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Feburary 4.1980
Dole should drop out
Rejecting all calls to get out gracefully, Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan, has decided not to put himself through the door. He also so try to stack the ballot in another.
Last Tuesday Dole announced that he had no intention of dropping out of the Republican represidential nomination campaign. He plans to increase his campaign efforts in New Hampshire, which holds its state primary Feb. 28. Despite a dislustful last place finish, Iowa caucuses, Dole planned to dumping four places finish in the New Hampshire primary.
Come on, Bob. Why kick yourself when you're down? You're supposed to learn from your mistakes, not repeat the same thing over and over in the woods. New Hampshire is not.
The imminent disaster awaiting Dole in New Hampshire will look like a mild embarrassment when his contingency plan for the Kansas primary falls through. With help from his aides, Dole is planning to have a son candidate for the state's April 1 primary by eliminating the competition.
Last week, forges for George Bush, John Connally, and Ronald Reagan said the Dole camp had contacted them about keeping their candidates out of the primary, presumably to protect themselves, in aid for re-election to the U.S. Senate.
The request received mostly mixed and tentative responses until John Connally put his big Texan foot down and filed for the primary anyway. Connally was the third candidate to enter the primary, Benjamin Fernandez and Harold Stassen filed before him.
However, some aides approached about the idea of forgiving the Kansas primary expressed concern that if Dole brought all 32 Kansas delegates to the national convention in August, he would use them as a bargaining tool to gain a political favor or to repay a political debt.
The deadline for filing is Feb. 12. Dole has until then to change his mind about leaving the presidential campaign to concentrate on keeping his office alive, since himself in danger of being the day's biggest fool when April 1 arrives.
Iranian's rage won't work
By KERRY BARSOTTI SCOTT
Guest Columnist
Curioser and curouser, as Alice would now. Now he is a foreign diplomat, with an escape of American diplomats from Tehran, Foreign Minister Gholabzade's outburge is nothing short of indulgence.
Thanks to the heroic efforts of the Canadian government, the six diplomats, who had been hiding in the Canadian encampment, were ambassadors embassy takeover in November, were whisked out of turbulent the day before the fall of Ottawa and withdrew its diplomatic forces from Tehran.
Glothadze called the daring escape, which was managed by falsifying passports for the Americans, a "flagrant violation" of international law. He said further that the international law was that international law was a tool of the superpowers to suppress the smaller countries. This, he said as 50 American hostages began their third month in captivity, has present it no regard for diplomatic immunity and international justice.
To the Editor:
Locked-out workers need picket support
That was six weeks ago. As the legal cogs of the Teamsters Union are slowly turning, managers need to keep up their finances and food supplies are extremely low and there is no end in sight at
Negotiations between workers and Stokley management broke down when no agreement could be reached on a new contract. The company had to work while the contract negotiations continued. Stokley threw them out of their jobs. Now, under the guise of a labor dispute, Stokley does not have to pay any employee. She can consider the contract offer made by the union.
These people recently asked for community support by inviting participation in a pocket list last Tuesday night and a panel discussion this week. This invitation and rally support within the campus community, several of us taped up on the hill. What happened? The workers stood
The Foreign Minister's moves are afraid of being debased hopes that outrage will work for us as it did for the United States in swaying international sympathy for the Iraqis.
He even goes so far as to say that the Canadian government will be held responsible for any harm done to the refugees as a result of their humanitarian and
"We will not bother to protest what Canada has done," he said, "but we indicate that sooner or later. . . Canada will pay for this violation of the sovereign of Iran."
It is doubted that Foreign Minister Globbadeskjaar's ravings will do anything but help the United States in the support of the United States since the embassy takeover and demonstrate the importance of this country where 50 Americans remain in captivity, it is laughable that the Foreign Minister expects international sympathy diplomats to their collection of hostages.
Kerry Barsotti Scott is a Lawrence junior majoring in journalism.
virtually alone again, facing the turned backs of Stokely management. Student non-response was overwhelming.
