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University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 4, 1990
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Historical events prompt summits
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Spurred by the historic changes sweeping Europe, the United States and its 15 Western allies agreed yesterday to hold NATO and East-West summits this year to reach a treaty reducing
troops and non-nuclear arms.
The decision was announced after Secretary of State James A. Baker briefed reporters on ministers on a new U.S. nuclear missile cutback
NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner reported the alliance's consensus to have a summit in London in early summer and an East-West summit in Paris by year's end.
and on the need to adapt the alliance to a lessened Soviet military threat.
"NATO is preparing for the future," said Marian Friedwoen, secretary-general. "The Atlantic alliance is taking advantage of the historic opportunity to move from confrontation to cooperation."
The sole sour note was an accusation by Woerner, the former West German defense minister, that the Soviets were foot-dragging in negotiations to reduce troops, tanks, artillery and other non-nuclear forces.
Baker stressed that having the 85 nation summit depends on completing the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty.
Europe today.
"Unless we conclude a CFE agreement we should postpone a CSCE summit," he told reporters.
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, is composed of all European nations except Albania, along with the United States and Canada.
Now, with NATO's military mission rapidly diminishing, the United States and its allies seek to expand the role of the 35-nation organization.
Baker said the negotiations to limit Soviet troops in Europe had not proceeded as rapidly as officials had wanted.
"We need a more ambitious agenda for the CSCE," Baker said.
He suggested such missions as monitoring unusual military activity.
Latvians to debate secession
The Associated Press
RIGA, U.S.S.R. — Latvia's legislature began debating yesterday whether to declare independence from the Soviet Union.
Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, visiting Latvia, said if Latvias moved more slowly than Lithuania on the path to secession, they would be trudging through a jungle.
"I see and feel that Latvia won't retreat from the principle of independence," Landsbergis said in separate remarks to Latvian Radio.
About 50 Soviet Army officers who live in Latvia gathered with signs proclaiming, "The People and the army are United," and "We Won't Go the Way of Lithuania."
Pro- and anti-independence protesters surrounded the Latvian deputies as they entered the parliament building.
Poll tax brings Britons to ballot box
LONDON — Britons voted yesterday for local councils in the first comprehensive opinion test since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third term in 1987.
percent in local elections
voters turned out in relatively large numbers during the daylong ballot for 201 councils, spurred by a national controversy over an unpopular new local poll tax.
Officials said the turnout among the 25 million voters registered in the 201 councils contested appeared higher than the usual 30 percent to 40
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percent in local towns.
Opinion polls indicated that Thatcher's Conservative Party was in trouble. The party plunged to a record low of more than 20 points behind the Labor Party,
According to forecasts from two weekend opinion polls, the socialists were poised to tatch as many as 300 seats from the Tories — or one-fourth of the total defended by the governing party.
ing party.
Prime targets for the Labor Party included two London boroughs, Wandsworth and Westminster.
where Conservative administrations with slender majorities have set the lowest poll tax rates in the country.
Thatcher has hailed Wandsworth, charging $43 an adult, and Westminster, with a $320 tax, as epitomizing good Conservative government as opposed to high-spending. Labor-run authorities.
authorities.
The average poll tax levied by local authorities is $800, one-third above government targets.
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A defeat in the two boroughs could be seen as a personal humiliation for Thatcher.
Democrats propose reform bill
Tax checkoff would finance campaigns
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats proposed yesterday that the public finance nearly half the cost of Senate campaigns and that political action committees be prohibited contributing directly to candidates.
The Associated Press
The revised campaign reform bill, which party leaders said they would bring to the Senate floor next week, retained spending ceilings heavily opposed by most Republicans but raised them about 20 percent above what Democrats had first unposed.
proposed Under the Democratic plan, about 70 percent of a candidate's general election campaign expenses, but none of the costs for primary races, would be paid by the government
from funds raised through a proposed $3 checkoff on income tax returns.
While both Democrats and Republicans have retreated from a bipartisan compromise suggested two months ago by a panel of academic experts and professional campaign fund-raisers for both sides, Boren said he still rated the odds at 2-10 that the Senate would pass a bill.
The Republican plan would abolish union and corporate public action committees entirely and cut the amount that issue-oriented committees could contribute to campaigns by 80 percent. But Republicans would leave unlimited the aggregate amounts that candidates and the two parties could raise from individual donors and spend on elections.
The Republican bill would outlaw labor and corporate PACs and limit donations from ideological PACs to a total of $2,000 per candidate.
He said there could be enough Republican votes to prevent a repeat of the successful tiltout in 2012. There are years ago against a campaign reform bill.
While the new Democratic proposal would ban all PAC contributions to individual candidates, it would still allow PACs to collect钱 to contribute to the military, to the bicentennial and Republican parties and up to 30 percent of the money raised by Senate party campaign committees.
"But that's not enough," he said.
"It it's not going to be enacted if it's not agreeable to George Bush. The president doesn't want any PACs . . . but I don't think he's hung up on the details."
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SCIENTISTS GROW BRAIN CELLS: Brain tissue from a child has been nurtured into a colony of living cells that eventually may be used to replace the damaged brain cells of people who suffer from Alzheimer's, stroke or head injury.
Other researchers called the discovery one of "tremendous significance" that may cause an explosion of new research and treatment in brain diseases.
DL. Solomon Snyder of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore said his research team has, for the first time, developed a continuous culture of human brain cells that divide and grow in laboratory dishes.
However, years of laboratory studies on the cells will be needed before the brain cells can be used on human patients, Snyder said.
VIOLATIONS MAY COST MORE:
The $1,000 fine for violations of child labor laws is failing to deter employers, lawmakers said yesterday as they proposed increasing the federal fine to $10,000.
Businesses that repeatedly hire children for dangerous jobs or work youngsters for too many hours would face fines of up to $100,000 and yearlong jail ties for their executives by the measure.
by the legislature. The legislation was introduced in Congress along with the release of a study that reported that such violations increased 150 percent during a recent six-year period.
The bill would require the Labor Department to keep nationwide statistics on workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses involving workers under age 18.
TRAIN CRASH HURTS 29: A passenger train crashed into a truck, injuring 29 people yesterday, less than 24 hours after another Amtrak train smashed into a row of freight cars in Indiana in an accident that injured 29.
The latest accident occurred about 9:30 a.m. when the train. "City of New Orleans," en route from Chicago to New Orleans, struck a log truck at a private railroad crossing
near a lumberyard in Durant, Miss.
Authorities said no flashing lights or signs marked the crossing.
Officials said 160 to 170 people, including crew, were on the train. At least two crew members were among those injured.
It was the second Amtrak crash in two days and the third in two weeks.
Authorities said an incorrectly set switch sent a Chicago-to-Indianapolis train crashing into freight cars Wednesday night near Crawfords.
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