University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, February 17, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 100 USPS 650-640
Reagan says jobs plan more than quick fix
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that economic recovery was "flexing its muscles," but too many unemployed Americans were suffering the lingering pain of the recession and he vowed quick action on a new jobs plan.
Reagan told a news conference that he hoped to work out a compromise in a few days with congressional Democrats on his $4.3 billion plan to boost employment by speeding up federal construction work. He expressed hope the final package would be on his desk by March.
BUT THE JOBS program would not be "just a quick fix" to trim the nation's 10.4 percent unemployment rate, he said. The president's initial plan would create nearly a half-million jobs. There are 11.4 million Americans out of work.
In an opening statement, the president took note of new economic indicators announced yesterday — a nearly 36 percent rise in housing starts from December to January and a 0.9 percent increase in factory production last month—and said, "As a result of the economic program already in place, the recovery is beginning to flex its muscles.
"But far too many Americans are still unemployed. The question before us, of course, is how to ease the burden upon us without jeopardizing the economic recovery."
REAGAN OUT-LINED his plan to speed up already-planned building projects worth $4.7 billion to provide 470,000 jobs, and add $2.9 billion to fund supplementary unemployment insurance for workers whose benefits have run out, and
add $300 million in "humanitarian relief."
He stressed the plan would have a "minimal net impact on budget deficits," because "we would be spending more now and less later."
Democrats in Congress have endorsed Reagan's package but want to go further, especially in terms of providing more relief to the suffering — by adding about $1 billion for summer youth jobs, nutrition aid for mothers and children and weatherization.
REAGAN SAID those concerns would be addressed in the group of proposals he
Intensive negotiations have been conducted between the White House and Capitol Hill on the package, and Reagan said progress has been made.
would send to Congress later. They would provide tax breaks to business for hiring the longer-term jobless and also help workers displaced by changing technology.
"I can't say we have agreed on every comma and period, but they have been very receptive," he said.
Asked if he retained confidence in Environmental Protection Agency administrator Anne Gorsuch, the president replied, "I certainly do"
HE SAID THE "splendid record" of the EPA was being overlooked in a "flurry of accusations." Recently charges were made that the agency had been too cozy with the firms it was supposed to compel to clean up dangerous waste dumps. This led less than the prosecution to the complaint. The Lafarge, who handled administration of the $1.6 billion "Superior toxic waste operation.
Defending his claim of executive privilege in ordering Gorsuch to withhold the documents demanded by a House subcommittee, Reagan said, "We made available 800,000 documents and
less than 100" were held back because they dealt with cases in litigation.
REAGAN NOTED negotiations with House members to work out a compromise on the material, but said, "We can no longer use executive privilege if there is a suspicion of covering up wro咕do."
"Traditionally, that makes them eligible for executive privilege," he said, referring to the doctrine under which the executive branch of the government must keep its internal communications secret.
On arms control, Reagan said his "zero option" arms control proposed represented the "moral high ground" in talks with the Soviet Union.
The "zero option" calls for the United States to call off deployment of new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe in return for the Soviets' removal of medium-range nuclear missiles aimed at NATO countries.
Senate passes rate increase for city water
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Despite the efforts of a local senator, the Kansas Senate voted yesterday to pass a bill that would more than double the price Lawrence would pay for water from Clinton Reservoir in 1988.
The bill, which amends the state's water storage plan act, would set the rate for 1,000 gallons of water from federal reservoirs at 14.27 cents. The city of Lawrence now pays 6.6 cents for every 1,000 gallons it takes from Clinton Reservoir.
state Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, proposed an amendment that would have exempted from the bill's provisions any existing water contracts with the state.
WINTER SAID that the bill should apply to new water contracts but that the state should not be allowed to change the statutes that governed existing contracts, such as the one Lawrence has written.
"The bill reaches back in time to change policies under which water contracts have been negotiated," he said.
But State Sen. Charlie Angel, R-Plains, said that the rate change called for in the bill was reasonable.
"The Water Authority created policy," Angeli said. "They did not know the price. The price is not set."
Angell is chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which drew up the bill with the help of the Kansas Water Authority.
THE BILL would replace the state's existing "first come, first served" policy governing water sales with a set of guidelines that would determine whether a sale was in the interest of
The city's 40-year contract with the state for water from Clinton, which was drawn up in 1972, had been terminated on May 8.