If these people, right in our midst, are to continue the fight against corporate unresponsiveness, they need help from ALL of us. Help in bycoyeting Stokley products. Help in the daily pickup outside Sokely, help in the customer service, and in general, help in publicizing all of this.
While the Kansan has had some good information on the Stokley lock-out, the Lawrence Journal World has been strangely lacking. We don't know if boxes for money and food at grocery stores and soon on campus. Come to Stokley workers' meetings when they invite us and ask for our hand. You can't hand what labor relations are all about in this country. Their rights are your rights.
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At the ripe old age of 25, I thought I had it made. My car insurance rates had dropped by a third on that birthday, signaling what I meant to anyone, and time my age meant anything to anybody.
Line up for draft, but don't buy one
But if Jimmy Carter gets what he wants, I just must be sweating until my 27, when finally, I won't be eligible for an involuntary military interruption of my life.
Not that I'm too worried that I'll get drafted. I know that probably won't happen because my feet are flat. Still, I am tired of it and will allow it and what I will not allow me to do.
Ever since I turned 12, when I couldn't get the kiddie discount anymore at my hometown movie theater, I've been obsessed with being either older or younger in theaters. But the constant struggle to prove that I'm "eligible" to take advantage of our culture's diversions.
Being a late pubescent both helped and hindered me ongoing struggle against age discrimination during my teens. I recall one time a girl at school told her ticket lady into selling me a ticket for a Walt Disney kiddie matinee (you had to be 12 and I was 14 at the time) and an adult ticket to
Eventually my voice changed and I couldn't get the discount anymore. By then I was thirsting for another age-restricted shirt, but the store had no hope of passing for 18 until I was 23
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Being 18 offered other rights and privileges, as well as other responsibilities. Not only was I given the right to drink beer, I was also required to register for the work. It was allowed to vote against the man responsible for forcing me to register for the draft.
But there were a few age hurdles left to be cleared, most notably my twenty-first year. I had to get into a retail liqueur store and buy as much hard liquor as I wanted. It didn't matter that I managed to slurp down cherry vodka as well as wine and gin with a full-fledged adult until I could use my very own un-docked driver's license to prove that, despite my youthful appearance, I was
At any rate, the state of Kansas managed to confuse me about what constitutes being an adult until I was 12 years old. For three years I was a probationary adult, subject to an adult's punishments but exempt from the probationary period, so that I think about it, it doesn't seem fair.
the verge of making adulthood even more confusing. Under the orchestration of the legislative body, Mr. Johnson lives at its Best (whatever that means), the Legislature is considering raising the beer drinking age in Kansas from 18 to 21. Young adults are still in their responsibilities for their actions, to make their financial decisions, to buy porch lights, to own a custom lawn, to own discretion and to fight and die for their country are suspect when it comes to the current beer. At least some legislators think so.
imagine a progressive legislator with quiet notions of dragging Kansas laws out of the Dark Ages offering to exchange a raised drinking age for open saloons.
This is the same Legislature that, last year, attempted to legalize "open saloons" in Kansas, settling instead for more liberal private club lool pool regulations. And this is the same Legislature that has raised the legal driving age from 16 to 18 to raise the legal driving age from 16 to 18.
Why, then, does the Legislature even consider precluding those whom the law recognizes to be adults from drinking water-died water? It would make more sense in the pattern of recent years to lower drinking age for hard injury (from 21 to 18).
I can hear him now. "Come on Dick, might as well accept the inevitable. At least this way you can feel that you've taken booze away from someone."
There could be a reason for the movement. It's not a normal movement, I'm only speculating, but it seems that the Legislature might be engaging in subtle horse-racing with government officials and politicians.
And Kansas would have one less reason to feel like an anarchistic old biddy. With open salons and hanky tanks, the state has a lot of persuasion to hold their quadrennial brouhaha in one of the state's many cities. The city is a bair-de lueur state of such a modest price.
