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Demand rejected
MOSCOW (A!1) Two mem
hers of llii’ ruling Communist
I’arlv Politburo made < bmr
Thursday they reje< t populist
Horis Yeltsin's demand to rtdin
(|uish supreme power
Vadim Medvedev, i hief p.irtv
ideologist, and Moscow Com
munist Party boss law Xaiknv
told reporters the party Itas the
right to choose the head ol state
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As in iinv (ivtli/.ed state
llii' hinder of tin1 p.irl\ liec.omes
the heed of state That’s fulh
natural ' Medvedev said
The off ■■ i.ils spoke after
members of the Congress of
People's Deputies openly (pies
tinned whether President Mlk
hail Corhai lies should serve ill
the dual role of head of p.irt\
and state, and after Yeltsin s
sharp eritii ism of the part\ on
Wednesday
Yeltsin, who was replai ed In
Zaikov as Moscow parts chief.
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< ailed for .111 imii■<"<)iale transfer
uf power from the Communist
Party to the (longress
"The Congress must take
power into its own hands.''
Yeltsin s.nd Wednesday He
(harged lli.it Corhachev s poll
i v of perestroika, or restrui tor
ing. had tailed and that people
were living worse lour years af
ter it was implemented
The party is identified in the
Soviet Constitution as the lead
mg (one in Soviet soi ietv. and
no other parties are legal
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Rioters, troops clash
I.A(i()S. Nigeria (AH) Ho
In c patrolled the streets and
guarded state buildings Thurs
dav a da\ after siv people re
portedly were killed and 1.500
were arrested following c lashes
with troops
The government said the i ap
ital was ( aim Thursday, but the
evident e of the rioting re
mained burned-out build
ings and vehicles, and debris
strewn throughout the streets of
the port city
Wednesday's (lashes were
the most violent since students
began rioting a week ago to
protest a government austerity
plan and school policies.
The protests began May 24 at
universities in the inidwestern
i ity of Benin, about H>() miles
east of 1 algos. and have spread
to campuses nationwide.
National
Rep asked to resign
COI.l'MHUS. Ohio (AP)
The chairman of (ho Ohio Re
publican Party on Thursday
asked foi the resignation of
l' S Rep Donald l.ukens. who
was convicted last week of a
misdemeanor charge of having
sex w dh a Hi vear-old girl
1 think he is a had apple for
ttie Republican Partv." Robert
-ifemiT,ir-'S7rrri—.Ti“TT—iinwTtmfrr
eiu e "I do not expect (ion
gressinan l.ukens to he on the
ticket anytime in HKM)
Hennett said the four-term
Republican congressman from
Middletown also should resign
from tin- Republic an State Com
mittee, which oversees the par
tv s operations in ()hio
The call for l.ukens' resigna
tion was "the obvious political
move." said l.ukens' c hief of
staff. William larrell
"This is a move w here the
party distances itself from 1,li
kens. They have their own
pressures they have to reac t
to." larrell said by telephone
from Washington
l.ukens. T>H. was convicted
Mav 2(> of contributing to the
delinquency and unruliness of
a minor following a five-day
trial in Franklin County Domes
tic Relations Court. A jury
found L.ukens guilty of having
sex with the girl at his Colum
bus apartment last Nov ti
Gephardt seeks post
WASHINGTON (API Rep
Kii hiirii Gephardt appealed to
his Democratic colleagues
Thursday to elect him majority
leader as part of a "new genera
tion" to take control of the
1 louse.
"John Kennedy said in 1 ‘Mi 1
that it was time for a new gen
eration of Americans to lead
our country. Now 1 believe it is
time for a new generation of
members to lead the Con
gress." Gephardt, 48. said in a
letter to House Democrats.
The Missouri congressman
noted that, like himself, two
thirds of current House mem
bers have been elected since
1978, and he described the
Democrats as a "young and vi
brant majority."
The seven-term lawmaker is
campaigning for the No. 2
House leadership spot to re
place Rep Tom Foley, who is
expected to become speaker
next week now that Speaker
|im W'right has announced his
resignation.
(lephardt. who r.in for |)n'M
dent in t'lHR, is < onsidered the
front-runner in the leadership
r.u e although he is opposed In
Hep Kd Jenkins. I)-(ia
The Missourian confirmed
that he would not seek the
presidential nomination if he
be< omes majority leader hut
would "devote all of my ener
gies to the work of the House "
Regional
House OKs wage bill
SALEM (AP) — Oregon's
minimum wage would climb
from $( 35 an hour to $4 75 by
1991 under a bill winning easy
House approval Thursday.
The measure passed 4(>-14
without debate because the bat
tle had been waged Wednesday
over amendments.
The House on a tie vote had
defeated a Republican-spon
sored alternate bill that provid
ed a smaller increase in the
minimum wage, which hasn’t
been raised since HIM 1.
The bill now returns to the
Senate for action on amend
ments
The main differences be
tween the Senate and House
versions of the bill are timing
of the first minimum wage
boost, the issue of increases al
ter 1991 and coverage of farm
workers
The House-approved version
would raise the minimum to
S i 85 next Sept 1. tin- Senate
version would make that mini
mum effct live July 1
Both versions of SB.i.15
would raise the minimum to
$4 25 in 1990 and $4 75 in
1991
The House eliminated a Sen
ate provision that would have
tied raises in the minimum
wage to increases in the aver
age weekly wage in Oregon al
ter 1991.
And the Senate voted to ex
pand minimum wage coverage
to many year-round agricultur
al workers that now are exempt
from coverage.
AIDS claim rejected
EUGENE (AP) A judge has
ruled the civil rights of a Eu
gene man were not violated by
the 1-ane County district attor
ney's office when the man was
indicted on charges he exposed
others to the AIDS virus
through sexual contact.
The charges against Coffrev
1.vnn Reason were dismissed in
January 11188 because witnesses
in the case were reluctant to
testify, the lame County distrii t
attorney's office said.
Circuit Judge Jack Madison
this week dismissed Reason's
claims that the charges against
him, in what was Oregon's first
AIDS-related criminal case,
were malicious prosecution
and a violation of his civil
rights under the U.S. Constitu
tion.
A Lane County grand jury in
dicted Reason on July 28, 11187.
on a charge of reckless endan
gering. a Class A misdemeanor,
fie was accused of engaging in
sexual activity that "created a
substantial risk of serious phys
ical injury to other persons."
Mis was one of the first crimi
nal cases in the nation to allege
a reckless — as opposed to in
tentional — spreading of the
human immunodeficiency vi
rus that causes acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome.
Reason subsequently filed a
$1 million civil lawsuit naming
as defendants lame County Dis
trict Attorney Doug Marcleroad,
three of his deputies and an in
vestigator in his office, and
Lane Countv.