Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday; February 7, 1990
Gorbachev ratifies opposition
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Mikhail S. Gorbachev's proposal to end the Communist Party's monopoly of power was an effort to keep ahead of a political avalanche that was threatening to bury him, U.S. analysts say.
Changing Article Six of the Soviet constitution to deprive the Communist Party of its guaranteed leading role, as proposed Monday by Gorbachev, would ratify rather than unite opposition groups scattered among the 15 Soviet republics, the analysts
predicted.
But there was no clear consensus on the question of Gorbachev's survival.
"Of course he has to survive, in the lack of any alternative. The right does not want to take a chance at
In the West, where Gorbachev's popularity is high, his proposal "will be interpreted as a show of great power to proceed," said Adam Ulam of Harvard University. "But he is really trying to keep up with a bolting horse.
acutely by removing him. If they announced tomorrow that Gorbachev was out, you would have demonstrations in every Russian city."
Ulam said that would force an unwanted test for the Red Army and KGB security forces.
Baker OKs NATO plan for Germany
Gorbachev's chances of success are mixed, said Jerry Hough, a Duke University analyst who has described the Soviet leader's politicizing campaign; but he said the latest development was forging him to reconsider.
The Associated Press
PRAGUE, Caechoelovakia — Secretary of State James A. Baker III, who is trying to guide the drive to German reunification, registered his support yesterday for a plan that would keep West Germany in NATO and would bar Western troops from moving into what is now East Germany.
The proposal, advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher last week, also would
allow Soviet troops to remain in the
eastern region — at least at the outset.
A senior U.S. official said the drive to reunion had accelerated to the point that the two Germanies likely would begin a process of economic, political and legal integration after East Germany has national elections March 18.
ing place on the ground right now and will continue to take place at a quick pace," the senior official said.
"The process of unification is tak
Baker has lent support to the general idea of reumission without publicly committing himself to any specific approach. He has stressed only that the country be in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and that it evolve in a peaceful, step-by-step way.
Judge questions Reagan's absence from trial
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals judge hearing Oliver North's iron-contra case yesterday questioned why North wasn't allowed to call former President Reagan as a defense witness at his trial.
During nearly $2\frac{1}{2}$ hours of arguments, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman noted that Reagan's written answers to questions in the iron- contra affair were submitted to a grand jury but never were provided to North's lawyers.
Silberman, one of three judges who will rule on North's appeal of his conviction on three felony counts, asked why Reagan's written answers weren't turned over to the defendant. Government attorney Gerard
Lynch said the judgment was made that Reagan's written answers would not have been helpful to North and thus were not turned in.
But the U.S. system is based on giving someone accused of a crime wide latitude in obtaining information for his defense, Silberman responded.
BUSH ECONOMIC FORECAST: President Bush, proclaiming that the United States is in excellent economic health, sent his first economic report to Congress yesterday. He promised to restrain government spending and push for tax cuts to foster more prosperity.
Bush said he would continue his fight to reduce the capital gains tax and pledged again to fight protectionist trade barriers.
Many private economists say the administration's economic outlook for the next five years is too optimistic.
The administration foresees no recession and predicts that the gross annual product will expand at an increasing constant or higher from 1991 through 1995.
"Economic expansions . . . do not die of old age. A recession is not likely in the near term," the administration's economic report said.
GERMAN MONETARY UNION: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl asked yesterday for talks about a German monetary union. Such a union is seen as a way of helping East Germany's weak economy and stemming the tide of immigrants to West Germany.
Heinrich Franke, chief of the West German labor office, said 132,100 arrivals from East Germany were registered as unemployed last month.
A monetary union would make the West German mark the currency of both countries and would require the surrender of much of the East's economic sovereignty and its central bank to West Germany.
East German officials have acknowledged that the step could ease some immediate problems but generally have resisted the idea
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because the East German mark's much lower value would mean an erosion of savings. They also fear that unprofitable state enterprises would have to close, causing large layoffs.
POLISH TV: Poland's first privately owned television station began regular broadcasts yesterday, offering viewers in the southwestern city of Wroclaw an alternative to state-run TV, the state news agency reported.
Called "The Echo," the channel relics exerts of programs from the European Astra satellite and shows locally produced news, geared to Wroclaw and the Lower Silesia region, the PAP agency said.
Broadcasts will be limited to four hours a day for the next few months. He paid. The station is located on the 10th floor of a student hostel in Wroclaw.
ALLIES SUPPORT CUTS: NATO allies have given unanimous support to President Bush's proposal for further deep cuts in U.S. and Soviet troops in Europe, an alliance official said yesterday.
The official said the offer probably would go to the bargaining table tomorrow at East-West negotiations and it is financing conventional forces in Europe.
Negotiators for the 18 NATO members and the seven nations of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact are trying to complete an agreement this year for dramatic reductions in personnel, tanks, artillery, armored troop carriers, combat aircraft and helicopters from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains.
Speaking privately, he said the allies might offer additional proposals, possibly concerning combat air helicopters. He did not give details.
BUSH DEFENDS BUDGET: President Bush told army troops at a desert training exercise in California yesterday that uncertainties and dangers in the world justify increased military spending despite congressional criticism that his plans ignore the dismantling of the Communist empire.
The president defended his plan to make cuts in select areas — such as military bases — to but spend more on strategic weapons as he began a campaign combining visits to defense installations with Republican fund-raising.
Meanwhile, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee kept up the pressure for changes, saying the administration's $292.1 billion defense budget — with a half-thousand-million programss such as long-range missiles — fails to match the new political realities at home or abroad.
YEAR-ROUND SCHOOL: Afternoons at the beach, and summer loves will have to be squeezed into the schedule of Los Angeles public school because the traditional threemonth vacation becomes a thing of the past.
Beginning in July 1991, all 646 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will go to a year-round schedule. A total of 102 Los Angeles schools already operate year-round.
The plan will about double the number of U.S. schools on year-round and provide an impetus for other districts to adopt such plans, proponeds said.
Approved by a 4-3 school board vote Monday, the plan is intended to ease severe school overcrowding in the 4,802 student Los Angeles district.
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