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University Daily Kansan, July 3.1980
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Court rules for open trials
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled in a 7-1 decision yesterday that think tanks may be allowed to publish a last chance report.
But last resort to insure farmland to a defendant. However, a spokesman for Kansas broadcasters yesterday said that the ruling doesn't go far enough.
Lance Ross, of Radio station KANU and president of the Association of News Broadcasters in Kansas, said guidelines should be set out stating what information they would like to see.
He said the absence of guidelines leaves the door open for lower court judges to find an excuse to keep the press and public out of courtrooms.
The majority of the justices declined to enumerate the circumstances under which a trial could be closed, except to say that "absent an overriding interest articulated in the findings, the trial of a criminal case must be open to the public."
Civil Justice Warren Burger, delivering the court's opinion, said there is no specific provision in the Constitution guaranteeing access to trials. But he
"We hold that the right to attend criminal trials is implicit in the guarantees of the First Amendment; without the freedom to attend such trials, which people have exercised for centuries, important aspects of freedom of speech and of the press could be eviscerated."
The decision came exactly one year after the court ruled in the Gannett Newspapers case that judges had wide discretion to close pretrial hearings
Senate okays weapons bill
WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday approved a $1.91 billion weapons bill that will be the production of the MX missile, begin development of a nuclear deterrent and the re-armament of its air force.
The Senate passed the arms procurement bill, the largest in the nation's history. 84-3 and sent it to a congressional conference committee to work out how much to spend.
In the final hours of consideration, the Senate rejected 89-3, a move by Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, to deploy the controversial MX missile across the Atlantic.
Instead, the bill authorizes the immediate full-scale development of the MX, with initial deployment of 100 missiles in Utah and Nevada despite strong opposition there. The Pentagon is directed to study the feasibility of basing the second 100 planned missiles elsewhere in the Southwest.
The Senate worked overtime on the bill, voting early yesterday to authorize $81 million for research on a new strategic bomber. The plans would be derived from the B-1 or the FB-111—or would be an entirely new aircraft.
And, to the relief of Army leaders, the Senate sidestepped a move by naval senators to cut Army manpower 25,000 to force the service to deploy.
The bill also contains provisions for increased benefit for the military, including an 11.7 percent pay hike.
Blacks seek aid for Miami
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—President Jimmy Carter and the NAACP will be the target of mass massacre on the president addresses the ground level in the city a holiday yesterday.
The demonstration by the Congress of Racial Equality and local black groups will "make demands on the federal government and the NAACP" for use of federal aid to riot-ravaged Miami, CORE director of public relations George Holmes said.
CORE Chairman Roy Innis scheduled an afternoon news conference to announce demands by CORE and local black leaders for using the $71 million in federal aid Carter has recommended to rebuild areas of Miami ravaged in rioting in May, Holmes said.
Among the black demands, Holmes said, was that Liberty City—parts of which are in Miami, parts in unincorporated areas of Dade County—be incorporated as an independent city "so blacks know the federal aid dollars will go directly to them," Holmes said.
Jury finds Davis not guilty
LYNDON-A jury yesterday acquitted a sobbing Deborah Davis who maintained she shot her husband on Christmas Day rather than suffer further sexual sadism and possible imprisonment in a homemade wooden coffin.
Davis, 22, rushed into the arms of friends and well-wishers following the verdict in the eight-day murder trial and said she planned to begin a new life.
"Look out, here comes college," she said with tears flowing down her cheeks. "Right now I look forward to going to college and making something
It took the six-man, six-woman jury in Osceola County nearly seven hours of deliberation over a two-day period to reach the innocent verdict. Prosecutor Curtis Loehring said it was not clear what the judge had ordered.
"When you kill someone in cold blood you expect the jury to come back with something other than not guilty," he said.
Davis, who uses her maiden name, was tried for shooting her husband of six months, James Carnutt, in the back of the head as he lay sleeping on their bed.
She never denied she pulled the trigger. But she told jurors that after years of sexual abuse—including torture with pins, rubber balls and an electric cattle prod and imprisonment in an underground tank—she began to fear for her life.
