University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 14, 1989
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Gorbachev calls for arms cuts
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chancellor Helmut Kohl signed a broad declaration today that calls for military action against insurgents in masturbator arsenals and a worldwide ban on chemical weapons.
The document on common principles of both nations was signed on the second day of the Soviet leader's first state visit to West Germany.
The past signed by Kohl and Gorbachev said their countries have a common European heritage, and that European nations should exist in 'peaceful competition with one another' and reduce their military might.
Germany and the Soviet Union was not directed against anyone and that a special place in the common Euro-
European Community was provided for the United States and Canada.
It also said cooperation by West
The two nations appealed for a 50 percent reduction in the strategic nuclear arsenal and increased in conventional armies and weapons in all of Europe.
The signing ceremony was carried live on West German television.
The document called for a "world wide ban on chemical weapons" and treasury taxing banned nuclear tests and the use of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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The document signed yesterday also stressed the importance of respect for human rights, cultural contacts and youth exchanges for promoting lasting peace.
Earlier, Gorbachev received a rapturous reception that outstripped the welcome given two weeks earlier. He then signed a treaty with the Soviet leader in West German opinion polls.
proposals to reduce conventional forces on the continent, saying they offer chances for speedy agreement.
Osborne Bonn's 18th-century Town Hall yesterday, a crowd chanted "Gorbly! Gorbly!" and waved dozens of Soviet flags.
When Gorbachev arrived in this key NATO country on Monday, he declared that Moscow and Bonn had begun "a new chapter" in relations that could bring a new era of peace to the continent. He also welcomed U.S.
"A Soviet leader surrounded by cheering West Germans, who would have thought of that a few years ago?" exclaimed a television commentator during a live national broadcast.
Other banners reflected the German pain at the postwar division of their nation and of the former capital, Berlin, telling Gorbachev "Gerber — peace in Europe" and, in English, "Gorby, make love not walls."
White firefighters demand their rights
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Civil rights advocates seeking to prevent affirmative action programs from being rolled back are shifting their sights to Congress, following a series of major setbacks in the Supreme Court.
"It is not possible for civil rights advocates to do business in federal courts any more," Russell Galloway, a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law in California, said Monday.
Galloway and others, after the high court ruled 5-4, argued that white firefighters in Birmingham, Ala., were entitled to bring suit to attack an affirmative action plan approved eight years ago to settle a lawsuit.
The white firefighters were not a party to the lawsuit and say they should not be governed by a settlement in which they had no voice.
The controversy is the latest in a series of high court decisions chipping away at affirmative action programs, which have been used to give hiring and promotion preference to minorities and women.
The court ruled in January that state and local governments may not impose racial quotas for hiring on public works projects.
Ray Fitzpatrick, an attorney representing the white firemen in Birmingham, said Monday's rule-based quota promotions that "unfairly discriminate against whites.
Civil rights and women's groups, however, say they may ask Congress to reverse the high court rulings.
"I think a legislative remedy is something that is probably going to be pursued," said Judith Winston, a lawyer for the Women's Legal Defense Fund.
"This decision will open old wounds and create unfortunate new levels of racial animosity," said Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on civil rights.
The last major congressional debate on civil rights was touched off by a high court decision in 1984 that
placed limits on laws barring federal aid to schools and other institutions that discriminate Legislation restoring the original broader interpretation passed over former President Reagan's vow last year after a long struggle.
Some observers said they think Bush might be more amenable than was Reagan to legislative action in the civil rights field.
"I think the Bush administration is more concerned by reaching out to the black community than the past administration was," said T. Alexander, a professor of law at University of Michigan Law School who follow civil rights cases closely.
Environmentalists recognize efforts of clean air plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush has redefined the debate in Congress about clean air and has taken a leap forward in convincing environmentalists that while he may support of them, he's not merely enmyer
To many environmentalists, the significance of Bush's three-pronged proposal Monday to clean up the nation's dirtiest air is that it came forcefully from the White House alone. However, the president that air pollution is putting millions of people in the United States at risk.
This is in sharp contrast to the eight years President Reagan occupied the White House. Reagan didn't acknowledge acid rain as being an environmental concern and violated air quality smog and toxic industrial chemicals as excessive government regulation.
Jay Hair, president of the Wildlife Federation, said that with Republicans in Congress rally around the Bush clean air package the debate would center on finding a middle ground between the White House bill and more stringent Democratic versions.
Fred Krupp, executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund, said the Bush package
would serve as "a vehicle that's going to drive this (issue) through Congress.
Public opinion polls have shown that voters are keenly interested in removing the yellowish smog from urban areas, want to be protected against the release of toxic industrial chemicals into the air, and approve new regulations on rain and forest destroying lakes, streams and forests hundreds of miles from the tall stacks of coal-burning power plants.
To be sure, there are provisions and details of Bush's clean air package that brought criticism and uncertainty from the environmental community. At the same time it was characterized as trying to move too far, too fast by the coal industry.
Despite those industry complaints, Bush's proposal to cut sulfur dioxide emissions from coal burning power plants in half year 2000 — a key to curtailing carbon — prompted widespread praise.
"I believe the environment won today," a beaming William K. Reilly, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters after briefing them on the White House proposal.
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