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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No.139 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, April 18, 1984
Slattery calls ports' mining a big mistake
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
The Reagan administration's decision to mine Nicaraguan harbors was a "terrible mistake" and an example of a hostile U.S. attitude toward U.S. allies. The U.S. Navy U.S. Ken, Jim Slattery, D-Kan, said yesterday.
In a speech at the Lawrence Holide, 200 W. Turnpike Access Road, Slattery told about 500 members of Senior Partners of the First that the U.S. should give Latin American countries the same respect that it expected from them. Senior Partners of the First is a senior citizens group associated with the First National Bank of Lawrence.
"What would we do if someone mined San Francisco harbor or New York harbor?" he said.
"IT IS IMPORTANT for us to understand that we cannot impose an American solution on Central America. Like it or not, there are people down there who don't like us."
U. S. diplomacy with Latin America was one of six issues Slattery discussed. He also talked about Social Security, Medicare, natural gas and telephone regulation and the national economy.
Slattery, whose district includes Lawrence, spent about half a day in Lawrence. The speech at the Holidone was his last scheduled stop in Lawrence before he left for Manhattan.
Slattery returned to the second district Friday after Congress adjourned for Easter. He is due to appear in court on Tuesday.
Slattery told the senior citizens that President Reagan and Congress produced a solution last year to the problem of financing Social Security until the year 2000.
But he said that a solvent Social Security system depended on a healthy national economy and low national unemployment.
Linda Brown Smith tells about 25 people in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union that the struggle continues for high-quality education for blacks. She said last night that her parent's landmark case, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, had not yet led to equality of education for blacks.
See SLATTERY, p. 5, col. 1
Even after 30 years pupil in Brown case still sees inequality
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Thirty-four years ago, Linda Brown didn't understand why she couldn't attend the same school as her friends.
Her parents sued the Topeka Board of Education in 1951 for refusing to enroll their daughter in the all-white school, and the U.S. Justice Department said that school segregation was unconstitutional.
And her parents were angry that an all-white school, only four blocks from their home, wouldn't accept her, which forced her to attend an all-black school two miles away.
"A great deal remains to be done," she said.
She also provided a fighter changes for upward mobility.
Last night, Linda Brown Smith said that although her parents had won their case, U.S. courts rejected her claim.
Brown told about 25 people last night in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union that the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case was not the "quick-fix" remedy for inequality in education that participants thought it would be.
In 1954, the Supreme Court in the Brown case overturned an earlier decision that permitted "separate but equal" schools for black and white students. The Supreme Court called for desegregation of public schools.
"There's enough education to go around. We all have needs, goals and objectives, and they don't conflict. There is an absence of a desire to share the whole."
Smith said the court's order remained unfulfilled.
Smith, who was 7 when the case began, said she had to walk seven blocks through a railroad
'I didn't understand why I couldn't go to school with the white and Spanish-American children I played with daily. My parents tried to explain that it was because of the color of my skin.'
Linda Brown
yard and cross busy streets to catch a bus that took her two miles to the Monroe Public Elementary School.
"I didn't understand why I couldn't go to school with the white and Spanish-American children I played with daily," she said.
When Smith was denied enrollment, her father, the Rev. Oliver Leon Brown, met with local National Association for the Advancement of Women to court with the support of 11 other families.
Smith said the families did not object to the quality of education at Monroe Elementary School, just to the distance black students had to travel to school.
A federal court ruled in favor of the Board of Education in July of 1951, she said, and the families appealed to the Supreme Court.
When Smith came home from school on May 16, 1954, her mother, in tears, told her that the Supreme Court had decided in their favor, she said.
But the Supreme Court's decision did not affect Smith, she said, because in 1954, she had entered junior high, which already was integrated. Only Topeka's grade schools were segregated.
Fake Drugs No legal recourse available for buyers of placebo drugs
By AMY BALDING Staff Reporter
But where do those who buy fake drugs go for recourse? Certainly not to the police.
Victims of false advertising go to Consumer Affairs Association. People with complaints go to the Better Business Bureau.
Few people have the nerve to sue because their "Acapulco Gold" turned out to be crabrass.
rence cannot arrest people for only thinking they are using an illegal drug, said James Denney, director of KU police. So, when they determine that suspects are using fake drugs, they can do little but chuckle, KU police said.
Denney said that in more than half of the drug-related incidents, police officers determine that the substance thought to be a drug is actually a harmless placebo.
"Usually they are just as shocked as we are." Denney said.
One recent example arose when KU police officers responded to a Joseph R. Pearson Hall resident's complaint that marijuana
smoke was waffling down the hall. The police questioned three students who said they were, indeed, smoking marijuana — or so they thought.
The standard field test for marijuana, which causes the substance to change color if traces of marijuana are present, was performed by the officers. But the brownish-green shreds remained brownish-green.
The results were negative — the students had been taken.
But if students had any complaints, their grumblings were not aired at that time. The police report showed that the students gladly flushed the mowed grass down the toilet.
Denney said he saw one drug dealer selling fake drugs several years age at a concert. He said he approached the man after he saw white pills and money exchanged. The buyer of the pills fled on foot, while Denney apprehended the dealer, he said.
