University Daily Kansan, October 4, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
ASK to testify for increase in high school requirements
Members of the Associated Students of Kansas will testify today in support of increased high school graduation requirements at a state Board of Education open forum, the student lobby group's executive director said yesterday.
Traditionally ASK has lobbied about student issues before the state Legislature, said Mark Tallman, the director. He said ASK had never testified before the Board of Education.
Tallman said that the group voted last month to support increased graduation requirements. The vote was taken at an ASK legislative assembly that focused extensively on the National Commission on Excellence in Education report, "A Nation at Risk."
"The position of the assembly was that the core of requirements was way below normal." Tallman said.
An increase in graduation requirements could lead to Board of Regents universities eventually being able to decrease the amount of money they spend for remedial programs, he said.
'Dav After' tickets to be given away
Free tickets for the premiere of "The Day After," an ABC-TV movie about nuclear disaster that was filmed in Lawrence, will be distributed beginning at 8 a.m. today at the Student Union Activities office on a first-come basis.
A limit of two tickets are available to each person. Tickets are also available at the Lawrence Convention and Visitor's Bureau, 823 S. 47th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Three public showings are scheduled. The first showing will be at 11 a.m. Oct. 12 in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. A second and third showing on the same day will be at 1:30 and 5 p.m.
A 23-year-old Haskell Indian Junior College student was beaten and robbed by two men Sunday night near Ninth and Massachusetts streets, police said.
The victim told police that he had met the two assailants at a bar. Before the assailants left, they invited him to a party, the victim said. The victim said that he later left the bar and began walking to the party on Friday at 10:30 p.m. sitting in a car near Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
The victim told police that the assailants offered him a ride to the party, but that once he got into the car, one of them made sexual advances toward him. The victim said that as he tried to leave the car, he arm caught in a door and that the two then beat him and obbed him.
The victim was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was treated for a cut on the head and released.
He told police that he did not want to file charges against the two assailants.
Regan to speak Oct.14 at Woodruff
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan will speak about the nation's industrial policy at 1.p.m. Oct. 14 at Woodruff Auditorium.
As treasury secretary, Regan is chairman pres tempore of the President's Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs and is President Reagan's chief economic spokesman. The council advises the president on domestic and international economic policies.
Before becoming secretary of the treasury in 1801, Regan was chairman and chief executive of the holding company for Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Smith Inc.
His appearance is part of the J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lectures, established in 1970 by the Vickers family of Wichita to commemorate the founder of Vickers Petroleum Co.
Suspect moved to psychiatric unit
The 17-year-old woman accused in the death of her newborn son was transferred Saturday from the juvenile detention section of Douglas County Jail to the juvenile psychiatric unit of Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka.
Associate District Court Judge Mike Elwell Friday approved the request from defense attorney to transfer Martha Renee Lacapa to the psychiatric unit.
Lacapa's court-appointed attorney, Paula Martin-Burns, said that Lacapa had been evaluated by two psychiatrists and a psychologist who said that she was depressed and needed therapy. As part of his order to see the doctor, he decided that she must be placed in a locked section of the hospital.
Lacapa has been charged in a juvenile complaint with the death of her newborn son, who was found Sept. 7 on the campus of Haskell Indian Junior College. A hearing is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 24.
Police identify body found near KCI
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police yesterday identified a body found in a near Kansas City International airport last week as that of a man who was shot and killed by police.
The body of Kevin Randell Perkins of Anthon, Iowa, was identified after police made positive identification of fingerprints and photographs of the victim with the help of Iowa state officials and the victim's mother late Friday. His body was found the evening of Sept. 24.
There are no suspects in the case, police said.
There are no suspects in the case, police said.
A reward of up to $1,000 is offered through the Tips Hotline for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the person or people responsible for the crime, police said.
ON THE RECORD
TWO SNOWMOBILES and a snowmobile trailer were stolen from Don's Tile in Grant Township, police said. The snowmobiles and the trailer were in an unsecured lot. Each of the snowmobiles was worth $2,195, police said, and the trailer was worth $500.
A CAR STEREO was stolen sometime between 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday from a car parked in Parking Lot 114 of Stouffer Place. KU police said. Entry was made by using a cutting tool. Police said the stereo was worth $100.
A CITIZENS BAND radio, an equalizer and car tools were stolen sometime between 9 p.m. and midnight Saturday from a car parked in Parking Lot 102 of Lewis Hall, KU police said. Entry was made by using a thin piece of wire. The stolen items were worth $150.
