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McGovern expected to be candidate
By United Press International
WASHINGTON <- George McGovern is expected to announce next week that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination, a source close to the former senator from South Dakota said yesterday.
McGoventry is scheduled to speak at George Washington University on Tuesday and the source said McGoventry would make a "a major announcement."
Asked if McGovern, 61, would announce his candidacy at that time, the source said. "I prefer not to confirm that, but you and I know that given who he is and knowing that he is going to make a major announcement on Tuesday, anyone can put that together."
McGewen served in the House from 1956 until 1960. In 1961 President Kennedy appointed him as the first director of the U.S. Food For Peace Program and as a special assistant to the president.
IN 1962 HE was elected to the Senate, winning re-election in 1968 and 1974.
1972. McGovern ran as the Democratic candidate for the presidency, voicing his opposition to the Vietnam War and describing it as the "most tragic diplomatic and moral failure in our national experience."
But his campaign was troubled and he lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon, winning only in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts.
Asked about the presidential election and the fact that his own state voted against him, McGovern said in
an interview last year, "They kept me in office for 22 years knowing full well I was more liberal. I don't have any resentment whatsoever for the way they voted."
MCGVERN SAID in July that he was considering making another bid for the presidency because the current field of Democratic contenders had failed to stress changes needed in Reagan policy.
That field includes Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo, who was campaign manager for McGovern's 1972 campaign.
"I'd like to put some distance between the Denococratic Party and Mr. Reagan . . . (who is) hell-bent on a policy in Iraq," he said, before taking us right into another Vietnam." McGovern said in a Cable News Network interview.
By United Press International
PEKING — Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Kapita, the highest ranking Soviet official invited to China in more than 20 years, arrived yesterday for wide-ranging talks that will include normalization of Sino-Soviet relations.
Soviet official goes to China for talks
The October consultations will be the third round of normalization talks between the two communist nations but they will not do what we do, do not expect a sudden breakthrough.
Though Kapitaa tried to play down the importance of his visit, Chinese and Western diplomatic sources said that he and his host, Vice Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, would try to lay the groundwork for next month's consultations on repairing the 20-year split between Moscow and Peking.
Peking insists that the Kremlin
address three demands before relations can improve substantially.
THEY INCLUDE the reduction of Soviet troops along the Chinese frontier, an end to Soviet support of China's military efforts and a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"If the Soviet Union could lift just one of the obstacles, relations could improve greatly but we don't expect the world to come soon," a foreign ministry source said.
Kapita will stay for eight days and tour sites outside Peking.
Moscow has issued frequent calls for improved relations with its communist rival but says that the three demands it has set out would not be included in the consultations.
He arrived on a regularly scheduled Aeroflot flight and received a warm welcome by Qian and diplomats from Eastern Europe and Vietnam.
Kapitsa has visited Peking many
times but only as a Soviet Embassy guest.
QIAN INVITED the 61-year-old Kapitaş to Peking in the first such move involving a senior Kremlin official since Sino-Soviet relations collapsed in the early 1960s over territorial and ideological disputes.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been improving gradually since consultations to repair the rift began last October.
China has been trying recently to follow a more neutral course between Moscow and Washington on foreign policy issues.
It still speaks of Soviet "hegemony" and expressed "shock and regret" last week at the downing of a South Korean airliner by a Soviet warplane. But Peking has refrained from saying any more about the jetliner incident and has not joined in sanctions against the Soviets.
Charges in baby's death to be decided
By the Kansan Staff
Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday that he would decide today what charges, if any, he would file against a woman arrested for the death of her week-old baby.
An 18-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday evening and booked for the first-degree murder of her baby. She is in custody at the Old Court. Bond was set at $500,000.
A woman walking her dog found the baby Tuesday between two concrete turbels on campus of Haskell College. Collections of correspondence were sent to the scene about 6 p.m.
A police report said that the baby died between 2:30 a.m. and 6.a.m. Aug. 18, 2004, in Brooklyn, New York.
Deputy County Coroner Alan Sanders performed an autopsy on the baby Wednesday morning. He said he was unable to determine the cause of death because the body of the baby was too badly decomposed.
Five charged after marijuana field raid
By the Kansan Staff
Two Lawrence residents and three Baldwin residents were charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court in connection with marijuana confiscated in a field raided by law officers last month.
Ronald Louis Dejeus, 35, 1331 Vermont St., was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell. Sandra Sue Merrifield, 30, 1330 Vermont St., was charged with aiding and abetting the sale of marijuana.
charged with aiding and abetting the sale of marijuana.
