University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 1. 1990
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Kremlin credited for election
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — President Bush telephoned Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday for a "very constructive" and frank discussion on the political shakeup in Nicaragua, where the Kremlin is credited with helping promote an honest election.
In what was believed to be only their third telephone conversation, the two leaders also discussed issues of European security, according to U.S. accounts and the Soviet news agency Tass.
'From Moscow to Managua, change is in the air.'
George Bush
"From Moscow to Managua, change is in the air." Bush said in remarks prepared for a speech in San Francisco. "The world has undergone another upeaheval, but this time there is no war, and there are fewer tyrants in the world than before."
"In the Revolution of '89," Bush said, "an idea overcame armies and tanks, and that idea is democracy.
"This has been true in the East. Now it is becoming true throughout the Western Hemisphere — first in Panama after Operation Just Cause and now, at long last, for the brave people of Nicaragua."
The 40-minute telephone conversation came three days after U.S.-backed opposition leader Violeta
Chamorro defeated leftist President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
To the delight of the United States, the Kremlin moved quickly to say it would recognize the new government.
In addition, a senior administration official credited Moscow with playing an important behind-the-scenes role in encouraging Ortega's Sandinista government to hold an honest election.
Economy shows slow growth in '89
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at its slowest pace in more than three years in 1989, the government said yesterday. Analysts welcomed a slight upward revision in fourth-quarter activity, but many remained anxious about prospects this year.
The Commerce Department revised the fourth-quarter gross national product upward from 0.5 percent to 0.9 percent, which boosted the 1989 GNP growth to 3 percent from 2.9 percent.
Despite the improvement, it was the slowest yearly
"The bottom line is, the economy is likely to stay out of a recession, but just barely," said David Jones, an economist with Aubrey G. Lanson & Co., a New York government securities dealer.
growth since a 2.7 percent gain in 1986 and the lowest quarterly advance since the economy grew 0.3 percent in the third quarter of that year.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the report offered further evidence that the downward slide of the economy had come to an end although the threat of a recession still existed.
Law allows Soviets to lease land
MOSCOW — Legislators overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday that allows Soviets to acquire land and bequeath it to their children.
The Associated Press
The law, however, stops short of legalizing full private ownership of property by strictly forbidding the sale of land. Under the new law, which is to serve as the basis for further legislation by each republic plots can be leased, and the state prices will be set by the state.
The measure was part of a comprehensive package designed to give the force of law to the economic and social reforms championed by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Nation/World briefs
The Supreme Soviet legislature approved the entire law 349-7 with 12 abstentions. The full Congress deputies must now approve it.
State ownership of land, inscribed in the Soviet Constitution, has been a cornerstone of communism since the 1917 revolution.
SHUTTLE LAUNCHES: Space shuttle Atlantis, aloft at last on a secret military mission after five launch delays, eluted the globe yesterday in a public silence that NASA officials said meant all was well.
Atlantis blasted off with five military astronauts and a cargo believed to be a $500 million spy satellite at 2:51 a.m., its 700-foot column of fire visible for hundreds of miles. It was the first spacecraft matching the 100-ton spaceship for the mission one short of a record for the most shuttle postponements.
Because of the classified nature of the Defense Department mission, NO communication blackout out public release is required from the shuttle for the entire trip.
MAYOR BARRY HEARING: Mayor Marion Barry, back in the capital for the first time in more than a month, pleaded innocent yesterday to cocaine possession and perjury charges. The charges were filed after an investigation into his ties to a convicted drug dealer.
"We will not plea bargain, and the mayor is not considering resigning," Barry's attorney, R. Kenneth Mundy, said after the nine-minute court proceeding. "The mayor is confident he will be vindicated at trial."
U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson scheduled a June 4 on three counts of perjury and five in misdemeanor possession of cocaine.
U. S. ARMS SHIPMENTS: The United States has rushed arms to the UNITA rebels under siege by Soviet-backed government forces in Angola, Angolan representatives said yesterday meeting with U.S. defense officials.
It was thought to be the first meeting at the Pentagon with officials from Angola, which does not have diplomatic relations with the United States. Gen. Roberto Leal Monteiro, an adviser to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, and Justice Minister Fernande Franca Van Dunem, met with Defense Department officials, the Angolans said.
The Angolans said they urged the United States to stop arming UNITA so that peace talks, stalled since the summer, could resume.
INDIA ELECTIONS: The Congress Party of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi suffered heavy losses in elections for eight state legislatures, according to early returns yesterdy.
