University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 1, 1990
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Pay raise becomes reality
Congressmen get cost-of-living raise, can keep honoraria
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A pay raise goes into effect today for members of Congress, with the Senate receiving a slightly higher boost than the House.
Federal judges and senior executive branch employees also will be
getting coat-of-living increases at the same rate as House members, which is about 8 percent.
Rank-and-file House members' salaries will go from $89,000 a year to $96,000. Senators will get a raise to $88,400.
The reason for the difference is that the House last year approved a comprehensive pay-and-ethics package that includes an additional 25 percent pay raise effective next year in return for the elimination of the
widely criticized practice of lawmakers accepting speaking fees from interest groups.
But senators balked and accepted instead a 10 percent raise and a cut in the speaking fees limit from $35,800 to $26,568.
While senators are slightly ahead in the salary game for now, the House will leap ahead on Jan. 1, 1991, when its next raise takes them to $120,700 plus a yet-to-be-determined cost-of-living increment.
South Africa reverses policy
JOHANNSBURG, South Africa — In a major policy reversal, President F.W. de Klerk ordered a judicial inquiry yesterday into allegations that police carried out authorized killings of anti-spaethid activists.
The Associated Press
De Klekert also called for a separate inquiry into the death of a 20-year-old black man found hanged in his prison cell. The man, Clayton Sithole, reportedly fathered a child by Zindzi
Mandela, daughter of jailed black leader Nelson Mandela.
De Klerk's decision to investigate the alleged police hit squares comes less than two months after he refused to appoint such a commission. The controversy began late last year after the police accused them of participating in killings of government opponents under authorization of their superiors.
any hit squads.
Police have denied the existence of
Justice Minister Kobie Coetee said de Klerk appointed Supreme Court Judge L.T.C. Harms to investigate "the alleged incidence of murders . . . in order to achieve, effect or promote constitutional or political aims."
He said details on how the inquiry is to be carried out would be published soon in the official government gazette.
Ethnic riot toll rises in Yugoslavia
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia — Protests by ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo have sparked a backlash in other parts of the country, including demands by thousands of Slavs to be given weapons so they can go fight the Albanians.
The Associated Press
State-run television said the situation was on "the verge of civil war."
Three ethnic Albanians were reported killed Wednesday in Kosovo, bringing to 19 the death toll in rioting that began eight days ago in the poor southern province governed by the Serbian republic.
Aside from the 18 demonstrators, one policeman has been killed in the rioting, said Jorgovanka Milojevic, a spokeswoman for the provincial government.
Nation/World briefs
Authorities warned that "traveling through Kosovo is extremely dangerous." Young ethnic Albanians, armed with guns, were reported to be stopping cars.
AOUN STAGES ATTACK: Gen.
Michel Aouin's soldiers attacked the Lebanese Forces militia yesterday to try to gain full control of the Christian zone.
Reports indicated that the rebel commander's 20,000 troops, led by the U.S.trained 8th Brigade, had the upper hand in tank and artillery battles in the 310-square-mile enclave north and east of Beirut, where 1 million Christians live. Four people were wounded.
AIDS COMPOUNDS STUDIED:
AIDS COMPOUNDS STUDIED
Scientists say they have created what appear to be the most potent substances yet studied for stopping the AIDS virus from reproducing based on test-tube results
The class of compounds apparently sabotages a process involving a virus enzyme called reverse transcriptase, the scientists said.
The compounds have not yet been tested on humans for effectiveness, the researchers reported in today's issue of the British journal Nature.
PEACE TALKS BEGIN: Mediators arrived yesterday to prepare peace talks between Armenian
and Azerbaijani representatives that bypass the Kremlin and underscore the growing import-road assets rooftop movement in the Balikesir.
Nine mediators will take part in the Riga talks, which will be organized by the Baltic Council, a wing of the region's people's front.
PROTESTERS ARRESTED:
Police arrested three people yesterday after demonstrators protesting the plight of the homeless threw what they said was blood on the U.S. Capitol hours before the president's State of the Union address.
The demonstrators were identified as members of the Community for Creative Non-Violence, an organization that runs a 1,400-bed shelter for the homeless near the Capitol.
DEFECT SCREENING: A new test can spot three-quarters of all adults who risk having children with cystic fibrosis, and more accurate versions should soon allow routine screening of everyone in the United States for this common genetic defect.
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