University Daily Kansan, September 15, 1983
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Cabinet post sacrificed for privacy
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday he would have appointed a Hispanic to the Cabinet but his choice refused to go through the "humiliating" experience of complying with post-Watergate financial disclosure laws.
Reagan told Hispanic, religious and labor reporters he wanted to "return some sanity" to conflict-of-interest requirements.
He said the White House personnel
office was constantly searching for more Hispanics than the 125 he said. "I had to go," he said.
"We would have had a member of the Cabinet, except at the last moment, probably faced with all the reporting and the revelations and the personal affairs and so forth that to be made, like so many others, this man turned away and said, 'No, I don't want the part of it, and let us."
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY Larry Speakes would not identify the person, contending that to do so would
let the incumbent secretary know he or she was a second choice.
Reagan laid the group: "I don't mean to say he did this because of any wrongdoing on his part. You'd be surprised, growing out of some of the past problems of Watergate and how the restrictions that have been placed on people who were willing to volunteer to serve for government.
"I wish we could return to some sanity and recognize that people who are willing to give up their personal lives and careers for a period to come and serve government aren't doing it for any personal gain," he said.
Abortion safer for young women, study finds
By United Press International
BOSTON — Abortion is safer for teens than women in their 20s or older and the risk of death from abortion in teens is nearly six times less than from childbirth, researchers reported yesterday.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that for every 100,000 abortions among teens there are 250 deaths per woman, and for deaths per 100,000 for women over 20
Each year American women — one-third of them teenagers — have more children than ever.
"There's been a belief that because young girls have a smaller cervix, (the mouth of the womb) it's more dangerous for them. In some Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta."
"But we've found that teenagers have generally the same rate of serious complications as older women in the United States, and education rates than older women in later
abortions. And they have a signifi cantly lower death rate."
HE SAID DOCTORS thought teenagers had a lower death rate because "generally they are healthier — being younger their bodies can recover better from any complications that might occur."
The study, analyzing nearly 165,000 abortions in the 1970s, also found abortion is becoming increasingly safer due to death and complication rates dropping.
Grimes said the improved safety was presumably due to more experience by physicians, safer methods and the fact women are having abortions earlier in their pregnancies, with "generally the earlier the abortion, the safer."
"From statistics we see that abortions are becoming more safe and now are safer than giving birth," Grimes said.
"One study found teenagers are 9.9 times more likely to die as a result of giving birth than having an abortion. And the risk of death from birth versus
abortion was about seven-fold for women of all ages."
IN THE LATEST study, researchers found teenage girls suffered between 1 to 3 serious complications per 1,000 suction-curettage abortions — the most widely used method in the nation — during the first three months of pregnancy.
Older women suffered roughly the same rate of complication in the first three months. Young teenagers were more likely to suffer cervical injuries while older women were more likely to suffer bleeding requiring transfusions, a perforated uterus or unanticipated surgery.
The study found that in the second three months of pregnancy, teenagers suffered significantly lower complication rates than older women.
"We think the greater number of cervical injuries are because young teenagers generally have smaller cervices." Grimes said.
Official says not all waste sites are disasters
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL PAUL
When people hear of a site contaminated by hazardous waste, they usually think of Love Canal or Times Beach, but not every site contaminated by hazardous waste will become as hazardous as those two sites.
That's what Deborah McKinley, environmental engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency in Kansas City, Mo., said last night at a meeting of the Wakarusa Sierra Club at the Lawrence Public Library.
"Often people don't have knowledge of ground water or geology," she said.
"We try to show what their site is like. This is not a cover-up.
McKinley explained that the severity of contamination from a hazardous waste spill depends not just on what spill was handled, but also on where it was spilled.
"WHEN WE EVALUATE a site, we look at the length, width, depth and
time of contamination. For example, in three years some contaminated mate
McKinley said that dioxin has become a highly visible contaminant.
"In the '60s it was DDT. In the '70s, in the '80s, in the '90s, in the '90s."
Reports on how dangerous dioxin is have been conflicting, she said.
"I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned about dioxin. I think that maybe we got hysterical with the buyout of Times Beach."
McKinley said that media coverage of Times Beach influenced the decision to install a wall.
The regional administrator's decisions sometimes depend on the political climate. It could affect the priority that a site receives.
"The regional administrator is a political annexee." she said
after Nov. 19, 1980. The act provides for a record-keeping system in which hazardous wastes are tracked during their generation, their transportation, their treatment, their storage and their disposal.
