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Bicknell one vote short for Board
TOPEKA—Gov. Bill Givens will begin searching for someone to serve on the Kansas Board of Regents after the Senate rejected the nomination of the governor's former political opponent, Gene Bickell.
The Associated Press
Bicknell's nomination was thwarted by Senate Republicans on a 20-20 vote, one vote short of confirmation. Thirteen Democrats and seven Republicans voted to confirm the two-time GOP candidate for governor.
"It's very disappointing," said his wife, Rita, after watching the vote from the Senate gallery.
The primary campaign turned bitter toward the end, and a month later Bicknell endorsed the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Jim Slattery. He made the endorsement despite a pledge he had signed in February 1994 to support the Republican candidate for governor, regardless of who it was.
Bicknell, one the state's most prominent businessmen, alienated many Republicans after he lost the August 1994 GOP primary to Graves.
In October, outgoing Democratic Gov. Joan Finney, who did not seek re-election, appointed him to the Board of Regents. He began serving immediately, for a term to expire Dec. 31, 1996. Now, he must leave the board.
After Graves took office, he did not express opposition to Bicknell's appointment and did not publicly intervene.
Some Republicans suggested that it appeared as if Mrs. Finney appointed Bicknell to the Board in exchange for his endorsement of the Democratic candidate. Bicknell denied the allegation when he testified before the Senate Education Committee.
Bicknell, a self-made Pittsburg millionaire, holds a master's degree in business administration. He also served on the school board in Pittsburg and as the city's mayor.
He also unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1986, as well as last year.
Some lawmakers thought he was an ideal candidate for the board, which supervises operations of the state's universities. He has been an instructor and visiting professor in business at three of the six universities.
Senate President Bud Burke, R-Olathe, said Bicknell's endorsement of Slattery weighed heavily in how Republicans voted.
He also said some Republicans wanted to give Graves the opportunity to fill the spot.
WASHINGTON — After a robust start, the nation's economy will slow throughout 1995, ending the year with little more than half the strength it started with, many top economists believe.
The consensus forecast of 52 analysts surveyed by Blue Chip Economic Indicators is just what the Federal Reserve was seeking when it raised interest rates seven times in the last 12 months.
Economy expected to slow in '95
The Associated Press
The increases were designed to slow the economy in an attempt to keep inflation under control. But until recently, there have been scant signs of weakness in the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic health.
The consensus forecast of the early February survey by the Sedona, Ariz., newsletter sees the GDP expanding 3.1 percent, year over year, in 1995. The survey results were
But Robert J. Eggert Sr., the newsletter editor who conducts the monthly polls, said the year-over-year growth "belies the marked slowdown in economic activity expected by most panel members."
released last Friday.
After expanding at a 4.5 percent annual rate in the final three months of 1994, the economy will slow to a 3.9 percent rate of growth in the first quarter this year, 3.5 percent in the second, 3.0 percent in the third and 2.5 percent in the fourth, the Blue Chip consensus said.
Growth is expected to continue to wane to a 2.3 percent rate in the first quarter of 1996 and then level off at 2.2 percent during the remainder of the year.
The Blue Chip panelists represent major corporations, business organizations, financial institutions, universities and economic forecasting services.
The Clinton administration, in its fiscal 1996 budget released earlier this week, assumed economic growth would fall from a 3.6 percent rate in the fourth quarter of 1994 to 2.4 percent during the October-December period this year, but inch up to 2.5 percent by the end of 1996.
The Blue Chip consensus projects inflation, as measured by the government's Consumer Price Index, to be 3.2 percent this year.
Inflation would edge up to 3.6 percent in 1996, the consensus said.
While that would be up slightly from 2.7 percent in both 1993 and 1994, it would be well below the 6.1 percent inflation rate as recently as 1990.
The Blue Chip panelists attribute the relatively low inflation rate to the federal interest rate increases and growing productivity in the American workplace.
Jews upset by nude photographs from Holocaust
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Offended by photographs of naked Jewish women being marched to their deaths by the Nazis, ultra-Orthodox Jews say they will build their own Holocaust memorial unless the state museum takes down the pictures.
The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has rejected the request. Many Israelis, meanwhile, are worried that the latest religion-based controversy will deepen an already huge chasm between devout and secular Jewishse.
"The Holocaust is a national and historic trauma, and a split over it could create an irrevocable rift in our people," said Culture Minister Shulamit Aloni of the liberal Meretz party.
The controversy arose amid heightened interest in the World War II slaughter of some six million Jews after last month's 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
plained to him recently about several photographs of naked women being led to pits to be shot to death or to gas chambers.
Miller said that the photographs were too immodest, leading many to avoid the museum.
Haim Miller, a deputy mayor of Jerusalem and member of the religious party Agudat Israel, said visitors to Yad Vashem com-
"It is unacceptable for many people to come and see these women who were humiliated to begin with, continue to be humiliated by these pictures placed in public view," he said.
Miller said Yad Vashem has been asked to take down the three or four offensive photographs. Otherwise, he said, the ultra-Orthodox will consider asking the city for a place to build their own Holocaust museum.
"The photographs show the way that millions of Holocaust victims were brought to their deaths. We have no reason or authority to cover up the horrible truth or gloss over it." a Yad Vashem statement responded.
The dispute reflected the divide between most Israelis, who are either secular or moderately observant, and the ultra-Orthodox, who are set apart by their black dress and devout lifestyle. While only an estimated 10 percent of Israel's 4.5 million Jews are ultra-
Orthodox, they have attained influence often resented by many other Israelis.
Efraim Zuroff, representative for the Israeli office of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which hunts Nazi war criminals, was enraged by the assault on Yad Vashem, one of Israel's most honored institutions.
"The thing that's offensive here is the crime, not the fact these women are standingnaked," he said.
Zuroff said that by removing the pictures, Israel also would be boosting those who deny the Holocaust ever happened.
"They'll say, 'You see, the Jews also have trouble with these pictures.'" he said.
"The thought is that it could be your mother or your sister," said Levin, a survivor of the Lithuanian Jewish ghetto of Kovno. "They already humiliated her once, and it's as though we are repeating the crime."
Some Israelis were sympathetic. Dov Levin, who studies and teaches about the Holocaust at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, said he also had second thoughts about including nude shots of women in books he has written.
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