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The Greens and the PDS, the successor party of the old East German Communists, Bundnis 90, which led the fall revolution, rejected the treaty that outlines the monetary and economic merger of the two Germanys by July 2. The two German parliaments met simulta neously in their respective capitals to take final action on the treaty. Members of the West German Bundestag, the powerful lower house of parliament, debated the measures throughout the day, and a vote was not expected until late Thursday. The upper house of the West German parliament planned to take up the treaty Friday and passage was also ex pected there. Kohl urged unanimous approval of the eco nomic merger. “The treaty shows the way to German unity, and whoever doesn’t follow this road sign doesn’t want unity,” he said. “For the people in Germany, this will make unity come true in vital areas of their daily exis tence,” he said. “Whoever rejects the treaty also rejects our compatriots in the German Demo cratic Republic.” Under the treaty, the powerful West Gernur mark becomes the currency of both countriesot July 2, and East Germany moves from socialist to capitalism. , East German wages, salaries and pensionni be converted to West German marks at a l-l«. change rate. The exchange rate for savings posits varies with age, with a maximum of $3,ft at the 1-1 rate for those over 60. West Germany’s main opposition party, left-leaning Social Democrats, criticized treaty, saying it fails to adequately protect Eaj Germans who face economic hardship in tit transition from socialism to a free market. But their chairman, Hans-Jochen Vogel, the Bundestag a majority would approve treaty. Failure to do so would be too mucholi shock to East German expectations and couli lead to “uncontrollable developments,” he said The leftist Greens party argued against pai sage, saying the treaty would not bring the tm Germanys closer together, but would eras newer and deeper forms of division by malii East Germany a dependent institution. are thi Supreme Court reinstates man’s life sentence WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su preme Court has reinstated a Texas man’s life sentence in the sexual as sault of a young woman. The court on Thursday unani mously overturned a federal appeals court ruling that said the defendant, Carroll Youngblood, is entitled to a new trial. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- e: lood must be retried because his life sentence was combined improperly with a $10,000 fine. The appeals court said that at the time of his conviction Texas law did not allow sentences that included both prison terms and fines. But Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, in his opinion for the high court, said Youngblood’s rights were not violated. Youngblood was convicted of ab ducting a 20-year-old woman from her home and forcing her to drive to a secluded area where he sexually as saulted her. sayn madi Hi the ti old a N< in Ai Long ballp fun c Tl allov Joe I Hanl leger stanc Party chief accuses critics of slander Conservative Communists threaten Gorbachev’s future MOSCOW (AP) — President Mikhail S. Gorba chev accused his hard-line critics of slander Thurs day and faced the prospect that one of them would be elected head of tne Russian republic’s Communist Party. Gorbachev was put on the defensive for a third day when a Leningrad economist claimed he did not obtain party approval to switch the Soviet Union to a market economy. “To consider that this idea and program dropped from the sky, or that somebody is undertaking an overnight coup to change our course, that is slander,” Gorbachev told the Congress of Russian Communists. A nationwide broadcast showed him angrily waving his hand in the air as he spoke. Numerous conservatives at the meeting, which be gan Tuesday, have attacked the 59-year-old Kremlin chiefs political and economic reforms. The hard liners have indicated they will try to replace Gorba chev as party leader at a national party congress starting July 2. Gorbachev also might have to deal with a conser vative party leader in Russia, the largest of the 15 So viet republics. Nearly all the seven candidates announced Thurs day for first secretary of the Russian party are con servatives. Four of them gave election speeches, and the front-runner appeared to be Ivan Polozkov, one of Gorbachev’s critics and one of Boris Yeltsin’s un successful opponents in the race for the presidency of the Russian republic. Polozkov, the 55-year-old party chief of the south ern Russian region of Krasnodar, received the ino« applause. At the urging of delegates, he was allowed to speak at least three times longer than the whet three candidates who addressed the delegates. Polozkov has called for strict party discipline,con demned informal political groups, complained that older party members are not respected and cracked down on cooperatives — private businesses intro duced by Gorbachev. In a speech Wednesday, he blamed the party's falling credibility in part on Gorbachev’s reform pro gram. “The crisis is not just in the Communist Party, ta above all in its leading bodies,” he said. On Thursday, Polozkov portrayed himself as a moderate intent on saving the party “from reprisals on the inside from the left and right.” some simil Cc chan the k even It! to pi; game strain the \i coun aven toco Of consi unde old, j no-hi when that r caree Ta He denied he opposed democ^gpc forces or coop eratives. Gorbachev did not comment on the candidates for Russian party chief hut did shoot hack at hard-linen who accuse him of taking the party out of thedeci sion-making process. He cited numerous meetings of the party leadership where officials decided on the need for radical economic reform, including a market economy. “Don’t be suspicious that something is being done secretly to turn the rails and move the country intht direction of capitalism,” Gorbachev said. vSenate upholds Bush’s veto of Hatch Act WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate barely upheld on Thursday President Bush’s veto of a bill to broaden the political rights of mil lions of government workers. The 65-35 vote on the Hatch Act fell two short of the two-thirds ma jority needed to