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Vol. 94, No. 43 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, October 19, 1983
KU asks for $4.18 million in state money to finance five projects, other work
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
University of Kansas officials yesterday presented to a joint committee of the Kansas Legislature the University's budget requests for construction and renovation for the next fiscal year.
The Joint Committee on State Building Construction, led by State Sen. August Bogina, R-Leneca, heard proposals from the seven Board of Regents schools for capital improvements that would cost the state $15.4 million in the next fiscal year.
Building maintenance and energy conservation measures at KU, Kansas State University and the University of Kansas Medical Center. List of requests received last summer by the Regents for its schools.
ALLEN WIECHER, UNIVERSITY director of facilities planning, said the University's first priority had been to secure financing for the university and that the institution item fell to No. 8 on the Regents statewide list,
the highest ranking of any new building projects for the next fiscal year.
The schools were authorized by the Regents to ask the Legislature to finance 20 capital improvement projects in fiscal year 1985, which begins July 1 of next year.
"We are energy conscious, but our main thrust was to get funding for the new library," Wiechert said. "We're not quibbling with the list, but at this point we urgently need a new
The Regents last summer pared down a list of $43 million in requests for fiscal year 1985 to $15.4 million. Also, $219.8 million in requests for the next five years was trimmed to $79 million.
WARREN CORMAN, Regents director of facilities, said that in past years the Regents had recommended 40 or 50 projects and then had let the Legislature decide which ones to finance. This year, however, the Regents made a list of the 20 most-needed projects, and put phases of some of the projects in a financing proposal that covers three years.
See BUILDING, p. 5, col. 3
Commission delays decision on downtown redevelopment
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
After almost two hours of debate last night the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2 to defer action on downtown redevelopment for three weeks.
Mayor David Longhurst and Commissioner Howard Hill both voted against the deferral, saying the commission had a commitment to make it make a decision on redevelopment last night.
Commissioner Ernest Angino made the motion to defer the decision until Nov. 8, saying he was concerned about making a selection before the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission had the opportunity to review the newest downtown redevelopment plan, which was presented to the city 13 days ago by Town Center Venture Corp.
THE TOWN CENTER plan calls for blocking Massachusetts Street in the 600 block and building a cube-shaped mall between Vermont Street and the alley east of Massachusetts
The debate on the proposal became more heated as the night went on and each of the commissioners expressed his thoughts on redevelopment.
Some members of the community have questioned Longhurst's and Mike Amyx's objectivity on the issue, because they run businesses along the 800 block of Massachusetts Street, which is within the redevelopment area planned by made plan of Sisker Leight Co. Inc., Kenner, La.
Longhurst said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, had been asked by some community members to get a ruling on the issue from the state attorney general.
THE SIZELER PLAN would place a mall in the 700 and 800 blocks, east of Massachusetts Street.
Longhurst said he thought he could remain
impartial on the downtown issue, but Commissioner Nancy Shontz disagreed.
When Longhurst jokingly accused her of making the request for the attorney general's opinion, Shontz said, "That's the most insulting thing I've ever heard."
After the meeting, Longhurst said his comment was an inappropriate response to an inappropriate statement from Shontz, which questioned his objectivity.
A half dozen members of the community talked to the commission, and all of them either supported the Sizeler plan or requested a delay. None supported the Town Center plan, which Longhurst has said has captured the interest of the public.
RICHARD ZINN, a member of Town Center
Venture Capital Commission to name
the developer and to (a)
Angino asked for the three week delay, saying not only that he wanted the planning commission to look at the plan, but also that he thought the public would perceive the action as "railroading" by the commission when it was not fully prepared to make the decision.
Angino further stressed that three weeks would not make any difference in the future of the downtown, and he wanted to use that three weeks to get a survey of businessmen in the 600 block to see whether there was support for a businessman whose those businessmen would have to pay for.
ANGINO HAD CITY Manager Buford Watson ask whether the department of public affairs could undertake the project. Steve Moody, public affairs employee, said students from the University of Kansas could do it as a class project.
Shontz, who has previously opposed making the decision until more information is provided by Town Center, said the commission should place the information gathering back in the hands of the Downtown Improvement Committee to display the vote until that process was completed.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Marla Young, St. Louis freshman, squeezes a sponge to tighten her arm muscles. She gave blood yesterday during the Red Cross Blood Drive.
Lebanon's combative parties to hold peace talks tomorrow
his special envoy in the Middle East. The role is temporarily being filled by McFarlane's deputy, Richard Hutchison.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Despite an escalation of fighting in and around the capital, the government said yesterday that Lebanon's warring parties would hold a peace conference at Beirut Airport behind the lines of the U.S. Marines.
