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Vol. 94, No.28 (USPS 650-640)
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Wednesday morning, September 28, 1983
Warns of 'economic nightmares' if not approved Reagan wants to increase U.S. aid to IMF
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that he was committed to financing the troubled International Monetary Fund and creating an economic nightmare if Congress failed to increase funding.
Addressing a meeting of both the IMF and the World Bank, Reagan criticized "partisan wrangling and political posturing" on Capitol Hill for the stalemate in the administration's request for an $8.5 billion increase in financial guarantees for the IMF.
Reagan failed to mention that the strongest opposition to the increase had come from
Republican conservatives, who were traditionally among his staunch supporters.
"The IMF is the linchpin of the international financial system." he said.
REAGAN SAID THE administration was committed to doing "what is legitimately needed to help ensure that the IMF continues its foundation of the international financial system."
"Let me make something very plain: I have an unbreakable commitment to increased funding for the IMF." Reagan said. "If Congress does not approve our participation, we will be able to withdraw by other industrialized countries from doing their share. At the end of this road
"I do not appreciate the partisan wrangling and political posturing that have been associated with this issue during recent weeks." In the address he asked for cooperation on
In the address he asked for cooperation on Capitol Hill to get the measure passed.
could be a major disruption of the entire world trading and financial systems — an economic nightmare that could plague generations to the day, and make light of the responsibility we all share.
"This legislation is not only crucial to the recovery of American's trading partners abroad, and to the stability of the entire international financial system, it is also necessary to a sustained recovery in the United States," Reagan said.
HOUSE SPEAKER THEO N'Allen Jr, said Reagan's speech was not enough to satisfy Democrats who "saved his bill" but then were forced to give up. They have even seen" from the Republican Party.
O'Neill said that Reagan should write to Democratz who helped him and thank them "before IMF gets through this House."
The president acknowledged that the United States still faced "large projected deficits" that drained capital "that could otherwise be invested for stronger economic growth."
But he said revenues were higher than anticipated, adding that "we expect continued improvement."
Continental Airlines cuts schedule and workforce
BUMPY FLIGHT Heavy losses hit two airlines
By United Press International
NEW YORK - Continental Airlines took to the skies yesterday under a cloud of bankruptcy clouds.
At Eastern Airlines, union leaders rejected a wage cut proposal in a move that could also drive that carrier into bankruptcy court.
Continental, which filed for bankruptcy reorganization Saturday after failing to win labor concessions, resumed flights to 25 of the 78 cities it previously served and with only 10 of its 12,000 member workforce, many of whom agreed to have their pay cut almost in half.
Continental's controversial move to file for bankruptcy as a way to cope with what it said were excessive labor costs was being closely watched at Eastern Airlines where employees were warned Monday night they would have to take a 15 percent pay cut or face a similar fate.
It was uncertain whether Continental, formerly the nation's eighth largest carrier, would
be able to successfully re-emerge into the fiercely competitive airline market having shut down operations once already.
Because the situation was unprecedented, industry executives and analysts were uncertain whether travelers, particularly businessmen, would be confident enough in the airline to buy a ticket and whether travel agents would hesitate to book an airline until it became (firmly re-established).
"I don't think the majority of people are going to trust it yet," said Liz Neller of Harvey Travel in Houston. "The next two weeks are going to be a testing ground."
ONE NEW YORK travel agent, who has clients booked on Continental's international flights, said he had those reservations "really" making backup reservations on other airlines.
But Continental was hoping to overcome travelers' concerns by offering $49 one-way tickets through Friday and $75 one-way tickets good on any route between Oct. 1 and Oct. 15.
petitors are watching public response before trying to match Continental's fares or expand their airlines.
"If they are able to pull it off, they could be a low-cost, low-price, formidable competitor," said Chuck Novak, a spokesman for United Airlines. That, he said, could trigger a return to the fierce airfare wars that were at least partly responsible for some of the financial woes.