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State Rep. David J. Heinemann, R-Garden City, examines an electrical plotter at the Kansas Geological Survey. Heinemann was one of about 15 members of the House Energy and Natural
Resources Committee who toured the survey on West Campus yesterday. See related page 6.
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Senate plan would cut pay raise
TOPEKA — A Kansas Senate subcommittee's proposal this week would keep thousands of state welfare recipients on the payroll, but may force the reduction of salary increases for KU faculty and classified employees, two senators said yesterday.
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
The proposal may reduce the increases in budgets of state agencies and the 4 percent salary increases for Board of Regents faculty in government positions. The proposal is proposed by Gov. John Carlino, the senators said.
ALSO, PROPOSED 8 percent increases in secondary teacher salaries could suffer blows; they said.
But the state will look at reductions in state agency budgets before reducing salary increases, said Hess and State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta.
Hess is chairman and Gaines is a member of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. They said it was too early to begin worrying about how the Senate would transfer money into the general assistance fund.
vames and Hess, along with Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, were the three senators who comprised the Ways and Means committee that decided not to drop the 4,400 recipients.
they said. State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said that some areas in the budget must be reduced before the general assistance fund is drained.
Govern John Carlin had proposed in January that more than 4,000 welfare recipients be dropped from general assistance on April 1. A final $100 check would have been paid to those who were
U.S. sends troops to Egypt after Libyan buildup
AND TUESDAY, the House Ways and Means Committee opened the door for reductions in the number of welfare recipients by voting to give the secretary of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services the power to drop people from general assistance.
Gaines said the state needed to reconsider proposed increases in state agencies' budgets so that no one would be dropped from general assistance.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States, in response to a Libyan military buildup along the border with Sudan, sent four airborne command posts to Egypt and moved the aircraft carrier Nimitz to the central Mediterranean, defense officials said yesterday.
BUT, THE president said, "We're well aware of Libya's attempt to destabilize (the region)."<sup>14</sup>
President Reagan acknowledged at his news conference last night that the planes and the carrier were in the area, but said they were there for routine exercises with Egyptian forces.
"This is not an unusual happen," he said of the presence in Egypt of the Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. "This is an exercise we've done before, that we will do again."
between 12 and 15 fighter-bombers to its southeastern border with Sudan beginning about a week ago, the officials said. The officials did not know the extent of the Libyan buildup of ground forces.
in response, Egypt sent a handful of fighters to its own border with Sudan and asked the United Nations to help them.
Libya sent additional ground troops and
Washington dispatched four AWACS to Egypt from their headquarters at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., to aid the Egypians in monitoring Libyan air activity, they said.
"The primary use of the AWACS is to detect the movement of Libyan aircraft," one official said.
DEFENSE SOURCES said Reagan played down the dispatch of U.S. forces to the region because he did not want to provoke a confrontation with Libya.
While it was possible the Nimitz was sent to the Gulf of Sidra for exercises, the "AWACS were
sent there (to Egypt) purposely because of the perceived threat," one source said.
Asked whether American forces would be used to stop Libyan roar Moamman Khadify from invading Sudan, Reagan said. "I don't think there’s any occasion for that."
Administration officials said earlier Reagan had approved the decision during the weekend to dispatch the Nimitz from its station off the Lebanese coast to waters near Libya and to send
The nuclear-powered Nimitz, which had been protecting the 1,800 Marines posted in Lebanon as part of the war against ISIS peace-keeping force, was in the Gulf of Sidra yesterday morning, defense-officials said. But by evening it had moved back into the Mediterranean, they said.
In July 1981, two F-14 fighters aboard the Nimitz shot down two Soviet-built Libyan Sukhoi 22 fighters that fired missiles at them during U2. S Navy exercises in the Gulf of Sidra.
KHADAFY CLAIMS the gulf as Libyan while
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the United States considers it international waters where American warships can exercise.
"This is an exercise that is held annually by our Navy and part of the force was deployed narrowly in the Gulf of Sinai. The daemon said they had a right to defend themselves," said they have, a right to defend themselves."
Egypt is committed to the support of the Sudanese regime of President Jaffar Numeir and would likely come to its aid if attacked, the defense officials said.
