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Tuesday
July 11, 1978
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.163
Lawrence, Kansas
Carter berates Soviets' position on human rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House yesterday scolded the Soviet Union for its human rights position and called the trials of two Soviet dissidents a sign of Soviet
While escalating its dispute with the Soviets over human rights, the Carter administration rejected suggestions that the United States would engage in strategic arms limitation talks with the Soviet Union.
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"The talks are a question that deals with the prospect of mutual annihilation and they should not be linked with human rights." Cyrus R. Vance, secretary of state, said.
Lawrence area, these youngsters gathered in Sunset Hill Park on the back bumper of the Community Book Service van, anticipating more rain.
However, Jody Powell, "The House press secretary, said, 'In a situation like this, it is appropriate that we take a look at other aspects of the relationship between us and the public.'"
Although yesterday's early morning thundershowers did not bring much rain to the
POWELL SAID the trials of dissidents Anatoly F. Scharascharyn and Alexander Ginzburg would highlight the issue of human rights rather than bury it and would not stop President Jimmy Carter speaking on human freedoms anddigit-
"This sort of repressive action, which strikes at the conscience of the entire world, is a defeat not for those who advocate and work for human rights and human dignity, but rather it is a defeat and a sign of weakness on the part of those very forces of oppression and injustice that we protest," Powell said.
In New York another presidential aide said Carter was sending a message to Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev that would express concern for the dissidents on trial.
VANCE, LEAVING for Geneva tomorrow for strategic arms limitation talks with the Soviets, will carry the message, Edward Mezvinsky, the U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, said.
Vance is to meet in Geneva with Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister.
it they are meant to stop this president or others in this country from speaking out about the war.
Powell said of the Soviet trials, "If such actions are designed to put an end to those who seek increased human rights within the Soviet Union, they will not do that.
"If they are meant to bury the issue of human rights in the international community, they will not do that. In effect, they will not bury it, but most likely will raise it."
ONLY HOURS BURNS before, Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., said Vance's decision to go ahead with the Geneva talks was the wrong signal to be sending to Moscow.
Stanley Lowell, chairman of the National Conference of Soviet Jewry, said the Soviet leaders took for granted tech and military advances in the United States while violating human rights.
IN RETALIATION for the Soviet crackdown on dissidents, Vance announced Saturday that the administration was canceling planned visits to Moscow by delegations from the Environment Protection Agency and from the office of Carter's science ada crowd of ERA supporters estimated at as much as 100,000 marched in Washington Sunday, urging Congress to approve the seven-year extension.
Jackson, an authority on Soviet-U.S. relations, said the United States was responding with rhetoric and not substance to Soviet actions.
In another development, a Jewish delegation suggested to Zhigwen Brewzinski, Carter's national security adviser, that he should his talk to protest the trial of the dissidents.
ERA extension given little hope despite rally
WASHINGTON (AP)—Officials in Congress say prospects are dim for a seventy-year extension of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, despite a weekend rally on the Capitol by tens of thousands of ERA supporters.
The proposed amendment would ban discrimination on the ground of sex.
One possibility under discussion, said to have the grudging support of some women's leaders as well as congressional supporters of their candidates, is the current deadline four years before seven.
"We know it is difficult and we're going to get it out of there," Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, said.
A companion bill is in a Senate judicial subcommittee, where its fate may rest on a senator not yet named to fill a vacancy. The amendment would ban
Although congressional aides say it is almost a certainty that the proposal to extend the 1979 deadline for seven years will fail, either under way in the House or by mid-August.
Under current law, three-quarters of the 50 states must approve the proposed amendment by March it is to become law. Thirty-five of the 38 states necessary already have done so, although three states have voted to rescind their approval.
Legislation to give states until 1986 to approve the proposed amendment is stalled in the House Judiciary Committee, where it is short of the support it needs.
A smaller number pressed their case on Capitol Hill yesterday, lobbying congressmen for extending the time allowed to legislate to ratify the proposed amendment.
The focal point for lobbying efforts is the House Judiciary Committee, reported to be badly split on the question of extending the deadline.
Fire smothers 'junk house,'
Staff Writer
"The fire was very hard to contain because boxes, et cetera, were in the way that they broke."
By MARGARET SCHEIRMAN
The same day, Kempton Lindquist, building inspector, posted signs on the house, ruling it "unfit for human habitation."
Curtit, who has lived in Lawrence since 1974, is a junk collector. His yard and warehouse were filled with his collection of discarded items until the fire Wednesday. Now only a few are left.
According to the Lawrence fire department report, the fire started in the basement of the house at 838 New York St. just before 6 a.m. and caused $3,000 damage to the house, which the report estimated to be worth $15,000.
