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The Battalion WORLD & NATION 7 Thursday, July 12,1990 iners denounce Communism DONETSK, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Hundreds of ousands of coal miners laid down their drills nd picks Wednesday to demand that the Com- unist Party get out of their lives and that the ioviet government resign. “We should kick the party not only out of the Jkraine, but everywhere,” mine construction orker Viktor Kitenko declared, speaking at a illy in Donetsk, the center of the eastern Uk- aine’s Don River coal basin. Miners walked away from their jobs for 24 ours despite appeals from the Soviet govern- aent and party. In Donetsk, a rally passed a resolution de manding that the government of Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov resign; that party cells be re- noved from mines, economic enterprises, the [GB, army and police; and that party property >e nationalized. We should kick the party not only out of the Ukraine, but everywhere.” — Viktor Kitenko, mine worker The miners held aloft two large banners say ing: “U.S.S.R. Government Resign!” and “Down with Party Committees at Businesses.” The walkout was a repetition of a long and bit ter strike coal miners conducted last summer to press the government for better supplies of basic consumer goods, better pay and working condi tions. The government acceded to their de mands, but has been unable to fulfill its promises. In the meantime, miners’ demands have be come increasingly political. According to information compiled from strike leaders in Donetsk, the Kuznets Basin of western Siberia and Vorkuta in the Far North, miners at about 200 shafts were on strike throughout the country. No figures were available on the number of miners who actually walked off their jobs. But judging from the number of mines on strike in the Donetsk region, it appeared that about 100,000 miners stayed away. Strike organizers claimed that about 300,000 miners would halt work in western Siberia alone. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev told the Communist Party’s 28th congress in Moscow that the strike was not of a general nature. Call Now For an Appointment! ROUTINE $ QQOO CLEANING, X-RAYS and (Reg. $59 less r- v A .f $20 pretreatment CAAIVI cash discount) CarePlus^rit Dental Centers Bryan Jim Arents, DDS Karen Arents, DDS 1103 E. Villa Maria 268-1407 College Station Dan Lawson, DDS 1712 S.W Parkway 696-9578 [Ct nttee (the British reporter violates code with royalty LONDON (AP) — The code that governs British treatment of royalty is largely unwritten but al ways strict, and novelist A.N. Wil son has violated one of the ster nest rules of all. His sin has been to report a dinner-table chat with Her Maj esty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. That her remarks to Wilson were fairly innocuous, and that the conversation took place nearly a decade ago, matters little. The affair has provoked some sharp language from Lon don society. “Scoundrel!” thundered Lord Wyatt of Weeford. “An intolerable betrayal!” echoed Nicholas Soames, mem ber of Parliament and scion of the Churchill family. Wilson, 39, is a gifted novelist and acute social commentator who clearly knew he was courting trouble when he published “The Queen Mother’s table-talk” in the weekly Spectator magazine two weeks ago. “It is probably the grossest im propriety to embarrass her, or tier host, by repeating our con versation,” he wrote. “I do so, however, without very much compunction, since she never gives ‘interviews,’ and I can think of no better person than Queen Elizabeth with whom to start off an occasional series of conversations with men and women who have lived through most of the years of this century and whose memories stretch back far.” In the conversation, repro duced in dialogue form, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and widow of King George VI was said to have revealed a fond ness for detective stories, and a problem with her cash flow. Sandinista strikers loosen hold Chamorro’s government calls actions illegal LADIES AND LORDS 3 AT TEXAS 707 where The Bride and her Bridesmaids receive Special Discounts 707 Texas Ave. • 764-8289 Next to the Pink Taco Cabana MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Pro-Sandinista organizers told strik ers Wednesday to ease their stran glehold on Managua but demanded that the government of President Vi- oleta Barrios de Chamorro reopen talks within hours. There was no specific answer from the 10-week-old government, although it did indicate a willingness to negotiate a settlement. There were signs of continued discord, meanwhile, in the fragile and fractious 14-party coalition that brought Chamorro to power. A few of the barricades across the city came down. The gunfire that had crackled across the capital ended in the morning, but strikers still occupied most government min istries and some state-run industries. At least four people have been killed and 84 injured in unrest that began after tens of thousands of government workers went on strike 11 days ago. Strike leaders say 90,000 workers have walked off their jobs. The strikers say they want an end to what they call mass firings of pub lic employees by the Chamorro gov ernment and also seek a voice in gov ernment economic policy. They won 100 percent pay rises in a strike in May. Chamorro’s U.S.