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Vol. 94, No. 103 (USPS 650-640)
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Monday morning, February 20, 1984
Real contest in Iowa for second, not first
By United Press International
DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Vice President Walter Mondale is the heavy favorite to score a victory in today's Iowa caucuses — the first official vote in the 1984 presidential campaign.
Party officials predicted a turnout of 85,000 to 95,000 as eight Democratic candidates battled for the first votes of the year and their share of 50 Iowa delegates to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco in July. Eight other delegates are picked by the party.
PRESIDENT REAGAN also returns today to Iowa, the state that handed him an eye-opening early defeat in 1980, in a bid to steal some of the thunder from his Democratic rivals.
The six-hour visit, with rallies in Waterloo and Des Moines, represents a calculated move by Reagan to meet his Democratic challengers in the fight of one-upsmish in the battle for publicity.
Iowa Democrats, who savor the media
attention they receive every four years, were infuriated when the visit was announced Feb. 8 by Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, a longtime Reagan loyaltist who worked for weeks to
Democratic State Chairman David Nagle branded the visit a "political stunt" and one "not worthy of a president." In response, Nagle wanted to have all eight Democratic candidates appear together to attack the president and his policies. The effort fizzled.
INSIDE THE White House, not everyone relished the bid to undercut the opposition. Some aides felt the trip might be unwise, thinking it best for Reagan to play up his lofty status as the incumbent during the early stages of the campaign.
Among the Democrats, a new poll released yesterday showed Mondale well ahead and the real battle be for second place with Sens. Brennan Hart and John Glenn running neck-and-neck.
See IOWA, p. 5, col. 1
On your mark, get set, go! These kids did just that Saturday morning at Allen Field House during the "All Comers" track meet.
Cynthia Pistilli/KANSAN
Regents consider projects for Lawrence and KC Med Center addition approved
KU library project is discussed
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The Board of Regents Friday rebuked a Legislative committee's recommendation that would ignore financing any building projects at the University of Kansas.
A proposal by the Legislature's Joint Committee for Building Construction would not allocate funds for two KU projects, a science center and a library. Regents had requested for the next fiscal year.
At their monthly meeting, the Regents decided to press the Kansas Legislature into adjusting the joint committee's recommendations.
Dykes, who is also a Regent, said the committee proposal was a sharp departure from the previous rule.
"THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas has nothing," said former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes. "The omission of any planning money to get started on a library at the University of Kansas means that you're talking about the decade of the 1990s before there will be any relief of the library situation at the University of Kansas."
After assessing Regents requests and Gov. John Carlin's budget proposals, the joint committee this month formulated their own recommendations for state expenditures.
FOR KU$ SCIENCE library, the Regents had requested $255,000 in fiscal year 1985 and $500,000 in the next fiscal year. For the Snow Hall project, the Regents had requested $130,825 and $271,315 for each fiscal year respectively.
Carlin's budget blueprint did not include any recommendations for KU construction projects
in rare year 1985, which begins July 1. For the
year 2000, there are $777,000 in '00 for the
library and $777,000 for Snow Hall.
The joint committee recommendations do not include any funds for the library and Snow
"I think that is a very serious problem for the University and the Regents institutions." Dykes said. "I'm very unhappy with these recommendations."
The joint committee recommendations are highly relied upon, Dykes said, because the committee is comprised of many House and Senate members of their ways and means committees.
THE WAYS AND MEANS committees make budget recommendations to the Legislature
Chancellor Gene A. Budg said that University officials would continue to lobby for the two parties to work together.
"We are making every reasonable effort to articulate the need for early action for both the library at KU and Snow Hall renovation," Budig said.
He said he was confident that changes in the joint committee recommendations could be made.
Regents requests also included $4 million for maintenance and repairs for all Regents schools in each fiscal year. The joint committee slashed that request to $2.8 million in fiscal year 1985 but maintained the $4 million allocation for the next year.
