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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 15, 1992
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Julie Dickinson/KANSAN
Waiting to pay fees, KU students line up on the first day of fee payment in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Fee payment started Monday and ended yesterday.
Mother Teresa to return
The Associated Press
LA JOLLA, Calif. — Mother Teresa is making plans to continue her work with the poor after she is discharged from a hospital where she underwent surgery for a heart condition, doctors said.
Mother Teresa
Research
The 81-
year-old Roma n Catholic nun, who won the
1979 Nobel Peace Prize, was listed in good condition at Scripps Clinic and
Foundation, and doctors said they expected to discharge her sometime this week.
Doctors said her condition remained stable and her spirits were high.
Mother Teresa was admitted to the hospital the day after Christmas for treatment of bacterial pneumonia. On Dec. 28, an inadequate blood supply caused angina, or chest pain. The pneumonia triggered a brief congestive heart failure and doctors performed an artery-opening procedure to relieve the condition.
City, county commissions face new issues in session
Mother Teresa became ill while visiting members of her order, the Missionaries of Charity, in Tijuana, Mexico.
She later had another bout with angina and developed an irregular heartbeat. She was treated for both conditions with medication.
She accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the destitute in Calcutta, India.
Members of the Lawrence City Commission, Douglas County Commission and Lawrence Public School Board expressed concerns to Douglas County's legislative delegation issues that would be debated in the legislative session.
By Andy Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Difficult financial times usually make management better. he said.
Dan Neunswander, superintendent of Lawrence schools, said he wanted control of the levys to remain at the local level.
Lawrence city commissioners and Douglas County commissioners cite property tax financing of schools and political boundary reapportionment as key issues in the 1992 legislative session.
Lawrence and Douglas County could suffer political and financial damage if state lawmakers change existing school financing formulas and political boundaries, city and county officials told state legislators on Jan. 8 at Adams Alumni Center.
Commissioners said that Gov. Joan Finney's proposal for a uniform statewide mill levy on school districts could have a profound negative effect on local programs. School districts currently determine the amount of mill levys from their own budgets.
County Commissioner Mike Amxy said he preferred localized control so that the district could maintain current financing levels. Local officials have a better understanding of the unique needs of their communities, he said.
Amyx said he also was concerned that the state might cut financing for local programs.
"We have to keep the funding in place and continue to get the programs and services while trying to stay even in the entire process," Amyx said.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said that although it might appear that the state was in financial dire straits, plenty of money existed for all programs provided by the state.
"There is enough wealth in this state to provide the needs and services of the state," she said.
Some state lawmakers are considering proposals that would take allotted money from state highway projects and transfer it to property tax relief.
Lawrence Mayor Bob Walters said he disapproved of the plan.
"We oppose any form of highway robbery," Walters said. "The Lawrence City Commission sets a high priority on obtaining additional financial assistance for construction of the Eastern Parkway. State assistance and aid plays a vital part in meeting these highway and street needs."
Walters would like Lawrence and Douglas County to remain in the 2nd Congressional District, he said.
He said that placing Douglas County in the 3rd Congressional District with rapidly growing Johnson County could lead to malapportionment of the district in the 1990s.
Walters also said he was concerned with how legislators would redraw congressional district boundaries. The legislature must redraw the districts every 10 years, according to the state constitution.
NEW YORK — Most Americans who agreed to spy for the Soviet Union during the Cold War did so for their own safety, a former top KGB officer said.
KGB chief creates stir with claims
The Associated Press
And ex-Maj. Gen. Oleg Kakugin
with those who caught
those who caught
"Spies do belong in prison. Espionage is not the most noble profession," said Kalugin, who spent 32 years in the KGB, becoming chief of international counterespionage in the 1970s.
Kalugin has created a stir by claiming that at least three American prisoners of war were interrogated by the KGB in Hanoi, in 1978, in either 1978 or 1978, after the U.S. bombardment role ended in 1973.
His claim is disputed by some U.S. officials and former KGB colleagues, but has prompted the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs to ask him to testify. Nearly 3,000 Americans are still listed as missing in Southeast Asia.
The committee announced Monday in Washington the hearing has begun.
Kalugin was fired after denouncing the KGB in 1980 but was reinstalled after last August's failed Soviet coup, in which he supported Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
Kalugin, who also was a member of the Soviet parliament, is promoting a book about the coup. "Seven years ago he booked the World," produced by CNN.
Kalugin said Moscow was able to recruit Americans in "very serious positions" in the U.S. government after World War II.
But he said that after former dictator Josef Stalin was denounced in 1956 by then-Premier Nikita Khruschev, "there was a rapid process of disillusionment," causing many politically committed agents to break away.
The motive for Americans spying for Moscow then became commercial and led to what Kalugin called two of the KGB's most successful recruiting coups — the John Walker family spy ring and ex-CIA renegade Lee Howard, both in the 1980s.
Walker, a former U.S. Navy warrant officer, his son, a brother and a family friend all were sentenced to prison in 1886 for feeding top secret Navy information to the Soviets for 17 years. Some U.S. officials are also suspected possibly the most damaging of all spies during the Cold War era.
Howard, fired by the CIA in 1983 as a mentally unstable drug addict, was accused of revealing the names of numerous U.S. intelligence contacts in the Soviet Union. He later eluded FBI agents at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., and fled to the Soviet Union.
Kalugin described Walker as "professionally ... extremely useful," and said that he had no misgivings about him being sent to prison for them.
"We walked in and wanted money. We gave him money, he gave us information. He chose his own fate. We were not responsible," Kalugin said.
Kalugin said the KGB hoped during the Vietnam War to recruit some American POWs as spies on their return, but Vietnamese officials refused to give its agents direct access to the captives until after the war.
He said KGB officer Oleg Nechiphorenk went to Hanoi either in 1976 or 1978 and reported later he had interrogated two POWs still there, a navy officer, an Air Force pilot and a CIA agent. Nechiphorenk has disputed that, saying he talked with only one American.
Kalugin said the CIA man was induced through "friendly persuasion" to provide some information.
He said an effort was made to recruit the CIA agent as a Soviet spy, and he "gave us some encouragement."
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