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W or Id/Nation 0c(xtol8»1990 Week in Review New freedom: Religious service in Red Square Amid the new religious freedom of perestroika, Soviet officials allowed worshipers to crowd into Moscow’s famed St Basil’s Cathedral to celebrate the first religious service in Red Square in 70 years. The onion-domed St Basil’s had been empty of religious congregations since 1918 when it became a historical museum. Called St Basil’s, it contains the relics of the saint. South Africa scraps separate amenities act South Africa’s government is scrapping the most visible forms of South African apartheid, the 1953 Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, but white right-wingers vowed to find other ways to keep blacks out of their libraries, parks and swimming pools. Easy come, easy go Last Friday, Thelma and Charles Bellows were talking about their $10 million win in a McDon ald’s-NBC contest. By the weekend, the Michigan couple had been snipped of the prize because a daughter wolcs for the restaurant chain. Now, they are seeing a lawyer. “We were honest about it,” complains Charles Bellows,52, “For $10 million, we could have given the ticket to someone to claim it.” Falling from favor President Bush’s approval rating has plummeted the fast two months, according to The Times Mirror Center for People & The Press, a news Indust^ group that monitors pubic reaction to news. SEPT. The cause; The Persian Gulf crisis, soaring gasoline prices and the budget stalemate, ac cording to the polling group. Michael Jantze, Gannett News Service Middle America angry with taxes In Muncie, Ind., long regarded as a window on Middle America, the ouu^ge of cutting $50 biUion from Medicare has many ciUzens angry. The cut sounds sounds painless unUl seniors realize that Medicare premiums are doubling to $150 a year. “That has everybody upset,” says Clyde Nicholson president elect of the Muncie chapter of the American Association of Retired People. Syria defeats Gen. Aoun The defeat of rebellious Christian warlord Gen Michel Aoun brings Lrtanon a step closer ending iu long and bloodv civU war-and boosts Syria’s fcttunes. aoiooay I attack that deposed the Ir^i-tel^ Aoun, forcing the leader of the 15 000-man ©Copyright 1990 USA TODAY/Apple College Information Network cM |)er person 17,614 $1234$ Total debt (in trillions) $1.8 mmmm Source: IJSA TODAY tBsearch $0.9 Jeff Dionise, Gannett News Service Gorbachev wins Nobel Prize Soviet leader adulated abroad, reviled at home By JOHN OMICINSKI ©Copyright 1990 USA TODAY/Apple College Information Network Winning the Nobel Peace Prize this week illustrated once again the two faces of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev: adulated abroad and reviled at home. The Nobel committee awarded Gorbachev the prize for making “dramatic changes” in East-West relations, for slowing the arms race, and for helping “old European nations” find freedom. The announcement of Gorbachev’s Nobel — and the $700,000 that goes with it won him just seven seconds of applause in the Supreme Soviet. And the reaction on the street was no more enthusiastic. Interviewed on the Moscow subway, Andrei Tatishchev, 23, said he felt no pride for Gorbachev. “In international affairs. I think he’s done everything right It’s domestically that there is disorder,” he said. And Muscovite Nicolai Fedosov said. The people will “support him with a Nobel Prize, or without a Nobel prize. Of course, if he provided the people with more potatoes, then they’d support him even more.” Here s an extraordinary paradox; a leader unloved in his own country, who has tremendous moral stature abroad,” said Nigel Young, professor of peace studies at Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. He’s a worid figure who, by making nuclear war less likely, has managed to transcend his own borders.” The Nobel Peace Prize, however, may be a substantial addition to Gorbachev’s intema- Uonal arsenal. If Western help is what s necessary to turn around the depressed Soviet economy, winmng the peace prize could be a huge plus. “In order to reintegrate their economy with the West’s,” said Jerry Hough, director of the East- West Trade Center at Duke University in North Carolina, “the Soviets need an ambassador, and this strengthens his hand. I don’t Another Bush son in the news think it adds to his power, because I think he’s already powerful.” For their part. Western leaders reacted with enthusiasm. President George Bush jn^sed Gorbachev as a leader with “courageous force,” British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called Gwbachev’s award tfflnfic,” former President Ronald Reagan called it “wonderful,” and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said he was “delighted.” Other winners can attest to the power of the prize: Poland’s Lech Walesa won it in 1983, adding immense cachet to Solidarity’s peaceful struggle for freedom during the dark years after the 1981 imposition of martial law. South African Bishop Desmond Tutu won it the following year, giving new stature to every pronouncement he made against the pro-apartheid govern ment of President P.W. Botha. President Bush’s son, Jeb, is now making headlines in connec tion with a savings and loan: Jeb, chairman of GOP Gov. Bob Mar tinez s re-election bid, is in a real asking questions. She claimed to have leukemia from swimming through nuclear waste as a Navy SEAL. She also said she had a bone estate paruiership with Armani m^^ ", Codina that got entangled in two south Florida S&L Cailures. Result; The U.S. government repaid most of a $4.56 million second-mortgage loan they used to buy a Miami office building. Ski team member a fraud? Julie Wallace skied so well as a blind member of the U S Disabled Ski Team in Winter Park, Colo., that people started PANO'S CAFE 1218 S. Church St., Burlington, N C (919) 227-5775 ELON COLLEGE 10% CARD Thursday One Drink FREE Between 9 PM and 2:00 AM Mon - Tue 8:00 AM to 12.-00 PM Wed - TTiur 8:00 AM to 2:00 AM Fri-Sat-24hre .WORLDWIDE TRAVEL SERVICE, INC. Student discount fares cfcCivcry service CALL TODAY FOR YOUR RESERVATIONS' 222-9601 111 West Pine Street, Graham, NC Hours: Mon - Fri 8;30a.tn.-5:00p.m.
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