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University Daily Kansan, February 18. 1981
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Congress asked to reject pay raise
WASHINGTON—President Reagan asked members of Congress yesterday to reject a 16.8 percent pay increase for themselves, the Cabinet, hundreds of federal agencies and state governments.
White House press secretary Jim Brady said the president had decided it was inappropriate, in light of his fight to control government spending, to seek increases in federal executive salaries as his predecessor, Jimmy Carter, had recommended.
The president's request would save 921 million in 1981, according to the Office of Management and Budget, because the raises would not apply to the President. The president would pay a 4% raise.
Congress received the recommendation from Carter in the waning days of his administration. Members have until March 18 to comply with or reject the request by Reagan, who earlier had approved of the proposed salary increases.
Reagan cancels temperature laws
WASHINGTON-President Reagan yesterday canceled Jimmy Carter's energy-saving restrictions that held all public buildings to a maximum temperature of 65 degrees in the winter and a minimum of 78 degrees in the summer.
Reagan said that although temperature restrictions might result in reduced consumption of fuel, they were burdensome. "I have concluded that the regulatory scheme designed to accomplish that objective imposes an excessive regulatory burden and that voluntary and market incentives will achieve substantially the same benefit without the regulatory costs," Reagan said.
No building owner has ever been fineed or reprimanded under the low-budget program, and an Energy Department aide said the enforcement generally was loose because the department didn't have enough inspectors.
The building temperature restrictions provoked an uprora of opposition from retailers and other businessmen when Carter first imposed them. They were originally imposed as a conservation measure on a none-month basis during the gasoline shortage in April 1979.
Carter extended the restrictions last May and again on Jan. 16, 1981 following the Energy Department's recommendation.
The agency has estimated that the restrictions have saved $4.5 billion, or about 123 million barrels of imported oil.
Evidence could link Atlanta killings
ATLANTA—A medical examiner said yesterday that he had found evidence suggesting a link between the death of 11-year-old Patrick Balzar and others of the 17 Atlanta children who have been slain during the past 19 months.
Joe Burton, DeKalb County medical examiner, said that because of the relatively good condition of the body, a "ton of evidence" was recovered from Burton's crime scene.
Burton declined to say what evidence was involved or which cases it might link.
Other sources reported that fibrous material taken from Baltazar's body had been sent to the star crane lab for further examination. Burton refused
The Atlanta Journal quoted police sources who said the link between five of the deaths was important because it helped tie together cases in which the causes of death varied. One of the five victims was stabbed, another asphyxiated and the three others strangled.
The newspaper said its sources had said there was no single piece of evidence but several pieces that, when considered as a whole, linked to it.
Poland recognizes students' union
WARSAW, Poland—The Polish government yesterday agreed to recognize an independent students' union, setting a stricter that had spread to 20 states.
After the government formally registered the independent student union in the evening, student leader Zacputonov said, "Tomorrow in Lodz will be the meeting of the students."
Czutpowica was a member of the four-member student group that negotiated the agreement during a three-hour meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski. Final wording of the union charter was worked out during three more hours of bargaining.
Word of the agreement came after a student strike that began Jan. 21 at Lodz, Poland's second largest city had spread to 20 other institutions of higher learning. Student leaders threatened to close more schools unless the union was recognized.
The students already had won concessions dropping mandatory Russian language and Marxist doctrine courses and easing foreign-travel rules in talks leading to the agreement. In turn, the students dropped demands for shorter compulsory military service.
Human rights report attacks Iran
WASHINGTON—The State Department, in a report drafted before the hostages were freed with withheld until yesterday, depicted revolutionary Iran as a country ruled by intolerant Islamic leaders and suffering from domestic chaos and international isolation.
The report also said the Tehran government condoned the "inhumane and degrading" treatment suffered by the American captives.
The 1988 Human Rights Report referred to "credible reports" of arrests, detentions, accusations, executions, public flogging, stonings and security secret训
It also said that freedom of press, speech and assembly suffered substantially in Iran last year, that religious minorities felt threatened and that political factions opposed to the Islamic constitution were barred from participating in elections.
Social Security focus of hearings
WASHINGTON—Congress began hearings yesterday on how to save Social Security, when Alden said that the retirement fund would go beyond its current $50 billion.
Rep. J. Pickle D-Texas and chairman of the House Social Security subcommittee, said that preventing the Social Security program from going broke was more important than balancing the budget and passing a tax bill, but he warned that the effort could be sabotaged by partisan politics.
Pickle, representatives of the Congressional Budget Office and Rep. Kiefer, K.Texas, the committee's ranking GOP member, all agreed that the rule would be a blessing for the country.
There have been several proposed solutions to the program's problems, most of which involve either raising taxes, cutting benefits, delaying the tax burden.
The retirement fund is facing its biggest problems in the next century by shrinking ratio of workers paying into the system to retired workers drawing up.
Pope tries to settle Filipino dispute
MANILA, Philippines—Pope John Paul II stepped into a bitter state-church rift in the Philippines yesterday, telling President Ferdinand Marcos that governments must safeguard human rights and warning priests to stay clear of politics.
Today, the pontifex spoke to students at the University of Santo Tomas, where a Filipino youth attempted to rush toward him but was stopped by a police officer.
The unidentified young man, wearing a saffron-yellow T-shirt reading "I'm for You in Latin," but not wearing a shirt with an emblem was grabbed by policemen on the street, a boy said, a splatter.
The pope, seeing what had happened, moved forward and beckoned to the youth, who was then allowed to approach. The pope then embraced him.
Pancorioli, said. "It appeared he wanted only to kiss the pope's hand." The incident was watched by millions of people on nationwide television.
"We don't know what happened," a vatican spokesman, the Rev. Romeo Pancelli, said. "It appeared he wanted only to kiss the none's hand."
City Commission approves building plans
By PAM HOWARD Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night approved the final plat of a proposed park office on the southeast corner of Kasao Drive and Clinton Parkway. A plat is a preliminary land-use plan.
Commissioners expressed concern that a proposed private road on the property would eventually have to be maintained by the city, and that large signs would be mounted on the back of the road in order to attract Clinton Parkway motorists.
with commissioners Marci Francisco and Don Binns voting against the plat. A provision was added stating no signs could be mounted on the buildings.
The plat was approved by a 3-2 vote
The vote came after the commission unanimously agreed to return a rezoning request of the property to the city planning commission to determine what the property could be used for if the credit union closed.
Also last night, the commission voted to allow the School Employees' Credit Union to use property at Sixth and Alabama streets for expansion.
The credit union had requested a rezoning from multiple family to residential office.
The commission also voted
unanimously to refer to the planning commission a request to rezone 4.8 acres at 1620 E. 23rd St. from single family to limited commercial.
The request was made by Hornaym Nik-khaw, Kansas City, Kan., who wants to build a luxury motel on the property.
He argued that the motel would fit in with the other businesses on East 23rd Street, but Commissioner Barkley Clark said the request would have to be referred back to the planning commission.
Clark said the zoning did not conform with Plan '95, a Lawrence/Douglas County community development plan published in July 1977.
The commission also voted unanimously to approve a request by E&E Specialities Inc., 910 E. 920th St., million in industrial investment bonds.
roger White, president of the company, which manufactures cardboard point-of-purchase displays for new consumer products, said the money needed for equipment buying expansion and the hiring of 25 new employees.
The commission unanimously approved an ordinance requiring anyone advertising for and buying coins, jewelry and silverware to record all transactions in which the dealer pays $40 or more.
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