University Daily Kansan, September 15. 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Reagan expected to name K.C. man as ambassaador
LONDON — President Reagan is expected to name the current U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, Charles H. Price II, a banker and businessman from Kansas City, Mo., to the post of U.S. Ambassador to Britain.
John J. Louis Jr., a millionaire businessman criticized for keeping too low a profile as the U.S. Ambassador to Britain the last 30 months, said yesterday that he would step down in the fall.
yesterday that he would appoint a Diplomatic sources in Washington said Price, a political appointee who is a close friend of President and Mrs. Reagan, was expected to be named to the London position.
An embassy spokesman said an exact date for Louis' departure had not been set.
Price is a former chairman of the board of the American Bank and Trust Co. of Kansas City and an officer of the Price Candy Co.
New judge assigned to murder trial
A new judge was assigned this week to preside over the local trial of James Chadwick Fourhorn, charged with the first-degree murder of 94-year-old Harry Puckett.
Associate District Judge Michael J. Malone will replace Associate District Judge Mike Elwell. The trial is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday in Douglas County District Court.
Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, filed a motion earlier this week requesting that Elwell not preside over the trial. In the motion, Harper said that Elwell was prejudiced against one of the prosecutor's witnesses.
Harper said that "on Aug. 25 certain of the defendant's motions were heard, including a request to have the juvenile records of Danny Jo Jennings, a key state's witness, opened to the counsel for the defendant."
"The state does not believe it can receive a fair and impartial trial in this case because it believes that Judge Elwil is biased and prejudiced against Danny Jo Jennings to such a degree that this fact would be obvious to the jury when Danny Jo Jennings testified." Harper said.
Associate District Judge Michael J. Malone granted the motion Monday. Malone heard the motion because he was also acting as a prosecutor.
Puckett's body was found June 25. Besides being charged with frist-degree murder, Fourhorn is also charged with aggravated burglary. He pleaded not guilty Aug.1 to both charges.
Board requests more school funds
TOPEKA — The state Board of Education yesterday tentatively decided to ask the Legislature for an additional $60 million in state money for public education to prevent any increases in local property taxes.
The money would be an increase in School District Equalization Aid. Of the more than $1 billion in general operating fund budgets of school districts, the state currently contributes about 46 percent.
Another consideration tentatively approved yesterday was a request for a "blue ribbon" committee to study teacher salaries.
The committee would study what teacher salaries would need to be to attract high-quality students to the field of education. It would also examine merit pay, beginning salaries, career ladders, staff development and salary schedules.
Slatterv to be in Lawrence Sunday
Rep. Jim Satttery, D-Kan., will be in Lawrence this weekend to speak at a public forum on federal retirement programs.
The hour-long forum will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vermont St. The hosts for Slattery's visit are the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee and the Lawrence Council on Aging.
ON THE RECORD
NINE MOTORCYCLES were vandalized sometime between midnight and 9:15 a.m. Sunday in a parking lot west of Ellsworth Residence Hall, KU police said. The side panels and fuse boxes from the motorcycles had been removed in an attempt to hot-wire them, police said. There are no suspects.
KU police also reported that someone removed the front fender, the rear-view mirrors and the steering lock mechanism from a motorcycle sometime between 11:45 Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday in the same lot. Police estimated the damage at $140. There are no suspects.
NO ONE WAS injured in a fire that began at 9:54 p.m. Tuesday at Jayhawkers Towers A. The fire started; when some food was left unattended on a kitchen stove. It was extinguished before firefighters arrived. Damage was estimated at $100.
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Salvadoran blasts Reagan foreign policy
Bv CHRISTY FISHER
Staff Reporter
The Reagan administration is pushing the people of El Salvador away from democracy, a Salvadoran social leader said at yesterday's University
Roberto Pineda, a leader in the Student Christian Movement of Salvador, said, "The Reagan administration will be responsible for El Salvador becoming communist. If the Administration continues to support the people, the people will be pushed toward the left, only because they have no choice."
Pineda spoke to about 50 people at the forum sponsored by the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., as part of Central America's effort to organize organized through the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization.
Pineda said that Reagan was pushing military intervention to prove that the United States was the best government existing American relations with the government.
"They (the administration) give military and economic aid, but the money only serves to kill our people," he said.
"Since 1932, the U.S. has developed a strong link with the 14 families who control more than 70 percent of all resources. The U.S. has a strong relationship with them and the dictatorship," he said.
The money also is going into the
pockets of corrupt Salvadoran military leaders, he said.
Roberto Pineda
a communist takeover in El Salvador. Pineda said El Salvador did not owe the United States a guarantee that the country would not become communist.
Members of the audience said they were concerned about the possibility of
However, he said, the people hope to install a republic like the U.S. has.
Although Pineda doesn't belong to a political organization, he said he was endangering his life by speaking out against the present government.
Jack Bremer, director of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said, "He is at risk because he is still living in El Paso and has not been to the two years ago and has yet to be found."
Pineda said, "I do not want to make a personal case. To have one person lose his life for a cause is to correct an error. El Salvador. My people are in danger."
"Since 1979 we have lived in a war situation. Our children have to see daily a decapitated head on one side of the street and the body on the other side."
"We are trying to change — it is the will of the people. We will follow our teacher, Archbishop Oscar Romero. He wrote that in his speech: "Truth: (the law of God not man)."
Romero was assassinated in March 1980.
Pineda defends the guerrilla movement because it reflects the will of the people.
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"We are trying to change to a government like the United States—with political and social rights," he said. "Since 1932 we have had a dictatorship and have been militarily run."
Pineda said that since 1979 more than 40,000 people had died. 3,000 had disappeared and the government had kept 200 political prisoners.
Pineda said he thought that the people supported the guerrillas.
Pineda said the guerrillas were compelled to use violence, because they had exhausted peaceful means of settling the dispute.
"A guerrilla movement of 6,000 men can survive an army of 50,000 men and the support of the U.S. unless the U.S. supports the support of the people," he said.
"Personally I feel violence takes away some humanity from a person when he kills another person," he said. "It is a last resort."
"I ask the American people to try understand the situation in Central America. The American people have leverage in this, I ask the them to act as representatives to act on a political solution rather than a military one."
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