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News Digest ej&wp*. A ^ Edited by Tabitha Hiner Supreme Soviet ceases Communist Party MOSCOW - Soviet, lawmakers voted Thursday to suspend all activi ties of the Communist Party in what appeared to be a fatal blow to the once-powerful institution that virtu ally collapsed after last week’s failed coup. The Supreme Soviet’s vote could be a lethal blow to the party, which had 15 million members and made its presence felt in every factory, school and city hall in the nation. The Supreme Soviet’s decision culminated a week of post-coup at tacks on the Communist Party for its key role in the takeover. President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, struggling to revive his central gov ernment, resigned as the Communist Party chief last week. Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin, who has taken the initia tive in reshaping the political slruc ture of the nation, has barred the party from his vast republic and scaled party and KGB archives. The republic’s first secretaries have each quit the Politburo or resigned from the party. Legislators voted 283-29, with 52 abstentions, to suspend the party, which had ruled the nation through fear and intimidation for more than seven decades. The resolution urged that all evi dence from the Soviet prosecutor’s probe of official involvement in the coup be turned over to the national Supreme Court, which would then determine whether the party can still operate. The vote also froze the Commu nist Party’s bank accounts and halts all financial operations by the party. “I frankly rejoice in that... the demise, the fall of the totalitarian non-democratic party,” said President Bush in Kcnnebunkport, Maine, where he was holding a news conference with visiting British Prime Minister John Major. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union moved closer to splintering apart. The two richest and most popu lous Soviet republics, Russia and the Ukraine, Thursday announced forma tion of a temporary military and eco nomic alliance that appears to leave the Kremlin out in the cold. The two republics invited other states “of the former U.S.S.R” to join their alliance, striking a serious blow to Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s efforts to regain some semblance of the power he wielded before last week’s coup. Thursday’s agreement was a vic tory for Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, who led the opposition to the Communist-led coup and has since forced Gorbachev into a weaker, power-sharing role. It also underscored the diminished stature of such institutions as the na tional Supreme Soviet legislature, which began Thursday’s session by hearing reports on the Russian-Ukrain ian accord. “The results of these negotiations are that... the old union does not exist and there can be no return to it,” said Leningrad Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, who was sent to Kiev by Gorbachev and the Supreme Soviet to observe the talks. But the reformist mayor also told lawmakers that he still sees a future role for Soviet institutions such as the national parliament. “Itought to play a coordinating, an arbitrating role to prevent a misun derstanding from growing into a conflict,” he said. The Supreme Soviet also pressed on with Gorbachev ’$ post-coup purge on Thursday, voting nearly unani mously to strip ousted speaker Ana toly Lukyanov of his parliamentary immunity so he can be charged in connection with the failed coup. The chief Soviet prosecutor, Nikolai Trubin, told lawmakers he had evi dence Lukyanov was involved in the coup and should be charged with trea son. Trubin then announced his own resignation, accepting responsibility for some of his office’s employees who failed to oppose the coup. Thirteen coup ringleaders, includ ing the seven remaining members of the emergency committee that tried to seize power after interning Gor bachev, were charged Thursday with treason, which ispunishablc by death. U.S., Britain to donate food KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine ■ The United States and Great Brit ain announced plans Thursday tc extend additional food credits tc the disintegrating Soviet Union and to make a hurry-up “lifeline” stud) of possible Soviet needs for food and medical aid this winter. For his part, Bush called again on the Soviet leadership to recog nize the independence of the Baltic slates and not to “stand against the winds of the inevitable.” He said he did not anticipate action on the Baltics by the Supreme Soviet before Monday. Both Bush and British Prime Minister John Major urged the Soviet Union to press ahead with eco nomic reform, and Major added that the Soviets should “further reduce” their defense spending. I W.C.'s I W.C.’s I KVvl .i i m ^ n | Fridays 2 - 7 pm Prices good all year long! [W.C/s_1228 T_Street_WXVsJ i I-—-1 ■ NO WAITING IN LINES 10% STUDENT DISCOUNT (Student ID Required) • SELF SERVICE • FULL COLOR COPIERS COPIES • SELF SERVICE # ri llF PRINT*? 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LeVay cautioned that while the evidence demonstrates a strong link between the size of that group of cel Is and the sexual preference of males, researchers still aren’t sure which is cause, which is effect. But he made clear that, based on his own findings and earlier animal studies, he believes the odds are that there is a strong biological determi nant of homosexuality — something long argued by many within the gay community. His research focused on a cluster in thelnterstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus, or INAH, which has been identified in animal studies as a principal root of male sexual behav ior. LeVay said he found a difference in a cluster called INAH 3, which is one of four INAH groups of cells. In the brains of heterosexual men, he said, the INAH 3 is “about the size of a grain of sand.” In homosexual men and in women, the structure is “small to vanishing.” The study, to be published Friday in the journal Science, did not include specimens from known homosexual women. LeVay said the INAH possibly could form normally in homosexual men and then, for some reason, shrink or die in adult life. But he said that, based on animal studies, “I would put my money on the idea that this is causative and influences behavior.” Dr. Roger Gorski, a UCLA re searcher who has specialized in stud ies on the influence of the brain on sexual behavior, said LeVay’s find ings are generally consistent with whal he has found in research using labora tory rats. Gorski said that his research has shown that sexual behavior of rats can be manipulated by the influence of hormones before birth. LeVay and Gorski both said that science docs not yet know precisely the function of the INAH that LeVay studied. Studies in monkeys, how ever, have shown that when the por tion of the brain that includes the INAH is destroyed, male monkeys lose sexual interest in females. Subway operator charged for deaths NEW YORK - A subway operator was charged with manslaughter after his train derailed and crashed into a pillar early Wednesday, killing five passengers and injuring 133, authori ties said. Forty-four rescue workers also were injured. Motorman Robert Ray, 38, was charged with five counts of manslaugh ter, Police Commissioner Lee Brown said. Tests showed Ray’s blood-alcohol level was 0.21 percent. Brown said at a news conference. The New York state standard for vehicular drunken driving is 0.10 percent Bits of . Mexico "Put Some Spice in Your Life!" 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Radio Zagreb said two Croatian national guardsmen were killed and three injured in fighting around the Serbian-held village of Sunja 40 miles southeast of Zagreb, the republic’s capital. There were conflicting reports from Vukovar, a town on the Da nube River border with Serbia where Croatian forces have been able to repel the Serbs and the Yugoslav army, which has bombarded the city with tanks and warplanes. The Croatian news agency Hina said battles continued for a fifth day, but Radio Belgrade and the national Tanjug news agency said a tense calm prevailed. Local mayors from several central and northern towns in Croatia’s Dalmatian region on the Adriatic coast signed a cease-fire agreement with local military commanders, Hina reported. But representatives of the Ser bian stronghold of Knin, whose militia controls much of the re gion, did not sign the agreement, Hina said. 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