Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 24, 1991
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World briefs
New York
Contraceptives protect fertility
Regular use of contraceptives does more than prevent pregnancies, a report says. It also can protect fertility by staving off sexually transmitted diseases and pelvic infections.
In contrast, only about 2 percent of women who use a diaphragm, condoms, spermicides or vaginal cream are infected.
The report released Monday by the Alan Guttmacher Institute says 4 to 6 percent of women in relationships that are not mutually monogamous who do not use contraceptives are likely to develop tubal infertility over a five-year period.
Also, women who have used a diapragm, condoms or spermicide are about half as likely to develop cervical cancer as women who have never used these methods, the report said. And women who had the pit have at least a 50 percent lower risk of developing ovarian or endometrial cancer.
Washington
Police power expanded by court
The Supreme Court today bolstered the power of police to chase people, even when officers have no reasonable suspicion that a crime was committed.
By a 7-2 vote, the justices ordered reinstatement of the cocaine possession conviction of a young California man named Hodari D1), who was charged with dropping a crack cocaine rock during the chase.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court,
said the cocaine may be used as evidence
Hodari D., now 19, was sentenced by a juvenile court to incarceration for five years and eight months for possessing cocaine with an oil. A state appeals court threw out his conviction.
Washington
Senate can't debate debt interest
The federal budget the Senate began debating yesterday contains an undebatable $210 billion item — the third largest amount in the bill — that buys no federal services at all.
It's the ever-increasing interest on the national debt and a figure that rarely comes up.
As the Senate began debate on the $1.45 trillion budget for next year, most of the discussion focused on him by Sen Daniel Patrick Durham, D-N.Y., to slightly cut the Social Security payroll tax.
From The Associated Press
Soviet lawmakers pass plan to boost economy
Budget cuts, privatization part of Gorbachev's plan
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet legislature yesterday passed President Mikhail Gorbachev's program to pull the country out of its economic crisis through measures and steps to introduce a convertible currency.
Lawmakers, meeting in the Kremlin, also recommended creation of a committee of representatives of all 13 Soviet republics to coordinate efforts against a terrorist装置, the state news agency Tass reported.
Gerbachev warned this month that the nation was heading toward economic collapse and proposed the package of anti-crisis measures to avert catastrophe.
Among the recommended measures is a large reduction in government spending to cut the budget deficit, which is expected to balloon from about $6 billion in 1980 to more than $230 billion in 2015.
However, the economic reform program does not include a specific target on how much the budget is to be spent.
The Gorbachev program also proposed to begin
selling off some small state enterprises. Under his plan, two-thirds of all small businesses in the service and consumer sectors would be in private hands by the end of 1992.
The program calls additionally for faster steps to establish stock and commodity exchanges and would make the ruble a freely convertible international currency. The ruble exchange rates are now artificially set by the government.
Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov presented the program to the legislature Monday with the warning that if it was not adopted and the current national income would fall by 29 percent this year.
Answering questions yesterday, Pavlov said the program's authors did not try to make it comprehensive or detailed. "It is impossible, for public life is so complex... that neither the government nor a whole data processing center can tackle all questions in one program." Tass quoted him as saving
Tass did not report the legislature's specific vote.
Gorbachev suggested a nationwide moratorium on all strikes, rallies and political demonstrations. Lawmakers are scheduled later in the week to vote for an amendment to labor laws that would ban strikes.
Japan to deploy minesweepers
The Associated Press
TOKYO – Four Japanese minesweepers are to set sail for the Persian Gulf on the military's first overseas mission since World War II. The planned deployment has set off intense debate here.
S Japan was widely criticized in the United States for not sending personnel to aid the allies in the Persian Gulf War. Stung by that, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to the United States for way to Tokyo to recount some of its lost status.
Barring a last-minute hitch, Kaiti is expected to make a formal announcement today of the deployment of the vessels and about 500 crew members to the ship. A few days later, sailors say the ships could leave port this weekend.
"Because (the gulf) is an indispensable shipping route for Japan and the Japanese people, it would not meet international standards if we let other countries pass through it." Kaito told reporters yesterday.
Opposition parties and pacifist groups fear the move could open the door to full-fledged Japanese military activity overseas. Kaifu worked yesterday to try to allay the concerns, but only the tiny Democratic Socialist Party voiced support for his plan.
Takako Doi, chairperson of the Socialists, Japan's largest opposition party, said sending the minesweepers would violate the constitution, which bars the use of military force to settle international disputes.
The government rejects that argument, saying the gulf is no longer under threat of war. "We do not think there is any problem with legality," said Foreign Ministry representative Taizo Watanabe.
Still, about 250 people asked the Tokyo District Court yesterday to immediately stay any orders sending the minesweepers to the Middle East.
Since World War II, Japanese soldiers have been sent abroad only for training. Tokyo has been reluctant to order its troops abroad for other missions for fear of offending China, South Korea and other Asian countries that suffered Japanese aggression during World War II.
Those nations remain extremely sensitive about any move that hints at a re-emergence of Japanese
Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama will discuss the issue with his counterparts in China and South Korea this week, said a ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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