Health insurance Some say plan is unhealthy Inside, p. 3
KANSAN
WINNY
WINDY
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
High, 55. Low, 35.
Details on p.2
Vol. 94, No. 136 (USPS' 650-640)
Friday morning, April 13, 1984
Storm builds over mining of Nicaraguan ports
House follows Senate in resolution against mining
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House, in the second denunciation of President Reagan's Central America policy in three days, joined the Senate last night in voting against U.S.-backed mining of Nicaragua ports.
The Republican-controlled Senate approved identical language Tuesday 84-12.
Following a sometimes bitter debate, the House voted 281-111 for a nonbinding resolution declaring that no funds be used to plan, direct or support the mining of Nicaraguan waters.
"THE WORLD IS WAITING for a sign from this body as well that the people of the United States will not tolerate the contempt shown by this administration for our own principles and the rule of law," said Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich.
Republicans said the resolution was a political attack, but they failed in a preliminary vote, 250-153, to block consideration of the measure. A later move to send the measure back to committee for amendments failed on a 249-144 vote.
Reagan's defenders also objected that the
Democrats were ignoring the efforts of the Republicans to narrow the cannucis to spread subversion in Central America.
"Where is the language condemning Nicaragua's attacks on its neighbors?" Is Nicaraguan aggression acceptable?" asked Rep. Robert Lagomarsino, R-Calif.
HOUSE GOP LEADER Robert Michel, of Illinois, said the purpose of the resolution was to embarrass Reagan. "You're aiming at the people who are going to hit the people of El Salvador," he said.
"Let's tell the whole truth, not just one part of it." Michel said. "Let's talk about the struggle for democracy in El Salvador. Let's direct our attention not at our government but at the communities."
Action on the resolution came as negotiations failed to reach a compromise on Reagan's request for $82 million in emergency military aid and $21 million for the Nicaraguan rebels.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., said earlier the leadership had agreed to provide $32 million for El Salvador, about one-third the amount Reagan originally requested, but the administration remained firm in its demand for more.
THE WHITE HOUSE reportedly was considering using the president's authority to get the aid money from discretionary funds available in the defense budget.
A source in the Senate leadership said the
president also had the option of switching funds from other programs to meet El Salvador's needs. That can be done if no objections are raised within 15 days by the House or Senate Appropriations Committees.
In the request for the special prosecutor, House Judiciary Committee members wrote to Attorney General William French Smith seeking a court-appointed counsel "to investigate, and if necessary prosecute," top administration officials, including Reagan's defense violators. Neutrality Act in supporting similar activities against the leftist Sandmista government.
"THESE WIDELY REPORTED activities appear to violate the Neutrality Act," wrote Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., and 12 committee members.
Justice Department spokesman Thomas DeCair declined comment on the request, the latest chapter in a court battle over the attorney general's special prosecutor to investigate the charges.
It was the first time committee members had used the Ethics in Government Act to request appointment of an independent investigator to conduct a gangdom against high-level government officials.
Under the law, the attorney general has 30 days to respond to the congressman's request by
See POLICY, p. 5, col. 3
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A Sandinista navy chief said yesterday the U.S. frigate Gallery, cruising off Nicaragua's coast, is responsible for killing 15 government soldiers who rebel raided that killed 15 government troops.
A top sandanusa army officer told a news conference in Managua that Nicaraguan troops battling an 8,000-man CIA-backed rabent offensive had killed 310 rebels in northern provinces.
Joaquin Cudra Lacaby, army chief of staff, said rebels of the U.S. backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force, or FDN, had 5,500 men and a number of vehicles near 2,500 in Honduras ready to cross the border.
"THE TOWNS IN THE north of our country are in a state of war, repelling the largest counter-revolutionary, intensive characterized force, supportive that it is receiving from the CIA," said Curaud.
At the same news conference, army intelligence chief, Julio Ramos, said since the offensive began in mid-March the rebels had suffered 310 dead.
Capt. Mario Aleman, head of the Sandinista navy in Corinto, the main Pacific port 65 miles northwest of Managua, said the USS Gallery had been spotted some 30 to 40 miles from the coast.