CARLIN AGREED with the Regents pro-
mium million in maintenance and repair for the Regents building.
Both Carlin and the joint committee recommended that money requested by the Regents for energy conservation projects at KU be out of the maintenance and repairs budget.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Final plans for an addition to the Applegate Energy Center at the University of Kansas Medical School were given final approval Friday by the Board of Regents.
Construction should begin in August after beds for the project are received in June, said Sue Mansfield, of Baldwin Construction.
The Regents also approved final plans for a renovation project at the KU School of Architecture.
The third and final phase of the renovation, which will cost $1.6 million, should be completed in three phases.
THE PROJECT, which will convert an old county hospital for University use, began four years ago when the Legislature appropriated $4.4 million for the project.
Plans were also approved by the Regents for renovation of the Rehabilitation Medicine Building.
The $40,000 clinic project will be financed by private donations.
The addition to the Applegate Center is expected to reduce energy costs at the Med
PLANS FOR THE Applegate project have been complete for about one year, but construction could not begin until funds were appropriated by the Legislature, Corman said.
The Regents have requested $2.8 million for fiscal year 1985, which begins July 1, for the
Corman said the project included removing about 1,000 window air conditioners and installing a larger cooling system.
The cost of the Applegate project, which
would take about two years to complete, is estimated at $5 million.
However, the Legislature's Joint Committee for Building Construction recently recommended that $800,000 of the amount requested by the State University a library project at Wichita State University.
The committee suggests the Med Center use the hospital revenue to compensate for the diversion fees.
In other action, the Regents authorized its schools to ask the Legislature for additional state aid to cover increased telephone costs due to rising cost of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
KU OFFICIALS will request an additional
$500 for the last six months of this fiscal
year.
Officials will also ask for $144,476 in fiscal year 1985 to be built into its base budget.
In this fiscal year, Regents schools are asking for an additional $141,615, and in the next fiscal year the schools are requesting $558,670.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said that the Legislature was aware of the problems schools faced because of the divestiture and had encouraged the schools to request additional
But if the Legislature does not appropriate the necessary funds, Budig said, the University would have to divert money from other areas or cut phone service.
"If the Legislature does not act on the supplemental requests, it would have an adverse impact on support areas of the University," he said.
IN THE 1983 budget recessions, some
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 1
'Hawk owner 'counting'on 10 more years
By SHANE HILLS
Staff Reporter
Politics, says the "Count," used to be fervent conversation at the "Hawk, an "18" bar he himself "hung out" in during the radical 1960s and student riots in the late 1960s and early 70s.
"I hated the hippies and thought Nixon was great," said the Count, who will celebrate in April his 10th anniversary as owner of the 64-year-old bar.
KEEN WALLACE, known as the "Count" by his employees and those who frequent the Jayhawk Cafe, a simple red building that stands among old barnings on the 1300 block of Ohio Street, drew himself a cold brew and relaxed at a wooden booth in his rustic, neon-lit tavern
Today, he says, political apathy among
MONDAY MORNING
"Students don't give a damn about nuclear war or the economy anymore," says the Count, who received his radio-tv-film degree from the University of Kansas in 1973.
customers may mean the demise of his traditional social hotspot, and the end of his proprietorship in the Oread neighborhood, where he also lives and owns six homes.
"They're more concerned about what kind of job they are going to get after college. I don't know where that's going to lead us. One problem I know with that is a higher drinking age could be ram-rodded through Legislature, and students could just sleep right through it."
TWO BILLS ARE NOW in committee at the
TWELVE. One would restrict 18 to 20 year-olds
See HAWK, p. 5, col. 3
KU professor devotes years to poet's work Whitman researcher spent quarter-century studying manuscripts
By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
Although he has taught in some exotic places during the past 25 years — the University of Lyon, the University of Clermont-Ferrand, the University of Catania in Sicily, the Centro di Studi Americana in Rome — Grier has spent most of that time in virtual academic bondage editing Walt Whitman's notebooks and prose manuscripts for publication as volumes 17, 18 and 19 of The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman.
