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The University Daily
Wednesday, April 1, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 123 USPS 650-640
Reagan's spirits high as recovery continues
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, recovering rapidly from a gunshot wound in the chest, met with his family and aides yesterday, joked with his doctors and nurses, brushed his teeth and resumed his duties as America's chief executive.
Vice President George Bush, top White House aides, Nancy Reagan and the president's four children visited his bedside and reported Reagan lively and in good spirits.
Daniel Ruege, the White House physician, said in an evening medical statement that the president spent the day sleeping and reading newspapers, sat up in bed from time to time and began to drink liquids. Reagan also signed the presidential bill when it was brought on in his breakfast tray.
"The president continues on the road to Ruge said. "The village is signaled on the route."
DENNIS O'LEARY, head of clinical surgery at George Washington University Medical Center, told reporters earlier in the day that the president was in "exceptionally good condition."
"He is doing as well as any patient who has had an operation on his chest could do," O'Leary said. He estimated Reagan would be hospitalized for a week or two and it probably would be "a couple of months before he is totally back to riding horses."
The three other victims wounded in the assassination attempt-White House; press secretary James Brady, hit in the head; Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, hit in the back; police officer Thomas K. Delahanty, hit in the neck—also reported to be recovering.
THE STATEMENT SAID Brady was “being
compelled to undergo significant complications
for which he has a significant risk.”
"Mr. Brady is responsive and continues to move the right side of his body in response to voice command," it said. "It is clear that he has a strong capacity in implying retention of significant brain function."
O'Leary said the right hemisphere of Brady's brain, not the dominant side, suffered "fairly extensive damage" from the wound, and the left side "was more prone to motion, has some minimal amount of damage."
AT THE WHITE HOUSE, Bush took over the president's schedule for the day, meeting with top Reagan aides and presided over the Cabinet meeting. But the vice president worked in his own office, purposefully out of the Oval Office, a symbolic display of the president's authority.
"The president remains the president, of course," said Prime House press secretary
Sarah Speakman.
O'Leary said, "I think he is quite capable of making decisions, interacting with people. I wouldn't encourage him to put in an 18-hour day, but I would attend to the important matters of government."
Shortly after noon, the president got the news that Brady had been critically wounded in the attack.
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Sources say love of actress may have driven Hinckley
WASHINGTON-An obsessive infatuation with a precocteous teen-age actress may have been the motive of a reclusive drifter charged with rape. Reagan, investigative sources said yesterday.
By United Press International
"He did it for her," said one source familiar with the investigation. "She's the key."
The blond, stocky suspect, John W. "Jack" Hinckley Jr., 25, outlined his plans for the assassination plot in a letter to Jodie Foster, 18, who played a 12-year-old prototype in the movie "Taxi Driver" and a stripper in her most recent film, "Carry."
SOURCES SAID Hinkley's letter threatened to kill Reagan for different reasons.
In "Taxi Driver," Robert DeNiro told Foster, "If you don't love me, I'm going to kill the president." Sources said Hinckley wrote Foster several times in recent months. In one letter, he also wrote, "If you don't love me, I'm going to kill the president."
Police sources in New Haven, Conn., where Miss Foster is enrolled at Yale University, said Hinckley was so obsessed with the actress that she carried her last fall when she enrolled as a freshman.
The sources said Hincley checked into the Park Plaza Hotel for several days last October, several weeks after she enrolled, and sent her 'heavy fan notes" that were neither threatening
Foster never contacted New Haven police or federal authorities about any of the letters until the authorities had learned.
HINCKLEY, REPORTEDLY expelled from a neo-Nazi group because of his violent attitude and uncontrollable behavior, was sedated and confined in a Marine brig dayened pending a psychiatric examination that was postponed until today.
A court-authorized search of the Washington room where Hinckley stayed the night before he was sentenced.
photographs of Foster, and Secret Service agents who arrested Hincley found a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, holding a gun.
The agents also seized unspecified written material on other assassinations.
U. S. Attorney Charles Ruff, a former special Watergate prosecutor who was named during the Carter administration, is expected to personally handle the prosecution of Hickley, who would face life in prison if convicted on charges of attempting to assassinate a president. He also is charged with assaulting a federal agent with a pistol.
A PRELIMINARY examination on the charges is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Sources said the suspect, who has a history of psychiatric care, then could be transferred to the federal prison in Springfield, Mo., for an intensive psychiatric examination.
