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Vol. 94, No. 89 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday morning, January 31, 1984
Consultant testifies Wolf Creek builders will face bankruptcy
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - The Wolf Creek Nuclear Power plant will never provide Kansans with affordable electricity and will bankrupt the companies building it, a Colorado energy consultant yesterday testified before a legislative committee.
Amory B. Lovins, the consultant, told a joint meeting of the Senate and House Energy and Natural Resources committees that the unfinished plant near Burlington would double the cost of electricity and that construction should stop
Lovins' remarks stirred concern among many members of the joint committee. But the committee's chairman said that he was not prepared to recommend that the Legislature
"I DON'T THINK we have enough information to adequately analyze the situation," said State Rep. Terry Loehr, R-Iowa.
Heinemann said that because of the control, verset that had surrounded the plant's construction, state agencies would have difficulty deciding to close the plant.
"If anyone could do it, it would probably be the Kansas Corporation Commission," he said. "But I am not sure that even they can make the decision."
But Lovins, director of research for the Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit research group in Snowmass, Colo., said that the decision should not be delayed.
Kansas Gas and Electric Co. of, Wichita and Kansas City Power and Light Co. of, Kansas City, Mo., the two companies building the plant, are going bankrupt because of the project, he said.
The companies should abandon the plant before they go out of business, he said.
Lovins said that once Wolf Creek was built and started generating electricity, KGE and KCPL would have to almost double the current price of electricity to break even.
See WOLF CREEK, p. 5, col. 1
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union greeted President Reagan's re-election bid yesterday with a scathing attack on his first three years in office, charging that the White House "deadlocks, disruptions and blocks" all arms negotiations.
The official Tass news agency said that Reagan, in announcing his re-election plans,
See related story d. 2
todent to present his first term in the Oval Office in a favorable light "contrary to commonly
IN A REFERENCE to the president's recent call for a U.S.-U.S. R. dialogue, Tass said it was no coincidence that Reagan's "somonous rhetoric" coincided with the election campaign.
"Reagan made it clear that if he were re-elected he would not introduce any charges in his present political course, which is characterized by extreme aggressiveness in the international arena and criminal disgear for the interests of rank-and-file Americans at home."
about the need of a dialogue," Tass said
"The U.S. administration speaks a great deal
"Yet, it deadlocks, disrupts and blocks all the talks on the problems of curbing the arms race, be it the question of nuclear armaments in Europe, the complete banning of nuclear arms tests, the banning of chemical weapons or the demilitarization of the Indian Ocean."
UNDER REAGAN, the poor are poorer, Tass said. "Under the administration of millionaires, there are more homeless, paupers and hungry in the country," he added. "In the past few decades," the news agency said.
Tass said that Reagan "holds forth about peace" but his arms program was "unprecedented in scope" and he had turned western forces into a stuffing pad for American first-strike weapons."
The Reagan administration has turned “bring-
andage and terrorism into official policy.” "Tass
Reagan said Sunday in announcing on national television his intentions to seek a second term that his administration had not completed the job it set out to do.
What. Tass asked, does the administration mean by its electoral slogan?
"The slogan in itself cannot but evoke serious anxiety and concern of the world public that judges Washington's foreign policy not by its words but by its deeds."
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks to a gathering of students and faculty at Kansas State University. Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
Kennedy criticizes Reagan at K-State
By STEPHANIE HEARN
Staff Reporter
MANHATTAN — In that Boston clip so easily recognized, Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday guarded no words in assessing President Reagan's four years in office as broken promises on domestic and foreign policies.
The Massachusetts Democrat also criticized Reagan's State of the Union address last week as being a re-election campaign speech that was affirmed "to conceal the low points of his first term.
shelter, without food, without health and without hooe."
"WHERE IS THE economic recovery for those who are sleeping in the snow and the cold of our streets, for the black teenagers who are out of school and out of work, and who will never have the opportunity most of you enjoy?" Kennedy asked, gesturing to a silent crowd of 1,800 in Kansas State University's McCain Auditorium.
Kennedy, who lost his 1980 bid to displace former President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination, was in Manhattan yesterday to deliver the 61st speech in the Landon Lecture series. Two years ago, President Reagan stood under a particular lecturn as a speaker in the Landon series.
"The president says we must break the bonds of dependency. Let us reply to him — we believe in freedom from want and freedom from hunger. We do not believe in freedom to live without
During the 35-minute address, Kennedy accused Reagan's economic policies of hurting workers.
"IN JUST ONE year of this administration,
$37 billion was taken from the poorest fifth of our families and transferred to the wealthiest fifth," he said.
Kennedy listed examples of Reagan's broken promises to improve domestic policies, saying that the president had failed to reduce unemployment and hadn't balanced the federal budget.
"We were told that by the end of 1983 we would have a balanced budget," he said. "But the savings rate has dropped and we have the highest federal deficit in history.
"On election day 1984, the rate of unemployment will still be higher than it was on the same day four years ago."
Because of plane trouble, Kennedy arrived 45 minutes late for the lecture. The restless crowd came to its feet when the senator walked on stage carrying a notebook filled with remarks ranging from economic issues to the political process.
ADDRESSING THE nuclear arms race issue. Kennedy said the first priority for the future should be an agreement with the Soviet Union to establish a new test and testing and distribution of all nuclear weapons.
"At some time, we have to say enough is enough." he said.