The announcement on official Beirut radio said foreign Minister Elie Salem asked the multinational peace-keeping force — including troops from France, Italy, Britain and the Marines — to provide security for the talks starting tomorrow.
Referring to the precarious security situation in Beirut, the announcement said the force's duties would include ferrying delegates to the meeting site by helicopter if necessary.
ring objection. No
No announcing date has been announced.
WITHIN HOURS OF the announcement, the internal shells will be heard throughout the canal.
President Reagan met with his top diplomatic and military advisers yesterday for a "stock-taking" review of Middle East developments
A U.S. Marine spokesman, Maj. Robert Jordan, said the fighting in Beirut and the Shouf mountains overlooking the capital was not close to the Marines' positions.
THE DELEGATES TO the proposed peace conference, including leaders of Lebanon's main warring factions, were to discuss new power-sharing arrangements for a future that has increased over the past eight years.
Aides indicated Reagan may take some time to pick a replacement for Robert McFarlane as
There was no word from the government's opponents on whether they had accepted the Beirut Airport meeting site. Druse leader Walid Jumblatt, a prominent figure in an anti-government coalition, made it clear that he was not enthusiastic.
The choice of the airport for the meeting was a concession by the government, which at one stage demanded that the talks take place in Aimin Gemayel's dominance of the meeting.
After days of attacks that killed two Marines and wounded six in a 60-hour period, the Americans announced that the snipers harassing their positions had withdrawn.
Regents want B.G.S. degree cut in science
Board will review additional programs at monthly meeting
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents this week will recommend that the University of Kansas drop its bachelor of general studies degree programs from its physical science departments, the chairman of the department of chemistry said yesterday.
Martin Harmony, the chairman, said the Regents would recommend that the degree be eliminated from the departments of chemistry, physics, geology and radiation biophysics at the Regents' monthly meeting in Topeka tomorrow and Friday.
Eliminating the B.G.S. degree from the physical science department will not be a significant change. John Davidson, chairman of physics and astronomy, said yesterday.
JOBSTANTY
DAVIDSON SAID less than 7 percent of all B.G.S. degree-seeking students were physical or natural science majors.
Harmony said almost no students pursued a B.G.S. degree in chemistry.
Davidson said no faculty members would be affected by the program elimination.
The main difference between the B.G.S. degree and the bachelor of arts degree is that the B.G.S. is more flexible, according to the KU undergraduate catalog.
The B.A. degree requires western civilization, a foreign language and a laboratory science, and an approved foreign study.
The B.G.S. degree requires a world civilization sequence, however, and the B.A. degree does
UNIVERSITY AND REGENTS officials refused to confirm until the meeting tomorrow whether recommendations would be made to students to attend classes in sciences, or to drop any other programs at KU.
But one official, Joe McFarland, the Regents academic officer, said yesterday that the
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 4
German party leader joins nuclear protests
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — A campaign against new U.S. nuclear missiles drew only scattered demonstrations yesterday but received a boost after the French brand, who said he would join the protests.
The peace movement announced that Brandt, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to ease friction with the Soviet Union, would speak at a rally Saturday as a climax the 10-day effort
BRANDT, THE PARTY chairman, when asked by a television interviewer if he would speak in that capacity, said that he would speak as a chairman and could not relinquish his ownership for the day.
The move all but seals a reversal on the deployment of new NATO medium-range missiles in West Germany by the Social Democrats, the country's major opposition group, which has the deployment it agreed to in 1979 under the Social Democratic Cancellor Helmil Schmidt.
A party announcement also said that the Social Democratic leadership approved the break with
See related story p. 9
Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government.
the nationwide demonstrations are protecting the scheduled deployment of 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 medium-range missiles in Western Europe, which will begin in December, unless there is progress at the U.S. Soviet arms talks in Geneva.
movement organizers said that about 15,000 people in 32 cities had picketed West German armed forces recruiting offices or had played dead outside arms manufacturers.
Yesterday, on the sixth day of the rally, which was billed as "anti-militarism day," peace
ABOUT 600 PEOPLE TRIED to blockade the headquarters of the West German Army's First Corps in Munster. Police took about 50 people into custody briefly.
into custody in order.
However, only a handful of protesters showed up to hold "warning vigils" outside the U.S. and Soviet consulates in Hamburg.
Brandt's participation in the campaign signals that the Social Democrats, at their convention Nov. 18 in Cologne, will reject the missile deployment.
In Hamburg, a new poll showed that only a third of West Germans support the new missile deployment.
Kennedy defends brothers during quarrel with Helms Senate also rejects stall on King bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A bitter quarrel erupted yesterday between Sens. Jesse Helms and Edward Kennedy over the views of the dead Kennedy brothers as the Senate rejected efforts to stall a bill to honor Martin Luther King Jr., with a national holiday.
