Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. April 24, 1990
7
Lithuania's oil reserves run dry
The Associated Press
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — Lithuania's only refinery closed yesterday when the Kremniki's economic blockade dried up oil supplies, and the prime minister said the defiant might try to sell oil to import fuel.
While Soviet sanctions pressured Lithuanians to ease their quest for independence, a Lithuanian parliamentary delegation arrived in Moscow in hope of meeting with the Minister, Mikhail S. Gorbachev's advisers.
The refinery at Mazehkiel operational until yesterday on reserves, dispatcher Lidiya Chebakova said in telephone interview from the refinery.
Prime minister to consider selling gold to import fuel
Cheblakova said that production had stopped and the refinery's 2,000
workers were now idle. "The mood is tense, worrisome," she said.
Soviet officials shut off the oil pipeline feeding the plant from the Russian city of Poloktai on Wednesday and later curtailed natural gas supplies and shipments of other products.
it was one of the toughest actions taken in Gorbache's effort to make Montenegro a sovereign state and rescind laws resulting from its March 11 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
The refinery in the northwestern town of Mazheikilai produced gasoline for the republic as well as for Estonia, Latvia and Byelorussia. It was one of the first petroleum products a year, and Lithuania used a quarter of it.
Lithuania has virtually no foreign currency to buy oil, but Prime Minister Kadmiera Prunkiewa said yesterday that Lithuania will in gold reserves it has in France. But
she told reporters in Moscow that the idea had not been approved yet, according to Interfax, a news service of Radio fox.
Lithuania needs about $55 million in oil a month.
The Bank of France said last month that it would return the gold in its vaults to Lithuania if the French government would recognize the independent state. Lithuania transferred gold now worth about $23 million to France as a precaution in the years before World War II.
Pruneklein told reporters in Sweden yesterday that she opened an account at a Swedish bank to deposit foreign donations for Lithuania.
The Lithuanian government has urged all citizens to begin conserving everything.
Demonstrations turn violent Vandalism dampens Earth Day in New York, San Francisco
The Associated Press
Also in California, hand-delivered messages claimed responsibility yesterday for vandalism that cut power to about 92,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in Santa Cruz and Watsonville.
Hundreds of environmentalists demonstrated yesterday in the financial districts of New York and San Francisco, where post-Earth day demonstrators shattered the bank of America. Authorities said 248 people were arrested.
In New York, police arrested about 185 of an estimated 700 demonstrators.
"The major corporations have committed a lot of crimes against nature," said Marc Chernoff, 30, a member of New York's Coalition for a Nuclear Free Harbor. "His long overdue to place the blame where its directly belongs. If the products that pollute were not made available, people would not buy them."
Trade on the New York Stock Exchange went on as scheduled, and none of the protesters got inside. "Except for getting up a little early, it’s a pretty normal day." Torrenzo's senior vice president, Richard Torrenzo.
At the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, 49 people were arrested during a demonstration by 300 to 500 protesters that turned violent when some broke into the building and took over girls' schools, rocks and arms at police. And overturned newstands.
The exchange opened on schedule although some employees were delayed.
Police closed two blocks of Wall Street to traffic and all pedestrians except those working there. Traffic else
where was disrupted during the morning and afternoon when protesters walked through lower Manhattan streets.
"I think it's great that these guys in suits are stopping to hear us," said Debbie Augustine, 34, of Loudon, N.H., a member of the anti-nuclear power Clamshell Alliance.
The protest was organized by Earth Day Wall Street Action, which described itself as a coalition of 60 environmental organizations in the United States and Canada. It said it wanted to focus attention on institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation that is destroying the planet.
A spokesman for the San Francisco demonstrators, Daniel Finkenthal of the Earth Day Action Coalition, said the purpose of the protest there was to give the public an opportunity to show their news of environmental action that preceded Earth Day.
Nation/World briefs
"Westerday these corporations came into our community and spent a lot of money on a media coup to try to convince the American public that environmental protection and reform was high on the corporate agenda, but it's the lowest priority," Finkenthal said. "In fact, they're spending more money on Earth Day promotion than they are on actual corporate reform and the environment."
the group that claimed responsibility for the two California outages called itself Earth Night Action Group and said the target was Pacific Gas & Electric, which they called a "corporate earth rapist." Residents of Santa Cruz and Watsonville were affected by the outages Sunday and early yesterday, caused by damage to power PG&E poles.
13 people die during attacks in South Africa
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Rival Black factions accused with guns and knives and attacked homes during the weekend, killing at least 13 people, including two Black police officers, authorities said yesterday.
Police said 11 people were killed during the weekend in fictional fighting in Natal Province. The dead included a 15-year-old boy and a 70-year-old woman, who were shot in separate incidents, police said.
Police gave few details on the fighting in other parts of the nation. Two Black police officers were killed by a police officer near Province and Natal, police said.
The Citizen newspaper reported yesterday that police had said they would not allow extreme right-wing whites to form private militias.
Police backed up by South African army troops arrested about 70 people in a sweep Sunday through a Black township near Vijivkroenam in Mpumalanga said Police declined to say why the suspects were rounded up.
