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News Digest es*— W ^ ^ Q Edited by Roger Price U.S. no longer Russian target I MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Yeltsin unveiled an ambitious plan to cut nuclear weapons spending Wednes day and urged the United States and other nuclear powers to “move much farther along the road” to disarma ment. And in a dramatic shift away from more than 40 years of Cold War hos tility, the Russian president said his republic’s nuclear warheads would no longer be aimed at any targets in the United States. Yeltsin’s first major pronounce ment on disarmament came only a few hours after President Bush pro posed in his State of the Union speech that the United States and Russia lake big bites from their nuclear arsenals. In a nationwide broadcast, Yeltsin told the Russian people he is ending production of two big bombers and long-range cruise missiles and stop ping development of new offensive nuclear weapons. “We no longer view the United Slates as a foe,” Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev told report ers after the meeting. Key Russian and U.S. nuclear weapons cuts Following President Bush’s offer to: ► Eliminate 1,500 of 2,000 nuclear warheads on U.S. land-based missiles ^ Reduce by one-third the number of warheads on sea-based missiles ^ Convert some bombers to non-nuclear roles. Russian President Yeltsin announced: ► About 600 strategic land- and sea-based nuclear missiles-carrying a total of 1,250 nuclear warheads have been taken off alert. ► The halting of TU-160 and TU-95MS heavy bomber production. ► The stoppage of long-range air-based and sea-based cruise ^ missile production. ► Programs to design or modernize several types of long-range offensive nuclear weapons will be stopped, ► 130 land-based missile silos have been eliminated or are being prepared for elimination, ► Russia would be prepared to eliminate all existing sea-based long-range nuclear missiles if the United States agrees to do the same. ► Long-range nuclear missiles stationed in Ukraine will be dismantled within a shorter period of time than previously planned and the number of nuclear-armed submarines on patrol would be cut In half-stopped altogether if the United States follows suit. --AP, NebraSkan Editor Jana Pedersen, 472*1766 Night News Editors Adeana Leftln Managing Editor Kara Wells John Adklsson Assoc News Editors Chris Hoplensperger Wendy Mott _ _ KrisKarnopp Tom Kunz Opinion Page Editor Alan Phelps Art Director Scott Maurer Arts & Entertainment Editor Stacey McKenzie Classified Ad Manager Annette Sueper Diversions Editor Dionne Searcey Publications Board Chairman Bill Vobejda, 472-2588 Photo Chief Michelle Paulman Professional Adviser Don Walton, 473-7301 FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board. 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Informational meeting Feb. 4 at 7:30 in the City Union (room posted) Domestic spending up in Bush’s new budget WASHINGTON (AP) —Presi dent Bush unveiled a $1.52 trillion budget on Wednesday that would lighten tax loads for families and businesses in hopes of casing the recession’s “winter’s gloom.” He would boost spending on children but limit other programs including Medicare help for the aged. Military spending also would be trimmed, but the federal deficit would still rise to a record level of about $400 billion. After setting a March 20 target for action in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he visited GOP legislators Wednesday and asked them to “help communicate with the American people” to win support for his program, according to lawmakers. 1 Bush would throw the financial might of the government at a wide collection of programs in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. For example, the Head Start pre school program for poor children would grow by $600 million next year to $2.8 billion, the light against AIDS would grow from $4.4 bil lion to $4.9 billion, and highway building would grow from $17 billion to S19.2. billion. But to help pay for the expan sion of some initiatives, 246 do mestic programs would be elimi nated and 84 others would be trimmed. And once again, Bush proposed limiting the growth of Medicare, the $127 billion program that helps the elderly and handicapped pay their medical bills. With the end of the Cold War, Bush proposed whittling $50 bil lion over the next five years from the amount he foresaw authorizing the military to spend just a year ago. ASUN approves resolution supporting Affirmation Day By Kara Morrison Staff Reporter After two hours of debate, AS UN passed a resolution Wednesday night to co-sponsor, in name, a day to increase awareness of gay, les bian and bisexual human rights. Affirmation Day, sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Student Associa tion, will be April 8. Arts and Sciences Sen. Teg Hughes, co-sponsor of the bill, said she was pleased with the outcome. “We can finally educate and promote awareness throughout the university community of gay and lesbian rights,” Hughes said. Passed 16-6, the resolution will allow GLS A to use the Association of Students for the Uni versity of Nebraska’s name on its promotional posters and other materials. However, the resolution will become inef fcclivc April 1 when a newly elected ASUN senate lakes oil ice. Lengthy discussion arose over one amend ment to the resolution that called for ASUN personnel to wear a pink or black triangle on Affirmation Day as a symbol of gay and lesbian rights. Speaker of the Senate Steve Thomlison proposed the amendment. Arts and Sciences Sen. Doug Peters said the amendment contradicted the purpose of the resolution. “The group we’re trying to support would have a problem with (the amendment),” Peters said. “The day is about choice.” Thomlison voted against the unamended bill, and said he was “opposed to supporting the morality that Affirmation Day supports.” Arts and Sciences Sen. Steve Dietz, who voted in favor of the bill, said the discussions about the morality of lesbianism and homo sexuality were irrelevant. “We are supporting the organization’s right to have the day,” Dietz said. Legislature Continued from Page 1 mcnts.” The first stated only two methods of ac knowledging the living will: It must be cither witnessed by two adults, age 19 or older, or notarized by a notary public. An additional provision in the amendment, Landis said, would provide for those in a termi nally ill or vegetative state who did not have a living will or durable power of attorney. In this case, adoctor may be faced with the decision of what to do with the patient, he said. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1990, in which ihc court upheld the right of the family to remove a woman from life support, laid out the procedure of implied consent, Landis said. The decision, he said, first lies with the spouse, followed by the children, and then the parents. When the bill is next debated, Landis said, Lindsay will introduce a number of “contro versial'’ amendments to LB671. Lindsay said he would be introducing a “conscience clause” for physicians to remove themselves from a case if they have a conscien tious objection to the living will. Another amendment, he said, would pre vent insurance agencies from adjusting their rates for living wills. Bush Continued from Page 1 have less money taken out of their weekly paychecks. The plan is short-term, however, because while taxpayers would have more money in their weekly checks in 1992, the amount of their 1993 tax return would be reduced. That withholding change will not require congressional approval, but several other changes proposed by Bush will. He asked for a capital gains tax cut, a $5,(XX) tax credit over two years for first-time home owners, and a cut that would allow parents to claim an additional S5(X) personal exemption for each child. Robert Siuig, a political science professor, said he thought Bush might have viewed the speech as an opportunity to defend his admini stration against charges from Democratic presi dential hopefuls. “We have had such a steady diet of news coverage on the Democratic presidential con lenders, that ii musl have crossed the minds of Bush and his speech writers that this was a chance to weigh in on behalf of the administra tion,” he said. But Siuig said he thought Bush might have hurt himself by demanding action on his pro posals from the Democrat-controlled Congress by March 20. “Normally, achief executive wants toavoid antagonizing or alienating his allies in the legislative branch,” he said, ‘‘and I thought Bush went a tad farther than custom would have dictated.” Bush’s posturing might gain him a short term advantage, Siuig said, but it could cost him in the long run. “His sermonizing — that if you don’t like my proposal then there is going to be trouble down the line — might have some short term term advantage,” he said. “But he is going to have to work with these folks (Democrats), and they are in control ol both houses.”