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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.”
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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.
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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
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