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Wednesday, June 25, 1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Grilled Burgers • Combos include Fries and Side
1/3 pound - 2.75 .Combo - 4.00
1/2 pound - 3.75 .Combo - 5.00
Grilled Chicken - 3.75 .Combo - 5.00
Hot Wings - .50 each ...12 for 5.00
Chicken Strips ...4.00 - 5.00
Pork Tender ...3.75
BBQ Pork ...3.75
1/2 Slab Ribs with two sides ...7.75
Whole Slab Ribs with two sides ...14.00
KC Strip Steak with two sides ...9.00
T-Bone with two sides ...11.00
Baked Chicken ...7.75
**Extras**
Baked Beans ... 1.00
Pasta Salad ... 1.00
Baked Potato ... 1.00
Cole Slaw ... 1.00
Potato Salad ... 1.00
French Fries ... 1.00
Curly Fries ... 1.00
Onion Rings ... 2.00
Fried Mushrooms ... 2.00
Celery Sticks with Ranch ... 1.00
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Drug use increases in youths
Overall drug use in the country is declining
WASHINGTON — Drug abuse among American youths continues to increase, even though overall drug use in the country is declining, and it's starting at a younger age, the administration's drug czar said Tuesday.
The Associated Press
"Our children are using drugs again and in increasing numbers," retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey told reporters. "And we're seeing new and disturbing phenomenon with heroin exposure, marijuana and other emerging drugs."
Citing findings from a semi-annual check of drug use trends in the United States, McCaffrey said there were increased hospital admissions for children abusing marijuana, often in combination with alcohol, methamphetamines or crack cocaine.
"In addition, we're clearly seeing the migration of heroin — smoked, snorted, or injected into student populations and blue-collar Caucasian workers," he added. "The drug threat is changing and student populations are picking up on it, and it's tending to drift into younger years."
The administration's point man on the war against drugs said the average age at which kids report first using illegal drugs is 16, but "significant numbers" of eighth-graders had reported trying marjuana.
McCaffrey attributed the rise to a change in values toward drugs since 1990 among children 17 and younger, with resulting increases in drug abuse. "It's doubled among kids in general; it's almost tripled among eighth-graders," he said.
The report on national trends in illegal drug abuse and drug markets in the second half of 1996, conducted by McCaffrey's Office of National Drug Control Policy, was based on interviews with epidemiologists, drug abuse treatment providers and police in cities across the country. While it did not measure the amount of increase, McCaffrey said the report gave "qualitative assessments" of drug use, compared to the year previous.
The analysis showed that cocaine and crack cocaine abuse had stabilized or declined, although there were still an estimated 1.4 million chronic addicts in America.
McCaffrey noted it was possible that methamphetamine, "the poor man's cocaine," was replacing crack in some areas. Abuse of the highly addictive methamphetamine, he added, was "the absolute dominant drug problem" in southern California and parts of San Francisco, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana and Missouri, and there were signs of its spread elsewhere.
House, Clinton reject China trade sanctions
Nation's critics disappointed with measure
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Siding with the Clinton administration, the House rejected the latest effort yesterday by critics of China to impose trade sanctions as punishment for Beijing's human-rights abuses and other disruptive behavior.
In a 259-173 vote yesterday, the House backed President Clinton's May 20 decision to extend for another year China's "most-favorored nation" status, which gives China the same trade relations given to almost all other trading partners.
The margin, though substantial,
was less than last year's 286-141
The House measure, introduced by lawmakers who say business as usual is wrong with a country tainted by persistent human-rights, trade and weapons-proliferation
abuses, would have disapproved of Clinton's decision.
Clinton praised the vote, saying it "makes clear that the right way to encourage further progress in China is not to
Bill Clinton
cut China off, but to draw China in." He pledged that "when we disagree with China, such as on human rights and religious freedom, we will continue to speak out candidly and clearly."
Supporters of most-favored nation status argued that the only way to change China's untoward policies — and avoid risking hundreds of thousands of American jobs — was to stay engaged with the Chinese.
