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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.'
"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."
- George Bush
"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.
Economy shows slow growth in'89
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.
To the delight of the United States, the Kremlin moved quickly to say it would recognize the new government.
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
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 overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday that allows Soviets to acquire and besqueach 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 republic, it 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 deputies must now approve it.
State ownership of land, inscribed in the Soviet Constitution, has been a cornerstone of communism since the 1917 revolution.
SHUTTY LAUNCHES: Space shuttle Atlantis, aloft at last on a secret military mission after five launch delays, orbited the globe yesterday in a public silence that NASA officials said meant all was well.
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Atlantis blasted off with five military astronauts and a cargo believed to be a $300 million spy satellite at 2:51 a.m. its 700-foot column of fire visible for hundreds of miles. It was moved out by launching the 100-ton space ship the mission, one short of a record for the most shuttle postponements.
Because of the classified nature of the Defense Department mission, the agency blacked out public release of communications 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 said after the nine-minute court proceeding. "The mayor is confident he will be vindicated at trial."
U. D. State Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson scheduled a June 4 trial on three counts of perjury and 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 Santes, and Justice Minister Fernando 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.
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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 Bharatiya 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.
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The Congress Party had controlled all eight state legislatures.
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By Bryce J. Tache
Kansan staff writer
While it's the "in" thing in the music business to record socially-conscious songs, the Smithereens are sending out their own message.
Now if I seem a little wild, there's no holding back.
the band's moto is 'Have a good time all the time.' "said drummer Dennis Diken. "That's what we're all about."
I'm trying to get a message to you.
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After six years of just being a local New Jersey band, lead vocalist Pat DiNizo, guitarist Jim Babjak, bassist Mike Mesaro and Diken are now hitting it big.
"We play rock 'n' roll in the purest sense of the word," Diken said.
The Smithereens will play at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Hoch Auditorium.
The doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
Diken said the band was heavily influenced by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who.
our music.
Diksen said the band's songs did not have a let's-save-the-world attitude.
Soulists like me "We listened to anything that was really popular or really good," he said. "We grew up listening to the AM radio, and that has come out in our music."
"We consider ourselves as entertainers," he said. "I'm not knocking that type of music; it doesn't matter, but that is not what we're about."
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"We're essentially an upbeat band. When the audience comes to one of our concerts, they leave with a posi-
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They're not the day Ollie goes. Justin Gilbert, Miami senior, agreed.
"I wasn't familiar with the," but we've been playing ther at the store and I love them." Riska said. "One of the things that realy caught my ear is their distinct guitar. They're not like any other group."
He also said he enjoyed the creativity of the recording studio. The group's first two albums, "Especially for You" released in 1985 and "Green Thoughts" released in 1988, have each sold more than 300,000 copies.
*reir album "11",* named for the Frank Sinatra movie *Oceans 11*,* is now No. 47 on the Billboard charts and climbing.
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"They're not self-indulgent," he said. "I like their minimal guitar and bass sound."
Touring and recording takes up most of the band's time. When asked which he preferred, Diken said it was like comparing apples and orange
like comparing apples to "I like the immediate feedback from the audience," he said. "It's electrifying and gratifying."
I've known Mike since third grade," Diken said. "I've known Jim since high school. And Pat answered a classified ad we placed in a local paper. We've been together ever since."
tive feeling."
Although they have been playing professionally for about 10 years, the band members have known each other since elementary school.
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