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Vol. 94, No.133 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday morning, April 10, 1984
Government seeking repayment of grants by Jackson program
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Education Department disclosed yesterday that it was demanding repayment of more than $700,000 in misspent federal grant money from PUSH-Excel, a spinoff of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's ambitious self-heLP movement.
Coupled with recent similar decisions by the Labor and Commerce departments, the action means the government is seeking to recover more than $1 million of the $4.83 million in grants it provided to the Chicago-based minority education group since 1978.
JACKSON, CAMPAIGNING in Pittsburgh, said it was more than coincidence that the Reagan administration chose the day before the Pennsylvania primary to release the audit.
"The timing of these reports suggests something very nasty and almost conspiratorial," said Jackson, adding that similar audits
were released the weekend before primaries in New Hampshire and New York.
The auditors "spent so much time here. It's abnormal in the sense that all of this comes about at this peculiar time," PUSH attorney John Bustamante said at a Chicago news conference. "I'm not saying the administration singled us out, but it is unusual."
Bustamante emphasized that Jackson, as chairman of the board, had no direct role in administering the funds but was purely a "motivator and volunteer." He said that Joyce Dorsey, executive director of PUSH-Excel, was responsible for the funds.
Bustamante said that PUSH-Excel had not received any federal funds since 1982 and was nearly broke. It now relies largely on private donations.
The group, which was notified of the Education Department decision 10 days ago, has until April 30 to submit its report.
Nicaragua files lawsuit over U.S. 'aggressions'
Nicaragua filed a suit against the United States at the World Court in The Hague yesterday, demanding an end to alleged acts of American aggression including the mining of its ports and the destruction of bridges, hospitals and airports.
By United Press International
"Nicaragua has presented a demand asking for a declaration in depth on the violations and aggressions of the United States," Nicaraguan Ambassador to the Netherlands, Carlos Arguello, told the official government radio station. Le Voz de Nicaragua.
Arguello said that Nicaragua also asked the court that it issue provisional and immediate orders to insure that the damages inflicted by the mines do not become "irreparable."
"These activities include the mining of ports, the destruction of bridges, hospitals and airports and all military attacks against my country," Arguello said.
SOME 12 SHIPS, included Dutch, Soviet and Japanese — have struck mines off Nicaragua in the past two months, in the Atlantic port of El Fuego, in critical ports, Puerto Corinto and Puerto Sandino.
Arguello said the suit was the first filed by Nicaragua against the United States and also the Central American nation's first request for a court order. Mr. Arguello is an international Court of Justice in over 20 years.
"We are all in agreement that there does not exist the least doubt that the government of the United States is obligated to accept the injunction of the court." Arguello said.
But the suit came a day after the State Department in Washington said the world court was being misused "as a forum for a monopolistic monopoly or any court ruling on the charges of mining.
Nicargua rebel leader Edgar Chamorro Coronel, of the Nicargua Democratic Force (FDN), said in a telephone interview that "the Nicaraguan military is responsible for mining Nicargua's ports."
"YES, WE HAVE MINED the ports, and we will keep mining them while the Marxist government is in power in Nicaragua," said Chamroto.
Concern over the mining and the Reagan administration's decision to refuse to accept international legal jurisdiction over U.S. actions in the war on Iraq completed swift and negative reaction on Capitol Hill.
Guest conductor William A. Gora, director of bands at University Bond through "Bugler's Holiday." About 60 people Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., leads KU's attended last night's University Bond Spring Concert.
Number of inmates could pass limit State prison plan could crowd county jail
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
An emergency plan to combat overcrowding in state prisons could compound space problems in the Douglas County Jail by requiring the jail to hold prisoners who usually would be sent to state prisons, a Douglas County sheriff's officer said yesterday.
Murphy said, "We normally don't have the excess room. We were almost at the maximum this weekend. If the state expects us to hold their people too, then that's going to overcrowd us."
Dallas Murphy, the officer, said that the plan could push the jail over its maximum capacity on weekends, when the jail is often nearly full. He said it would be hard for some prisoners serve time only on the weekends.
But Secretary of Corrections Michael Barbara said yesterday that between now and July 1 he might be forced to ask county jails to hold prisoners who usually would be sent to state prisons.
Barbara said that as of Sunday, 3,878 prisoners were in the state prisons — 130 more than their predecessors.
IF THE OVERCROWD problem worsens between now and July 1, when 442 beds will be added to the system, Barbara said he would have county jails to keep their prisoners for awhile.
"We really could be in dire straits," Barbara said. "If my directors tell me that there is no more space, then I am going to have to write a letter to every district court judge and every sheriff asking them to hold up sending any more information to the secretary of corrections until July 1."
Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson said that
the jail was rarely full during the week
The jail can hold as many as 52 prisoners, Murphy said. But he said that the jail's capacity fluctuated with the number of women and juvenile prisoners.
"When we get an excess number of juveniles or adult females, that cramps us on space."
FEMALE PRISONERS MUST be separated from male prisoners, he said, and juvenile inmates cannot have contact with adult prisoners.
For three months, the Kansas Legislature has heard pleas from Barabara and Gov. John Carlin to solve the overcrowding problem at the state prisons.
