THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 125
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Wednesday, April 9, 1980
Former defense secretary blasts U.S. foreign policy
Bv JON BLONGEWICZ
Staff Renorter
Political and military instability in the world has resulted from the United States' inability to be an "effective counterweight" to the Soviet Union, accusing Donald Rumsfeld, former secretary of defense.
Part of the problem, Rumsfeld said last night, was that the United States has cut defense spending while the Soviets have had "the greatest arms build-up in the history of mankind."
"We have allowed ourselves to be pushed to a point of inferiority that is causing instability in the world," Runstedt told a crowd of about 250 in Wooldruff St. and joined part of the J. A. Vickers St. Memorial Lecture Series.
IN A PRESS conference before the speech, Hum-
ber also a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, at-
tached by the president.
"I don't think he knows what his foreign policy is and neither do our friends and allies." Rumsfeld said.
According to Rumslam, the reason European leaders are "skittish" about supporting Carter's proposed Olympic boycott is that they are afraid Carter will change his mind
"It is like being in bed with a hippopotamus, hoping it won't roll over on you," he said.
IN HIS SPEECH, Rumfield said Carter had come to HUMANRIGHT.org human rights program, an idea moral issues, and security issues. Carter has found things to be different in the "real world," Rumfield said, and has since
"It is nieve and dangerous to think that you can take one issue and separate it from others." he said.
Citing statistics that the United States spends about 5 percent of its gross national product on defense in contrast to the Soviets' 12 to 18 percent, Rumsfeld said the U.S. would be deprived from superiority to inferiority in nuclear weaponry.
No knowledgeable observer would not content that the United States will be in a position of vulnerability to terrorism.
Nuclear strength is basic to the deterent theory of defense. Rumisdef said the purpose of nuclear weapons was to deter attackers and prevent the advent of nuclear weapons has based U.S. policy on the idea that for the situation to be stable, the country must have a strong defensive force. The United States should be able to survive a first strike and still have adequate deterrents. Rumisdef
Rumfeld said today's situation was substantially different from two decades ago because our "margin of error is gone". This means that in the past the margin of error was 5%, whereas now it day because the margin of error has vanished, he said.
CARTER'S POLICIES have put the United States "back on a path of inferiority" he said.
Donald Rumsfeld
By adding a "patchwork of regulation" on an already antiquated production capacity, according to Rumfield, "it is no surprise that we are facing 18 percent inflation."
rumsfeld said the motives of the Soviets in Afghanistan and around the world were no mystery. But he said he was not sure how much
State scholarship compromise reached
By CINDI CURRIE
Staff Renorter
The Kansas House and Senate Conference Committee last night made a compromise to approve an extra $200,000 for state-funded scholarships and finished action on the proposed Board of Regents budget. The recommendations await approval by the entire House and Senate.
The compromise provided an extra $50,000 from the state general fund for the Kansas State Scholarship program and $150,000 for the Tuition Grant Program.
ORIGINALLY, THE SENATE wanted to add the tuition grant budget to the Fusion Grant program. But the House wanted to reduce the scholarship program budget by $5,000 and the tuition grant budget by
Instead, the two groups compromised after 20 minutes of banter between House Ways and Means Committee. Chairman Mike Hayden, R-Ottawa, over state school allocation. R-Ottawa, over state school allocation.
The extra $200,000 is in addition to Gov. John Carlin's budgeted resource of $93,866 for the state
scholarship program and $4.6 million for the Tuition Grant Program.
The Tuition Grant program provides aid to students attending Kansas private colleges and the State Scholarship program aids students at Regents schools.
State Sen. Arbor Bernald, D-Lawrence, said he was glad that after three days of deliberations the Senate had passed a bill.
Berman said he was also pleased with other actions the committee approved for the University of Kansas, including Flint Hall and Lawrence High School, for the Moore Hall and Haworth Hall addition.
HE SAID HE was disappointed the additional money was not used for scholarships, but was pleased with the precedent set by using state funds for the state scholarship program.
The faculty and students should be reasonable pleased with the issues for Laughing Jack.