Davis said the final decision to lay her husband came after Curnut, 31, told her he was planning to build a plywood coffin, wrap her in adhesive tape like a mummy and keep her alive but imprisoned beneath her bed. She said the firmmy had his threat by finding a catheter and an air pump while he napped.
Wolf Creek delay projected
TAPEKA-Completion of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant will be delayed since 10 months past the scheduled completion date of April 1983, the latest date for such a project.
Joseph W. Mulhallton, supply and engineering manager for Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, said he was told of the postponed completion date by the chairman of the board of Kansas Gas and Electric Co., which is responsible to operate the state's first nuclear plant under construction near Burlington.
Muhholland said the completion date is being set back because of delays in construction and also in licensing of the plant by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A letter from the NRC, presented as evidence, said the holdup had been caused by the lack of preoccupation with its investigation of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
The delay will boost the cost of the nuclear plant from a previous estimate of more than $1.3 billion to a "ceiling" of $1.5 billion, Mulhall estimated. Cost estimates on the plant have changed several times since it was proposed at an estimated cost of $483 million.
The testimony came in the second day of reopened hearings into KEPCs with 13 percent of the nuclear plant. KEPCo needs KECP permission to make the purge.
Pope donates ring to poor
RIE DE JANEIRO, Brazil—In an unprecedented gesture, Pope John Paul yesterday gave his massive gold ring of office to the people of a hillside Rio slum and vowed the church would fight for the poor and against social injustices.
"I want to give my ring to your parish," the pontiff said as he pulled off the cross-shaped gold ring which he has worn on his right hand since his election
It was an unprecedented gesture and an expression of the pope's overwhelming concern for Bras's poor, about 1.8 million of whom live in slums in Africa.
The pope, on the third day of his 12-day trip, handed the ring to Father Italo Coelho, the Rio de Janeiro archiocese's slum representative, who handed it over to Father Benjamin of the hillside Vidigal slum's church overlooking Ipanaema Beach.
Thursdav. July 3
The Graduate Women's Group meets at noon in the Cork Room in the Kansas Union
Thursday, July 3
Graduate Women's Group
Episcopal Service
The Episcopal Service will be held in Danforth Chapel at noon.
It's Jayhawk night at Royals Stadium. The Royals will battle the Seattle Mariners at 7:35 p.m. Sponsored by the KU Alumni Association.
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Country Rock
Used Parts, a country rock band, will play at the Off The Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 4
Fireworks
All University offices and classes will be closed for the July 4 holiday.
The Lawrence Jaycees will sponsor a fireworks display and band concert in the Kansas Memorial Stadium beginning at 6 p.m. The guest speak
On Campus
will be Gov. John Carlin. Tickets are $160. The price
Pat's Blue Ridgid Band will play at the Lawrence Opera House. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 5
The Midwestern Music Camp will hold its concert at 1 p.m. in the University Theatre, Murphy Hall.
Opera House
Concert
The Clinton Lake dedication will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Clinton Lake. The Kansas Memorial Stadium will wet grounds, backup site for the farm.[21]
Clinton Lake
The Royals will meet the Seattle Mariners again at 7:35 p.m. in Royals Stadium.
Baseball
Reggae
Traxx, a Jamaican Reggae band, will play at Off The Wall Hall, 735 New Hampshire. Doors open at 8:30.
Opera House
Pat's Blue Riddish Band will play at the Lawrence Opera House. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
High School Speech and Debate Camp registration will be held all day in Room 3090 Wesson Hall
Debate Camp
Track Camp
The department of intercollegiate athletics will hold the KU Coaches Track and Field Camp all day, for boys and girls ages 13-17.
Carillon Recital
Albert Gerken, University Carillonur,
will hild a recital at 3 p.m. The concert is free.
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The Sunday evening worship service will be held at 7 p.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread.
Baseball
The Royals will meet the Seattle Mariners at 1 p.m. in Royals Stadium.
Heat jacks up electric bills
By NANCY SEARLE Staff Reporter
The cool front that swept through Lawrence yesterday morning offered temporary relief from the hot and dry weather of the past two weeks, but students will be reminded of the hot weather when they get their utility bills in August.
