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Psgeic prji Azerbaijan violence out of control Moscow sends reserve troops MOSCOW (AP) — The Defense Ministry called up reserve troops Thursday to help 29,000 soldiers quell ethnic violence in the Caucasus that has killed at least 66 people and wounded more than 220. Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov said the additional troops were nec essary to maintain order and possi bly enforce a curfew — a measure authorities in the republic of Azer baijan have refused to impose de spite reports of vicious attacks by Azerbaijani extremists on Armenian residents. At least 10,500 Armenians report- ■ edly have been evacuated from the martial law were imposed on Fhe problems, which have been accumulating for tens, no, for hundreds of years, have erupted and acquired the character we are now confronted with in the Baltics, Moldavia and now in this interethnic strife in Transcaucasia, in Azerbaijan and Armenia.” 1 licit L1C11 let VV WC-lt 1 they would launch a general striker iney wouiu iauiic.ii a ge the strategic oil center. — Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Soviet president On Wednesday, the 29,000 troop 1 already in Azerbaijan and therepw I rest lie of Armenia were authorized wrori shoot if necessary to stop the bitiej off lighting in the hills around thediJ dur puted territory of Nagorno-Karj ter: bakh, according to Soviet media. ' sorr Foreign reporters were barrtfljWa: from travel to the republics. Azerbaijani capital of Baku, where emergency but said the ethnic prob- rampaging Azerbaijani mobs began lems date back centuries, the violence Saturday. “The problems, which have been Extremists have obtained heavy accumulating for tens, no, for hun- weaponry, including helicopters, dreds of years, have erupted and ac- tanks and ground-to-ground mis- quired. the character we are now con- siles in what Interior Minster Vadim fronted with in the Baltics, Moldavia Bakatin on I hursday called a “civil and now in this interethnic strife in war.” Transcaucasia, in Azerbaijan and In his first public comments since Armenia,” he told a meeting in Mos- the Baku riots, President Mikhail S. cow. Gorbachev defended the Kremlin’s “We are now busy trying to halt decision Monday to declare a state of this process, to prevent it from going deeper and getting more acute,” Gorbachev said in comments broad cast on state radio. “We have re sorted to the use of force against criminals, against this vandalism.” It was not dear whether the Kremlin intended to impose the cur few in Baku and other parts of Azer baijan, or if Yazov expected the Azerbaijani authorities to do it. Members of the Azerbaijani Peo ple’s Front said Thursday they had warned Moscow that if a curfew or “Hundreds of trucks with Arm nian militants patrol the bordeij with the Lachin and Kubaltin gions of Azerbaijan, Interfax sat! and troops have been reinforced Officials: States’ low spending hinders prevention of nine diseases The military commandant in \ gorno-Karabakh also ordered unij gistered organizations dissolve Tass said. Yevgeny Primakov, a top-rankin Soviet legislator, confronted a nn anti-government demonstration on J 7 side the Azerbaijani Communs P° Party headquarters in Baku and sai; the riots had to stop. helc ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials said Thursday that nine preventable chronic diseases are re sponsible for more than half the deaths in this country — but get only 2 percent of the public health dollars spent by the states. Meanwhile, another preventable cause, injuries, re mains the leading cause of “premature loss of life” with suicide, homicide and AIDS also ranking high. The national Centers for Disease Control reported that nine chronic diseases — diseases with long periods of incubation or suffering — by themselves accounted for 1.1 million deaths in 1986, 52 percent of the deaths nationwide. They are stroke, heart disease, diabetes, obstructive lung disease, lung cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colo-rectal cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. “They’re all largely preventable — or preventable to some extent,” Dr. Robert Hahn, a GDC epidemiologist, said. The preventable risk factors for those nine chronic diseases include cigarette smoking, excess weight, high blood pressure, drinking and lack of exercise. “We know what the risk factors are,” Hahn said. “We know less about how you get people to act on them.” According to a report from 45 states and the District of Columbia, less than 2 percent of state public health expenditures are allocated to prevent and control chro nic disease, the CDC said. “That’s low,” Hahn said, noting that other chronic diseases not included in the CDC’s