Hincley's only known arrest occurred last Oct. 9 in Nashville, Tenn., where he was seized after he boarded an airplane with three handguns and 50 rounds of ammunition the same day President Carter was in town and just two days before a campaign stop there by Reagan had been canceled.
People who remembered Hickley from his childhood days in Dallas described him as a "likeable and laughing" young boy, the son of a highly respected family who enjoyed cutting up
"He was so damn strange," said Mark Swoffard, co-manager of the complex where Hinkley lived in a $175-month apartment for five months in 1979.
"I went up there one day to unstop a drain, and there was garbage piled up all over the cabinets and even in the bookshelves," Swoffard said. "Other than the garbage, it looked as if no one knew where the TV was, as someone quitter and a black-and-white TV as about the only personal things he had in there."
But few could remember him from his college days at Texas Tech in Lubbock, and those who went to college there were
Transformers at the Kansas Power and Light plant in North Lawrence are silhouetted against the spring sky.
Fraternity doesn't satisfy zoning code
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Four Omega Phi Phi fraternity members living at 114 Kentucky St. discovered yesterday they could stay in their house—as long as it wasn't a fraternity house.
Complaints from neighbors of possible zoning solutions have led to a recent investigation by the City of Chicago.
Wilden said the house, located at the corner of 12th and Kentucky streets, must meet the more stringent regulations required for a fraternity house rather than those for a single-family dwelling. The area is zoned for fraternity and sorority living.
A fraternity or sorority must have a minimum
of two sq. ft. and one parking space for every
two women.
The house is on a 3,500 sq. ft. lot and has three parking spaces. Brent House, the fraternity building, is adjacent to the house.
compare us with the large frats of maybe 50 or more members."
"We're a small fraternity," he said. "We don't need a big yard to play in. They are trying to
Fouse said that it would not be financially possible for the fraternity to buy a bigger lot. Omega Psi Phi has 20 members and only four members live in the house.
Wildlife said that if the building was not considered a fraternity house, it was a single-family dwelling, which could only house a maximum of four unrelated occupants.
"They could be picking on us," he said. "I don't know if they don't want us in the neighborhood, or if it's against the laws, but we want to keep the house."
"I will do as much as possible to have the rules changed," Anthony Coleman, Omega Psi Phi president, said. "I consider it my fraternity house in my heart, but because we don't own it, and because of the negative things that may happen to it that, we can't call it a fraternity house."
The Oread Neighborhood Association sent a letter to the city manager asking for information about fraternity zoning laws on a month ago. President Jeff Soutard said. Although in-
individuals have written more letters, no further action has been taken by the group.
"It looks like the fraternity got taken for a ride," he said. "They didn't know the zoning rules."
"We're not adverse to having another fraternity in the neighborhood, but it's the location. We'd like to work with the fraternity. We haven't turned them in or anything."
An informal check yesterday showed other KU fraternities and sororites in violation of the parking limits. It also showed other houses in the area more than four unrelated people living there.
"I know the problems aren't unique to this particular house." Southard said.
The owner of the house said he leased it to only four men. He said he wanted to resolve the
"I know they want to stay there, and I want them to stay there," the owner, Kent Snyder, said. "As long as they able by an sort of landman relationship, they can do what they want."
Opponents of Regents tax cuts plan strategy
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
On the eve of House action on the Kansas Board of Regents budget, opponents of the severe cuts expressed uncertainty about their plan of attack on the House floor today.
A tentative vote was expected today on the Senate bill that passed through the House Ways and Means Committee with minor changes last week.
In anticipation of the tentative vote, several legislators from Regents areas yesterday began polling representatives to determine support for amendments.
The main items that the legislators said they would seek to amend were increases in faculty-pay allocations and an increase in the Other Expenses account for each school's budget.
HOWEVER, SEVERAL legislators were not exactly sure what they would propose as amendments. Others were not sure they would offer amendments.
"I guess I'll have to decide tonight what I am
Another legislator who had been expected to raise an amendment was State Rep. John Solbach. D-Lawrence, Solbach, however, refused to comment.
OTT HAD been listed by several other regulators as one of the representatives likely to apply for the license.