Seriously, though, the Legislature shouldn't be so zealous to find short cuts to lique-by-the-drink. Our laws should be used only when there are pect all adults to share. If 18-year-olds are entrusted with the right to vote, and are answerable for their own actions, then they are for all purposes adults—not children or self-identified adults nor children discharged as adults.
Certainly our laws must draw a few lines in the dust to separate the men from the women. We are drawn reasonably, not for reasons of convenience or political expediency. After all, if 18-year-olds are expected to behave as cardinal adults, they should be treated as adults.
Salt II exists without Senate support
By CARL MARCY
N V Times Special Feature
WASHINGTON - The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has been described as dealing the death blow to SALT II. No need now to worry about killer amendments or whether presidential candidates will find support of a new system, or plus a plauso or not. But SALT II is alive!
According to the State Department, the principle of international law, shared by the United States and the Soviet Union, that is applied to actions taken from taking actions which would defeat the object and purpose of a treaty it has signed" until the treaty has been ratified and enters
Since last June, when SALT II was signed in Vienna by President Carter and Leonid I. Brezhnev, both the United States and the
Soviet Union have been abiding by its terms. The Carter administration has said it will continue to abide by the terms if the Russians do a positive, Brexhoven strategy in playing "I do," will affirm Moscow's intention to abide by the terms of SALT II.
THAT WOULD be a welcome sign to supporters of SALE in both countries. It would also signal the States-Soviet Union competition in nuclear weapons, which will determine the current crisis in southwestern Asia, or in the settlement of whatever political differences may divide them in the region.
satellites would quickly detect any Russian tests of up to 25 warships on their heavy missiles—that is, we would see that Moscow was able to limit of 10 warships as provided in *NAIT* A.7.
THERE IS precedent for the United States and the Soviet Union to live up to the terms of an agreement even though it is not yet agreed. The SALT I interim agreement, SALT I surrendered, neither nation has violated its terms. The SALT I interim agreement on offensive arms set another precedent that many have overlooked: It was not a treaty between the two nations. SALT I Senate; rather, it was a so-called congressional-executive agreement, approved by majority vote in the House and the Senate. Since the legal termination of the SALT II treaties in five years-it has been in effect solely
Thus far, there is no evidence that the Russians are not adhering to the terms of SALT II. If they fail to abide by them, it will become apparent. Certainly our space
because of the informal understanding between Carter and Brezhnev to keep it in effect.
A LEGAL memorandum prepared summer for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Monday, the president should the Senate have rejected SALT II. One option "would be for the president to issue a unilateral statement that the United States and the States to adhere to the provisions of the defeated treaty," just as "prior to the Oceania Convention would have been agreed, the United States and the Soviet Union each declared its intention to observe the limitations of the agreement, as long as
This is precisely the option the president has chosen with respect to SALT II, even though the treaty has not been rejected by the Senate; rather, its consideration has been further burdened on Jun 5 that he and Joe Obama "access苏俄 actions and intentions."
Senate opponents of SALT II got what they wanted—no action on SALT. But they got what they most feared, an informal understanding of indefinite duration whereby the superpowers without Senate consent will be allowed to rule. Senate was bypassed when the House was brought into the SALT I act, and it is now bypassed in SALT II act.
**HOW LONG** this de facto situation will continue no one can know. The first crunch will be that the Russian submarine launches its new belite-class submarines. If at that time both parties have continued to adhere to SALT LIMITs, the Russians will be able to launch a new class-class-ice missile subs. That will be a test of Soviet willingness to continue to abide by the Trident order. By July, when the first Trident submarine will put America into violation of SALT, unless we dismantle existing launchers to keep it there.
Carl Marry, for many years chief of staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is coeditor of the American Committee on East-West Accord.
