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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, March 24,1983 Vol. 93,No.120 USPS 650-640
Reagan plans new nuclear defense system
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan called yesterday for a crash effort to develop a space-age protective umbrella to destroy enemy missiles and missile systems on retaliation as a deterrent to nuclear war.
Reagan, in a nationally televised address delivered from the Oval Office, gave no concrete details about the system that could range from missiles to laser beams — but called his proposal a "new hope for our children in the 21st century."
HE CALLED ON THE scientists "who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace; to give us the nuclear rendering these nuclear weapons impertinent."
Reagan said, "The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We will never be a villain."
defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace."
The dramatic proposal, in an address geared to defend his military spending plans, was described by White House aides as a big shift in U.S. strategic policy from dependence on retaliating with nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet first strike.
"I am directing a comprehensive and intensive effort to define a long-term research
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and development program to begin to achieve our ultimate goal of eliminating the threat posed by strategic nuclear missiles," he said.
"This could pave the way for arms control measures to eliminate the weapons themselves. Our only purpose — all one people share — is to provide for ways to reduce the danger of nuclear war."
IN A SPIRITED DEFENSE of his call for nearly $239 billion for the Pentagon next year,
Reagan cited a growing. Soviet threat to American interest around the world.
To buttress his case, the president displayed a series of top secret photographs of Soviet military hardware and installations in Central America and the Caribbean. The black-and-white pictures were labeled by the White House with legends such as "Soviet anti-aircraft gun"
Also flashed on the screen were colored bar graphs and charts detailing Soviet and U.S. weapons production.
REAGAN SAID HE WAS "appalled" by the condition of the U.S. military when he took office and said his modernization plans were vital.
"This adds up to a major effort, and it is not cheap," he said, arguing that calls for cuts in defense spending are based on "simple arithmetic."
"they're the same kind of talk that led the democracies to neglect their defense in the 1930s and invited the tragedy of World War II.
"The budget request that is now before Congress has been trimmed to the limits of safety," the president said. "Further, deep cuts cannot be made without seriously endangering our national security or the men and women we have elected to Congress, and that means the choice is up to you."
Administration officials acknowledged that the strategic policy shift is undefined and said that decisions on the direction and structure of the program would be made in coming months.
IN PASSING, REAGAN also criticized the nuclear freeze movement, saying, "A freeze now would make us less, more secure, and would raise, not reduce, the risks of war."
"What is launched today is a search for a plan," one official said. "But the motive that has led the president to this point is his commitment to provide hope that there is an alternative to the inexorable requirement for building, deploying modern, ready nuclear offensive weapons."
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Senators clash over Carlin's high-tech allocation
Rv. IEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Three state senators yesterday lashed out at Gov. John Carlin's proposed $1.5 million grant to Board of Regents universities for high-technology development.
Instead of using the $1.5 million for high-tech development, the senators said the money should be used to finance other operating expenses, also referred to as IOE, at the university.
Carlin asked the Legislature in January to allocate $1.5 million to the Board of Regents for improvements of high technology resources at the universities.
DEBATE ABOUT CARLIN'S proposal arose yesterday during the Senate Ways and Means
Committee's review of the Regeuts bill the Home passed last week
One of the critics, State Sen. Frank Gaines,
D-Augusta, said faculty members had complained to him about shortages in teaching materials.
"It gets to the point where it it's ridiculous," he said. "We'd be better off to serve the mission of the universities than to throw $1.5 million in an unorganized manner."
However, Senate Minority Leader Jack Steinger, D-Kansas City, said Carlin's high tech proposal would help bring employers to the state.
"I think over the years we've pared OOE down and nearly pared it away," he said. "But we're still back in the Dark Ages if we don't get on top of this, if we are not smart enough to recognize there is a basic change taking place in this country."
STEINEGER DEMANDS on high tech manufacturers had created new jobs in such states as California and North Carolina. He said Kansas should pursue industries that could generate jobs for the state's unemployed workers.
State Sen, Paul Hess, R-Wichita, agreed that the state must bring in new industries but said Regents universities historically had been hit the hardest by budget reductions.
Gaines and Sen. Joe Warren, D-Maple City,
predicted that the $1.5 million would be
redistributed to the operating expenses budget.
In its Regents budget recommendation, the House approved an increase of 5.5 percent in OOE for the universities, instead of the Regents' requested 7 percent.
increases for utilities and allocations for the University of Kansas Medical Center.
FACULTY AND STUDENT salary increases were deleted from the House bill, along with
Salaries, utility increases, and the Med Center budget will be considered in separate legislation.
