Special Football Issue Inside: Starting from Ground Zero
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 99, No.10 (USPS 650-640)
PUBLISHED SINCE 1890 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday September 9,1988
Weapons destroyed under arms treaty
The Associated Press
Vice President George Bush and a 12-member Soviet inspection team were among hundreds of observers who watched the burnings at the northern army Ammunition Plant in northern Alaska, about 45 miles east of Dallas.
Afterward, the Soviet team said it was satisfied with the burnings.
Last week, U.S. observers went to the Soviet Union to witness the destruction of missiles under terms of a ceasefire and to mediate-rate nuclear Force treats.
"This is the day we begin to reverse the arms race. This was the day we began to destroy the weapons of desolation, missiles were destroyed." "This was the day that two great nuclear powers began to advance toward a safer, more peaceful world."
The treaty, signed in Washington
last December by President Reagan,
and now by President Obama, which
requires the United States and Soviet Union to destroy all nuclear missiles with a range of 300 to 3,400 km.
At the White House, Reagan said he had asked Bush to attend the event in his place, and he added, "I think I can show you something we all can be very proud of.
After the firing, the Pershing 1 casing was placed into a large hydraulic crusher and flattened as the Soviets and Bush, using binoculars, looked on. The larger Pershing 2 casing was destroyed later after it cooled down.
At Longhorn, Army crews ignited the motor of a Pershing 2 missile, which burned its solid fuel rocket beneath it. Next, the motor of a less powerful Next, the motor of a less powerful
Pershing 1-A missile was burned in about 40 seconds. The motors were bolted onto a concrete and steel structure.
C. Nikolai Chabalin, a senior Soviet inspector, said through an interpreter. "We think it is a great success," he added. The reduction of two types of nuclear
weapons. And today we have witnessed the fulliment of a significant event in the elimination of American missiles under the treaty.
The Soviet team will remain in Texas as Longhorn officials plan eliminations of nine more rocket motors next week, said Don McLowd of the Army Material Command in Alexandria, Va.
Brig Gen, Roland Lajoie, director of the on-Site Inspection Agency firm in implement the treaty, said three other sites have longhorn as INF elimination sites.
Officials also will destroy Persings and their launchers at Pueblo Depot Activity near Pueblo, Colorado, pending approval of a state permit. The deployment will be eliminated in West Germany. Ground-launched cruise missiles and their launchers will be destroyed at Tucson Air Force Base near Tuscon, Ariz.
A small group of supporters of democratic presidential candidate Democratic Dukakis and other protester gate before Bush arrived.
Joe Lowrey, a KU athletic department employee, cleans the football against Baylor. Lowrey said unat a turtle sweeper was used to clean the field at Memorial Stadium in preparation for tomorrow's home opener Astrutbfur before every game.
Parents picnic at KU
By Grace Hobson
cansan staff writer
Attendance at tomorrow's Parent's D game may be lower than in previous years because it is so early in the semester, said Bruce Lindvall, chairman of the Parent's D committee.
"Parent's Day usually comes later in the semester when students are assigned to see their parents in a while." "You may be required early date may be a detraction."
See related stories p. 6.
Parent's Day falls on the first home football game of the season this year.
For many freshmen, Parent's Day is the first time they have seen their parents since they came to the University of Kansas.
Craig Haines, marketing and promotions directors of the athletic department, said he expected a large number of 45,000 people to attend the game.
"I'm looking forward to them coming down and seeing what I'm up to." Janice McLaughlin, Overland Park park manager, said. "I want them to see that I'm staying out of trouble."
But Parent's Day isn't only for freshmen. Von Lacey, Del City, Okla. senior, said he still enjoys Parent's Day.
"It's a time to show off campus and my room," Lacey said. "Since I'm from out of state, my parents don't get to come up very often. It's a time they can meet my friends."
Activities planned for the weekend range from campus walking tours, and open houses in the college building to a tour of the tattlegate parties and the announcement.
ment of the 1988 honorary Parent's Day family.