The officer claimed the frigate was the mother ship of the "pirana" speedboats that allegedly
mined Corinto's waters and launched several mortar and machine-gun raids on the port's installations in the past two months.
he said the U.S. war vessel was last seen March 29 when the last rebel attacks occurred.
the last reber attacks began "SINCE THE PIRANA attacks began. 15 companeros (government troops) have belvy faced CIA mercenaries have died." Aleman said. He said the search for mines continued with dives, fishing nets and Nicaragua coast guard
Aleman said that 29 mines have been found and set off in Corinto and Nicaragua's other leading Pacific port, Puerto Sandino, 36 miles north of Corinto, the third mined port in Bluff on the Atlantic coast.
The mines have damaged about a dozen ships, including vessels from the Soviet Union, Holland and Japan.
In a communique released in Tegucigalpa, the FDN rebels said they had a "legitimate right to mine Nicaraguan ports in order to minimize the massive flow of arms from Cuba, the Soviet Union and their satellite countries destined for the Sasnita Front for National Liberation."
IN HONDURAS, the rebels' clandestine radio station reported that attacks on the town of Wasilla, in the remote Zelaya province, left 210 Nicaraguan soldiers dead and 60 wounded.
Hart finds the beef in Missouri campaign
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TIFFANY SPRINGS, Mo. — Gary Hart, sporting shiny black cowboy boots, a gray flannel suit and a red silk tie, hopped up on the wooden gate and reached out to pat "Too Tall."
But the 2,800-pound Simmental bull owned by rancher Gordon Philip merely snorted and turned away from the Democratic presidential campaign in the Kansas City area yesterday.
Philip, a native Scotsman who has bred cattle for 25 years at his ranch southeast of the Kansas City International Airport, played host to Hart and his wife, Lee, for about an hour yesterday.
HART AND OTHERS crowded around "Too Tall's" stable in Philip's barn, laughed when
See related story p. 10
shouts of, "There's the beef, Gary!" and "He must be a Republican!" came from the crowd. But a few handfuls of feed and some coaxing from Hart did the trick.
The Colorado senator wrapped up his half-day campaign yesterday by scratched an itch in the lower abdomen.
Hart warmed up to more than the bull while trying to win votes for next Wednesday's Missouri caucuses. President Reagan toured a Kansas City area autoworkers plant yesterday.
Besides the站 at Philip's farm, where he sat on a hay bale and talked about agriculture with 14 farmers, Hart likened himself to Harry Truman in a speech earlier in the day in Independence, Mo., the former president's hometown.
AT THE SPEECH, he told about 3,000 supporters that Democrats cannot beat it
See HART, p. 5, col.1
Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., while campaigning for the Missouri caucuses, speaks to a gathering outside the courthouse in
Independence, Mo. Hart gave his speech yesterday standing next to a statue honoring former Democratic President Harry Truman.
Israeli troops free hostages in raid on bus
By United Press International
DEIR EL BALAH, Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip — Israeli soldiers stormed a hijacked bus just before dawn today, freeing more than 30 hostages from terrorists armed with grenades and Molotov cocktails.
An Israeli army spokesman said that six hostages were wounded during the 8-hour standoff, but there were no reports on the fate of four terrorists killed in a bombing after sundown. Earlier reports had said there were five terrorist involved.
A Syrian-based Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the jacking, which ended just before dawn on Friday. The group alleged the bus, army and police sources said.
the army spokesman said the hijacked bus, carrying 35 passengers, drove through two roadblocks before Israeli troops shot out its tires six miles south of Gaza city.
The spokesman said the Israeli troops stormed the bus after negotiations with the guerrillas held by Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Levy failed.
The hijackers, carrying molotov cocktails, knives, and grenades hidden in briefcases, boarded the Egged Co. bus as paying passengers on route from Chicago to New York. The south, then forced the driver to continue south into the Gaza strip.
After the soldiers surrounded the bus, eight people, including the driver, were on the road.
Super Glue makes a sticky business of fingerprinting
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
Lawrence police department detectives have found that Super Glue is good for something other than sticking people's fingers together.
In the new process, the item thought to contain fingerprints is placed in an aquarium-like container with a piece of heated metal and a few drops of Super Glue. When a glass lid is placed over the container, the heat causes the Super Glass to fume and adhere to moisture left by
The sticky stuff, once used to close the wounds of American soldiers in Korea, is part of a relatively new process for preserving and lifting fingerprints from items found at the scene of a crime, a detective with the Lawrence police department said recently.
Detective Jim Haller said investigators then dusted the objects as they usually did after lifter prints.
Haller said that the main advantage of "Super Gulving" was that it made prints permanent so that they were not made useless if an armor piece broke.