Other proposals, such as the University of Kansas Medical Center Library and Strong Hall renovation, have a 'good shot' at approval when are discussed in committee today. Berman said.
Senate erases vote to cut internal fund
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER and KATHY KASE Staff Reporters
In the backlash of strained Student Senate committee budgets, Senate rookie 25-7 last night to host a $4,000 annual fundraiser for the senate to receive the vote.
"People don't realize that we can easily spend more than $4,000, let alone $2,000," Abbott said. "We're in charge of every organization on campus. I'm not saying we're better but the fund is not budget nadding.
All Senate-funded organizations who overrun their budgets must appeal to Senate for increased funding. Bren Abbott, Senate treasurer, said the Senate unallocated fund was exempt because of its unpredictable funding decisions and because Senate costs were unpredictable.
Senate's unallocated fund, alternately referred to as "emergency fund" and "budget paddling," is a reserve that can be allocated without a full Senate vote. The Senate president and treasurer control the fund.
"If we require other organizations to come before Senate to justify our budgets, what makes us so god-faulted mighty that we don't have it?" Steve Cramer, hold-over senator, said. "We're making too many requests for ourselves. Let's make ourselves abide by our rules."
"Right now our budget is so tight that we can barely breathe. A cut like this would hurt us extremely."
ACCORDING TO Senate financial records, this year $6,575 was budgeted for the fiscal 1980 internal unallocated fund and $4,243 has been spent so far. This fiscal year ends June 30. Last year's Senate was allocated $15,071 for the fund and $11,073 was spent.
This year's internal unallocated funds covered portions of the Associated Students of Kansas' travel to Topeak, ASK advertising and long distance telephone calls, "KU on Wheels" pamphlets and Campbelt Services. It also may cover Senate internal budget requests.
Cramer suggested that organizations such as ASK, which drew out of the internal unallocated fund, should estimate additional expenses in its own budget rather than rely on the Senate's unallocated money. He suggested that the Senate had been "hassel-extraagent," in some areas and could be cut back.
"If we don't follow our own guidelines, how can we be big so as to tell other organizations not to do what we did?" Cramer asked
THIS YEAR'S Senate was faced with $139.132 in organizational budget requests and had only $49.000 to allocate.
Matt Davis, Senate vice president, said the Senate's internal unallocated money had not been abused in the past and it was a mistake. "We had to do something," he said.
“It is ridiculous saying Student Senate is like the Frisbee Club or Gung Fu Club.” Davis said. “We’re above those organizations. The reason we don’t let other organizations have an internal unallocated fund is that it usually abused.”
If the president and treasurer lost control of the fund it would take a Senate quorum to allocate more money. Davis said it would be impossible to do that without a vote.
ALTHOUGH THE budgeting of internal unallocated funds
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Guitar gonzos
Contests in the air guitar preliminary at the Lawrence Opera House last night got their chance to inflate rock guitarists by performing on the piano.
to the finals, which will be held tonight at Pepo'o in Kansas City. KA's contest is sponsored by a Kansas City radio station
Death penalty supporters prepare to put issue on November ballot
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT Staff Renorter
Few people have much hope that Gov John Carlin will sign into law the latest death penalty bill passed by the Kansas Legislature.
Carlin vethed a similar proposal last session and has promised to do the same when this year's version, passed by the House 81-42 dayaresh, reaches his desk.
But death penalty proponents have a plan.
A resolution that would let Kansas voters decide in the November election whether the state should reinstate capital punishment currently awaiting debate in the Senate.
"There's little doubt that the public would overwhelmingly support the amendment," House Majority Leader Robert Frey, R-Ariz., said in an obvious attempt to bypass the governor."
Many insist that if the public were to decide, death by hanging would again be legal in the state as punishment for murder.
Polls have repeatedly indicated that Kansans favor the reinstatement of capital punishment.
The resolution, sponsored by State Sen. Larry Rogers, D-Wamego, would require a two-thirds majority to pass the Legislature.
THE RESOLUTION would not require the governor's approval.
The most recent death penalty proposal was approved 8-12 yesterday by the House, only one vote short of the two-thirds that narrowly passed the Senate Monday 21-19.