-backed govern ment has declared the strikes illegal, saying they are inspired by political instead of economic issues. The gov ernment suspended talks over the weekend. A statement issued by the Sandi- nista-run National Workers’ Front, which controls most of the striking unions, urged strikers “to create conditions favoring the start of talks, allowing the circulation of people and transport in areas where the Sandinista police demand it.” It said, “In agreement with what the constitutional government ex pressed, we urge the start of negotia tions between the government and the FNT (the front) to find a solu tion to the demands presented by the workers.” The statement, read on pro-Sand- inista Radio Ya, proposed that the negotiations begin at 3 p.m. It did not say what strikers would do if talks are not held. The strikers’ statement followed one a day earlier from Chamorro, who said Central American presi dents had asked that violence be ended “to create a climate of calm to permit a negotiated solution.” Information Secretary Danilo La- cayo said Chamorro thanked the Central American presidents who offered their support on Tuesday and told them she believes the prob lems should be resolved among Ni caraguans. Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo, who was visiting Honduras, said he thought Chamorro could handle the situation. Government recovers misspent funds : s c ering misspent funds from the officers and directors of failed savings institutions and banks at a rate better than $1 million a day, a top regulator said Wednesday: L. William Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said his agency was investigating whether to file suit against the officers of 1,300 failed thrifts and banks and has already filecf suit against offi cials of 500 institutions. Approximately $100 million was recovered last year and more than $200 million in the first half of this year, he said. “That is in excess of $ 1 million per day in recoveries” in 1990, he said. President Bush’s son, Neil, could be among the de fendants in a suit. He served as a director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association, Denver, which collapsed in December 1988 at an estimated cost to tax payers of $ 1 billion. Seidman, who appeared with administration officials before the House Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, declined to comment on when a decision would be made on the Silverado case. Agency officials have said they are considering a suit to recover losses from Silverado directors. Administration officials have been increasingly ham mered by Democrats to demonstrate that they are doing enough to prosecute fraud and recover S&L looses. The S&L problem is emerging as a hot issue in this year’s congressional races. In other savings and loan developments: • Seidman and Timothy Ryan, director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, both promised to treat Neil Bush’s case no differently than any other S&L case be fore them. In Houston, President Bush repeated his promise not to interfere with regulators and said he has had to “calm down” his other sons who want to “go to the barricades” on Neil’s behalf. • Documents released by the Office of Thrift Super vision show that regulators believed Neil Bush was “un qualified and untrained” for his position as director of Silverado. “Certainly he had no experience in manag ing a large corporation, especially a financial institution with almost $2 billion in assets,” the documents said. $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 ““ ASTHMA STUDY Individuals (12 and older) who have asthma to participate $800 in a research study. $800 incentive for those who en- $800 roll and complete study. law $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 Insomnia $100 Individuals (21-55 years old) who occasionally have trou- $100 $100 ble sleeping due to short term stress to participate in a 1 $100 $100 week insomnia research study. $100 incentive for those $100' $100 chosen to participate. $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $3001 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY Individuals with high blood pressure, either on or off blood pressure medication daily to participate in a high blood pressure research study. $300 incentive for those who en roll and complete study. $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 ,$300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL® 776-0400 • The Senate approved a broad crime bill that stiff ens prison terms for savings and loan fraud and offers rewards to whistleblowers for turning in S&L looters. 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