"We've adopted a wait-and-see attitude," said American Airlines spokesman Alton Becker. "Right now, there are more questions than there are answers."
"We're closely watching the situation for expansion opportunities, but we're not announcing anything now," said Novak. "We are not going to match Continental on the $49 fare. It's really kind of a wait-and-see thing, to see if the $75 fare works, see what their frequency of service is, and see what the traveling public thinks."
ROBERT J. JOEIDECKE, airline analyst at the Wall Street firm of Lehman Brothers Kluo Laeb, said one early question would be whether the courts would allow Continental protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code while it attempted to reorganize.
IN THE MEANTIME. Continental's com-
Professor Lawrence P. King, a specialist in bankruptcy law at the New York University Law School, said two or three court decisions in the case of Mr. Greenberg's chapter in Chapter 11 petition was to reject collective bargaining agreements, "it represents misuse of the bankruptcy process."
Lack of funds hurts classes, T.A. program
Courses in astronomy physics may be cut held from non-majors
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
If the department of physics and astronomy does not receive money for more graduate teaching assistants next year, the department may prohibit non-majors from taking entry-level courses, the chairman of the department said yesterday.
John Davidson, the chairman, said either the quality of the department would deteriorate or the number of course offerings would decrease unless additional financing for graduate teaching assistant positions was appropriated by the Kansas Legislature.
The problem is not unique to the department of physics and astronomy.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Kansas recently requested $225,000 to finance 21 additional graduate teaching assistants in its proposed fiscal 1985 budget. Fifteen of the positions would be in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; six positions would be in professional schools.
The request is part of the more than $10 million increase KU administrators are seeking.
Deans of various departments said yesterday that the request to finance teaching assistant positions would merely help restore positions had been lost because of previous budget cuts.
"I think it is a desperate situation," Davidson said. "We've always reduced quality of our programs to the lowest level."
Davidson said the department has suffered from under-financing since the mid-1970s, and recent budget cuts have compounded staffing problems.
Commission OKs fraternity site plan
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Staff Reporter
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Despite some limited neighborhood protest, a site plan for a KU fraternity was approved last night by the Lawrence City Commission.
Theta Chi fraternity bought a house at 1011 Missouri St. in July, and some fraternity members moved in a month later. The fraternity violated a city ordinance by failing to file a site plan, which fraternity members said they were unaware they had to do.
The site plan was approved last night with the stipulation that the fraternity make corrections to the plan, clean shrubbery and debris off the sidewalk and extend the sidewalk.
CHIRIS AND LAURA Wozencraft, 1208 W. 10th St., complained to the commission that the addition of the fraternity to the neighborhood had greatly increased traffic and parking
problems in the area, and that every weekend
they go to the grocery bottles and broken
glass after fraternity parties.
the commissioners said that they offered their sympathy, but that they could not dispute the fraternity's right to be there. However, the commission did say that it would request that the Traffic and Safety Commission review the traffic and traffic problems and search for solutions.
The commission also expressed concern about proposed expansion of the fraternity. The fraternity now houses the members and there are two students in the fraternity had been without a house since 1980.
The Lawrence Daily Journal-World reported Monday that the fraternity is considering an expansion of the building to house 55 fraternity members.
The commission pointed out that this would require a new site plan.
Defenders deserve raise, jurists advise committee
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The price of justice is higher than what the state pays Kansas lawyers to work as court-appointed attorneys in felony cases, a judge and a public defender said yesterday.
ONLY THREE STATE judicial districts use the public defender system for defense of someone who is charged with a felony but cannot afford an attorney. The counties in those districts are Dickinson, Geary, Marion, Morris, Ottawa, Shawnee and Saline.
The committee, which comprises state senators and representatives, heard from District Judge William Carpenter, administrative judge of the 3rd District in Topeka, and from Ron Wurtz, head of the public defender's office in that district.
The Kansas Legislature's Special Committee on Ways and Means is scheduled to make a recommendation today on whether the state should pay court-appointed defense attorneys for the case, which is $20 an hour for work out of the courtroom and $30 an hour for work in the courtroom.
