University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 11, 1991
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Minsk, U.S.S.R.
Workers defy Gorbachev, go on strike
An estimated 200,000 workers ignored Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's moratorium on work stoppages and poured out of factories yesterday to strike in the Byevorussian canal.
The republic's leaders granted strikers a key demand and let them read an unprecedented anti-Communist statement during the republic's nightly television news program
"The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is guilty of the collapse of the economy, lies around Chernobyl and annihilation of the peoples and their languages," said strike committee member Georgi Mukhin during the broadcast. "This party tries to preserve its dominance over us at our expense."
Strike leaders told reporters the walkout would continue today because the Byelorussian government refused to negotiate their political and economic demands, which include Gorbachev's resignation.
The strike in Minsk, a city of 1.5 million and the capital of the western republic of 10.4 million people, was set off by national price increases. It followed a nationwide strike by coal miners that has sapped the already-weak economy.
Ankara, Turkey
Iraq seeks active role aiding refugees
Ira has offered to help Turkey distribute international aid to more than 300,000 desperate refugees camped along the two nations' border, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
Turkish officials reported last week that Saddam Hussein's forces attacked the refugees, who are mostly Iraqi Kurds with mortars. Turkey said yesterday that it is responding to its soldiers inside Iraq territory to protect the refuences.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled to Turkey and Iran to escape possible reprisals after the failed invasion.
Despite claims by Turkey, the refugees and the rebels that Iraqi forces have attacked the Kurds, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Baghdad now wanted a fight against them and have become sick and are going hungry on the border.
Ministry representative Murat Sungar said that the Iraqi ambassador reported that the Iraqi Red Crescent, the Muslim version of the Red Cross, was willing to cooperate in any way possible.
Sacramento, Calif.
An unparalleled $13 billion budget deficit over two years, with roots in the Proposition 13 tax rebellion, means residents of the nation's most populous state will soon be paying more for less.
"We could close all our state universities, we could open all our prisons, we could eliminate our entire state workforce, and we would still not close this gap," said Gov Pete Wilson.
The projected shortfall is the largest ever faced by any state, according to the Department of Finance.
Californians could be paying higher sales taxes, higher liquor and motor vehicle taxes, and higher college tuition. One proposal would tax services such as those provided by attorneys, architects and plumbers.
Public schools and colleges will likely have larger
classes and fewer courses, teachers and state workers could lose their jobs, and fewer health, mental health and welfare programs will be available for the poor.
Last July, lawmakers thought the current year’s $35 billion budget was balanced with a $1.4 billion reserve. Instead, there will be a record $3.6 billion deficit by the time the fiscal year ends June 30.
And next year's proposed budget, a $5.57 billion spending plan for 1991-92 that Wilson proposed in January and takes effect July 1, is projected to have a deficit of more than $9 billion.
Washington
Court asked to open files on meeting
A federal court was asked yesterday to order the release of State Department files on former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie's meeting with Saddam Hussein a week before his troops invaded Kuwait.
The July 25, 1990, meeting in Baghdad has been a pivotal issue in the debate over whether the United States led Saddam to believe it would not intervene if he tried to take over his tiny, oil-rich neighbor.
Alan Morrison, attorney for the Ralph Nader group Public Citizen, which filed suit in U.S. District Court, said the State Department effectively waived its secrecy right by discussing the meeting in public.
"This is a case about fairness to the public." Morrison said in an interview. "Things cannot be classified for the convenience of the government."
A State Department representative said he could not comment immediately on the lawsuit.
Various members of Congress have criticized the Bush administration and have said it sent confusing signals to the president.
An Iraqi-released transcript of Glaspe's meeting with Saddam fueled the debate. It said she told the Iraqi president the United States would not take sides in Arab affairs, including Iraq's border disagreement with Kuwait
In testimony three weeks ago before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Glaspic conceded she made the statement. But she said she also told Saddam that the United States would insist that any dispute be settled peacefully.
That line was omitted from the Iraqi transcript, which she said was subjected to crucial and misleading editing.
Washington
Tap water may be better than bottled
Plain tap water may be safer than some pricey bottled waters because of lax federal regulation of the bottled-water industry, congressional investigators and lawmakers said yesterday.
The General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency, concluded that the Food and Drug Administration needed to do more to ensure bottled waters were safe.
Inadequate regulations mean that bottled water, including mineral water, may contain levels of potentially harmful contaminants that are not allowed in public drinking water, the report said.
The accounting office conducted its investigation at the request of Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., carperson of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on overfishing and issued the PDA for its handling of the bottled-water industry.
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