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
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The Associated Press
MONCOW — 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.
Mutalibov, 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.
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.
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 because the opposition had not been able to organize.
In Baku, the Popular Front of Azerbaijan said the presidential election had been bainted 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.
Scarce goods, such as sugar, sausage, candy and cookies, were put on sale at polling places to attract voters, the Popular Front said.
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.
The election commission estimated that 83.7 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.
Matalibov, 53, is an economist and technocrat who rose through the Communist Party
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 enriched composed of a mainly Armenian population but is controlled by Azerbaijan.
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, Abulafaye Yelibibey, urged government opponents to rally again on Friday to protest the election.
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
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 Landsberger 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 a movement because no formal withdrawal had been negotiated.
Deputy Premier Vygas 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 such a budget while universities have cut syt to compensate for shrinking stributions to their revenue base year of fiscal belt tighter Kansas.
"It's the toughest year I through," said Dale Dennis, state education commissio financial services. He's immei nce the state's top apic education elementary and sec education
It has been even worse on lia
198 local school districts than if
the early 1970s, Dennis said,
when a tax law that was the
administration of the la
Robert Docking prevented d
from raising property taxes to
their budgets.
Horror stories of budget's sbound, and Dennis has hear it. He's the state official who superintendents and budget call for counseling and advice to trim their budgets.
The reason for the budget slayed reduced state funding for both school districts and Board of I institutions.
The 1991 Legislature, faced tight budget because of slugg receipts and overexpending in t passed a tax increase packa would have generated an annual bill for state aid to such tribes.
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.
Because of Finney's 1-pere
school districts will have to go
with $31.8 million less in gess
aid than they got last year.
Then, two weeks ago, the Finance Council approved F for call on across-the-board 1 reduction in state spending. Thi another $5.2 million bite in state aid from school districts. The Legislature also appo $396.8 million in general fund for the universities, which was million more than they recei the 1999-91 school year. Finney cut ate up that increase, the universities with the same of state money as the previous
That is not all. The Legi changed the distribution form allotting state aid to local d and that cost many of them -e -y 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 million Topeka and Lawrence lost m $2 million each, and Hays, Gar and Dodge City all lost about m
About half the districts lost state aid.
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1 Dwayne Chandler TE
2 George White RB
3 Gerald McBurrows DB
4 Marlin Blakeney DB
5 Matt Gail WR
6 Jim New WR
7 Hassan Bailey DB
8 Tim Hill DB
9 Asheiki Preston QB
10 Todd Caudle QB
10 Doug Terry DB
11 Ron Page WR
12 Fredrick Thomas QB
13 Van Davis QB
13 David Mack QB
14 Paul Friday QB
15 Nate Florell QB
16 Kharon Brown QB
16 Alex Chaffetz PK
17 Lance Flachsbarth DB
18 Chip Hilleary QB
19 Jason Burritt QB
20 Chaka Johnson RB
22 Charley Bowen DB
23 Jason Priest DB
24 Tony Sands RB
25 Terence Mays RB
26 Maurice Douglas DB
27 James Givens DB
28 Dwayne Wilson DB
29 Harold Harris DB
30 David Converse DB
31 Dan Eichloff PK/P
32 Chris Powell FB
33 Monte Cozzens FB
34 Roger Robben FB
55 Larry Thiel BL
36 Jerry Powell RB
37 Clint Eskam LB
38 Robert Vaughn DB
39 Don Davis OLB
40 King Dixon BD
41 John Flynn FB
43 Brandon Johnson DL
44 Paul Zaffaroni LB
45 Spencer Bonner DB
46 Brian Lambert P
49 Jerry Belizaire DB
50 Robert Mitchell OLB
51 Tyler Quast LB
52 Steve Harvey LB
53 Doug Bowen LB
53 David Kepus LB
54 Rod Jones DL
55 Ron Morgan LB
56 Russ Bower OG
57 Brad Pomrenke OLB
58 Wes Swinford LB
59 Dave Marcum C
60 Dave Scott LB
60 Michael Paul OL
61 Brad Peebler LB
62 Chris Banks OL
63 Yashurun Slaughter DT
64 Joe Hornback OL
64 Matt Nolen DT
65 Scott Imwalle OG
66 Hessley Steadrop LED
67 Ty Moeder DE
67 Chris Paddledy C
69 Brian Rodene OL
69 John Jones OG
70 Trace Liggett OT
71 Dana Stubblefield DT
72 Chris Maumalanga DE
73 Scott McCabe C
74 Keith Loneker OT
75 Dan Schmidt C
76 Kristopher Booth DT
77 Christopher Perez OT
78 Mark Allison DL
79 Steve Douglas DT
80 Ashaoundai Smith WR/RB
81 Rob Licuri WR
82 Terry Bell WR
83 Marc Ettrick OLB
84 Rodney Harris WR
85 Kenny Drayton WR
86 Marlon Sanders WR
87 Chad Fette TE
88 Jason Stallman TE
89 Jason Tyler OLB
90 Guy Howard OLB
91 Brent Willford OLB
92 Pete Vane TE
93 Gilbert Brown DT
94 Darnell Brit LB
95 Brad Ramsey P
96 Kevin Polian DL
96 Kyle Moore DT
97 Sylvester Wright OLB
98 Darry Jones TE
98 Todd Casey TE
99 Brian Christian DT
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