Curtit said he had no electricity because he had been unable to pay the bills.
Lindquist said yesterday that he had received earlier complaints about the house but that he never enforced the pertinent city codes until after the fire.
"I've had the grounds to do it, but the man who lived there was in the process of buying the house," Lindquist said. "Usually when someone comes to a house, we don't enforce code violations.
"IN THIS case I took immediate action to alleviate an emergency situation in the interest of health, safety and welfare, and to facilitate the building to prevent further occupancy."
A combination of the bad condition of the house and the tree damage led Litinoquite to put the house on the market.
there was severe interior fire damage, and large interior and exterior accumulation of trash and debris," he said. "There was no electric power in the house."
CURTIT, 62, is now staying at 1145 South 98th Street and he considered a temporary arrangement.
"What I've been planning to do, and what I am doing now, is to look for a dairy barn or a root cellar to live in," he said. "If I find a people living on top of people we will live in that."
"It or it could be an old bark, because I have enough materials that I could reflame it and use it."
Curtit said he wanted a place with thick walls so it would be inexpensive to heat.
"I'll help anybody, no matter what he looks like. I'm not a judge—the judge is 'upstairs,'" he said, pointing toward the sky.
Curtl said he had often allowed people to stay at his house who did not have any where
He said a friend from out of state had been there, in the basement of the house when he first arrived.
"I want to be somewhere where I can be independent," he said. "I like to be able to
relocates owner
"I DIDN'T KNOW he was there—he must have come in early in the morning." Curtit said. "I heard a cough but I didn't pay any attention. Then at 6 in the morning he came up yelling, 'Ben, Ben, the house is burning!'"
he said there was a possibility that his friend had started the fire somehow.
According to the fire report, the fire started in a bed in the southeast corner of the basement and spread upstairs.
Firenew were pumping water on the fire for 2½ hours, the report said.
Lindquist said the house could be repaired.
He said the city would seek cooperation from the owners, Minnie Barrett of Topeka and Curtit, to either repair or demolish the house.
"I doubt anyone would find it financially feasible," he said.
"IF NOT, THEN the city will probably derpilight," he said.
Curtit said he did not plan to repair the house.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's already dead," he said.
"The quicker I get everything moved out of there, the sooner I get out of trouble."
He said that after the fire, the court had told him that the city would let him use some of his own money.
"I tol them was fine and that I'd use them as soon as I found a place to move to."
"Then Friday they called and said I was in contempt of court because I hadn't used their trucks as they had told me to and moved all my things.
"IHAVE TO appear in court Aug. 24, so I need to find a place quick."
He said that the state Department of Social and Reballization Services had found the room he was staying in now and that they were paying for it.
Although signs of the fire are evident through the windows, most of the junk
The fire department report estimated the value of the contents of the house at $10,000 and the loss of contents because of the fire at $1,000.
Soviet dissidents' trials protested
MOSCOW (AP)—Two Jewish dissident leaders went before Soviet courts yesterday in trials that are drawing the United States into a significant human rights confrontation with the Soviet Union.
In Washington, Cyrus R. Vance, secretary of state, said the trials raised serious questions about Soviet compliance with the Helsinki human rights accord. But Vance rejected the idea of postponing this week's strategic arms limitation talks in protest.
In Paris the wife of one defendant, Anatoly Schurankan, appealed to the United States to intend to impose an indictment on him if convicted of espionage.
alleged to take the city of Kaluga, 100 miles south of Moscow, the second dominant, Ginzburg, accused of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, also denied the charges against him. Ginzburg's wife, Irina, said her husband, who could get as much as 15 years at hard labor, told the three judges he might modify his plea if his guillot was proved at the trial.
BODY SYSTEM. He appeared before a three-judge panel in a central Moscow courthouse, pleaded not guilty to a treason charge. Leonid Shcharansky, the dissident's brother, said his brother rejected allegations that he spied for the CIA.
The prosecution of the 20-year-old Shcharsanky, a computer expert who has become a key member in the Jewish emigration movement, and the 41-year-old Ginzburg, a longtime human rights activist, follows an 18-month-long Soviet crackdown on dissidents.
The Carter administration says the fate of the two men could have an important impact on East-West detente. President Jimmy Carter has personally championed their cause, and Vance says they are being tried for asserting fundamental human rights.
TWO OTHER TRIALS also got under way, one involving Viktorus Pythakus, a Lithuanian human rights activist, and the other involving a mystery figure accused of espionage and identified by Tass, the official news agency, only as "A. Filtlov."
