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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 38 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, October 12, 1983
Conference of governors produces better debate than usual, Carlin says
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin said yesterday that the 1983 Midwestern Governors' Conference had more substantial resolutions and debate than any he had previously attended.
"These resolutions were not routine ones," Carlin said after the closing business session yesterday afternoon. "These resolutions were more substantial than ever before."
The conference ended last night with a state dinner and dance at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Hotel.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Carlin said that during the conferences he had attended in the past five years, the issues dealt with in resolutions were simple, and the governor's response to them was that the governors could quickly agree on them.
BUT SOME OF the resolutions approved this year, including those on acid rain and drought relief, were discussed at length, and went through several changes before they were approved.
Carlin said that the resolutions had a great deal of value, relative to those passed in previous conferences, and that the Reagan administration be interested in the results of the conference.
"Maybe they are just a piece of paper," Carlin said of the resolutions, "but they are a piece of paper that we can take to the next step. The steps are complex ones, and their solution is not simple."
The drought-relief resolution, which Carlin wrote, asks Congress to review and speed up the
process through which farmers can get drought assistance. Low-interest loans will come too late this year in Kansas for farmers who needed them to buy seed to plant a winter wheat crop.
"That program will not help those farmers most in need in a timely fashion," Carlin said. "If it does not come in a timely fashion, it does." It is the farmer in the way intended by Congress.
THE DROUGHT-AID RESOLUTION calls for congressional hearings on the federal government's response to the drought and a review by the Department of Agriculture of the importance of federal agencies related to drought aid.
The resolution's recommendations for the executive branch include the designation of a drought coordinator who would work in the White House to speed drought aid to farmers, and the encouragement of Secretary of Agriculture to power its ability to grant low interest loans to farmers.
In the closing session yesterday, the governors endorsed four other resolutions on agricultural
- They endorsed the soil conservation efforts of the Midwestern states, and called for more emphasis and incentives for farming practices that disturb the soil as little as possible.
- They opposed a bill before Congress on milk-price supports that they said would penalize the Midwestern dairy industry while benefiting the Southeast.
- They approved a resolution calling for the federal government to promote Midwestern farm exports abroad and to alleviate the damage
See CLOSING. p. 9, col. 4
Missouri Gov. Kit Bond, Michigan Gov. James Blanchard and Kansas Gov. John Carlin confer before the afternoon session of the Midwestern Governors' Conference.
Formative years crucial in educating children, expert says
institution for Educational Leadership "We must do better at education during these years."
Staff Reporter
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
More work needs to be done to educate children during their formative years, an education expert told the Midwestern Governors' Conference yesterday.
The state's efforts include a study that is being conducted by Emporia State University to evaluate the quality of students enrolled in state
Hodkinson also told the nine governors attending the session on education and job training that a serious mismatch existed between the type of jobs workers were being trained for and the type of jobs the economy was producing.
been placed on high technology training, saying that most new jobs do not require high-tech training.
Gov. John Carlin was one of four governors who summarized efforts being made to improve education in their states. He said he was trying to establish long-range education plans.
By 1990, 21 million new jobs will be created, he said, but only one million will be in high-tech fields.
HE PLAYED DOWN the emphasis that has
"Early childhood is the most crucial area we have," said Harold L. Hodgkin, of the
"My concern is that we are a middle-class society, but we are losing the middle of the work force," he said.
Western officials said that the Soviet Union wanted to suspend all nuclear arms negotiations with the United States because of impending threats of new medium-range missiles in Europe.
Administration says 'propaganda tactics' disrupt negotiations
See EDUCATE. p. 9, col. 4
THE OFFICIALS SAID that the Soviets demanded an immediate recess at the Intermediate Nuclear Forces, or Euromissile, talks with the parallels of the parallel Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
"The issue at stake in the talks is one of enormous significance for the security of Europe and the world," said White House spokesman Larry Speakes. "The United States will do its best to power to see that the talks continue and we will strive for some sort of an agreement."
U.S. rebukes Soviet threats in arms talks
By United Press International
In both cases, the officials said. Soviet negotiators rejected the idea of setting a
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration yesterday accused the Soviet Union of "propaganda tactics" for threatening to suspend arms control negotiations and pledged to pursue talks on reducing nuclear arsenals.
Western diplomats noted that Moscow was carefully demanding a recess that was mutually agreed to, rather than threatening a unilateral withdrawal. The Russian minister in charges that it did not want an accord
Senior administration officials said the Soviets had threatened to suspend the Geneva talks on medium-range missiles and strategic weapons by March, a distribution of 572 U.S. built missiles in Europe.
Both sides reportedly understood that the position might be conveyed today at the intermediate Nuclear Forces negotiations. A move made at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks.
See ARMS, p. 5, col. 4
Fall weather makes entry, takes its toll
By Staff and Wire Reports
"I don't have any winter clothes here and I won't until Thanksgiving," said Steve Matt, who is at work.
The shivering KU students who left home without their wool sweaters will be glad to know the cold front that hit Lawrence yesterday should last only a few more days.
According to the National Weather Service in Topeka, the next few days will bring high temperatures in the 50s, but weather should be back to the normal mid-60s after the storm.
Temperatures this winter are expected to be normal, but the weather service is expecting less rain than usual for northeastern Kansas.
DIANA DEEGAN, Granada Hill, Calif., junior, said yesterday that she liked cold weather, but that her California wardrobe didn't do the job in Kansas.
