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Vol. 94, No. 39 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, October 13, 1983
ODGEN, Utah — Rescue workers comb the rubble of the collapsed Orpheum Theater in downtown Ogden. No one was trapped inside when the theater caved in yesterday, and no serious injuries were reported. The building was scheduled to be demolished soon as part of a renovation project.
Negotiators resume bargaining on arms
Soviets confirm threat to walk out
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — U.S. and Soviet negotiators, meeting under a Kremlin threat to break off arms-control talks with Washington, conferred for almost three hours yesterday on limiting medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
Chief U.S. negotiator Paul H. Nitze and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. Kvitsinky, scheduled a new round of talks for next week.
The Soviet threat to pull out of the arms talks surfaced in Geneva Tuesday and was confirmed yesterday by Soviet Communist Party Central Committee. It was confirmed during a meeting in Hamburg, West Germany.
"We don't want to participate in negotiations leading to a situation in which powerful new missiles and warheads will be stationed in Europe," Zamatyina said, referring to the U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 nuclear missiles scheduled to be deployed in Western Europe by the end of the year.
IN WASHINGTON, White House spokesman Larry Speaks said the Reagan administration had not seen "an official statement" from Moscow on a possible suspension of the talks and
Nikolai Chervov, a Soviet missile expert with
Zavatmir, asked a West German missile sympo-
tism.
sum earlier. "What would be the point of negotiating further once the deployment of missiles has started?"
West German government spokesman Peter Boenisch told reporters later that the two Soviets were trying to stir up the West German peace campaign by a campaign against missile deployment today.
The two-hour, 55-minute meeting in Geneva between Nitze and Kvitsinsky was the 95th negotiating session on intermediate-range nuclear missiles since the talks began two years
None of the negotiators would comment on the Soviet walk out threat. "We are continuing with the war," he said.
SPEAKES SAID SOVIET threats to break off the talks extended to Strategic Arms Reduction Talks on intercontinental nuclear weapons as well as the Intermediate-range Nuclear Force
Speakes told reporters Tuesday that the United States would remain at the negotiating table. Western diplomats in Geneva said this week they would have to break off the talks unilaterally.
Western officials said the Soviets wanted to combine the strategic and intermediate-range missile talks into one negotiating forum on grounds that the U.S. cruise and Pershing-2
mussles represented a "back-door extension" of Washington's intercontinental strike capability.
IN A RELATED development, Warsaw Pact foreign ministers planned to meet this week for what communist sources indicated yesterday would be a session devoted to planning an East Bloc response to the U.S. deployment of an orange nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
East Bloc sources said the seven foreign ministers would meet in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia today and tomorrow for their regular fall session.
But the Warsaw Pact military commander in chief. Soviet Marshal Viktor Kulikov, indicated that the American forces were
"The U.S. military course seriously threatens peace in the world." Kulikov said of NATO plans to begin deploying 572 cruise and 322 medium-range missiles by December.
"THE U.S. SAMOTAGES any negotiations with the Soviet Union based on the principles of parity and equal security for both sides." Kulikov said. "If the United States begins to deploy its medium-range and cruise nuclear missiles in Europe, the Soviet Union and its allies will take up necessary steps, to preserve the balance of forces on the European and global scales."
Taiwanese buy corn, wheat from Kansas
Bv United Press International
TOPEKA — Amid picture-snapping and hand-shaking, two Taiwanese trade agencies taking part in a buying mission to the United States, are now worth $28 million worth of Kansai corn and wheat.
Representatives for the agencies were part of a 63-member Taiwanese delegation that visited Taiwan on Thursday.
GOV. JOHN CARLIN greeted the Taiwanese
The Taiwan Flour Mills Association bought 27 metric tons, or about 1 million bushels, of wheat for $4.6 million while the Taiwan Maize Importers Association signed up for about 5.8 million bushels of corn worth more $23.3 million. The two agencies submitted the highest offers for the grain during a bid-opening ceremony in the Senate chambers.
delegation in his office, welcoming its leaders back to the state and presenting them with a book of color photographs of Kansas.
