NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 3, 1991
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Cleveland
After poll, city OK's sex videos
Officials in suburban Lakewood have dropped an anti-pornography campaign, citing a poll that found most residents thought X-rated videotapes should be available to adults who want them.
The survey of about 200 adults, conducted by Ohio State University researcher Joseph E. Scott and Survey Research Inc., found 78 percent believed they should be able to legally
The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on other obscessity cases, has ruled that community standards should be used to define what materials are obsessive.
Boston
4,822 pounds of cocaine seized
Federal officials stood in front of bales of cocaine stacked like firewood Sunday and announced a cocaine bust that netted 4,822 pounds of the drug worth $500 million on the street.
In Massachusetts and Florida, 10 were charged and nine arrested in the third major criminal case.
cocaine blood in the DOB said U.S. Attorney Wayne Budd said almost 5 tons of cocaine worth $1 billion had been seized since June.
Law enforcement officials say they are combating dealers' new tactic of shipping drugs through New England and eastern Canada rather than Florida and the Mexican border.
Brussels, Belgium Croatian women call for peace
About 800 Croatian women, many of them with sons serving in the Yugoslav army, marched in Brussels yesterday to demand that the European Community do more to end the war in their country.
The women rallied for two hours in front of the ECh headquarters, chanting peace slogans, waving Croatian flags and holding their fingers aloft in the peace sign.
"We are here with one purpose: to ask for peace," said Nada Pezo, who has two young sons.
-From The Associated Press
Soviet Union dies after 74 years
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev and leaders of most of the Soviet republics took power into their own hands yesterday, presenting the lame-duck parliament with a death certificate for the old Soviet Union.
In a display of raw power, Gorbachev, Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev railroaded the congress toward the creation of three interim councils to govern a loose federation of sovereign states.
"This is an attempt at an unconstitutional coup," cried hard-liner LCol. Viktor Alkisas who grabbed a dead microphone on the floor of the room, people's Deputies after the plan was presented.
As Alksini and other hard-linersfumed, the three leaders adjourned the session and asked delegations from the 15 republics to discuss the plan separately.
The delegations came back with resounding support for the plan, which effectively declares the old Soviet Union dead and fries the leaders of the republics to create some
thing. But it was a logical if vastly accelerated continuation of a policy that began in April when Gorbachev and Yeltsin buried most of their differences, recognized hard-liners as their common enemy and struck a tentative deal among nine of the 15 Soviet republics to bleed central power.
Republics gain power with latest plan
thing new in place of the republics.
The latest plan was worked out in a closed meeting that began Sunday afternoon and was completed hours before the Congress opened. It makes a leap toward realizing the transfer of power from the Kremlin to the republics.
The plan still requires formal approval. But it may be the final blow against the Congress, which was hailed as a democratic innovation when it was created two years ago, although it was dominated by the now largely defunct Communist Party.
Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, still U.S.S.R. in Russian, but control of the economy will be removed from the Kremlin bureaucracy and be given to an economic council consisting of republic representatives.
The new country likely will be called the
Two other councils — one consisting of Gorbachev and the republic leaders and the other of 20 lawmakers selected by the legislatures of each of the participating republics — will complete the interim power structure.
Many reformers were jubilant as the avalanche of events that began with the botched Aug. 18-21 coup continued to batter the structures of power erected by the Communist Party during its nearly 74 years in power.
It was in part the emerging power of the republics that defeated the putsch, which was led by senior leaders of the Communist apparatus of central control.
The coup so angered republic leaders that many of them last week proclaimed that central authorities had "committed suicide."
The hard-liners were not convinced, however, and reformers seared a movement in the Congress to dump Gorbachev. That in turn would cause a constitutional crisis, because the two men next in line, the vice president and speaker of the legislature, have been arrested on charges of high treason.
Nazarbayev said Gorbachev and the republic leaders were acting to prevent further breakup of power structures until a new state system between republics was created.
Similar statements by Yeltsin since the coup had raised concerns in other republics about what they called "Great Russian chauvinism," which they have fought for centuries.
Nazarbayeh, the Kazakh leader, was chosen to present the Congress with the death certificate because most of the members had lost their faith in Gorbachev.
Bush defends AIDS position after ACT-UP march
The Associated Press
KENNETHUNKPORT, Maine — President Bush defended his administration's approach to the AIDS crisis yesterday and urged "behavioral change" to halt the spread of the disease.
"Here's a disease where you can control its spread by your own personal behavior. You can't do that in cancer." Bush said on the radio last week after a story of "died in" on the road near his vacation home.
He complained that the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) protest disrupted business in his "ancestral home," where few local merchants shut down on "the best week."
The group has disrupted Bush speeches in the past.
Sunday's march by ACT-UP was noisy but orderly, with no arrests.
Bush said he opposed federal funding of clean-needle exchanges, one of the demonstrators' demands, and wanted the most efficient and effective research possible on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which already has claimed 114,000 American lives.
Bush said that the $4 billion AIDS research, prevention and treatment budget was far more on a per capita basis than the government spends fighting cancer and heart disease.
A White House official, asked why Bush cited personal behavior and AIDS, said, "Because it's sexually transmitted. Nine out of ten doctors in America will support the president's position on this medically right down the line."
Bush made no mention of cigarette smoking, which the surgeon general and other federal health officials blame for hundreds of cancer cases. He said he had seen cancer, heart disease and other ailments.
Dennis Lyons, an activist with ACT-UP's Maine branch, said of Bush's behavior remarks, "I thinkhe isimply a value judgment.
ment against people who happen to be gay.
"He talks about behavioral change, but he has yet to institute a national AIDS education awareness program for school children. Until he does that, kids are growing up in schools without being taught anything about safe sex," said Lyons, a graphic designer from Portland, Maine.
"That's where AIDS education has to begin."
Bush said that if the marchers' message was compassion, "I got it loud and clear."
while acknowledging that the ACT-UF demonstrators broke no laws, the president said, "To the degree the message hit some little merchant in Kennebunkport on the best weekend possible and caused that person to close his doors.
"I got that part of it and didn't like it."
The demonstrators accused Bush of failing to set a national policy to find a cure and stop spread of the disease, and they criticized the immigration ban on foreigners infected with
HIV, which recently led to cancellation of plans to hold next year's international conference on AIDS in Boston.
Bush noted that protests for a variety of causes were staged in Kennebunkport during his month-long vacation.
George Bush
One march on behalf George Bush
frightens Americans hit home
"So we've had several of these demonstrations, and in each one I learn from listening."
but I don't learn from some of the excesses that take place, whether it's in front of an abortion clinic or whether it's throwing blood or interrupting somebody's right to be heard."
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