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Vol. 95, No. 124 (USPS 650-640)
Restrictions on Japanese get support
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee, adding pressure for lifting barriers to American goods, approved a bill yesterday ordering President Reagan to launch back at Japan in 90 days unless it opens its markets to U.S. products.
Also yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a non-binding resolution similar to one unanimously adopted last week by the Senate urging the president to restrict imports from Japan unless it opens its markets.
The committee actions came as the State Department reported Japan had agreed to two steps aimed at further opening its communications market to U.S. exporters:
- Technical standards that Japanese imports of these products must meet will be simplified within 60 days.
- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has given his assurance that American companies will be represented on the Japanese government standards and guidelines for these imports.
THE AGREEMENTS RESULTED from talks between two U.S. trade envoys, Gaston Sigur, of the White House, and Undersecretary of Commerce Lionel Olmer, with Nakasone in Japan last weekend. The two points were among a long list of U.S. requests in the telecommunications field.
"Our trade policy toward Japan is clear," the department said in a statement. "We want the same access to Japan's markets that Japanese companies have to ours."
THE SENATE COMMITTEE's action goes far beyond last week's non-binding Senate resolution and would require the president to improve the U.S. trade deficit with Japan, which totaled $37 billion last year, by $3.5 billion during the next 12 months.
The figure was based on Japan's decision, to relax its voluntary restraints on auto exports to the United States, which it is estimated will increase Japan's U.S. sales by $4.5 billion. U.S. exports to Japan have been growing at a rate of roughly $1 billion a year.
"I'time to get tough," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said.
Sandra Prager (left) and Barbara Ballard congratulate each other on election victories before leaving the Douglas County Court House. Prager was elected last night to the Lawrence City Commission and Ballard was elected to the school board.
Praeger gets top spot; Amyx, Hill re-elected
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission, after last night's election, will contain one new face with the first place finish of Sandra Praeger, who received 4,981 votes to top the six-candidate field.
Incumbents Mike Amyx, who received 4,841, and Howard Hill, who received 4,572, were re-elected to the commission, taking second and third respectively.
City Commissioner Nancy Shontz was not re-elected. Shontz, who has served on the commission since 1981, placed fourth with 3,931 votes.
Mona McCoy, 2.476 votes, and Bob Pulliam, 2.114 votes, took fifth and sixth in the election.
"I'M REALLY EXCITED at it," Praeger said. "We've all worked really hard on the campaign to try to get our message across."
Because they were the top two votegetters, Praeger and Amyx will serve four-year terms. Hill will serve a two-year term.
Praeger also said she was surprised by her first-place position. She said she had wanted one of the four-year positions but didn't expected to take the top spot.
"Thrilled." was the way Praeger described her initial reaction to the news of her first-place finish.
"I've emphasized leadership all through the campaign," she said. "I think my message of the commission taking a leadership position in getting growth through
responsible planning made an impact on the voters."
Amyx also expressed great pleasure at his second-place finish.
it's a tremendous privilege to be elected to the City Commission," Amyx said, "but it's truly an honor to be re-elected. I feel really honored."
AMYX SAID HE had put in a lot of hours in his campaign and he felt good that it had paid off with a second-place finish.
He said the replacing of Shontz with
Election results
Name Vote totals *
1. Sandra Praeger 4,981
2. Mike Amyx 4,841
3. Howard Hill 4,572
4. Nancy Shontz 3,911
5. Mona McCoy 2,476
6. Bob Pulliam 2,114
Praeger would not significantly alter the way the commission did business.
"I'm sure you will still see split votes on certain items," he said. "Each commissioner will follow his conscience."
Hill, who will serve a two-year term, said he was pleased to win. He said he wasn't surprised at his victory because he had finished in the top three in the Feb. 26 primary. He said he thought the top three in
See ELECTION. d. 5. col. 1
Panel passes GLSOK buck to Senate
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
After the Student Senate Finance Committee failed to decide whether Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas should receive Student Senate money, the committee early this morning voted to let the full Senate decide on the group's financing.
Senate will include recommendations for 32 student groups. The committee offered no recommended amount of money for GLSOK, which allows the Senate to decide whether the group will receive funds, and if so, the amount.
The budget package that will go before the
leaen group needed a two-thirds majority to pass through the Finance Committee. However, after about three hours of debate the committee voted to pass the two-thirds majority needed and voted to
change its policy to allow a recommendation for approval of GLSOK funds to pass with a simple majority. After GLSOK failed to obtain a simple majority vote on financing, the committee voted to send the bill to the Senate without a recommendation for GLSOK.
Controversy surrounding GLSOK last night focused on whether individual morality should serve as a guideline when determining whether a group should receive Senate funds.
Mark Gillem, a committee member who did not support financing GLSOK, said, "If we take the morals and ethics of the decision then we could have a computer do this job."
J. L.Blair, committee member, said, "I think our charge as Finance Committee
See FINANCE, p. 5, col. 2
Dale Goss, Wichita graduate student, and Sally McHugh, St. above Memorial Stadium. They flew the kite in yesterday's Louis freshman, watch their kite as it soars over the hill above weather.
City votes to close street for party
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission voted last night to close Stewart Avenue for a party scheduled April 12 by the fraternities and sorority on the street.
The commission approved the closing of the street 3-2 Mayor Ernest Angino and Commissioner Nancy Shontz voted against closing the street.
