- ~114 - b .gea.~~~'"' ~t IU1•1991 U SQUIC £ N 1£ :IINIAL 0 server ~ntMa~~Cd~NOTRE DAME•INDIANA VOL. XXIV NO. 126 TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1992 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Aspin.discusses U.S. nuclear policy after disintegration of Soviet Union By MEREDITH Security· Issues." McCULLOUGH Since 1988, the Soviet Union Assistant News Editor has undergone dramatic gov­ ernmental· changes that have The break up of the Soviet eradicated two main threats to Union coupled with recent polit­ U.S. security, said Aspin. ical change in Eastern Europe When former president Mikail has resulted in a new world Gorbachev began to withdraw order that has altered the Soviet forces from Eastern United States' interest in and Europe in 1988, "a message strategies concerning nuclear went out to Eastern Europe that weapons, according to the Soviet Union would no Representative Les Aspin (D­ longer back up the puppet gov­ Wis.). ernments in Eastern Europe Within the past few years the with military forces," said nuclear threat to the U.S. has Les Aspln As pin. changed from a large scale in­ This action encouraged re­ tentional attack by singular, raised security issues and formers to challenge their gov­ rational, well-known enemy to proposed policy for dealing with ernments and ultimately re­ smaller scale, possibly acciden­ such change in a lecture sulted in the dissolving of the tal, attacks by multiple, un­ Monday, titled "Challenges for Warsaw Pact, he said. known, irrational opponents, U.S. Security in the Post-Cold The second threat was dis­ according to Aspin, Chairman War Era." pelled in Dec. of 1991 with the The intellectual life The Observer!Oenise Mlrlin of the House Armed Services The discussion was a keynote resignation of Gorbachev, fol­ Susan Fitzgerald Rice '61 and Leslie. Tedrow (left to right) senior Committee. speech for the second day of the lowed by the virtual disappear- discuss intellectual life and how women can change the world at Aspin addressed the impact of conference "From START to the Genesis Conference held over the weekend at Saint Mary's. these international shifts, newly Finish? The Future of Nuclear see ASPIN I page ~ Clinton, Brown trade criticism before New York primary NEW YORK (AP) over the last two weeks. Every promised an announcement on all of us." Democrats Bill Clinton and point of contention has been Wednesday. Clinton and Brown went Jerry Brown traded a final bar­ magnified by the aggres!"ive Clinton, after amassing a head-to-head Monday in a tele­ New York rage of charges Monday but Manhattan media as the candi­ huge delegate lead last month vised mini-debate on NBC's then shook hands on the final dates jockeyed for support with victories on Super Tuesday "Today" show to start their final Electoral day of campaigning before among fractious voting blocs and then in Michigan and day of campaigning. profile: high-stakes primaries in New including blacks, labor, and Illinois, was forced to take Brown jabbed at Clinton for Delegates York, Wisconsin and Kansas. Jewish voters. Brown on after the former playing golf at an all-white club, from state: "This is now for the voters to Pollster Lee Miringoff of the California governor squeaked saying it "validates institutional Democratic: 244 decide," said Clinton. "We each Marist College Institute for past him in Connecticut's pri­ racism." That drew an angry ... ~.-~~·''' argue that we have better plans Public Opinion called it a close mary and added victories in retort from the Arkansas Republican: 100 ~~~p! for change." contest, with Clinton slightly Vermont and Alaska. governor, who then swiped at Total delegates Both candidates said Paul ahead and an unusually high 20 Overall, Clinton has 1,078 Brown on race issues, too. In U.S.: Tsongas, who dropped out of percent of voters still unde­ delegates to 439 for Tsongas "Jerry Brown knows I'm not Democratic: 4,288 the race three weeks ago, could cided. and 165 for Brown. racist," Clinton said. "I have Republican: 2,209 receive a substantial number of "I think, at this point, Clinton Brown called the New York demonstrated in a Southern race "very close" but sought to New York electorate: votes in New York, the biggest has to have a very good day to climate all my life a deep 1990 population prize in Tuesday's balloting with reach 50 (percent)," Miringoff lower expectations. "We'd like commitment to civil rights and 244 delegates. said. "That's because it's be­ one more vote than the other equal opportunity." 