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Monday morning, March 5, 1984
Hart wins Maine caucuses
By United Press International
PORTLAND, Maine — Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale in the Maine caucuses yesterday, winning a stunning second straight victory in the first head-to-head contest between the two Democratic front-runners.
Close on the heels of his devastating victory in the New Hampshire primary. Hart's Maine win indicates that Mondale's drive for the Democratic presidential nomination, once thought unstoppable, is in trouble.
thought unopposite; is it true?
Hart is expected to win the Vermont non-binding primary tomorrow and the Wyoming preemptive caucuses March 10. That would send Mondale to "Super Tuesday" on March 13, when 510 delegates are chosen, with a string of four defeats and just one win in the Iowa caucuses.
WITH 400 OF 412 towns or 97 percent reporting, Hart had 8,119 votes or 50.2 percent of the vote, while Mondale had 7,015 votes or 43.4 percent.
The other Democrats were not even in the race. Former Sen. George McGovern had 219 votes, the Rev. Jesse Jackson had 113. Sen. John Glenn had 52 and there were 623 uncommitted votes. There were no votes for anyone else.
State party officials said Hart would probably get 12 Maine delegates and Mondale
10 as a result of the vote. But that number will not be official until the delegates to the state convention pick the actual national convention delegates.
Those figures would give Mondale a total of 131 delegates to Hart's 29, with 1,967 needed for nomination.
Maine provided the first head-to-head contest between the former vice president and the Colorado senator since Hart's stunning upset in New Hampshire.
Bob Beckel, Mondale's national campaign chairman, said that the Mondale campaign does not consider Maine a loss.
does not consider Maine a loss.
"THIS WILL BE A dead heat," Beckel said of the close Maine vote. "As far as Walter Mondale is concerned, the score is one, one and a tie," he added, referring to the results in Iowa, New Hampshire and Maine.
iowa, New Hampshire will emerge from Super Tuesday as the clear delegate leader and the front-runner for this campaign," Beckel said.
front-throne of Maine voters "I think it shows Maine voters are independent," said Gov. Joseph Brennan, who, along with Sen. George Mitchel and other top state Democrats, had worked hard for Mondale.
Morrison, "I think the New Hampshire vote had a great influence here." Brennan said.
But he said Mondale's candidacy was still viable, especially since only 2 percent of the Democrats had spoken nationally. Brennan and other officials said Hart benefited greatly
by picking up voters originally pledged to other candidates who have since dropped out of the Democratic race.
"IT'S AN EXPRESSION of sentiment against Walter Mondale," State Rep. John Michael of Auburn, a supporter of Hart, said of the vote. "He doesn't have the spark to beat Ronald Reagan."
But Mondale was obviously unhappy when he left Portland abruptly after canceling a scheduled news conference.
AT A DEMOCRATIC dinner in Boston, Mondale tried to make light of the Maine defeat, saying his showing was encouraging because he would have lost overwhelmingly if the caucuses had been held four days ago.
Mondale forces tried to put the best face on the outcome in Maine, saying that because the race was close and not a runaway like New Hampshire, they had stopped Hart's momentum.
"A week from now, we would win over whimily," said Monday, laughing and joking with reporters after speaking at a Massachusetts state Democratic Party dinner on the same podium with Hart, Jackson and McGovern.
"We came back from a long way behind to dead even in Maine," he said before the final returns were in. "We're going to lose some more. We're just getting started and I think we're gaining momentum every day."
Beirut cease-fire called 'final'
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's warring factions reached a "real" cease-fire agreement yesterday, and President Amin Gemayel will announce today the scraping of the May 17 accord with Israel, a government spokesman said.
Gemayel will meet today with his caretaker cabinet, which resigned Feb. 5, and will announce his decision to abrogate the U.S. sponsored troop withdrawal accord with Israel, the spokesman said.
"THIS TIME ITS final and real," the spokesman said. "Militiamen will gradually be withdrawn."
the spokes. The team are aimed at getting green militiamen off the streets so the "green line" that separates the capital into its Muslim and Christian halves can be reopened, took effect at 10 p.m. (3 p.m. EST), the government spokesman said.
