were escorted by two Lithuanian police cars from the northern army garrison in Vilnius.
Police at the scene said they were ordered to escort the convoy to the Russian district of Kaliningrad, a Soviet enclave that borders
A Lithuanian Defense Department representative, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lithuania was treating the departure as a movement because no formal withdrawal had been negotiated.
Lithuania to the west.
Deputy Premier Vygmas Valcivil was in Moscow on Saturday to talk with Soviet officials about the troops, Lithuanian television reported.
On Friday, the newly formed state council of the Soviet Union recognized the 1940 annexation of Lithuania as illegal.
The precise number of Soviet troops in Lithuania has never been made public, but analysts said more than 100,000 were stationed in the Baltics, mostly in Lithuania.
Some Interior Ministry troops have already pulled out from Lithuania and Latvia.
Fiscal belt tightens on state schoo for '91-'92
The Associated Press
Horror stories of budget slas' abound, and Dennis has heard it all. He's the state official who scus superintendents and budget offici call for counseling and advice on to trim their budgets.
TOPEKA - School boards are never seen such a budget cruisewhile universities have cut spentoconserve for shrinking statetributions to their revenue base ifyear of fiscal belt tightenin
"It's the toughest year I've through," said Dale Dennis, state education commissioner financial services. He's in his year as the state's top expert financing elementary and second education.
the 1991 Legislature, faced tight budget because of sluggish receipts and overexpending in the passed a tax increase package would have generated an addit $55 million for state aid to school
It has been even worse on Kar
301 local school district than it
the early 1970s, Dennis said. Then
when a tax lawid that was the pri
the administration of the late
Robert Docker prevented disb
from raising property taxes to exp
 their budgets.
The reason for the budget slash reduced state funding for both school districts and Board of Reg institutions.
But when Gov. Joan Finney甩 the tax bill in May, it reduced amount of general state aid to school districts from $545.9 million 1990-91 to $519.3 million for the cur school year.
Then, two weeks ago, the Finn Finance Council approved Finn call for an across-the-board 1-percent reduction in state spending. That another $5.2 million bite in gern state aid from school districts.
That is not all. The Legisla changed the distribution formula allotting state aid to local distr and that cost many of them—espery some of the larger districts —chunks of state aid.
The Legislature also appropi $396.8 million in general fund m for the universities, which was on million more than they receive the 1990-91 school year. Finney's cut ate up that increase, lea the universities with the same am of state money as the previous yee
Because of Finney's 1-percent school districts will have to get a with $31.8 million less in general aid than they got last year.
Wichita's total state aid drop nearly $10 million, while Olathe Blue Valley lost about $3 million to Topeka and Lawrence lost more $2 million each, and Hays, Garden and Dodge City all lost about $500.
About half the districts lost gen state aid.
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