17,990,455 The state is crucial for both come a 2 1/2-person race" side but anything the voters Clinton then recalled a 197 5 Eligible voters active candidates: front-runner when Tsongas is taken into give us will give us the encour­ remark Brown made, quoting Clinton is looking for a convinc­ consideration. agement to go on," he said. the former California governor ing win to diminish the signifi­ Tsongas, the former At a statehouse rally in as saying, "We ought to let the cance of Brown's challenge; Massachusetts senator, sus­ Albany where a number of white kids teach the black kids Brown wants a good showing to pended his campaign nearly Tsongas signs bobbed in the to read, the black kids teach the affirm his status as a serious three weeks ago but is urging crowd, Brown said a vote for white kids to fight.' That was a candidate. people to vote for him and ap­ him would send the signal, "Get horrible thing for him to say. I New York has proved a pears to be toying with a re-en­ off the dime, Washington, we did not run a television ad on rough-and-tumble battleground try. Over the weekend, he want a country that works for it." AP Yeltsin keeps 'no-confidence' vote off Russian Congress agenda MOSCOW (AP) - President cripple the transition to a free lar because they have sent Parliament Speaker Ruslan speaking only once, when he Boris Yeltsin won an initial vic­ market. prices skyrocketing without Khasbulatov, leader of the drive tried to get Congress to allow an tory in the Russian Congress on Yeltsin is in no danger of los­ putting more goods on the to limit Yeltsin's powers, wants adviser to read the economic Monday by keeping a no-confi­ ing the presidency. But he could shelves. to vest more power in the report. dence vote off the agenda, but be pushed - either during or Congress and smaller Supreme opponents said they would after the Congress - into giving Presidential adviser Galina Soviet legislature, which meets "I had planned to address the continue trying to reduce his up his post as prime minister Starovoitova said she was more often. Congress on the whole complex powers. and thoroughly revamping the heartened by the first day's of issues: economic, social, Yeltsin clearly did not have Cabinet that he lightly shuffled voting and predicted Yeltsin He opened the session in the political, national and constitu­ firm control over the 1,046- last week. would emerge with his powers Grand Kremlin Palace by warn­ tional, not to take the floor member Congress of People's Monday's voting gave no clear intact. ing that "social and political several times," Yeltsin pleaded. Deputies, meeting this week for sign which way the Congress But another adviser, Sergei tensions prevailing in nearly the "I am not trying to escape." the first time since the collapse would go. Shakhrai, said "the first round entire country threaten to bring of the Soviet Union last The parliamentary opposition, went to the opposition." us to a collapse." The lawmakers voted his December. an uneasy alliance of former proposal down. The Congress appeared to be Communists and rebellious Opposition leaders said they "We can afford no unconsti­ about evenly divided between members of Yeltsin 's own would introduce a resolution tutional methods. We need dia­ Yeltsin supporters responded supporters of Yeltsin and op­ reformist camp, lost their effort condemning Yeltsin's govern­ logue rather than monologue. to their defeat by calling ponents, mainly former to put a no-confidence motion ment, and possibly try again for We need a compromise. The Khasbulato·v a potential Communists, who want to slow on the week's agenda by a vote a no-confidence vote, after his president needs it more than "dictator" and seeking a vote of his economic reforms, force his of 412 to 447. economic report. anyone else. The nation needs no-confidence in the speaker. Cabinet to resign and adopt a But they won a straw vote it," Khasbulatov said. But lawmakers easily kept that constitution that removes his forcing Yeltsin to give a report Unlike a formal vote of no­ off the agenda, by a vote of 793 broad decree-making powers. Tuesday on the painful eco­ confidence, which would force Yeltsin said he needed his ex­ to 115. Yeltsin said Sunday he might nomic reforms he began Jan. 2. the formation of a new Cabinet, traordinary powers for another "correct" some of his reforms, a condemnation of Yeltsin's re­ two or three years to pursue his The Congress, the highest hinting at wage and price con­ Their goal was to associate port would merely increase reforms. legislative body in Russia, was trols, but he said it would be Yeltsin, who remains Russia's pressure on him to slow his re­ elected in March 1990, and "suicide" to transfer power to most popular politician, with forms and change his top min­ He watched with a somber more than half its members are parliament because it would the reforms, which are unpopu- isters.