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.
'From Moscow to Managua, change is in the air.'
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.
— 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 upeahel, 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
To the delight of the United States, the Kremlin moved quickly to say it would recognize the new government.
Chamorro defeated leftist President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
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 9.9 percent, which boosted the 1989 GNP growth to 3 percent from 2.9 percent.
Despite the improvement, it was the slowest yearly
growth since a 2.7 percent gain in 1986 and the lowest quarterly advance since the economy grew 0.8 percent in the third quarter of that year.
"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. Lanston & Co., a New York government securities dealer.
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
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Legislators over-hwelmiingly approved a bylester day that allows Sovets to acquire and bequeath it to their children.
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 republican can be leased, and the lease 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 Mihail S. Gorbachev.
The Supreme Soviet legislature approved the entire law 349-7 with 12 abstentions. The full Congress of People's Deputies must now approve it.
State ownership of land, inscribed in the Soviet Constitution, has been a cornerstone of nationalism since the 1947 revolution.
Nation/World briefs
SHUTTLE LAUNCHES: Space shuttle Atlantis, aloft at last on a secret military mission after five launch delays, oblited 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 used as a launch pad at launching 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, N.C. quickly blacked out public release materials 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 proceeding. "The mayor is confident he will be vindicated at trial."
U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson scheduled a June 4 trial on three counts of perjury and five counts of 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 after 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 Franco France 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 yesterday.
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 Jana Dal A, 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.
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'Glory' is a hit despite faults
By Christopher Cunnyngham Special to the Kansan
"Glorify" is a complicated picture, a film about a subject so important and interesting that it becomes the center in the Civil War — that it is difficult to find fault with it. Because it is so
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The story is incredible. Screenwriter Kevin Jarre and director Edward Zwick tell the story of the first Black regiment to fight for the Union duri-
ment, which had no precision and pace, closely examining the relationships within the triangle of the Black soldiers, the white officers and the war itself.
Their struggle is constantly uphill. The Black soldiers want to fight and be treated like proper soldiers. The army considers them low priority, more of an early exercise in public relations than a fighting force. Their commanding officer, Boston abolitionist Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is caught in the middle of a conflict that very different from himself and convince the army that his all-Black regiment can fight.
Denzel Washington is a born leading man, even when playing a supporting role. Morgan Freeman is one of the country's greatest actors, and he keeps proving it again and again. The man could play a member of the Brady Brunch, and you'd believe it. Andre Braugh also is convincing as Shaw's free Black friend who volunteers for the regiment and finds himself in a world he does not quite understand.
The battle sequences are violent, ugly and brutal, completely lacking
in the war is-fun-and-honorable attitudes that pervade so many historical war films outside of the Vietnam movies. Director Zwick does not let us forget the futility involved in armed conflict, and it is apparent that the glory stated in the title is in the hearts of men fighting to free themselves from oppression, not on blood-soaked battlefields.
The direction: Zwick tries hard to give us sweeping vistas and vast panoramas and occasionally comes close, but most of the time the camera placement and shot construction is reminiscent of a large-budget television mini-series. His close-ups give us a feel for the characters but not for the setting. Surprisingly, however, this close-to-the chest camera work is perfect for the battle scenes. The tight vision gives the feel of what it must be like on the battlefield with chaos surrounding you and the hallucinatory aspects of being involved in actual
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