The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, January 28, 1983 Vol. 93, No.86 USPS 650-640
Salvadoran rightist stripped of authority
Staff Reporter
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
The Salvadoran government could collapse if Constitution President Roberto d'Aubisson and his followers pull out of the National Assembly, a KU professor said yesterday.
D'Aubuissoin, regarded as the strongest right-wing politician in El Salvador, was stripped of most of his power as president of the constituent assembly yesterday.
A more moderate Christian Democratic Party could shift into control because d'Aubuison's powers were stripped, Charles Stansifer, professor of Latin American Studies, said.
"With this defeat it shifts the whole focus of the government to the middle," he said. "This would no doubt be the Christian Militia."
THE DISPUTE was triggered by d'Aubuisson's attempt to declare a lack of quorum for a vote to ratify the nomination of a new president candidate — as the new public health minister.
The provisional president is Alvaro Magana.
Leftist rebels stepped up a nationwide offensive with a fierce blitz on the main army garrison in the capital and in five surrounding suburbs, officials said.
The move was sparked by a dispute with moderate politicians in control of the cabinet and could split apart the U.S. engineered coalition that was formed in the elections.
It was the first guerrilla attack since the nationwide elections March 28 in which *d'Aubuisson* was named president and the heavy-fighting campaign said it was the heaviest, fighting in a year inside San Salvador.
Robert Oppenheimer, assistant professor of history, said the elections were a flasco.
"THERE IS VERY strong evidence that the elections were probably fraudulent. More people believe so."
Stansifer said the United States had drifted with the Salvadoran voters' support of the right-wing government since the national election.
The Reagan administration had been concerned about human rights violations and killings during d'Aubison's temporary rule, he said. Reagan recently issued a human rights
"I'm sure things have improved, but the Salvadoran government has a beck of a long way to go."
Congress required such a certification in order to continue directing military and economic aid to El Salvador, he said.
WITH SUPPORT from that aid, the constituent government has battled leftist guerrillas who do not support the government, he said.
The constituent assembly was elected in order to draw up a constitution, Stansiver said. El Salvador was then supposed to have another national election for permanent officials.
Stamifer said there had never been support for a rebellion, and the rebel forces now have no ground to defend.
Lawrence Moore, a former interregional adviser to the United Nations, was in San Salvador last fall on behalf of the United Nations to determine how the Salvadoran government was using food sent from the United Nations.
"It's very dubious who stands for what in El Salvador." Moore said. "The election was a sham."
Moore said the guerrillas had become active in the last few weeks.
"IT'S VERY difficult to say which of these parties represent the people's wishes."
Rebels attacked the San Carlos garrison in a northern section of the city and fought pitched battles with troops in Mejicanos and four other suburbs.
Residents said government troops were dispatched throughout the area to fend off the attack late Wednesday. At the height of the battle, the government used a helicopter gunship to strafe suspected rebel positions in the suburb of Soyamanan.
At least eight people died of gunshot wounds in the fighting, officials said.
Heavy fighting just six miles north of San Salvador also cut the main highway to Chalatenango and the Honduran border, officials said.
IN NORTHEASTERN Morazan province,
6,000 of the government's best troops were
See SALVADOR page 5
A stream that feeds Potter's Lake trickles through the snow-covered leaves yesterday afternoon.
Sales of hard liquor down in Kansas
Tonight will be in the mid-20s with a 20 percent chance of freezing rain.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid to upper-20s.
There is a 30 percent chance of freezing rain today and the high will be in the low to mid-30s, according to the National Weather Service. The high will be from the southwest at 10 to 20 mph.
By DON HENRY
Staff Reporter
Students might say that drinking is still the most popular pastime in Lawrence, but retail liquor store owners say that fewer people are participating.
Lawrence retail liquor sales were down in 1982, several liquor store owners said yesterday.
Alice Else, owner of Else's Liquor Store, 151
Seventh St., said, "I think people are buying
food."
Retail liquor dealers said a recent action by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board might hurt them more. The board cut the allowed price markup for wines and cordials sold in Kansas. The change will take effect July 1.