McKinley said two federal laws govern how sites were treated.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, better known as the Superfund Act, governs sites that were contaminated before Nov. 19, 1980. About $1 6 billion was allocated to the fund for cleaning up sites.
THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION and Recovery Act governs sites found
McKinsey said 518 areas were on a national priority site' list to be
JOHN GOETZ, CHIEF of the hazardous waste management section of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said four areas in Kansas were on the list: the Doepke Holliday landfill; the John's Sludge warehouse; the Waukee waste from an oil refinery; a humid down petroleum site in Arkansas City; and the Tar Creek lead and zinc mines in southeast Kansas.
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When Jannell Salts peeked back the sticker inside the front cover of the "used" $18 psychology text she bought and found in a local bookstore, she was shocked
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
She saw, in large gold lettering, the words "Complimentary copy" do not run.
"I thought at first that the bookstore might have gotten the book free or something. After all, that's what complimentary copy means," the philomore said. I thought, "why did she sell it to me at such a high price?"
"Most of the wholesalers have people in the field who buy back books from professors. They say, 'let me turn this book into cash for you.' There's nothing really wrong with it," she said. "It's not unusual to see professors hauling in boxes of books during the buy-back period here."
Chances are, the wholesaler who sold the book to the bookstore applied the sticker before the book was delivered. The wholesaler probably bought the book from a professor who had no use for it. The professor probably received the book free, for promotional purposes, from a publisher.
PUBLISHERS CURSE THE path these books take because they wind up on shelves as used books. These books often are in competition with new copies of the same books. Because they can't snatch up used books quickly, publishers don't make money they might have made from new book sales.
Wholesalers and local bookstore officials said that publishers use the "no resale" disclaimer as a device to reduce the used-book market.
BRAA SAID THAT once the wholesaler applied the sticker, the "no resale" edict would be eliminated and the new customer would book a bookstore for sale as a used book.
Bill Muggy, owner of Jayhawk Book Store, 1420 Crescent Road, said that publishers use the "no resale" device because they make no money on used
Barbara Braa, supervisor for the Kansas Union Bookstore, said recently that when a publisher sent unsolicited complimentary textbooks to a professor, the professor usually kept the book or sold it to either a bookstore or a wholesaler that supplied textbooks to bookstores.
"I get complimentary copies of books, sometimes more than I know what to do with, but I haven't resold them yet. My colleagues wholesaler around here in a long time."
However, David Berkowitz, a Lawrence lawyer, said that if a professor were to sell a book that carried a "no
Other KU professors said that the reselling of books was not common here. Myra Himman, associate professor at the University, "I haven't seen a wholesaler, in years."
"There could be a civil violation. There probably wouldn't be that much done about it because it's a small thing, by the case, and certainly selling the suit is a criminal offense. But a civil suit is kind of possible." Berkow-kiw
DAVID DINNEEN, PROFESSOR of French and Italian, said that he didn't text books back, but that reselling seemed to be fairly common.
"I if I have a used book that I need to get rid of, I give it to my students. But it is done, I'm sure." Dinneen said. "They wouldn't continue to come around if there wasn't a purpose." He said that representatives of wholesalers visit the campus periodically to buy books from his colleagues.
JOHN SNYDER, editor-in-chief of the college division of MacMillan Publishing Co. New York, said that the reselling of books was common and did not involve much authoring. He also said that any professor who resells was acting "metaphorically."
resale" notation, the publisher might have grounds for a civil suit.
He said, "The reselling of books nationwide, we find, is common. About 20 to 40 percent of our business is in one way or another by used books."
books that they never solicited — filters back into the market, that means that the publisher is missing out on a lot of sales and misses out on royalties," Muggy said.
But, he said, "everything that we sell is legitimate. We pay fair and square prices."
Muggy said that his bookstore didn't keep track of how many books with stitches in them.
"When a book that a professor has received unsolicited — and many sell
A marketing representative for Missouri Books, Columbia, Mo., one of the wholesalers who supplies books to the Union, said yesterday that the "no resale" tactic used by publishers was only effective in a handful of cases.
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"This is an attempt by the publisher to keep the used book off the market so that it won't be in competition with the new book, something that they can do about it, though."
THE REPRESENTATIVE, Rich Howard, said, "We're talking, first of all, about a very small percentage of all books in the market."
HE SAID THAT the only direct soliciting his company attempts is through the mail, and then only "once every two or three years."
"The professors are on master lists of publishers, and they are listed under, say, mathematics instead of calculus or algebra. They get books out of their specialties into their broad field, and they have no possible use for them." Howard said.
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