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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,
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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.
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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
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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.”