"Without our influence how will democratic values come to be accepted in China?" asked Rep. Barbara Kennedy, D-Conn. "Without our example, how will dissent come to be tolerated? Without our presence,
how will religious liberties come to exist? Without our active engagement, how will human rights come to be respected?"
But Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said pillars of U.S. policy — promoting human rights and U.S. exports and stopping weapons proliferation — have all failed in China. "In fact, there has been a marked deterioration, not improvement, under the administration's policy," she said.
Congress has never succeeded in revoking most-favored-nation status since it became an annual debate after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. A House vote to reject most-favored-nation status would have sent the issue to the Senate, but there was little chance that either chamber could muster the two-thirds vote needed to overturn a presidential veto.
The House vote took on more urgency this year following reports that China was trying to buy political influence in this country and growing concerns about how China will treat Hong Kong after the handover of the British colony next month.
Island nations raise issue of ocean levels at summit
The Associated Press
UNTITED NATIONS — In an urgent plea for help, island states at a summit on the Earth's future told an alarming tale yesterday of the here and now. The seas already may be encroaching on their fragile lands.
The president of Maldives said global warming threatens his nation's very existence while industrial countries engage in debates about economic gains and losses in doing something about it.
"Today, I leave here with the fear that unless we all act now and with a renewed commitment, my country and many countries like us would neither have their voice nor seat at a future (summit)," Maumoon Abdul Gayoom told the delegates.
Researchers have detected a slight rise in the Indian Ocean around the Maldives, and Pacific Ocean island states report losing low-lying atolls to the sea. However, scientists have yet to clearly link these events to global warming.
The island states hope President Clinton offers them some reassurances in his speech here tomorrow, the fourth day of the week-long "Earth Summit Plus 5," convened to review progress since the historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
A major U.N. scientific study has concluded that global warming in the next century, through heat expansion and melting glaciers, would cause oceans to rise one or two feet by 2100.
Under a December deadline, governments are negotiating a new treaty to legally require cutbacks in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap the Earth's heat in the atmosphere.
The European Union proposes cutting carbon dioxide and other emissions by 15 percent below 1990 levels, with a deadline of 2010. The Alliance of Small Island States wants an even tougher timetable — 20 percent cutbacks by 2005.
But so far, the Clinton administration has balked at committing to any specific timetable of targets.
Business leaders say sharp cut-backs would throw tens of thousands of Americans out of work. And many in a skeptical Congress say they will block any such treaty unless it covers not just industrial nations, as now planned, but developing nations as well.
The United States, with 5 percent of the world's population, emits more than 20 percent of the world's manmade carbon dioxide.
Civilians flee fighting in Congo
Hundreds crowd ships to escape front-line region of Brazzaville
capital.
The Associated Press
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — It's a sobering choice: risk being killed by a stray bullet in Brazzaville or risk drowning trying to reach safety on a dangerously overcrowded river barge.
High school teacher Eugene Baka chose the second option, paying $20 each so he, his wife and his four children could get on a barge and motor north, away from the chaotic African
"Rather than continue to face mortars, rockets and bullets the militias are deliberately firing into civilian neighborhoods, I've chosen to take this risk and try to save my family," Baka said.
Sporadic gunfire echoed through Brazzaville yesterday, a continuation of fighting that has prompted thousands to flee the Republic of Congo's capital.
However, it was worse Monday when artillery and mortar fire hit the parliament building. Soldiers took positions around parliament late Monday, some using rolls of ceremonial red carpet as makeshift bunkers. Hundreds of people are believed
killed since June 5, when President Pascal Lissouba's army began battling with Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso's forces. The two long-time rivals are the main candidates in presidential elections scheduled for July 27.
Diplomats in Brazzaville said Lissouba had planned to ask parliament to extend his term three months to allow more time for election preparations. Lissouba is scheduled to leave office Aug. 31.
The power struggle between Lissouba and Sassou-Nguesso has taken a shocking toll on civilians. Congolese Red Cross worker Martin Koumba said entire neighborhoods near the front lines have been deserted.
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