University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 7, 1991
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Nation briefs
Report explores AIDS risk
The educated guesswork by the national health agency should not be taken as gospel, but it reinforces concerns about medical practice in American Medical Association official said.
The Atlanta-based health agency based its estimate on a statistical model comparing the estimated number of AIDS-infected dentists and surgeons, the projected number of new cases, and the number formed and the theoretical risk of transmitting the AIDS virus during such procedures.
A CDC draft report for a coming conference on medical safety said a statistical projection found that between 13 and 128 U.S. with the AIDS virus by dentists or surgeons.
The AMA and the American Dental Association said yesterday that the risk to patients remained extremely small, even if the CDC's projections are correct.
Washington Baker wants treaty delayed
Secretary of State James Baker, questioning Soviet credibility, called yesterday for a delay in ratifying a landmark weapons reduction treaty and accused the Kremlin of proceeding down a path of no benefit in the Baltic republics and on other fronts.
In testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Baker criticized the Soviet leadership for expanding the authority of the army and the KGB secret police and for the harsh way it was dealing with rebellion in the Balkic republics.
"Perestroika cannot succeed at gunpoint." Baker said.
He told the committee that he had recommended to President Bush that he delay submitting to the Senate for ratification a treaty signed by 22 nations last November to make the most extensive cuts in non-nuclear weapons in history.
From The Associated Press
Nominee hopes draft not needed
WASHINGTON — President Bush's nominee to head the Selective Service System said yesterday that the agency could provide 100,000 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan at House and Congress reinstated the draft.
The Associated Press
But Robert Gambino told the Senate Armed
National Committee he hoped the draft would
not detract from his work.
"I pray, with other Americans, that the future national security needs of our country will be satisfied without resorting to a draft," he said of the committee at his confirmation hearing.
Sen. John Warner of Virginia, ranking Republican on the panel, said that Bush had said Tuesday that he did not see any need for a draft now or in the foreseeable future.
Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, said, "We have a long way to go vet."
The president's authority to draft men into the armed forces, which had been routinely renewed by Congress every four years, expired July 1, 1973, three months after the last U.S. soldiers left Vietnam. The military then became an all-volunteer force.
Even if the draft was reinstated quickly, there would be a significant time lag before conscripts reached the gulf. By law, draffees overseas for three months after induction.
"I know the Selective Service System can deliver 100,000 registrants to the Department of Defense within 30 days after the request to supply the manpower." Gambino said.
Gambino, named by Bush to succeed Samuel Lessey JR, said the agency had 14 million registered for Selective Service and had no plans to register women.
Questioned on an all-volunteer force that has a disproportionate number of African-American men and women, Gambino said the registration of 99.2 percent of all men eligible for the Selective Service was a major step toward equity.
With a lottery system, every registrant has the same mathematical chance to be selected, be selected.
The small percentage who have not registered are predominantly those who have not bothered to sign up or who are unaware of the responsibility.
Prisoner of conscience first in U.S. since 1987 The Associated Press
LONDON — A U.S. soldier jailed after he refused to participate in the allied build-up in Saudi Arabia is a prisoner of conscience, according to Armnest International.
Army Sgt. George Morse, 25, is the first U.S. citizen to be so designated by the international human rights organization since 1987.
Morse, of Grayling, Mich., was sentenced to five months in jail after a special court ordered him to pay.
He was found guilty Dec. 17 on eight counts of failure to obey orders as his unit was permitted to be held in custody.
From Grayling, Morse's mother, Lorna, said her son was fine, but "bees very concerned about all the destruction and the weight of the bodies. That weighs very deeply in his heart."
Gorbachev resolves to preserve union
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev made a surprise television appearance yesterday to declare his determination to hold the country under an uncontrolled regime in the Kremlin's referendum on the union.
"All my convictions are based on preservation of the union," the Soviet president said in a 15-minute address at the beginning of the evening newscast.
"The Soviet Union is a superpower," he said. Huge efforts were made to make it so powerful that it could outpace the United States.
It was Gorbachev's clearest declaration to date that he will not let any of the 15 republics secede. While acknowledging that areas were brought into the union by force, he said the fate of all now depends on remaining in a common economic system.
In a speech that mixed warnings of catastrophe with promises of ethnic self-determination, he criticized the National Guard for failing to
of nationalist movements that he said had
sappred the country's economy, left hundreds
However, he did not threaten specific action against secessionist republics. He said only that lawmakers should ensure that everybody had the chance to vote in a Kremlin-ordered election.
Gorbachev has disclaimed any role in the bloodshed, but he has not stifled charges that his government was heading toward harsh military rule.
The speech came nearly four weeks after a military crackdown in the Ballics that has left
He confidently said that most Soviets would support the union. He apparently based his
Pro-independence Lithuanians are to conduct a non-binding poll on independence Saturday. Gorbachev urged Soviets to reject such measures and take part in the nation-wide referendum.
judgment on a Communist Party survey announced yesterday in which three-quarterly reports said
"All these conclusions are based on my full conviction that we need to preserve the union and (begin) its profound renewal," Gorbachev said.
All 15 republics have declared greater sovereignty over their own affairs, and many have demanded firm recognition by the Kremlin to sign Gorbachev's proposed new Union Treaty.
"The main thing in the concept of the renewal of the union is, above all, sovereignty of the republics, which are subjects of a federation that ensures the right of each people to self-determination and self-government," he said.
At the same time, he warned that "those who decide to separate themselves from this powerful cultural mass will be deprived and will lose everything."
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