Western Civ regains TA hiring power
Bu DAVID POWLS
Staff Reporter
Officials in the departments of history and philosophy have agreed to return some authority to appoint graduate teaching assistants to the Western Civilization program, KU officials said yesterday.
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But the fate of a trial project begin last spring that took money from the Western Civilization budget and gave it to the philosophy and history departments is still uncertain.
"We've argued the matter a great deal," said James Seaver, director of the Western Civilization program. "And we were not making part of our budget line has been taken away."
"But the college has determined that this type of thing is necessary because of the cutbacks."
The project transferred 30 percent
of Western Civilization's
history to a new curriculum
budget in 1985 and history
to a new curriculum.
THAT MONEY WAS used to support graduate students in the history and philosophy departments who agreed to teach sections of Western Civilization. However, the graduate assistants were appointed by the history and philosophy departments.
As a result, the philosophy and history departments each gained five graduate assistant positions this school year, and the Western Civilization program lost direct control over part
or his program.
Vice President, assistant director of the Western Civilization program, said the current agreement, completed last week, was temporary and still required that five instructors each from the history and philosophy departments be present.
BUT IT RETURNS the appointment power to Western Civilization officials, he said.
Western Civilization instructors are chosen from graduate student applicants from all departments, he said.
"The drawback to the agreement is that sometimes we will have to pass up our best candidates and hire alternates because they come from a particular department," he said.
He said a Western Civilization committee would protest the budget transfer at this spring's College Assembly, where faculty in the college discuss problems encountered during the year.
VanZandt said last spring's budget change was made arbitrarily and without the knowledge of all the stakeholders.
BUT ROBERT Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the budget transfer had enabled the Western Civilization program to advance the history and bibliology department strong.
VanZandt said that for as long as possible, the program would continue its informal commitment to rehire its teachers for a maximum of four years.
Norman Saul, chairman of the history department, said the new agreement with the Western Civilization program was in the project's best interest.
"It will keep us better informed of activities and requirements in Western Civilization," he said, "and it is a better coordination of funds."
ANTHONY GENOVA, chairman of the philosophy department, said the project was working well now because of the new agreement.
"As far as I can tell, the problem was resolved when we accepted the proposal," he said.
The ideal place for a graduate student is in his own department, he said, but sometimes a department does not have enough introductory courses for all of its graduate students to teach.
Lineberry said that similar projects to help guarantee teaching positions for graduate students — although not necessarily in their own departments — were probable in the future.
"Departments like mathematics and computer science informally borrow graduate students in other departments now," he said. "We should make our money do double duty."
Genova said the microbiology department was an example of a small department that sometimes did not have enough courses for its graduate students to teach.
"If that department could guarantee teaching positions for its graduate students in other areas, then the department would have more support and other programs wouldn't have to be eliminated," Genova said. "I'm sure there are some bright graduate students in that department who could teach introductory mathematics or philosophy."
But Saul said he didn't think the Western Civilization mode could be expanded to other nations.
"I think our situation is unique." he said.
Today will be sunny with the high in the upper 35s to law 30s. Winds will be from the northwest.
Tenight will be fair. The low will be in the low to mid-20s.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high of 45 to 50.
Board requests student fee to help libraries buy books
Staff Reporter
Members of the University Senate Libraries Committee decided yesterday to ask the Student Senate to consider a voluntary student fee to help KU libraries pay for acquisitions.
By JENNIFER FINE
The committee will present its request to the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee.
The libraries' purchase of new books and the maintenance of periodical subscriptions is threatened by higher costs and shrinking budget allocations; and Clint Hoffman, assistant dean of
HOWARD SAID that although the library would probably stay within its budget for materials this year, getting enough money for the coming fiscal year would be a problem.
If the library does not receive money to meet
the increasing costs of materials, it will be forced to cancel some serials and refrain from buying books. Howard said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he would have to see the building on campus.
Any special fee to support academic services must be looked at carefully, he said.
A student fee would ultimately have to be approved by the chancellor and the Board of Trustees.
David Katzman, library committee chairman,
said the library had managed with 95 percent of
its budget year after Gov. John Carlin requested
a full-year tax in the budgets of Regents
universities.
IF THE LIBRARIES stay within the proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts in July, they will still have to cancel subscriptions and buy fewer books, he said.
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