Some of the electricity required during the heatwave had to be produced by older plants using more expensive fuels.
The added cost for these fuels will be passed along to consumers, Hal Hudson, spokesman for Kansas Power and Light, said yesterday.
Although the exact cost is not known yet, the added cost shown on August bills may be as much as one half cent per kilowatt hour. Hudson said.
The average student probably uses fewer than 1,000 KWH per month, so this extra charge will probably cost each student less than $5.
Mall to cost more if downtown
Electricity bills will also rise this month because of a 17 percent rate increase authorized June 1 by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
By LAURA LUCKERT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Although the proposed downtown mall would cost $5 million to $6 million more than a suburban mall, the proposed mission is in favor of the downtown mall.
a Briscoe, Maphis, Murray and Lamont, Inc., one of six consulting firms interviewed by the Lawrence City firm, said it estimated that because of the cost of land and parking in Lawrence, there would be a $2 million to $6 million difference between the cost of building a building and the cost of building a suburban mall.
The Commission Tuesday narrowed the field from six to three consulting firms as candidates for tackling a downtown redevelopment study.
The three firms chosen were American City Corporation, Columbia, Md. Trka, Pettigrew Allen and Associates, Teresa Borg Teskia and Associates, Favron, III.
SEVERAL CONSULTING FRIRS suggested that the city begin its study without any preconceived ideas about whether the mail should be downtown or open. The representatives suggested that they "write the slate clean."
But that was not what the Commission wanted to hear. Mayor Ed Clark said the idea of an enclosed room was not a solution from the beginning because of an offer
by one developer who is willing to develop the downtown area. Three major retailers have expressed interest in moving to Lawrence.
The consulting firms said it was difficult, if not impossible to attract major retailers to an open mall area.
However, a representative of the consulting firm Trika, Pettigrew, Allen and Payne, said that if Sears, the largest retailer in the United States, were to open a store, other retailers would follow.
ACCORDING TO THE commissioners, Sears, Pennys and Macys have all shown interest in setting up stores in Lawrence.
Commissioner Barkley Clark, said the commissioned wanted to be cautious in dealing with retailers because they have large numbers of customers that might hurt business downtown.
Representatives of American City Corporations and Robert Teskai and others in the city encourage retailers and other types of activities such as movies and restaurants in the downtown area. They are residential areas should be developed.
The representatives of all six consultant firms agreed that a downtown enclosed shopping mall would be more
All of the consulting firms interviewed were unanimous on several suggestions to the Commission on the feasibility of the downtown mall.
expensive than a suburban shopping mall.
BECAUSE THE COST of a downtown mall must be absorbed by public funds, all the consultant firms emphasized the need to involve citizens in the decision, whether through interviewing special camps, or surveying the general public.
"It is a joint public and private venture," said Nick Trkla of Trkla, Pettigrew, Allen and Payne. "You can't make it work without the public."
Robert Teska, of Robert Teska and Associates, said the opinion of neighborhood groups in Lawrence was essential. Anytime public funds were used, he said, citizens should be informed and involved.
Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, Cleveland shopping center developers, are scheduled to present their proposal for a 400,000 square foot enclosed shopping mall July 17 in the Lawrence High School cafeteria. The commissioners said they hoped to have a consulting firm chosen by July 17.
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Edwards said he had always insisted the University comply with the plan, and that his appointment as permanent doctor would allow him to be more active.
"IN THE PAST, there were things I was not able to do because it might have jeopardized Bonnie's position as a leader. Now I'm able to do those sorts of things."
Ritter said, "I wish him well and good luck. I hoped open discussion would allay the concerns of people who had questioned the process of his selec-
Clarence Dillingham, former acting director of Affirmative Action, said, "I
can't comment. I am going to put my ear to the rail and talk to some other people and see what they think. I might say something later."
BOB SHELTON, associate professor of religious studies, said, "I thought the appointment was a mistake. I told Del Shankel that when he asked my opinion. In spite of the justification, it is not in line with the Affirmative Action Plan.
"They have cited other appointments as precedents for this action. If they did it in the past, they are still wrong."
Shelton said the effect on the office's credibility within the University would be negative.
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