Denney's search of the suspect and subsequent tests revealed that the suspect was carrying $120 in cash and a bag of aspirin tablets. For five dollars a pill, the man had been selling aspirin as amphietamines.
Gunman kills one in London protest
--ringing the embassy while others hid behind trees in a nightlight vigil.
By United Press International
Hours after the automatic fire burst from a grill-covered window in the central London embassy, officials said an undetermined number of Libyan troops in the anubian capital of Tripoli had surrounded the British Embassy there, trapping 18 diplomats inside.
LONDON — A gunman inside the Libyan Embassy opened fire with a machine gun yesterday on a crowd of masked demonstrators in the street chanting "Khadafy murderer," killing a policewoman and injuring at least 11 other people.
In London, police evacuated the area and sharpshooters lay spread-eagled on rooftops
IT WAS STILL NOT clear early today how many people were in the embassy, how many were diplomats, how many were armed, or who fired the gunburst.
At 3 a.m. hot food, drinks and cigarettes were taken into the building, a Scotland Yard spokesman said. He said a crisis team was continuing negotiations over a direct phone link into the embassy, which the Libyan call the "People's Bureau," but would not elaborate.
Witnesses said anti-terrorist police had dropped from a helicopter onto the embassy's root, but authorities would not confirm the reports.
The Libyan Foreign Ministry issued
statement warning British police against storming the building, saying "an act of this magnitude will not go unanswered by the Libyan people who know how to avenge themselves."
A London Foreign Office official said a protest was sent to Libya against the undetermined number of Libyan troops surrounding Britain's embassy in Tripoli.
Police in London erected a two-story-high blue plastic sheeting around St. James Square and its five entrances to block views of the building — a tactic they used on quite elite Special Air Service commanders stormed the French Ambition to end a five-day siege.
See LIBYANS, p. 5, col. 2
Court OKs raids on illegal alien workers
By United Press International.
WASHINGTON — Immigration agents hunting for illegal aliens can conduct surprise raids on factories and question workers about their citizenship, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The justices unanimously held that the surprise inspections, which the Immigration and Naturalization Service calls factory "surveys," violate the Fourth Amendment by seizing torbiders by the Fourth Amendment.
But the justices split 7.2 to hold that Immigration and Naturalization Service agents' questioning of individual workers about their citizenship is not unconstitutional detention. Justice Glennan and Thurgood Marshall disented.
The ruling came at a time of stepped-up INS sweeps of factories — especially in the garment industry. The decision involved 1977 raids on two Southern California factories. That year more than 20,000 illegal allens were arrested in factory sweeps in the Los Angeles area.
In another key ruling expanding police power, the justices ruled 6-3 yesterday that officers do
Kansas was among the states that wanted a Supreme Court decision regarding the issue.
not need a warrant to search a privately owned open field. The court said the constitutional right to reasonable expectation of privacy, which bars police from searching homes without warrants, did not apply to open land — even if "no trespassing" signs were posted.
The justices' decision in the immigration case, reversing a ruling that INS factory surveys are unconstitutional, drew prompt criticism from Hispanic groups.
Center allows the retarded the 'risk' of independence
A work room is filled with bright orange safety hats and quiet whispers.
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Two assembly-line workers carefully tie strips of an old, shredded tire together with metal wire, stopping to smile as a group of school children pass by on one of the plant's many tours.
Cramer is one of the many companies that subcontract work with Cottonwood Inc., a rehabilitation and service center for mentally retarded adults.
Cottonwood is a 13-year-old Lawrence organization that serves 95 men and women, ranging in age from 18 to 80. Through semi-independent living facilities and training and work programs, the staff attempts to prepare the adults to live in mainstream society.
Across the room, a young woman punches holes through the top of a plastic container with a drill press. The cap is passed to a co-worker, who mechanically threads a hollow tube through
THE ASSEMBLY CONTINUES until water bottles for the Cramer Athletic Supplies Co. are displayed neatly on a shelf.
"We want to help the clients become as independent as possible, so as to blend well with the community." Mary Fowler, support service coordinator for Cottonwood, said. "Too often we
get people who have lived away from the community, and who are rescued every time a time
rower said that by providing independent work and living situations, clients learned skills through experience.
The organization works on two levels. The first is a vocational training and work program in the Cottonwood manufacturing plant. Through its subcontracts, the organization arranges subcontracts with area companies.
"This is what we like to call the dignity of risk. People take risks every day," she said. "But by stopping the natural process of taking risks, one person is taking another person's dignity away.
FOWLER REGARDS the people of Cottonwood as clients rather than students or employees, she says, because Cottonwood offers a range of services to our counsels clients or a doctor prescribes medicine.
"The people who raised some of the clients were taking away the trial and error situation, because they didn't want to see their loved ones get hurt."
The second level consists of semi-independent living arrangements that are subsidized by the workers' wages and by federal programs.
Clients receive a salary based on the amount of work that Gottownwood subcontracts. Other amounts are determined by the company.
See WORKING, p. 5, col. 3
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Kenny Stultz, a client of Cottonwood Corporation, weaves at the Cottonwood workshop. Stultz and his co-workers spend their
days at the workshop and then are returned by bus to group homes in the Lawrence area.