University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 5, 1990
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Bush praises publisher's donation
The Associated Press
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Bush saluted publishing tycoon Walter Annenberg yesterday for setting a example by donating $50 million to the United Negro College Fund, the largest gift ever for Black colleges.
Annenberg, the 82-year-old former ambassador to Britain and founder of a publishing empire that once included TV Guide and Readers
Digest, said wealthy people had an obligation to help the less fortunate.
Moreover, Annenberg said. "It is psychologically important that Blacks indicate to the rest of the population in the country that they have the capability to teach and serve."
The gift formally was announced at a ceremony on the golf course of Annenberg's estate, a 203-acre desert oasis of manicured lawns, duck
ponds and sculpted shrubs.
Bush, announcing the gift to the United Negro College Fund, said, "I'm delighted to know that my good friend Walter Annenberg has set significant and marvelous example with this gift to this excellent cause."
Bush, a supporter of the fund since his senior year at Yale University, 42 years ago, said he was inspired by Annenberg's generosity, which
exemplified the very best of the "thousand points of light," a reference to public service and volunteerism.
Bush, the guest of the Annenbergers for two nights, played golf on his host's course after the ceremony. He returned to Washington after a four-day trip of politicizing, anti-drug speeches and a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Toshibi Kaifu.
Transporation strategy relies on private sector
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will unveil a national transportation plan this week calling for more local government and private help to improve air, ground and water transportation into the next century.
The long-awaited outline could lead to more toll roads, higher airline ticket fares, increased gasoline taxes and new charges for higher bus and mass transit fares.
Elements of the policy already have been disclosed by Secretary of Transportation Samuel Skinner, who said he wanted to remove the heavy hand of government from transportation industries. Formal release of the plan is set for Thursday.
Skinner's department faces formidable problems; overcrowded airports with about 30 percent of all flights delayed; a maritime industry in a record slump; highway bridges in need of billions of dollars in repairs; and an estimated $1 trillion to $3 trillion demand for airport, railroad, highway and mass transit construction during the next 20 years.
Some of the strategies Skinner said would be promoted in the new policy are increased user fees; increased private investment, including private construction of toll roads; extending deregulation to the trucking and maritime industries; and promotion of new technologies, including high-speed rail systems and computerized cars that are less likely to crash.
Police close off Soviet city as activists become violent
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — A demonstration in a city near the Ubek capital of Tashkent yesterday resulted in security forces reportedly sealing offices and schools said at least one soldier was killed, an activist reported many dead.
Yadigar Abidov, a spokesman for the Uzbekistan grassroots organization Berik, sold soldiers surrounded the city of Parken, about 30 miles from Tashkent, and would let one no leave or enter.
Grigory Kuplin, a spokesman for
the Interior Ministry in Moscow, said at least one soldier had died in a clash between demonstrators and Interior Ministry troops Saturday.
The Uzbekistan Interior Ministry and other official sources contacted in Tashkent refused to comment on the violence.
Nation/World briefs
It was not immediately clear what led to the violence in Uzbekistan, the cultural and geographic traditionally Muslim Central Asia.
The republic of Uzbekistan has been the most recent area of the Soviet Union to erupt in violence as President Mikhail S. Gorbachev loosens decades of tight Kremlin control.
PANAMA ORENDEA ATTACK: A U.S. soldier died of injuries suffered in a grenade attack Saturday at a discotheque, and 13 U.S. servicemen remained hospitalized, the U.S. military said yesterday.
A statement from the U.S. Southern Command said that Army Spec. Anthony B. Ward, 21, of Houston, died at 5:15 p.m. Saturday of injuries and wounds in women. He died at the U.S. military's Gorgas Hospital in Panama City.
Witnesses said two men yelling "Long live Noriega!" threw a grenade through a glass wall of the disc at 11:30 p.m., then sped away in a car. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. It was the first such attack on U.S. soldiers in Panama since the Dec. 20 invasion that removed dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.
ATLANTIS RETURNS: The space shuttle Atlantis landed safely on a California desert runway yesterday, completing a secret military mission that included launching a $500 million spy satellite.
Atlantis, carrying a crew of five military men, touched down at 12:08 p.m. yesterday at Edwards Air Force base.
A Pentagon-imposed blackout blocked public announcement of the mission activities, and because of the secret nature of the mission, the authorities were spared their captors. A few hundred invited guests however, watched the shuttle land.
NASA sources said the Atlantis astronauts deployed the spy satellite Thursday.
SOVIET ELECTIONS: Millions of Soviets from the Polish border to the Bering Strait voted, yesterday in what President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said was a struggle for the alliance between reform and bureaucracy.
"I think it is a battle," Gorbachev told reporters after voting in the Lenin Hills area of Moscow, "but I convinced that perestroika will win."
Almost 150 million voters were registered to choose among more than 11,000 candidates for 1,800 seats in the legislatures of the Russian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics. Thousands of seats in local governing councils also were contested.
CHEMNOBLY OUTPUT REDUCED:
The Ukrainian government plans to phase out operations at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant during the next five years, according to reports cited by the Washington Post.
However, it is unclear whether the Soviet republic's government has authority at the Chernobyl plant, site of world's worst nuclear accident.
In April 1986, at least 31 people died and hundreds more developed diseases when radiation was released during explosion and fire at the power plant.
Soviet authorities have said they would not close Chernobyl because it would result in an energy shortage
However, nuclear power plants in other areas, including Armenia and the Crimea, have been closed because of increased pressure from environmentalists.
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