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University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
U.S. shuns Nicaragua; aids Poland
WASHINGTON—In two separate moves yesterday, the administration decided to suspend aid to the ledger and caregiver government and to push for changes in the system.
Administration officials said that the State Department would inform Congress that the president had determined that the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua was "raising and violating violence" in another country—El Salvador—and that under the law, the U.S. aid program must end.
The officials also said that an offer to Poland of grains and powdered milk and an offer to postpone repayment of U.S. bank and government loans would be made today to Deputy Prime Minister Mieczeslaw Jagielski when he sees Vice President Bush and Secretary of State Alexander Haig.
The $75 million program had been suspended for review with about $60 million already having been distributed. Under the law, the Nicaraguan government will not receive the remaining $15 million and will be asked to reimburse the United States for the $60 million already received.
Atlanta task force studies drowning
ATLANTA—The special police task force investigating the murders or disappearances of 23 young black children took on a new case yesterday, the death of a 21-year-old black man who, according to a neighbor, had "the mind of a child."
Public Safety Director Lee P. Brown confirmed that the death of Eddie Dumore, Dunmore City Councilor, was investigated by the Douglas County Sheriff and the special task force for the Douglas
Douglas County Sheriff Eric Earl Lee announced late yesterday that the body that was pulled from the Chattahoochee River on the line between Fulton and Hammond was found.
Lee said that Duncan apparently had drowned, but that he wouldn't say his death should not be considered a homicide.
Duncan was found about two miles from the area of the river where the body of another victim, 13-year-old Timothy Hill, was found Monday.
Duncan's body was clad only in a T-shirt. Most of the children were fully clothed when found, but the last three were wearing only undershirts.
Ethiel Stewart, resident of Techwood Woods, where Duncan lived, said, Bubba was a young adult, but his mind was like a child. Whoever got him would love him.
Medical authorities said Duncan was about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed between 150 and 175 pounds.
Watts' national park plan criticized
WASHINGTON—Assistant Senate Democratic leader Alan Cranston charged yesterday that Interior Secretary James Watt was promoting "environmental anarchy" in calling for a halt to additions to the national park system.
In uncharacteristically harsh words, Cranson said Watt's "proposed garroring of park growth lacks even the sophistication of the exploiters. It is a very toxic environment."
He said the proposal came from "an anti-government bias so primitive that I still have difficulty believing Secretary Watt is serious about it."
The Californian noted that Watt, during Senate conformation hearings, had praised the Land and Water Conservation Fund as "one of the most effective programs for conservation."
It was hard to believe, Cranston said, that Watt changed his mind.
Now, Cranston said, Watt proposed eliminating the $200 million fund, fueled with offshore oil and other federal revenues and used to buy land for fuel.
But he added, "Perhaps there's no contradiction here. Mr. Watt believes it to 'one of the most effective preservation and conservation programs', and it is important."
The bitter attack came in remarks Cronathan prepared for delivery on the Senate floor and released when Watt told a Senate panel that he planned to
Draft call-up may exclude disabled
WASHINGTON—The Selective Service System wants to begin a limited program to screen out potential draftees who have permanent physical or mental impairment.
Under the program, those with a condition making them unsuitable for military service could ask the Selective Service to give them a classification based on their level of experience.
Director Bernard Rostoker told a senate appropriations subcommittee that the plan would save time in any future emergency requiring a Selective
But Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., said the proposal itself was "a step toward classification."
If the draft is reactivated in some future emergency, the Selective Service will have to screen and classify men to determine their eligibility or ability to serve in the military. Rockster said it would save time to eliminate in those who are obviously permanently physically or mentally disabled.
Coal union plans no new negotiations
He estimated that between 2 percent and 4 percent of registered men would be disqualified by such an advance screening.
WASHINGTON - The soft coal industry yesterday accused striking miners of endangering the long-established nationwide bargaining process, and said it had no plans for resuming negotiations on the contract that union members overwhelmed rejected.
United Mine Workers President Sam Church Jr., who placed his leadership on the line by traveling through the coal fields to push contract ratification, had no comment on the 2-1 "no" vote by the union's 160,000 members.
In the coal yard, strikers who normally would have been enjoying a paid holiday yesterday, honoring late union leader John Mitchell and observing the anniversary of the miners' first eight-hour day, set up pickets at nonunion mines.
