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University Daily Kansan, September 29. 1983
Nixon wants bold U.S. policy in handling Central America
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States must boldly address the economic and social problems of Central America, Richard Nixon said yesterday.
"Too often, we just talk about the communists," Nixon said.
The former president, making his first appearance before a government body since he resigned in 1974, testified for more than two hours in a closed session of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America.
The group, assembled by President Reagan, is led by Henry Kissinger, who served as Nixon's national security adviser and secretary of state.
The commission, which previously heard from former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, was set up to study the problems of Central America and make recommendations for long-term U.S. policy in the region.
SUMMING UP HIS testimony for reporters after the session at the State Department, Nixon said his main point was that America had "enormous problems."
"The communists talk about the problems," he said. "What we have to do now is to address the problems in a different way as well as the communist threat."
Nixon compared the Kissinger commission, in terms of significance, to the advisory group that carried out the war effort. He also recovered in Europe after World War II.
United Press International
Nixon said he made three points:
"This commission could be presenting to the American people one of the most important reports and recommendations since the Marshall Plan recommendations were made 30 years ago," he said.
Nixon said he made three points:
*The program should be long-term,
at least ten years.*
*
*The recommendations should be bipartisan, not just in terms of party, "but to the extent possible, between liberals and conservatives."
- The program should be bold
"The program should be bold.
"The problem in Latin America is not economic recovery," he said. "The problem is getting started."
Former President Richard M. Nixon is greeted on his arrival outside the State Department by Henry Kissinger, leader of the Commission on Central America. Nixon addressed the commission yesterday.
New local group to unveil third downtown plan
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission will see a third plan for a downtown shopping center next Thursday when the city's developers meets with commission.
Town Center Venture Corp. requested a meeting with the commission by way of a letter from Richard Zinn, a local attorney representing the group.
No information has been made available about the names of the members of the corporation, and no information about the plan have been made public.
Zinn has had no information will be made available until the City
Commission has the opportunity to view the plan at a special 11 a.m. meeting Thursday at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
ZINN HAS SAID that the group was local, and records at the Kansas Secretary of State's office indicate that the corporation was formed Tuesday.
The group is responding to a decision made by the City Commission at its Sept. 13 meeting, when it decided not to reappoint Sizerel Really Co. Inc., Kerner, La, as the developer of record or its downtown redevelopment project.
Sizeer was appointed developer of record in March, but was not reappointed when the agreement ran out in July.
Sizer, meanwhile, has continued to work on plans for its proposed development in the 700 and 800 blocks on the east side of Massachusetts Street.
The commission will not name a
Sizeler recently gave the city its official response to Option 3, the city's version of Scheme 4, which was initially accepted by the City Commission.
THE PROPOSED CHANGES for Option 3 include new shops adjacent to a Ninth Street department store, a four-level parking deck behind new shops, a location off Ninth Street and holding zone off Ninth Street and two levels of shops south of Eighth Street.
The city has also received a proposal for downtown development from Ron Holt, another local developer. Holt presented his plans to develop the 600 block of New Hampshire to the City Commission Monday.
Sizer will be meeting with the City Commission 11 a.m. Oct. 13 to discuss the Option 3 changes.
Holt has made arrangements to remodel buildings owned by the Bowersock Mill and Power Co. and to remodel the Reuter Pipe Organ Co. building, next to the Bowersock buildings, for use by a department store.
The city gave Holt a letter of intent showing a willingness to extend its lease on the property so Holt could continue development.
Reagan wants Chinese to decide Taiwan status
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, who will travel to Peking in April, now thinks that the status of Taiwan — a contentious point of his foreign policy — is “a matter for the Chinese people” to decide, his spokesman said yesterday.
After Defense Secretary Caspar Weimberanger announced the Reagan visit in Peking, deputy White House press secretary Larry Speaks sought to remove the issue of Taiwan as an antecedent to improved U.S.-Sino relations.
"The significance of the president's decision" to make the trip after a visit to the United States in January by Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang lies in his commitment to "a strong relationship" between the two countries, Speokes said.
Reagan will be the first president to visit China since Gerald Ford in 1975. Ironically, he will be the first to make an official state visit since the normalization of relations took place on Jan. 1, 1979.
As a candidate, he was sharply critical of normalization and the resulting termination of diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
In an Aug 17, 1982 joint communique the administration agreed to gradually scale back arms shipments to Taiwan and reaffirmed support for the Shanghai communique, which cleared the way for normalization and recognized Peking as the rightful government of a China that includes Taiwan.
Speakes rought to minimize differences between Washington and Peking. Despite Reagan's past statements, he insisted that "the will not put pressure" on either side.
Developer objects to changes in county zoning ordinances
By the Kansan Staff
A large crowd that was expected to comment about proposed changes in zoning ordinances last night at the Washington Commission meeting, Commission failed to materialize
Planning Director Price Banks had predicted a large crowd based on the number of people who had come to the planning office to talk about the being proposed for city ordinances that govern commercially owned property.
However, only one person, Ron Holl,
a local developer and store owner.
The idea behind the large number of changes in the zoning ordinances is to allow small commercial districts to exist. To do this, the city would be altering the zoning of many businesses that already exist.
Holt, who has an approved development project planned for West 25th Street, next to the Holiday Plaza, 2104 W. 25th St., said he objected to new requirements for undeveloped space on a property.
The new ordinations would require commercial development zoned C2, which is for light commercial development, to have 40 to 50 percent of the property landscaped as "green space."
Holt also said he objected to the zoning because it prevented development.
"I feel this is discriminatory." Holt said. "To change the ordinance would be an extreme strain on economic usage."
Banks said that the net result of the changes would be to reduce the density of development that could go on or more stories tails
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