University Daily Kansan, March 24, 1983
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Adelman misled panel critics say
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Critics say a confidential memo made public by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday that calls for a housecleaning in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency hurts Kenneth Adelman's chances for confirmation as agency director.
The panel voted 11-6 to release the memo sent by arms control negotiator Edward Rowny to Adelman, but the panel deleted the names of 18 officials the memo criticizes or seeks to have fired.
OPPONENTS OF Adelman's nomination said the memo showed he had misled the committee when he denied reports that he was considering a purge in the agency. The committee already has recommended that the Senate reject President Reagan's nomination of Adelman.
"ACDA needs a housecleaning — the lack of quality is appalling, ACDA personnel system is too small," the memo said.
"ACDA needlessly top-heavy — extra deputy directors in bureaus; deadwood near the top, the memo reads — we need serious redirection — is drifting."
The committee acted after meeting in closed session with Secretary of State George Shultz, who expressed concern about the effect of making the memo public but left it to the committee to decide how to handle the matter.
ROWNY, A RETIRED Army lieutenant general who is the chief U.S. delegate to Strategic Arms Reduction Act and gave the memo to Adelman in January.
In testimony before the committee after receiving the memo, Adelman dismissed reports of a planned purge of the agency and indicated he had not thought about personnel matters. He later said he had turned the Rowyn memo over to an associate to be dealt with; he was confirmed by the Senate.
sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calf,
charged it was 'very, very plain that
it is wrong,' he said.
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Byrne cancels mayoral bid
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The decision leaves the race to Rep. Harold Washington, a Democrat who defeated Byrne in the Peb. Race and Republican Bernard Epton.
CHICAGO — Mayor Jane Byrne yesterday withdrew as a write-in candidate in the April 12 general mayoral election, saying a long, drawn-out legal battle to change the ballot would make a successful campaign impossible.
BYRNE HAD endorsed Washington shortly after the primary, but less than one month later announced
she was mounting, a write-in bio because neither Washington nor Epton had come up with a solid plan to lead the city.
In a statement hand-delivered to the City News Bureau of Chicago, a local wire service, Byrne said her withdraw was a result of her failure to gain what she thought were necessary changes on the inside of the ballot flap.
Bryne's surprise announcement came hours after Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Democratic Party leaders from 13 Southern states endorsed Washington in the race.
No one injured in blaze Family watches fire gut home
A fire gutted a house about five miles southwest of town on County Road 458, but no one was injured in the blaze, the fire department said last night. Fire Department said last night.
Chief Clarence Anderson said the fire appeared to have started at about 7:30 p.m. around the fireplace and had spread throughout the house.
He said that the interior of the house, owned by Elwood Wiggins, had been gutted but that he did not know the amount of the damage.
family, said the house had and received a lot of smoke and water damage.
Robert Johnson, the owner's son-in-law who lives in the house with his
NO ONE WAS in the two-story wood frame structure at the time of the fire, he said.
"I was working with my son in the shop," he said. "My wife came home from work and ran out to the barn yelling that the house was on fire."
About a dozen neighbors were around
the house to help the Johnson while their house burned.
The family's washer and dryer had been moved onto the tawn near the barn.
Anderson said that the Wakarusa Township Fire Department had also responded to the fire.
FIREFIGHTERS FROM the two departments fought the fire for about two hours, he said.
He said that the firefighters did not encounter any serious problems in fighting the fire.
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