Warren criticized the House's 5.5 percent OEE increase and said the Legislature should provide money for the Regents universities 'basic needs.
Warren told the Ways and Means Committee that the University of Kansas, because of depleted finances, was unable to install two computers that were gifts from private firms.
STATE SEN, WINT Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, who sided with Gaines and Warren in their criticism of Carlin, said the governor had removed money from the Regents Instructional Equipment Fund to finance his $1.5 million high-tech request.
The Ways and Means Committee today will hear further testimony on the House's budget proposal for Regents universities.
Vascular failure ends Clark's life
By United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — Barney Clark died yesterday of circulatory collapse in his 1128 day of life on the world's first permanent artificial heart.
Clark auffered a big setback yesterday when the blood flow from his Jarvik-he heart dropped to 20 percent.
John Dwain, spokesman for the University of Utah Medical Center, said the primary cause of death was circulatory collapse and, secondarily, multiple organ systems failure.
The 62-year-old heart patient was rushed into intensive care, and his condition was downgraded from fair to critical after doctors failed to determine the cause of the problem.
Chase Peterson, vice president for health services at the University of Utah Medical Center, said at a briefing last night that doctors were worried that Clark was suffering from an infarction — or death of tissue due to blood loss — in his bowel.
THE SETBACK WAS a turning point for Clark, who had been listed in fair condition since the 1970s.
Doctors believed the outflow disruption could have been caused by blood clots, he said, or a vascular spasm of the pulmonary artery, which connects the manmade heart with the lung.
Clark's vascular system, overloaded by a low urine output, could have caused a spasm similar to a muscle spasm brought on by stress, he said.
PETERSON SAID CLARK already was suffering from a bacterial infection of the colon, a generalized viral infection, falling kidneys and high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery.
Officials said the heart did not cause the death. Helen Kee, hospital nursing administrator, said, "His body had died, and the heart was turned off subsequent to that."
Clark's wife, Una Loy, was not present at the time of death.
"She was saddened but she was prepared for it, because he began to fail very rapidly earlier this evening," Dwan said.
Soviet decision on Relays due today
Sports Writer
By BOR LUDER
An announcement that the Soviet Union has reconsidered an invitation to the Kansas Relays and will send a team of track and field athletes to Lawrence for the meet is expected this afternoon.
today. KU head track coach Bob Timmons declined comment until then.
A press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m.
"Negotiations are very delicate right now, but signs are hopeful." Mark Scott, executive director of Athletes United for Peace, said yesterday.
However, after the invitation had been declined, the AUP received help from Sergel
TWO WEKES AGO, members of Athletes United for Peace, a local organization that extended a Relays invitation to the Soviet Union, received a telex from the Soviet government in Moscow informing them that the Russian team would be unable to compete at the Relays because of prior scheduling and training commitments. The AUP's three months of work on the project appeared to have failed
Guskov, New York correspondent from a Soviet daily sports publication, *Sovetskiy Sport*, who, according to Scott, he would work hard to change the Soviet government's
Scott also said that they received support from Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
AT THE PROMPTING of Sam Maaledie, an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Kennedy wrote a letter to the Soviet government urging it to reconsider the invitation.
Woman hopes for cure with rare transplant
Romera Whitford, candidate for a heart-lung transplant, stands next to a trophy that one of her show horses won at the 27th National Appaloosa Show. Whitford, who breeds the horses, has had to sell all but three of her 31 horses to help pay medical expenses.
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
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She leans forward in her chair and adjusts the oxygen tubes that are inserted in her nose. Dressed in a faded orange sweatshirt and blue skirt, she wears a black affection she has endured since she was born.
AFTER A LIFETIME of being examined by some of the finest doctors in the country, Whitford has been told that medical science can be a "scientific experiment" in which experimental heart-lung transplant operation.
She is Romera Whitford of Baldwin City, 40, who is second in line to receive a heart and lung transplant from Dr. Dentton Cooley, a man who pioneered heart transplant operations in the 1960s.
Running a thin hand through her short blond hair, she smiles and says, "People are as interested in my chest as they are in Dolly Parton's, but for all the wrong reasons."
With transplant operations, she said, the greatest danger to the patient is that he will die after the operation from something such as a common cold because his immune system is not working properly. Cycloporin will keep the system partially intact after the operation
WHITFORD NEEDS THE operation to combat Elsieminger's disease, or holes in her heart. The holes cause the blood in her heart to leak, forcing it to work harder to pump enough blood. The extra strain on Whitford's heart has caused the arteries in her lungs to harden. A broken lung would not heal because her weak lungs probably would not stand the strain.
