University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1983
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One new approach, Carlin said, is the establishment of a national policy committee, which would be called the Food and Fiber Federation.
The original resolution stated, "The federation, functioning in a manner similar to the Appalachian Reserve Board, would represent the important interests of agriculture in the total economy."
SOME OF THE governors took that opportunity to complain about Fed policies and said that voters, who could do nothing about changing Fed policies, might not have any power in a national farm committee with a similar status in the government.
Wisconsin Gov. Anthony Earl, a Democrat, said, "I am not one who is enamored of the job the Federal Reserve Board is doing. The Fed is not an institution that they be a bit of touch with the situation."
He said he agreed to support the resolution because "almost any alternative would be better".
Gov. James Blanchard, D-Michigan, asked whether the proposal's inclusion of long range patches is warranted.
Kerrey said, "An independent board is the way to go, and I would argue for it. This is a proposal that I've liked in the past."
central planning of totalitarian countries such as the Soviet Union. He agreed, however, that a national farm policy was needed.
BEFORE VOTING ON the resolution, the governors heard from Nicholas Reding, executive vice president of Monsanto Corp., and from Castle, president of Resources for the Future.
Reding said that trying to form a national agricultural policy was "like walking into a hall of mirrors" because each affected party had a different reflection of the situation.
He argued that the U.S. government and farmers must find ways to increase their share of the export market, which had been declining in the 1970s despite increasing farm output.
Castle said that the problems of soil erosion, encroachment of urban areas onto farmland and decreasing water supplies were serious enough to merit concern by farmers, but that farmers' ability to keep up with technological changes would determine their success or failure.
Extra 70 cents would 'round off' figures Stouffer's proposed rent increase criticized
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
To some KU housing and administrative officials, the latest recommended rent increase for Stouffer Place is simply a matter of rounding off numbers.
LAST WEEK David A. Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, proposed adding 70 cents to the compromised $2 rent increase. The extra 70 cents would generate more revenue for the school said yesterday, and would round off rent figures, which would make accounting easier.
But members of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association are saying that a recommended 70-cent increase is unjustified and that the extra coins scuttle the compromised $2 rent increase that the association has been bargaining for since February.
The 70-cent increase also would mean about $2,000 additional revenue for the housing office.
However, SNA officials said that Ambler could not justify adding 70 cents to the recommended $2 rent increase. The Resident Court's library Board approved the $2 increase last month.
A one-bedroom apartment now rents for $133.30; a two-bedroom apartment rents for $173.30. This year the rent in Stouffer increased $13.
Ambler's recommendation, if approved by Chancellor Gene A. Budig and the Board of Regents, would raise the monthly cost of a two-bedroom apartment in Stouffer to $176 for the 1984-85 school year. A one-bedroom apartment would cost $156.
IN ORIGINAL NEGOTIATIONS last spring, the housing office had asked for a $5 increase for the coming school year. SNA had asked for a $2 decrease.
Officials of SNA and members of RPAB were notified last week of Ambler's decision. Layne Pierce, chairman of the association, said yesterday that 70 cents would alleviate accounting problems and would supply additional maintenance money for Stouffer.
However, Kevin Walker, Stouffer's RPAB representative, said that the money allocated for repairs for crumbling brick and concrete blocks would result in rent increase approved by RPAB last month.
"They could have rounded it down and still had enough to do the repairs needed. We already gave housing the money for the repairs and a $2,500 buffer," said Walker, Webster Groves, Mo., senior. "It's not clear to us why we should be so aggressive to it, it's an administrative attempt to get more."
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, agreed with the team to bump the 70 cents were added to payment plans.
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businesses in their states and think twice about giving breaks to older industries that are being dragged down by ineffective institutions.
"A political focus on protecting businesses the state already has isn't always best from the point of view of economic growth," he said.
The West and the South, with relatively young special-interest groups, have the best growth rates in the country, Olson said.
the point of view of economic growth," he said. The Northeast is the region, he said, and has never received a traumatic experience such as an attack that prompts the traditional structure of interest groups. Logically, then, the Northeast is the region decaying most in the country, he said.
