University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 19, 1990
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Perestroika incites debate on defense
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Disagreement inside the Bush administration about the possibility that drastic changes in the Soviet Union will be reversed is raising new questions about the size of the U.S. defense budget.
While CIA Director William Webster testified earlier this month that the political changes in the Soviet Union had been made by a secretary Dick Cheney has maintained
that Moscow could reassume its former confrontational pose.
Treasury Secretary Nicholas S. Brady said yesterday that the administration was still sticking with Cheney's proposed $3.2 billion cut in inflation-adjusted defense spending for fiscal 1991 beginning Oct. 1.
"Three billion dollars is it; that's what Secretary Cheyne says; that's what it is." Brady said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" program.
Soviet republics vote in first free elections
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Latvians and Estonians voted in their first free elections in 50 years yesterday to choose republic parliaments that activists hoped would press for independence from the Soviet Union.
Crucial runoff elections in local and republic races also were held in Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine.
No election results were expected before today.
In the two Baltic republics, backers of independence hoped their candidates would emerge victorious, while the example of nearby Lithuania.
Lithuania's parliament was taken over by independence supporters in elections.
PANAMA CITY, Panama — A group has claimed responsibility for the fatal crash of two U.S. helicopters and the bombing of a discoque earlier this month, which crashed on U.S. citizens and property.
The Associated Press
The group calls itself the Dec. 20 Movement, or M-20, and is the first
terrorist group to surface following the Dec. 29 U.S. invasion that overthrew military dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.
Group says it caused Panama crash, bombing
One U.S. soldier was killed, and 16 U.S. military personnel and 12 Panamanian were injured in the attack on the discotheque March 2.
The U.S. Southern Command
said that the Feb. 21 helicopter crashes near Colon, at the northern end of the Panama Canal, killed 11 soldiers. It blamed the crashes on bad weather.
M-20 claimed in a handout distributed Friday in the western city of David that 30 soldiers had died.
"It was not an accident as they have said." it said.
The Command made no comment on the statement.
Officials of the government of President Guilermo Endara, installed at the beginning of the invasion, have said that pro-Noriega groups existed and were likely to have access to large weapons caches thought to still be hidden in the country.
IRAQI PROTESTERS: Tens of thousands of Iraqi protesters marched in Baghdad and other cities Saturday to express anger at the British measures taken to censure Iraq for hanging a London-based journalist accused of saving.
Nation/World briefs
No details of their talks were released
President Saddam Hussein flew to Saudi Arabia to consult with King Fahd. The official Saudi Press Agency said Fahd invited Hussein after the international uproar over the execution of Farzad Bazoff. The 31-year-old Iranian-born journalist worked for the Observer, a British Sunday newspaper.
The official radio said demonstrators in all major Iraqi cities swept
through the streets chaning support for Hussein's decision. Bazoft was hanged Thursday, four days after a closed-door revolutionary security court sentenced him to death. He denied the charges of spying for Israel and Britain.
U. S. SATELLITE BREAKS UP: A $500 million satellite that was launched less than a month, ago to spy on the Soviet Union has started falling apart, according to a Soviet report that the Pentagon on Saturday refused to confirm.
A U.S. space agency official said such fragments could be non-essential pieces such as protective shrouds. But the Washington Post said members of Congress and the intelligence community were told the satellite had malfunctioned.
The report by the Novosti news agency said four orbiting fragments were spotted on March 7 that presumably separated from the U.S. spy satellite.
SOVIETS URGE LITHUANIA: Soviet military jets repeatedly streaked over the capital of Lithuania during military maneuvers yesterday, one day before a Moscow deadline demanding that the Baltic republic renounce its declaration of independence.
At the same time, however, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev struck a conciliatory tone, saying he still planned to talk with the Lithuan-
nians about returning to the Soviet fold. He said no ultimatums had been issued.
STUDENTS ABDUCTED: Four U.S. citizens on spring break in Brownsville, Texas, were held against their will and threatened by a group of Mexicans before a police cruiser passed by and rescued them, Mexican police said.
Three Matamoros, Mexico, residents will face a judge today on charges of deprivation of freedom in an incident, which began early Friday.
The three college students and a friend, all from the Oklahoma City area, had been visiting bars in Matamoros.
Everyone purchasing Macintosh computer equipment must show a valid student, faculty or staff KUID.
Requirements for purchasing Macintosh Computer equipment from the KU Bookstores under the Apple Higher Education Program:
Only students currently enrolled in six or more credit hours or course work, full-time faculty members, or full-time staff who are directly involved in the administration, delivery, or support of the academic mission of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, campus, qualify to buy Macintosh Computer Equipment.
Full-time faculty and full-time staff must provide a letter from the head of their department stating that they hold a full-time faculty or staff appointment and that they will use the computer equipment for educational or research purposes. Department heads must provide a similar letter from their respective Vice-Chancellor.
A student qualifies to purchase Macintosh computer equipment if he or she is enrolled in 6 or more hours of undergraduate or graduate course work. The student must go to the enrollment center on the day he or she plans to purchase the computer equipment and get a copy of his or her schedule dated on the day of the purchase.
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Computer sales are limited to one computer or one of any peripheral accessory per student during their academic career. Full-time faculty and full-time staff may purchase one computer or one of any peripheral accessory per two year period.
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In Honor Of Women's History Month WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL
Julia
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The Author: Emily Dickinson
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Growing Up Female One of the first films of the modern feminist movement.
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