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University Daily Kansan, October 10, 1983
Competitors find Fall Classic race to be a challenge
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Minutes remained before the race would start. A runner winced as he bent over and grabbed an ankle to stretch his leg muscles one more time.
From a pavilion nearby, the polka lyrics of "We'll Have a Barrel of Fun" drifted through the air.
"I don't know why I'm here," said one runner as he prepared to head for the ballpark.
But not everyone seemed convinced that running on a cold, overcast Saturday was worth it.
Other entrants slowly drifted over to Massachusetts Street to line up for the Maupinout Fall Classic 10-kilometer road race.
PERIODICALLY the announcer called the racers to join the ranks, but a few stragglers continued warming up or milling through the park.
"No one lines up before the race because they don't want to get packed in," said Doug Houston, assistant professor of business, who was delaying the moment he would move into place among the racers.
By the time the starter summoned the racers to their marks and fired the starting shot, a field of more than 870 runners stretched nearly a city block.
Within minutes the pack thinned o. the 6.2-mile course, which wound through downtown Lawrence and the KU campus.
As the digital clock above the finish line approached the 25-minute mark, photographers busily adjusted their cameras, and crowds began lining Massachusetts Street once more.
ON-LOOKERS speculated about how
they would find the first runners to
complete the course.
"There's no way they'll finish in
under 30 minutes," one observer said.
Gary Smith/KANSAN
Cheering and clapping greeted the first runners as they rounded the corner at 11th and Massachusetts began their 200-yard finishing kick.
Holding hands as a symbol of team victory, Desmond O'Connor and John Tuttle, members of Team Kangaroo, scored more than 30 minutes, setting a race record.
Rebekah Harvey, 7, 2728 Bonanza, finishes the Maupintour Fall Classic Mass Street Mile Fun Run with a kick. More than 800 runners participated Saturday in the mile run and the Maupintor Fall Classic 10 kilometer race, which started and finished at South Park and wound through Lawrence streets and the KU campus.
First place was awarded to O'Canner who finished in 29:24.09. Tuttle's
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
The next six weeks of negotiations in the Strategic Arms Reductions Talks "is a critical phase of the nuclear arms race." Representative Jim Slattery said Saturday at a breakfast meeting.
START at crisis stage, Slattery says
"If we do not obtain some kind of agreement, we enter into a new level of the arms race," Slattery told about 100 people gathered for the Haskell Indian Junior College homecoming festivities at Curtis Hall. Slattery was grand marshal of the homecoming parade.
Slattery, D-Topeca, said that he favored placing Pershing II missiles in Europe if an agreement on arms control was not reached. He said the United States' winning chip that could be used to reach an agreement about nuclear weapons.
SLATTERY VOTED against the MX missiles. He said that the military people he had spoken to thought that Minuteman missiles, with a few adjustment costs were capable of doing the MX attack. He said that the $15 billion to $20 billion that would be spent on the MX would not add much to national security.
Slattery said that he wanted to spend time talking about nuclear weapons because he had recently seen a test of the weapon. He noted the nuclear disaster in Kansas City, Mo.
"It is one of the most powerful films I have ever seen," he said. "It will bring into your living rooms in living color what nuclear war is all about."
SLATTERY ALSO spoke briefly about natural gas, the budget deficit and foreign policy before he answered questions from the audience.
He said the film would remove the myth about the survivability of nuclear war.
He said that if Congress did not reach an agreement about natural gas prices by November, he doubted that the government would lower gas prices this winter.
Slattery said that he thought the dominant issues in Congress so far this year had been the budget and how to reduce the federal deficit
He also said that he was concerned that foreign policy issues had been neglected in the past few weeks amidst the controversy of the Soviet Union's shooting down of the South Korean passenger plane in September. The incident had "reduced to the back end" of the developments in the Middle East, Central America and arms control, he said.
HE SAID HE hoped that the cease-fire in Lebanon would continue. But he said that "it was about the cease-fire in the past ten years."
"There are 15 or 16 religious groups who have been fighting for generation."
On foreign policy, Slattery said that the Soviet Union could easily exploit the unrest in Central America, because the United States had been absorbed as the protector and the defender of the landowners in those countries.
But a decision about which group
the United States should support in the conflict in Central America is difficult to make. he said.
“Where do we come in?” he said.
“Should we be perceived as protecting the status quo? Then we'll be on the wrong side of the losing side.”
If the United States supports any of the revolutionary groups, then it must also be aware of those groups that oppose it and the Soviet Union, Slattery said.
HE SAID THE United States should maintain a policy not to encourage an overthrow of Nicaragua's government. And in El Salvador, he said, the country must stop the flow of weapons to rebels and stop impinging on tooverthrow the government.
Slattery also said that the United States policy in Central America should be to consider the advice of countries close to the conflict, such as Mexico.
"We cannot impose a Yankee solution," he said.
On unemployment, Slattery said that the government should be spending money to put people back to work, rather than spending money on employment benefits and food stamps "and not get anthung in return."
He said another partial solution to the unemployment problem would be to establish training programs to teach the unemployed new skills.
official time was recorded as 29:24.71.
"It's a question of workfare or welfare," he said.
Slattery also said that the federal government does have a strong role to play in keeping its involved role in education.
Tuttle, who hopes to qualify for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team as a marathon runner, said the race was competitive. He also noted last year's winning time of 30:33.
"I think this is a good setting to have it," Tuttle said of the Lawrence run. "The race will be even more competitive next year."
SUE ADDISON, a runner with Athletic's West of Eugene, Ore., also set a record for the women's division with a time of 34:29.20. Her time was more than four minutes better than last year's 38:34 winning time.
Jim Ryn, former KU track star,
finished the rice race overall, with a
half hour of time.
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