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Vol. 94, No. 78 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, January 16, 1984
Democratic hopefuls square off in debate
By United Press International
HANOVER, N.H. — A debate among the eight Democratic presidential candidates erupted into a shouting match between the two front-runners yesterday. John Glenn accused Walter Mondale of engaging in "gobblebledgook." Mondale called Glenn's charge "baloney."
The debate was televised nationally from Dartmouth College.
The Glem-Mondale exchange, following $2\frac{1}{2}$ hours of gentlemanly discussion, became so heated that the Rev. Jesse Jackson admonished the business staff to refract the affairs of this business in a serious vein."
THE EXCHANGE BEGAN after Mondale, former vice president and acknowledged front-runner for the Democratic nomination, outlined his program to cut federal deficits.
Glenn, an Ohio senator and Mondale's closest rival, said with disgust "That's the same vague sentiment I had when I first met him."
is this going to be a Democratic Party that promises everything to everybody and runs up a $170 billion bill?'' Glenn was using the figure he saves Mondale's campaign promises would cost.
Mosesmonda's campaign promises to increase
MONDALE TRIED repeatedly to interrupt
Glenn, saying, "Point of personal privilege!" Point of personal privilege!" He finally said, "There's just been a six-minute speech and all of it is baloney."
Both men jumped to their feet before a stunned but amused audience of about 800. Mondale shouted as Glenn tried to interrupt him: "I have the floor! I have the floor!"
"The reason we have a $200-billion budget deficit is because you voted for Reaganomics." Mondale told Glem. "He voted for the B-1 bomber, poison nerve gas. And he uses voODO numbers to say what my programs would cost. My position is responsible."
Former Florida governor Rebuin Ankew
ouple use the statement, saying, "You're
right about it alone."
JACKSON TRIED to play the role of peacemaker, but Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., still leveled another blast at Mondale.
"This party will not regain power as long as we listen to the leadership of the past," Hart said. "Fritz (Mondale) you cannot lead this nation if you promise everybody everything."
FORMER SEN, GEORGE McGovern, D.S.D. came to Mondale's defense and said Democrats should avoid ganging up on the front-runner and concentrate on defeating President Reagan.
Senate candidates asked to give up appeal rights
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Presidential candidates from last fall's Student Senate election have been asked to help expedite a new election by waiving their rights to appeal a recommendation that prompted the new election.
Tom Bergman, chairman of a special committee formed to remedy election problems, said Friday that he had asked coalition representatives on the committee to ask their candidates to give him an appeal to the recommendation from the University of Kansas Judicial Board.
IF THE WAIMERS are signed, Berger said, a required 30-school-day waiting period could be circumvented and the new election held by Feb. 16. If the new election were held, the election could not be held before Feb. 21.
Acting on a complaint from Kevin Walker.
Momentum presidential candidate, the judicial board in December recommended that Chancellor Gene A. Budig order a new presidential election because the November election had been 'fraught with inconsistencies and ambivalence.' It is likely that the Student Senate hold another election.
Two of the four presidential candidates who ran in last November's election said yesterday that they had not had a final vote.
KEVIN WALKER, Momentum Coalition presidential candidate, could not be reached for comment.
department of music was the host of the Midwestern Trombone Workshop Friday and Saturday, attracting students and teachers from Kansas and surrounding states.
But Priority presidential candidate Scott Swenson, who was declared the winner of the first election, said he was still considering an appeal of the board's recommendation.
Because of what he called "definite procedural problems" in the board's action, Swenson said that he now thought an appeal might be easier than that he would announce his decision this week.
Steve Parsons, Lawrence graduate student, performs on his trombone before a group of trombone enthusiasts in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The University of Kansas
King birthday holds special meaning
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Martin Luther King Day won't be a national holiday for two, cars, but for those whose lives he touched, yesterday held a special significance.
If the pursuit of his dream had not been short by an assassin's bullet, Martin Luther King
national holiday. The measure had been introduced in every session since King's assassination in 1968.
"He was just a good person," said Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism at Columbia University.
KING, A NOBEL PEACE Prize recipient, was killed April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., where he was trying to help resolve a strike between the city and sanitation workers.
King's birthday was in the spotlight last October, when President Reagan signed a bill that would prohibit the use of nuclear weapons.
King's philosophy was one of peace through nonviolence. He rebuked more violent tactics of the French in his reign.
Adams said, "They didn't understand that prevalence was not cowardice."
the caucus, spoke to about 2 people at McCollum. King's accomplishments, and belief effect, were discussed in the speech.
At the University of Kansas, the McColum Hall Black Cauceus hosted two speakers yesterday to celebrate King's birthday,.
The Rev. Leo Barbee, of Victory Bible Church,
1692 19th秋, and Rochelle Moore, president of
DESPITE KING'S POPULARITY, the proposal making his birthday a national holiday met with some congressional opposition.
Stating that King had not been cleared of his alleged involvement with the Communist Party, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., unsuccessfully attempted to block the bill.
J. Edgar Hoover, who was director of the FBI during the King era, had reportedly ordered surveillance of King. But because the files are very rare, the contents of them have never been examined
Adams said be believed that Helms' argument was unjustified.
Lawrence's burger wars drop prices
Staff Reporter
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
It's lunchtime at McDonald's, and Doug Kremens has just polished off his third 49-cent cheeseburger.
"It's nothing you want to live on, but it does nicely for a couple of hours," said Kremers, Denver senior.
Denver senior.
For budget-watching hamburger aficionados like Kremers and many other KU students, the most recent battle in the McDonald's-Burger King war is an unexpected, but much welcomed, boon.