THE ANALYSIS HOLDS true in looking at individual industries, he said. The "problem" industries of steel, automobiles, farm implements
and tire manufacture have been around for a long time, he said, and are being supplanted by high-technology and a variety of small industries
Although many people have thought that one region or industry grows more than another because of a difference in government aid or because of differences in technology, the evidence is mixed.
"There is little, if any, association in developed democracies between the size of government and the rate of growth," he said. "You don't see a compelling case for either the right or the left."
Countries with small governments, however, cannot grow with restrictive trade policies, he said, so he encouraged an open trade policy.
"Free trade is dramatically associated with economic growth," he said.
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Defenses on alert after bombing
Others whose names have cropped up in recent days as potential replacements were former Sen. James Buckley, R-N.Y., now president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. EPA Administrator William Kuckelshaus, Energy Secretary J. J. Simmons and Interior Undersecretary J. J. Simmons.
Environmental and congressional sources predicted Watt's replacement will come from a Western state, a traditional source of secretaries. The overwhelming bulk of federal land administered by the Interior Department is west of the Mississippi.
WATT WAS A favorite among conservatives, and the president, with the 1984 election looming, may seek to replace him with an appointee who is receptable to that segment of his constituency.
By United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. and South Korean forces stepped up border defenses yesterday and officials said North Korea also put its troops on alert following the bombing that killed 16 South Korean dignitaries in Burma.
Several thousand angry citizens held rallies in Seoul and other cities to condemn their northern neighbors. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan earlier blamed communist North Korea for the blast that narrowly missed killing him during the curtailed visit.
MILITARY OFFICIALS IN Seoul said the entire forces along the border and those in support capacities were put into "combat alert status" following the bombing.
"Tension increased along the border but there are no reports of incidents," a military official said.
South Korea's army, navy and air force, along with the 40,000 American servicemen in South Korea, instituted heightened defense measures to guard against any North Korean provocations along the 151-mile border, officials said.
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said the permanent alert status of the allied forces in South Korea had not changed, but he confirmed added precautionary measures had been taken. He declined to describe them.
Governors' meeting OKs resolution urging more efficient use of energy
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
The Midwest's governors yesterday adopted a resolution to encourage Congress to make more
the governors, attending the Midwestern Governors' Conference, also passed a resolution asking for state participation in transportation of nuclear waste.
Lawrence Mayor David Longhurst opened the session, welcoming the governors to Lawrence. Longhurst also urged the governors to ask if they could do to eliminate the fear of nuclear war
Longhurst has spoken out in the past about his concern about nuclear war, and in May he invited President Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Popov to hold a summit meeting in Lawrence.
TURNING TO THE first of three main areas of concern for the conference, the governors heard
Albert Pasini, director of the energy division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, told the governors that $8 billion was spent on energy in Missouri last year and that $5 billion of it went out of state. He said much work on energy efficiency still was needed.
Bill Collins, unders secretary for the U.S.
Department of Justice, governors
to investigate the compensation of emerita
The energy proposal adopted by the governors proposes:
- Allowing states to voluntarily enter into agreements for electric power planning and regulation, including increased power-pooling and cost-saving strategies.
- Asking Congress to amend the Natural Gas Policy Act to alleviate artificial market conditions that have led to unreasonable prices.
- Encouraging the distribution of oil overcharge funds to states that adopt strategies to increase energy efficiency.
- Supporting a national research effort to increase the use of coal reserves and other energy resources.
- Increasing energy investment tax credits for coal-mining equipment and coal research and development.
- Encouraging the increased use of ethanol in motor fuels through tax incentives.
- Increasing federal efforts to promote the use of alternative fuels.
- Extending federal energy conservation tax credits and removing restrictions that keep participants in local and state conservation programs from receiving federal energy tax credits.
The governors also approved a proposal sponsored by Gov. Robert Kerley, D-Neb., dealing with the transportation of nuclear waste through Midwestern states.
Pointing out that money set aside to pay for nuclear waste clean-up does not cover transportation. Kerrey urged additional state in involvement in transportation.
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