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Vol. 94, No. 33 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, October 5, 1983
Soviet Union wants U.S. to OK atomic-arms freeze
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — The Soviet Union called on the United Nations yesterday to condemn nuclear war as a criminal act and to order a freeze on production of atomic weapons.
The proposals, which were laid out in two letters sent to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, were unveiled by Soviet aviationovsky in a speech to the General Assembly.
Troyanovsky's speech was to have been delivered by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. However, Gromyko canceled his plans to address the assembly after New York City protests and saw a Soviet airliner to land, protesting the Soviets' shooting down of a South Korean airliner.
Troyanovsky accused Washington of taking "a one-sided approach at the negotiations" on his own.
“There is and can be no justification for any actions that push the world toward an abyss, for doctrines and designs based on the admissibility and winnability of nuclear war,” he said.
"GUIDED BY THIS, the Soviet Union proposes inclusion in the agenda of the current session of the U.N. General Assembly of an effort to determine an elimination of nuclear war." Trovianovsky said.
However, in Washington President Reagan insisted that America "has gone the extra mile" in the quest for arms control. But he offered new concessions yesterday and called on Moscow to join in a mutual build-down of strategic nuclear arsenals.
After voicing frustration with the pace of arms talks, Reagan laid out a new proposal for the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva and amended the Soviet Union to negotiate in good faith.
"We want to reduce the weapons of war, pure and simple." Heagan said during a Rose Garden
Troyanovsky's speech did not mention the proposal that President Reagan made to the United Nations eight days ago for the speed of the nuclear arms reduction process be increased.
TROYANOVSKY SAID NUCLEAR war should be condemned “resolutely, unconditionally and for all times as the most hideous of crimes that can be committed.”
"We propose that the U.N. member states declare as criminal acts the formulation, enunciation, dissemination, and propaganda of political and military doctrines or concepts designed to substantiate the legitimacy of the first use of nuclear weapons and, generally, the admissibility of unleashing nuclear war," he said.
In requesting that a second item be included in the U.N. agenda calling for a nuclear arms production freeze, Troyanovsky said such a freeze would effectively back up condemnations of nuclear war.
"OUR PROPOSAL IS to cease, under effective verification, the buildup of all components of nuclear arsenals, including all kinds of both delivery vehicles and weapons, to renounce the deployment of new kinds and types of such arms, to establish a moratorium on all tests of nuclear weapons and of new kinds and types of their delivery vehicles and to stop the production of fissionable materials for the purpose of creating arms," he said.
Troyanovsky said the Soviet initiatives for limiting disarmament achieve disarming disarmament, deserved serious attention.
WITHOUT NAMING THE United States, but in an obvious reference to the U.S. reaction to the Soviets' shooting down of the Korean airliner, Troyanovsky said that the dangerous world situation "is compounded by the fact that the forces which are heating up the international atmosphere to pursue their pathological ambitions have now sharply intensified their activity.
Foreign students' cash flows slowly from home countries
By GINA THORNBURG Staff Renortex
Staff Reporter
In the meantime, Ernesto Torres, Caracas, Venezuela, senior, who had an American friend pay his tuition and fees, has found a job and has made contributions on his short-term loan, he said yesterday.
SOME VENEZUELAN STUDENTS are hav
He's been waiting since August for his parents' money to finance his KU education. But it hasn't arrived
ug problems this year getting money out of their native country, she said, because the government there has devised a long process of sending millions of dollars to Venezuela for devaluation of the bolivar, Venezuela currency.
Diann Stewart, assistant director of foreign student services, said that some of KU's 1,600 foreign students every year had difficulties getting money out of their countries to finance their education and living expenses because of the costs of tuition and long bureaucratic procedures at home.
"Some students have to wait six to eight months to get their maintenance allowance."
A student is allowed to take out a $490 maximum monthly allowance from Venezuela, she said. This money does not include tuition fees. She said a student after he has proven his student status.