dangerous nine also could be targets of increased public health efforts. Each year, the average state expenditure on chronic disease control and prevention is 66 cents per person, Hahn said. That amount includes money spent on efforts such as disease screening programs, but does not include ed ucation or direct doctors’ care at public clinics. Comparable figures on federal public health spend ing for chronic disease were not available, Hahn said. Many of the federal government’s health programs concentrate on research, epidemiology and education, not the traditional screening and prevention efforts of state-funded health clinics. Republicans claim proposed tax cut in Social Security a political charade Florida gets boost from president Everglades face extinction WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Bush, trying to prevent a politi cal stampede, said Thursday that a proposed cut in Social Security taxes was a charade that would force ei ther an increase in other taxes or a reduction in retirement benefits. “And I am not going to do it to the older people in this country,” Bush said in his first public comment on a proposal, initiated by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y, that will roll back the Social Security payroll tax increase that began Jan. 1. Vice President Dan Quayle took a similar stance. “I think it’s a political trap and once people understand it, they won’t fall-for it,” Quayle said. On the heels of Moynihan’s mea sure, Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., has proposed a 5 percent value- added tax — a national sales levy — to replace revenues lost both by the Social Security tax cut and Bush’s own proposal to lower the tax on capital gains. Hollings’ plan would raise $53 bil lion in 1991. Rep. Donald Pease, D-Ohio, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, called the value- added tax, or VAT, “pretty much a pie-in-the-sky proposal.” “We certainly could not get a VAT without the active support of the president,” Pease said. “And on theoretical grounds, the VAT could be as regressive as the Social Security tax.” Quayle called Moynihan’s plan “a subterfuge for a general tax in crease” and pounced on Hollings’ proposal as evidence of that. “The cat’s a little bit out of the bag right now,” the vice president said in an interview with the Associated Press. The White House has been put on the spot by Moynihan’s plan because it has won support across the politi cal spectrum, even from traditional allies of the president such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and conservative groups. Moreover, it has exposed Bush to criticism that he is espousing a tax cut for the rich with a cut in capital gains taxes, while spurning a break for middle- and low-income Ameri cans with a reduction in Social Secu rity taxes. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla (AP) — The battle to keep Flor ida’s environment off the termi nal list gets a boost this week, ai President Bush plans a visit to the Everglades and leading conserva tionists meet to set their agenda. Heavily populated south Flor ida is under mandatory water re strictions because of its worst drought in three decades, and state environmentalists say time is running out for ambitious, ex pensive efforts to reverse damage caused by runaway growth. “The Everglades is on the crit ical list,” Brien Culhane, a Wil derness Society official and chair man of the Everglades Coalition, said. “It is the most threatened ecosystem in the United States. The 1990s will be the decade of decision. The decisions we make — and our success in carrying them out — will determine whether the Everglades will be saved.” The Everglades Coalition be gins its fifth annual meeting Thursday. After sessions with Florida’s top politicians, seminars and field trips, the conservation ists will announce their agenda for the year. Meanwhile, Bush plans a toui and briefing Friday at Evergladei National Park. The main purposi spo his i tst | lent g ro pai the emj Ii TV ask( som win; Taji h Thi righ wit! said kyo swe terc spe; 1 En Sk c F hav spa the bon Aug of Bush’s six-hour Florida visit to keynote a fund-raising dinnei in Miami for Republican Gov Bob Martinez’s November re election effort. \ A GGI EWffibNEM A/ \AGGIE^U> A^LlNEMA/ \AGGIeW>/ftbNEMA/ \aGGI NEMA/ \aGGI INEMa/ (Midnight) C7:30 & 9:45T»M| Friday & Saturday January 19 & 20 Rudder Auditorium Admission $2.00 (3:00 pm) Saturday January 20 MSC Room 201 Admission $2.00 for adults $1.00 for children under 13 Come see us at the MSC Open House this Saturday from 2 to 6 PM in the MSC! Or join us at our membership meeting at 7:00 PM on Monday in Rudder Tower room 301. For more information call the MSC Aggie Cinema Hotline at 847-8478. <