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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 Mutalibu was expected to win approval easily. news agencies reported. In one-candidate elections, voters can approve or reject the candidate.
Mutualiboy, 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 news
agency Tass said.
Official results were expected as early as 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, as 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.
Scarse 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.
Mutilaboy, 53, 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 Mualiblov because he does not demand complete independence, Turan reported.
Turan said the leader of the Popular Front, Abulafas Yelchibey, 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 displease conterson Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave composed of a mainly Armenian population but is controlled by Arbaneli.
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
The Associated Press
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 departures 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-'92
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — School board never seen a budget or while universities have cut it to compensate for shrinking stributions to their revenue base year of fiscal belt tighter.
"It's the toughest year I'm through," said Dale Dennis, state education commission financial services. He's in 1 year as the state's top ex-financing elementary and seducation.
It has been even worse on I 391 local school districts than in the early 1970s. Dennis said, when a tax law law that was the administration of the la Robert Docking prevented clr from raising property taxes to their budgets.
Horror stories of budget s abound, and Dennis has hear all. He's the state official who superintendents and budget call for counseling and advice to trim their budgets.
The reason for the budget slia reduced state funding for both school districts and Board of I institutions.
one 1991 Legislature, faced tight budget because of slugg receipts and overspending in it passed a tax increase package $5 million have generated an act $5 million for state aid to sech
But when Gov. Joan Finney the tax bill in May, it reduces amount of general state aid school districts from $545.9 m 1990-91 to $513.9 million for the school year.
Then, two weeks ago, the Finance Council approved a call for an across-the-board 1-credit reduction in state spending. That another $5.2 million bite in state aid from school districts. The Legislature also appr $396.8 million in general fund for the universities, which was more million than they receive the 1990-91 school year. Finer's cent cut at up that increase, the universities with the same state money as the previous. Because of Finney's 1-percent school districts will have to give $3.1 million in less gainer
That is not all. The Legi changed the distribution form allotting state aid to local d and that cost many of them—ely some of the larger district chunks of state aid.
Wichita's total state aid is nearly $10 million, while Old Blue Valley lost about $3 milllion Topeka and Lawrence lost me $2 million each, and Hays, Gar and Dodge City all owe $5 million. Its state aid loses most
About half the districts lost state aid.
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