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Vol. 94, No. 36 (USPS 650-640)
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Monday morning, October 10, 1983
Governors open conference predict no partisan struggle
By Staff and Wire Reports
Issues of environment, agriculture and education will dominate discussion at the 1983 Midwest Governors' Conference, Gov. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, said yesterday.
A "Kansas Hoedown" at the governor's mansion in Topeka was scheduled for yesterday evening.
Only a few of the 11 governors expected to attend were at the Holidone, and the scheduled partisan caucuses were postponed until more governors arrive
Bond and Gov. John Carlin opened the conference yesterday afternoon in the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 W. Turnpike Access with a short outline of issues to be discussed.
More than 300 people, including 95 representa
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tives of the news media, were registered to attend the three-day conference.
THIS MORNING, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, will address the session on energy and environment. One of the topics of the session will be acid rain, which Bond and Carlin said would be one of the foremost issues of the conference.
Bond and Carlin agreed that the conference would not become bogged down in partisan politics. The issues to be considered in the conference were not the kind that divide people along party lines.
The governors, he said, "cannot allow partisan politics to govern their responses."
Other issues to be discussed this morning are transportation of nuclear waste and energy pricing. The afternoon session will focus on the challenges of nuclear waste management tomorrow on topics in education and training.
They are scheduled to consider resolutions at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow.
CARLIN SAID that in the session on agriculture he would propose the creation of a non-partisan national committee to form a national farm policy, separate from the political pressures that affect the Department of Agriculture.
"It's an attempt to develop and manage agricultural programs in a way that they are buffered from the day-to-day political system," Carlin said. "Often these policies come under political pressure, and the officials do not do what needs to be done."
In education, Carlin said, governors at the conference will try to learn from each other.
No resolutions by the governors are expected on education. Carlin said.
CARLIN, WHO is the conference host, is recovering from a back injury he suffered Sept. 29 in a car accident in suburban Washington, D.C. Yesterday he wore a back brace that wrapped around his chest. He said the brace gave him enough support to sit comfortably.
Carlin will be helped as conference host by his wife, Karen. She was present yesterday afternoon for a preview of the promotional event he is promoting, which was shown to reporters at the Holdone.
Karen Carlin was paid $12,000 by the Travel Industry Association of Kansas for helping to solicit funds for making the 17-minute movie. Kansas is a major market for Kansas to prospective residents and industries.
Killers to President
Three Republican lawmakers asked for
Attorney General Robert Stephan's opinion on whether she had violated conflict-of-interest laws in accepting pay for her work. The inquiry cleared the first lady of any wrongdoing.
The governors of Kansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and
Wisconsin are expected to attend.
Interior Secretary Watt quits; lack of Senate support cited
By United Press International
SANTA YNEZ, Calif. — Interior Secretary James Watt resigned yesterday, saying his "usefulness to the president has come to an end" because of the controversy over his description of an advisory panel as "a black . . . a woman, two Jews and a cripple."
Watt announced to reporters that he was ending his 2½ year tenure, reading aloud from the letter he wrote to President Heagan that "Dear Mr. President, The time has come."
Watt, self-described "lightning rod" of the Reagan Cabinet, spoke outside a ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, where he has been secluded for four days, as calls for his resignation mounted from members of both parties.
Watt said he planned to "continue to crusade in our efforts to establish spiritual freedom and political liberty in this country because that's where the real battleground is."
IN A STATEMENT released by the White House, four men talked with Watt and four others, accepted his hand.
Reagan had supported Watt throughout the furor over Watt's Sept. 21 comment to a breakfast for jobsbystaff about a coal policy advisory panel.
Watt told reporters that the remark contributed to his decision to step down.
Reagan said that Watt, a target of environmentalists during his time in office, "feels that he has completed the principle objectives that he and I agreed upon."
aim has done an outstanding job as a member of my Cabinet and in his stewardship of the natural resources of the nation," Reagan said. "He has initiated a careful balance between the needs of people and the importance of protecting the environment."
WHITE HOUSE officials said Watt called presidential counselor Edwin Meese at about 4 p.m. CDT and asked to speak with Reagan. Watt then talked to the president, who was at the
Camp David, Md., presidential retreat, for about 10 minutes.
Reagan has not chosen Watt's successor. He said that Watt would continue until a successor is elected.