The heavy fighting that has rocked Beirut and nearby mountain villages began dying down about 30 minutes before the cease-fire took effect.
The persistent crash of rocket and mortar
fire and the steady clatter of automatic weapons that has kept much of the city awake the past two nights gave way to occasional sniper and artillery fire.
"It's been very quiet for the past hour, at least," said one woman who lives on the Christian eastern side of the "green line." "Of course, it's not completely quiet. There have been a few gunshots."
in southern Lebanon, 15 Israeli soldiers and an undisclosed number of civilians were killed in three guerrilla bombings in the port of Sidon and a landmine explosion outside a southern village, the Israeli military command said.
IT WAS THE highest Israeli casualty toll in a single day since the Nov. 4, 1983, suicide car bombing at Israeli military headquarters in Tyre. In that attack, 29 Israelis and 32 Arabs were killed.
Although the Gemayel government thinks this latest cease-fire will actually hold, it decided not to officially announce it, the spokesman said.
spoke.
We don't want to announce the cease-fire because if it doesn't take effect, we don't want the people to be disappointed again," the spokesman said.
He said Muslim rebel leader Nabir Berhil, who heads the Amal militia that has been occupying a large portion of west Beirut since the collapse of the Lebanese Army Feb. 6, would play the main role in getting all militiamen off the streets.
militamen on the streets.
FOREIGN MINISTER Elie Salem met with Berri and Muslim Dusse leader Walid Jumblatt in Damascus yesterday to hammer out the militia withdrawal plan, the spokesman said.
he said a second round of national reconciliation talks would likely be held in Switzerland either at the end of this week.
Even before word filtered out that Gemayel would annul the May 17 accord, the militia of the right-wing Christian Phalange Party and its allies sounded an ominous warning.
GEMAYEL MET WITH Foreign
Minister Claude Chesson to discuss with-
drawal of the French peace-keeping contingent in light of Gemayel's two-day summit in Damascus last week with Syrian President Hafez Assad.
"There is no longer a multinational force in Beirut, there is a single foreign force (the French), which is not satisfactory," Cheysson said after the meeting.
INSIDE SUCHITOTO
The civil war in El Salvador has torn this Central American country apart. Suchitoto is one town caught between guerrillas and government forces.
taught in green gerritts and government forces.
The Kansan looks at this small town, whose population has dwindled from 25,000 to a scant 5,000, on Page 7 today in INSIDE SUCHTOTO: The people who have stayed, continuing a series of stories and photographs that take an in-depth look at subjects of interest to KU students.
Garv Smith/KANSAN
SUCHITOTO, El Salvador — A man plays a sad tune on his violin in the doorway of his house. He is one of the people who has stayed.
Dean Nesmith and KU athletic director Monte Johnson admire the portrait of Nesmith that will be placed on display in the KU Athletic Hall of Fame in Allen Field House. Nesmith, KU's athletic trainer for more than 50 years, was honored at halftime of Saturday's KU-Oklahoma State basketball game.
'Deaner' served up tape, motivation
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
Dean Nesmith may know more about KU athletics than anyone.
In his 46 years as KU's head trainer, Nesmith has seen countless games, helped thousands of athletes and observed a myriad of changes in college athletics.
And even that may be an understatement.
At the end of this semester, Nesmith will retire.
will retinue.
With him, he'll take the respect and
admission of colleagues and former
athletes - and more than a few
stories.
"I REMEMBER A game against Notre Dame in 1933," said Nesmith.
70, who lettered in football for the University of Kansas from 1933-1955. "They were nationally ranked, and we went up and tied them 0-0 in their backyard. It was a great game that sticks out in my mind. I think we really surprised them."
MONDAY MORNING
Besides being inducted into the KU Athletic Hall of Fame, Nesmith was given a new, $15,000 Oldmobile Delta 98 — purchased with funds donated by former KU athletes.
Oklahoma State basketball game, the surprise was on Nesmith.
surfaced them.
But at halftime of Saturday's KU-
Nesmith was also given his Hall of Fame portrait, which will be placed in Allen Field House alongside those of the star KU athletes he has attended to over the years.
game to honor Nesmith, who has been KU's head trainer since 1938.