That's the same margin required to override the governor's veto. The Legislature failed to override Carlin's efforts and has virtually no chance this session.
PROPONENTS INSIST, however, that the two-thirds majority may be attainable on the resolution.
“It’s very easy to be liberal when it comes to education, but this time everybody is up for a re-election Senate. Sen. Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth.” “By voting against it, you’re saying that you don’t want it to be part of the Senate.”
"It might allow those who historically
have been black to get back in line," he
difficulty. He'd pass the buck. You might find 27 votes (two-thirds in the Senate) a crop up pretty fast. I think it comes up, it
makes sense for the governor.
Really said proponents of the resolution would not push the proposal until Carlin acted on the Legislature-approved death penalty bill.
CARLIN IS expected to receive the bill this week and has 10 days from that time to act on it.
Eighteen such bills have died or been defeated in the last five legislative sessions. Kansas has been without a death penalty since 1972.
the sixth consecutive year that a bill calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty has been introduced in the Kansas Legislature.
The last execution in Kansas was in 1865 when four persons died in two double hangleings.
"Everybody is getting sick and tired of being tortured, but we have it wetted or deflected." Reilly said. "But if the Legislature can't be responsible, if they can't handle it, we ought to turn it over."
The Legislature adjourns from its regular session today, but will reconvene April 27 for several days.
THE SENATE resolution would allow for the death penalty to be used in all cases of premeditated murder and murder during a felony.
A person judged guilty would be given a second trial to determine whether the death penalty should be used.
The bill sent to Carlin would make death by lethal injection, alternative punishment or death by the confined convict of premilated, first-degree murders, and as slaying which is illegal.
Small World helps women adjust to the new world
By WALTER THORP
Staff Reporter
The saying goes, "It's a small world." For Lawrence, this is especially true.
How do these wives of foreign students get by in Lawrence when their husbands struggle to obtain a degree?
Each year, women from all over the world, most of them not students, come to Lawrence. Most never had a reason to learn to speak English or become involved in the college that might be encountered in the United States.
"Small World is a society of international women," Ann Blackhurst, the organization's first non-American chairman, said. " Its purpose is to help acclimate foreign women to American society and to
Meeting twice weekly at the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 W. 23rd St., Small World conducts English, cooking, sewing and special interest classes in teaching children to represent 23 different countries from Chile to Zaras.
make their stay in the United States as pleasant as possible."
BUT EVEN more important than the education, blackhawk, who is from England, said, are the infants in school.
Throughout its 12-year history, Small World has been so successful at creating warm relationships that its reputation has spread through the countries that annually send students to KU.
"We find now that some women, who cannot speak word of English when they arrive in the United States, are living in poverty."
Small World began in 1988 after 10 Lawrence families living and working abroad experienced the concept of a small world.
MAVIS WISEMAN, Small World's founder, said recognition of their difficulties abroad prompted several of these women to plan a program that would allow them to adjust to this country's language and culture.
"All you have to do is really believe in Small World 'is transport yourself mentally to a foreign country, where you can't speak the language and you have some experience. It's important language, and where your husband is in school all day and at the library all night, and you don't have a car," said Carina Harnay, a volunteer who has been abroad.
Originally, Wiseman said, the idea was to start an
While their mothers study American culture or learn crafts and skills taught at Small World, foreign and American children play together in a nursery school.
English class for about a dozen women. Forty people attended Small World's first meeting and the program exploded into something larger than anyone had anticipated.
Describing the Small World program as "free wheeling," Wiseman said individual classes changed each semester as member interests changed. Child care or prenatal classes, taught at a pace slow
EACH FOREIGN child is paired with an American child of the same age to encourage English usage. Supervising the children is a cooperative effort by all members with functional English ability.
enough for the foreign women to understand, also are offered occasionally.
"We try to gear the program to the special needs of its members," she said. "The only program we trit is a one-on-one tutoring."
English, which is the backbone of the program, is taught on four levels.
"We teach pretty much survival English," Haney said. "We're not interested in the finer points of it."
DORIS DORT, beginning English teacher, concentrates on what is most necessary for smooth transition into American life. Students first are introduced to the language of the country's name. Later, they learn how to call a
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