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Vol. 94, No. 23 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, September 21, 1983
KU seeking increase in operating budget
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is seeking an increase of more than $10 million in its general-use operating budget for fiscal year 1985.
In the proposed 1955-86 budget submitted to the State Budget Division last week, KU requested an increase of about $10.79 million over the fiscal 1984 operating budget.
Keith Nitcher, KU's director of business affairs, said yesterday that the proposed increase would be financed from general state funds and would be an interest fund for Board of Regents schools.
The entire 1985 general-use budget request is about $105.1 million, an 11 percent increase over the fiscal 1984 operating budget, which is about $94.3.
A $4 MILLION increase in restricted-use funds also has been budgeted, Nitcher said. However, any increases in the restricted-use funds may be neglected upon the University earning the funds.
Restricted-use funds come from such sources as research grants, housing payments and
The funds are labeled restricted, he said, because money generated by these sources must be spent within that department and cannot be allocated to other areas of the University.
The $10 million increase would be used to finance salary increases, new and improved programs, utility costs, employee fringe benefits, other operating expenditures and the last six months of pay raises that were approved by the 1983 Kansas Legislature. Nitcher said.
THE PROPOSAL ALSO would increase classified salaries by 5 percent, unclassified salaries by 7 percent and student hourly wages by 7 percent.
Proposed increases in program financing, totaling more than $1.5 million, have been earmarked for instructional equipment, 21 graduate teaching assistants, library acquisitions, new faculty positions, expansions in computer instruction and equipment, graduate research assistant fellowships, and instrumentation and science lab facilities.
See BUDGET. d. 5, col. 1
Reagan and Congress agree on War Powers Resolution
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan reluctantly agreed yesterday to sign a long-sought compromise congressional resolution that would allow U.S. Marines to stay in Lebanon another 18 months.
But Senate Democrats balked at the deal and White House officials and congressional leaders offered almost opposite interpretations of the agreement. It will the appearances of an agreement to disagree.
In Lebanon, U.S. warships shelled Drusue gunmen in the hills overlooking Beirut yesterday, retaliating for a rocket attack that set fire to a nearby manufacturer's residence and forced its staff to evacuate
THE SHELLING CAME hours after U.S. Marines further escalated their involvement in Lebanon's war by sending four to six "observers" in full combat gear to the front with government troops battling Syrian-backed rebels.
The compromise resolution, drafted to head off a confrontation over the increasing U.S. military role in Beruit and the 1973 War Powers Resolution, was announced almost simultaneously by Reagan and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill.
Democrats characterized it as a White House acknowledgement of the war powers act, but the administration called it a congressional endorsement of its Lebanon policy.
The compromise was immediately introduced in the House and Senate and Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee agreed to support it. Secretary of State George Shultz was to outline U.S. policy and goals in Lebanon today and commit a committee hearing on the compromise resolution.
SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER Howard Baker asked for "expedited proceedings" on the resolution in the Senate, where it faced some criticism. Democrats — a minority in the upper chamber.
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd said that Senate Democrats were not "wired into" the plan and that he would not support an amendment to the administration offered a "better justification."
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., agreed, saying that he was encouraged by Reagan's concession to the war powers act but that he would "months" as a blank check for far too long a period."
Reagan said he would sign the measure if it passed Congress as it stood.
OFFICIALS SAID THE compromise resolution declared that Reagan should have invoked the War Powers Resolution following the deaths of two Marines among the U.S. peacekeepers Aug. 29. Two more Marines have died in shelling since.
The War Powers resolution gives Congress the authority to order troops home within 60 days.
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 4
NEWPORT, R.I. — The American 12-meter yacht Liberty passes just ahead of challenger Australia II during tacking duel on the first leg of their race near Newport. Liberty leads 3-1 after winning the fourth of the best-of-seven America's Cup final series yesterday.
Soviets propose to release items from downed jet
By United Press International
However, a Pentagon spokesman said, the navy is certain it has picked up underwater signals from the flight recorder of Korean Air and shot down by the Soviets over the Sea of Japan.
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union yesterday offered to hand over "objects and documents" from the downed South Korean airliner, but did not say whether it had the flight recorder that U.S. and Soviet ships were scrambling to find in the Sea of Japan.
THE NAVY TUG Narraganagis twice picked up beeping sounds in the search area. Pentagon spokesman Benjamin Welles told a news conference that officials thought the sounds came from a pinger — a device inside the flight recorder that emits signals.
Welles said that "Narranssanct crewmen picked up the beeping signal once for about 80 minutes."
Welles also said Soviet ships in the region had harrassed Ships involved in search efforts.
"There have been no confrontations as such, but there have been continuing instances where U.S. ships have maneuvered to avoid potentially hazardous navigational situations," he said
Thunderstorms forced both U.S. and Soviet search vessels to suspend the search for wreckage of the airliner, which was shot down by a Soviet fighter on Sept. 1.