After a year of cold-war style jousting in their national advertising campaigns, the war suddenly became as hot as the burgers they sell, when, on January 1, both franchise cuts of hamburgers to 39 cents and cheeseburgers to 49 cents.
Ken Ollita, owner of Burger King, said that although the 39-cent burgers were selling well, he was not reaping the benefits. He said the 18-cent price-cut sliced off the profit he was making on hamburgers. He declined to say, however, how much money he was losing on each burger or whether total sales have been affected.
these local competitors all report an increase in customers and in sales of hamburgers, but some say that they are losing money by charging burgers and that overall sales aren't improving.
IN LAWRENCE, McDonald's restaurants at 901 W. 23rd St., and 1309 W. Sixth St., the Burger King, in Upper East Side, and Bucky's Drive In, 1210 W. Ninth St., all are offering 39-cent hamburgers.
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DESPITE THESE problems, Ollila said he planned to stick with the offer for as long as Burger King did so nationally.
At the McDonald's at 901 W. 23rd St.
Manager Jerry Guffey said that the offer had brought more customers into the restaurant and that total sales had increased. He said that purchases of the 39-cent hamburger had increased considerably but that he didn't yet know if he was making money on the deal.
Guffey said he had no idea how long McDonald's would run the offer.
Bob Hardister, Bucky's assistant manager, gave a similar report. Since Bucky began the offer Jan. 5, sales of regular hamburgers have
tripped, he said. Hardister added, however, that Bucky's didn't quite break even on the low-cost hamburgers and that sales of other items would have said overall sales have staved about the same.
HARDSTER SAID Bucky's choice to enter the war as a direct response to the McDonald's Burger King challenge. Bucky's will distract the offer until the end of February, he said.
John Weir, director of public relations at Burger King's national headquarters in Miami, said that the offer would probably be continued for another four to six weeks.
"It doesn't represent, from our point of view, a price war," said Weir. "The 39-cent hamburger was developed as a short-term promotion to increase sales during a slow
Weir said the rational behind the promotion was to "get people into the store" and hope they buy other, money-making items and not just the low-cost hamburgers.
OLILLA SAID, however, that it doesn't always work out that way.
"Sometimes people come in and buy 10 hamburgers and nothing else," he said.
U.S. Marines, warships fire in response to Muslim attack
By United Press International
BEIRUT Lebanon — Two U.S. warships joined U.S. Marines in retaliation on Muslim militia positions east of Beirut yesterday after the Marines came under fire, U.S. officials said.
L. t. College Suits, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington, said the Marines retaliated with machine guns, howitzers and mortars before the attack on the USS New Jersey, and the destroyer USS Tattnall.
"The rounds from those ships amounted to approximately 120 rounds total, all of which were carried by aircraft."
Druse Muslim militiamen raked the Beirut airport area, where the Marines are positioned, with sniper fire, forcing the building to close about 4:30 p.m. Radio Beirut was
THE U.S. MARINES were badly hit by ground-aimed, 23mm anti-aircraft flak shells, the radio network added.
President Reagan's Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, arrived late yesterday from Israel, and went straight to a meeting with Nahib Berril, Radio Berruat said. Berri is chief of the Shite Moslem militia Amal that controls some of the suburbs around the U.S. Marine
The naval bombardment was the 11th time U.S. warships off the coast of Lebanon have fired during the Lebanese warfare since September. The last time was Dec. 19 when two gunboats bombed Syrian positions after U.S. reconnaissance flights reportedly came under fire.
The United States has more than a dozen warships off the Lebanese coast in two battle groups in support of 1,200 Marines ashore.
Closed fitness centers drain money from owner and many KU students
By GRETCHEN DAY
Staff Reporter
Dennis Dey, who owns the Nautilus Fitness Center and the Weight Room, both at 1601 W.23rd St., said yesterday he would file for bankruptcy if the club as soon as he could accquire the money for lawyers' fees.
The doors at two local health clubs were closed recently, and many KU students can no longer workout in the clubs where they paid money to join.
Dey said he was trying to prevent the 35 members of the Weight Room from losing their membership fees. But he would not elaborate on how he planned to do this.
HOWEVER, he said he had no plans to reimburse the more than 100 members of the Nautilus Fitness Center, which he bought in July and closed in December. The membership of the Nautilus club also includes about 12 KU fraternities and sororites.
Clyde Chapman, director of the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, said that his office had received about 20 complaints regarding the clubs' closings.
Chapman said members could file small claims suits against the health clubs until bankruptcy was filed. After bankruptcy is filed.
members may file bankruptcy claims against the eluds' assets, he said.
Frank Angeloel, said the Weight Room, which was closed two to three weeks ago, had "unofficially" opened for business in December.
HE SAID THAT although memberships had been sold and members could train, the club was not yet fully equipped.
Dey said. "The Weight Room didn't have a chance to get started."
He said reciprocal membership arrangements with the Nautilus Fitness Center were never worked out.
Ron Smith, manager of Southern Hills Shopping Center, said several people were interested in buying the clubs.
Angetone said that a new health club was scheduled to open by mid-semester. Weight Room members will be allowed to continue their memberships at the new club, which will be called Junkyard's Jym, and will be near Omni Electronics. 540 Fireside Court.
"IYE SENT A letter to those Weight Room members who paid a full membership giving them two options for membership to Junkyard's Jvm." be said.
Angelone said that those who didn't want to continue their Weight Room membership at Junkyard's Jym could have four months' free use of the new club when it opened.