WEST GERMAN PROPOSAL:
West Germany agreed yesterday to give East Germans a bigger share of Western wealth as the struggling nation merges with its rich neighbor.
In a surprising concession, West Germany said it would exchange each virtually worthless East German mark paid to workers and pensioners for one strong West German mark.
The 1-1 rate would apply to wages and pensions and to savings accounts of up to 4,000 marks ($2,300), said Dilever Vogl, spokesman for West German Chancellor Helm Kohl.
The East German government had demanded the 1-1 rate to protect workers from higher living costs in a unified Germany and the loss of huge subsidies that existed in the former socialist system.
Under the West German economic proposal, announced after Kohl met with his Cabinet, personal savings of more than 4,000 marks would be traded at a rate of $2.5 per mark for the marks for one West German mark.
East German private and corporate debts also would be converted at a 2-1 rate, Vogel said.
DISCOVERY READY AGAIN:
Space shuttle Discovery stood ready once again, weather willing, to ferry the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit today to seek answers about the universe, and how big?
At the Kennedy Space Center on Monday, officials expressed confidence the liftoff, scheduled for 8:31 a.m. EDT, will occur.
But there was little of the excitement of two weeks ago when hundreds of astronomers gathered, with their families, only to see the launch scrubbed with four minutes to go in the countdown.
"Here we are once again," said William Lenoir, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's space flight program. "We think once again we are ready."
LI VISITS SOVIET UNION: Premier Li Peng yesterday began the
first visit in 26 years by a Chinese head of government to the Soviet Union by emphasizing that his country and the Soviet Union have the right to tailor reforms to their own needs.
It's four-day trip is aimed at improving relations and easing border tensions as both countries grapple with domestic problems.
At a Kremlin dinner in his honor, the 61-year-old older noted that the Soviet Union and China share a 4,300-mile border.
Li went on to tell the dignitaries in the Grand Kremlin Palace that his country was committed to ending the war. Soviet Union deserves differences.
Li did not identify the areas of disagreement, but Western diplomats in Beijing said that China had stressed it would never be a docile Soviety ally as it was in the 1950s. They also said that China's views toward Gorbachev had grown with Gorbachev's reform policies.
The ideological hard-liners who now rule China reportedly blame Gorbachev for the fall of Communist parties in Eastern Europe and see perestroika as leading to the demise of socialism.
SHRINES CLOSING: Christian shrines in the Holy Land will close Friday and ring a funeral toll from their belltoowers to protest a recent development in the Old City's Christian quarter, church leaders said.
The announcement came one day after the Israeli government confirmed that it put $1.8 million to help finance the settlement of 60 Jews in a 72-room church in the Church of the Holy Sepulchr.
The settlement, set up on April 11, has provoked angry Christians Christian clerics and Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim.
In announcing Friday's daylong protest, the leaders of 10 religions in the Holy Land said government support for the settlement endangers the survival of all Christian communities in the Holy City.
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT Johnson Co. Kansas
Clerical Positions
File Clerks
Typists
Word Processors
Data Entry
Recceptionists
Light Industrial
Packers
Assembly
Warehouse
General Labor
Lawn Maintenance
- NO FEES -
Temporaries
(913) 491-0944
Call collect for details & application (915) 491-0544
Unplanned pregnancy? Decisions to make?
Understanding all your alternatives makes you really free to choose. Replace pressure and panic with thoughtful, rational reflection.
For a confidential, caring friend, call us. We're here to listen and to talk with you. FREE PREGNANCY TESTING.
843-4821
204 W.13th
M.W,F 1+3 p.m.
M.Th 6-8 p.m.
Sat. 10-12 Noon
It took Freud 38 years to understand it. You have one night.
The psych exam is in 12 hours. And your id wants to party. Your ego wants to conk out. But your superego knows you need to stay awake tonight to cram.
Fortunately, you've got Vvarin. It helps keep you awake and mentally alert for hours. Safety and conveniently. So all your brainpower can focus on understanding the brain.
If Freud had used Vivarin, maybe he could have understood the brain
Storm Surrounded Formal convocation represented for The Roger Bitchin Agency, Beverly Hills, CA.
Revive with VIVARIN.
for fast pick up-safe as coffee
© 2009 Apple Publishing
Use an aerated Common caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee.
ONE OF THE GREATEST TOOLS FOR SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT.
Take a long piece of string.
Wrap it around a small snack of newspapers. Then take it to a picnic table for collection on recycling day
You'll be helping U.S. newspapers in their drive to encourage recycling. More than a third of our country's newsprint was recycled last year. But without your help, we won't have the material to make recycl-
to make recycling work.
So lie a string around your finger.
It'll help you remember to recycle.
Read. Then recycle.
FREE
KID'S MEAL
Every
Tuesday
With Purchase
Of Any Adult
Dinner
(Denks Not Included)
Offer good for children, 12 and under, ordering from Children's Menu. Limit: 2 children per adult.
ALL DAY TUESDAYS!
1015 Iowa
749-3005