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Thursday, July 11,1991
Yeltsin starts as president
'Great Russia is rising from its knees/ says elected leader
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris N.
Yeltsin formally took office
Wednesday as the first elected
president of the Russian repub
lic, pledging to uphold human
rights and break from abuses of
the past.
"For the first time in Russian
history, the citizens of Russia
have made their own choice,"
the white-haired Siberian said in
his inaugural address.
The people of Russia, Yeltsin
said, "chose not only an individ
ual, not only a president, but
above all they chose the path
along which our motherland is
to travel. It is the path of democ
racy. The path of reform. The
path of the restoration of human
dignity."
"Great Russia is rising from its
knees!" he said. "We certainly
will turn it into a flourishing,
democratic, peaceful, law-based
sovereign state."
The audience in the Kremlin
Palace of Congresses rose in
ovation at the end of Yeltsin's 10-
minute address.
In the ceremony, televised
throughout
Russia, the 60-
year-old presi
dent recited
the oath of of
fice beneath
an enormous
red and blue
Russian flag.
Then he re
ceived con
gratulations
from Soviet
President
Mikhail S.
Gorbachev and a blessing from
the patriarch of the Russian Or
thodox Church.
Gorbachev congratulated Yelt
sin and warmly snook his hand,
a highly visible symbol of the po
litical alliance that has developed
between the two.
Yeltsin and Gorbachev once
clashed repeatedly over the
speed and scope of efforts to
move away from a centralized
Communist system.
But their relations have im
proved since Gorbachev agreed
in April to give up Kremlin con
trol of Russia's industrial and
natural resources. Yeltsin and
the leaders of nine of the other
14 Soviet republics also agreed to
sign Gorbachev's proposed
Union Treaty on holding the
country together.
Gorbachev, in his speech, con
gratulated Yeltsin but dwelt
largely on the need for unity.
"Let me wish you success in
your activities for the people of
Russia," said the Soviet presi
dent. "In this, you can be sure
you will find the support of the
president of the country."
At one point, Gorbachev drew
mocking laughter when he
garbled a sentence that should
nave said: "On all continents,
people are following with great
interest what we are doing
here." Gorbachev broke the sen
tence in two, ending: "What are
we doing here?"
He ignored laughter and whis
pering that continued for two
minutes. Radical lawmaker Gal
ina Starovoiteva said afterward
that "the humor involuntarily
used by Mikhail Sergeyevich
(Gorbachev) reflected his insecu
rity during this transition pe
riod."
At the start of the 50-minute
ceremony, Yeltsin rose from a
seat near the back of the white
marble palace and strode up the
same aisle that he came down a
year ago when he quit the Com
munist Party during a national
congress.
Boris Yeltsin
promises to
uphold human
rights.
Bush's approval of base closings
disappoints some Texas officials
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush endorsed an indepen
dent commission's recommen
dations Wednesday to close
three military bases in Texas,
forcing Fort Worth, Austin and
Beeville to "make the best of this
disappointing decision," law
makers said.
Congress has 45 legislative
days to either accept or reject the
list of 34 bases and military labs
nationwide recommended for
closure, including Carswell Air
Force Base in Fort Worth, Bergs
trom AFB in Austin and Chase
Field Naval Air Station in Bee
ville.
Although Rep. Pete Geren
promised to fight to keep Cars
well open, he expressed little
hope that Congress would over
turn the list compiled by the
Base Closure and Realignment
Commission.
For Geren, D-Fort Worth, the
fight will center on keeping Car
swell's hospital open for the
area's 120,000 military retirees,
and finding a new mission for
the base once it's abandoned.
"We've had a number of nib
bles already," Geren said
Wednesday. "One advantage we
have is the location — we're in
the middle of one of the best
transportation
centers in the
world."
Carswell,
with 5,543
military and
civilian work
ers, could be
used as an in
dustrial main
tenance cen-
t e r ,
manufactur
ing complex,
or for educa
tion, training
purposes, Geren said, although
nothing has been ruled out.
"I'm going to pour my energy
into maldng the best of this dis
appointing decision, and trying
to turn what the Air Force is
going to leave behind into an as
set for our community," Geren
said.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas,
also said he was disappointed
that the president "acted so
quickly, without giving special
consideration to the facts we
raised regarding Texas bases on
the hit list."
Beeville would lose 1,647 mili
tary and civilian employees.
President Bush
approves a plan to
close three Texas
military bases,
or government
Collider plan
gets millions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday to
take $75 million of the money appropriated for cleaning up the
nation's atomic weapons complex and instead spend it on Presi
dent Bush's $8 billion-plus atom smasher in Texas.
Acting on an appropriations bill for the Energy Department,
the Army Corps of Engineers and several other agencies, the
Senate restored three-fourths of the $100 million that the House
had trimmed from Bush's $534 million request for the Supercon
ducting Super Collider.
The administration and Senate supporters of the 55-mile
doughnut-shaped particle accelerator contended the House's
cut would have delayed the scheduled 1999 completion of the
project by at least 18 months and increased its costs by more
than $200 million.
To come up with the money. Senate appropriators trimmed
$108 million from the $3.75 billion that the House wants to
spend next year on cleaning up radioactive and other wastes
around Energy Department atomic weapons plants in 13 states.
Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, whose state includes one of the
major cleanup sites, tried to get the money restored by taking an
equal amount away from atomic weapons production in fiscal
1991 but was defeated by 54-43 vote.
