VOL.101.NO.11
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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 Mutallibow was expected to win approval easily. news agencies reported. In one-candidate elections, voters can approve or reject the candidate.
Mutaliboy, leader of the republic since 1990, called the election in June, two months before a coup attempt by hardline 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 Baka as saying Mualiboho's election "can be considered a fait accompli". The 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 balloons to some people so they could vote on behalf of their families. Turan reported.
such elections 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 81.7 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.
ranks to head the republic.
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.
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, Abullas Yelchibye, 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 Stepanakert, 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.
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
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 Vygams Vaievla 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
The Legislature also appo
$396.8 million in general fund
for the universities, which was
million more than they recei
the 1990-91 school year. Finney
cent cut ate up that increase,
the universities with the same;
of state money as the previous;
But when Gov. Joan Finney the tax bill in May, it reduce amount of general state aid school districts from $543.9 m. 1990-91 to $15.9 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. T another $5.2 million bite in state aid from school districts.
TOPEKA — School boar never seen such a budget while universities have cut to compensate for shrinking distributions to their revenue bae year of fiscal bail tighten
That is not all. The Legit changed the distribution form allotting state aid to local di and that cost many of them—e ly some of the larger districts chunk of state aid.
"It's the toughest year I through," said Dale Dennis state education commission financial services. He's in state's top es-financing elementary and seducation.
Because of Finney's 1-percent school districts will have to go with $31.8 million less in膏 aid than they got last year.
It has been even worse on 90 local school districts than the early 1970s, Dennis said, when a taxidax law that was the administration of the is Robert Docking prevented from raising properly taxes to their budgets.
Wichita's total state aid neared $1 million, while Olat Blue Valley欠$3 million topeka and Lawrence lost mo$2 millioneach, and Hays, Gard and Dodge City all lost about$5
Horror stories of budget *a* bound, and Dennis has heard all. He's the state official who superintendents and budget call for counseling and advice to trim their budgets.
on the 1991 Legislature, face-
tight budget because of slugs
receipts and overexpending in t
passed a tax increase packa
would have generated an ad-
$55 million for state aid to sell
About half the districts lost state aid.
The reason for the budget slice reduced state funding for both school districts and Board of institutions.
You can't keep a good fan down Students find that the place to gather is on Campanile Hill
By Rochelle Olson Kansan staff writer
Jayhawk football fans may agree on their love of the team, but they all have different ways of enjoying the Saturday afternoon home games.
On sunny Saturdays, Chris Tevis takes a ceremonial dip in the Chi Omega Fountain after the game.
Orange
Tevis, Wilton, Conn., sophomore,
said it was a tradition among his
friends.
"Football games are kind of an all day thing," he said.
dry thing. He said Tevis is also said he liked to watch the games from the Hill so he could play Frisbee at halftime.
After the game, he changes out of his wet clothes and goes to a bar or party with friends.
Doug Brown has attended KU football games since he was in fifth grade.
Several thousand people lined Campanile Hill south of Memorial Stadium at last year's KU-KSU game.
Brien a graduate student from Meriden, a town 25 miles northwest of Lawrence, said he sold pop in the stadium as a youngster.
sadhmat is a young man.
Although he earned a degree from K-State, he has remained a Jay-hawk fan.
Now that he is earning a second degree from Kansas, he regularly attends KU football games and sits in the student section, he said.
"I enjoy Big Eight football," he said.
Brown said that before the games he and his friends walked around
the Hill talking to people.
"It is a social gathering," he said. But Sara Callen, Overland Park senior, said she went to football
rames because s
games because she loved football.
"I actually go inside the stadium and sit and pay attention to the game," she said.
She said she preferred to watch the Kansas defense.
Kailas beheerend.
"like to watch them tackle people and sack the quarterback," she said.
Callen said that she had seen the football team practice this year and was optimistic about the team's chances.
"I think they are going to make some waves in the Big Eight," she said.
Richard Trujillo, Topaek junior,
used to be a running back in high
school, so he also likes to sit in
the stadium.
"I like to watch the offense," Trujillo said.
He said the best games to watch were the ones against good teams such as Oklahoma and Nebraska
Alexis Rodriguez, Lawrence senior, agreed that Big Eight games were the most fun he said. He said he was part of the team at the stadium.
"I usually go in for a quarter or two, preferably the first," he said. "Then I go out on the Hill and sit with some friends and drink some cold ones."
"I go back inside for the fourth quarter if it is a close game."
But he said the warm temperatures at the early season games kept him on the Hill.
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