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Gorbachev’s rival
plans radical reform
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Yeltsin,
president of the Russian republic,
seized the initiative for radical re
form Monday with a plan that would
give the republics control of their
economies and drastically reduce the
power of the national government.
According to a copy of the 250-
page plan obtained by the Asso
ciated Press, most decisions regard
ing the economy would be made by
the 15 sovereign republics.
If approved by the Russian repub
lic’s legislature, the proposal would
dramatically constrict the power of
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorba
chev, Yeltsin’s rival. Gorbachev’s na
tional government would control
only a fraction of the planned tran
sition from communism to a market
economy.
Russia, the largest of the repub
lics, would legalize private own
ership of land and give away huge
numbers of state-owned apartments
and residential lots to try to solve
critical shortages of food and hous
ing.
In the long run, the Soviet gov
ernment would be limited to such
matters as defense, strengthening
the nearly worthless ruble and pro
viding disaster relief. It would lose
the power to tax and would have to
rely on dues from the republics.
Since Russia contains half of the
Soviet Union’s people and three-
quarters of its land mass, the na
tional legislature would be unable to
ignore a decision by Russia to em
bark on a more radical reform than
favored by Gorbachev.
Many Soviet citizens consider the
country an empire well on its way to
disintegration. Thirteen of the 15
republics have declared themselves
independent or “sovereign,” with
the right to veto national laws.
Gorbachev is discussing a new
union treaty that would loosen, the
bonds of the Soviet Union into a
confederation of sovereign states,
but he has not offered a specific pro
posal for public discussion.
Gorbachev and Yeltsin have
clashed repeatedly over Yeltsin’s de
mands for faster reform and control
of the Russian republic’s plentiful
resources. Recently, however, they
have been trying to find common
ground.
CDF: Day-care centers fail
to protect health of children
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lax
laws governing day-care centers
in many states are failing to pro
tect children, the Children’s De
fense Fund said Monday.
The CDF, a private organiza
tion, said its national survey of
child-care centers and day-care
homes shows “inexcusable fail
ures to protect the health and
safety of children.”
Thirteen states fail to require
that children in day care be im
munized against childhood dis
eases and 22 states don’t require
periodic fire drills, according to
the fund survey.
Thirty states don’t insist that
children 18 months and older in
licensed child-care centers receive
vaccines to protect them from
meningitis.
Twenty-four states fail to re
quire such centers to have energy
absorbing surfaces as a safety fea
ture beneath swings, slides and
structures on which children
climb.
The report said four states —
Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana and
South Carolina — failed to re-
uire that even one of those stan-
ards be met.
It said 19 states allow child-care
centers to operate with five or
more infants per adult, although
experts cited by the fund say one
person should care for no more
than three or four.
Thirteen states, it said, allow
one person to care for five or
more infants or toddlers in family
day care.
Georgia and North Carolina
permit one person in a child-care
center to care for up to seven in
fants, while South Carolina allows
eight and Idaho sets the limit at
12, the report said.
Thirty-three states allow one
person to care for more than 10
4-year-olds. The limit is 18 in
Georgia and 20 in Alabama, Flor
ida, North Carolina, South Caro
lina and Texas, the fund said.
The report said more than 6
million children, including more
than 2 million who are younger
than 3, spend part or all of their
day in out-of-home child care.
About half of those children
are cared for by people providing
family day care in their own
homes.
The report urged support for
legislation pending in Congress
that would provide $1.75 billion
in federal funds for child care, re
quire states to develop minimum
requirements, expand tax credits
for low-income working families,
and guarantee parents the right
to make unannounced visits.
F-16 fighter crashes;
pilot bails out safely
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air
Force F-16 fighter crashed in south
ern Saudi Arabia on Monday, but
the pilot, who was alone aboard the
aircraft, bailed out safely, a Penta
gon official said.
The crash happened around 5:51
a.m. CDT during a “routine training
mission,” the official said, who spoke
on condition of anonymity.
The plane was assigned to the
363rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Shaw
Air Force Base in South Carolina
and was deployed as part of Opera
tion Desert Shield.
The pilot, who was not identified,
was taken to a local hospital and later
released, the official said.
No cause of the accident was
given, and a military investigation
was to be conducted, the official
said.
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