"I don't have many winter clothes, so I've been putting on lots of lavers," she said.
sadness.
"I've been waiting for it — I expected it a week ago," said Nancy Clark, St. Louis sonhomore.
But not everyone was caught by surprise yesterday when the temperature dropped suddenly.
Like Clark, some students do seem to be prepared for cold weather, which is fortunate because the heat may not be turned on in classrooms for a few more weeks.
Robert Porter, associate director of facili
Gary Smith/KANSAN
See WEATHER, p. 5, col. 1
Autumn rains that fell on Lawrence yesterday caused many KU students to take cover under their umbrellas, including this soggy group entering Fraser Hall for afternoon classes.
Fifteen are charged with skimming profits from casinos
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal officials yesterday revealed the names of 15 people in five states indicated on charges of conspiring to skim $2 million in profits from Argent Corp.-owned Las Vegas casinos and distributing t to Midwestern crime syndicates.
U. S. Attorney Robert Ulrich said the indictment released by a special grand jury Sept. 30 presented five years of work by federal agents of the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Forces in five cities.
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES also said the indictment alleges their contention that a relationship exists between organized crime bosses and some Teamsters Union officials.
"This indictment is one of the most far reaching that a grand jury has ever returned linking groups in numerous cities to a hidden ownership in Las Vegas casinos," he said.
The now defunct Argent Corp. received a 602 million loan from the Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund in the 1970s due to the influence of former reputed Kansas City crime king Nick who died in March, and others, according to FBI affidavits on file at the U.S. courthouse.
Argent, a firm heavily laced with Teamster union pension fund loans, was formerly owned by San Diego financier Allen Glick. The indictment alleges licensing violations at the Starr and Fashion casinos. The Argent also contests in Hacienda and Marina hotel-casinos in Las Vegas.
The first of three indictments alleged the 15 defendants conspired from 1974 to the present to establish and maintain the hidden interest in the Stardust and Fremont casinos, and that during the course of the conspiracy the defendants distributed nearly $2 million from thecasinos' profits to organized crime interests.
See CRIME, p. 5, col. 4
War memorial a step closer as chancellor gives approval
By PETE WICKLUND
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig gave final approval yesterday for the proposed Vietnam War memorial fountain to be built near the Frank R. Burge Union.
one tountain will serve as an appropriate memorial to the KU students who gave their lives.
The chancellor's approval came after Budig received a recommendation on Friday in favor of the memorial from Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Cobb's facility-naming committee.
On Oct. 5, the Senate agreed to donate $10,000 of the estimated $20,000 total construction cost of the project.
The naming committee is comprised of representatives from the University of Kansas facility planning office, the University of Kansas College of Agriculture, and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
THE COMMITTEE ACTED on the proposal that was initiated last summer by a special Student Senate committee of current and former senate administrative officers.
Budig said, "Present student leaders are to be commended for their sensitivity."
Area veterans yesterday reacted favorably to the chancellor's decision.
Mike Clodfelter, a KU security guard who served in Vietnam between 1965 and 1967, said he was glad to hear the news.
"When we returned we either met indifference or hostilities," Clodfelter said. "It's kind of nice to see that sentiments have changed."
At 7 p.m. on Oct. 20 in the Kansas Union, the committee will address the presidents of campus living groups about the project. Ashner said she would ask each living group to donate an amount they thought would be appropriate to the construction fund.
"It was my hope that it would be approved," said Musgrave, who was invited to the Oct. 5 Senate meeting to speak about his experiences in Vietnam.
JOHN MUSGRAVE, A counselor with the Kansas Disabled Veterans Outreach Program and a veteran, said the news of the chancellor's approval was outstanding.
"I could see no reason why the chancellor wouldn't have supported it."
Student Body President Lisa Ashner said the Senate memorial committee would attempt in the upcoming months to raise the remaining $10,000 for the memorial's construction.
Classified Senate may form group to lobby with other Regents schools
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
The president of KU Classified Senate said yesterday that representatives from four Board of Regents schools had agreed recently to form a lobbying group to increase their effectiveness in the State Legislature.
Tom Swearingen, the president, said collective lobbying efforts for classified personnel would be more influential than efforts from individual schools.
Representatives from Pittsburgh State University, Fort Hays State University and Emporia State University endorsed the idea, but are not told from the employees they represent the said.
Joe Collins, who was a lobbyist for KU Classified Senate last year, said he thought that Kansas State University and Wichita State University would also agree to form such a council.
THE PROPOSED LOBBYING group would represent all classified workers not represented by labor unions such as the AFL-CIO, he said.
Collins said lobbyists from the University of Kansas would initially represent classified workers at all Regents schools because they were more experienced and closer to Topeka. But, he said, other schools will eventually join the group lobbying efforts.
"We're not saying we will be the head of it all the time." Swearingen said.
Suzanne Cupp, also a former lobbyist for KU Classified Senate, said other Regents schools had developed lobbying groups and campus personnel after studying KU's Classified Senate.
CUPP SAID KU lobbists did not win any major concessions from the Legislature last year. But, she said, they had been successful in winning wishes of their constituents known to legislators.
"I think it broke the ice." Cupp said, "and will make the road ahead easier."
Collins said that by the end of the session, legislators had called the Classified Senate lobbyists to find out their opinions about certain issues.
See LOBBY, p. 5, col. 1