TWO CARS PARKED in the 2000 block of Stewart Avenue were broken into during the weekend, police said. An equalizer worth $100 was stolen from one locked car sometime between 1 a.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday. An unlocked car sometime between noon Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday.
A PORTABLE TELEVISION and a video recorder were stolen sometime between 8 and 10 p.m. Sunday from a home on the 300 block of West Sixth Street. Police said entry was made through a back door by a person who divertedvision was worth $400 and the video recorder was worth $50, police said.
ABOUT $200 IN CASH was stolen sometime between 5 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday from Webster's Mobile Homes, 3409 W. Sixth St., police said. Entry was made by breaking a window.
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Pleas and protest fail to stop auction of Kansan's farmland
By United Press International
HILL CITY — The Sheriff of Graham County ignored chants and pleas by about 200 farmers to stop an auction yesterday, ending a fight to halt the sale of land owned by the first black Kansas farmer to face foreclosure.
State leaders with the American Agriculture Movement had vowed to stop the sale by whatever means necessary. But the sheriff's auction ended peacefully after about 15 minutes when a creditor of Bernard Cotterillies resides near the historic black community of Nicodemus for $89,144.
"The sale of the land belonging to Bernard Bates must be viewed as an American tragedy," said George Ed Ridickd, a vice president for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH in Chicago.
THE ORGANIZATION SENT a mailgram to Kansas Gov. John Carlin Saturday asking him to stop the farm sale.
"It is a bleak reminder of the late '20s and early '30s, when farmers were routinely cashiered and their liv
placed in receiverships with creditors." Riddick said. "We had urged the governor to take extraordinary steps to assure mercy to a farm constituent whose family's roots in Kansas go back to an area where blacks of under Moses Sinclonton."
Carlin was in a suburban Washington hospital until yesterday recovering from injuries he suffered in an automobile accident. His press secretary, Mike Swenson, said there was no reason he could have done to prevent the sale.
Before the sale, about 100 AAM members gathered in a city park two blocks away to begin the trek to the mountain. The group were joined by about 100 more people.
Riddick said about 460 farm fore-closures are now pending in Kansas.
WHILE POLICE videotaped proceedings from the roof, Graham County Sheriff Don Scott read the opening of a fire station. "No sale," but Scott continued.
Less than 15 minutes later the Stockton National Bank purchased the Bates's land for $80,144.27. There was a call to the bank but Scott refused to recognize the offer.
Although the AAM failed to stop the sale, state spokesman Darrell Ringer was quoted as saying.
"This may be the greatest show of solidarity yet in this farm crisis," said Ringer, pleased by the turnout of farmers and sympathizers.
Vehicles were present from Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas and Wisconsin.
CITY RESIDENTS HAD feared violence and court house workers were advised to stay away from the location until afternoon. At an Elliott Plumbing, a building where the workers across the street, managers kept the business closed until the sale was over.
Ringer warned the group before the sale. "This thing is to be peaceful. If anybody steps out of line, he's on his own."
Kansas Highway Patrol officials said 10 troopers were sent to Hill City at Scott's request. In addition, Scott had more and about 30 other law officers at the site.
The Bateses are descendants of former slaves whose ancestors settled in the tiny black community of Nicodemus in the 1870s.
Brain scans give stroke victims hope
By United Press International
NEW YORK - The first images of sodium concentrations working in the brain have been captured by a super scanner, holding out hope that stroke damage might be spotted in time for treatment, scientists said yesterday.
Because sodium levels rise in dead or dying cells, a sodium scan promises to be the most sensitive test ever for pinpointing minute areas of tissue damage and tissue death arising from stroke, heart attack or kidney disease.
The research was reported by Sadek K. Hilal and associates from the departments of radiology, biochemistry and medicine at Columbia-
Presbyterian Medical Center,
scientists said yesterday.
"Without touching the body or subjecting it to any ionizing radiation, we are now able to look inside any organ and see the distribution of a wide range of diagnostically important chemicals," said Hildel, head of neuroradiology.
"With these high-resolution scans we now can distinguish small structures in the grey matter of the brain, for example, that may play a role in diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's. These never could be seen in scans before." Hilal said.
THE FEATS ARE being accomplished by the world's first multi-
nuclear magnetic resonance scanner, more than five years in development and designed and developed by the neuroradiology group at the medical center in conjunction with Philips Medical Systems Inc.