MICHAEL SARRAS, a control board member from Kansas City, said, "I think the consumer should get a break."
The new markup proposal will not affect hard liquor sales.
The current 45.5 percent markup on the retail sale of wine will drop to 40.5 percent in July. The
36. 5 percent cordial markup will drop to 31.5 percent.
per cent.
Cordials are liqueurs such as Kahlua. Hard liquors are distilled alcoholic beverages such as vodka and whiskey.
Sarras said the markup change would not hurt retailers because gross profit would remain
Cynthia McNicol, daughter of the owner of McNicol's Retail Liquor, 618 Arizona St., said she was disappointed that the company didn't have a phone.
But retailers still worry about hard liquor sales.
IN 1982, Kansans drank about 10,000 fewer gallons of hard liquor than in the year before, a decline of 3.9 percent, said Paul Sievers, executive director of the United States, in Washington, D.C.
Sievers said the liqueur industry's recent push for moderation in drinking liquor might have been the result of an over-reaction.
Combined sales of liqueur and wine were about the same as in 1981, he said.
But R.E. Duncan, counsel for the Kansas Wine and Spirits Association of Kansas, said that even case sales of liquor were down, the increase was offset by an increase in the sale of wine.
The reason for the decline in hard liquor sales was a combination of many factors, he said.
"IT'S A RESULT of taste changes," Duncan said.
"It's also a result of hard economic times."
"If it also a result of hard economic times, Nationwide, Sievers said, people drank about 8 billion fewer gallons of hard liquor during the first three quarters of 1982, a drop of 2.6 percent. Consumption fell from 312 billion gallons in 1981 to 304 billion in 1982.
Shipments from producers of beer, wine and spirits decreased by about 7 percent from 1981. Sievers said. However, he said, shipment figures could be deceptive because they were based on the number of shipped warehouses. Warehouses might be reducing their stocks because of the economy, he said.
The amount of money spent in Kansas on liquor actually increased by about 7 percent, or $14 million, from $205 million in 1981 to $219 million in 1982, said Coleman, spokesman for the Kansas Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Reagan gives himself kick for comment
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday he had given himself a swift kick for suggesting it might be time to abolish the corporate income tax, and aides moved to put
"I said yesterday I would kick myself for having said it, and I have," Reagan said less than 24 hours after floating the suggestion before a group of business executives in Bedford, Mass.
After making the comment Wednesday, Reagan said he had no plans to offer legislation abolishing the duty and deputy press secretary Robert McNamara, who represents the office of the cuff remark was "just a thought."
The White House yesterday removed any doubt.
The proposal, Speakes said, "ain't going to be looked at."
SENATE REPUBLICAN leader Howard Baker indicated the idea of abolishing the tax would have no chance on Capitol Hill. He said the proposal might have "some merit . . . but not
Speakes said reporters had filled incomplete stories on the suggestion because they were "jumping up and down" and "doing backflips" over the remark.
Speakes said that after he scolded the reporters yesterday morning, Reagan shook his hand for accurately reflecting the president's views.
Business leaders had hailed Reagan's suggestion but doubled Congress would support such a move.
The business leaders said consumers and workers were the ones who really ended up paying the cost of the corporate tax and the economy would be better off without it.
Many economists had endorsed the idea on grounds business simply passed the cost on to consumers in the form of higher prices. They said the tax also resulted in lower wages and fewer jobs for workers and smaller profits and dividends for shareholders.
RICHARD RAHN, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said, "President Reagan is absolutely correct. People pay taxes, and he will be a hard-sell now because of the deficits."
Rahn said eliminating the tax would bring about "higher levels of corporate investment" which would mean more job creation and more investment in the higher real per capita income for most people."
Mark Bloomfield, executive director of the American Council for Capital Formation, said, "It is a bad tax, because we do not know who really pays it."
Abolishing the tax would have eliminated the double taxation on corporate profits. Profits are first subject to the corporate income tax and then taxed again when distributed in dividends to shareholders who must pay personal income tax on the proceeds.
STOCK PRICES surged yesterday in a rally partially sparked by Reagan's suggestion.