In order to prove this status, a Venezuelan student first must obtain a certificate of admission from the institution nominated by the secretary of state in Topeka, approved by the Venezuelan consulate in Texas
See MONEY, p. 5, col.1
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
love to do — lie in mud. The pig lives about ten miles east of Lawrence on Kansas Highway 32.
This pig takes advantage of the wet weather to do what pigs
Strong winds and storms torture U.S. Storms better Texas Oklahoma Arizona cleans up after flood
Storms batter Texas, Oklahoma
By Staff and Wire Reports
A storm front that swept out of the Rocky Mountains late Monday sent winds in excess of 100 m.p.h. roaring through Texas and Oklahoma yesterday morning.
The Texas and Oklahoma wind storms damaged several buildings and were responsible for scattered power outages.
The storms also contributed to a 12-degree drop in the temperature in the Lawrence area between Monday and yesterday, and were partly responsible for yesterday's rain.
In the Tulsa, Okla. suburb of Broken Ankle, winds ranging in speed from 70 to 120 m.p.h. damaged a school and small shopping mall and knocked out power to 11,000 residents.
BROKEN ARROW POLICE confirmed witness reports that several funnel clouds accompanied the storm. The National Weather Service's
Tulsa office said that none of the funnel clouds touched down.
Steve Sokol, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said the storms were the result of a cold front that originated in the Pacific on August 16, when that brought rain, thunderstorms and cooler temperatures into the Lawrence area early yesterday.
IN LAWRENCE, KU students were greeted by gray, drizzly skies. The temperature fell to 68 degrees yesterday from the Monday afternoon high of 80 degrees.
Throughout the late morning and early afternoon, students and faculty were doused with rain as they ran between buildings on campus. Sokol said four inches of rain fell in Lawrence between 6 p.m. Monday and 6 p.m. yesterday.
He said temperatures would range from 70 to 75 degrees today and tomorrow. Both days were sunny. He also noted that but rain is possible for Saturday.
By United Press International
TUCSON, Ariz. — Sunshine broke through the clouds over flood-ravailed southern Arizona yesterday as residents slogged through debris from a storm that left 13 dead, caused millions of dollars damage and brought on scattered looting.
James J. Roberts, owner of Oasis Bar at Clifton, said he watched a gang of teenagers raid a warehouse of oil cans in the copper-mining town of Clifton near the New Mexico state line. Residents whose homes were flooded said that they were concerned that more looting would occur.
Authorities in Clifton, still awash in a sea of mud, imposed a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, and from the heavy rains, paralyzed the heavy, rains.
"WHEN THE STRIKERS acted up, we had 400 highway patrol vehicles to protect us from August violence in an ongoing copper strike. "What do
we have now? We got no food, we got no power and we got no work."
In the aftermath of one of the worst storms to hit Arizona this century, upwards of 10,000 people have been left homeless. More people were evacuated from low-lying farm communities and from isolated villages on the 4,000-square mile Papago Reservation. Many reservation villages were without power or water By yesterday morning, 300 residents of the reservation had been evacuated.
Dikes gave way at Mariopica south of Phoenix, and river banks eroded at flood-battered Marana near Tucson.
Clifton's 3,500 residents along the San Francisco River were evacuated by the National Guard over a 24-hour period ending Sunday. About 600 homes were destroyed.
AFTER ASKING PRESIDENT Reagan to declare the state a disaster area, Gov Bruce Bab
See FLOOD, p. 5, col. 4
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Mark Campbell, Sabetha sophomore, sits in a van that he has converted to a home. He lives in the van on West Campus to beat the cost of rent. Campbell spent the summer in a tent at Clinton Lake.
Tiny bachelor pad doesn't have extras
By BRUCE F, HONOMICHL
Staff Reporter
Unexpected guests hammer on Mark Campbell's back doors. Campbell, friendly and smiling, flings open the double doors and invites them in, even though his place is a mess.
"Excuse me the spare tire," the Sabetta sophomore says his guests squeeze into the entrance. An ice chest sits next to his bed, narrowing
CAMPBELL'S HOME IS tiny, but every inch a bachelor's pad, down to its transmission. He hasn't put any curtains over his windows, the rear-view mirror is dirty and a pair of slacks lies flung over the steering wheel.
