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University Daily Kansan, August 25, 1983
Computers to aid police
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Once October arrives, neither Jim Denney, director of KU police, nor his staff will have to dig through the records. The police and statistics and personnel records.
That's because the department will be receiving three IBM computer terminals it purchased in June to speed up the process of finding and filing information in the department.
The information will range from non-criminal and criminal statistics to personnel records and traffic statistics.
"I'm estatic about it." Denney said yesterday. "I'm really happy we're getting the computer."
The $24,000 system purchased by the department will include a controller and printer and will feed computers at KU's Computer Center.
wait for a computer hasn't been an easy one, and it has had to make some sacrifices to make way for new technology.
The department's seven-year
he said the department first started working toward a computer system when it made its first request to the state in 1976. At that time, a computer would have cost $40,000.
To get the money for the computer, Denney said, the KU force gave up replacing patrol cars and squeezed more money from the regular 1982 operating budget by cutting other normal expenditures.
While Denne and his staff expect to start feeding data into the system in early October, he said, initial operation of the system will depend on Ian because the department figures its statistics on a calendar year.
He said he and six other staff members using the computers would need that time, anyway, to learn how to operate the system and to store much of the data.
SUA events director seeks variety in live music at KU
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
Every campus has music. It has to have music; people need music, said Fran Macferran, new special events director at Student Union Activities.
Music is Macferran's specialty. He knows about jazz and rock and progressive music, and he wants to bring more of it to the University of Kansas.
"Progressive music is coming to the campus," Maccrannon said. "I like to call it progressive music. I hate to call it new wave or punk, but that is the gist
As special events director, he is in charge of scheduling concerts on campus. Macterran signed The Alarm, a progressive rock band from Wales, to play at KU on Sept. 12 in the Kansas Union ballroom. The band has a hit single, "The Stand," that is climbing the charts.
COLLEGE CAMPUSES are usually good markets for popular bands. Macerian the big name been missed from KU for the last three or four years.
He said that Allen Field House, the most practical place for a large concert, lacked the facilities to hang music systems used by most of the bands.
During the past two years, SUA has had to turn down shows by James Taylor; ZZ Top; the Go-Go's; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Neil Young; Styx; Yes, and Earth, Wind and Fire.
Macterian has other plans for KU students, though.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
AUDITIONS FOR THE Jayhawk Singers will be at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
AN EPISCOPAL EUCHARIST serv-
ice at Dantignor Chapel,
Dantignor Church.
THE KU GERMAN CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in Murphy Hall.
TOMORROW
SUA WILL SHOW the film "The General" at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Union.
THE AD ASTRA L-5 SOCIETY will not
meet on Wednesday in the Council Room
of the Union.
CALL-BACK AUDITIONS for the
University Theatre season will be at 7pm in Murphy Hall.
THE ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN Ministries Center will sponsor a two-day fall retreat at Camp Chippewa with the CFP built in Off-the-Hook World."
SUA WILL PRESENT "Tex" at 3:30 and 9:30 p.m. "The Missionary" at 7 p.m. "Divine Madness" at midnight in Woodruff Auditorium.
THE UNIVERSITY FILM Society will present the film "Young Frankenstein" at 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and midnight.
Powell denies execution stay
By United Press International
ATLANTA — Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell refused to remove the stay of execution for would-be Mafia hit man John Eldon Smith yesterday, noting with exasperation that it was the Smith's case had been reviewed.
Smith, 52, had been scheduled to die in Georgia's electric chair this morning until he won a stay Tuesday from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court has have denied a federal right that required consideration on its merit."
But Powell, in his two-page ruling issued late yesterday in Washington, said "it is not clear to me that the Court of Appeals is correct in thinking that substantial issues may remain for further consideration."
"But in the present posture of the case, the question before me . . . is whether the Court of Appeals has abused its discretion in granting a temporary stay pending a hearing on this case. I am not able so to conclude."
