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Thursday, December 12, 1991 ■ THE OKLAHOMA DAILY ■ 3
NEWS
Soviet Union continues decline
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yeltsin told a separate meeting
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life was in their hands and I’m so grateful.”
He also thanked the judge and said, “I have an
aid to reform their backward
I an an-
chor in a region of instability.
The new agreement does not
meet some nations’ dreams of a
and Byelorussia.
Yeltsin met with senior Soviet
Defense Ministry officials and
army commanders to win support
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said a single currency - instead
of 11 different ones - would in-
crease productivity by 5 percent
of the community’s economic out-
put, which was $6.4 trillion last
year.
It predicted the monetary
union also would help lower infla-
tion and spur economic activity.
community would save $13 billion and when to accept the single
currency.
He also demanded the others
Smith acquitted in assault
ASSOCIATED PRESS myself in the mirror, and more importantly my
daughter as she grows up,’’said the woman, who is
unmarried and has a 2-year-old daughter.
She said she had been inundated with letters
sault and battery in a case that fooised national and phone calls “from countless women who have
attention on date rape. —j —.. ••
The jury of four women and two men took
about 90 minutes to reject the allegations of a 30-
year-old woman who said Smith chased her, top-
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Igor Malashenko said on na-
tional television that the Soviet
tary “will then be under the
strong influence of President
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suffered the degradation of rape.”
Roth said: "We accept the verdict. But not
guilty does not equate to innocence.”
In Rhode Island, Patrick Kennedy said: “This
pled her on the lawn of the Kennedy estate and has been a very difficult time for my family. I
raped her. believed in my cousin Willie’s innocence all along.
“I want to thank the jurors,” Smith said. “My The jury’s swift verdict will now allow Willie and
life was in their hands and I’m so grateful.” all of us to get on with our lives."
He also thanked the judge and said, “I have an Prosecutor Moira Lasch left without comment,
enormous debt to the system and to God and I Jury foreman Stearns also said nothing to report-
have a terrific faith in both of them.”
“This has hurt all rape victims, and you’re going
“That puts President Yeltsin in
a very strong position vis-a-vis
President Gorbachev,” Strauss
said. “Unquestionably, President
Agency are the people with whom we will ordinating role in economic poli-
deal.” <. ' _2
He added that the Soviet mili- and military control.
of Russian lawmakers that Gor-
bachev would remain command-
er-in-chief of the military for the Yeltsin also.”
present. Yeltsin told reporters that Ar-
Although Gorbachev has strug- menia and Kirgizia would be the
forged by the three Slavic repub- gled to keep the union intact, an
lies, addine momentum to efforts aide acknowledged that it was a
Enraged Against Rape, said.
Shortly after the verdict was announced, the
accuser’s lawyer, David Roth, read a statement
from his client saying she had no regrets.
“All that I have endured is worth it if I’ve made
it easier for one woman to make what for me was this whole long experience, it’s the renewed close-
the only choice I could, so that I could look at ness of our family and friends,” he said.
ers as he entered his house.
Sen. Kennedy, who had testified in the case,
to have a lot of victims that won’t come forward spoke to reporters briefly Wednesday night out-
because of what has been done to this woman,” side the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in
Robin Miller, who heads a group called Families downtown Boston.
“I’d always believed that after all the facts were
in, that Will would be found innocent,” Kennedy
said. “My heart goes out to Will.
"If there’s anything good that has come out of
MOSCOW - Boris Yeltsin
said Wednesday two more repub-
lics will join the commonwealth
lies" adding momentum to efforts aide acknowledged that it
to replace the dissolving Soviet
Union with a new political
arrangement.
Four other republics called a
meeting to decide their stand on
the commonwealth, founded over
the weekend by Russia, Ukraine that Mikhail Gorbachev is ready
. _ - . I • •••« ••• a .t _ a.
but 1 don't think his potential is stan, Uzbekistan andjurkmeni-
exhausted,” said Malashenko.
y _________ .. “The U.S.S.R., though no long-
for the commonwealth, one day er existing, remains a nuclear su-
after Soviet President Mikhail perpower, and for an interim pe-
Gorbachev held talks with the riod Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine
same military leaders. and Kazakhstan can form a mili-
Gorbachev and Yeltsin are bat- tary strategic union and entrust
tling over who will decide the fate Mikhail Gorbachev with the au-
of the former Soviet Union, and thority to be at its head,” he said,
both the Russian and the Soviet U.S. Ambassador Robert
legislatures convene Thursday for Strauss told the House Armed
crucial sessions on the new com-
monwealth. Ukraine and Byelo-
russia have already ratified it.
agreed to expand their powers to
help achieve greater stability and
prosperity.