For those charged in the Shawnee County court with misdemeanor offenses that carry a possible jail term, assigned counsel is provided by an attorney in lawyers who practice in Tonka. Carpenter said.
Douglas County, and the other counties not lated, appoint defense lawyers from the pool of attorneys.
The cost of providing that counsel rose from $42,000 in 1982 to more than $45,000 by September of this year. Carpenter said, and a limit was instituted of $150 for a case that went to trial and $100 for a non-trial case. Some lawyers had billed the state more than $500, figured at the
$20/$30 rate, for work on misdemeanor cases before the limit was begun, he said.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, who also is a lawyer, told the committee that it needed to determine a payment level for court-appointed lawyers that would be low enough to keep them in law and pay their lawyers, but high enough so that they can pay their overhead expenses during such a defense.
CARPENTER PRAISED THE skill of the public defenders in Shawnee County and their cooperation with the court when it wanted to processing of criminal cases to reduce a backlog.
Carpenter suggested that $40 an hour would be more realistic than the present rate, considering that some lawyers charge $75 an hour for some areas and in Kansas and in more other areas of the country.
A SEPT. 28 article in the National Law Journal, a weekly newspaper, compared the rate of compensation in the 50 states. The hourly rates in Kansas for work outside and inside the courtroom are comparable to those in other states. From $10/915 in Texas to $30/$85 in North Dakota
"The bar was sullen but not mutinous." Carpenter said. "We have sufficient young workers."
Wurtz told the defender's office in Topeka had five lawyers in its full-time staff of 10 people and had a fiscal year 1963 operating budget of $42 million. He published the defender system for its quality of office, and more expensive to the state than court-appointed counsel on the state by-case basis.
The article cites a walkout by public defenders in Washington, D.C., and mentions other instances of lawyers not willing to work for urgent clients if they cannot be adequately paid.
American Indian social workers lose funds for only training program
By GINA K. THORNBURG
After four years, the American Indian Human Services Training Program has begun to show signs of success.
But the program for training American Indian social workers, which exists only between the University of Kansas and Haskell Junior College, will no longer be financed after this year and is in danger of being eliminated, the director of the program said last week.
"Somebody has to keep it going," said Duane Evans, AHI5 director.
AIHS is the only paraprofessional, American Indian training program in the United States, Evans said, and is financed by the National Institute of Mental Health.
KU and Haskell College cooperate in the program, which is designed to train American students.
Staff Reporter
"The point of the program is to encourage students to stay in school," he said.
students to STAY in STEM0, he said.
IN FIVE YEARS, AIHS has received grants from the national institute totaling more than $322,000. he said. Last year AIHS received
Indians and to encourage the students to continue their education beyond Haskell.
'It makes more sense to train Indian social workers to work in Indian communities.' —Duane Evans
AIHS Director
about $77,000, and this year received about
$62,000.
"Whatever the cost, to get five or six people through is worth it," he said.
Because of the cooperative program, he said, some Haskell students have been able to transfer to KU as juniors in social welfare after earning an associate arts degree at Haskell.
Kenton Laffoon, Parker, Ariz., said Evans and other program advisers at Haskell had encouraged him to come to KU's School of Social Welfare.
"Duane helped a lot," he said. "In the past, the students didn't have enough hours to train."
EVANS SAID The THE School of Social Welfare and Haskell cooperatively had designed their social work curriculum so that Haskell courses were offered in the classroom and KU courses would include an Indian focus.
When the program began in 1979, he said, only four students came to KU to continue their social welfare education. Of those four, three eventually dropped out of the program.
The number of students in the program at KU has gradually increased since then to 16 this year, he said. Haskell has 24 students in the program this year.
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NEWPORT R. J.  - A jubilant Alan Bond, syndicate owner of Australia II, proudly displays the America's Cup after it was
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awarded to him and his crew during ceremonies yesterday at Newport's Marble House. See related story p. 5.
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