The Dow Jones industrial average, which slipped 4.04 Wednesday, soared 25.66 to 1,063.65, the biggest rise since it climbed 26.03 Jan. 6. The Dow Jones index slumped since hitting a record 1,092.35 on Jan. 10.
The New York Stock Exchange index added 1.63 to 83.17 and the price of an average share increased by 0.59.
Big Board volume swelled to 88,120,000 shares from 73,720,000 traded Wednesday, the slowest session in three weeks.
Downtown committee favors two of four alternatives
Dabra Bates/KANSAN
John Stainback, manager of Houston office and director of urban design at Daniel, Mann, Johnson, Mendenhall, explained last night at City Hall the plan for the redevelopment of the downtown area.
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
The Downtown Improvement Committee began narrowing the field of proposals for downtown redevelopment last night after a standing-room-only meeting at City Hall.
Members of the public overflowed into the hallway to listen to the proposals of Sizerel Realty Co., the city's developer, and Daniel Mann, Johnson & Mendham, the architectural and planning consultants for the project, as they presented four schemes for downtown redevelopment.
After the meeting, committee members said they favored two of the four proposals.
One, called scheme one, would have no direct effect on Massachusetts Street and New Hampshire Street would remain open. The plan for the treatment stores and would span 310,000 square feet.
THE OTHER, called scheme four, would reroute New Hampshire Street between 7th and 9th streets so it would run 40 feet from Rhode Island Street. The plan includes two department stores — one on Ninth and Massachusetts streets and one near Seventh and New Hampshire streets — with another to be added later. The development would span 413,600 square feet.
Pete Whitenth, chairman of the improvement committee, said, "Schemes one and four most closely resemble the vision I had in the back of my mind."
He also said he thought the public liked the proposals.
"I expected a more violent reaction." he said. But John Stainback, manager of the Houston
office of DMJM and director of urban design,
said. "Nothing is etched in concrete."
The downtown redevelopment would be confined to an area bounded by Seventh, Ninth, Rhode Island and Massachusetts streets.
SIDNEY LASSEN, chairman of the board of Sizeler, said that he thought schemes one and four would work best for retail development.
He said that scheme four would cost more than scheme one but that no exact cost analysis had been made.
"I'm fond of both of them but I'm also an economic realist," he said.
scheme four costs more, he said, because it includes more pedestrian walks, some utility wires would be placed underground, and New Hampshire Street would be rerouted.
Another plan, called scheme two, would also reroute New Hampshire street. The plan includes two department stores — one at Ninth and Massachusetts streets. A third would be built later. The development would take up 391,900 square feet.
City Commissioners Don Binnis, Nancy Shontz
and Tom Gleason all said they liked the
"This is further evidence that the process has been a good one," she said.
All of the schemes would include shops and have an 8th Street pedestrian plaza as the focal point.
SCHEME THREE that reroute New Hampshire Street. It also includes two department stores with another to be added later. It soans 449,650 square feet.
Mayor Marci Francisco viewed the schemes last week at Sizeen headquarters in Kemmer, La. Mayor Francis Meyer said in a statement.
proposals, City Commissioner Barkley Clark did not attend.
DEAN PALOS, city-county planner, said. "I think it is great that the community is going to have choices."
He said he thought the developers stuck to the objectives of the downtown plan.
The Downtown Improvement Committee was scheduled to meet with consultant Bruce Heckman of Robert B. Teska Associates, Inc., and Ed Boles, an architectural consultant, early this morning to discuss the proposals presented last night.
The improvement committee was created slightly more than a year ago by the City Commission to assist it in selecting a developer for the proposed downtown project.
The committee also is to help the commission review the proposals Sizerel submits. Sizerel was chosen as the city's developer of record in late September after interviews with the City Commission and the improvement committee.
THROUGHOUT THE selection process, the effects of the redevelopment on the surrounding neighborhoods has been of importance to many residents. Residents of East Lawrence have said they wanted New Hampshire Street to remain open so that traffic would not be rerouted onto Rhode Island Street.
The plans Sitzeler submitted last night included several different locations for parking. Residents of East Lawrence, the improvement committee and the City Commission all have said that any parking ramps should be carefully designed so as to blend with the area.