Harry Warren, Douglas County assistant district attorney, filed the charges in Douglas County District Court.
A preliminary hearing was set for 1:30 p.m. Sept. 26.
The five were arrested during the evening of Aug. 29, after 20 officers from the Lawrence Police Department, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, and three others in an investigation raided a field about 14 miles southwest of Lawrence.
The officers confiscated about 600 plants Douglas County Sheriff Rex Quinn had to store, usually valued each plant at $2,000, but that these plants were worth $6,000.
Residence hall board officials approved
Elected were Jon Hobbie, Sedgwick senior, as programming chairman;
By the Kansan Staff
Five nominees for executive board committee chairmanships were approved and one was defeated by Association of University Residence Halls representatives at a meeting last night in the Frank R. Burge Union.
James Schoenke, St. Louis junior, as publicity chairman; Rebecca Heyman, St. Louis junior, as chairman of the AUHR newsletter committee; Curtis Worden, Topea senior, as housing and contracts chairman; and Ray Williams, Omaha senior, board of appeals chairman.
The nominees were chosen through interviews with the executive officers
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TWO QUESTIONS FOR FOUR LOCAL PILGRIMS OF PEACE
The July 1st issue of the University Daily Kansan (UDK) contains a piece entitled "Area Churches Work For Peace" which describes as the goal of "an increasing number of Christian churches ..." the achieving of peace.
One of this conclave's participants, Rev Jack Bremer of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, suggested that Christians refuse, in the words of UDK reporter Douglas Farah, "to give any support to the arms race because it is contrary to the non-violence exemplified by Christ."
Rev. Robert Freitag of West Side Presbyterian Church said of his denomination's decision to make peace the issue of the 1980s:
has an obligation to speak out. If something has moral and ethical implications, who's going to if the
church doesn't?
We are to live in the world as Christians. The church
moral and ethical implications, who's going to if the church doesn't?12
Rev. Mark Hoeller of the University Lutheran Church noted that peace "isn't just a political issue" because of "the Christian principle of the sanctity of human life" while Mr. John Linscheid of the Lawrence Mennonite Fellowship felt that the influence and power of the military was leading some to wonder "how we can be Christians and live in this society."
During this conference, which was inspired by thoughts of, in UDK reporter Farah's words, "peace, nuclear disarmament and the church's role in the world," each of these four clergymen discussed how a Christian should respond to both any governmentally-ordered preparations for or display of violence. As an individual who is also concerned about violence, I would like to ask each of these four clergymen how a Christian should respond to the governmentally-supported act of oppression called an abortion.
Abortion—which, in 1973, the Supreme Court held to be a woman's civil right—is a topic which renders mute many of our most articulate citizens. On January 22, 1976, for instance, a few persevering members of the Right to Life movement wring from Secretary of Social and Rehabilitation Services Harder the admission that he had permitted state tax revenues to be used to compensate the killers of unborn children since 1970 (when abortion became legal in Kansas) even though the legislature had never granted him any such authority.
Ms. Quinlan begins by acknowledging that the Supreme Court's refusal to recognize the humanity of the unborn child is being undermined by "the mounting scientific documentation the unborn experience pain during abortion." Medical evidence presented in the Illinois case, Charles vs. Carey, established that
To what could this reluctance to discuss abortion be due? In the May 26, 1983 issue of the National Right to Life News, an article entitled "Fetal Pain and Abortion: The Evidence Mounts" by Americans United For Life member Maura K. Quinlan probably answers this question.
the unborn child certainly senses organic pain from
at least 13 1/2 weeks ... (and possibly) as early as
Ms. Quinlan then briefly describes the dismembrement process known as a dilation and evacuation in which "the slicing and crushing ... (brings to the intruderine being) unbelievable pain" and the salt poisoning method that "appears to burn away the upper skin layers as well as the mouth and esophagus (of) ... the unborn child."
eight weeks ... gestation until birth.
The aforementioned are just two forms of the abortion procedure which always pits an Industrious abortionist equipped to kill against a helpless baby trying to live in a one-sided battle that has claimed far more both national and international victims than any other type of violence.
Is abortion an expression of "the non-violence exemplified by Christ" and "the Christian principle of the sanctity of human life"? Or could it be that the carnage continues because the controversy's most important question (here phrased by Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Willke in their Handbook On Abortion)—"What right does a mother have to impose her morality upon her unborn child ... fatally?"—remains unanswered.
I'd appreciate learning how each of our four local pilgrims of peace publicly responds to these questions.
William Dann
2702 West 24th St. Terr.
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