Thus, strangle as it may seem, if Breznev has 'do' to Carter's declaration, the SALT action is beneficial in benefit of the security of both nations, however displeasant the invasion of
Winter is for the birds, not for residents at the University of Kansas. But the treacherous Old Man recently dumped snow on KU anyway, perhaps mistaking it for the National Audubon Society's headquarters. Winter is for the Winter, the Jayhawk is only a mythical bird.
KU was not built for winter, but for academics. Situated on Mount Oread, the beautiful butilly campus makes every day a magical place, next to impossible during winter months.
But the campus steadily remains. One probably would not trade the campus for a year's supply of oil. Therefore, if we could move to winter and the campus, winter would go.
This can only be accomplished by writing your congressman and appealing to every scientist you know. Confront them with the evidence that they won't take a stand. Do not fall for any snow jobs.
Just think of it. A winter寒 school year.
And living without winter looks even better
when you take it at the typical winter
day. Jay T. Hawk, the average KU student.
HAWK'S DAILY adventures during the winter months could convince everybody that winter should be scrapped.
Here is one of Hawk's better winter days:
7:00 a.m.—after taking his fourth 10-hour
alarm clock. He has a dummy alarm clock
has a snooker control button that he abuses
badly. Hawk wished he had not enrolled in
7:30 Spanish class which meets five
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Hawk's roommate, fast asleep in bed.
looked so comfortable as Hawk unfurried his warm hammocks and allowed cold air to come in. The man's bare feet on a carpetlet the floor disguise was of a sheet of ice. He quickly扑上去。
7:12 a.m.—What Hawk needed was a steaming hot shower. Hawk turned on the water and flushed it. The water was unabebly cold, and . . . brrrrr .. so was the water. Hawk could have cut down his water bill by洗涤 outside in the warm container. And it would have been warmer, too.
7:18 m.-After getting dress, Hawked sat down to a cold bow of corn flakes. When he looked out his frosty window, it was still depressingly dark outside. The obnoxious 28-minute whistle made Hawk gum up his throat. He did not want to be later than usual.
7. 8 a.m.-The bus was behind schedule. He shivered in the small group waiting for the bus. He tried to stop shivering because people were starting, or at least he was shivering.
7:23 a.m. - Hawk sat at the bus stop, his teeth clattering and his legs shaking. His still wet hair was beginning to freeze. He could not would not be feathered, but would be cicled.
7:33 a.m.—The bus finally rolled up and
every clammer at the door. The floor of the bus was covered with dirt slush. Half the passengers had a case of the sniffs. Their red noses were running constantly.
7:37 a.m. the bus stopped in front of
Hawk and hawk got out. In no hurry
(Hawk assists) he managed not
managed to get up the hill and
was rescorted to walking), he watched the bus
ITS BACK right tire was stuck in a pile of snow near the sidewalk. The big tire spun out and rolled away, fortunately, the displaced snow had to go somewhere, that somewhere was all over Hawk's Levi. Hawk's new blue jeans were plastered on with a displaced snow, of course.
7:40 a.m.- Hawk's Spanish assignment, assigned with muddy snow, had not escaped the wrath of the bus's back right tire. For 25 cents, Hawk was ten minutes late to class
and soaked with mud, gretse and snow. the piercing wind and the surrounding laughter made Hawk's face turn redder than the federal budget.
7:40:01 a.m. - Before he knew it, 'Hawk went up under right up the肩. The only thing Hawk could see was the sky in the cloud. Hawk lay on his back, starting to laugh. He felt like a disaster, but he laughed anyway. Hawk took dive into the ice campus sidewalks take dives on the ice campus sidewalks
7:42 a.m.--After recovering his books, Hawk went to his second floor classroom without looking out the window in the classroom. Only then did Hawk open his textbook, saying yesterday that Class 19 should be done.
Although this is only a day of Hawk's winter woes, it is evidence enough to pressure that he would advocate legislation to save the winner. Or, maybe he could just boycott it.
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