Scharanhanser's wife, Natalia, told a press conference in Paris that she thought further comments by Carter and Congress might have been needed.
her nassau to be in Israel, Mrs. Scharsankrys, a resident of Israel who said she went to Paris
Western reporters, diplomats, including U.S. Embassy representatives, and the defendants' comrades from the dissident movement were barred from the trials in Moscow and Kaluga. They also did not receive the defendants' relatives or court officials on what was happening.
to help mobilize world opinion on her husband's behalf, suggested that Congress pass a resolution in the case.
IN NEW YORK orks of U.S. Jews and others rallied at noon to protest the Sharkanawsky trial. Three hours earlier a bomb exploded near the Manhattan offices of the Soviet travel agency, killing 19 people. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Qatar is one of the countries where Gambarng said her husband, who has been under medical care for apparent ulcers and tuberculosis during his 18 months in Qatar, had been treated successfully.
Tass's statement apparently referred to Ginzburg's administration of a fund, financed by exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenytsyn, to aid Soviet political prisoners. The reference to criminal elements and Nazis was not explained.
STANDING BEFORE THE three-judge court, he was asked his nationality, Mrs. Ginzburg said. He replied, "ZEK," an acronym for "political prisoner" in Russian. Ginzburg has lived seven years in Soviet prisoners for two previous convictions on similar charges.
COURT OFFICIAL ARkady Kuznetsov said Ginzburg also was accused of preparing and distributing anti-Soviet literature containing "slanderous fabrications." He also later threatened to "kill them" and their literature as "Gulang Archipelago," Solzhenyuk's work on life in Soviet labor camps.
'lass said Ginzburg was accused of financing "'with money received from abroad the hostile activities of criminal elements, including professional murderers, former members of gangs and criminal German Fascists who took part in mass shootings and public citizens.'"
In Moscow, Shcharansky's mother, who is to be called as a character witness for the prosecution, was not allowed into the
Pier 1 site to receive restoration
Bv DAVID LINK
Staff Writer
Work could begin as early as this week on the removal of a blackened heap of burned-out timbers and bricks at the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts University, announced yesterday by Dale Keemney, new owner of the site.
The rubbish pile has stood as a grim reminder of the two deaths caused by an explosion and fire that destroyed the three-story brick building at 747 Massachusetts St. Dec. 15. The building housed a Pier 1 Imports store.
Kearney said yesterday that he and his wife, Helen, had purchased the site, along with the building immediately adjacent to it. He had said a deal completed with the former owners Friday.
Kearney, 56, was the manager of the Pier 1 store that occupied the first floor of the building destroyed in the fire, which investigators have attributed to a natural gas explosion.
The plans call for the building at 745 Massachusetts St. to be demolished and for a two-story retail and office building to be constructed on the two lots.
KEARNEY, WHO also runs the Franklin store at 805 Massachusetts St., said he had been negotiating for the purchase of the two sites for about two months.
"I felt a certain civil responsibility to help get that area cleaned up," he said.
"The previous owners were having
trouble getting moving on the thing and I didn't want to see it just filled in and covered over with grass seed."
A major barrier to the site's redevelopment had been the question of who owned a common wall left unsupported on its upper portion by the destruction of the corner building. But Kearney's purchase of both lots solved that problem.
The site of the destroyed building was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schroeder, Kansas City, Mo., and the building next door, which formerly housed a doughnut shop, was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wolfson of Lawrence.
GLENN WEST, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, was present for yesterday's announcement, along with Mayor Don Hunsen and other city officials.
"A number of us have been concerned with the eyesore at Eighth and West streets and are pleased with Mr. Kearney to work for redevelopment of the area," West said.
Kearney said building plans were far from final.
THE PLANS CALL for the building to house two retail stores on its lower floor, one of which will be a new Pier 1 store.
Kearney said that he had a contract with the Champney Wrecking Co., Topeka, for building demolition and clearing of the site. He added that the project could begin by the end of this week.
"Having just gotten possession Friday, we haven't had much chance to finalize any plans, but envision a brick facade with an entry area on the exterior," Kearney said.
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Voter registration deadline tonight
Tonight is the registration deadline for persons who want to vote in the Aug. 1 primary election.
Voters can register until 9 p.m. in the office of the Douglas County clerk in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Building, 111 E. 11th St., and until 5 p.m. in the Lawrence city clerk, 910 Massachusetts St.
Voters must have lived in Douglas County for at least 20 days to register.
Absence ballots also will be available at the county clerk's office until noon July 31. Voters who had been registered in other counties chose to register in Douglass County instead.
County masters.
Voters who intend to move before the election should register today in the district to which they are moving.