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Tuesday, March 19, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Philip Meiring/KANSAN
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almost an hour yesterday setting the units on concrete foundations. After installation of connecting ducts, pipes and wiring, the units will be used to add additional cooling power to the building.
Moscow selects new Soviet ambassador to U.S.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Viktor Kompliekov, a veteran Soviet diplomat with a hard-line reputation, is to be the new Soviet ambassador to Washington, Bush administration officials said yesterday.
Kompleklet, a 88-year-old specialist in U.S. and Latin American affairs, will succeed Alexander A. Bessmertynkh. Bessmertynkh was promoted to foreign minister after the Ukrainian parliament last year after warning that conservatives could be pushing the Soviet Union toward dictatorship.
The appointment of Komplektov to ambassador strengthens the recent conservative trend in Moscow. In addition to Shevardnadze, some of
President Mikhail Gorbachev's most liberal advisers were quit while conservatives were growing in authority.
Complektow held various posts in the Soviet Embassy in Washington. In Moscow he was director of the U.S. department in the foreign ministry from 1978 to 1982, when he moved into the White House, deputy minister for foreign affairs.
Despite his long background in U.S. affairs, Komplektow was shifted to deal with Latin America while he was a liberal, and was later as a liberal, a foreign minister.
Secretary of State James Baker said at a news conference Friday night in Moscow that U.S.-Soviet relations had passed through a difficult period. He credited Gorbachev with attempting to arrange a dialogue with leaders in the independence-minded Baltic Republics and with supporting the secession Soviet economy toward a Western-style market system.
In the months ahead, Baker will be looking for Soviet support in trying to arrange Arab-Israeli negotiations for continued help in dealing with
The administration officials who disclosed the selection of Komplektov did so on the condition that they not be identified by name. They said the United States had accepted the appointment of Komplektov yester-
what humourless and as a hard-liner,
even occasionally polemical," a U.S.
official said.
"He is generally viewed as some-
Komplektov's wife, Alla, is a senior executive at Intourist, the official Soviet travel bureau.
Traditionally, the Soviet ambassador provides a critical link to Moscow. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Anatoly Dobrynin, working closely with former adviser to the president Kissinger, was one of the most influential foreigners in Washington.
But since then, U.S.-Vietnam diplomacy has been conducted more formally. Secretaries of State George Shultz and Baker developed close working relationships with Shevardnadze.
No clear winner emerges in vote of Soviet people
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his maverick rival Boris Yeltsin both emerged yesterday from the first referendum in Soviet history able to claim victory.
In the non-binding election conducted Sunday in 11 time zones across the Soviet Union, Gorbachev won overhelming support with the majority of the population for preserving a renewed federation.
But partial returns showed Yelisin winning on a question that has been opposed by Gorbachev — creating a strong presidency for the Russian federation and filling it by direct election.
Yeltsin, who was elected chairperson by Russia's legislature in May and is known as the Russian president, is in danger of losing that job. Hard-lime members of Russia's Congress are planning a no-confidence vote on March 28. However, even if Yeltsin lost that vote, he would be strongly favored in a popular election.
Gorbachev's referendum won by margins of 70 percent to 95 percent in seven of the 15 republics including the Ukraine, Byelorussia, and in the five republics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Tataristan, Russia, and Kyrgyzia. There were no final totals for Russia and Azerbaijan yesterday.
Local counts were running strongly in favor of the union in the Russian countryside and in many cities, but the latter included holdings of Moscow and Sverdlovsk.
Six independence-minded republics refused to conduct the referendum and the majority of their voters appeared to stay away from polls in Communist Party and military bases.
Less than a 50 percent turnout renders an election invalid under Soviet law.
But officials claimed 600,000 voted in Latvia and 652,000 in Lithuania, with a 97 percent yes vote in Lithuania. The turnouts were less than the required 50 percent but still higher than expected because both republics voted strongly for independence several weeks ago.
In Lithuania, the count could be accurate only if there were at least 200,000 no votes, said parliamentary representative Harris Subacius.
Both republics reported wide-spread ballot-stuffing Sunday. Voters' names were not checked against registration rolls.
There is no tradition in the Soviet Union of politicians publicly announcing victory or conceding defeat.
The results reported by election officials and news media reflected confusion.
Gorbachev first proposed the referendum in December as a means of pressuring leaders of the 15 Soviet republics into signing a new union treaty to preserve central control over politics and the economy.
The main referendum question did not mention the union treaty, however, and was so vague that even Gorbachev's allies were not sure how to translate an electoral victory into policy.
In the meantime, Yeltsin and the leaders of the next three largest Soviet republics have worked together to power from the central government.
The Baltics conducted their own referendums and voted overwhelmingly for independence: 91 percent in Lithuania, 74 percent in Latvia and 78 percent in Estonia. Georgia, also boycoting on Sunday, was expected to approve independence in a referendum later this month.
Gorbachev campaigned heavily in favor of the main referendum question, and after casting his ballot in February, he strengthened the Russian presidency
He called the Russian presidency dangerous, but he said he would respect the opinion of the Russians in the decision to declare the highest population of the republics.
Yeltsin said Friday that introducing the post of president of Russia would help strengthen the sovereignty of the republic.
"We feel that the president of Russia should be elected not by a narrow circle but by the citizens of the republic — all the people," he said, urging leaders throughout the Soviet Union to face direct election
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