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Communist Party agrees to allow new parties
MOSCOW (AP) — The Communist
rty that for decades swore its red tide
ould cover the globe gave in to a different
solution Wednesday. The party agreed to
■ . v low alternative political parties to compete
P foi control of the Soviet Union.
a ei B The decision amounts to an acknowledg-
m P at ||i en t that new political forces have taken
? nca ®x>t and that it is no longer possible or de-
P'j'Brable to crush them with the repressive
I ’ '•Bctics of the past, which ranged from mass
fytdiigjurders under dictator Josef Stalin to the
jdissident arrests preferred by Leonid I.
Brezhnev.
The decision by the party’s Central Com-
ittee to give up the Communists’ constitu-
ional monopoly on power was a triumph of
litical maneuvering by President Mikhail
Gorbachev. He packed the meeting of
the 249-member body with more than 700
Jther officials, many of them progressives
. evei )'Hrho took the floor to demand radical re-
, insteac; | orm
In the end, the guests also were allowed
to vote on the new party platform, Svyatos
lav Fyodorov, a famed eye surgeon and one
of the participants, said. He spoke in an in
terview on Red Square during a break in
the closed-door meeting.
“Article 6 will no longer be; there will be
a multiparty system,” Fyodorov said, refer
ring to the article in the Soviet Constitution
that guarantees the Communists a leading
role. “There will be a normal democracy.”
Politburo member Vitaly I. Vorotnikov
said in remarks reported by the official
Tass news agency:
“We cannot rule out the emergence of
new parties. But we Communists are not
going to surrender our positions. Just as
any party in the world, we shall be waging a
struggle for our rights.”
Vorotnikov added that the party will ne
gotiate with any political force that stands
for democracy and rejects violence. “We
shall speak not only with Communists but
We cannot rule out the
emergence of new parties. But
we Communists are not going
to surrender our positions. Just
as any party in the world, we
shall be waging a struggle for
our rights.” .
— Vitaly I. Vorotnikov,
Politburo member
with the whole people,” he was quoted as
telling visiting parliamentarians from Bra
zil.
Fyodorov said that only maverick Com
munist Boris N. Yeltsin voted against the
platform that called for abolition of Article
6, which calls the party the “leading and
guiding” force in Soviet society.
Yeltsin favored a more radical program
that demanded a virtual apology by the
party for decades of totalitarianism.
After leaving the Central Committee
meeting to greet U.S. Secretary of State
James A. Baker III, Foreign Minister Edu
ard A. Shevardnadze told reporters the de
cision by the party’s policy-making body
“moves us closer to a humane and demo
cratic society.”
The Soviets follow the lead set by their
comrades in Eastern Europe, where one by
one, Communist parties have caved into
democratic pressure and relinquished their
legal guarantee of political control.
For three days, Gorbachev’s draft plat
form was strongly criticized from both right
and left at the Kremlin meeting. Some of
the speeches were released by Tass, and
participants also described the struggle in
interviews with Western reporters.
Tass and Radio Moscow reported the ap
proval of the platform but did not provide
immediate details. They said the document
would be published in official newspapers
later.
Despite the heated debate, there were
few major changes in the document Gorba
chev presented, Fyodorov said.
Radio Moscow said the Central Commit
tee also agreed to advance the date of the
next party Congress from October to no
later than July. The Congress, the most
powerful party body, is the only group em
powered to choose a new Central Commit
tee.
The Central Committee is considered by
reformers to be the bastion of conservatives
who are wary of Gorbachev’s reform pro
gram. The Congress would offer Gorba
chev another chance to reform the commit
tee to his liking.
Sources inside the Central Committee
meeting said it would recommend to the
Supreme Soviet parliament that it delete
Article 6 of the constitution in the first step
of a two-stage government process.
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I WASHINGTON (AP) — White
House science adviser D. Allan
Bromley said Wednesday that con
struction work on the super collider
should be delayed until the industry
proves it can manufacture the spe-
"ialized magnets required by the
assive atom smasher.
Bromley, director of the Office of
ience and Technology Policy in
ie White House, told members of
House committee on Science,
Bpace and Technology that part of
the $318 million requested for the
supercollider in fiscal year 1990 will
be spent proving that such magnets
tan be built.
1 "It is prudence not to move for-
yard until such time that we have
Kemonstrated that we can make the
magnets industrially,” Bromley said
|luring sharp questioning from
itnembers of the house committee.
He said $300 million is to be used
in 1990 for site preparation at the
Super collider site near Waxahachie,
gfrexas, about 30 miles south of Dal
las.
Bromley said the super collider
will require 10,000 magnets made of
superconducting material. So far, he
said, it has not been proven that the
industry is capable of making such
magnets in such large numbers.
“We’re pushing technology to the
absolute limit,” he said. “It will re
quire tons of superconducting
material.”
Bromley said a demonstration of
magnet manufacturing is expected
to be completed within a year and he
said no major site preparation for
the super collider can begin until
then.
The super collider is an under
ground, 53-mile circular raceway
that scientists will use to smash sub
atomic particles together at very
high velocities. The particles will be
compressed and accelerated by the
powerful magnets placed along the
circular tunnel.
By smashing the subatomic parti
cles, scientists hope to answer funda
mental questions about the nature
and origin of matter, a basic goal in
physics.
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Two geese take a stroll along the concrete walking trails at the A&M Research Park Wednesday.
Guard duties
in Panama
transferred
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Responsi
bility for air defense of the Panama
Canal has been transferred from the
Air National Guard to an Air Force
unit at Bergstrom Air Force Base,
Texas, the U.S. Southern Command
says.
The Air National Guard has been
responsible for air defense of the
Panama Canal since 1978. The Vir
ginia ANG was in the middle of its
month-long assignment at the Canal
when its mission was canceled and it
returned home last weekend.
The transfer of duties was con
firmed by William Ormsbee, a
spokesman for the U.S. Southern
Command.
Ormsbee said an Air Force unit
based at Bergstrom near Austin, will
handle air defense of the canal. He
also said units at Howard Air Force
Base, located at the Pacific entrance
to the canal, will assume a greater
role in defense of the canal.
Ormsbee characterized the
cancellation of the Air National
Guard’s mission as part of a reduc
tion of forces in the canal.
The Virginia unit, the 192nd Tac
tical Fighter Group based near Rich
mond, began its recent assignment
in mid-January.
The first group of 57 Virginia
guardsmen completed its two-week
stint and returned home over the
weekend. The second group, which
was to start its assignment last Satur
day, was not sent to Panama.
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