Samuel Johnson defined a lexicographer as "a
sarmelous drudge. The same might be said of
Jane Austen."
THESE ARE NOT three books that many people will shell out $175 for in hopes of taking home some quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore.
They're not even books that the average college student will be checking out of the
Grier's 2,259-page magnum opus, due out in April, will be of limited interest because since 1969 he has not been writing a biography of Whitman or even literary criticism. Rather, he has been doing what he calls "full scholarly archeology, digging up the artifacts."
But for a quarter century, they have been Ed Grier's professional d'retent.
See WHITMAN, p. 7, col. 1
Ed Grier, KU associate professor of English, recalls his experiences while researching the writings of Walt Whitman. Grier is editing Whitman's notebooks and prose manuscripts for publication.
Rebels strike Gemayel camp; Italy begins pullout of troops
The Israeli military command said its jets attacked Palestinian targets in the mountains east of the towns of Bhadoun and Hamana, which have been shelled repeatedly.
CHRISTIAN PHALANGE radio said Lebanese Army regulars beat back a three-pronged Drume attack on loyalist army positions around Souk al Gharb on the mountain approaches to Gemayel's presidential palace in Babaad Drume radio denied the reports of a defeat.
BEIRUT. Lebanon — Heavy fighting raged near the mountain stronghold of President Amin Gemayel outside Beirut yesterday, and Israeli warplanes struck an area overrun by Druse Muslims, apparently seeking Palestinian guerilla targets.
Israeli Radio said that a sawnm hit near Damour was being used by Palestinian guerrillas, but witnesses said there were no Palestinians at the building.
By United Press International
Yesterday's fighting, mostly an artillery duel, was fierce at dusk but died down later in the night. Souk al Gharb is the last post outside Christian east Beirut held by Gemayel's troops.
Fighting for this strategic point was the strongest since the Druse swept over the crumbling Lebanese army, driving through the ridge above the Maronite Christian enclave.
In Washington, national security adviser Robert McFarlane confirmed that the first U.S. Marine Corps commander in Afghanistan
"THEY ARE moving already and I'm sure there are some aboard ship by this time," McFarlane said on the NBC program. "This Week with David Brinkley."
A Marine spokesman in Beirut had said Saturday that "unnecessary" personnel and heavy equipment would be airlifted out during the next few days.
Italy began the final withdrawal of its peacekeeping forces yesterday, leaving behind tons of food and supplies and the field hospital that helped the Italians far better than their tanks and guns.
The well-equipped hospital the Italians set up in a pine-surrounded field near the Sabra and Chaita Palestinian refugee camps, and the free military base in Syria, set them apart from the other peacekeepers.
ITALY'S PULLOUT yesterday involved mainly equipment, a mobile kitchen and 260 vehicles, along with a handful of troops. About 1.385 more troops were to withdraw today.
With Gemayel beset by a series of rebel victories, the government said Foreign Minister Eile Salam and presidential security adviser Wadie Haddad both left for talks in Washington.
Unlike the Americans, who lost 26 troops in Lebanon, and the French, who lost 77, the Italianers suffered only two dead and fewer than 30 casualties by bullets or by being caught in factual cross fire.
A State Department spokesman in Washington said they were coming, but she declined to confirm reports of a meeting between the Lebanese officials and Secretary of State George
HOWEVER, A STATE Department source said. "It's impossible that they would come to our office."
In a
An Israeli military spokesman in Jerusalem denied reports from Druse, Phalange and state Beirut radio that an Israeli column late yesterday advanced up the Mediterranean coastal road from the army's Awali River position.
Israeli officials said their air attack about three hours before the Druse assault on Souk el Gharb was meant to hit a building taken over by "terrorists" in Naame on the outskirts of Damour, the coastal town 11 miles south of Beirut.
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