Many of these athletes and about 40 of Neumith's relatives were at th-
It was during his football career at KU that Nesmith, a native of Belleville, became interested in training.
AFTER HIS COLLEGE football career ended, Nesmith played a year of professional football with the New York Yankees in 1936. But pre football
"We didn't have scholarships back then, so you had to get a job to support yourself," he said. "I got a job in the training room."
See NESMITH, p. 5, col. 1
Profs question Kissinger report
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The Kissinger Report on Central America endorses Reagan administration policies in the area and exaggerates the threat to U.S. national security, a Washburn University professor said Saturday.
tessor said she had been. But a director of the commission that compiled the report said the proximity of Cuba and the Soviet-backed Nicaraguan government created high stakes in the United States" "back yard."
"We are faced now with the threat of outside intervention," said Gerald M. Sutton, deputy executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America.
The Kissinger Report and U.S.-Central American relations was the topic of America in the World
today, the fourth annual conference on international relations at Washburn University.
THE NATIONAL Bipartisan Commission on Central America, headed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was formed to examine conditions in Central America.
Kenneth S. Cott, assistant professor of history at Washburn University, one of three professors commenting on the report, said the report's "tendency to use right-wing rhetoric" undermined its credibility.
"The emphasis on security considerations mirrors the attitude of the Reagan administration toward Central America," he told a crowd of about 300 people at the Washburn University Theater.
economic - demanded both short-term and long-term solutions in Central America.
But the most immediate problem in Central America is security, he said.
"IF YOU CAN'T confront security in a realistic way," he said, "you won't have time to do the rest."
But Cott said the Reagan administration exaggerated the threat to U.S. national security because Reagan, like all presidents, relied on worst-case scenarios rather than actual conditions to formulate policy in Central America.
The United States does not necessarily face a threat to its national security, he said, because the United States has imposed Cuba and it can adjust to Nicaragua.
"If Nicaragua were to be 'another Cuba,' it's hard to see how it would pose
See CENTRAL, p. 5, col.4
Catholic center decision appealed
BY SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
The Crescent-Engel Neighborhood Association took action last week to halt construction of the controversial St. Lawrence Catholic Center's proposed church and expansion of its existing student center at Crescent and Engel roads.
Eugene Taylor
However, a director of the center said that there was not worried by the action, and that center officials planned to continue moving ahead with designs for the church and expanded student center.
Last week the Lawrence City Commission approved the center's site plan, which gave center officials the go-ahead for their plans.
"We are pretty confident at this point," said the Rev, Vincent Krische, the director.
the director.
Friday afternoon Bill Barr, president of neighborhood association, filed an appeal with the Douglas County District Court saying that the Board of Zoning Appeals was wrong last month
when it ruled the center's plan was a church and not a school.
In his action, Barr also filed a petition asking the court to order the zoning board to decide what criteria the plan's parking should be based upon.
City Commissioner Mike Amyx said he thought the commission had more than adequately studied the site plan.
"I don't think there has been a site plan as thoroughly looked-over as ours." Krische said yesterday.
But at that time, the board did not specify what seating the parking ratio should be based upon.
planning staff — last month the board said that the city planning staff's interpretation — that parking for the site should be based on seating in the main sanctuary or auditorium of the proposed church — was wrong.
Krische said the center would continue its design plans because the decision by the Lawrence City Commission last week to approve the center's site plan was so thorough he did not see how it could be overturned
"With all the information I had supplied to me on the site-planning
the plan.
Center officials plan to move ahead with design plans, but if the neighborhood association's action affects the center's plans, he said, center officials would have to file an appeal.
But Commissioner Nancy Shontz, the only commissioner who voted against the plan Tuesday, said, "I feel that the neighborhood association has some concerns that were not addressed by the plan."
issue, I feel I was correct in voting for it," he said.
Krische said the neighbors' complaint that the plan was for a school and not a church came out of confusion about what a school was.
"The basis of calling us a school does not have any basis of fact, I don't think," he said.
He said the center would offer courses in religious education and scripture, but did not intend to give degrees like a school.
If the center's plan was classified as a school, it would require a special zoning permit from the city.
Churches do not require such a permit.
See ST. LAWRENCE, p. 5, col. 1