University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 23, 1988
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News Roundup
SOVIETS PRESSURE ARMENIA: The Soviet Union yesterday increased official pressure on Armenia and Azerbaijan to halt ethnic unrest that has left at least 32 people dead. The moves came amid increasingly negative coverage in the official press of Armenian demands to annex the predominantly Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is part of neighboring Azerbaijan.
MITTERRAND SEEKS RE-ELECTION: President Francois Mitterrand of France announced yesterday that he would seek a second term. The first round of the elections will be April 24, and a run-off between the top two candidates is scheduled for May 8. Opinion poll had put the 71-year-old Socialist in the lead for the two-stage election, although he was not formally in the race.
REAGAN ENDORSES AID: President Reagan asked Republican House members yesterday to unite behind a new effort to push through Congress some kind of
help for the contras, whose last U.S. aid ran out Feb.
29. Reagan also said that the blame will lie with the Democrats if the contras are wiped out.
ISRAELIS CHEER SHAMIR: Thousands of Israelis yesterday cheered Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir for his firm opposition to a U.S. peace plan when he returned from talks in Washington with President Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz.
TROOPS STAY IN HONDURAS: U.S. troops sent to Tegucigalpa for emergency training exercises will stay on to complete the maneuvers, a U.S. military spokesman said yesterday, although Honduran President Jose Azcuna Hooy said the border crisis with Nicaragua was over.
MIXON PRESSURED FED: The Nixon White House kept heavy pressure on Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns to do its bidding but gently
turned aside complaints from one Fed critic, then California Gov. Ronald Reagan, documents made public yesterday show. Among records released by the National Archives is a Sept. 17, 1973, letter from Reagan to Nixon complaining about the impact of a Fed decision on California mortgage loans.
MECHAM TRIAL CONINUES: A prosecutor told the Arizona Senate yesterday that Gov. Evan Mecham's $80,000 loan from a protocol fund to his car dealership was an intentional and wrongful act, and the defense acknowledged that it was not politically smart. The statements came as the Senate turned to Mecham's misuse of state funds, the second of three charges lodged against Mecham at his impeachment trial.
REGULATORS IGONNING LAW: Community representatives told Congress yesterday that federal regulators were failing to enforce the 11-year-old law requiring banks to lend in their depositors' neighborhoods and prohibiting "redling," the practice of denying loans to an entire neighborhood based on the race or economic class of its residents.
SHULTZ MIGHT VISIT MIDEAST? Secretary of State George Zultze will probably travel to the Middle East within two weeks if Israel agrees to further discussions on his regional peace plan, Asher Naim, the information minister at the Israeli Embassy, said yesterday. He also said he expected that Israel's cabinet would vote to keep alive the Shultz peace initiative when the issue was debated.
CBS EXPECTS POOR FINISH: CBS expects to finish last in the Nielsen ratings for the first time in 35 years of record-keeping. Although CBS' regularly scheduled prime-time programs are getting better ratings than those of ABC, special sports programs including the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl carried ABC into the lead.
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