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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 17,1992

Ex-Soviet military officials meet in Moscow on disunity

MOSCOW (AP) More than 5,000 officers of the former Soviet armed forces, feeling threatened by nationalist claims on their loyalty, met in the Kremlin today seeking unity, but began to quarrel immediately. They argued over the agenda and the question of television coverage, and were angry over the absence of most of the former Soviet republics’ presidents. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev were the only two leaders of the 11 former republics to attend. NAZARBAYEV TOLD the officers that the two main issues facing the new Commonwealth of Independent States are price reform and the future of the military. “The army, whose duty is to defend nations, is itself in great need of protection. And it’s our duty to provide for it,” he said. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, the commander of the commonwealth’s armed forces, said the presidents of the member states have agreed to hold a meeting in Minsk on military issues, and would consider the results of today’s gathering. THE MILITARY of the former Soviet Union boasted for decades

Russian students riot over prices

MOSCOW (AP) Thousands of students angered by soaring prices fought police and smashed shop windows in the capital of Uzbekistan and news agencies reported today that one student was killed and several people were wounded. The wounded in the Thursday night riot in Tashkent included several militiamen, the Russian Information Agency said. The riots occurred on the same day Uzbek authorities freed prices and introduced food coupons. STUDENTS TODAY held several rallies and demanded revenge for the previous day’s violence, said Anvar Usmonov, a Tashkent-based journalist. A

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of its unity and superpower might. “The army and the people are one!” was the proud slogan under the nation’s Communist leadership. But now that the Soviet Union has been replaced with the commonwealth, officers are worried that the 3.7 million-member military will similarly break apart and troops will be forced to swear allegiance to the former republics where they are stationed. The officers had to take a 30minute break early in their meeting to resolve their disputes over the agenda. Some of the officers had complained about the live TV coverage of the session, but Yeltsin insisted that it be shown. ABOUT 1,000 demonstrators representing hard-line, pro-Com-munist groups greeted the officers as they entered the Kremlin. Some waved Soviet and czarist flags and held hand-painted signs. One read: “A united army is the bulwark of the motherland.” In appeals made before today’s session at the Kremlin’s Palace of Congresses, officers sounded a common theme: They will not be held hostage to politics. “The tragedy of the army that outlived the political system threatens to turn into a national

university president tried to address the students but was shouted down he said. The students on Thursday broke the windows of food stores displaying goods they said were now unaffordable, said Alfred Baranov, the deputy chief of the Uzbek news agency Uztag. They also overturned several cars and threw rocks at police, the Interfax news agency reported. Student speakers demanded the resignation of Uzbekistan’s president, Islam Karimov. THE RIOTING occurred in the so-called University Town, a students’ quarter in the northwest of Tashkent, the capital. It was the worst disturbance reported since most of the former Soviet republics freed prices on many goods earlier this month. And it was the first reported fatality.

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tragedy under the Yugoslav, Lebanese, Georgian or any other scenario, unless we forestall the disintegration of the armed forces,” the Moscow garrison said. “THE ARMY IS not being dissolved, but it is not being allowed to live normally because of moral persecution, physical threats, chaotic cuts and most dangerous o f ail nationalist passions,” said Maj. Gen. Nikolai Stolyarov, a senior official in the former Soviet Defense Ministry. Stolyarov, writing Thursday in the newspaper Izvestia, said most officers want a single military, belonging to the commonwealth. They also want higher salaries and pensions, better housing and other social issues. Differences over military policy are the greatest obstacles separating the republics that formed the commonwealth last month. THEY APPROACHED a permanent unified command over the country’s 27,000 nuclear warheads and agreed to appoint former Soviet Defense Minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov as interim commander of a strategic force for the commonwealth. But Azerbaijan, Moldova and Ukraine still want to form their own armies.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin freed prices in the giant Russian Federation on Jan. 2, forcing most of the other republics to take similar measures to protect their markets from Russian shoppers. His action has unleashed fury among shoppers no longer able to afford or find foodstuffs and goods. Angry Russians have confronted him during visits to several cities since the prices were freed. THE TASHKENT students tried to march to the palace of the republic’s president, said another Tashkent-based journalist, Anvar Usmonov. He estimated the size of the crowd at 10,000. Police fired blanks in the air but failed to disperse the students, he said. Then police opened fire with live ammunition, he said, adding that witnesses reported seeing several people fall to the ground.

House passes snow days amendment

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Two days after winter’s first major snowstorm hit Indiana, state representatives approved a proposal to allow schools to miss three days a year without having to make them up. On a voice vote Thursday, the House agreed to add the snow-days provision to House Bill 1359. That bill, which also makes changes in transfer tuition law, is eligible for a final House vote. THE AMENDMENT would mark a major change in recent state policy on making up school days. Since 1987, schools have been required to offer 180 days of school and must make up days lost to inclement weather if that is necessary to reach the minimum. In special cases, waivers of the minimum can be sought. H.B. 1359 would allow up to three snow days without make-up days. Supporters of the amendment said schools now sometimes force students to go to school during stretches of bad weather because administrators don’t want to make up the days later. “I think school corporations are much less inclined to call a snow day because they know they’ll have to make it up,” said Rep. Michael A. Dvorak, D-Granger.

