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 50,000 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 Mutalibwu was expected to win approval easily. news agencies reported. In one-candidate elections, voters can approve or reject the candidate.
Mutualibal, 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 Mualibalov's election "can be considered a fait accompli." The Soviet new
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.
Scarece 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.
Mutalibov, 53, is an economist and technocrat who rose through the Communist Party
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.
ranks to head the republic
Vagif Samedoglu, an opposition leader,
told an anti-election rally that the Kremlin
supports Mutalibov because he does not
demand complete independence, Turan
reported.
Turan said the leader of the Popular Front, Abufas Yelchibey, urged government opponents to rally again on Friday to protest the election.
election.
The populace 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-Karabakh, 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.
The Associated Press
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 personeli 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
Lithuania to the west
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.
Deputy Premier Vygmas Vaicvila 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 o state scho for '91-'9
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — School boar never seen such a budget while universities have cut to compensate for shrinking tributions to their revenue be year of fiscal belt tights
"It's the toughest year I through," said Dale Dennis state education commission financial services. He's in year as the state's top ex financing elementary and seducation.
Horror stories of budget *a bound, and Dennis has healed all. He's the state official who superintendents and budget call for counseling and advice to trim their budgets.
The reason for the budget sale reduced state funding for both school districts and Board of 1] institutions.
the 1991 Legislature, face tight budget because of slug receipts and overspending in it passed a tax increase packa would have generated an ad $55 million for state aid to schricts.
It has been even worse on 304 local school districts than the early 1970s, Dennis said when a tax lid law that was the administration of the lk Robert Docking prevented from raising property taxes to their budgets.
But when Gov. Joan Finney the tax bill in May, it reduce amount of general state aid school districts from $545.9 m. 1990-91 to $513.3 million for the school year.
Then, two weeks ago, the Finance Council approved F call for an across-the-board 1' reduction in state spending. TP another $2.5 million bite in state aid from school districts.
The Legislature also approves $396.8 million in general fund for the universities, which was million more than they receive the 1990-91 school year. Finney cut ate up that increase, the universities with the same of state money as the previous
That is not all. The Legis changed the distribution form allotting state aid to local di and that cost many of them —ely some of the larger districts chunks of state aid.
Because of Finney's 1-percent school districts will have to go with $3.8 million less in generous aid that they got last year.
About half the districts lost g state aid.
Wichita's total state aid de-
nearly $10 million, while Olai
Blue Valley lost about $3 million
Topeka and Lawrence lost mo-
$2 million each, and Hays, Gard
and Dodge City all lost about $5
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Stadium gets new scoreboard More room,better graphics, animation now available
Jennifer Bach Kansan staff writer
With the help of five sponsors in Lawrence, Memorial Stadium is able to sport a new scoreboard.
He said that scorebards were important because they enhanced the atmosphere of the game.
Doug Vance, assistant athletic director, said that the 15-year-old scoreboard was outdated and much of the scoreboard's technology was not up to the standards of other college sports.
"The animations are better than what we had before," he said. "They are bigger and easier to read. You can get more lines of text on it at a time for
Vance said the Athletic Department wanted to improve the overall quality of the scoreboard but especially wanted to improve the message center, where more graphics and animations were used in the message-center operator, said the new scoreboard was larger and had more functions than the old one.
messages."
He said the old scoreboard had parts that did not always operate as they should and that some parts would go out during the game.
Bennett said the circuitry of the new scoreboard would endure the cold winter weather better.
Bob Porter, associate director of facilities and operations, said that the he had to make weekly repairs on the old scoreboard to keep it operating during the games.
The new board, which was manufactured by Fairtron Inc. cost $200,000, said Richard Lutcher, the business's logistics director for compliance.
The LawrencesJournalWorld, Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut,WIBW/Channel 13 and Sonny Hill Motors sponsored the scoreboard.
Ralph Gage, general manager of the Journal-World, said that the company has supported a number of University projects. "This is just another way to help support the University," he said.
The new scoreboard at Memorial Stadium has more message space than before.
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