University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 23, 1990
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Ethnic conflict endures
6 reported dead in Romania
The Associated Press
TIRGU MURES, Romania — Thousands demonstrated in the streets for the fourth straight day yesterday in this Transylvanian town where at least six people have died in ethnic clashes.
A dozen army tanks and a cordon of troops kept rival crowds of Romanians and ethnic Hungarians separated on the central Square of the Houses. The square is surrounded by high, tight, resulting in six deaths and hundreds of injuries.
A special commission of inquiry, set up by interim president Ion Ilescu, met, in the town hall on the square with representatives of the two communities in an effort to defuse further violence.
The commission is due to present its recommendations To Lioscu, by April 4.
On one side of the square, approximately 3,000 flapping Romanians chanted, "We fight; we die; we don't give up Transylvania," and "The motherland is crying. Mures is in blood."
Mures is the county name.
About 1,000 ethnic Hungarians, who make up about half of the city's 165,000 population, milled around about 200 yards away at the other end of the long square.
Calls for greater social and cultural autonomy by the ethnic Hungarian population have been heeded to an extent by the government. This has led to Romanian charges of discrimination.
Jury convicts Valdez skipper of being negligent, not drunk
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A jury yesterday acquitted Joseph Hazelwood, the skipper of the Exxon Valdez, of being drunk and reckless in connection with the nation's worst oil spill but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil.
After deliberating for just 10½ hours, the jurors returned the verdicts of one felony and two misdeanor counts stemming from the disaster, in which Hazelwood's tanker ran aground, spilling nearly
11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.
The misdemeanor charge carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, far less than the 7½ years and $61,000 fine he could have faced had he been found guilty on all four charges.
There were bursts of applause in the court room as Superior Court Judge Karl Johnstone read the verdicts of innocence.
Hazelwood's New York lawyer, Michael Chalos, a former classmate
of Hazelwood's at the Maritime Academy at Fort Schuyler, N.Y., clapped the skipper on the shoulder and hit the counsel table with his hand at the first verdict.
Chalos said it was a great victory for Hazelwood.
U.S. gets large portion of Soviet grain market
The normally taciturn defendant smiled broadly for the first time in the two-month-long trial.
"We had great faith in the jury system," he said. "The only charge he's been convicted of is a low-level misdemeanor."
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. farmers have been guaranteed a major portion of the Soviet Union's grain import market for another five years, officials announced yesterday.
Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter and U.S. Trade Representative Carly Fiorina have tentative agreements were reached during negotiations in Vienna, Austria.
The current pact, in effect since
1983, expires Dec. 31.
The new accord will increase the annual minimum shipments of U.S. grain to the Soviets to 10 million metric tons from 9 million tons — a guarantee of 50 million tons during the five years.
Soviet purchases in most years have exceeded the minimums.
Under the agreement, the Soviets will be committed to buying at least 4 million tons each of wheat and feed grains.
U.S. grain exports to Soviet Union
Knight-RidderTribune News
SOURCE: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
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E. GERMAN ALLIANCE: In a
The left-learning party, which finished second in Sunday's balloting to the Alliance for Germany, refused to work with a right-wing government. Alliance leaders left the door open to such an arrangement.
E. GERMAN ALLIANCE: in a move that could speed formation of East Germany's first non-Communist government, the Social Democrats agreed yesterday to discuss joining a coalition government with an alliance that won national elections.
Parliament is needed to approve unification with West Germany, and the Alliance needs the votes of the Social Democrats to achieve that majority.
A two-thirds majority in the new
ENGLAND VOTE: Residents in central England voted yesterday in a special parliamentary election expected to deal a humiliating defeat to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party.
prosperous semi-rural stronghold of her Conservative Party.
PAYROLL TAX CUT: Democratic Party officials, searching for a winning strategy in the shadow of President Bush's formidable approval ratings, are ready to endorse a cut in the Social Security payroll tax.
A resolution to put the party on record in support of a proposal on that subject by Sen. Daniel Patrick, Moynihan, D-N.Y., is on the agenda today for the Democratic National Committee, meeting in Indianapolis.
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