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2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, December 5, 1989 - ! World and Nation is Bush warns motto call Cold War over From Associated Press reports BRUSSELS, Belgium President Bush said Monday it's too early to proclaim an end to the Cold War, but . added that Mikhail Gorbachev's ac ceptance of sweeping reform in East ern Europe "absolutely mandates new . thinking" by the West. Wrapping up his weekend summit journey with a stop at NATO Head quarters, Bush also told reporters the United States would maintain "signifi cant military forces in Europe as long as our allies desire our presence." . . The president said he wanted a treaty making initial cuts in superpower forces in Europe "in the bank" before seeking deeper reductions. He told NATO lead ers he hoped a multi-national summit could convene in Europe next summer to sign such an accord. Conventional forces aside, the United States and Soviet Union are negotiat ing a proposed 50-percent cut in long range nuclear weapons, as well as a proposed ban of chemical weapons. Military cuts won't add to peace budget From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON President Bush warned Monday that he foresees no "peace dividend" for domestic pro grams from military cuts related to reduced East-West tensions, even though many in Congress already are campaigning for just such a revenue transfer. "We have a lot of demands at home, and there's no question about that," Office of International Programs presents Study Abroad University of Nortw Carolina Chapel Hill Calendar or Events Honors Semester in London Wednesday, Dec. 6th 100 Murphey Hall 4:30 pm SemesterYear in Scotland fie England Thursday, Dec. 7th Basement of Caldwell Hall 4:00 pm (UNC Programs Sf UMC Credit) TIRED of WAITING Days or Weeks for your Eyeglasses? 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They'll do anything." President Bush spoke as Gorbachev was convening a meeting of a radically re-ordered Warsaw Pact in Moscow to review the weekend summit. The superpower leaders agreed at an unprecedented joint news conference before leaving Malta that their meeting heralded a new era of cooperation in East-West relations, including arms control and trade. They intend to meet again in the United States in the second half of June. At his news conference, Bush said, "We stand at the threshold of a new era ..." but declined to assert the Cold War has ended as Gorbachev suggested. Bush said. "But I think it is premature to speak as some are at home about a peace dividend take a lot of money out of defense and put it into other worthy causes." The president said the reason there can be no such windfall was that the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law requires that he produce a budget for fiscal 1991 containing a shortfall of no more than $64 billion. the Time One Hour! Opticians f Eyeglass j FRAMES 1 Ci. L A. i ii oiarung ai lomgic usiun I Plastic Lenses I Starting at ! $19.95 I with frame purchase J I for I Senior Citizens I on eyeglasses I not valid with I other discounts I ii ii $44.95 guarantee wilfl irame purcnase j ..t r 1 Some Prescription Limitations Apply Same Day Service University Square Downtown Chapel Hill MZ-7ii exams. 00-2:00 "That day hasn't arrived," the presi dent said when asked about Gorbachev's statement declaring an end to the "epoch of the Cold War." Barring a Utopian development, Bush said, "the United States must stay in volved" by keeping troops massed against Warsaw Pact forces. "If you want to project out 100 years, or take some years off of that, you can look to a Utopian day when there might be none (U.S. troops in Europe)," he said. "But as I pointed out to them (NATO leaders), that day hasn't ar rived and they agree with me." Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers said he was impressed by the United States' "extraordinarily positive atti tude" toward events in Europe. "It has nothing to do with a Nwe are pulling out' attitude," he told report ers. "On the contrary, they are again promising a meaningful presence (in Europe)." But British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appeared to have qualms about The deficit for this budget year, which ends Sept. 30, is projected to be about $110 billion. Bush will present his budget to Congress on Jan. 22. "There just isn't a lot of 'excess money' floating around there," Bush told a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, just after he briefed NATO leaders on his weekend summit with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Although Congress was split over the question, many believe it is time to impose deep cuts on the nearly $290 billion defense budget, which consti tutes about one -fourth of the $1.2 tril lion annual federal spending. They cite three reasons: the easing of Cold War tensions, the need to shrink the deficit and a desire to replenish domestic programs that have been hit hard by Reagan-era spending cuts. "The more you cut from the military, the less damage you do to domestic programs to meet Gramm-Rudman Czechoslovaks spurn