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News Briefs From United Press International
Begin says Iraqi bombing justified
TEL AVIV, Israel—Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's call on Arab states to acquire atomic weapons in Syria was not an option.
Addressing an election rally in Haifa, Begin said Husein went on record in his speech to Parliament in Baghdad Tuesday "for all the world to hear" and
He called Russelin a "bloodthirsty tyrant" and said Israel had been right to destroy the reactor in the barge 7. Israel had said the reactor would be destroyed.
In an interview released in Rome yesterday, former foreign minister Moshe Dayan said that Israel has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and has the technology to do so.
Israel has never publicly admitted its nuclear capability, but a CIA report said several years ago that Israel has the facilities to make atomic weapons.
Hussein had said in his speech that "any nation in the world which wants peace and security . . . should help the Arabs in one way or another to build the atomic bombs in order to oppose Israeli atomic bombs that are already an actuality."
Begin said his government has radically changed its retaliatory policy against Palestinian guerrillas.
"We don't wait 'till they come to us." Begin said. "We surprise them in their own bases, on their own territory. Sometimes up to three times a day. They don't know where the next blow will come from, the air, the sea or from the land."
Reagan pushes programs on road
LOS ANGELES—President Reagan, attacking Democratic efforts to rage against budget-cutting plants in Congress, took his economic approach.
Reagan pushed his economic program in a speech in Texas, en route to his home state for several days' rest, asking the people to write their own speeches about the economy.
"This is the time to speak up, this is the time to be heard," Reagan told 10,000 cheering Javettes at his 61st annual meeting in San Antonio.
And without mentioning him by name, Reagan once again attacked House Speaker "bomba" P O'Nell II, D-Mass, for wanting to return to the "name battle."
On his arrival at Los Angeles International Airport later, aides distributed a statement in which Reagan said, "In my absence, it seems the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives have agreed to go forward with that would effectively sabotage our attempts to cut federal spending."
The leaders, he said, "want to splinter that package into pieces . . . pursuing a divide-and-conquer-strategy that would once again allow special interest groups to triumph over the general economic interests of the nation."
Bell rate request could be biggest
TOPEKA, Kan.—Southwestern Bell will again have the distinction of filling the largest utility rate increase request in Kansas history with the Kansas Corporation Commission, this time asking the KCC to grant an $4.45 million rate increase.
George Chafee, Bell's district staff manager, said yesterday the utility probably would file the request Tuesday.
Although the exact formula for spreading the rate hike among customers has not yet been set, Chaffee said the basic service charge for both residential users and larger customers would rise by $4 if the full increase was granted.
In March, the KCG granted Bell a $28.4 million rate increase, only 45 percent of its $82.2 million request. That request had represented the largest request from a utility in Kansas, but Kansas Gas and Electric Company in May asked the KCG to grant a $82.8 million rate hike. That case is pending.
Bell based the KCC to get a $50 million raise like that. Bell serves customers in 177 cities and towns in Kansas
UMW contract ends 90-day strike
WASHINGTON—Mine construction workers ratified a new contract yesterday, ending 30-day strike and bringing peace to the soft labor force at the first meeting.
United Mine Workers Secretary-Treasurer Willard Esselsteyn said the 40-month agreement covering 11,500 construction workers was approved by a subcommittee of labor and officials.
Esseltyn said notification was being made to the Association of Bituminous Contractors "that the contract has been ratified."
He said the contract was to take effect at 12:01 this morning but that workers will not be required to report to work until the day shift because of
Asked why such a strong approval vote was obtained, Esselstyn he thought the contract was "pretty good" and added "they've been out 90 days." He said.
The results from Appalachia and the Midwest showed strong support for the tentative settlement, although only a small portion of those eligible cast a buil
Yesterday was the 90th day of the construction workers' strike which began March 27 when the soft coal miners stopped production.
Wichita station wants 'fan strike'
WICHTA, Kan.—Radio stations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Kansas City and Indianapolis have recently joined a campaign by a Wichita radio station to announce the location of a mobile phone repair shop.
Mike Kennedy, sports director at KAAX-1240 in Wichita, said he is trying to induce fans to go on strike for as many days as the baseball strike continues when the season resumes. If the strike lasts 30 days, fans would then bovett the ballmasks for an additional 30 days.
He said the prospect of a fans' strike could pressure the owners back to the bargaining table.
Playgirl letter amazes Carlin staff
Topeka radio station BWB said WCH was unaware of the letter and had expressed surprise and disbelief upon learning of it.
A Topeka radio and television station saw the letter in the magazine yesterday afternoon and promptly called Bill Hoch, the governor's press secretary.
TOPEKA, Kan.-Because of an apparent slipup, a letter signed by Gov. Garlin, allegedly responded to an article about women candidates for the governor's office.