Initial results from Tuesday's voting, which was marked by violence in which scores of people were killed, indicated strong gains for the Hindu fundamentalist Bharatya Janata Party, and for the Janaata Dal, led by Prime Minister V.P. Singh. Singh took office after the Congress Party suffered heavy losses in November's parliamentary elections.
The Congress Party had controlled all eight state legislatures.
USING IT WON'T KILL YOU.
NOT USING IT MIGHT.
Glory
Maybe you don't like using condoms. But if you're going to have sex, a latex condom with a spermicide is your best choice.
Continued from p. 5
Use them every time, from start to finish, according to the manufacturer directions. Because no one has ever been
combat
Matthew Broderick: I just don't like him. I don't know why. I found "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" kind of侵害, even if it is Vice-President Quayle's favorite movie. The producers even brought in Cary Elwes, so good in "The Princess Bride," to stand around and try to make Broderick look like a stern military man. It is no easy task.
Zwick was the co-creator of "thirty-something," the series that showed
us what miserable lives luvs leads. ice is 'Zwick's television experience that mars the film just as it seems to soar, givine the picture a coat of gloss that is not needed to tell this gritter and realistic story.
The balance of all these disparate points weighs in on the favorable results of the strong performances of Freeman and Washington merit bonus points.
Christopher Cunningham is a Leawood senior majoring in English and film studies.
Japanese recycle 50% of their trash while Americans recycle only 10%.
Capture the Moment..
Presents
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Concert Series
NY CITY OPERA NATIONAL COMPANY
"Ungenerous love is sad love.
Mimi. Act II
in Glacio Puccini's timeless tale of love and tragedy
8:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, 199u Hoch Auditorium
with English Supertitles
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office; all seats are reserved;
public: $19 & $16, KU and K-12 students: $9.50 & $8, senior citizens
and other students: $18 & $15, for reservations 913/843-3892.
Partially funded by the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts; additional support provided by the KU Student Activity Fee, Swarthout Society, and the KU Endowment Association.
... You'll Be Glad You Did!
Rita Beier, Paludan, Paul Meier and Jamie Halth discuss making Eliza (Paludan) a society woman.
KU theater to put on 'Pygmalion'
By Bryce J. Tache
Kansan staff writer
Within six months, Eliza Doolittle, a sharp-tongued girl selling flowers on street curbs, traded in her rags and street language for the finery and conversational skills of the aristocracy.
The well-known education of Eliza Doolittle is portrayed on stage in the KU production of George Bernard Shearer's play playing at 8 tonight through Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Crafton-Preyre Theatre, Murray Hall.
Glenn Pierce, professor and chairman of the department of theater and film, is directing the play.
Pierce said the idea of people from poor backgrounds being educated by a member of the upper class began with Greek myth of Pygmalion, a young sculptor who fell in love with a statue, which was later brought to life by the gods.
In the Shaw play, written in 1913, Eliza is taken in by Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can transform her from a common flower girl to a society lady in six months.
But Higgins does not expect the battle of the sexes that enures him in his "creation" develops into a strong-willed man.
The play deals with feminist issues. Pierce said
"A woman is not a pawn in the hands of a man," he said. "The play is a statement about the new woman Shaw emerging and taking a position of equality as a functional and rational human being."
Karin Faidan, Lawrence junior, stars as Eliza. She plays a lady play a lot about women standing on their own two feet.
"She is a very strong person and that is what attracts Henry Higgins in the first place because he tends to surround himself with strong people." she said.
Coming soon
"IF Eliza had gone back to Higgins it would no longer be a comedy," he said. "I would be a tragedy. There are things that may be more significant to a woman than marrying a man."
Pierce said one difference between Shaun's play and Alan Jay Lerner's musical adaptation, "Mary Fair Lady," which he wrote for a 1974 Broadway production.
Pierce said he hoped the low-key play was well received by today's action-hungry audiences.
TAMA
"There is no spectacular action or car chases," he said. "In 'Shaw's plays, you have chases of thought. It is hard to hold an audience when it is accustomed to a few words followed by two minutes of screaming tires."
Tickets are for sale at Murphy Hall box office. Prices are $7 and $6 for the public, $5.50 and $8 for KU students, and $10 for Murphy Hall students.
AQUARIAN
at least 20% off
DRUMHEADS
ALL HEADS 40% off
and as always..
ALL HEADS
ALL CYMBALS
JOE'S DRUM SHOP
The
tropical rain and evergreen forests represent 50% of the earth's remaining forest
In1989 we were clearing 60 acres every minute.
At this rate these forests will all be gone in 50 years.
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