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University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1985
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Panel hears drinking bill debate
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Under the glare of television lights, Kansas wets and drys yesterday battled once again over the issue of liquor by the drink.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee filled two hours with testimony on the proposed amendment to the Kansas constitution that would end the state's ban on open saloons.
The committee is scheduled to discuss and possibly vote on the resolution today.
If approved by the committee, the measure still would require a two-thirds majority to clear the full House. The proposal then would go before the voters in the November 1986 general election.
Proponents of the measure repeated Gov. John Carlin's State of the State call in January for liquor by
the drink in order to improve the state's image and aid in economic development.
OPPONENTS CITED increased social costs, such as drunken driving, alcoholism and spouse abuse, which could be reduced from the passage of the measure.
Supporters said voters should be allowed to decide the issue. Fees of the resolution called on legislators who opposed it, because they would not support themselves.
Jerry Shelter, executive secretary of the group, told the committee that almost 85 percent of Kansas voters wanted to vote on the issue.
Kansans for Effective Liquor Control, a pro-liquor lobbying group, brought together representatives of business and labor groups, law enforcement tourists and the restaurant industry to speak in favor of the measure.
"Those legislators who do not allow us to vote on this issue are certainly
guilty of a high degree of arrogance about their own wisdom," Shelor said, "and in the process deny us our democratic right to vote."
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Taylor said liquor by the drink was a giant step in the wrong direction for Kansas.
ANTI-LIQUOR forces included a current and a former state representative, businessmen, attorneys and the Rev. Richard Taylor Jr., lobbyist for Kansans for Life at Its Best!
"We drink less because restrictive laws keep the price up and the availability down." Taylor said. "Do you want to make it more convenient for more people to drink more liquor on more occasions in more places and then drive away?"
A KU student agreed with Taylor that the resolution represented a step in the wrong direction, although he said that only 20 percent of college students shared his views on liquor by the drink.
Speakers to discuss NATO's fate
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
The future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is scheduled to be discussed at a conference Friday and Saturday on campus and at Washburn University in Topeka.
The Center for Humanistic Studies and the Washburn University International Center are sponsoring the conference, which will address the origins, present problems and future prospects of NATO.
The conference is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Friday in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. It is expected to continue Saturday at Washburn.
Pre-registration is required for the conference. For reservations, call Washburn's International Center at 913-295-6642.
The cost for attending the conference both days is $20, which includes receptions and meals. The cost for attending only the Friday session on
campus is $15.
Ted Wilson, KU professor of history, is coordinating the event on campus and plans to speak about how European countries viewed NATO when it was founded in 1949.
WARREN KIMBALL, professor of history at Rutgers University, is scheduled to speak about the relationship among the member countries of NATO. Ronan Fanning, professor of history at University College in Dublin, Ireland, is scheduled to speak about the role of neutral countries in NATO.
A banquet is planned for 7 p.m. at the Adams Alumni Center, Joseph C. Harsch, senior editor of the Christian Science Monitor, is scheduled to speak about his recent six-week tour of Western Europe, in which he interviewed leaders of Western European countries.
Saturday's conference topics are expected to focus on issues facing the alliance.
Lt. Col. John Hixon, a director at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, is expected to speak about the strategic issues facing the alliance.
ROBERT ELLSWORTH, a former congressman from Kansas and a NATO ambassador during the Nixon administration, plans to discuss the economic relationship between North America and Western Europe. Ellsworth works as a consultant in Washington, D.C.
In the afternoon, John Scanlan, an adviser to the U.S. Department of State on Poland and Eastern Europe, is scheduled to discuss East-West relations.
Martin J. Hillebrand, the Dean Rusk professor of international relations at the University of Georgia, and Manfred R. Hamm, senior policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., plan to present opposing views on the future of the alliance network.
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