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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 116 (USPS 650-640)
Fridav. March 22, 1985
Brian Shorter, 9, picks up some essentials — bubble gum, cookies and a candy bar — from Eastside Community Grocery, 1200 New York St., a small store across the street
KU, Culture Farms officials meet
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Officials of a Lawrence company involved in legal troubles in Kansas and Washington state met yesterday with KU officials and assured them that the University of Kansas would not be affected by the troubles, even though two professors conduct research for the company.
Officials of Culture Farms Inc., 2220 Delaware St., also told KU administrators that the University would not be named in any lawsuits against the company, according to James Akagi, chairman of the microbiology department.
Akagi and Delbert Shankel, professor of microbiology, conduct research for Culture Farms. They attended the meeting yesterday morning.
inscussed. Officials from Culture Farms were unavailable for comment yesterday.
ALSO AT THE meeting were Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, and Carolyn Cross, assistant to the vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service. Cross would not say who else attended the meeting or what topics were
Culture Farms, which refines milk cultures for use in cosmetics, has faced problems with the Kansas attorney general since January.
Two weeks ago, the company was ordered to halt operations by John Wurth, state securities commissioner. He charged that the company and eight other companies scattered across the country operated as a pyramid-Ponzi scheme and had made numerous misrepresentations.
Pyramid-Ponzi schemes, which violate the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, use funds from new investors to pay returns to previous investors. They demand an endless supply of new investors and do not sell profitable products.
A DAY AFTER Culture Farms was ordered to halt operations, the company obtained a temporary restraining order from a Shawnee County District Court judge. The restraining order temporarily negated the order to halt operations
A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in
On Wednesday, a Washington judge ordered Culture Farms to stop doing business in Washington because the company had failed to register with the state.
Activator Supply Co. of Las Vegas, New., also was ordered to stop operations in Washington. Activator Supply manufactures and sells kits for growing milk cultures. Culture Farms then buys the cultures from the kit owners, refines them and sells them to Cleopatra's Secret of Reno, New., which plans to use them in a new line of cosmetics.
ALSO NAMED IN the complaint are: Christopher Mancuso, vice president for marketing at Culture Farms; Larry Huff, involved with setting up operations in Washington for Activator Supply and Culture Island Nocea, president of Activator Supply.
Mike Flynn, assistant Washington attorney general, said Culture Farms and Activator Supply had not registered with the state before they started selling the activator kits
See CULTURE. p. 5, col. 1
Liquor by the drink approved by House
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A proposal to give Kansans a chance to vote on liquor by the drink squeaked through the Kansas House yesterday.
But when the proposal was returned to the Senate for approval, the senators found unpalatable an amendment to the proposal that would limit liquor by the drink to restaurants and sent the measure to a House-Senate conference committee.
The House voted 84-41 to send the proposed constitutional amendment to the state's voters in the 1986 general election. The 84 votes were just enough for the necessary two-thirds majority of the chamber, which has 125 members.
But Kansans will not get a chance to vote on liquor by the drink unless the conference approves it. Mr. Obama and the Senate approve it. Since his State the State speech in January, Gov John
Carlin has strongly favored liquor by the drink.
AFTER DEBATE ON the bill in the House, an initialally tame up five votes short of the number needed for passage. Supporters were able to pass the measure only after voters were changed at the last minute and after a vote in the house" that required all members to vote.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, voted against the resolution. She said she would not support any measure that included an amendment to allow liquor by the drink only in restaurants that received 30 percent of their sales from food.
Such a provision would have no place in the state constitution, she said, because it would not be binding.
Last month, the House Federal and State Affairs Committee amended the Senate resolution to keep liquor-by-the-drink sales under control against the amendment in the committee.
Israelis hit Lebanon; 2 CBS journalists die
See LIQUOR, p. 5, col. 4
Bv United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two CBS News journalists and at least 21 other people were killed yesterday by tank-backed Israeli troops who swept through a string of south Lebanese villages dynaming homes and arresting suspected Muslim guerrillas.
CBS News said free-lance cameraman Toufik Ghazzavli, 45, and soundman Bahije Metni, 35, were killed and driver Ayad Hassan Harake, 45, was seriously wounded in Israeli tank in the village of Kfar Keliak, near the port of Sidon 23 miles south of Beirut.
A CBS spokeswoman in New York quoted witnesses as saying the three, all Lebanese nationals, were attacked after stopping to film a car belonging to the UPITN television news gunfire that had been hit by Israeli fire. UPITN is not affiliated with UPII.
A LEBANESE cameraman working for UPTN suffered a slight head wound from splinters of glass from the car window, UPTN Editor John Connor said in Beirut.
The sources confirmed that an Israeli tank fired on a group of people near the village of Kfar Meki and apparently hit the two journalists working for CBS.
French television reporter Marine Jac
quemain, who was helping the UPITN crew, said the attack was deliberate and was not preceded by a warning.
CBS News President Ed Joyce, who sent a letter of protest to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, said he thought from what Jacqueline and another French journalist, that fire by an Israeli tank was directed at the CBS journalists with intent to kill.
JACQUEMAIN SAID she could not be certain the attack was a deliberate anti-journalistic act but added that the Israelis had been watching them through binoculars and could have seen clearly cameras and other television equipment.
Israeli military sources said 21 suspected Lebanese guerrillas were killed and were seven wounded in the villages of ibba. One Israeli soldier was slightly wounded.
One Israeli military source said an Israeli force on the outskirts of the village of Melki in southern Lebanon had spotted armed people in a firing position.
"A tank that was in the area opened fire," the source said. "It appears that the CBS people reported hurt were among those armed people.
