University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 7, 1990
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Kohl says he'll respect Polish borders
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — Chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday dropped his demand for Polish concessions on a border treaty and moved closer to guaranteeing that a united Germany would not claim land ceded to Poland
after World War II.
His government proposed a parliamentary resolution to be introduced in Germany, a united Germany may should sign a treaty with
Poland declaring that the right of Poles "to live in secure borders will
not now or in the future be questioned by us Germans."
After a Cabinet meeting, at which ministers discussed disagreements over the chancellor's "handling of the crisis," the prime minister said that burdened us are cleared away."
Kohl had been criticized for his reluctance to state clearly, presumably in an effort to preserve the conservative vote in December elec- tion that a reunified Germany would not question Poland's western border.
He had insisted repeatedly that only the leadership of a united Germany could make such a promise about Polish territory, roughly one third of which was part of Germany before the war.
The charcello - pronouncements caused unease in Poland, the Soviet Union, the United States and elsewhere as Kohl sought international support for bringing East and West together into a single nation.
His statements also created trouble at home. The Free Democrats, his coalition partners, joined the opposition Social Democrats in saying his position jeopardized the chances of unification.
On Friday, Kohl exacerbated the problem by demanding that any treaty recognizing Poland's current status be resumed. Poles to honor a 1953 decision to waive any war reparations and to a renewal of Poland's 1989 promise to
guarantee the rights of its German minority.
After a meeting yesterday between Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, their second in two days, Free Democrat official Torsten Wolframm said the chancellor had abandoned his demand that Polish assurances accompany a border treaty.
"It is completely clear," he said. "A treaty would contain only the border question."
Silesia and East Prussia were awarded to Poland and the Soviet Union, respectively, at the Potsdam conference of 1945. That led to the expulsion of 12 million Germans, and at least 2 million died in the process.
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BANK EXPLORION IN COLORADO:
An explosion shattered a two-story bank in Crested Butte, Colo. yesterday, killing three people and injuring 12 others, officials said. Three people were listed in critical condition.
Firefighters and volunteers dug by hand through the rubble of the Crested Butte National Bank to pull out survivors, witnesses said.
The cause of the downtown blast in this ski resort is under investigation by local and federal officials, authorities said.
Mayor Wes Light said three bodies were pulled from the rubble, and all 15 people thought to be inside during the explosion were pulled out.
About 200 people responded quickly to the scene and started digging with their hands.
3 charged in smuggling ring linked to military
MIAIAM — Three people linked to a scheme to use U.S. soldiers to smuggle cocaine from Panama to this country were detained after appearing before a magistrate, authorities said yesterday.
The Associated Press
The soldiers were hired by Colombian smugglers to bring cocaine in duffel bags aboard military flights to
the United States, CBS News reported Monday night.
CBS reported that a smuggling ring was broken up recently in Panama and that at least nine people were arrested.
The three who appeared before the federal magistrate in Fort Lauderdale on Monday were charged with conspiracy to import cocaine.
Israel's Peres uses threat to spur action on dialogue
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Vice Premier Shimon Peres yesterday threatened to bring down the government unless Israel's Cabinet members approve U.S. proposals for writing a dialogue with Palestinians.
Peres' center-left Labor Party and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's right-wing Likud bloc. Both sides still are at odds about the U.S. plan.
The decision-making inner Cabinet will meet today with
BARGE EXPLODES IN M.J. A barge loaded with more than 621,000 gallons of gasoline exploded in flames yesterday on a waterway plagued by oil mishaps this year, and at least one man was injured. Coast Guard officials said.
The barge, anchored at a Citgo petroleum facility at Linden, N.J. broke its moorings after the explosion and drifted across the Arthur island, N.Y., said Andrew Pasko of the Linden police department.
Peres read an ultimatum after a 45-minute meeting of Labor Cabinet ministers at his office in Tel Aviv.
U. S. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer John Hollis said one person whom he sent to a hospital after the explosion aboard the barge Cibro Savannah.
Hollis said the barge carried 100,500 barrels, or more than 621,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline.
The figure has reached 250,000,000 according Census Bureau estimates released yesterday.
The 250 million estimate represents a 10.4 percent increase from the 226.5 million people in the United States counted in 1980.
The U.S. population reached 50 million in 1880, doubled to 100 million in 1915, was 150 million in 1949 and climbed to the 200 million mark in 1967.
Projections made by the Census Bureau indicate that the nation could reach 300 million within 30 years.
ATWATER HAS TUMOR: Doctors found a benign tumor on the right side of Republican Party chairman Lee Atwater's brain yesterday and said it would be treated non-surgically with no difficulty.
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