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 with it. He would experience a complying with post-Watergate financial disclosure laws.
Reagan had 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 were now in high federal positions.
"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 have been brought up by the individual turned away and, 'No, I don't want to be part of it,' and left 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 told 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 forth, there have been a number of people who were plotted 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 it 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 about 18 deaths per 100 women during deaths per 100.000 for women over 20.
Each year American women — one-third of teenagers — have more than 1 million pregnancies.
"There's been a belief that because young girls have a smaller cervix, (the mouth of the womb) it is more dangerous for them," said the 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, but cancer rates than older women in later
abortions. And they have a significantly 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 with 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 5.9 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 section-curetage abortions — the most 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
By MICHAEL PAUL
Staff Reporter
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 Wakaraus 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 was spilled, 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- ture was released.
McKinley said that dioxin has become a highly visible contaminant.
"In the 106s it was DDT. In the 70s, in the 80s, in the dioxin. In the 90s, who knows."
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 release of The New Yorker.
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 appointee." she said.
McKinley said two federal laws govern how sites were treated.
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.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, better known as the Superfund Act, governs sites that were contaminated before Nov. 19, 1800. About $1.6 billion was appropriated to the fund for cleaning up sites.
THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION and Recovery Act governs sites found
McKinsey had 518 areas were on a "national priority site" list to be chosen.
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 Holiday landfill; "John's Sludge facility; the treatment plant; and waste from an oil refinery, a burn down petroleum site in Arkansas City; and the Tar Creek lead and zinc mines in southeast Kansas.
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When Jannell Salts peeled back the sticker inside the front cover of the "used" $18 psychology text she bought from a local bookstore, she was shocked.
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She saw, in large gold lettering, the words "Complimentary copy — do not read."
"I thought at first that the bookstore might have gotten the book free or something. After all, that's what complimentary copy means," the Mission sophomore said. "I thought, oh, they sell it to me at such a high price?"
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 students tend to snatch up used books, 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.
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.
resale" notation, the publisher might have grounds for a civil suit.
However, David Benkowitz, a Lawrence lawyer, said that if a professor wished to be the plaintiff in a lawsuit,
"There could be a civil violation. There probably wouldn't be that much done about it because it it's a small thing, by the case, and certainly selling the book isn't a criminal offense. But a civil violation is the kind is possible." Berkowzatz said.
"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.
Other KU professors said that the reselling of books was not common here. Myra Hinnam, associate professor at the University, "I haven't seen a wholesaler in years."
DAVID DINNEEEN, PROFESSOR of French and Italian, said that he didn't textbooks back, but that reselling seemed to be fairly common.
He said, "The reselling of books nationwide, we find, is common. About 20 to 40 percent of our business is done in one way or another by used books."
"I get complimentary copies of books, sometimes more than I know what to do with, but I haven't resold them." The chosleral around here in a long time.
BRAA SAID THAT once the wholesaler applied the sticker, the "no resale" eject would be eliminated and a new bookstore could turn to a bookstore for sale as a used book
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.
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 rest on the efforts of authors. He also said many professors who resellers was acting "meticulously."
"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. What thing that they can do about it, though?"
books that they never solicited — filters back into the market, that means that the publisher is missing out on a number of sales, and misses out on royalties. "Muggy said
“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.”
THE REPRESENTATIVE, Rich Howard, said, "We're talking, first of all, about a very small percentage of all books in the market."
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 house
But, he said, "everything that we sell legitimate. We pay fair and square for them."
Muggy said that his bookstore didn't show how of how many books with skirts he had.
"When a book that a professor has
received unsolicited — and many sell
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 book in their broad field, and they have no possible use for them." Howard said.
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