"On the way from Kansas City we saw a beautiful portion of your state," said Vincent C Slew, director general of the Taiwan Board in NY. "We've been accepting the book 'It is a very beautiful state.'"
This year's mission marked the third time that Taiwanese have visited Kansas to purchase grain and other commodities. In the three visits since 1978, the Taiwanese have bought $60 million worth of goods, with this year's purchase representing the largest ever in Kansas.
BEFORE THE SIGNING ceremony in Carlin's office, Siew reaffirmed his country's commitment to buying Kansas grain in years to come, saying Lt. Gov. Tom Docking's trip to Taiwan last spring helped convince the delegation to include Kansas in its procurement mission.
"We have been receiving all the time trade delegations from many states." Siew said. "The visits to our country help establish close trade relations between our country and the states."
Siew renewed an invitation to Carlin to visit Taiwan. Although Carlin said he wanted to visit Taiwan, he currently had no plans to do so. The governor's trade mission to China and Japan this month was canceled because of injuries he suffered in an auto accident.
"This symbolizes our biggest sales that we've ever made" with the Taiwanese, Carlin
ever made” with the Taiwanese, Carlin said. In their eight procurement missions to the United States since 1978, the Taiwanese have purchased about $6 billion worth of U.S. agricultural and agricultural products. The 1981 mission is expected to produce $80 million in sales.
Regents proposal allows schools to set calendars
Staff Reporter
By DONNA WOODS
Universities should be allowed to determine their own school year calendars as long as they conform to Board of Regents guidelines, the University Senate Executive Committee chairman said yesterday.
Under a proposal being considered by the Regents Council of Chief Academic Officers, Regents schools would no longer have to follow the same academic calendars. Each of the six Regents universities could set its own schedule but would have to follow uniform guidelines.
"I think it is becoming clear that the needs of the Regents institutions vary in that aspect," James Carothers, SenEx chairman, said about the need for individual academic calendars.
THE PROPOSED UNIFORM guidelines would require each Regents institution to adhere to a two-semester schedule. Each semester would last in weeks, with a minimum of 80 class or examination days.
The proposal also states that the fall semester would end no later than Dec. 31. An alternate schedule would be posted in line 49.
Bill Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said that the proposal could allow students to earn more money during the summer, and a longer summer break would save money for the University of Kansas.
Hogan said that because individual schools could choose to begin the school year after Labor Day, students would be able to work longer. Based on minimum wage salaries, he said, that extra week could mean more than $3.3 million in income for KU students. A flexible schedule
would allow the University to decrease the number of days between orientation and the first day of classes.
THE SHORTER ORIENTATION period would save energy in residence halls and in campus buildings, he
Hogan also said that reducing the time lag between student arrival and the first day of classes would be useful.
Although no classes were canceled at KU this year because of the heat, Lawrence area schools closed or closed for another week.
Carothers said a new calendar would mean that students and faculty might be able to avoid extremely
The proposal must be approved by the Council of Chief Academic Officers, the Council of Presidents and the Chief Medical Officer.
Front prompts initial warning of autumn frost
By Staff and Wire Reports
An autumn cold front brought freezing temperatures to the Lawrence area last night and is expected to produce temperatures in the mid- to upper 30s tonight.
FROST OCCURS ANYTIME temperatures approach 32 degrees. However, Crandall said, temperatures must fall below 29 degrees for several hours to kill substantial amounts
Low temperatures yesterday morning prompted KU weather observers to issue the season's first serious frost warning.
Two-and-a-half inches of rain doused the New York metropolitan area, flood streets and tunnels during the evening rush hour and halting some subway service.
Ron Crandall, lead forcaster for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said that freezing temperatures had already hit northeast Kansas this fall, but that this corner of the state had not yet experienced a killing frost.
The downpour caused extensive delays at area airports and massive traffic jams throughout the city. Police reported minor accidents "all over the city" from the
The cold front also chased heavy rains across the Midwest to the Northeast yesterday, flooding New York City and knocking out power in the area.