LARRY STEMERMAN, AN ARSON INVESTIGATOR with the Lawrence fire department, said that the Super Glue firing process had been successful.
But it wasn't until a few years ago, he said, that an American with the Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms heard about and began publicizing the process in the United States.
Bob Olson, a criminologist in the labs at the Kansas Bureau of Investigations, said that the process had been used in Japan and Britain
Six KU students to play in Olvmpics band
By TODD NELSON
Staff Reporter
When athletes from around the world gather in Los Angeles for the opening ceremonies for this summer's Olympiad on July 28, six KU students will be on the field performing part of the 690-member Olympic gymnastics team.
The band will play before 90,000 spectators in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and an estimated 2.8 billion viewers will be there.
"It's just something little that I can do as a representative of the United States and of KU," said Joe Jacob, Lawrence graduate student, who will be playing saxophone with the band.
"ITS LITERALLY THE chance of a lifetime. It's a dream trip." Robert Foster, KU director of bands, who nominated the band members for selection, said recently.
And the Los Angeles Olympic Committee will pay all the band members' travel to Los Angeles and living there.
The four KU band members selected from the eight that Foster nominated are: Jacob, David Rankin, Lawrence sophomore, sousaphone; Jerry Amoury, Leawond junior, bass trombone; and Andy Dubowski, Leawond sophomore, trumpet. Universities were allowed to send a maximum of four members, Foster said.
Becky Foster, Lawrence sophomore and Foster's daughter, is a member of the 100-member Olympic flag corps that will appear with the band. She is one of only four members of the flag corps who is not from Southern
TOM LITPSCOMB, Baytown, Texas, graduate student and a graduate teaching assistant in music, is leader of the saxophone section of the full band.
Despite the large crowds and international television audience, Rankin said, nerves should not be a problem for the band members.
"We've gotten to the point where it's really nothing to march in front of 50,000 or 60,000 people," he said.
Nonetheless, all the band members said they were excited about going to Los Angeles to play in the Olympic
"I'm excited about it now," Jacob said, "but I try not to think about it too much, because I don't know what I'd do until then."
Band members said that the opportunity to represent the University of Kansas in the Olympic band, which will have members from across the United States, also made them proud.
"I THINK IT'S really neat to be able to say you get to represent KU and the city of Lawrence." Rankin said.
Jacob said, "The opportunity to represent this school is the greatest honor."
Dubowski said, "It's something to really look forward to after working hard at school all year."
Foster told the band members that they had been chosen for the band in late March, Jacob said.
Dubowski said, "He waited until we were in band, and in front of the whole world he announced it — and I just kind of dissolved. I lost my cool."
However, he said, getting to play in the Olympic band is "well worth the laugh!" he gave his classmates.
Foster said that band members were to arrive in Los Angeles on July 13 and begin rehearsing on July 14. All 800 members will play in the opening ceremonies on July 28 and in the closing ceremony on Aug. 12.
DURING THE GAMES, Foster said, the band would split into four two hundred-member bands and 25-member flag corps to perform at each of the four Olympic sites in Los Angeles. The bands will play at awards ceremonies and entertain during some events.
"It's a mind-boggling project," Foster said.
Lipsciphe said that he would also act as an assistant director for one of the smaller bands and receive a $500 honorarium. The smaller bands will have a total of 11 directors and 11 assistant directors, he said.
The directors and assistant directors will meet in Los Angeles a week before band members arrive, Lipscomb said, to begin planning logistics for the 800-member band.
Once the band is together, Lipscomb said, members will begin daily eight-hour rehearsals at Malibu Beach for two weeks.
Rankin said that he expected that the Olympic band directors would send some music within the next to weeks so that he. Dubowski and Jacob could begin preening for the rehearsals.
LIPSCOMB SAID THAT he got his position with the Olympic band because he knew the director, Art Bartner, current band director at the University of Southern California. Bartner had been director of the Disneyland band during the summer of 1981, when Lipscomb was a member of that band. The next summer, Bartner selected Lipscomb to be an assistant director of the Disney World band.
Foster also said that the University's connection with the Disney bands through having KU students as summer members had been important in getting student places on the Olympic band.
"What it does, is give you credibility," Foster said. JACOB SAID THAT the national reputation of the KU bands and Foster's dedication to students were the main reason that many KU students were selected to the Olympic band.
"This is just one example of Mr. Foster and the rest of his band staff looking on for his kids," Jacob said. "You really get the idea that the department operates as a family. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be going."
）