The Super Collider survived its first major showdown in the
Senate when Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., failed on a 62-37 vote
earlier Wednesday to scuttle it entirely.
"This was a convincing victory," said Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-
Texas. "The vote should protect the SSC so long as it stays on
schedule and on budget."
The accelerator is intended to help scientists explore the cre
ation of matter and origin of the universe by smashing counter
rotating proton beams moving at nearly the speed of light
against each other.
More than $500 million has already been spent in the last
three years on the accelerator, which is to be located near Dallas.
During that time, its price has doubled from $4 billion and some
researchers expect its cost to reach more than $11 billion before
completed.
The $22 billion bill — nearly half a billion dollars more than
what the House passed in May — also includes $33 million to
launch 15 new water projects expected to eventually cost a total
of more than $300 million. Bush had requested only five new
water projects.
But it also includes dramatic increases above what Bush re
quested and the House approved for two projects in the home
states of the chairmen of the Senate Appropriations Committee
and its energy and water subcommittee.
Appropriations Chairman Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., added
$50 million to the $13 million recommended by Bush Levis and
Tug Forks Dam project in West Virginia and Kentucky.
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LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia (AP)
— A European-brokered plan to
avert civil war in Yugoslavia re
ceived a major boost Wednesday
when Slovenia's parliament
voted overwhelmingly to sus
pend its independence drive.
Deputies approved the plan,
drafted last week by the Euro
pean Community, despite mis
givings by some legislators that
it offered no guarantees federal
tanks and warplanes would not
attack again. Slovenian and fed
eral military officials exchanged
threats of violence later in the
day.
Violence was reported
Wednesday in an entirely differ
ent area of the patchwork na
tion, along its southern border.
Yugoslav and Albanian border
guards traded fire in the Serbian
province of Kosovo, which is
populated mainly by ethnic Al-
oanians, Belgrade television
said. The reason for the clash
was not immediately known,
and there were no reports of cas
ualties.
Yugoslavia's Tanjug news
agency said that the Albanians
further increased the combat
readiness of their army following
the incident.
The strong endorsement of the
peace plan — by a vote of 189-11
with seven abstentions — was
significant because Slovenia had
pushed further toward full se
cession than neighboring Croatia
and has been the center of bat
tles against federal forces.
The accord already has been
approved by Croatia, which like
Slovenia declared independence
June 25, and by Federal Premier
Ante Markovic and his Cabinet.
Yugoslavia's eight-member pre
sidency still must accept the
plan.
Some army troops and rebel
militiamen remained in the field
late Wednesday despite the
pact's call for full withdrawal.
"Let us not forget we are in the
Balkans, where lies and deceit
are the highest moral values,"
Viktor Zakelj, a Socialist Party
deputy in Slovenia, warned the
parliament.
Before the vote, Slovenia's
president, Milan Kucan, told
lawmakers their choice was "war
or peace."
He said the agreement was
"one of the steps on the long
road to Slovenian independen
ce."
The pact is the latest attempt
to halt clashes between seces
sionist and federal forces. It calls
for army units to return to their
barracks and the Slovenian mili
tia to be demobilized.
It also calls for Slovenia and
Croatia to suspend indepen
dence moves for three months to
permit negotiations with the
central government.
Coast Guard improves response to oil spills
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Coast
Guard will station specialized oil spill
cleanup equipment in the Houston-Galves-
ton area and Corpus Christi as part of a $14
million plan announced Wednesday to im
prove its response to tanker accidents.
The Texas ports were among 19 cities na
tionwide selected for the new spill response
equipment, which is being built at a cost of
$750,000 for each location and should be in
place by late next summer.
Rep. Jack Fields, R-Humble, said each
site would get two oil-skimming devices ca
pable of collecting a total of 360 gallons of
crude a minute. Each site will also get two
portable floating bladders, which are used
to contain recovered oil, and 2,500 feet of oil
containment boom, used in the water like a
floating fence to corral oil so that it can be
skimmed more efficiently.
"This is extremely important if a spill is
close to a beach, a wetland or estuary, oi
the Houston Ship Channel, which if closed
costs $1 million a day," said Fields, who in
cluded language in the Oil Pollution Act of
1990 establishing guidelines for locating the
spill equipment.
One of two major spills in the Houston-
Galveston last year cost the ship channel
and the Port of Houston $14 million. Fields
said. The oil slick also cost the seafood in
dustry an estimated $40 million.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP)
— A plan to shift a helicopter at
tack unit from Fort Hood, Texas,
to Fort Campbell has received
what appears to be a nod of ap
proval.
The proposal to move 264 mili
tary personnel, their families
and 34 AH-64 Apache helicopt
ers to serve with the 101st Air
borne Division would involve
long-term construction, a report
said. The move could occur as
early as August.
The report, prepared by the
Army Engineer District at Mo
bile, Ala., and released Monday,
indicates no environmental
problems with the move, and,
on the economic side, anticipates
332 new jobs created in the area
because of the planned unit
shift.
The unit targeted for the move
is the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Avi
ation Attack Helicopter Regi
ment. The idea behind the move
is to bring the 101st Airborne Di
vision's aviation brigade up to
full combat strength.
The division is authorized four
attack helicopter battalions,
three in the active force and one
in the reserves, according to the
report.
Maj. Ed Gribbins, post public
affairs officer, said the Army will
wait and "gauge public opinion"
before making a final decision on
the move.