The request for closing the street between 4 p.m. and midnight April 12 was submitted by Richard Hayes, an organizer of the Stewart Street Bash and member of Tau Kappa
Neighbors of the Stewart Avenue fraternities and sorority expressed concern at the meeting about noise from the party and crowded room than 1,000 people are invited to attend.
"AS A MOTHER of small children, I am concerned about babies crying in the middle
The commission also approved the closing of 19th Street Terrace, 20th Street and 20th Street Terrace. These streets will be closed from 4 p.m. to midnight April 12.
Organizers of the party have agreed with neighbors to hire off-duty police officers to restrict access to these streets to residents and keep people from wandering into them.
of the night because they can't sleep." Linda Dick, 1745 W. 20th St., said, "I'm really frightened. People climb my fence, scare me dog and let him out."
"WHEN YOU GET that many people together, they get drunk." Angino said. "When a group of healthy 20 to 29-year-olds gets into trouble and they make up of themselves."
Angino said he did not approve of the party and did not want the city to become involved
over cans and bundles of hay at Lawrence police, who were responding to a noise complaint. The three arrested were not members of the fraternity.
Organizers of the Stewart Street Bash have agreed to stop playing music and serving beer at 11:30 the night of the party.
Angino referred to a party March 26 at Alpha Tau Omega, 1337 Tennessee St., where three students were arrested after lossing
SIX FRATERNITIES — Tau Kappa Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Kappa Theta, Alpha KappaLambda, and Evans Scholars — and one sorority — Alpha Gamma Delta — are sponsoring the party.
"No other party organization has gone to this extent in planning," Hayes said. "The manpower is seven-fold."
An agreement between the Stewart Avenue fraternities and sorority and the neighbors has been submitted to the organizations' presidents but not approved. The agreement states that after April 13 all parties of 500 or more people will be moved to campus and that outdoor music will be turned off by 10 p.m. weekdays and 11:30 p.m. on weekends.
KU Endowment faces divestment questions
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
Student protesters took to the streets demanding divestment, and the University Senate Executive Committee sponsored a forum to allow students and faculty express their opinions of the investment "KU South Africa" became a common cry at the University of Kansas.
Debate over the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies doing business in South Africa roared through campus last week.
But KU is not the only campus that has been shaken by cries for divestment because of apartepid, a policy of racial segregation practiced by the South African government.
Harvard University divested $50.9 million and Yale University sold $1.6 million worth of stock in companies doing business in South Africa. Ohio State University sold $25,000 worth of stock in International Flavors and Fragrances because the company repeatedly ignored its correspondence concerning human rights in South Africa.
By 1982, more than 30 colleges and universities in the United States had divested more than $200 million from banks and corporations with ties to South Africa. Divestment at the schools was prompted by student protest or new state laws.
with right. Ohio University divested $60,000 worth of stock in four companies — ITT Corp. Mobil Corp. Monsanto and TRW. The University of Wisconsin totally divested from about 25 companies after the Wisconsin Legislature passed a law prohibiting universities from investing in companies doing business in South Africa.
But movement toward divestment by the foundations supporting universities in the Big Eight Conference has been slow or nonexistent.
At Kansas State University, no recent campus protest calling for divestment has occurred, Arthur Loub, executive vice president of the K-State Foundation, said. The foundation has made no move toward divestment.
direcment.
Charles Platt, president of the Oklahoma State University Foundation, said the campus in Stillwater had not experienced any protests calling for its association to divest in recent years.
William Jones, vice president and treasurer of the University of Colorado Foundation, said the student government had schewed a panel discussion todivest for
April. But the foundation has not made plans to divest, he said.
to divest, he said.
The University of Oklahoma and Iowa State University also have made no moves to divest.
At the University of Missouri at Columbia, students came from the three other MU campuses to demonstrate against the school's investments in companies with ties in South Africa, Angela Durante, director of University Relations at MU, said. But the university has taken no actions to divest.
Association bound by law
Todd Seymour, Endowment Association president, recently said student protest and calls for the Endowment Association to divest had begun about 10 years ago.
"It is an extremely complex situation that most people look at only on the surface, from an emotional viewpoint," Seymour said. "We're not allowed to do that."
Although Nebraska law does not allow any state institution to invest in companies doing business in South Africa, the University of Nebraska Foundation has not divested, said Ed Hirsch, executive vice president. The foundation is a private organization, which is separate from the state and not restricted by state law.
Loud, KState's foundation director, said he had heard that KU had experienced the most student protest of any of the Big Eight schools over its Endowment Association's
Many people think of the Endowment Association as a villain that endorses the South African government because it does not understand that the Endowment Association is bound by state laws restricting divestment, Seymour said.
Kansas law prevents fiduciaries, such as the Endowment Association, from making investments or divesting based on political attitudes or an attempt to correct social, economic or political ills. Seymour said. Fiduciaries are organizations that hold trusts for others.
The Endowment Association must follow the Prudent Man Trust Management Law, a state law which says that an organization that manages trusts for others must invest as a "prudent man" would invest – in companies that yield the greatest profit.
In simple terms, the Endowment Association is a private corporation organized to encourage, receive, manage and administer gifts to benefit the University. Seymour said. The Endowment Association is a separate entity from both the state and the University.
See DIVEST, p. 10, col. 1
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