But Carlin and Republican leaders in both the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate failed to agree on a prison plan before the
See JAILS, p. 5, col. 2
Low fee waiver hurts KU in bid for graduate TAs Administrator says package for assistants is not competitive
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
The Kansas Legislature's failure to increase the graduate teaching assistant fee waiver this session will discourage teaching assistants from coming to the University of Kansas, several faculty members and administrators said yesterday.
"It affects our ability to recruit," he said. "We compete for graduate students on a national and international scope, not just here in Kansas. Graduate students look at the quality of programs and our financial package. Our fee waiver program is not as good as it could be."
Many potential graduate teaching assistants already avoid KU because the University didn't have an adequate fee waiver program for them. Students in bodyyard, associate dean of the graduate school
The Board of Regents had requested a 75 percent waiver. The House later recommended a 65 percent fee waiver and the Senate bypassed the 65 percent fee waiver now offered would remain intact.
A FEE WAIVER RELEASES graduate teaching assistants from paying full incidental fees. Incidental fees are the largest part of tuition.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said the Senate would probably consider increasing the fee waiver would probably be considered when the Senate reconvened for a short wrap-up session April 25.
KU offers a 60 percent fee waiver to teaching assistants who have a 40 percent or greater work experience.
"The battle is not over on that," he said. Winter said he would try to introduce a fee waiver increase in an omnibus appropriations bill. He said the Legislature might also consider giving the three largest Regents schools — the University of Kansas, Wichita State University
"The battle is not over on that." he said.
HOLLYWOOD — Actress Shirley MacLaine thanks the audience and public after receiving an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Terms of Endearment." The film won five awards last night at the 56th annual Academy Awards. See story page 6.
See FEES, p. 5, col. 1
Challenger astronauts expect satellite rescue on second try
By United Press International
IF THE CREW can haul the sun-gazing observatory aboard and if the fuel in the forward nose jets holds out, Challenger's flight might be extended until Friday.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Challenger's crewmen conserved propelled yesterday to attempt a second shot at recovering the Solar Max satellite.
NASA officials expected astronaut Terry Hart would need just one chance to haul the satellite aloft.
That would allow two of the astronauts to try to repair Solar Max during a cargo bay spacewalk tomorrow and put it back in orbit Thursday to carry out an additional mission. But the earlier failures to retrieve the satellite.
"I can't give you Las Vegas odds, but John Cox odds say there is a high probability of success," said the agent.
Hart will put the 50-foot arm through a "rotating grapple" — which has been done before only in simulators — to try to catch the satellite today.
If Solar Max cannot be captured or has to be brought home for its overheat, the shuttle could be damaged.
The amount of propellant for Challenger's forward maneuvering jets was the big concern for Hart and the rest of the astronauts — Robert Crippen, Dick Scobee, George Nelson and James van Hotten.
Cox said the latest estimate was that the Challenger would have 6 percent of the propellant left when Hart makes his big catch. He would not estimate how many tries Hart might get, but said he thought the first one would work.
He said the space agency would like to save between 1 percent and 2 percent of the propellant in the forward jets to deploy Solar Max after the repairs, but if necessary Crippen would run the gauge down to zero to ensure the capture of the satellite.
The nose rockets will not be needed for Challenger's return to Earth, but are crucial to the close-in part of the second approach to Solar Max.
The drift was started with the tail rockets because the nose rockets had only 21 percent of the velocity.
The satellite was knocked more out of whack then ever by Nelson's failed attempt to stabilize it during his untethered spacewalk Sunday. But
Cox said the jets would still have a small reserve.
EARLIER YESTERDAY, flight director Jay Greene said. "We stand a fighting chance of扑倒."
See SHUTTLE, p. 5, col. 1
Challenger is prowling 60 miles from Solar Max yesterday when Crippen fired the tail control rockets to start the shuttle on a "free fall" trajectory. The robot will be by the time the rendezvous maneuvers begin.
Scholarship hall will get $100,000 for expansion
By TODD NELSON
Staff Reporter
A long wait ended for Battenfeld Scholarship Hall residents last night when a KU official confirmed that the administration had approved $100,000 for an addition to the hall that probably would be built by the fall of 1985.
For several years, KU housing officials had discussed expanding the hall but hadn't moved it. The county government bought the
'I see this as a one-time shot to get what's best for the hall.' — Joyce Cliff
The hall residents must submit a proposal to the housing office by April 23 outlining the way they want the money spent, said Joyce Cliff, an assistant director of the office of residential
assistant director of the office of residential programs
programs who oversees the scholarship hall program. Last night she met with 40 residents in
Cliff said that the money for the expansion would come from a trust fund established by the firm to invest in projects.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, submitted the proposal for the hall expansion several weeks ago. Cliff said. Chancellor Gene A. Budig and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student
After their meeting with Cliff, Battenfeld hall
affairs, have since approved Wilson's plan
"That's one of the reasons why we're trying to see it in drawing up plans that are realistic and fleshy."
CLIFF ENCOURAGED the residents to carefully consider how they would spend the money, because they might not have other chances for such extensive improvements in the
residents formed a five-member committee to draft the proposal.
Cliff said that after the Battendel committee submitted its proposal, an architect would be hired to draw specific plans for the project during the summer.
In October, residents could ask to make changes in the architect's plans. Bids for the project would then be taken next spring, and the work would be completed during the summer of 1985, she said.
Cliff said that $75,000 would be available for construction and $25,000 would be used for furnishing and installing utilities.
See HALL, p. 5, col. 1