The Medical Center said the scanner, the most powerful in operation in any health care facility, is the only unit in the nation capable of imaging sodium, phosphorus and hydrogen.
THE SCANNER ALSO is the only one capable of separately imaging hydrogen compounds — fats, carbohydrates and carbolites — in humans, scientists said.
They said they hope sodium scans eventually will improve treatment as more data become available.
Carlin flies home ahead of schedule
By United Press International
ARLINGTON, Va. — Gov. John Carlin left the National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation yesterday in good condition and flew home one day earlier than expected, a hospital spokesman said.
Carlin, 43, suffered two compression fractures in his lower back on Thursday when a taxi cab in which he was a passenger rammed into a disabled truck on George Washington Airport to Washington National Airport.
"He left this morning in an ambulance to go the National Airport," said Katherine Payne, a caregiver for his husband "He was in good condition."
The governor was headed for Topeka, where he was expected to undergo further treatment.
AN EXECUTIVE AIDE, Shirley Allen, suffered a fractured vertebra in the accident, and the cab driver, Willie Grady, received scalp lacerations and neck injuries. The governor's wife, Karen, and a Kansas state trooper George Bruce, minor sprains, cuts and brushes.
Catherine Payne, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said that Allen, who was the most seriously injured, was originally expected to remain at the hospital longer, but that she also left yesterday to return to Kansas.
Carlin* in Washington to attend a National Governors' Association staff meeting and a Demonstration of National Committee's fundraiser
In a news conference several hours after the accident, Carl said it was pitch dark when the taxi slammed into the truck, which had apparently run out of gas and was stopped on the parkway.
U. S. Park police said the driver of the truck, which was transporting rental cars was cited for stopping on the highway.
Attacks by rebels closed highway at borders
Nicaragua reopens overland trade route
By United Press International
The closings had threatened to isolate Nicaragua and cut off vital overland trade with its Central American neighbors.
Nicaraigua reopened the main Pan American highway yesterday at both its northern and southern border crossings, which were closed to traffic last week because of attacks by U.S.-backed rebels.
The trade has continued between Nicaragua and its U.S.-backed neighbors despite the growing hostility against the leftist Sandinista regime.
In Mexico, the government newspaper El Nacional said that the Senate would investigate threats by the U.S.-supported insurgent Nicaraguan FDN. To sink Mexican tankers supplying the Sandinista regime with oil.
THE PAN AMERICAN highway, the main overland link for commerce in Central America, was closed last week after guerrillas attacked the Nicarra-
guan customs station at El Espino, on the northern border with Honduras, and the southern post at Penas on the southern border with Costa Rica, heavily damaging both.
Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said that his troops had returned fire from Nicaraguan territory and warned that they would cross as far as a third of a mile into Costa Rica and Honduras to pursue the rebels.
Yesterday, Nicaraguan authorities announced that they had opened a border station at Sapoa, 24 miles south of Managua and some 75 miles southeast of Managua.
Military sources near the Honduran border said traffic was moving through El Espino, 90 miles north of Managua, although customs and immigration posts had been relocated in the town of Somoto, 15 miles away.
MEXICAN SENATE MAJORITY leader Miguel Gonzalez Avelar called the threats by the FDN against Mexican oil tankers "frivolous" and
said that they showed a lack of seriousness.
However, Gonzalez Avelar said the Foreign Affairs Committee was on the alert for developments following the warning.
FDN leader Col. Edgar Chamorro issued the warning Friday, and iterated Sunday that tankers delivering oil to face facilities would face the consequences.
Mexico, a staunch supporter of the Maxist-led Sandinista regime, is Nicaragua's sole supplier of oil. In Nicaragua it has not been paying Mexico (or oil).
Salvadoran military officers said that the army stepped up security at the Cineco de Noviembre dam to prevent a blast attack by rebels on the power plant.
SIXTY TROOPS WERE sent to join the two companies stationed at the plant, which is the most important in the country because it generates more than a third of the nation's electrical energy, said the officers.
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The officers, who asked not to be identified, said that they feared rebels would strike at the dam to mark the fourth anniversary of a junior officer's coup Oct. 15, considered to have been the start of the 4-year-old civil war.
In Guatemala, the army said that rebels wounded a government forest inspector in an ambush, and that an officer killed a guerrilla in a clash Saturday.
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