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University Daily Kansan, February 26, 1981
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Governor's veto of death bill stands
TPOEKA-The Senate failed yesterday, by three votes, to override the governor's veto of a bill that would have reinstated the death penalty in
Reinstalment would have required 27 pro-death penalty votes, a two-thirds majority of the 48-member Senate. The vote to override, however, was
No senator changed his vote from his previous vote, as some death penalty supporters had hoped.
Death penalty advocates had not expected the override vote to be successful, judging from the Senate's 23-15 vote, with two abstentions, earlier
It was the first time the legislature had tried to set aside Gov. John Carlin's veto of a death penalty bill.
In 1979 and 1980, the legislature passed capital punishment measures only to see them vetoed by Carlin. In both those years, the bills had originated in the Kansas House and had returned there for the first crack at overriding the bill. Short of the 84 pro-death penalty votes needed to override the bill in the lower chamber, House leaders had decided not to waste the time voting on the issue.
The bill, the same as the one vetoed last year, would have prescribed death by injection for persons convicted of premeditated murder or murder in such cases.
Harris stages iail hunger strike
VALHALLA, N.Y.-Convicted murderer Jean Harris, saying that she would not live "like an animal in a cage," is staging a jail hunger strike in a federal court.
"She told me that the only thing left for her was to die, and the only way to do it is to stop eating," said her attorney, Joe Auroun.
County Correction Commissioner Albert Gray said that Harris, who is
unable to attend Tuesday night, but had taken some liquids on Thursday,
county jail.
Harris, 57, was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder in the tracing shooting of "Scarsdale Diet" doctor, Herman Tarnower, her lover of 14 years.
Gray quoted Harris, who lost 15 pounds during her trial, as saying: "I can't see myself live like an animal in a cage for the rest of my life."
Harris is being held under a 24-hour suicide watch at the jail while she awaits sentencing March 20. She faces 15 years to life.
Her psychiatrist, Dr. Abraham Halpern, said there was a "very, very serious" threat that she would try to end her life.
Aarmous said, "I'm scared to death she won't live to see her appeal."
Oil decontrol forces air fare rise
WASHINGTON—Giving large price increases for aviation fuel because of
Washington's domestic airline fee levels 5.7 percent, effusive March
raised basic domestic airline fees to 46.1 percent.
The board also released new standard foreign fare levels, effective April 1, with increases of 4.33 percent for Atlantic markets, 4.65 percent for Pacific markets and 6.03 percent for Latin American markets, all because of rising fuel costs.
The standard industry fare is the base from which airlines may raise their fees based on a formula accounting for changes in carrier operating costs. The CA scheme has:
Airlines may still raise fares up to 30 percent above the CAB base. During a competition on some routes, carriers have stayed well below the formula.
The board temporarily raised the fare levels Feb. 4, pending yesterday's ad jastiment. It said then that the removal of crude oil price controls had led to sudden cost increases not anticipated when the last regular change was made in December.
Since December, jet fuel costs have risen from 90.0 cents a gallon to 94.1 cents. The board projects that the cost of jet fuel will surplus $1 a gallon by
Atlanta child found at friend's house
The child, Ternal Heard, 14, had spent the night at a friend's house, said Dempire Dale Williams, 14, who has a history of running away from home.
ATLANTA—Investigators trying to solve Atlanta's child slayings said yesterday that one of two most recently missing children was found yesterday at a friend's house.
During the past 19 months, 20 Atlanta black children have dropped from sight. Police have not yet added Williams name to the list because of the possibility that he is a runaway. Eighteen of the 20 children listed as missing have been found slain and two are still missing.
Meanwhile, investigators are scanning hundreds of feet of videotape looking for anyone who may be showing up repeatedly at the funerals of victims.
Chuck Johnson, public information officer with the DeKalb County police department, said detectives who have reviewed the videotapes of the funerals, searches and prayer vigils, picked out who 'acted suspiciously' at the funeral of Patrick Baltazar, the latest victim.
Washburn bill to eliminate Regent
TOPEKA- The Kansas House gave final approval yesterday to a bill that would alter the composition of Washburn University's Board of Regents. House members approved the bill on a 110-11 vote, with three abstentions. The bill will now go to the Senate for approval.
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topela, who led debate on the bill Tuesday, said that one of the bills accomplishments would be to give representation to people outside Topeka and shift selection away from the local school board. There would be big Regrets, instead of 10, under the bill.
The board would be made up of four people appointed by the mayor with the approval of the city's governing body. Three of those appointees would come from the same local public school district Washburn is in and one would come from outside that district.
Three members, who would be from outside of Topeka, but living in Kansas, would be appointed by the governor. One member would be the mayor. Another would be the governor.
During House debate, the bill was amended so that the change would go into effect in July, instead of within a matter of days after it got Senate approval.
Domestic adviser Martin Anderson refused to give specific figures involved in a "re-estimation" just conducted by the Office of Management and Budget, but press secretary Jim Brady told reporters the general range of the additional cuts.
Advisers ask for more budget cuts
WASHINGTON—President Reagan's goals will require additional budget increases in the range of $1 billion to $6 billion because the spending figures used to calculate his annual budget are not accurate.
Anderson said Reagan had "instructed OMB and the (Cabinet) agencies to take another look at the budget and finall additional spending reductions so as not to increase the federal deficit."
The president, who aides said expressed concern but not surprise, received the information at a hastily called meeting of his economic advisers.
That goal called for $895.5 billion in spending, with a $45 billion deficit. The administration had proposed $41.4 billion in cuts to meet those figures.
Anderson said that this re-estimation was part of the budget process and involves going over the figures "essentially from the ground up."
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