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University Daily Kansan, January 26, 1984
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He also made a new pitch for several items that failed in Congress. He called for a crackdown on crime and the creation of new jobs in cities.
REAGAN TRIED TO BOLSTER his environmental image, and asked to Congress to double the amount of money available for acid rain because the avoided any commitment to pay for cleanups.
Reaction to the speech divided along predictable lines, with Democrats challenging Hengan's on
"Would that the state of the union were as rosy as the president suggests," said Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D.N.Y. "It is fantasy to suggest that our problems are behind us. They lie ahead."
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill also disagreed with Reagan's view of the nation.
"OUR VIEW OF THE state of the union is different from the president's. In case after case, we find this administration's policies inappropriate for men and women, to the elderly, to our children."
However, Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said that Reagan had kept the four central promises that he made at the start of his
administration: to slow federal spending, ease taxes, rebuild U.S. defenses, and restore national resolve in foreign policy.
Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Ind., said the state of the union "is just as encouraging and promising as President Reagan reported in his fine address. We are going to expand and people are going back to work."
THE SPACE STATION WAS the most ambitious initiative contained in the speech. It is estimated to cost $8 billion in all and will get $150 million in the new budget. White House political strategists pushed the project in the belief that the presidential candidacy of ex-astronaut Sen. John Glemm, D-Ohio, could make the space program a political issue.
The theme of the speech — "a nation revived" — is the tone Reagan is expected to use on the campaign trail during the coming months in his re-election bid. It is two-term president since Dwight Eisenhower.
"There is renewed energy and optimism throughout the land." Reagan said. "America is back — standing tall, looking to the eighties with courage, confidence and hope."
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Rape, typically one of those highly unreported crimes, increased from two reported rapes in 1982 to four in 1983. He said Lawrence probably reflected a national average that indicates that many of those unreported rapes were said that many of those unreported rapes were likely raps by people who the victim knew.
There were no murders on campus in 1983, according to the statistics, just as there were none the previous year.
Other reported crimes include:
- Assaults: 50, 1983; 54, 1982.
- Burglaries: 197, 1983; 177, 1982
- Theft: 568, 1983; 609, 1982.
- Vandalism; 210, 1963; 227, 1987
- Telephone harassment; 66, 1983; 46, 1982
- Telephone harassment, 60, 185, 46, 182
* Direct conduct, 17, 1983, 34, 182
Denney said these statistics would be more easily accessible and would require a change in the KU police
transferred their statistics to a computer two months ago.
"We will be using the same data, but just massaging it in a different way." Denney said.
The department 'uses' the data 'to discover where the most crimes occur and what types of crimes are committed'.
crimes are most prevalent.
Without this information, police departments would rely on what Denney called a "seat-of-the nouns or gut reaction management."
THE CRIME DATA THIS year indicated that many crimes were committed in parking lots, Denney said. Most of these crimes were auto burglaries or thefts, he said.
Crime statistics were previously gleaned from reports and compiled by hand by the equivalent of three full-time positions, Denney said. The item now frees more officers to be on the streets.
"Instead of determining where he should be, he can be out there 'being there'," Denny said.
Court's decision may stifle spouse abuse
MANHATTAN — A court award given to a Wamego woman battered by her husband might cause a significant reduction in the frequency of wife-beating, the woman's attorney said yesterday.
By United Press International
A Riley County District Court jury this week awarded $31,500 to Virginia Ann Ebert, who repeatedly was beaten by her husband, and a judge said Dawn Everett, the woman's attorney.
"I think it's going to bring about a drastic reduction in battering because of the husband's realization he can't do this." Everett said.
THE AWARD COMES AFTER a three-year court battle that involved a landmark Kansas Supreme Court decision. The high court ruled that a husband and wife could sue each other for injuries sustained through battery. Everett said.
While praising the jury's decision, Barbara Ballentine, project coordinator for Battered Women Task Force of Shawnee County, doubted it would lead to a rash of spousal battery lawsuits. She said most women were unwilling to fight long court battles.
"The persistence of this woman is somewhat what unique." Ballentine said. "I think there may be people . . . who may be looking at this as another option."
"I'm encouraged," she said. "This was a crime where damages had resulted and somebody was reimbursed." The message did not seem to be responsive or for something you do and you'll have to pay.
EVERETT SAID EBERT suffered facial abrasions, rib damage, mouth and teeth injuries and had her nose bloodied in the assaults by her husband.
Ebert had asked for $195,000 in damages. Her husband, in a courtship, had sought $30,000. The jury did not award any money to Ebert.
The case was returned to the district court because of the state Supreme Court decision.
Robert Waddill/KANSAN
Warmer temperatures and sunshine provide area car washes with plenty of business. A woman washed her "COOKIE" yesterday at Magic Mist Car Wash, 1525 W. 6th Street.
Fire costs couple $5,000 in damages
By the Kansan Staff
Fireighters yesterday extinguished a midday fire in a vacant home at 1517 New Hampshire St., but not before the house sustained $5,000 in damages.
Fire Major Paul Findley said it took 20 minutes to put out the fire, which began around 11:30 a.m. The house was owned by Stephen and William, but still stored some belongings in the attic.
repairs on the house before selling it.
Findley said workers using butane torches to repair pipes probably accidentally started the fire.
The Hulls were in the process of making
Lawrence Police Officer Steve Coon was the first to spot the fire. Coon was questioning a burglary suspect at 1501 New Hampshire St. and escorted from a second-story window on the Hull home.
Coon then called the Lawrence Fire Department, which arrived a few minutes later.
Fire officials estimated that the second floor and attic sustained $5,000 in damages.
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