Most large union districts in Appalachia turned down the agreement. Miners in two Kentucky districts and several smaller midwestern and western states agreed to merge.
The first outbreak of lawlessness in the six-day-old strike was reported in West Virginia where a truck driver allegedly fired shots when a group of men stopped another vehicle. The individual, identified as a coal company employee, charged with brandishing a weapon and was released after posting bond.
Poland's strike alert formally lifted
GDANSK, Poland—Leaders of Poland's Solidarity Labor Union formally lifted a nationwide strike alert yesterday, but bowed to pressure from angry demonstrators.
The stormy two-day meeting of Solidarity's national leadership averted the threat of an imminent national strike that many Poles had feared would take place.
Dominated by factional infighting, the meeting highlighted bitter divisions within the union and the still-serious tensions in Bydgoszcz, where Poland's latest labor crisis was touched off March 19 by a police assault on union officials.
It also ended with what amounted to a vote of confidence for the leadership of Lech Wawra, the target of bitter criticism by hardliners who fell behind.
Solidarity's national spokesman Karol Modzeleswi resigned to protest what he said was the "circus" atmosphere of the meeting
But in the end, the Solidarity leaders ratified the accord negotiated by Wales, called off the general strike and, in their latest vote, canceled a national march.
Cancellation of the strike alert followed a spirited debate on the points of the agreement, the government promised to investigate *Blodzycz* incident and to consider a response.
Farmers rally at Capitol for wheat bill
TOPEKA-Kansas farmers had their day at the Capitol yesterday, and they used the time to stage both a rally on the Statehouse steps and a show of force supporting their bill that would set minimum prices for Kansas wheat.
Gov. John Carlin spoke briefly to the crowd of about 200 farmers on the south steps of the Capitol, saying that, as a farmer, he sympathized with their problems. However, he wants to study the nature further before pledging his support.
The bill, requested last week by the American Agriculture Movement, would set a fluctuating minimum price on Kansas wheat at 70 percent of the parity index set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The parity index establishes the cost of producing a farm commodity and saws a reasonable profit on the in-use material three times by the USDA every twelve months.
The index is now $6.95 a bushel for hard red winter wheat. The proposed price control would set the minimum price at 70 percent parity, or $4.87 a bushel, compared to the current price of around $3.95 a bushel.
Leonard Cox, state spokesman for AAM, testified before the Senate
"We need a Kansas standard for setting farm prices, not a federal standard," Cox said. "Agriculture is the governing factor in our economy.
Judiciary Committee in a packed hearing room that the Kansas economy would "starve in the midst of plenty" if fair prices were not set for wheat.
Sentiment among those testifying in support of the bill was against: federal intervention in their livelihood, with some farmers saying they could not hope to get a "fair break" from the U.S. government.
Are prices supposed to go down in agriculture but up in everything else?"
They cited President Reagan's failure to break the grain embargo against the Soviet Union as an example of gross inefficiency to the problems of farmers.
No opponents spoke on the measure, but a number of advocates trooped before the panel.
KU debate teams carry on tradition
For the ninth consecutive year, two KU debate teams qualified to compete in the National Debate Tournament. The NDT will be April 9-13 at California State University at Pamona.
Mark Gidley, Houston sophomore, and Rodger Payne, Sand Springs. Okla., sophomore, earned one of the 60 bids to the tournament in competition with the 1,500 eligible teams. He were awarded the bid on the basis of perfect 10 win, no loss record at the District III Qualifying Tournament.
The team of Zac Grant, Manhattan Junior, and Brian Wright, Paola sophomore, were the
first runner-up team at the district competition. They won an at-large bid to the NDT on the basis of their overall record this year.
Grant is the only one of the four debaters who has competed at the NDT before. He said that the two teams would spend many hours for the national competition by doing additional research.
Grant said that he hoped to be able to argue both sides of the topic more effectively this year.
"Last year we flew too high the first day of the tournament—kind of like Icaus," Grant said. "This year
we are much better prepared and have a better balance."
Including this year's team, KU has sent 40 teams to the tournament since 1949. No other school in the nation has sent as many. The rest of the Big Eight schools combined have sent 25 teams.
Donn Parson, KU director of forensics, said that the tradition of high quality debate at KU had attracted many top debaters to the school over the past several decades.
Since 1970 KU debate teams have placed in the top five at the NDT 10 times, taking first place in 1970 and 1976.
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