The cold front is being created by cold polar winds from the north, he said.
See WEATHER, p. 5, col. 2
Ted Turner buys CNN's competition
By United Press International
ATLANTA — Ted Turner announced yesterday that he had purchased Satellite News Channels for $25 million, eliminating all competition for his Cable News Network headline service.
The Atlanta cable pioneer said in a statement that officials of ABC Video Enterprises and Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable Inc. had agreed to sell their interest in Satellite News for $12.5 million each in cash. CNN and Satellite News also agreed to drop lawsuits filed against each other.
HAD BEEN RUMORED for the past couple of weeks that an agreement on the purchase of Satellite News was near. The rumors surged a $90 million
Turner's stock yesterday opened at $ 26.4 $ and had moved up to 28 by mid-day.
heat. The turnover spars as a turnover increase in the value of Turner's stock in late September.
Both Satellite News and CNN have been losing money. Turner's headline news lost $10.5 million in 1982 and is expected to lose about $10 million this year. Satellite News, based in Stamford, Conn., was expected to lose about $30
The agreement means Turner will add 7.5 million subscribers to his CNN headline service, which was a spinoff from his Cable News Network. Turner's headline service currently serves 4.7 million households.
Officials said the purchase leaves "several hundred" Satellite News employees out of work, but said efforts would be made to find the workers jobs in ABC or Westinghouse's broadcast operations.
THE AGREEMENT CALLS for Satellite News to shut down operations, leaving Turner alone in the cable industry with his headline news service and his Catle News Network. CNN officials said the purchase does not mean the agency plans to expand its headline service operation and there are no plans at present to hire any of the Satellite News employees.
See TURNER, p. 5, col.1
Sheriff searches for missing 14-foot king cobra
Movie goers at the premiere of "The Day After" examine information from "Let Lawrence Live," a local anti-nuclear group. Yesterday's premiere in the Kansas Union received a mixed reaction from students.
Kansan Staff
In the car was a note that said, "The king is loose."
By United Press International
ELBERT. Colo — Sheriff George Yarnell says he killed a lot of rattlesnakes when he was a kid. He also says a 14-foot king cobra is not "your run-of-the-mill" poisonous snake.
Yarnell and deputies recently went to the rural ranch of Jerry L. Colyer, 28, and his wife, Pamela, 40. They found the bodies of the couple, presumed dead about two weeks, in a car park on the campus of the ranch house. A horse ran from the car's exhaust to the interior.
"We knew they kept some snakes at their home as a hobby, so we went over there." Yarnell said.
THEY FOUND 20 SNAKES, most of them poisonous, and several lizards, a tarantula and a European fire-bellied toad. The snakes included several species of python, a boa
constrictor, a coral snake, an African puff adder and four rattlesnakes.
But they did not find a 14-foot king cobra and they did not search.
"I might be dumb, but I'm not stupid," Yarnell said yesterday.
I grew up in eastern Colorado and killed a lot of rattlesnakes when I was a kid," the sheriff said. "But this isn't your run-of-the-mill snake."
yesterday.
"That thing can strike two-thirds of its length, about nine feet. That's a long way. So you don't just barge into a room looking at it. We're pretty careful."
SNAKE EXPERTS FROM the Denver Zoo and the University of Colorado searched some of the ranch buildings Tuesday and resumed the search yesterday. Yarnell said a supply of cobra antivenin was stocked, just in case.
'Day After' premiere puts audience in somber mood
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Slowly the movie goers filed out of the theater. Some talked quietly; others were somber after watching more than an hour of death and destruction yesterday in the world premiere of "The Day After."
Devastating, scary, awe-inspiring, sobering and realistic. The reactions varied among people who saw yesterday's premiere in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The movie, which depicts the catastrophe of a nuclear war, was filmed in and around Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo., last year.
"IT SHOCKED THE hell out of me," said Laura Stewart, Overland Park sohomore, who paused for a minute to discuss the movie.
See MOVIE, p. 5, col. 3