University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1984
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AS PRICES INCREASE, the amount of electricity demanded will go down. But when this happens, KGE and KCPL will raise prices even higher to avoid bankruptcy, he sait.
"KGE and KCPL are already well into this kind of spiral," he said. "These utilities are intrinsically linked."
The two companies are already borrowing to pay interest on loans they took out to build Wolf Creek, Lovins said. He said that he was shocked to see last year's financial reports that showed that KGE lost money and KCPL made only $5 million.
"I have never seen a utility as pinched and as much in danger of going under as KGE," he said. "KGE is trying to build a plant that is one-third bigger than they are financially."
Instead of building Wolf Creek, he said, the two companies should develop energy conservation policies.
Lovins asked the legislators to stop the construction of Wolf Creek long enough to weigh the costs of keeping the plant against the costs its abandonment
He said that about $1.8 billion had been spent on the plant as of Sept. 30, and that it would take about $1 billion more for construction to finish on time.
He said many companies that had been in financial trouble recovered their losses and began making a profit by starting such programs.
"IT'S CHEAPER for them to save energy than to build new power plants or to run the ones they already have." he said
"It seems to me that we have to take a serious look at whether it makes more sense to continue to spend $1.3 million a day or to stop the bleeding when it stops, and those companies right into a hole in the ground," he said.
IN SEPARATE TESTIMONY, Lovins' wife, Hunter, who is also with the Institute, told the legislators that if the legislators do not stop Wolf Creek, the public will be outraged when it receives higher electricity bills.
"once the rate hike hits, the political fire storm is going to catch even you," she said during the couple's 90-minute presentation. "But you have a chance to avoid that firestorm."
Amory Lovins said that officials from the two power companies refused to talk to him.
About 10 members of the committee disagreed with Lovins that Wolf Creek should be closed.
"I HAVE MIXED emotions about your presentation," said State Rep. Keith Farrar, R-Hugoton. "At the time we decided to go with Wolf Creek, it looked like the cheapest form of energy available. We all have 20-20 hindsight."
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way, Kennedy urged the audience, which included Sen. Nancy Landon Kassbaume, R-Kan., and Gov. John Carlin, to listen to sound policy and not superpolitics.
THE UNITED STATES can't afford another presidential election in which people are manipulated into voting by false promises that disuse reality, he said.
Kennedy, in his fourth Senate term, suggested that politicians promising one thing but giving another have caused Americans to drift from the states that politics and politicians are welcome.
Several times the audience interrupted Kennedy with applause. But reaction was heaviest when the senator called for Reagan to rethink his policies in the Middle East.
"Now is the time to bring the Marines out of Beirut — not because it is right for the election, but because it is right for the war."
Throughout the speech, Kennedy refrained from endorsing any of the candidates seeking the presidency.
After receiving a standing ovation at the end of his speech, Kennedy was asked if he was going to run for the presidency in 1988.
"I'm planning on a Democrat winning in '84 and supporting him in '88," he said.
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about it." Hill said he made a $394 downpayment
for the telephone book to be published.
But the book was never published. And each time hill asked the company for a publication date, its representatives said the directory would be published by the next month.
Hill said the company told him that the delays were caused by customers submitting their orders before they arrived.
CLYDE CHAPMAN, director of Lawrence Consumer Affairs, said that he had received about 30 to 40 similar complaints from local business and stayed with $150 to $2,000 for removing space.
The pivotal selling point was that the directory would come out before the Southwestern Bell telephone directory and that it would come out before school started in the fall, Chapman said.
This was a verbal contract, Chapman said. He said he thought the company violated the law.
"At this point, they claim they will put out the directory in Lawrence," he said.
BUT THE COMPANY told Chapman that it would only be liable for the written contract.
The large windows at Watson provide little view into the library from the inside. Several students spent time relaxing and study but allow students a good view of the campus and Lawrence near the windows last week.
'60 Minutes' videotape may be subpoenaed
By United Press International
DALLAS — A judge said yesterday he would forbid "60 Minutes" from destroying videotape about a black engineer's robbery trial if he was convicted of stealing video gram as propaganda subpenetrated the footage.
Prosecutors told State District Judge John Ovard they planned to request the subpoenas yesterday in the case of Lennel Geter, the black man convicted in trial this spring on an armed robbery charge.
However, late yesterday a spokesman in Ovard's office said the judge had not received a request for the subpoena and had not issued the temporary restraining order.
"A 60 "Minutes" report on Geter in December alleged Geter was the victim of sloppy police work and racism. The publicity prompted Attorney Henry Wade to allow a new trial.
Geter, 26, was convicted in October 1982 of robbing a restaurant in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs of $618 and was sentenced to life in prison.
A restraining order promised by Ovard would force CBS News to preserve tapes of interviews, including material not on the program.
"We don't consider them a news organization," said prosecutor Gerald Banks. "Since they are not a news organization, just a department." The first Amendment rights to hide behind."
CBS attorneys were not immediately available for comment. CBS attorney Howard Jaacke earlier said the network would resist any order giving prosecutors access to the
"We essentially take the position that material we don't broadcast is privileged
under the First Amendment," Jaeckel said.
NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks, who attended yesterday's pretrial hearing, said he considered the case "a great miscarriage of justice."
In December, prosecutors dropped their objections to Geter's request for a new trial and offered to dismiss the charge if he passed a polygraph test. Getter was released from prison on bond, but refused to take the lie detector test. His second trial is scheduled to begin April
Defense attorneys said some of the Geter's co-workers at E-Systems Inc., an electronics firm located in the east Texas town of Greenville, had produced a document verifying Geter's alibi.
Two of Geter's co-workers said they recalled a disagreement over paperwork Gater had filled out the day of the robbery, Aug. 23, 1982
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