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University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1983 Page 8
Crime in city up 6.9 percent this year,stats show
By the Kansan Staff
Crime in Lawrence is up 6.9 percent for the first nine months of this year compared with the first nine months of last year, according to statistics released yesterday by the Lawrence Police Department.
Nearly 61 percent of all the crimes committed during the first nine months of this year were larcenies, the statistics showed.
Of all the crimes committed, 21.5 percent were burglaries, about 5.5 percent were auto thefts and about 2
percent were murders, rapes and robberies.
Assault composed about 10 percent of the crimes, with non-aggravated assault accounting for about 7 percent of the aggravated assault accounting for 3 percent.
EVERY CATEGORY OF crime showed an increase except burglary, which has declined 1.8 percent, from 622 reported burglaries during the first nine months of 1982 to 611 for the first nine months of this year.
Three murders occurred between January and September of this year, compared with one through September of 1982.
percent
Aggravated assault and non-aggravated assault have also increased.
Sixteen rapes were reported through September compared with 13 for the period last year, an increase of 23 percent.
Aggravated assault increased to 107 from 70, a 52.9 percent increase. Non-aggravated assault increased to 199 from 161, a 23.6 percent increase.
Robberies, larcenies and auto thefts also were higher through September as compared with September last year.
ROBBERIES INCREASED 104.3 percent, to 47 from 23.
Auto theft increased 34.8 percent, to 151 from 112.
Larcenies increased 3.2 percent, to 1,769 from 1,714.
Although crime is up for the first nine months, less crime occurred from June through September this year than last year.
Crime was up 14.5 percent during the first six months of this year compared with the first six months of last year. But crime is up 6.9 percent for the first nine months this year, which indicates a decrease in crime of 7.6 percent during July, August and September.
Costa Ricans feel threat of Nicaragua, prof says
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
The recent deterioration in relations between Nicaragua and Costa Rica seems unfounded because the Costa Rican government supported the Sandinistas during their struggle against Gen. Anastasio Somato in 1978 and 1979, a KU professor of political science said yesterday.
Robert Tomasek, the professor, said,
"Costa Rica has no army; the Sandinistas can't feel that Costa Rica is a threat."
Tomasek spoke to about 50 people in the Kansas Union. He said that Costa Rican leaders had said that Nicaragua would never invade their country because the Organization of American States would impose harsh sanctions.
BUT THE COSTA Rican government of President Luis Alberto Monge is becoming more distrustful of the Sandinista commanders, especially after elections in Nicaragua were postponed until 1885, he said.
"The Costa Rican leaders ideally would like to see free elections take place," said Tomasek, who has spent several weeks in Central America this year studying the political situation there.
"Costa Rica can't understand why Nicaragua would want to do this," he said.
Costa Rican leaders fear that Nicaragua has been involved in domestic subversion in Costa Rica, Tomasek said.
And although the Costa Rican government opposes the formation of an army, in its country, it formed an anti-terrorist brigade in May in response to about a dozen acts of terrorism in the last two years, he said.
THIS FEAR OF terrorism has led to
"Costa Rican leaders feel extremely vulnerable to terrorism," he said.
restrictions on the activities of exiles in Costa Rica, he said. Costa Rica tries to follow asylum law as closely as possible.
Asylum law prohibits exiles to purchase arms, to recruit other exiles, or to establish exile camps, he said, but allows exiles to conduct and attend meetings, print memorandums, collect funds and obtain mass media publicity.
"The problem, however, is that although Costa Rica has clamped down on exile leaders when necessary, she cannot control her borders." Tomasick and
The Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border is difficult to monitor because it is 220 miles of jungle and because of Nicaraguan and Costa Rican disputes over the navigation rights of the San Juan River. he said.
Another reason that relations between the two countries have been deteriorating, Tomasek said, is that the Office of Judicial Investigation claims to have uncovered a Sandinist supported plot to take advantage of Costa Rica's economic crisis by supporting labor strikes in the country.
WHEN MONGE BECAME president in February 1982, the external debt of the country was $4.6 billion, the highest per capita debt in the world, Tomasek said. Moreover, inflation had reached 100 percent in 1981 and 1982, and the Costa Rican currency, the colone, fluctuated from eight to 63 colones to the dollar between 1979 and 1982, before stabilizing at 43 to the dollar.
He said that Costa Rican leaders were formulating a statute on neutrality.
Although some scholars say that Costa Rica is a pawn of the United States government and has no foreign policy of its own, Tomasek said that Costa Rica's foreign policy interests, although congruent with those of the United States, were very much its own interests.
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"MARKETING YOURSELF," a workshop by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, will be from May 14-17 in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
PRE-PHYSICAL Therapy Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Watkins Hospital. Camilla Wilson will discuss Physical Therapy school requirements.
DUNGONS AND Dragons will meet at a p.m. in the Trail Room of the Uniting
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UNIVERSITY FORUM will feature Barbara Anthony-Twarog, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at MIT. This event is a Universe in Space and Time* at 11:45
GERMAN CLUB will feature "Early Settlers in Germania, PA," a lecture by Helmut Huebsberger, professor of German at 4 p.m. in the Burge Union.
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A meeting of the Literary Magazine will be at 7:30 p.m. in the International Research Center for Literature.
CHESS, GO, and Backgammon Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail of Roses.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE College Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS on Campus will discuss 'Persecution in Eastern European Countries' at 7 p.m. in the Regional Room of the Union
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