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Hubble Space Telescope: A discovery that only it could make

Hubble finds ‘infant’ star clusters

ATLANTA (AP) The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed surprising clusters of very young stars in a galaxy, a finding that may help resolve a question about how some galaxies form. The young “globular clusters” were significant because other observed examples of such clusters are among the oldest celestial objects known, a researcher said Thursday. IN A SEPARATE presentation, another scientist said that the spacecraft, despite its flaws, has found evidence that a powerful black hole was collapsing the core of another galaxy. The findings were presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Neither discovery would have been possible without the Hubble’s ability to make detailed pictures of distant objects, without atmospheric distortion, despite flaws in the design of its main mirror, researchers said. The Hubble was

REP. CRAIG R. Fry, a Mishawaka Democrat who offered the amendment, said he did so out of concern for children’s safety. “My children ride the school bus every day, and yesterday with snow and winds of 30 to 40 miles-per-hour they went to school,” he said. Some representatives said the amendment marked a step backward from the state’s 1987 decision to lengthen its minimum school year. “No parent or school administrator would say you should go to school” when the weather makes roads treacherous, said Rep. Donald T. Nelson, R-Indianapolis. “But I think we are saying with this amendment that it doesn’t make any difference if you do go to school.” IN OTHER ACTION on the House floor Thursday, representatives: • Approved 61-38 a bill that would count pickup trucks and passenger cars in determining the distribution of road and street repair money from the state to local governments. Currently, only cars are counted. Rep. Susan R. Crosby, DRoachdale, said the change would generate more road funds for 76 of Indiana’s 92 counties. The other

launched in 1990. GLOBULAR CLUSTERS are dense spherical groupings of stars, each containing thousands to millions of stars. They are typical features of galaxies. Normally, the clustered stars are about 10 billion years old or older. But those in the newly found examples appear to be no older than a few hundred million years, said researcher Jon Holtzman of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. The stars all appear to be about the same age, which suggests they all formed at about the same time in response to some trigger, he said. The collision of two galaxies could be one possible trigger, he said. IT IS NOT clear how such a collision would lead to the globular clusters, he said. But if it did, it could bolster the idea that spiral galaxies can merge to form elliptical ones. One objection to that idea had been that elliptical galaxies tend to

counties, all urban, would lose street funds. But she maintained the bill “is not an urban versus rural issue. It is an issue of fairness.” The House has passed bills similar to H.B. 1028 frequently in recent years, but they have all failed in the state Senate. H.B. 1028 now goes to the Senate. • Approved 75-24 a measure to make eligible for the 21st Century Scholars program students who will graduate in the high school class of 1994. Present law makes students in the class of 1995 the first eligible for the program, which offers lowincome students college scholarships if they live up to a promise made in the eighth grade to finish school, stay out of trouble and avoid alcohol and drugs. Rep. John J. Day, D-In-dianapolis, said his H.B. 1007 would make the program available to students who were in the eighth grade at the time the program was enacted. The program took effect with the eighth graders who enrolled the following fall. REPUBLICANS questioned the wisdom of adding more students to a program the state hasn’t funded. That could raise expectations that couldn’t be met if the state doesn’t

Clinton denies reports of extramarital affairs

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton today dismissed tabloid reports that rehashed unsubstantiated rumors of womanizing. The Arkansas governor said “these are old stories” and described them as “trash.” Several U.S. newspapers and the London Daily Mail published Clinton stories based on an account in New York’s Star magazine. The Star was reporting the allegations of Larry Nichols, a former Arkansas state employee who was fired for making repeated long-distance calls on state telephones. Nichols, who has vowed to ruin Clinton, alleges that the governor

have more globular clusters per unit of brightness than spiral galaxies do. One might expect that if two spiral galaxies merged, that ratio would stay the same because the resulting galaxy would have more globular clusters but also be brighter, he said. However, if the merger itself triggered formation of new globular clusters, that might account for a higher ratio after a collision, Holtzman said. JAMES HESSER of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, agreed that the finding would give a “tremendous boost” to the merger hypothesis if the observa? lion and interpretation are correct. ! “Astronomers are going to be very, very excited,” he said. “There will be a tremendous amount of followup to this.” The clusters were found in a galaxy called NGC 1275, about 200 million light-years from Earth in the Perseus cluster of galaxies.

have the money, GOP lawmaker? said. • Rejected 36-60 a proposal IQ allow the Capital Improvement Board in Indianapolis to keep all revenue from the Marion County food and beverage tax and hotel lax. H.B. 1357 would divert up to $5 million of the sl4 million the taxes generate and put the money in 3 state account to pay for economic development projects in MarioO County. The money could be used to help pay the state’s share of the incentive package for the United Airlines maintenance center planned for the Indianapolis internal tional airport. REP. BRIAN C. Bosma, an Indianapolis Republican who offered the amendment to H.B. 1357, said the money that would be diverted is needed to pay operating costs of the Marion County agency that promotes convention business and other special events. The money is used for operating expenses and paying off bonds to finance construction of the Indiana Convention Center and Hoosier Dome. Democrats and some Republicans questioned, however, how intelligently the convention bureau has used its public funds.

had extramarital affairs with at least five women. Nichols made the allegations in a lawsuit challenging his dismissal, and frequently stages solo protests in Little Rock. Clinton was in Dedham today speaking before a Chamber of Commerce group. Asked about the Nichols allegations, he said, “I got into this race in the aftermath of those things, knowing they would probably be resurfaced. But they’ve been exposed as the trash they are.” “Americans have an innate sense of fairness,” Clinton said. “It’s old news at home (in Arkansas) and I think it will be old news here soon.”