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17,18 Oil ~ formantf ^ ordin - Hat line s c? from fin The Battalion WORLD & NATION 9 Tuesday, April 17,1990 ish liiij iced race, gunners fcl isteringej s move oi ’erthe he 20-to.i 1:20 the I e Africans' le to winphite ; t run by >ates } ry since i,> tt Seoul, : h collect! OOO purse was an < Irama i n P ofAfhc; kan gaa ar, quickly it; >f 2:06:50, Densinio s find lent WASHINGTON (AP) — Dele- from 17 nations gathered for a House conference on global ivarming amid criticism Monday from some participants and environ mentalists that the Bush administra tion isn’t dealing with the problem. Senior administration officials said the United States will call for in- eased international research on both the science of global warming and the economic implications of the greenhouse” effect when the two- day conference begins Tuesday. But as delegates arrived, environ mentalists chastised President Bush for not calling for specific actions to ease the global warming problem, including commitments to make spe cific reductions in greenhouse pol lutants. The Sierra Club, which an nounced a TV advertising campaign ernei Reports -omen’s b s Hickev d guard Li s someone t igneljunio! wn Medlod court duties on of ner. from ,, cl -led the K ( >ect in Texas nicle. h school q. :) McLennan ? Waco ‘-"me all-re ‘fence tely a „ 1W “We thins, gaurds four- WiCSS best e feel' reals :I ' coming i 17 points, eight assists season. He: dso helper ‘II Hudson, 1 m »rk anil d of the re- an excellem outstandini n said, “She in y program pe of person )dessa, Med- ong jierfor- Hest’’junioi ■ She scored d out 15 as- eluding nine in the Nona East wn in either ig postion,' ( great quid- :r and, mosi s a tremeii' lobal warming conference sparks riticism of Bush administration to highlight concerns about global warming, called the White House conference an attempt by the admin istration to shift the focus of the is sue away from the need for pollut ion controls to a debate over economic considerations. “It’s really a smoke screen for the administration’s inaction on global warming,” said Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club. “We know enough now to begin acting to curb global warm ing today.” Some conference participants also expressed concern about the heavy U.S. focus on more research. “In spite of remaining uncertain ties on some aspects of the issue, an ef fective response policy must be es tablished now, without any further delay,” said a statement issued on be half of the 12 nations attending from the European Community. Laurnes Jan Brinkhorst, director- general for the environment of the European Community’s Council of Ministers, and Padraig Flynn, envi ronmental minister of Ireland, said there was an “urgent need for an ef fective response policy” while addi tional research is under way. Senior administration officials have reiterated in recent days that Bush will offer no new policy propo sals to curb the manmade pollution that scientists agree is causing the earth to warm. Bush, in remarks that will open the conference, was expected in stead to focus on the need for addi tional research to resolve both scien tific uncertainties about global warming and establish clearer esti mates on economic costs. The conference, which is being held just days before Sunday’s cele- nds in win left, far ahead ac em this year' ve win agai t two games gh position, 2 points in (! Spurs heldo: st their fouitl mdolph Ktf 7-96 on a (ta left, the Spif i a 9-0 run :ored a seasot Iping the Sptf ght victory “ 5 shots. were here at : they havee« irofessional)] played collfi wanted to pi s a very spec h Larry Bflfl pie of counts, he most wins ficant, but tfi tr the best tnl tificant to tlii ed the Hon< Kenny Gattis 1 in Gilliam, 1 lointsand 11 of their first rter. Court upholds rule banning school dances PURDY, Mo. — The U.S. Su preme Court on Monday let stand a ban on school dances in this Bible Belt town, prompting an opponent to lament a victory “for liars, cheats and hypocrites.” Opponents said they now hoped school officials would vol untarily lift the rule. The high court without com ment rejected arguments that the no-dance rule was religiously mo tivated and violated the constitu tionally required separation of church and state. A federal ap peals court iu September upheld the ban. “I’m disappointed by the rul ing but I’m not surprised,” said attorney William Fleischaker, who represented 21 Purdy High School students and their parents who filed a lawsuit ip 1986 seek ing to overturn the ‘bah in this Ozarks town. “We knew the odds against us were pretty strong,” he said. “We had hoped we could get the ear of someone at the Supreme Court and get them to review the situa tion. Obviously, that didn’t hap pen.” No further legal appeals are planned, Fleischaker said. Country prepares for worst Lithuanians ask Gorbachev to discuss economic sanctions MOSCOW (AP) — Lithuania on Monday asked Mik hail S. Gorbachev to meet with the republic’s president to provide details of Moscow’s threatened economic sanctions so that Lithuanians can be prepared. It would be Gorbachev’s first meeting with Lithua nian President Vytautas Landsbergis, who was elected after the republic declared itself independent March 11. In a telegram to the Soviet president, Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimieras Prunskiene said Lithuania wants to explain to its people just what difficulties they might face if they ignore an ultimatum Gorbachev is sued Friday. He gave Lithuania 48 hours to rescind some of its pro-independence laws or face a cutoff of products the Kremlin