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Monday, February 19. 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Unified Germany could steady area
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union may ultimately accept full NATO membership for a reunified Germany because it would provide stability that is in Moscow's own interests, two top Western officials said yesterday.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Manfred Woerner, secretary general of the Western alliance, said they did not believe objections to full NATO membership voiced by some Soviet officials were the final word.
Baker said the alliance, as the basis for the presence of U.S.
A top adviser to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Saturday, in a radio interview that if the Western alliance insisted on NATO membership for all of Germany, there wouldn't be any German unification.
troops in Europe, was something that few on either side of the former Iron Curtain want to dissolve.
"I think if they really think their own legitimate security interests through, it will be better for them to have a Germany which is in a stable condition," he said.
Woerner disagreed.
W. German officials dispute NATO role in united nation
The Associated Press
WEST BERLIN — West German Defense and Foreign Ministry officials were engaged in a sharp dispute yesterday about the role of the NATO alliance in a united Germany.
Defense Ministry officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed that NATO's security umbrella should extend over what is now East German territory. The same proposal was made Friday by Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg.
Foreign Ministry officials, also
speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher was disappointed by Stoltenberg's remarks.
In a radio interview Saturday, Genscher ruled out extending NATO's territory to what is now East Germany.
Genscher said that Stoltenberg's suggestion that a united Germany would belong to NATO and German troops could be based throughout the country could hinder talks on unification.
DEFENSE BUDGET CRITICISM:
The Bush administration's fiscal 1991 budget would repeat wasteful mistakes of the previous decade by producing without adequate testing on production without adequate said. Rep. John Dingell said.
Nation/World briefs
"When we look at our military procurement strategy, it still reflects the thinking of the early 1800s." Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a Feb. 9 letter to President Bush that was made public yesterday.
The Michigan Democrat said $10 billion to $20 billion could be trimmed from Bush's proposed $292 billion defense budget by delaying the purchase of weapons in need of further research and testing.
MANILA SECURITY TALKS:
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
arrives today in the Philippines for
security talks, facing a rare snub
from President Corazon Aquino and anger about what many Fliplips consider a U.S. failure to meet its obligations.
Cheney, on a two-week tour of the Pacific rim that has included stops in South Korea and Hong Kong, will meet with Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos and visit the U.S. run Subic Bay and Clark military bases.
U. S. officials said Cheney was expected to tell Ramses that the United States hoped to reduce its troop strength in the Far East by 10 to 12 percent during the next three years and that Congress was unlikely, to keep paying as much for their upkeep.
VIOLENCE IN ROMANIA: Demonstrators in Bucharest yelling "Down with Communism!" smashed their way with rocks and iron rods into government headquarters yesterday in the most violent protest since the December
The enraged crowd in Victory Square sheated for interim President Iliescus to resign and accused his provisional government of being dominated by Communists from the ousted regime.
pro-democracy revolution.
More than 1,000 people in front of the building cheered as protesters smashed the windows and glass doors with rocks and iron rods, then climbed through windows to open the doors.
EVACUATON IN LEBANON: The Red Cross evacuated 500 commandos of renegade Gen. Michel Aouin's army from a helicopter base in Beirut yesterday after it ridden the rival Lebanese Forces militia.
The evacuation was possible after Aoun and rival Christian warlord Samir Geagea called a cease-fire Saturday night to halt their struggle for control of Lebanon's Christian enclave.
Pollice said 30 combatants were killed and 42 wounded in the fighting that preceded the fall of the Adma helicopter base to Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia. The base was Aoun's only major foothold in Kesrouan province, a Geagea stronghold.
JERUSALEM LEADER RESIGNS:
Ariel Sharon, leader of the farrigh wing of the Likud bloc in Jerusalem, resigned from the Cabinet yesterday and said he would campaign to topple Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and replace the government peace plan with his own.
Sharon said he decided to resign because he felt the government's plan made too many concessions to the Arabs and could lead to war.
"The plan by itself is a mistake. It will not bring us peace but will lead to more tension and more bloodshed and maybe even to a war which all of us would like to prevent," Sharon said.
Russians protest Gorbachev's changing policies
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Right-wing Russian nationalists yesterday staged a rally to complain about President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reforms, warming U.S.-Soviet relations and the growing nationalism in non-Russian republics.
The 2,000 people gathered in deep snow near Soviet television's 1,600-foot transmission tower also heard speakers accuse Gorbachev of being power hungry and plunging the Soviet Union into poverty and misery.
The right-wing groups were taking advantage of Gorbachev's glasnost policy to counter liberal measures they believe are hurting the Russians, the country's dominant ethnic population.
The harshest attack on Gorbachev came from Boris Unko of the United Front of Workers of Russia, a group that is fighting Gorbachev's market-oriented economic reforms and nationalism in non-Russian republics.
Gorbachev's reform program, but that "today we see what we got from that."
Among the evils wrought by Gorbachev's reforms, Unko said, were rock music, modernism, pornography and insults to the builders of the socialist society and the heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution and World War II. He said Gorbachev had sold out to the elite and forgott about the working class.
Ukno told the crowd that the workers initially supported perestroika,
"Today, we very much want to understand," Unko said, "is that a result of some kind of mistake or
unfortunate circumstances?"
He said that Gorbachev was trying to become a dictator and that the Soviet leader should have known his reforms would bring more harm than good.
The rally reflected the increasing polarization that has occurred as the Soviet Union's more than 100 ethnic groups vent long restrained grievances. Russian nationalists have become particularly vocal during the campaign for March 4 elections to the republic's legislature.
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