University Daily Kansan / Monday. March 26. 1990
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Soviet lambastes Lithuania
e Associated Press
MOSCOW — A senior Soviet milly commander yesterday escaped the Kremlin's war of words by Lithuania, accusing the republic's independence leaders of plotting arrest Communists and send them brison camps.
The small Baltic republic was quiet laterday, belaying a drumbeat of ports in Moscow-based media artrazering a territory heading per toward anarchy or political pressure. Soviet tanks rolled through the capital Vilnius in a show force Saturday.
there was no indication that the viet army was trying to round up indreds of Lithuanians who lerted and returned home after the siege, declared March A deadline of Saturday, had been for their return.
some people in Vilnius went to
inktels and churches yesterday, but
any stayed indoors because of
mp weather. The republic's legisl-
ature took a rare day off,
or days, as President Mikhail S. Brachev and other Moscow offits have squeezed the defiant Bal-
Cheney warns against force to halt autonomy movement
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said yesterday
that a Soviet military crackdown in Lithuania would have significant negative consequences on arms control and other U.S.-Soviet relations
Cheney
Cheney, adding his voice to a chorus of caution for the Kremlin from top Bush administration officials, said the use of force to crush Lithuania's independence movement would undermine much of the work that had been done in recent years.
"We'd like to see the Lithuanians... granted the same prerogative that the East Germans were: self-determination," Cheney said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation."
tic state, official media reports have criticized a draft bill in Lithuania's new Parliament that they say could mean imprisonment for those who
"An overt use of Soviet military force to crush the Lithuanians would . . . have significant negative consequences in terms of U.S.-Soviet relations," Cheney said
speak out against independence.
Sajudis is the grassroots political movement that has pressed for Lithuanian independence.
e Associated Press
Ethnic violence returns to Azerbaijan
JOSCOW — Armenians shot residents and set fire to hes in three villages in western Soviet Azerbaijan, a family of five to death and two others, officialsorted vesterday.
it least two bombings also were reported in the thern Transcaucasian region, where Soviet Armenia disputing control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, while trying to fire a Al at Azerbalanians, reports said.
was the most serious outburst of ethnic violence in region since the Jan. 13 anti-Armenian riots and loyalist protests in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, and takeover of the city by Soviet troops a week later.
According to official figures, at least 197 people were killed in the January violence, 125 of them after the arrival of Soviet soldiers in Baku.
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and national TV called the reports from the Soviet Caucasus bitter and tragic, and said the attacks threatened recent softening of the situation in the region.
Tass said firearms were used by both sides in the area Friday and Saturday and reported shooting at vehicles and houses. Tass also reported incidents of hostage-taking but did not elaborate.
National media singled out Armenian radicals for responsibility, saying their acts undermined the interests of the Armenian people.
stonia might split from Soviet Union in October
Associated Press
OSCOW — Estonia's Communist vote overwhelmingly yester-to split with Moscow but agreed six month transition period to id antagonize Soviet authorities strongly opposed the move.
dent Communist Party in Estonia was 432-3 with seven abstensions, sale Lembo Tanning, an adviser on the Committee to the party's Central Committee.
ostonia followed Lithuania, whose annunist Party broke with Mosso before the republic declared its dependence from the Soviet Union. he vote to establish an independent
But the official Soviet news agency Tass said 228 delegates, including many ethnic Russians, boycotted the polling.
Estonia's 106,000-member party followed Lithuania's Communist Party in declaring its independence
from Moscow, a move opposed by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Lithuanian Communist Party also ardently backed that republic's March 11 secession from the Soviet Union.
Estonia's Communist Party has been far more cautious and voted to wait for a party congress in October before finalizing its split with Moscow.
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WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES WINT WINTER FIND "VIABILITY"?
In the February 27 University Daily Kansan (UDK), Camille Krehbiel of the UDK editorial board thinks State Senator Wint Winter's abortion bill now being discussed by the Senate "is important because it finally addresses the needs of both pro-choice and anti-abortion activists."
Says Ms. Krehbiel: "The bill would make abortions illegal if a physician judged the fetus to be viable outside the womb. Although . . . a viability test . . . is not required . . . an abortion would be illegal. . . if a fetus were found to be viable outside the womb."
Ms. Krehbiel evidently doesn't see that this bill, which prohibits the killing of viable fetuses but doesn't require a viability test, is a legal marshmallow which won't reduce by a whit the number of abortions performed.
In the February 21 UDK, National Organization of Women lobbyist Jodie Van Meter claims that "Physicians are not interested in disrupting the life of a fetus that is viable." Ms. Van Meter obviously doesn't realize that the 1973 Supreme Court majority which legitimized abortion did so because it decided each rapidly developing unborn child was "a potential life" unworthy of legal protection. Ms. Van Meter apparently also is unaware that Senator Winter's proposal would allow even a viable fetus to be killed if that child was found to have a severe abnormality although Senator Winter never explains therein what constitutes a severe abnormality.
Senator Winter should know that our universally acclaimed Constitution says nothing about "viability" because it, in the Eighth Amendment, prohibits the infliction of "cruel and unusual punishments" and, in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, unrequocably protects innocent life.
While Senator Winter's vaccous bill obviously has a great deal of support, I wish he'd remember that, as the February 19 Kansas City Times puts it in an editorial opposing capital punishment, "The taking of a life by state-sanctioned killing is a matter of conscience and morality, not a matter of putting a finger to the wind."
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