supplies. Gorbachev did not say which items would be stopped, hut Lithuania is dependent on the Kremlin for such crucial supplies as oil, gas, machinery, raw materials, chemicals and automobiles. The deadline expired Sunday night with no visible cut in deliveries. Prunskiene’s telegram said broad economic sanctions would damage the Soviet economy as well as Lithua nia’s. She suggested the best way to clarify the threat would be in a meeting in Moscow with a Lithuanian del egation, headed by Landsbergis. There was no immediate response from the Soviet president. Another Lithuanian leader was quoted as saying the republic would be willing to pay hard currency for So viet goods but would expect Moscow to do the same for items Lithuania exports. Vilnius Radio quoted Prunskiene as saying Lithua nian leaders decided that “until we see definite physical measures against Lithuania’s industry and economy, all contractual obligations to the U.S.S.R. must continue to be carried out by all our enterprises, so there should be no pretext for possible disruption of supplies by the So viet Union.” The telegram was sent to Gorbachev after an emer gency meeting of the Lithuanian Presidium — the lead ership of the legislature — Monday afternoon. Journalist Vilius Kavaliauskas, who spoke to a Presid ium member after its meeting, said the leadership was told the republic has just two weeks’ supply of natural gas and six weeks’ supply of oil. It has only enough newsprint to publish Lithuania’s newspapers for four or five days, he said. Lithuania receives all its oil and gas from the Soviet Union at prices just a fraction of those on the world market. I ne small Baltic republic has very little foreign currency to buy fuel from the West. Deputy Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas told Vil nius Radio that “political decisions” about Gorbachev’s ultimatum would be made Tuesday by Lithuania’s par liament. Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, was quiet Monday as the predominantly Roman Catholic republic celebrated the final day of a three-day Easter weekend. Most facto ries and businesses were closed, according to a worker in the information office of the Supreme Council. Panel: joint missions to Mars too risky Committee suggests coordinated but independent exploration WASHINGTON (AP) — Joint missions to Mars by the United States and the Soviet Union are too risky now, a panel said Monday . It recom mended instead that the two nations follow “a graceful path” of coordinated but independent exploration. “The United States and USSR have no prior experience with the degree of cooperation nec essary to carry out a technical project of this com plexity or magnitude,” a committee of the Na tional Research Council said. The committee said it was concerned “about relying on the consistency of the relationship over a period of a decade or more into the fu ture.” The panel’s report appeared to chill the idea frequently expressed by many experts that Mars would be explored jointly by the Soviets and Americans, doing together w hat would be too ex pensive for either nation to do alone. The United States and the Soviets have coop erated in space in the past, most notably in 1975 when three Apollo astronauts joined their space craft with a Soviet Soyuz and exchanged bear hugs in orbit with two cosmonauts. 1 he committee was commissioned by NASA to look into undertaking missions with international partners to use robots to gather rocks and soil from Mars and bring them to Earth for analysis. The committee concentrated its study on efforts by the United States and the USSR because “they are the only nations presently in a position to take on the lead role in a major Mars program." The Soviets have said they intend to explore Mars with robotic rovers, space probes orbiting overhead and by returned samples. A scenario often mentioned is that one nation would build a lander and a sample-return vehicle while the other would develop a roving vehicle for collect ing samples and analyzing them. Detailed Mars investigations, before any manned landing, would include robotic missions at four to six selected sites over a number of years. The committee said its recommended cau tious approach “would allow a graceful path to increasingly close levels of cooperation.” The committee said it reached conclusions al ter considering these three levels of U.S. partici pation with the Soviets in a Mars venture: — Each country conducting programs inde pendently. The cost would be too high, the returns would be less than maximum, U.S. technology would benefit greatly and there would be no additional risk of transferring technology to the Soviets. It would make no contribution to U.S.-USSR experience in technical and social endeavors and “it could also ignite a space competition similar to the race to the moon,” the committee said. — Split responsibilities and joint technical op erations. “A commitment by both nations to a fully co operative ventuxe ... would have a greater, presu mably positive' impact on U.S.-Soviet relations than would options involving lesser degrees of interactions and reliance,” the committee said. Such a venture would allow 7 the nations to share costs while increasing returns. and to take advantage of the best of both na tions’ space programs, such as the Soviets’ lead in heavy-lift launch capability. But a mission highly dependent on cooper ative efforts would be a “potential hostage to po litical events that might disrupt communications and interaction between the two nations,” said the committee. Missed the deadline? 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