VOL.101.NO.11
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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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
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.
Mutilahil, 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 Mutalibov'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.
Scare goods, such as sugar, sausage, candy and cookies, were put on sale at polling places to attract voters, the Popular Front said.
ranks to 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.
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-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 convey 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 Vaieviai 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 such a budget (or while universities have cut st to compensate for shrinking st tributions to their revenue bas year of fiscal belt tightter Kansas.
"It's the toughest year I' throught," said Dale Dennis, state education commission financial services. He's in 1 year as the state's top ex-financing elementary and sec education.
Horror stories of budget's sbound, and Dennis has hear all. He's the state official who superintendents and budget call for counseling and advice in trim their budgets.
It has been even worse on l1
304 local school districts than i
the early 1970s. Dennis said,
when a tax law that was the
the administration of the la
Robert Docking prevented c
from raising property taxes to
their budgets.
The reason for the budget slai reduced state funding for both school districts and Board of I institutions.
The 1991 Legislature, faced tight budget because of slugs receipts and overexpending in t passed a tax increase packa would have generated an ad infinitum for state aid to seize
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 $519.3 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. Thi another $5.2 million bite in state aid from school districts.
The Legislature also apport $396.8 million in general fund for the universities, which was million more than they reacel the 1990-91 school year. Finney cent cut ate up that increase, the universities with the same of state money as the previous
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.
Because of Finney's 1-percent school districts will have to go with $1.8 million less in guesa aid than they got last year.
Wichita's total state aid oi
nearly $10 million, while Ola
Blue Valley lost about $3 milll
Topeka and Lawrence lost m
$2 million each, and Hays, Gar
and Dodge all lost about $
About half the districts lost state aid.
Chris Maumalanga (right), Hawthorne, Calif., sophomore, and Keith Loneker, Rosselle Park, N.J., junior, show off their Jayhawk tattoos, which reflect their positions of defensive end and offensive tackle.
Symbols of dedication
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan Sportswriter
This fall, two Kansas football players are sporting large heads and new hair and skin. They're all wearing a hair stint.
The two players are Chris Maumalanga, a sophomore defensive end from Hawthorne, Calif., and Keith Loneker, a junior offensive tackler from Roselle Park, N.J.
styles — or are branded with them.
The duo said that the tattoos and shaved heads showed their commitment to Kansas football.
Loum got their tattoos at Ron's Tattoo Parlor, which is near Loneker's home, Malmaunga said. Loneker got his tattoo last week and asked Loum if he went to visit Loneker this summer, he said.
Mimicking his position on the team, Maumalanga's tattoo, which is on his right calf, is a Jayhawk in a hitting position with clenched fists.
"Iwant people to know we are Jayhawks for life," the signers we are here to take pride in.
When Loneker and Maumalanga were to get their tattoos, they had to show the tattoo artist a Jayawk T-shirt so he would know how to draw one. Maumalanga said.
Loneker's tattoo of a Jayhawk clutching a football on his calf.
Lonekeer said, "On the East Coast, people thought it was a big Woody Woodpecker."
chompa same that at first he was scared and thought that getting a tattoo might hurt.
Loneker and Maumalanga decided to shave their heads the night before returning to Kansas for fall football camp. Maumalanga said.
"After five minutes, I got used to it; it was an irritating feeling, a pinching feel," he
Loneker said, "All my brothers have tattoos, and I always wanted a tattoo, so I bought one."
- raceted Keith from California and told him I was shaving my head and he got his clippers out and shaved his head too," he said.
The slick look and tattoos are becoming a team fashion statement.
Maunalanga said he told Kyle Moore, a junior defensive tackle from Newark, N.J. what he and Loneker had done. Moore then told some of the other players.
The next day, when Maumalanga and Loneker arrived at Jayhawker Towers, about 10 other players had also shaved their heads, Maumalanga said.
Though Maumalaunga has stubble on his head, he plans to shave his head again after a fight.
whenave no social interests. The only thing on my mind is school and football, "Maumalanga said. "We have no one to impress, our job is to take this to a higher level."
Loneker said some of the other players at Toptal were tooleep and were thinking about going to Topper.
Maumalanga said, "We are telling them to wait till after the season, so they can think
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