Communist From Associated Press reports PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia More than 150,000 demonstrators chanting "They must go!" rejected the new Communist-dominated government Monday and demanded free elections in a roaring show of support for the opposition. Also on Monday, thousands of tour ists from Czechoslovakia freely visited the West for the first time in decades after the government lifted most travel restrictions. The demonstrators massed in central Wenceslas Square for the first time since Nov. 27, when a nationwide general strike forced the government to grant historic concessions to the oppo East Germans discouraged from raiding police From Associated Press reports EAST BERLIN Some East Ger mans are so outraged by the corruption of disgraced former leaders that they tried to storm secret police offices to make sure the evidence was protected, Communist Party reformers said Mon day. Prosecutors blocked access of ousted VIKNG TRAEL 1 w rj. . ii.'ii.JI Five DaysFour Nights on the Dolphin IV Monday, March 12 -Friday, March 16, 1990 DepartReturn Miami Cruise to Key West, Nassau & Blue Lagoon Island SPECIAL STUDENT RATES 423 $453 $513 per person per person per person quad, occupancy triple occupancy double occupancy Fares include pre-paid gratuities & port taxes 100 deposit required by December 1 Let Viking Travel assist you with flight arrangements 1-800-672-5907 VIKING TRAEL 1 03 5. Elliott Rd., Chapel 919-968-4586 some of the president's remarks, in which Bush raised the possibility of greater arms cuts in Europe and even closer ties among the European Com munity nations. She said Bush's speech "was so full of meat that we really should consider it very carefully before we reply to it." Thatcher has urged a more cautious attitude than some allies toward events unfolding in Eastern Europe. The president began his news con ference with a statement that said a "peaceful revolution" was taking place in Eastern Europe, where five hardline communist regimes have fallen in re cent weeks. He said his goal was to see "individ ual freedom everywhere replace coer cion and tyranny." Bush, apparently referring to dis agreements about Central America, said "all was not sweetness and light" at the Malta summit, but took pains to ap plaud Gorbachev's handling of the change in Eastern Europe. targets," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Monday. Frank has been a leader of a group of liberals pressing congressional leaders to slash about $20 billion off the Pentagon's budget and redistribute most of it among health, housing, education and other domestic programs. But it is not just liberals who want to reduce the Defense Department's cof fers. Conservative Rep. Sonny Montgom ery, D-Miss., chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, told re porters Monday that he would like to see next year's defense spending fro zen at 1990 levels and envisions sav ings by eventually bringing some U.S. troops home from Europe. "If we do have these extra monies I would like for them to go into (reduc ing) the national debt and take about half the money and use it for domestic programs in the United States." sition. That demonstration capped 1 1 straight days of rallies. Monday's demonstrators waved red, white and blue national flags and ap plauded opposition demands for elec tions by July and a second general strike on Dec. 11 if there is no new government by Sunday. "Resign! Resign!" they chanted. The turnout at the rally and smaller ones elsewhere was a clear signal to the government that the opposition has massive popular support for its demands for real democracy. They were protesting the new coali tion government named Sunday, which brought only five non-Communists into the 21 -member Cabinet and left Com officials to evidence that might be used against them. Citizens joined police in guarding important locations and the opposition joined an ever-widening corruption investigation. Premier Hans Modrow emerged as the leading political figure one day after the Communist Party leadership resigned. He led a three-member dele- SPRING BREAK CRUISE . . : : wmmmmmmwmmmm . .vwv : Hill TM Cruise Line West Bank neighborhood site of 1 4 'martyr' deaths From Associated Press reports NABLUS, Occupied West Bank The stone plaque calling the Yas mina quarter the "neighborhood of the two martyrs" has not kept pace with the anger and bitterness built up in two years of the Palestinian upris ing. The neighborhood of 6,000 Pales tinians, crowded into the old market place known as the Casbah, now has 14 "martyrs," men and teenage boys shot by Israeli soldiers along the narrow streets. Yasmina has seen all the many sufferings and the few small triumphs of the "intefadeh," the uprising that began on Dec. 8, 1987, to demand Israel end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Flag-waving demonstrations, stones, firebombs and the killing of suspected collaborators have been common in Yasmina, Arabic for the fragrant Jasmin flower. The Israeli response has been tear gas, gunfire, arrests and the demoli tion of houses. Navy halts protesters CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The Navy outmuscled Greenpeace anti nuclear protesters Monday, crippling their vessels and towing them out of an area where they tried unsuccess fully to halt the test launch of a Tri dent 2 missile. The high seas drama took place in the Atlantic 50 miles off the Florida coast just before the nuclear-powered submarine Tennessee unleashed the $26.5 million missile on a test that put the Trident 2 program back on track after two explosive failures in the first three undersea launches. The Navy said its ships had to "shoulder" aside a large ship carrying protesters and capture and tow away two high-speed rafts, called Zodiacs, from the launch area. Greenpeace USA peace activists said that the Navy rammed their ship, munists in control of all key ministries. Thirteen were holdovers from the pre vious Communist Cabinet. In an indication the government may respond to demands for new ministers, First Deputy Premier Bohumil Urban met with two opposition representa tives to negotiate a new meeting with Communist Premier Ladislav Adamec later this week. And in another sign of the pressure on the Communists, Frantisek Pitra, the premier of the Czech republican government, asked for more time to consider changes at the republic level, postponing an announcement originally scheduled for Monday night. The governments of the Czech and gation to the Warsaw Pact summit in Moscow. Wolfgang Schwanitz, now chief of national security, ordered flights to Romania halted because of reports that sensitive material was being smuggled to the Warsaw Pact ally, whose leader, Nicolae Ceasescu, has rejected reform. Officials said there was no proof documents were being sent there. Opposition sources said earlier that important documents were taken from party headquarters to Schoenfeld air port for a flight to Romania. Tens of thousands of people joined the weekly rally Monday in Leipzig, a center of pro-democracy protest since For the In the Dec. 4 article, "Improvements sent to University staff, as well as fac in works for day care," the fact was ulty and students, omitted that the child care survey was HAIRLINES CUTS o WAVES o COLOURS 175 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (Above Four Corners) 968-4327 WOLFF TANNING BEDS Walk-in or call for an appointment News in Brief aimed fire hoses down its smoke stacks to stop its engines and that Navy frogmen had sliced the fuel lines and punctured the pontoons on the Zodiacs. EPA proposes curbs WASHINGTON The Environ mental Protection Agency (EPA) called for curbs Monday on the pes ticide EBDC, saying widespread use of the chemical on scores of crops from apples to tomatoes poses an unreasonable cancer risk. The EPA proposed eliminating the use of the EBDC family of fungi cides on 45 crops, but said its contin ued use on another 10 food products, including grapes, onions and cran berries, "do not present an unreason able risk" to consumers. The proposed restrictions would eliminate from agricultural use about 80 percent to 90 percent of the esti mated 18 million pounds of EBDCs that are sold annually in the United States, according to government and industry officials. EBDCs, or ethylene bisdithiocar bamate, are a group of pesticides that have been used since the 1930s to control fungi and protect a wide variety of food crops against damage from mold, mildew and fungal dis-; eases. Ministers refuse testimony BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. Interrupting a Pentecostal church service, a sobbing Larry Yost cleared his conscience by confessing his sin: He was "involved" in a break-in at his uncle's building supply store. Now three ministers say a prose cutor wants them to testify not for God, but for the state at Yost's, trial on a breaking-and-entering charge. government Slovak republics control key areas such as justice and education in their respec tive regions. Eleven of the 17 ministers under Pitra in the Czech republic have sub mitted their resignations, including the ministers of education and justice, the state-run news agency CTK reported. The hourlong Prague rally, broad cast live on state radio and television, was a triumphant show of national unity in the fight for democracy. That unity was symbolized at the end, when pro test singer Karel Kryl, who has lived in exile in the West for years, and Karel Gott, the nation's best-known officially sanctioned pop singer, led the singing of the national anthem. the campaign for reform began. For the third week in a row, several speakers demanded the reunification of Germany. At least one West German flag was seen in the crowd. The Christian Democrats, one of four parties allied to the Communists, said they were cutting those ties, state TV reported. It said they demanded that Egon Krenz, who resigned as Commu nist Party chief Sunday along with the entire Politburo, also give up the largely ceremonial post of president. Brigitte Zimmermann, spokes woman for the party's interim govern ing committee, a reform-minded group of 25 people, appealed for calm. Record VISA, I
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