Helms, R.N.C., battling virtually alone, invoked both John and Robert Kennedy in his effort to block the King holiday.
Kennedy angrily retorted that his assassinated brothers were being unjustly enlisted in "a smear campaign."
HELMS, CONVINCED THE black leader was a communist, asked U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smith to release immediately records from FBI surveillance of King that were ordered sealed for 30 years in 1977, but the judge rejected the request because leaders had said the judge should proceed regardless of the court ruling.
justly enlisted in a military campaign.
The Senate has set a final vote for today on the bill creating a 10th federal holiday, to be celebrated on the third Monday in January — the month King was born — beginning in 1866.
to subpoena the same documents that the judge bans to release. On a key 76-12 vote, Helms failed in a bid to have the bill sent to the Judiciary Committee for study. The senators from Kansas, Republicans Robert Dole and Nancy Kassebaum, voted against Helms' bid. Helms argued the Senate should have hearings on the measure, as did the House, which approved the holiday 389-90 Aug. 2.
Helms quickly appealed Smith's ruling to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. A ruling was not expected before today. Helms was defeated again, 90-3, when later in the day he asked the Senate committee that the judge refused to release.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen.
Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., confer before a Senate debate on the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.
which appproved KENNEDY, D-MASS., said the Senate has had 15 years to think over the idea, first introduced in Congress shortly after King was assassinated in 1968.
United Press International
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1869. Normally also disputed arguments the holiday might cost as much as $12 billion annually because stores and banks would close. The Congressional Budget Office estimated it will cost the government $18 million in lost productivity.
Helms, who filibustered the measure earlier, refused to abandon delaying tactics although passage is certain and President Reagan has promised to sign the bill.
The conservative Southerner infuriated Kennedy when he noted Attorney General Robert Kennedy had authorized a wiretap of King. Helms added that President Kennedy warned King to stay away from advisers suspected of communist ties.
SPEAKING OF HIS Senate colleague, Helms said, "His argument is with his dead brother who was president and his dead brother who was attorney General."
Kennedy responded. "I am appalled at the attempt of some to misappropriate the memory of my brother, Robert Kennedy, and misuse it as part of this smear campaign. Those who never cared for him in life now invoke his name when he can no longer speak for himself."
Kennedy acknowledged that his brother Robert, as attorney general, appraised a 34-day wiretap of King by the FBI that later was expanded.
See KING, p. 5, col. 1
Police conduct yearly search in Japanese suicide 'haven'
By United Press International
TOKYO — Police conducted their annual search for suicide victims yesterday in the foothills of Mount Fuji and recovered six from four bombs that there troubled Japanese come to end their lives.
In a sad twist of life in modern Japan, as many as 60 people from all corners of the country make a suicide pilgrimage each year to the 6,240-acre Mount Fuji at Fujiyu to kill themselves in quiet surroundings.
THE AREA HAS become nation's most popular site for suicide after being publicized as a suicide haven by a best-selling detective novel in the 1970s.
"I guess this is what makes the place so popular as a suicide site," said a police official at Fuji-Yoshida, 62 miles southwest of Tokyo. "You can simply get lost once you wander inside."
Fuji is also revered by Japanese as a sacred mountain.
Most hang themselves or take sleeping pills. But death is easy for anyone who is lost inside the woods, where magnetic rocks confound compass readings.
At the end of "Nami no To" ("Tower of Waves),
one of the central characters, a woman involved
The forest's gloomy atmosphere, relative remoteness and proximity to the sacred mountain contribute to its fascination. Its notoriety though stems from a 1975 television dramatization of a novel by author Seicho Matsumoto.
in a love triangle, disappears into the forest presumably to die.
OF THE SIX human remains found yesterday, two were identified as male and one as female, said Masafumi Sakuma, deputy police chief at Fuji-Yoshida, which organized the annual sweep in 1976. The other remains were too decomposed to be immediately identified.
"They have all been dead for at least one year," he said. "There is no doubt all were
"Most of the victims were buried under the foliage."
Police said that altogether they mobilized about 670 policemen, firefighters and volunteers.
Twenty-eight bodies have been found so far this year at Aokigahara by both the search party and passshery. Police said there had recovered 35 bodies, and an investigation thought to be lying undetected inside the woods.
"I bet there are more than 100 bodies still left undiscovered in the thick wood," speculated a local resident who took part in yesterday's search.
DESPITE MYTHS SURROUNDING the "kamikaze" warplane displaces of World War II and the traditional "hara-kiri" suicide of Samurai warriors that lead many to think the suicide rate in Japan is quite high, the rate in Japan is lower than in many Western countries.
In all, 20,665 Japanese committed suicide last year. Most were middle-aged men, although a disturbing number were children who suc-ceeded from an intense pressure of the Japanese school system.