"There have been efforts to get something
that is wanted, but I cannot say what I will do with an amendment."
going to do," State Rep. Belva Ott, R-Wichita, said yesterday. "It will be a hard decision for me to make because this is a difficult year to amend more expenditures into budgets."
Ott said that although she favored keeping quality higher education, she did not want to keep it at the expense of unbearable property-tax rates.
Skies will be sunny today and the high will reach 75, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be from the southwest at 15 to 18 mm.
"I don't see where the money will come from, other than from property taxes," she said, "and I don't believe that people will take another job." She really in a difficult position to decide what to do."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said yesterday that her efforts with the amendments included taking a head count of legislators who would support changes.
Tonight, skies will be mostly clear with a low around 50 and southernly winds of 5 to 15 mph.
"I have not gotten far enough on my list to see if there is enough support," Charlson said. "For some of them, I will have to wait and talk with them before tomorrow. They just haven't been available today."
"If the head count is close, then we will try the amendments. We will just have to wait and see."
Tomorrow's high will be in the upper 70s under partly cloudy skies.
OTT SAID THAT GETTING an amendment of this type through on the House floor was very difficult.
"We can pretty well expect that Mike Hayden, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, will speak out against an amendment," Cohen said. "That is what we are an ingenuity."
Since the budget was scrutinized for two days by the Ways and Means Committee, the opinions of that committee chairman will carry considerable weight in today's action.
"Somebody has to pay for this increase," Ott said, "and I don't know if the people in my area will want to pay for what the amendments will do."
Another deterrent to opposition is the political consequences for a legislator who proposes intolerant laws.
Weather
Carter, Francisco clash over unannounced trip
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
It was probably the angriest anyone had gotten over a trium to Pennev's.
Lawrence Mayor Ed Carter was upset with Marci Francisco at last night's city Commission meeting for criticizing his trip to a J.C. Penney Co. center in Dallas.
CARTER EMPHASIZED that the drawings were tentative concepts, and that he and Watson "had no idea" of what the retailer had planned to give them.
Carter and City Manager Buford Watson made the flight to Dallas last Thursday, to receive a conceptual drawing of a possible downtown mall, dawned up by J.C. Penney consultants.
“When a major retailer calls us, up makes contact with us,” Carter said after the meeting,
“what are we going to do? Tell them to go fly a kite?”
Francisco, however, said that she had not been informed about the city-financed journey, and that she had first heard of it from newspaper reports. She later told reporters, said he had known about the trip beforehand.
Francisco said that people had expressed concern to her about the trip, especially because of its timing with a bill currently in the Kansas Legislature. The bill, which would empower the city to create special benefit tax districts downtown, would also give the Commission some powers of eminent domain for future downtown redevelopment projects.
"I have worked hard to try and generate a consensus here," Francisco said, "and it has not."
She said she thought the trust between the Commission and Lawrence citizens had been
"People are scared," she said, "and with this bill, this proposal could make them more scared. There's no consensus in the community for a downtown mail."
CARTER VEHEMENTLY disagreed, his face flushing bright red and his normally soft voice jumping in volume as he defended himself. He swept away and had tried to be honest and above all at time.
He later explained that he had intended to discuss the Dallas trip in greater detail at last week's Commission meeting, but that it had adjourned before he remembered to bring it up.
"There's no sinister underground cover up here," he said.
"The mall plan they did give us is a vast improvement over JVJ's original proposal."
"I tried to inform the press," he said later. "There were no bad intentions. For all I knew, Penney's was going to talk to us about free-standing stores downstairs, or cluster retail development. That's what we were hoping they would talk about.
THE PROPOSAL by Cleveland developer Jacobs, Visconi and Jacobs was originally submitted in September 1979. It called for replacing four square blocks of downtown
Lawrence with a $35,000-square foot mail. Carter said the Penney's proposal was much smaller and incorporated many existing downtown structures.
"Our consultant (Robert Teskas and Associates) will help us to get together with retailer," Carter said.
He said that at a meeting last year, JVJ and Teksa had urged the city to take this approach. He said that the meeting had been fully authorized by the Commission.
"I damn am sick and tired and I remember your crap," he told Francisco. "I'm really tired of it."
FRANCISCO REFUSED to back down.
"I think it would have been a lot easier if we had made this trip public beforehand," she said, pointing out that under Lawrence's present form of government, the mayor is authorized by state law only to make appointments and run meetings.