See LEBANON, p. 5, col. 1
Reagan says he's ready for summit. prods House on MX
By United Press International
REAGAN USED HIS opening statement to continue a hard-sell campaign for the MX, A
"I think there is a good chance" of a summit being arranged, Reagan said.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said last night that it was time for a U.S.-Soviet summit and that he was ready to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev, the new chief advisor it conge.
He said some things now being discussed at lower levels of government could be added to the list.
Reagan, who spoke from the White House East Room in a nationally broadcast news conference, also indicated a willingness to compromise on budget issues. He drew the line at further cuts in Pentagon spending. He dismissed freezing Social Security payments on the ground that such action would not ease the budget deficit.
highly accurate 10-warhead intercontinental missile that must win two House votes next week to stay in production.
The president prodded the House to follow the Senate's lead and approve the building of 21 MX missiles this year — a $1.5 billion expenditure he said was crucial to the success of nuclear weapons talks with the Soviet Union.
The Senate gave two affirmative votes to the MX this week. Hailing that action, Reagan said, "Now is the testing time for the House.
"The votes there will answer the question of whether we stand united at Geneva or whether America will face the Soviet Union." The United States has fundamental questions of national security.
"No request by an American president for a major strategic system deemed vital to national security has ever been denied by an American Congress. It is that tradition of
bipartisan unity on national defense that brought the Soviets back."
The president also reiterated his view that the system of apartheid in South Africa was repugnant but said the recent outbreak of violence there would not lead to a change in political climate but rather than trying to force change through economic and other sanctions.
REAGAN SAID he was not rebuffed by Gorbache's failure to respond promptly and directly to his invitation to a summit, delivered by Vice President George Bush last week when he went to Moscow for the Governing Body in Chinnechenko, Gorbache's predecessor.
Reagan also expressed regret at the deaths of CBS News crew members in Lebanon but said he was certain the action of Israelis fired the artillery shells wasn't deliberate.
"The man has only been in office for a few days, and I have some idea of what is
confronting him now." Reagan said of Gorbachev, who at 54 is the youngest Soviet leader since Stalin took power.
Administration officials have suggested the most convenient place and time for a Reagan-Gorbachev summit would be in New York in September, when the Communist Party chief might appear to address the United Nations.
The news conference, the second of Reagan's second term, kept up the once-a-month pace he has adopted at the urging of first lady Nancy Reagan.
ON ANOTHER strategic issue, Reagan was asked about his comment last month that the United States faced a decision on whether to violate the SALT 2 treaty when it became clear later that year. The administration has accused the Soviets of violating the arms pact.
Reagan emphasized that the question of whether some U.S. missiles would be
On the budget, Reagan warned that his request for the Pentagon was a rock-bottom
He also said, "We're not going to do anything that might undercut the negotiations that are going on."
"Any further cuts are actually going to run the risk of lowering our capability." he said.
dismantled to stay under treaty limits was still open.
the risk of leadership on Capitol Hill.
The Republican-led Senate Budget Committee voted for an increase in military outings only to cover inflation next fiscal year, but Reagan has sought a 6.4 percent hike. Senate Republicans planned to meet with Reagan today in an effort to reach a compromise on the budget.
10 student groups request Senate funds
Reagan also rejected talk of a possible tax increase
"To start talking taxes at this time takes the heat of the backs of those who don't want to cut spending." he said.
Bv MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
Staff Reporter
Ten non-revenue code student groups last night asked the Student Senate Finance Committee for about $30,700 to help finance their activities next school year.
Non-revenue code groups are small student groups that request Senate funds annually and generally promote special interests.
This week, the committee has heard presentations from about 25 non-revenue code groups requesting money for fiscal year 1986, which includes the 1985-86 school year. Tonight, the committee plans to hear presentations from about six more groups. Next week, the committee plans to vote on allocating money to each group.
The committee can allocate as much as $51,181 to non-revenue code groups. The money comes from the activity fee students earned in the course. For the 1944-83 school year, the费 was $24
"Our people are on top of it," he said.
The committee's recommendations go to the full Senate for approval.
- The Black Student Union requested $4,190. BSU sponsors cultural and social activities between minority students and the community. The group received $2,735 for fiscal 1985.
Christine Cressie, BSU president, said part of the group's request was a $1,000 stipend to be shared by the president, vice president and administrative secretary.
"Some members told me to my face that they thought this organization was a joke and that we didn't deserved any money." he said.
- Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, a new group formed to provide a neutral forum for diverse speakers, requested $6.786.
Foubert said some members of the Finance Committee didn't take his organization seriously.
Michael Foubert, president and adviser of the group, said the purpose of the group was not to advocate a position but to expose students to different views.
- The KU Crew Club requested $9.044. the club is for men and women who participate in rowing. The request is for supplies, expenses and equipment.
KU Crew Club received $715 fiscal year 1985.
- Catholic Social Services of Lawrence requested $2,000 for salaries. The group provides individual and group counseling to persons of all faiths.
- In the Streets, a new campus newspaper,
requested $5,866 for printing and supplies.
- Praxis requested $1,299. Praxis sponsors forums and publishes a newspaper. It received $410 for fiscal year 1865.
- *Counseling Students' Organization, which sponsors seminars and publishes a journal on counseling, asked for $725. They received no Senate money last year.
- KU Biology Club requested $313. The group, which received $119 during fiscal 1985, sponsors events for biology students.
- Kaw Valley Songwriters requested $112. The group sponsors events for local songwriters and received no Senate money last year.
- The African Student Association requested $283. The group, which also received no Senate money last year, promotes cultural awareness of African students.
Steve Smith, Overland Park junior, takes a break from studying to play on his three-wheeler in Holom Park, 27th Street and Lawrence Avenue. Smith said yesterday that riding was good exercise and a lot of fun — "just like being a kid again."