Leaders of the 12-nation trad-
ing bloc agreed to a compromise
in the early hours of Wednesday,
setting up a loose federation with °y» *’*ce t‘ie German mark, for an-
a common foreign policy and a ot"er one.
single currency by 1999. To add political muscle to their
The accord, marking a turning economic strength, German
point in the community’s 34-year Chancellor Helmut Kohl and
history, was fashioned only after French President Francois Mit-
Britain was exempted from the terrand revived the decades-old
single currency and rules govern- dream of a united Europe. They
ing workers’ rights and other la- sought a transfer of national sov-
bor conditions. ereignty to the community.
Even with the British reserva- Their ambitions were given im-
tions, the accord marked a great petus by upheavals in Eastern Eu-
stride forward. - ■ • —
“It’s a strengthening of what is
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands ‘We WOllId have
Sladly gone further
pean Community leaders have but this is the
first step,’ Kohl
said.
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rope. After throwing off Commu-
-----—o— a nist regimes, the new
already the area of prosperity and democracies turned to the com-
stability in Europe,” said Peter munity for political support and
Ludlow, director of the Brussels- - - . . . .
based Center for European Policy economies.’They "sought
Studies. . ' . r
The leaders were spurred ini-
tially to give their economic club
more powers by fear of competi- . .
tion from Japan and the United wholly united Europe.
Sta*es- . Kohl acknowledged the ac-
The nations agreed in 1985 to cord’s limits. “We would have
create a single market late next g]adiy gone further but this is the
year by tearing down barriers pre- first slep» he sajd.
venting the free flow of money, .
people, goods and services. Britain was the toughest nation
But they felt they needed more, to win over.
and set out to create an economic And, in the end, the nation’s
and monetary union with a Euro- Conservative prime minister,
pean Central Bank and a sole John Major, decided to keep his
currency. country outside key parts of the
A community report last year new union.
“The real name of the
game ... was to see what ways
could be found for providing the
British with a bridge over which
they could eventually come,”
Ludlow said.
Major insisted on an “opt-out”
clause that would allow the Brit-
And, it said, businesses in the ish parliament to decide whether
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - William Kenne-
dy Smith was acquitted Wednesday of sexual as-
attention on date rape.
Services Committee in Washing-
ton he believed Yeltsin would
succeed in winning ratification of
Yeltsin and Gorbachev met the commonwealth agreement.
Wednesday. They refused to
speak with reporters, but Yeltsin
said later that Gorbachev had
munity’s control over workers’ ru’ed out the use of force in their
rigl_______ n -
The other 11 nations finally
Information
first non-Slavic republics to join
the commonwealth.
Kirgizia President Askar
Akayev told his republic’s law-
_________________ .... makers it was up to them to de-
leader must retain that power and cide to decide the issue of mem-
the right to represent the repub- bership in the commonwealth,
lies in foreign relations. “I think Tass reported.
___--- - Kirgizia will join the other Cen-
to resign, probably he will do that, tral Asian republics of Tadzhiki-
stan at a meeting Thursday to
decide on joining the common-
wealth. Kazakhstan also will
attend.
Malashenko said Gorbachev
could help serve as a “bridge be-
tween the three Slavic republics
and the Muslim republics” were
he given a role in forming the
commonwealth.
Gorbachev’s aides have been
working hard to persuade the na-
tion that he must stay in power
and that the commonwealth is
merely a variation of his Union
Treaty to hold the country
together.
Gorbachev’s proposal would
Yeltsin and his various ministers preserve his presidency, and a co-
cy, nuclear energy, transportation
European nations form agreement
ASSOCIATED PRESS —————" 1 drop efforts to extend the com-
rights and other labor relations, political confrontation, the Rus-
72. 21 _._.2____ sian
agreed to implement the regula- reported,
tions on their own.
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