To be admitted to the hospital for the heart-lung operation, Whiford must present a $10,000 certified check at the door, she said. And the doctor will treat her and treatment will add up to $80,000.
Three earlier heart-lung operations have been attempted at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, where the operation will take place, but none have been successful.
But Whitford says that a new drug, called cyclosporin, has been developed and that it could cause her to become "the best little transplant in Texas."
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Her health has now deteriorated to the point that she must use a wheelchair and breathe pure air.
The low tonight will be in the low 30s.
Today will be cloudy and cold with a high
in the 40s, according to the National
Air Quality Index.
The low temperature will continue Cloudy and cold conditions will continue until tomorrow. Temperatures are expected to remain in the mid-40%.
ROTC returning strong after early '70s decline
By SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
Nerves were tense on the University of Kansas campus in the spring of 1970. Anti-Vietnam War sentiments were at a fierce pitch.
Protesters tried to burn the military science building and sent stones crashing through its windows. Students jeered at and attacked them, shouting, "Boycott the mishmiden as they walked to class in uniform."
AFTER A WEEK OF particularly intense violence on campus, the administration decided to call off the military's tri-Ti-Service Review in Memorial Stadium. The review had been picked by anti-tri- and anti-ROTC officers, resulting in the suspension of several students.
Last spring, for the first time since 1960, the military held its review and it was notably
Student antipathy toward the military appears to have been replaced by apathy on the RU
Now, almost a decade and a half after the height of protest about American involvement in the Vietnam War, most KU students are not to past discontent with the NOTC programs.
In the early 1970s, administrators and faculty members considered changing the academic requirements for the ROTC program or removing it from campus entirely.
While enrollment in ROTC has skyrocketed nationwide, enrollment at KU has only steadily increased.
TROY MELLON, MILLIKEN, Colo., sophomore and a NAVAL Robot midshipman, said, "People are more accepting of it now. When you wear your uniform for the first time, people look at you kind of strange, but then they act like, 'it's his business, who cares.'"
Although cadets and midshipmen now wear their uniforms on campus without fear, KU is not keeping pace with a nationwide increase in RQTCE enrollment.
Air Force ROTC enrollment bottomed in 1976 with 18,579 cadets nationwide. The number has gradually increased to 25,500, a 33 percent increase from the year before. The higher than it was before the end of the draft.
NATIONWIDE, MARINE and Navy recruiting
Nationwide interest in ROTC programs has increased greatly in the last 10 years. In 1973, the year the draft was abolished, Army ROTC enrollment plummeted to 33,000, about one-sixth of all officers. By 1985, fewer than 16,000 had been in 106,000. Now there are 75,005 cadets in AROTC, a 127 percent increase since 1973.
has also rapidly increased. In 1982, the Navy exceeded its recruiting goals for both officers and enlisted men.
Between 1974 and 1979, the number of students enrolled in Army ROTC at KU greatly increased. But since 1979, enrollment has increased 31 percent, from 260 to 340.
Ll. Col, Edward W. Eldison, professor of Army ROTC, said he had seen a steady but not a tremendous increase in interest in ROTC by students in the last few years.
The Army has a strong program at KU, he said. But although the number of cadets in the program might continue to increase, KU ROTC will never provide 50 officers a year.
The program now produces 25.30 officers a year.
LT. COL, DAVID Amye, associate professor of naval science, said that the number of students enrolled in Navy ROTC at KU had stayed at about 120 for the past five years.
Lt. Col. Charles W. Moseley, professor of Air Force ROTC, said that during the draft in the mid 1960s, Air Force ROTC enrollment at KU had been about 150-200.
When the draft was abolished in the early '70s, enrollment plummeted to about 50 cadets and stayed at that number until about five years ago. Now, he said, 89 cadets are enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program at KU. That is an increase of more than one-fifth the number of cadets that were enrolled in the '60s.
"KU is at the back end of the cycle," he said. "We will probably see more of an increase in the next few years."
All three men cite a national mood change as one reason ROTC enrollment and acceptance are lowered.
AMKEY SAID, "The mood of the country has changed. We have returned to the basics, and a
Eidson said, "You have to ask why Reagan got elected. Maybe people think it'a time for a more
Mosley said, "The mood of the country has shifted more to the middle now. A wider range of activities and organizations are acceptable on campus."
The government has spent thousands of dollars through the ROTC program this year to send young students to college. Those students must serve in four years of active military induction.
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