The signal from the South Korean airliner's recorder was picked up Monday in the 9-square-mile search area just outside Soviet territory.
If the flight recorder — also known as the "black box" — is retrieved, recordings could explain why the aircraft strayed 310 miles west from Anchorage to Seoul, South Korea.
THE RECORDER SHOULD contain instrument readings and recordings of cockpit
Pentagon officials said the flight recorder would continue sending signals after a crash.
See PLANE, p. 5, col. 4
Area's freak weather blows hot and cold
By Staff and Wire Reports
temperature for Sept. 20 of 80 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
A cold front blasting from Canada and a warm Gulf air mass sweeping into New England grappled for control of the country yesterday, lashing the Gulf coast with chest-high flooding, roasting the East with a sweltering heat wave and washing in West and Northwest with up to 17 inches of snow.
"It's been quite a dramatic change," said Rick Candy, meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Center. "It has been quite a dramatic change."
Temperatures in Lawrence yesterday plummeted 36 degrees, from a high of 79 shortly after midnight Monday to a low of 43 shortly before noon. The temperature dropped by 15 degrees of 56 degrees was 24 degrees below the normal
"People were wondering if summer was ever going to end and now they're wondering if winter would be."
Today's high temperature is expected to be in the high 60s to low 70s, said Topeka meteorologist Steve Schurr. Tonight will remain cool with temperatures by week's end should be in the mid-m70s.
THE COOL AIR triggered showers and
thunderstorms over the eastern two thirds of Kansas early yesterday morning Rainfall reports ranged from one-half inch in some parts to four inches. Lawrence. Only trace amounts fell over the west.
As the cold front passed, winds shifted to the north and became gusty. Wind gusts near 50 miles an hour were clocked at several cities in central and western Kansas.
Temperatures dropped sharply, and during yesterday's early morning hours ranged from the mid 30s in the northwest to the upper 40s in the east. Ahead of the cold front readings
See WEATHER, D. 5. col. 1
Women turn to weightlifting for health, fitness
By BRUCE HONOMICHL
Staff Reporter
Julie Burris wasn't even sweating.
The Shawnee sophomore was working in the weight room of Robinson Center on a "pct machine." a device on which the user operated the equipment with padded Hasp restrained by an iron weight.
Fifteen times consecutively, steadily, she pulled the flaps together. Cooly and finally, she hopped off the machine, smiled, and paused the muscles just below her left shoulder.
still.
"It's good to be getting back in shape," said Burris, who has worked with weights on and off since high school.
"Muscle looks better than celluloid. And firmness is more attractive than flab. Men pay more attention when a woman's body is firm instead of flabby."
APPARENTLY, LOTS OF women share Burris' opinion. She was one of about 60 women who attended a special class on weight training for women last night at
The women, many of whom had previously worked with weights, received instruction in using Robinson's Universal weight machine, and in using loose weights.
Their objectives: tone those muscles, shed those pounds and don't worry about being ladylike.
"You get hot and sweaty and you grunt a lot and make all kinds of noises, but it feels so good when you finish painting it again. Then Zoller, Lake Quivira and a member of Robinson's staff. Zoller walked the women through a tour of the machines and later instructed about three-
"Many women are self-conscious about lifting weights," she said. "Sometimes, people will look at you strangely if you're the
She insists that femininity and weights mix perfectly.
See WEIGHTS, p. 5, col. 4
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Jenny Zoller lectures on weights to a special women's last night how to use the Universal weight machine and free weight-training class at Robinson Center. Zoller told the group weights. More than 60 women participated.
City toughens restrictions on house movings
Staff Reporter
In light of those problems, the City Commission voted 5-0 to limit the size of a transportable house to 24 feet in height when loaded on a truck and 27 feet in width. At the request of Commissioner Ernest Angino, the commission also limited the height of a building to that of 20 feet at the 24-foot height, limiting the moving of buildings that don't superfit off at the top.
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
The Lawrence City Commission last night approved alterations in a city ordinance limiting the size of houses that can be moved from one site to another.
A complicated house move last week of two houses from Crescent Road caused power, cable television and telephone lines to be cut, disrupting service to more than 1,000 customers. The move also created traffic hazards by having lights removed and by the slow moving trucks.
THE CITY COMMISSION also increased the cost of moving a house from 75 or 10 cents a square foot, whichever is greater, to $75 or 20 cents a square foot, whichever is greater, and it increased the cost of moving a garage from $10 to $25.
In other action, the commission:
- Approved a resolution requesting assistance from the Kansas Department of Transportation for the repair and resurfacing of North Second Street.
- The commission also requested that the city staff meet with officials from the transportation department. The city has committed funds to improvement of the street, but cannot do it without state assistance. City Manager Buford said that the project would cost at least $700,000.
- Approved reorganization and reappointment of the Natural Gas Task Force.
See CITY, p. 5, col. 1