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Friday morning, November 11. 1983
Jury finds Bell guilty of murdering Seurer
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
A Douglas County jury yesterday found Bryan Kish Bell guilty of murder of Lawrence kith. Bell guilty of Frank Schaffer.
Bell showed no emotion as he listened to the clerk of the court read a verdict of guilty for the second-degree murder of Seurer, father of KU quarterback Frank Seurer Jr.
The jury of eight women and four men deliberated for nearly four hours before it reached a verdict about 4.15 p.m. Bell also was convicted of aggravated robbery.
Bell's father, Pink, cried after the verdicts were read.
Mike Elwell, Douglas County associate district judge, set sentencing for 11 a.m. Dec. 6.
BOTH CRIMES are Class B felonies, punishable by a minimum of five to 15 years in prison and a maximum of 20 years to life. Each also has a fine of not more than $15,000.
Eiwell had instructed the jurors to consider either a charge of second-degree murder or a lesser charge, voluntary manslaughter. He had also instructed his consider charges of aggravated robbery or theft
Robert Duncan, Bell's attorney, was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. John Duncan and the defense argued that Duncan had to attend a meeting of the Missouri Attorneys Association, of which he is president.
Chapman said a question would be to appoint the
attorney and a solicitor must be made within 10 days of sentencing.
JERRY HARPER, Douglas County district attorney who prosecuted the case, said that he would wait for a presentence report before recommending a sentence for Bell.
Bell was arrested Aug. 17 after he had confessed to stabbing Seurer once in the back and once in the chest on the morning of Aug. 2 at Seurer's restaurant, Pop's Bar B-Q, 2214 Yale Road. Seurer's body had been found on the kitchen floor of the restaurant.
Bell, a former employee of Seurer's restaurant, said in a confession that he had stabbed Seurer after going to the restaurant to ask for his job back, according to testimony Wednesday by a Lawrence detective. Mrs. Seurer had fired him in June.
In the confession, Bell said he and Seuer were been talking about Bell's financial problems when the defendant thought he heard Seuer say, "If you have money, you blocks have trouble managing your money."
SEURER RUMPED into Bell, and Bell
stabbed him twice, according to the confession,
stabbed him twice.
A deputy county coroner testified Tuesday that Seurer had been stabbed 23 times and that six of the wounds had pierced his heart. The coroner told the court that of the chest wounds had been made by a knife.
Harper alleged that even if Bell had stabbed Seurer only twice, Seurer would have died anyway. One of the knife wounds had penetrated Seurer's heart.
BUT DEFENSE ATTORNEY Duncan alleged that Bell's confession was made during a $ 6_{1/2} $ hour interrogation by police.
See TRIAL, p. 5, col. 4
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
A construction worker pours concrete into a form on the addi- make Haworth the longest building on campus, is proceeding to Haworth Hall. Construction on the addition, which will on time for the hall's scheduled spring 1985 completion.
Downtown plan won't be fought by redeveloper President of Sizeler will explain case to company board
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Davidson said that he would be presenting the case to the Sizerel board of directors sometime in the next few weeks, and that the board would then take official action.
The president of Sizerel Realty Co., the company that was rejected Tuesday by the Lawrence City Commission as developer of downtown Lawrence, said yesterday that he was disappointed, but that he had no plans to fight the Commission's decision.
Tom Davidson, president of Sizerel, Kenner, La., said that the firm had no immediate plans to sue the city or to pursue further development possibilities in the city.
The City Commission picked Town Center Venture Corp., a local firm that was created specifically to present a plan for the development project, as the developer of record.
Grenada action continues to spark debate
SIZELER CAME to Lawrence 14 months ago to compete against other national developers. The city worked with Sizeler on a redevelopment project in the 700 and 800 blocks downtown, east of Massachusetts Street.
In September 1982, Sizerel was named developer of record, a position the company kept until July. The agreement lapsed, and Sizerel was working with the city on a new agreement when the City Commission hired the developer race to local firms in September.
In early October, Town Center presented a plan for the 600 block of downtown. The commission voted 3-1-1 to select Town Center's proposal.
Davidson said Sizeler would close its Lawrence office in the Lawrence National Bank building, 647 Massachusetts St. He said the project would cost more than $250,000 on the Lawrence project.
"You don't want to get burned twice," he said. "You can look at the facts and your own conclusion. We did everything we were asked to do."
"THIS IS probably as bad a case as I've seen of trying to practice business in good faith and being taken advantage of," he said. He also that the company would take precautions against a similar situation occurring in the future.
The city now has 90 days to enter into an agreement with Town Center regarding
Restrictions imposed as news media doubt U.S. casualty reports
Dean Palos, city planner working on downtown redevelopment, said the city would use the Sizerel agreement as the basis of an agreement with Town Center.
Mayor David Longhurst said that he wanted to have a commission study session with Town Center, and that he hoped to have the Downtown Improvement Commission do some work sometimes in the next few weeks. He said he also wanted to reach an agreement in 30 days.
By United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Governor General Sir Paul Scoon has imposed harsh restrictions on Grenada, including a ban on public meetings, arrests without warrants and the threat of press censorship, it was revealed yesterday.
A U.S. military official, meanwhile, reported that three U.S. patrols were fired in two days.
The Pentagon said 18 Americans and 42 Cubans were killed in four days of fighting on the island after the Oct. 25 invasion to rescue American students and overthrow a Marxist
With details on the number of Grenadians killed during the U.S.-led invasion still sketchy, and Cuba and America disputing how many Marines should be released to Boatlift on Washington's account of U.S. casualties.
