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Haig still top adviser, Reagan says
WASHINGTON—President Reagan went out of his way yesterday to reaffirm Secretary of State Alexander Haig's status as his "primary adviser" on foreign affairs despite creation of a crisis management team headed by Vice President George Bush.
But officials said the issue of foreign policy control would remain unsettled until the new system was tested in action.
The president took the unusual step of reading a prepared statement to that effect to reporters on the South Lawn where a helicopter was taken to take off. The president then announced that the team would be back.
The issue became something of a public power struggle Tuesday when Haig said he was surprised and enthusiastic to read in newspapers that the White House planned to put Bush in charge of handling foreign and domestic crises.
Reagan said in his statement that "the secretary of state is my primary adviser on foreign affairs and in that capacity he is the chief formulator and spokesman for foreign policy for this administration. There is not nor has there ever been any question about this."
Reagan said Haig had not threatened to resign, as one report stated.
Bush, in his first public comment on the new position, told reporters that his appointment in no way reflected a lack of White House confidence in him.
Court upholds murder conviction
TOPEKA-Arguments that a shot to the head was merely a young woman's way of helping a friend commit suicide were rejected yesterday by the Kansas Supreme Court, which upheld the woman's first-degree murder conviction.
"It it was the hand of Kathleen Cobb which pushed the plunger on the cocaine syringe both times and it was Kathleen Cobb who picked up the pistol, found (Henry) Davis' temple and pulled the trigger," stated the unanimous decision written by Justice Harold Herd.
"Davis did not destroy himself. It is possible Davis may have assisted Cabb in destroying himself, but the actual destruction was performed by Kirkman."
Cobb is serving a life sentence in Lansing Penitentiary for the February 1980 death of 22-year-old Davis of Lawrence.
The defendant had appealed her murder conviction on the grounds that the jury should have been instructed on an 1885 Kansas territorial Statute that established that a death sentence would be imposed.
In the first test of the law in the history of the Kansas Supreme Court, however, the justices held that the statute did not apply in Cobb's case.
Embassy attacked in San Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador-Gunmen pumped rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire into the U.S. Embassy yesterday in the third attack on three weeks, injuring no one but blowing a gaping 20-foot hole in the mission's front wall, witnesses said.
The attack was carried out about 2:10 p.m. CST by eight men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with a hand-held grenade launcher and several submachine guns, said Amelia Brenes, a waitress in a restaurant across the street from the embassy.
The attackers calmly walked away from the embassy after the shooting stopped and piled into two waiting cars, sald Oscar Duras, whose office is located in the building.
Journalists who had witnessed the attack said Salvadoran police guarding the bunker-like building opened fire on the unidentified attackers, missing them, but critically injuring two passengers in a bus passing by the embassy.
It was the fourth attack on the embassy since Sept. 16, when alleged leftist guerrillas battled to topple the U.S.-supported government shot two U.S. troops.
Before the attack yesterday, government spokesmen revealed that the 30-year-old daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte had survived an apparent assassination attempt similar to one last week against the interior minister.
A red pickup tried to cut off a bullet-proof van carrying Guadalupe Duarte de Navos as she and her chauffeur drove through downtown San Sebastián.
No shots were fired, and Navos and the driver were uninjured.
UMW chief expects short walkout
WASHINGTON—United Mine Workers President Sam Church Jr., said yesterday that 106,000 soft-coal miners would strike at midnight tonight, and he hopes the workers will get their share of the pay.
Despite tentative agreement on a new three-year contract, the union planned to adhere to its traditional "no contract, no work" rule until the rank-and-file members ratify the pact, Church said. The current agreement expires at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.
If the rank-and-file approves the new pact, it would mean only a five-day strike. The work stoppage was not expected to have significant impact on the
Since most miners do not work Saturday or Sunday, it would cost them a three-day wage of wages worth $253.44 at top scale.
Even if ratification occurs Tuesday, most miners will not return to work on Thursday next week. Next Wednesday is a paid holiday in observance of leap year.
WASHINGTON—The Democratic chairman of the House Tax-writing Committee predicted yesterday that President Reagan would get a smaller tax cut than he wants, but Republican leaders said they would seek the full 30 percent reduction.
Official predicts smaller tax cut
Chairman Dan Restenkowski, D-Dill, said his House Ways and Means Committee would favor a lower tax rate cut, targeted on the poor, middle- income households.
Rep. Barber Connable of New York, the ranking Republican on the Tax-writing Committee, said nothing had come out of several meetings he has held.
Treasury Secretary Don Regan said Rostenkowski's remarks were "most unfortunate," particularly because the Ways and Means panel had criticized the idea of a "certain" rule.
