The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 10, 1992 - Page 3 Congress rejects Yeltsin nomn1ee MOSCOW (AP) - President Boris Yeltsin suffered a bruising defeat yesterday when Congress re- jected his reform-minded nominee for prime minister, clearing the way for new hard-line attacks that could slow reforms. The vote does not immediately force Yegor Gaidar out of office. Gaidar said he would remain as "acting" prime minister, the position he has held for six months. The Congress of People's Deputies, dominated by ex-Commu- nists elected before the Soviet col- lapse, rejected Gaidar's nomination on a secret-ballot vote of 486-467. The result was 54 votes short of the majority needed for approval by the 1,041-member Congress. Twenty-two ballots were invalid and the remaining 26 lawmakers did not vote. Lawmakers reacted almost non- * halantly to the pivotal vote after nine days of sometimes violent de- bate in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Although Yeltsin can reappoint Gaidar as acting prime minister, the rejection amounted to a resounding vote of no confidence in the presi- dent's reforms, which hard-liners say are impoverishing the nation. As the architect of Russia's re- forms, Gaidar has become the symn- bol of Yeltsin's determination to dismantle seven decades of Comn- munist central planning and state ownership. The economist also has become a target for Yeltsin's opposition, which has grown in strength in re- cent months along with the free- market scourges of inflation and un- employment. "We're going to do everything we can to make sure (Yegor) Gaidar is not the prime minister.' - Mikhail Aksyuchits Russian people's deputy "We will continue to work calmly until the president decides differently," Gaidar told reporters outside the hall. "The Russian peo- ple (do not) treat the results of the Congress with deep approval." The Cabinet was clearly con- cerned about the results. Ministers planned to meet after the session yesterday, and the main parliamen- tary opposition bloc, Civic Union, also was huddling after the Congress adjourned. Yeltsin's aides insist the presi- dent is empowered to keep Gaidar in the job for three months under cur- rent Russian law, extending the title he has held since June without par- liamentary approval. "We're going to do everything we can to make sure Gaidar is not the prime minister. He has become completely bankrupt in the posi- tion," declared Mikhail Aksyuchits, a leader of the Russian Christian Democratic Party. Hindu-Muslim religious rioting continues in India NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Rioters wielding hatchets and homemade bombs rampaged throughout India yesterday in the third day of religious violence. Reports said nearly 700 people died in Hindu-Muslim fighting - includ- ing 200 yesterday alone. Zealots, acting in the name of re- ligion, left a trail of brutality and desecration as they battled over the demolition of an ancient mosque by Hindu extremists on Sunday. Since then, Bombay's massive slum district, Dharabi - a patch- work of Hindu and Muslim colonies - has become a war zone. Nightly raiding parties attack neighboring colonies with knives, hatchets, Molotov cocktails and light bulbs filled with acid. Army units, with shoot-on-sight authority, were sent to assist police in enforcing a curfew in the city of 12 million -India's largest and the hardest hit by the religious violence. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party called a general strike to protest the arrest of its leaders, who are charged with instigating the de- molition of the mosque in the north- ern holy town of Ayodhya. Prime Minister Narasimha Rao met leaders of the National Front - a leftist opposition coalition - to appeal for an alliance against the Hindu nationalist party in an attempt to quell the violence. He accused the Bharatiya Janata of "extreme per- fidy" by encouraging the zealots who tore apart the mosque. Rao's Congress Party falls short of a majority in parliament, and he appeared to be suggesting a broad- ened coalition to isolate the Bharatiya Janata. The National Front previously had blamed Rao for letting hundreds of thousands of Hindu fanatics into Ayodhya and demanded that he quit. Devout Hindus believe the 430- year-old mosque stood on the ruins of a prehistoric Hindu shrine mark- ing the birthplace of Rama, an im- portant god in Hindu mythology. The mosque's destruction prompted widespread savagery and destruction in India and in neighbor- ing Pakistan and Bangladesh. The government put the official toll throughout India at 560 dead and 2,475 wounded. News agencies -- which compiled their tolls from local police stations and put the number of dead at nearly 700 - were consid- ered to be more accurate. Look out below! A bird's eye view of students putting the final touches on term papers yesterday in the Angell Hall Courtyard Computing Site. National panel says impotence can be cured through psychological therapy Healh experts clear up misconcepdons about ink bet wen impotence and aging WASHINGTON (AP) - Impotence is neither inevitable nor untreatable and, with proper therapy, men can be sexually active for a life- time, a National Institutes of Health panel of experts concluded yesterday. The 14-member committee, in a statement summarizing the recom- mended medical care for patients with impotence, said that age alone is not the cause of the male dysfunc- tion and that the condition can be successfully treated by several different therapies. "One of the myths is that the el- derly become impotent because they are old. That is not true," said Dr. John Beck, a professor of geriatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and a member of the panel. Impotence is caused by physical or psychological conditions that can be treated successfully, the commit- tee said. However, it all depends upon a willingness of patients to ac- cept frank, comprehensive discus- sion of their sexual history, to un- dergo thorough medical examina- tions and to seek out knowledgeable physicians. What the committee did not find was the proven value of any of the traditional herbal or over-the-counter - treatments for impotence. The panel said they had no scientific evidence that such things as rhinoceros horns or plant extracts can work as aphrodisiacs. "For thousands of years there have been various things proposed as aphrodisiacs," said Dr. William Bremner, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. "Nothing that can be taken by mouth has ever been proven to be effective for impotence." Another committee member, Dr. Thomas Rohner Jr., a professor at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, noted: "There is no pill that you can take." Impotence, or erection dysfunc- tion as the committee preferred to 'One of the myths is that the elderly become impotent because they are old. That is not true.' -Dr. John Beck panel member call it, affects 10 to 20 million American men, with perhaps 10 mil- lion others having partial dysfunction, the panel said. Though for decades the problem was accepted as the natural result of age and few men sought medical so- lutions, that perception is changing, said Dr. Michael Droller, committee member and chair of the urology department at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. "Increasingly, more and more men are seeking treatments that will allow them to return to a satisfactory level and range of sexual activities," he said. The panel said treatment for impotence, should start with a care- ful sexual and medical history, and psychological therapy for both the patient and his principal partner. Patients may have to seek out ex- perts in the field, the panel said, be- cause primary physicians often are untrained in impotence treatment. "Erectile dysfunction is poorly understood by the general pop- ulation and by most health-care professionals," the committee report said. Chronic physical conditions, or drugs to treat these conditions, often are the cause of impotence, and the committee said physicians should "inquire into the sexual functioning of their patients and be prepared to offer counsel." About 25 percent of all impo- tence, the committee said, is caused by drugs given to treat other conditions. The problem can be in the mind, the report said. "Psychological therapy alone is appropriate for patients in whom no organic cause of erectile dysfunction is detected," the study reported. "Working with the sexual partner is useful in improving the outcome of therapy." Medical therapy should start with the simplest procedure, and more in- vasive treatments, such as surgery, should be used only when other techniques fail or appear inappropriate. Along the mighty Huron... Ann Arbor resident Salli Christenson stands by a dam along the Huron River yesterday while fishing. ' f i' 1 ' / f V 'I d r s V VA * Holiday G * Party Spe * Gifts by N Voted Ann Arbor' Gifts shipped an) 715 N. Univers CCOOKES reetings cials Mail s Best Cookie ywhere in US ity 761-CHIP I .. .. ..... .......... .. ......... ........... . .. .. ............ . .. ...... .......... . .. ... .......... . . .. .. . .......... ........... W . 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