Two potential successors, former Sen. Clifford Hansen, R-Wyo., and Rep. Manuel Lujan, R-N.M., said they had heard nothing from the White House.
Tom Griscom, spokesman for Senate Republican leader Howard Baker, said Watt had called Baker in Huntsville, Tenn., right after talking to Reagan.
Baker had stopped a resolution calling for Watt's resignation in the Senate, but said last week that a vote would be held after Congress retaliated over Abbott Oct. 17, because he could not no longer.
'HE TOLD Senator Baker he felt like the meeting Tuesday with Republican senators was
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James Watt
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Gov. John Carllin and Missouri Gov. Kit Bond discuss issues that ference. The governors arrived yesterday in Lawrence for the will be addressed this week at the Midwestern Governors' Conference.
Carlin backing agriculture proposal
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Staff Reporter
During the Midwestern Governors' Conference today and tomorrow, Gov John Carlin will be backing a proposal to establish a federal department to deal with long-term agricultural problems, along with another plan for improved drought-relief programs.
An array of agricultural problems will be the focus of discussion at the conference. Six of 10 proposed policy statements that will be presented to the 11 governors deal with agriculture.
Following two days of discussing the policy issues, the governors will vote tomorrow afternoon on whether to adopt the policy statements.
A proposed policy statement on agricultural stability, which Carlin is co-sponsoring with Gov. Robert Kerney of Nebraska, says that the state's law of Act 183 is inappropriate in today's market.
THE STATEMENT says that the lack of long-term strategy for agriculture results in inefficient use of agricultural resources, and calls for creation of a federal department that would be able to develop and manage a plan for sustaining agricultural resources on a long-term basis.
Noting that Kansas and other Midwestern states experienced the worst drought since 1936 this year, Carlin's second policy statement,
which is on drought relief, calls for a system that will avoid the delays and lack of coordination that have hindered obtaining financial drought relief this year.
In the policy statement, Carlin calls for a comprehensive drought relief program that would be carried out by the Department of Agriculture and other agencies.
Under the plan, the drought relief program would be coordinated by a special department in
SAYING THAT it is clearly the duty of the federal government to protect citizens from economic disaster, the policy calls for Congress, the president and the Secretary of Agriculture to implement 10 drought policy recommendations. These policies will cover financial and administrative concerns.
Kerrey is also sponsoring a policy statement promoting education, research and extension programs in agriculture.
The policy statement calls for increased public commitment to agriculture, which it says, is seriously threatened by deepening shortages of labor and equipment, managers and technical professionals.
In the statement, Kerrey says that universities, industries, state governments and the Agriculture Department must combine efforts to generate needed manpower in agriculture.
GOV. ALLEN OLSON of North Dakota is also sponsoring two agriculture-related statements.
The first calls for soil conservation to become a greater concern on both state and federal levels.
The statement also calls for passage of two soil conservation bills now being considered by the U.S. House and Senate. The first bill will deny pre-supports to farmers who cultivate highly fertile soils.
Olson also is sponsoring a policy statement that calls for a revitalized agricultural export program in an effort to regain growth in the world marketplace for U.S. food.
The statement urges U.S. policy changes regarding the value of the dollar and tariffs, and establishment of target values for export growth.
GOV. ANTHONY EARL of Wisconsin is sponsoring a policy statement that declares current U.S. milk and dairy policies unworkable. The statement calls for the suspension of a 50-cent tax per hundredweight on milk produced after Aug. 31.
The statement also calls for the Secretary of Agriculture to support passage of a dairy compromise plan involving supply management.
In addition to the six agriculture policy proposals, the governors will consider four other proposals. Two of those, one sponsored by the governor's conference Energy and Environment group, either by Gov.udy Pericki of Minnesota, deal with acid rain and proposed acid rain legislation.
North Korea blamed in Rangoon explosion
By United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — President Chun Doo Hwan accused communist North Korea today of planting a bomb in Rangoon that killed 20 people, including four Cabinet ministers, in a direct attempt on his life.
"We will not be alone in pinpointing the North Korean Communists as the mastermind of this criminal act of atmospheric brutality," Chun said.
Chun returned to Seoul at 1:40 p.m. CDT
today, scrapping a six-nation tour, hours
after narrowly escaping the bombing at Rangoon's National Cemetery.
Officials said that Chun's motorcade had been delayed by heavy traffic.
Immediately after his return home, Chun called an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss the incident. The government established a brief organization to organize funeral services for the blast victims.