Powell denied the state's plea to allow the execution, but he clearly was not happy with it.
"The case appears to be another example of last minute presentation of issues previously considered or issues that may well have been raised at an earlier date," said Powell. He noted that it was the fourth time the Supreme Court heard "and" apart from rehearings, this case has been reviewed 16 times by state and federal courts since Smith's conviction in 1975."
Smith was convicted of the Aug. 31, 1974, shotgun murders of his wife's former husband, Ronald Akins, and Akins' new bride, Juanta Knight Akins, at a construction site near Macon.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the execution yesterday and returned the case to a lower court for a hearing on evidence.
Mattheson, 62, a Boston man convicted of killing a 75-year-old beauty parlor receptionist during a March 1970 attack on the room was to die early tomorrow morning.
The court indicated it had stopped the execution largely because the death penalty was involved.
In New Orleans, a federal appeals court yesterday halted the execution of condemned killer Howard Mattheson, the third Louisiana death row inmate in as many weeks to come within 36 hours of electrocution.
The court said only one of five issues raised by Matthewson's lawyer had come close to permitting further proceedings. The judge also recently rebecciated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
United Press International
U. S. and Egyptian troops, backed by M-60 tanks, assault a mock enemy airfield yesterday in the final phase of joint military maneuvers called "Bright Star 83."
Officials hail troop manuevers
By United Press International
WESTERN DESERT, Egypt — U.S. and Egyptian troops, backed by tanks and fighter jets, attacked a mock enemy airfield yesterday in maneuvers hailed as proof the United States can defend its vital interests "in a matter of days." The exercise, the final phase in the Star 39' maneuvers, took place in the flat desert terrain some 31 miles west of Cairo before dozens of foreign military observers, reporters and U.S. and Egyptian officials.
The maneuvers were held in the Western Desert to simulate conditions in the Persian Gulf, where the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force could intervene to defend oil fields and strategic waterways.
"We are very pleased with the way we can rapidly deploy and move fast in a matter of days," said L. Gen. Robert Kinston, head of the U.S., Central Command.
"We have improved considerably in the last three years in moving our forces where we need them, fast."
Another ranking U.S. military officer said the monthlong maneuvers "should be a warning to the Soviets that we can get troops where we want them quickly, and get there before they do."
"Bright Star 83" will officially end Sept. 10 — with the rest of the time being spent getting some 5,500 U.S. military personnel, M-60 tanks, and reconnaissance helicopters and jet fighters back to the United States.
Kingston, accompanied by Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel-Halim Abu-Ghazala, viewed the maneuvers from a shaded tent at a small ridge overlooking the target of the assault, and opened airfield scored by hostile troops.
Egyptian Mirage jets screeched overhead in reconnaissance, followed by waves of U.S. and Egyptian Cobra attack helicopters and Egyptian F-16s that "softened up" enemy positions with low sweeps in mock air strikes.
Eight C-130 transports dropped paratroops — 200 Americans and 100 Egyptians — as Egyptian F-16s, F-6s and Sukhoi fighters provided cover fire. The paratroops joined a long column of
M-60 tanks, armored personnel carriers and halftracks for the assault on the airfield.
No U.S. warplanes were involved in yesterday's exercise, though American F-168, F-111s, B-52 bombers and two Airborne Warning and Control System radar plans took part in earlier maneuvers.
The paratroops had dwn to Egypt from the Sudan, where they participated in the "Natural Bond" maneuvers with Sudanese forces.
Despite criticism from other Arab states, Abu-Gazala defended the maneuvers and said similar could "addestion" toddlers "next year and the year after that."
"Why is there always criticism of this kind of relationship, when there are others in the area who are in more deep with other superpowers?" he asked.
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy has denounced the maneuvers, calling them imperialist intervention and a threat to Africa.
"Your hear a lot of Arab talk, talk, talk," he said. "We are friends with the United States and don't have any sensitivity to all this talk."
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