The threat of nuclear war, which he described as the most fundamental issue in history, has been a major concern to Mr. Bush and his
"I am concerned about how this president will choose to face our adversaries after he no longer has to face the voters," Kennedy said. "Romanians are becoming warring for war, and not enough time preventing it."
With the 1984 presidential campaign under
See KENNEDY, p. 5, col. 2
AT&T solicits rate increase to pay debts Business may lose almost $9 million if request is vetoed
By United Press International
TOPEKA — American Telephone & Telegraph will lose about $9 million unless it's granted an emergency interim rate increase, an attorney for the company yesterday told the Kansas Corporation Commission.
"AT&T is making no return whatsoever on its investment in Kansas," Davis told the commission. "It is not making enough to cover current expenses or outstanding debts in Kansas."
R. Steven Davis II, AT&T attorney,
asked the commission to again listen to
the company's request for an emergency
rate increase in in-state long distance tolls. The KCC last year
approved about half of AT&T's $23.5
million request, and now the company
is seeking at least another $8.9 million.
IF THE COMMISSION does not grant a rehearing on the emergency rate increase, Davis said, it should allow an increase in the rate on evening and weekend service.
"Rates set for AT&T disregard the of providing service to our customers.
The proposal would lower the discount for weekend and late night calls from 60 percent to 40 percent, and evening discounts from 35 to 25 percent, allowing AT&T to raise another $7.8 million.
Davis said that if the commission granted the increase and AT&T received may be less, the commission would follow the commission, it would refund the money to the customers.
Larry Funk/KANSAN
James Seaver, professor of history and director of the department of Western Civilization, asks a member of the Campus Christian team to repeat his answer at the 15th annual KU College Quiz Bowl in the Kansas Union last night.
Directory rings up consumer protest
By MARY SEXTON
For several Lawrence businesses the problem began last spring, when an Overland Park firm swayed its customers with what seemed an affordable advertising alternative to the Bell System's Yellow Pages.
Staff Reporter
But the downpayments blossomed into a bundle of trouble. The telephone directory is five months late on delivery and hasn't been printed yet, and some businessmen say they think it may never be printed.
In response to complaints from local businesses, Attorney General Robert Stephan last week filed suit against the company. The lawsuit, Inc., which sold more than $80,000 in
advertising to businesses in Douglas. Jefferson and Leavenworth counties
THE SUIT IS based on possible violations of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, Neil Woerman, special counsel at the attorney general, said yesterday.
"We had a number of complaints — first from Manhattan — starting in January," Woerman said. "Then there were a few from Lawrence.
"Last week the thing just snowballed.
We started the week with just a few complaints and at the end of the week there were somewhere around 50."
The suit asks that consumers be refunded and that any violations of the consumer act be stopped. It also asks that consumers be housed for each violation, Woerman said.
Heart of America officials were not available yesterday for comment.
The directory was to resemble the Southwestern Bell directory, he said. The Overland Park company was selling its advertisements for less money and promised that the books would be distributed throughout northeastern Bell directory was released.
"The company had three or four different phone books from different companies."
See LAWSUIT, p. 5, col. 2
KU students in Wichita pay fees for KC library
Staff Reporter
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Students enrolled in the Wichita branch of the University of Kansas School of Medicine are paying $100 a month for three miles away in Kansas City, Kan.
Four years ago, the Kansas Legislature appropriated nearly $5 million to build the Archie Dykes library at the University of Kansas Medical Center
In doing so, it assessed a fee against all students in the College of Health Sciences, including those enrolled at the university to help finance construction of the library.
Students in Wichita are paying $0 a semester and will continue to do so for
"FROM THE STUDENTS' point of view, they are complaining because they're in a different situation than the students in Kansas City," said William Levine, associate dean of student affairs at the Wichita branch. "They are paying a fee for the library and they don't have to because they never use it.
"From the University's point of view, they don't have a choice," he said.
But they now accept it as part of going to Med School, he said.
Skoch said one of the reasons Wichita med students protested the fee that they didn't have any input into the plans of the new library.
Michael Skoch, Baileyville senior and president of the senior class at the Wichita branch, said that students learned when the fee was first assessed.
"The whole thing was kind of
"IT BOTHERS ME even though I've been paying it for the last four years. We don't get any benefit from the library," he said. "I must admit when I write the check I'm still bothered by it."
crammed down our threats. They didn't even include us in on any of the attacks.
But Koeth Nitcher, KU's director of business affairs, disagrees with the panel's view.
"You pay fees to be a KU student. The main point is that they are all KU students. Their diploma will say the University of Kansas on it," he said. "The students in Wichita do have access to the library if they wish."
A. J. Yarmat, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at the Med Center, agreed with Nitcher that the report on the death of Dr. Fountain was the issue with the wrong frame of mind.
"THEY PAY FOR the library while they're in Kansas City as well," he said, adding that medical students go to Wichita after spending two years in Kansas City. "The fact that they're in Wichita does not mean that they should not help pay for the library. The fees are paid by all KU students."
Earl Farley, the director of the Archie Dykes library, said that the students in Wichita had a small library, but that they could turn to hospital libraries in Wichita to find information that wasn't available on their campus.
Farley said that if students could not find the materials they needed in Wichita, they could request that the library send them from the library in Kansas City.
"I don't believe many students call up here from Wichita," he said. "I think they can pretty much find what they need down there."
Farley said the Student Services office handled requests by Wichita students to send materials from the library in Kansas City.
The office of Student Services reported that the Wichita med students
"We used to have buttons protecting the fee," Skoch said. "But now I've had to change it."