"Excuse the mess, too," he says, scooping up crumbs and wrappers and throwing a spread over his bed. "I haven't cleaned up here in a
Welcome to Campbell's happy home — a 1968 GMC van.
The van usually sits by itself in a quiet parking space on the west side of the KU campus, where Campbell can easily leap out of bed and go to work and class. Eventually, he says, he will install a windmill for power generation. A battery as a backup. Campbell is majoring in electrical engineering.
The van is Campbell's quiet protest of Lawrence's rental fees. He bought the van last month for $365 — about one-sixth of the cost to live for a year in a double room in Templin Hall, where he lived last year. The idea of living in a van grew, he said, clearly out of a need to afford it. Now he is running up spending.
He also plans to repaint the van to improve its finish, which is faded and tells of several previous paintings. He says that he has already repaired its back bumper and has replaced one of the back doors.
HOWEVER, HE SAYS, the van runs well despite the repairs it needs. It averages about 15 miles per gallon. The engine, the previous one, has no fuel pump.
"It was the nicest thing when I bought it, and it still needs some work. But I bought it because I was looking more for a home and not transportation," he said, saving a seat for guests on his bed, which is a chair with a storage chest containing his books, clothes and sports equipment.
"It beats the hell out of the noise of Templin," he said. "My brother Earl gave me the idea. He said that someday he might just become a hermit and get a van and park it in a pasture somewhere. I thought it was a good idea, so I started looking for a van. I found just the right one."
See VAN, p. 5, col. 3
Commission suggests update of city's dance permit policy
Staff Reporter
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
At the request of Mayor David Longhurst, the Lawrence City Commission last night reviewed the city's policy on dance permits.
Longhurst said he thought it was a gag when he saw a permit in the city offices Wednesday. However, that same day, a local band, Pillbox, was told by Lawrence Police to stop playing during a performance at Louise's West. 1307 W. Seventh St., because the bar did not have a dance
permit. The police were responding to a noise complaint.
CITY STAFF MEMBERS said the city had a dance danceance since at least 1933. The permit requires fire and safety inspections along with establishing limits on the number of people allowed in a building. Those same inspections required by businesses that apply for liquor licenses.
Commissioners said there was still a need for the dance permit because places without liquor licenses would sometimes hold organized
See CITY, p. 5, col. 2
Cardinal Cooke receives last rites, nears death in battle with leukemia
By United Press International
NEW YORK - Cardinal Terence Cooke, archbishop of New York and American leader of the Roman Catholic Church's fight against abortion, suffered a serious setback yesterday in his battle against terminal leukemia and was reported near death.
"His passage to eternal life could take place at any time," said the Rev. Peter Finn, spokesman for the Episcopal Church in New York.
Finn later reported that Cooke was under heavy medication and was expected to survive. The doctor said he was in good health.
Finn said Cooke, 62, received the last rites of the church for the third time since it was announced Aug. 26 that Cooke, spiritual leader of nearly 2 million Catholics in the New York archdiocese for the last 15 years, was terminally ill.
Finn said the prelate was spending his final
"At noon today (yesterday) the cardinal's condition worsened seriously and his eminence is reduced."
days bedridden in the second-floor bedroom of his residence
The rapid deterioration in the cardinal's condition came two days after the Vatican released a letter in which Cooke renewed his condemnation of abortion and mercy killing.
The letter reflected Cooke's long crusade against abortion Cooke was the U.S. hierarchy's leader in its effort to pass anti-abortion legislation and chaired the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities for nearly 10 years.
Cook most recently was in the public eye when he became embroiled in a dispute over the selection of Michael Flannery, a staunch supporter of the Irish Republican Army, as grand marshal of the 1983 St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York.
THE CARDINAL SNUBBED Flamery by refusing to appear on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral for the traditional greeting for parade leaders, but later came out to review the line of march after the grand marshal had headed up Fifth Avenue.