Apparently, Playgirl had sent an advance copy of an article entitled "Playgirl's Dream Supreme Court" to the governor's office several months ago. A staff member read the article and prepared a response as requested by the magazine.
After Hoc contacted the governor's office to find out whether a letter from Carlin was sent to the women's magazine, which features color layouts of the cover. The governor said he was impressed.
Hoch said Carlin, apparently in a rush, signed the letter and it was sent off to Playgirl.
The first line of the original letter from Carlin reads: 'Since your magazine is one of I do not read, please send me the advance subscription.' The second line of the original letter from Dan Summit reads:
However, in the published article, that line was left out, giving the impression that Carlin responded voluntarily after reading the article in the
Proposed mall plan undecided
By MARC HERZFELD
Lawrence came a step closer to the adoption of a downtown redevelopment plan Tuesday, but recruiting department stores remains a maker obstacle.
The primary roadblock to a plan acceptable to both Lawrence residents and to major department stores is the idea of a downtown enclosed mall.
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Bruce Heckman, the representative from Teeka Associates, said, "Department stores may only want to talk about an enclosed facility."
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson Jr. agreed with Heckman
The J.C. Penney Co., Sears and
Macy's, three stores considering a Lawrence location, "are not interested in a free-standing store," Watson said.
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A Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department study conducted in November of 1980 revealed that 64 percent of Lawrence residents saw no need for a mall, although 72 percent needed a new department store.
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"People want more department stores, but they're trying to have an enclosed mall." Palos said.
DEAN PALOS, who conducted much of the Planning Office survey, said that the public needed to be aware of the difficulties of attracting department stores without the prospect of an enclosed mail.
"It's an educational process for us, as well."
Heckman said, "We have to keep a developer or a department store in the picture..
"I think it's unrealistic to say you're only going to attract one main retail store. It's either two or nothing."
LAST YEAR, the city commissioners rejected a Cleveland developer's plans for a downtown mall because of the size and enclosed nature of the mall.
However, Heckman said that the tentative plans for a mall called for about 250,000 square feet of enclosed space and that the size of last year's proposed mall.
The two stores or the enclosed mall could be located on the east side of Massachusetts Street, either at Eighth or Ninth streets, although Heckman stressed that all plans were "painted with a broad brush."
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PARKING POSES another obstacle to the adoption of a downtown redevelopment plan because of the possibility that New Hampshire Street would have to be closed from 10th to Sixth streets.
"There is a natural reluctance to close New Hampshire unless it is absolutely necessary," Heckman said.
Heckman said that linkages between the downtown area and the University of Kansas were needed, possibly in connection with the University between the Kansas Union and downtown.
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Heckman's plans included the location of apartment complexes on the east side of Rhode Island Street, the transformation of the Lawrence Opera House into a performing arts center and the placement of more office buildings on Ninth Street west of Vermont Street.
Heckman hoped to return in a month with a final, much more detailed plan. The city commission voted unanimously Tuesday to use this month to contact the J.C. Penney Co. and possibly other retailers.
NOW backs march
The local chapter of the National Organization for Women is sponsoring a pro-Equal Rights Amendment in Massachusetts Street this Saturday.
Participants will meet at 11 a.m. at the Lawrence City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, and march to Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets.
THE MARCH is part of a nationwide rally for the ERA. In one year, the term for ERA's ratification will expire.
Speakers at the South Park rally will include State Representatives Jessie Branson, Betty Jo Charlton and John Solbach, City Commissioner Tom Gleason, Susan Ke McKenna and NOW State Coordinator Linda Woody. Pam Lewis will provide entertainment.
MARCHERS ARE asked to wear white, the traditional suffragette color.
In case of rain, marchers will meet at City Hall and the rally will be in the Community Building, 11th and Vermont streets.
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The Incompatibility of Wishful Thinking and Freedom
In St. Louis the other day some 3,000 men descended upon a Procter & Gamble manufacturing plant seeking eight jobs. It is reasonable or honest to call the 2,992 unsuccessful job applicants unmativated, lazy, etc.? They and several million other unemployed persons in this country are victims of factors, such as technological advance and a growing populace, that are beyond their control. Competition, which has played such an important part in this country's relative success, is now contributing to its decline. One result of this only slightly tempered competition is the concentration of economic and therefore political power in regional, national and international corporations. A local company may have long distances to travel for local officials long distances for the purpose of persuading, or perhaps begging, some corporate giant to settle here. Last year it was proposed that the city of Lawrence assume some $21 million to $25 million of the cost of a proposal $38 million downward privately owned shopping mall with the city using the power of eminent domain to acquire the property of local merchants unwilling to gentrify before the Jacobs, Visconti and Jacos developmental steamroller. In communities all over this country our governmentally-conceived tax structure is assisting, with public funds and/or tax abatements, large bids of capital in their relentless pursuit of local business. This is a far cry from the free-enterprise system based on the productive individual environment, by say, Thomas Jefferson. Competition between individuals for jobs and economic entities for markets has brought to an increasing segment of the population a higher degree of freedom and a freedom and always remained groups whose needs and rights were ignored and, as a result of this indentation, whose troubles compounded. It is in the areas where these groups reside, e.g., Appalachia, Harlen, South Bronx, Watts etc., that, despite the considerable work to be done, there are, paradoxically, the fewest jobs.
