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Iraq obeys U.N. resolution
United Nations
Iraq turned over information on its chemical and biological warfare capability and its nuclear facilities yesterday, in apparent communication ending the Persian Gulf War, officials said.
While that list was being delivered to the U.N. Security Council, Iraqi diplomats also provided a letter on Baghdad's nuclear stock and materials in the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
There was no immediate comment from U.N. officials on whether the Iraqi documents met all criteria.
Yesterday was the deadline set by the United Nations for Iraq to provide the two documents. The April 3 resolution that established cease fire measures against Iraq to destroy its weapons of mass destruction.
Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Amir al-Anbari would not provide details of what else was on the U.N. list, but he said it included scientific and military weapons, weaponry and the sites of weapons systems.
University Daily Kansan / Fri.av. April 19, 1991
Washington
The government reported yesterday that the number of people filing initial claims for unemployment benefits plunged for a second straight week in early April, leading some economists to declare that the end of the recession was at hand.
Benefit claims plunge again
The Labor Department said new applications for jobless benefits fell by 22,000 in the week ending April 6 after a drop of 70,000 a week earlier.
The two consecutive drops pushed the total for initial claims downward to a seasonally adjusted 451,000 for the first week in April. Initial claims had been above the half-million mark for three consecutive weeks earlier in March, their highest level since the 1981-82 recession.
Miami
The families of 37 sailors killed in a gun turret explosion aboard the USS Iowa two years ago filed $2 billion in wrongful death claims against the Navy yesterday, their attorney said.
USS Iowa families file suit
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Longstanding U.S. Supreme Court doctrine bars such claims on behalf of military personnel, but Miami-based lawyer Ellis Rubin said the families were challenging that precedent.
"They want me to test this decision and ask the Supreme Court to revisit this question. Probably."
The families also filed a parallel lawsuit under admiralty law in an Alexandria, Va., federal court.
The families reached the $2 billion figure by valuing each year the victims were likely to have lived at $1 million, or an average of about $50 million a sailor, said Rubin.
From The Associated Press
Bush's education plan gets bipartisan praise
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush, calling for a revolution in American education, unveiled his blueprint yesterday for top-to-bottom school reforms, including a voluntary nationwide exam system, aid pegged to academic results and $550 million in start-up funds for a new generation of schools
"I'm here to say America will move forward," declared Bush as he described the "America 2000" education strategy in an East Room address before governors, business leaders and educators.
"The time for all the reports and rankings, for all the studies and surveys about what's wrong with this country."
The plan, crafted by new Education Secretary Lamar Alexander in his first month on the job, calls for relatively little new federal spending. It relies instead upon states, governors, teachers, parents, students and communities to take steps to embrace the rigorous new education goals that Bush and the governors pronounced early last year.
Alexander's plan is a national strategy, not a federal program, according to a 34-page Education Reform Report.
Still, Bush said he would ask Congress for $690 million, royalty for $1 million seed grants to open a
prototype "New American School" in each of the 335 congressional districts by 1996. He invited communities to vie for the grants to create the school, and he selected out of which may be operated by private businesses.
Democratic leaders of Congress said they would work with Bush on the plan but also accused him of waiting to long to act on the education issue and of objecting their past school improvement initiatives.
"We welcome his interest in education, belated as it is," Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, said.
Mitchell said Bush had failed to help Democrats pass new education legislation last fall, and he added, "All of us have seen a large number of White House press conferences before. Too often, effort on behalf of the issue . . . stops when the cameras stop rolling."
The new tests described in the Bush plan will be non-compulsory, honors-type exams in five core subjects — English, math, science, history and geography — for fourth, eighth and 12th graders. Bush said he was determined to have the first tests for fourth graders ready by September 1993. He promised presidential citations for top 12th grade scorers.
NATO hopeful of Soviet talks
The Associated Press
Some negotiators for NATO and the disbanding Warsaw Pact said a positive Soviet response could come within days at the 22-nation Conventional Forces in Europe talks.
VIENNA, Austria — After months of resistance, the Soviets seem ready to implement a historic treaty slashing conventional weapons and opening fire on Russian troops in troop strength, arms negotiators said yesterday.
Settling the dispute would remove what the White House said this week is the largest stumbling block to a summit between U.S. President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
The talks resumed Wednesday after a scheduled three-week break.
The 16-member NATO and five former Soviet allies who were joined with the Kremlin in the Warsaw Pact accuse Moscow of violating treaty conditions it accepted last November.
Speaking to a closed session yesterday, Chief Soviet Negotiator Oleg Grinevsky suggested a response would arrive soon to a letter Bush sent on Friday. The statement, by a Hungarian delegate said, without giving details.
The accord, signed in Paris by all NATO and Warsaw Pact countries, committed the 22 nations to slashing their arsenals of tanks and other conventional weapons in Europe.
The West accused Moscow of trying to circumvent the accord by transferring three motorized infantry divisions with about 2,600 weapons. Navy forces are not covered by the agreement.
WASHINGTON — Political unrest in the Soviet Union increases the chances of an accident nuclear attack on the United States, the German Defense Initiative told Congress yesterday.
Looking to bolster dwindling support for the SDI program, Henry Cooper said concerns of Soviet officials about regional turmoil and the possibility of an accidental missile launch heightens the need for the $46 billion program.
The Associated Press
"If defending against accidental and unauthorized launches was a valid concern in 1988, when Senator (Sam) Nunn argued that should the governor be there, it is a greater concern today," Cooper said.
Nunn, D-Ga., is chairperson of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Cooper encountered opposition from some Democrats as he told the House Armed Services research and development subcommittee that it would require $6 billion annually in the mid-1990s.
The director also said spending on some items within the next two or three years would require changes in laws regarding the 1972 U.S.-Soviet treaty banning further development of anti-ballistic missiles.
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