Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 21, 1991
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Nation/World briefs
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Slovenia begins its secession
Stenova's parliament voted overwhelm-
ing the republic's formal secession from Yugoslavia.
"The federal system can no longer safeguard the interests of the republics, therefore the country must devolve into two or more sovereign states." Slovenian President Milan Kucan told a news conference Kucan told on the process of dissolution immediately.
By a vote of 173-1, with two abstentions, legislators adopted a resolution that said Yugoslavia would dissolve peacefully into two or more sovereign, independent states. Other states emerge should do so with their former borders unchanged, the resolution said.
Moscow
Yeltsin censured for criticism
The Soviet parliament formally censured Russian leader Boris Yeltsin yesterday for urging Mikhail Gorbachev to resign, and Russia has been pleaded for peace in the war of presidents.
The plea by Eduard Shevardnadze, who made his first public remarks since his resignation as foreign minister last December, suggested the depth of the crisis in government. Shevardnadze quit after warning that the nation was heading toward dictatorship.
In a stormy session of the Supreme Soviet parliament, fellow lawmakers accused Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation and a frequent Gorbachev critic, of declaring a civil war and seeking more power for himself.
Washington
Consumer prices on the rise
The government reported yesterday that consumer prices jumped 0.4 percent in January, but analysts dismissed the sharp increase as a passing circumstance brought on, in part, by weather-caused food shortages.
A potentially more worrisome note was sounded by Alan Greenspan, chairperson of the Federal Reserve, who told Congress that an extended Persian Gulf War and persistent problems with the nation's banking system could prolong the recession.
"It would be most unwise to rule out the possibility that the recession may become more serious than already is apparent," Greenspan said.
From The Associated Press
Bush discloses energy plan
Critics say strategy stresses production over conservation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush unveiled his long-awaited national energy plan yesterday, saying it strikes a reasonable balance without burdening the economy, but critics quickly assailed it for focusing on energy production over energy conservation.
One member of Congress called the blueprint a strategy to promote oil drilling, while another said it fell far short of what is needed to cut the United States' dependence on foreign oil.
Environmentalists also attacked the Bush plan as shortsighted because it ignores calls for development of more fuel-efficient cars but pushes oil production in pristine areas. The president said he was aware he had his critics, but he added that his plan was comprehensive and carefully thought out.
Bush's package calls for:
■ Increasing domestic oil production, including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska.
Easing regulatory barriers for construction of nuclear power plants and the disposal of atomic wastes to revitalize the nuclear option as an energy source.
- Overhauling the regulation of the electric utility industry to increase competition and promote the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.
Streamlining regulations for building natural gas pipelines as well as other actions to make natural gas a more competitive energy source.
Although rejecting proposals that would require sharply higher fuel economy for automobiles, the strategy includes measures to increase the use of alternative motor fuels, such as ethanol, and contains several modest increases in the vehicle efficiency and the increase the energy efficiency of homes.
The administration rejected suggestions for higher energy taxes, such as a gasoline tax, that many energy experts argue are needed to gain significant reductions in energy use.
Bush called the plan a secure, efficient and environmentally sound strategy but warned that U.S. citizens could expect, nevertheless, to heavily on foreign oil for many years to come.
"We are a long way from total energy independence," the president declared in an
nouncing the energy package.
Over the next two decades," Bush said "this strategy will make us more energy efficient without new energy taxes, and it will mean savings for consumers in energy costs and will improve our energy security and reduce our vulnerability in the years ahead."
Energy Secretary James Watkins has the proposals, most of which will require legislation, were designed to reduce oil consumption by 3.4 million barrels a day and increase domestic oil production by 3.8 million barrels a day over the next 20 years.
If the plan were adopted, however, the Energy Department expects that imported oil still will account for 40 to 45 percent of the oil used in the United States by the year 2010, and as current levels. The department estimates that about any action imports would soar to 65 percent.
Watkins said the administration sought to avoid actions that force U.S. citizens to change their citizenship.
A first: Over half in U.S. live in large urban areas
Some of the criticism of the Bush plan was sharp and direct.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — For the first time, more U.S. citizens live in huge urban areas than in small cities and rural localities, according to Census Bureau figures released yesterday.
And while those urban centers grew rapidly in the 1960s, more people preferred the suburbs to the city.
It's not flight from the cities, but a natural evolutionary process, said William Frey, a research scientist at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center.
The United States' migration to the metropolis has gathered speed throughout the past century. Still, in 1950, fewer than 30 percent of U.S. cities lived in urban areas of 4 million or more.
By 1880, that figure had grown to 45.9 percent.
In 1900, the census found 128万 people.
The large urban areas expanded in part because service industries played a bigger role in the economy, said Tom Kingsley of the Urban Industries tend to be concentrated in urban areas.
U.S. population now mostly metropolitan
Percent of U.S. population living in metropolitan areas of more than 1 million people;
2/20/91
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Maryland governor commutes sentences of 8 women prisoners
The Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gov. William Donald Schaeter commuted the prison terms of eight women sentenced for killing or assaulting abusive men.
Shafera on Tuesday ordered the releases, saying he was convinced the women acted in their own interest.
All the women should be free by tomorrow, prison officials said. The eight women, all but one convicted of killing their abusers, are serving from three years to life on convictions ranging from battery to voluntary manslaughter to first-degree murder.
Gov. Richard Celeste of Ohio granted clemency to 26 women just before he left office Jan. 14. All had been convicted of assaulting their husbands or companions.
Schafer administration officials said the eight inmates fit the psychological pattern known as battered prison syndrome, in which an inmate has a bad mate but will be killed if she remains.
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