Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 19, 1991
7
World briefs
Motion made in Mandela trial
Prosecutors in Winnie Mandela's kidnapping and assault trial charged yesterday that she helped abduct and beat three other men in 1988 and that one of the victims disappeared.
Johannesburg
Prosecutor Jan Swanepoel asked to introduce testimony that Mandela was involved in earlier incidents similar to the four cases in which she has been charged.
"To say what Mrs. Mandela might have done in October or November is not one of the issues." Bizos said. He accused the state of trying to bolster a faltering case.
Chief defense attorney Goerge Bizos argued that related evidence could not affect Mandela's trial, even if she were found guilty of the current kidnapping and assault charges.
Justice M.S. Stegmann said he would rule on the state's motion today.
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
General may shine with 5th star
The secretary of the Army has discussed making Persian Gulf War hero Norman Schwarzkopf a five-star general, a rank last awarded more than four decades ago.
The secretary, Michael Stone, said yesterday that he also was considering making Schwarzkopf, a four-star general, the Army's chief of staff. But Mr. Stone decided resisted with the Pentagon and White House.
"I did discuss it with Gen. Schwarzkopf when I was in Riyadh," Stone said while visiting an Army post in Dhahran.
A four-star general is the highest U.S. military rank, but a few famous battlefield leaders have been awarded a fifth star.
The last to reach the elite rank was Gen. Oman Bradley in 1950. Others include Gens. Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall and Henry "Hap" Arnold.
Oslo, Norway
Happiness could be the law
Mayor Arne Nilsen wants to grumpify illegal in his island community of Sund.
Nilsen told an Oslo newspaper that he would propose a resolution at a township council meeting today requiring 5,000 Sund residents to be happy and think positive, while banning crankiness.
"Unless the other council members are in a bad mood, I expect a majority in favor," the Dagbladet wrote.
"Sund residents are not abnormally gloomy but get caught up in negative and sad things, rather than seeing all there is to be happy about," he said. "I am trying to do something about it."
Irascible islanders will not be prosecuted. But Nilsen said the lighthearted edict might jolt them into better spirits. The proposal excludes sukers in a house, such as the brokenhearted, the report said.
From The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An angry Congress is about to decide what teeth to put in its threat to countries that have not fully delivered on pledges to help the United States pay for the Persian Gulf War.
U.S. allies slow to pay pledges for war effort
With tens of billions of dollars at stake, the only question appears to be whether to send the equivalent of a warning letter or a burly thumbbreaker to collect the money.
Congress should settle this week on language in war-financing legislation lawmakers expect to send to President Bush. The options range from a vague warning of "pay up, or else" to an arms-sale ban against countries that have promised more than they have delivered.
The Associated Press
“Our allies have a moral obligation to pay their share of the cost of this war,” said Rep. Jim Chapman, D-Texas, who sponsored the provision approved by the House March 7. “The American people have already paid with their lives, their troops, their will and their commitment.”
Last Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee without discussion endorsed a prohibition on arms sales to countries that have not fully lived up to their pledges.
“If the promisor nation has money to buy arms from us, it can first use that money to fulfill its pledge to help defray some of our costs,” said the report accompanying the Senate bill.
The measure, co-sponsored by Rep. Carl Pursell, R-Mich., gave contributing countries until April 15 to pay up — the same deadline Americans face for their income taxes.
Although the House provision does not state what action Congress might take, Pursell talked earlier in the month about requiring trade negotiators to take appropriate action. That represented a clear direction of trading giant Jasper which so far has delivered $1.3 billion out of $10.7 billion in promised help.
In the House, much of the debate focused on Japan and Germany, economic powers often singled out for criticism by lawmakers. So far, the hulls has押金了 $6.8 billion in aid and paid $3 billion
"Our European allies as a whole are 40 percent dependent on that region, and Japan is more than 65 percent dependent on that region" for oil, said Alvaro Morales. "And yet our allies are not paying their fair share."
The Senate ban on arms sales would hit hardest in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which together have requests pending for modern U.S. weapons totaling $1 billion.
Saudi Arabia has made good on $6.1 billion out of
$16.8 billion it has promised, while the United Arab
Emirates has paid half the $4 billion it has pledged.