"The tax rate cuts of 10 percent a year for three years are essential to the effectiveness of the total economic program." he said.
Possible lead found in Atlanta case
An FBI spokesman said the agency was working with its Georgia bureau to determine whether Frankie Edmonds, 32, arrested last Sunday in the abduction of a 9-year-old black boy in New York's Duchess County, could be a suspect in the Atlanta case.
NEW YORK—The FBI last night that it was investigating the possibility that an ex-convict arrested for abducting a black child while driving a truck with Georgia license plates might be linked to the case of Atlanta's slain and missing children.
Twenty black children have been slain and two others have been reported missing in the Atlanta area during the past 20 months.
East Fishkill Police Chief Andrew Crisolo said Edmonds was arrested in the town, which is about 80 miles north of New York City, last Sunday and was charged with unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child.
Duchess County sheriff Fred Scorallick said FBI had notified his office yesterday that it wanted to interview the suspect now being held on $25,000.
Authorities said Edmonds, who had no identification on him, was believed to be from Queens and was driving a rented Ryer truck with Georgia
Crisolo said Edmonds also was carrying a flier promoting a march in New York City honoring the slain children when he was arrested.
Low salaries linked to librarian turnover
By CINDY CAMPBELL Staff Reporter
Since 1976, KU's librarians have been complaining about low salaries—and relief seems nowhere in sight.
In 1975, the median salary at KU ranked 50th among the 105 Association of Research Libraries member institutions survey, KU's ranking had fallen to 92nd.
According to the KU Library Faculty Assembly salary committee, since 1975 KU librarians' salaries have not kept pace with peer libraries.
"We're not arguing that we should be anywhere above the middle of the ARL ranking, but our salaries are so low now that we're having great difficulty at retaining competent people," Joe Gershoff, salary committee member, said.
FOR THE PAST two years, KU salaries have ranked in the bottom 12 percent of ARL institutions.
The salary committee report said that many universities had taken steps to correct similar salary declines when the faculty level a落等级 of that to KU's.
In 1975, when KU ranked 50th among ARL institutions, there were no resignations. By 1979 the ARL rank increased and resignations had risen to 12 percent annually.
When the University of Missouri was ranked in the 80s during two consecutive years, the university took corrective measures. MU raised its rank from 89 to 38 between 1976 and 1978.
ACCORDING TO Ted Sheldon, head of the salary committee, the link between salaries and full-time employee turnover cannot be ignored.
"Most librarians can't afford the salary being offered here. Married librarians with kids are out of the question. They have to consider how they're going to feed their kids," Shelden said.
KU is an excellent training ground for recent college graduates with no experience, according to Sheldon. He said the school's emphasis on lowering the quality of library service,
"Reference librarians aren't worth their salt for a year after they're hired anyway because it takes them that long
to discover the nuances of the library system. In our situation, we have people training new librarians that "understand" qualified themselves," Sheldon said.
SHELDON ATTRIBUTED the salary lag to legislative inaction.
"The state determines the type of university and library they want to have. And they determine who will work here," he said.
"Acting Chancellor Skanlke is shocked by the fact that he's temporary. The legislator know they are going to have to face him again next year.
"Over the period of six or seven years, these problems are going to affect the quality of state education here in Kansas."
Wescoe to address national conference
A two-day national conference on business and the humanities begins today at the Kansas Union and will feature a keynote address tonight by W. Clarke Wescoe, former KU chancellor. His speech and the conference will not be open to the public.
The conference will end a three-year program to develop a closer relationship between the School of Business and KU's humanities departments. The program was funded by a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Wescoe, who was chancellor from 1960 to 1969, will be among 120 business executives and business and humanities faculty from across the nation expected to attend the conference.
board of Sterling Drug Inc. in new York City, will deliver his speech at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union.
Wescoe, now the chairman of the
the conference will include a report on the KU project, sessions on broader issues in business and the challenges and a variety of speakers.
"It is our hope that the conference papers, responses and discussions will encourage others to embark on new research in curricular development to strengthen the commitment to general education in the business curriculum," John Tolletton, dean of the college and coordinator committee, said.
He said the exchange between the business school and the humanities department would continue despite the end of the program.
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The theft, which occurred between Monday and Tuesday, was discovered by a maid in a residence in the 2100 block of 35th Street. They found no signs of forced entry.
LAWRENCE POLICE are uncertain whether the $15,550 sterling of silver tableware this week is connected with a series of silver burglaries that occurred in December, Lawrence police L.L. Lyse Sutton said yesterday.
A series of burglaries that began in late 1980 resulted in the theft of almost $200,000 of sterling silver; said Ron McBride, a police chief. No arrests have been made.
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