The blast killed 20 people, including 16 South Koreans, and injured 47 other people, including 15 Koreans. Reporters who returned with Chun Shuang from the bombing were nominated by remote control or by a timing device.
Chun landed at Seoul's Kimop Airport on board a special Korean Air Lines jet and later issued a statement warning that those responsible for the incident would be punished.
Chun said that the bombing was an unprecedented attempt on his life as head of state.
He said it was the second attempt on his life by North Korea — the first was before a visit to Canada in August 1982. He gave no details of that incident but said that North Korea had been staging persistent provocations to disrupt South Korea's peace and security.
At workshop, kids learn even 'icky' animals have value
RV CHRISTY FISHER
Corry White didn't like smelly skunks.
Jeremy Swail squirmed with unesiness at the sight of a slug, and Sara Salkid thought snakes were icky, slimy and ugly.
Staff Reporter
Rebecca Tuttle, instructor of "Animals Nobody Loves," said Saturday that she thought children could even learn to love animals if they understood why the animals were born in a neighborhood of Nobody Loves" on the children's workshop sponsored by the Museum of Natural History.
Some say these are animals only their mothers would love.
During Saturday's workshop, a group of 26 children, between the ages of 5 and 7, sat on colorful carpet squares and curiously watched spiders crawl and snakes slither. They also cautiously petted a stuffed, 10-inch brown rat, a preserved stingray and an
18-inch doghill. A doghill, Tuttle explained to the children, is a member of the shark family.
"Animals Nobody Loves" is one of 60 weekend and Wednesday night workshops sponsored by the Museum of Natural History. The classes, which are set up for both adults and children, deal with animals, astronomy, collecting and meteorology.
Ruth Gennrich, director of public education, estimates that the museum serves more than 20.000 people during its weekend and Wednesday night workshops, its weeklong summer workshops and through presentations at area schools.
"I FOUND that many of the children wouldn't touch these animals at first," Tuttle said. "But when you tell them why worms are slim — because they breath through their skin, they change their attitudes and they are no longer considered 'icky.'"
Gehring and Tuttle said that the workshops have become a regular weekend event for them.
SARA, WHO like Jeremy and Corry is 7
"The workshops are not a matter of making the children junior scientists," Tuttle said. "We just want to expose them to more so that they appreciate these animals more."
years old, is a rookie at the workshops. She has attended several and proudly flaunts her knowledge about the difference between an animal expert and someone that people can't get warts from a frog.
She then showed a film starring such unusual animals as anateaters, armadillos and a mudskipper — a fish that hops on land. She explain that these animals seemed ugly because they had special adaptations for eating, moving and protecting themselves.
Tuttle held out the hide of 'our friend' the skunk, while one boy backed off, questioning the need for the friendship. Skunks stink because they have adapted a way to protect themselves if attacked. Tuttle explained to the children.
TUTTLE THEN displayed a stuffed brown
See ANIMALS, p. 5, col. 4
Florida residents learn to use guns after burglaries in their community
By United Press International
ZELLWOOD, Fla. — Angered and frightened by a rash of burglaries, some residents here decided that it was the time to take a bit of the law into their own hands.
Armed with handguards, a group of 14 citizens — 13 women and a man — visited the Orange County Sheriff's office shooting range Saturday, constructing them in the proper use of the weapons.
"If (burglars) see that the people in this area are interested and we will do something to protect ourselves, they'll go somewhere else." Jackie Goins, 85. "They'll leave us alone for others."
Zellwood, an unincorporated and largely agricultural community about 21 miles northwest of Orlando, was struck by 14 burglaries in Mav. June and July.
nad trailed off since a suspect was arrested in late July, but residents still wary.
Sheriff's investigators said that the burglaries
"It's not so much the property," said Claire Ellington, 47. "It's the principle of the thing. If someone is walking into your house, you have nothing to back you up, no privacy."
The residents requested the training, and Sheriff Lawson Lamar was receptive to the idea because he said that firearms competency "is a good thing to have."
"I believe in the American tradition of being able to protect your home," he said. "But I'm not suggesting an armed camp."
During the hour of instruction, Lt. John Daddysman showed residents the proper stance and methods in firing a gun.
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*'the only time you are justified in using deadly*
*force... is when your life is at the point where*
*you should go lose it, or a member of your*
*family.*