Bush to ask Congress' consent for Federal loan of $25 billion
The Associated Press
"They took our plan and improved it," Seidman said. "The fact that we're actually borrowing money and raising funds to pay it back at the same rate as the taxpayers, to all of those who want to protect the taxpayers."
However, if the banking industry deteriorated beyond expectations and was incapable of repaying the loan through premiums, taxpayers could bear the loss. That is because any loss suffered by the Federal Reserve would reduce the Fed's earnings, forwarded every year to the Treasury.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration plans to ask Congress this week to authorize up to $25 billion in borrowing from the Federal Reserve if needed to replenish the government fund insuring bank deposits, according to a letter made available yesterday.
Bank premiums — currently at 19.5 cents per $100 of deposits — at a cap of 30 cents.
Disclosure of the administration plan came in a letter, dated Friday, from Treasury Undersecretary Robert R. Glauber to FDIC Chairperson L. William Seidman.
Glauber told Seidman that the borrowing plan would be included in the administration's broad plan to overhaul the banking system. Frank Annunzio, D-DIII, told members of his House Committee that institutions yesterday that he expected the administration to forward a draft of its legislation late today.
The borrowing plan would provide even more than the $1 billion requested three weeks ago by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairperson L. William Seldman. The plan seeks to avoid a bankruptcy for FDIC fund by having banks repay the loan through insurance premiums charged by the fund.
Seidman has said he intended to borrow up to $10 billion under his agency's existing authority while Congress debates the measure. Without the borrowing, his fund, which sank to $8.4 billion at the end of 1905, could run out of money by the end of this year, according to projections from both the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office.
In addition to the $10 billion it can borrow, the FDIC currently has a $5 billion line of credit with the Treasury. As a backup, Seidman had requested a loan of $2 million in authority without specifying the source.
The FDIC would pay interest to the Federal
CONCERNED, CONFIDENTIAL & PERSONAL HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN
- SAFE & AFFORDABLE BABY SERVICES *
* GNAT CARE-FREE PREGNANCY TESTING *
* BIRTH CONTROL SERVICES *
* DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT OF SEXUALLY-*
* Fetal Abnormalities
COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH FOR WOMEN
Toll Free 1-800-227-1918
Freshmen and Sophomores
Lambda Sigma Sophomore Honor Society and Owl Junior Honor Society,are now accepting
applications for membership.
Applications are available at the Organizations and Activities Center (Kansas Union), 129 Strong, and Nunemaker Center
Applications due by March 22,1991
Colony Woods
Apartments
- Summer Leases Available
- 1 Bedroom $355
2 Bedroom 2
bath $425
- 3 Hot Tubs
- Indoor Heated Pool, Volleyball & Basketball Courts
- On Bus Route
1301 W.24th (24th & Naismith) Lawrence,KS 842-5111
- Near Restaurants, Grocery Etc.
*Managed With The Student In Mind!
HO HUM.
TIRED OF THE SAME OLD STUFF?
and help prepare a FEAST for next year!
then join
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
SUA
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
You may be just who we're looking for. Take a chance and get involved with one of our 8 committees!
APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE NOW in the SUA office, level 4, Kansas Union. RETURN BY: 5 p.m., MONDAY, APRIL 1
Committee choices:
FEATURE FILMS
FINE ARTS
FORUMS
LEISURE ACTIVITIES
LIVE MUSIC
MARKETING & PROMOTIONS
SPECTRUM FILMS
TRAVEL
For more information call SUA at 864-3477.
Karen Hutchinson Pianist
Premiere of Donald Keat's Piano Sonata [1961], and Jacques Castérède's
Hommage a Thelonius Monk [Commissioned by the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris, 1983, following the death of the great African-American jazz pianist in 1982]
"A born virtuoso temperament, full of flair and dash." San Francisco Chronicle
"First class"
The New York Times
March 19,8:00 p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall Murphy Hall, No admission fee.
For further information, please call 864-8016.
Sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs, Music Department. Minority Affairs Committee of Student Senate, Student Senate Women's Student Union, UJIMA, Black Men of Today, and the Black Student Union.
Ms. Hutchinson's accommodations courtesy of The Eldridge Hotel.