GUY FARMER, U.S. mission representative on Grenada, denied British news reports that 42 American troops had been killed during the attack and that the "number of American dead remains at 18."
Julian Dixon, D-Calif.; Mervyn Dymally,
Diamond; Hexen; D-Texas; Dickey
Diamond; Linda and Parent.
"Although United States spokesmen admit to only 18 Americans killed in action, I am told that at least 42 have been killed since they came ashore on Oct. 25," Tony Allen-Mills wrote in the Daily Telegraph, citing "impeccable sources" on the island.
Their resolution, offered to reporters before its introduction, said Reagan's action was unconstitutional and thus an impeachable offense because it usurped Congress' power to declare war, ignored treaty obligations and violated First Amendment rights of the public and press in preventing reporters from covering the invasion in its first few days.
'My sources say that, with many more men
in the country, the figure could
reach 80 deserts. Allett Mills said.
THE CALL for impeachment goes contrary to House Speaker Thomas O'Neill and his 14-member House fact-finding delegation that visited Grenada and reported this week that there was justification for Reagan's decision to order the invasion of the tiny island.
In Washington, a State Department official said that he had checked the reports of a much higher American death toll with both the
Conyers Wednesday night issued a statement saying he thought that Reagan should be impeded for ordering the Oct. 25 invasion of the Caribbean island.
An impeachment resolution must first be approved by a committee and then by the full House, which acts in effect like a grand jury, with an impeachment resolution equivalent to an indictment. If the House were to approve an impeachment resolution, it would be conducted by the Senate with the chief justice of the United States acting as a judge and the 100 senators as members of a jury.
See GRENADA, p. 5, col. 1
7 Democrats propose Reagan impeachment for invasion of island
WASHINGTON — Seven House Democrats yesterday asked the House to impeach President Reagan for ordering the invasion of Grenada two weeks ago.
By United Press International
Those submitting the resolution were Reps. Ted Weiss, D.N.Y.; John Conyers, D-Mich.
See IMPEACH, p. 5, col. 4.
Chester Crocker, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, tells about 100 people in the Kansas Union that U.S. corporations should remain involved in South Africa. Crocker delivered the keynote address last night in a conference on U.S.-Africa relations. The conference will continue tomorrow.
U.S. firms can aid civil rights in South Africa, Crocker says
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
U. S. corporations should remain involved in South Africa to encourage progress in gaining civil rights for the country's blacks, the assistant governor of state for African affairs said yesterday.
Referring to proposals for removal of U.S. investment from South Africa, Chester Crocker, the assistant secretary, said, "We reject that the United States will impose ostrich policy." Crocker spoke to about 100
SEN. NANCY LANDON Kassebaum, a co-sponsor of the conference, was supposed to introduce Crocker. In a telegram she sent yesterday afternoon, Kassebaum said she could not attend because of important action yesterday in the Senate.
people in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Crocker delivered the keynote address of a conference on U.S.-Africa affairs since 1960. The conference began yesterday and will continue through January, and it is free to KU faculty, staff and students.
See AFRICA, p. 5, col. 1
Reagan urges peace, freedom in U.S. relations with Japan
By United Press International
TOKYO — President Reagan raised his banner of "peace through strength" today in a nation still haunted by the devastation of World War II. He called on United States in "a powerful partnership for good."
"We cannot prosper unless we are secure and we cannot be secure unless we are free. And we will not succeed in any of these endeavors unless we do." The Japanese Diet, the parliament, told the Japanese Diet, the parliament,
His speech to the Diet — the first by any U.S. president — came on the third day of talks between Reagan and Prime Minister Yasuho Nakaseon, and dealt primarily with trade and
Afterward, Reagan and his wife, Nancy.
arranged to fly by helicopter to Nakasone's private mountain retreat for lunch.
THE REAGANS, who were guests at a white-tie state banquet staged yesterday in their honor by Emperor Hirohito, are to travel to Arizona tomorrow and return to Washington Monday.
Rigan used his speech to the Diet to reinforce his earlier prediction of "a new era" in
See related story p. 10
Japanese-American affairs. He also made a forceful counterattack on those who have said that his stress on military might was contrary to the goal of peace.
Standing in the only country ravaged by
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 1
Falling enrollment may determine future of state's higher education
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
In 1965, three departments in the KU School of Education offered graduate degree programs. Today, seven departments offer graduate degrees in at least 12 distinct areas.
That growth was typical of the growth being experienced in other education schools throughout the nation in the 1960s and 1970s, said William B. Wheeler, president of the North Carolina deep of the KJ graduate school from 1972 to 1978.
"The School of Education expanded in activities, departments and programs." Argeringer said. "The programs have proliferated; the students split up into smaller and smaller disciplines."
The Board of Regents is reviewing the education programs in its universities with the intent of merging or eliminating those it can do without. The education review is the second
phase in a planned five-year review process of all academic programs at the Regents schools
IN THIS REVIEW, university administrators are mustering whatever resources they can to protect their turf, which comprises the state's more than 150 degree programs in education.
Before June, administrators of each of those programs will be asked by the Regents to "tell us
ANALYSIS
why the program should not be eliminated"
That is how Stanley Koplik, Regents executive director, described the five-year review.
This is not the first such review, nor will it be the last. Programs have been eliminated after Regents or University reviews, and faculty members have worried about their jobs. But this is the first time that the Regents have reviewed so many programs directly, with the intent, as Koplik said, of "changing the face of higher education."
See REVIEW, p. 8, col. 1