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In a recent space of wishing thinking an adversary claimed that success was within the reach of all individuals and that any discussion of political reform was inherently worthless accompanied by action. Early in this century William Dubois, civil rights leader, author and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded that Congress declare the right to legal legislation immediately followed the publication of any of Dr. Dubois' writings, his ideas have worth because of their substance. The same can be said of the offerings of, to name a few, Susan B. Anthony, Norman Thomas, Paul Robison, and Rachal Carson. Even repressive governments, such as exist in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and all other Communist countries as well as South Africa, Argentina, Iran, Iraq, etc., tacitly recognize the power of ideas that are useful to social injustice or a free people has worth because of its possible translation into action.
Wishful thinking occurs when one attribute actuality to a desired set of circumstances in order to avoid facing painful or unpleasant facts. A particularly striking example of this process took place in New York when one Craig Criminals, a stagehead, was found guilty of murdering Mrs. Helen Hagens Minits by pushing her stripped, bound and gagged body down the stairs in front of her. As she was being sexually advances, the jury concluded that this act was only a felony murder, an unpremeditated killing which occurs during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, rather than a first degree murder, a classification which refers to any willful, deliberate killing and includes homicide committed in the perpetration or attempted persecution of arson, rape, robbery, or burglary. One of the jurors told the press that the they (the jury) had felt that Mr. Criminists murdered the knifes, not to kill her. The jury evidently viewed the act of pushing a restrained woman into a room of floors as merely the culmination of an aprehisiadal scheme completely lacking in malice atoneerally.
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The capacity to rationalize is not limited to daydreaming jurors in the Big Apple. Various prominent political figures have described Israel's bombing of an Iraqi nuclear facility as an aggressive act despite oil-rich Iraq's having no need of atomic power for peaceful purposes, the de facto state war that has existed between the two countries since 1948, and an October, 1980 description by the Iraq governmental press (there is no freedom of the press in Iraq) which provides a clear illustration of the lack of authority. Although there's no shortage of revisionist historians on the national scene, I am not aware of any member of said group who considers President Kennedy's response to the Soviet-inspired Cuban missile crisis to have been an expression of United States expansionism but those very missile bases constituted less of a threat to our physically vast nation than did this Israeli nuclear reactor to a minicausele USA. Even as voices in both Western Europe and the United States contend the bombing and call for Israel reparations to Iraq, this country continues to send foodstuffs and material to the Union which is wagging an important and threatening to invade Poland. Wikilhinking has played an important part in the formulation of this flagrantly hypocritical double standard.
Although the Constitution was designed to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility . . . promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posturity," the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government are not the only one addressing entrepreneurship itself. Here are just a few results of this choice.
- The application of the mechanic's lien law can result in an innocent homeowner having to assume a financial obligation which is actually the control of the debtor.
- Our newstands are laden with libelous trashy tablols and inherently obscene publications which are allieed to be expressions of free sonech.
- There are, in every urban area, houses of prostitution, i.e., massage parlors, in which the sale of sexual services is held to be just another form of free enterprise because of the luxurious setting in which the purchase is made.
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- Scattered across this nation of ours are privately enclaves of death in which physicians, traditionally the guardians of life, subject tiny, biologically living, innocent, helpless babies to an excruciating painful execution. The legitimation of this ultimate act of oppression was greatly facilitated by Justice Blackman's discovery that the first six months of pregnancy was only a "theory of life" which, in the final trimester, became "potential life." Although each term was a complete fabrication without even the word "life," it was based on factual evidence enabled the Supreme Court to bibbleily deny to a particular group the most fundamental of our "unilienable rights," thereby creating a new vocation peopled, presumably, by those with sufficient initiative to "get ahead."
Wishful thinking contributed to the development of each of these situations in which the strong exploit the weak—the antithesis of equality. Does a government and/or economic system which tolerates the coexistence of pro-immigrant and anti-immigrant citizens cause of freedom? Perhaps we should now acknowledge the need for full-scale cooperation, as well as competition, in gaining what Abraham Lincoln once described as "that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men—to lift artificial weights from all shoulders—to provide them with a second or all-to-one uninterrupted start, and a fair chance, in the race of life."
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