override. Three Republicans who originally voted for the bill switched sides to support Bush on the veto vote. All 55 Senate Democrats voted to over ride the veto. White House press secretary Mar lin Fitzwater said, “We are pleased that that vote was sustained. We felt that it incorrectly politicized the civil service.” The president vetoed the bill last Friday, saying it “would inevitably lead to repoliticizing the federal work force” and “destroy its essential political neutrality.” The House, with nearly half of its Republicans bolting the administra tion, voted 327-93 on Wednesday to override Bush’s veto. The legislation would have al lowed 3 million federal and postal workers to, on their own time, at tend political conventions and cau cuses as delegates and to speak at rallies on behalf of candidates. It also would have removed a ban on federal workers holding offices in local, state or national political orga nizations or from soliciting dona tions from co-workers for federal employee and postal union political action committees. , The workers would still have been prohibited from taking leaves of ab sence to seek elected public office or soliciting campaign contributions from the general public or on behalf of a specific candidate. One sponsor, Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., said after the vote he would try to extend the Hatch Act prohibi tions on political activity for federal workers to presidential appointees. Senate GOP leaders portrayed the bill during the debate on override as an election-year bonanza for Demo crats. Democrats “want to get this bill passed before this election,” said Mi nority Leader Bob Dole of Kane He said federal employee andposn union political action commitiM funneled 88 percent of their cam paign contributions in the 1988 eb lion to Democrats. “ I he PAC heads of the Lei® Carriers and others (unions) waJ more power to raise more money give to Democrats,” Dole said “That’s how it works around hen money is power.” Vincent Sombrotto, presidents the 315,000-ineinbei Letter Carriw union, said Bush’s “strong-armW tics” to get Republicans to switd their votes “places him in the saffif league as the world’s most opptf sive dictators.” Conference stirs AIDS controversy Scientist: AZT slows infection SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Quick treatment with the drug AZT in the earliest stages of AIDS infection can significantly slow the lethal disease, according to research presented Thursday at the Sixth Interna tional Conference on AIDS. The study appears to provide the strongest evi dence yet that early intervention can stall the emer gence of full-blown AIDS in people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus. “We have to come to the conclusion that the great est advantage has to accrue with early intervention,” said Dr. Margaret Fischl. “It has to occur as early as possible in HIV infectiori.” Some doctors believe that if given early in the dis- dis Fischl, a researcher at the University of Miami, pi oneered the use of AZT in people who already have AIDS. However, most infected people are still out wardly healthy. So Fischl and other teams around the country have been exploring the risks and ad- of eiviner the medi< vantages ot giving the medicine before AIDS infec tion reaches its final stages. The conference opened Wednesday amid angry protests by thousanas of demonstrators frustrated over the slow pace of progress in controlling the dis ease. Fischl’s recommendation is likely to be controver sial. During the past year, some researchers have be gun to question whether AZT, the only approved AIDS drug, should be reserved for use during the later stages of the disease. The medicine interferes with the reproduction of HIV. When given to people with AIDS, the drug loses its punch within two or three years as the virus becomes resistant to it. ease, AZT will be powerless to slow the disease once AIDS develops. , Fischl’s conclusions were based on patients who were infected with HIV but had not developed any major symptoms of AIDS. She found that signifi cantly fewer progressed to AIDS if they got the drug without delay. Several other reports presented Thursday fo cused on how the infection is transmitted. Dr. Nancy Padian of the University of California, San Francisco, found that women who have sex with AIDS-infected men are 12 times more likely to catch the virus than are men who are sexually exposed to infected women. Among other research presented: • Dr. Rachel Royce of the University of Califor nia, Berkeley, reported circumstantial evidence that cigarette smoking may speed up the development of AIDS in people who are already infected with HIV. • HI V infected mothers run a high risk of pass ing the virus to their babies before birth. Now, a So viet study has found that infected babies can also pose a hazard to their uninfected mothers. • Dr. Tom Peterman from the.U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that bisexuality appears to be an important source of AIDS infection in the Army. He and Army researchers reviewed 43 soldiers who developed AIDS infections. Twenty-one admitted to high-risk activities, and of these 18 said they had sexual contact with other men. Most of these men had sex with women, as well. Alaskans play all day on solstice ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)' The year’s longest day for manyres dents of northern latitudes consi)! of midnight barbecues and 3 a.® softball games. In much of Alaska and other pa^ of the north, summer solstice— 21 — brings 24 hours of daylil and one of the year’s most brated times. The clanging ofic f cream trucks can be heard late ini' the evening. To the delight of cM dren, bedtime never seems to conn Along the Arctic coast, thesunl* been up since May 11, arciti through the sky. It will set Aug. 2. Even as far south 2 Anchorage, twilight lasts all though the sun does set for 31/2 hours. North of the Arctic Circle, incoff munities along the Arctic OceZ such as Barrow and Wainwright,r(! idents in summer hunt and fist work and play all day. Recreation begins after dinnf often as late as 1 a.m. or 2 a.® Softball and volleyball games afi continuous. “We just don’t sleep. 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