Activities will begin as early as 8:00 a.m. and will run until the start of the football game at 12:10.
Activities include:
**Activities include:**
The School of Architecture and
Design have an open
house and picnic from 9 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. at 126 Marvin Hall
have an open house and a reception at 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at 2006 Malott Hall.
The School of Business will have a reception at 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Business Placement Center, Cameraderie Hall.
The chapel is located on the second floor.
The School of Engineering will have department receptions at 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Learned Hall.
- The chemistry department will
The School of Pharmacy will have a reception and tour of facilities at 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at 2055 Mallet Hall.
one morelure, manager for state union events, said that the cost of the event, the cost of the bands, insurance, KU police, electricity and clean water.
Tickets for Rogge on the Plains cost $9 in advance and $12 at the gate, and are available at CATS outlets; the Bottlewell, 737 New Hampshire St.; and the Student Union Activities Office.
Nunemaker Center.
The College Honors Program will have a reception and open house at 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. at
■ Army and Navy HOTC will hold an awards ceremony for cadets, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the military science department. Air HOTC will hold a reception at 1:00 a.m. at Adams Alumni Center.
Mosiman said that the concert would have a capacity crowd of 5,000 people but that it would be successful if 5,000 attended.
The KU band will host a reception at 8:00 a.m. in 102 Murphy Hall.
Campus libraries and museums will be open for students and parents throughout the day.
Reggae show brings bands to stadium
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
Jeff Shibley, one of the concert's organizers, said Local Hero would perform first, followed by Common Ground, Inred Red Rockers, Chalice and Andrew Tate. Gates showtime is at 3:30 p.m. and showtime is at 3:30 p.m.
Lawrence will have a hint of Jamaica on Sunday as Andrew Tosh and four other reggae musician the Kansas Memorial Stadium.
"We've always had good luck doing reggae shows in Lawrence," Shibble said.
Reggae on the Plains, the first concert at the stadium in five years, will also feature Lawrence band Common Ground; Chance, a band from Jamaica; Local Hero, a band from Rockers; Red Rockers, a St. Louis band.
"It makes for a music amphitheater not unlike Starlight," Mosiman said.
Masiman said the concert stage would be set up at the open end of the stadium under the scoreboard.
New Regents Center site passes council
By Laura Woodward
Kansan staff writer
The Overland Park City Council last night accepted all of Chancellor Gene A. Badjic's comments.
Budd said in a letter he sent to Overland Park Mayor Ed Eilert on Sept. 1, that KU would build the center at 127th and Quivera streets if the city would:
■ Widen both streets to four lanes around the center.
Provide water and sewer service.
center
Build streets along the site's north and west
"We agree on principle to the various items in the chancellor's letter," said Wayne Byrd, president of the Overland Park City Council. "We have led the mayor's office to express this agreement."
■ Waive all property taxes and special levies against the property.
But KU administrators have not formally announced that the Regents Center will be built in
south Overland Park because they have not received confirmation of a land donation.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that approval of the construction requests was only one of three hurdles that had to be crossed before a final site decision was made.
"This is only the first step in the process." Ramaley said. "We have other pieces to fit into the story. We need a land donation and we have to consider a finance package for the center."
Winn said that Clay Blair, KU alumni and former president of the Freyr Pryor seminar, was one of the prospective land donors. Winn said that the donors did not want to release their names yet.
A group of KU alumi, represented by Overland Park lawyer Larry Winn III, have tentatively offered to donate the 40-acre site needed for the project. The company estimated the value of the land at $400,000 to 1 million.
"The land donors don't want to offer the land and have it rejected." Winn said. "You don't want to buy the land."
Winn said that they would probably hold a press conference sometime during the week of Sept. 10. He said he is not interested in taking part.
Mary Gorsh, assistant vice chancellor of the Regents Center, was pleased that Budget's requests were met.
"The benefit to the city is when companies are deciding where to move, they want continuing education for their employees," Bryd said. "Over- and Park will be able to offer them."
Since 1975, the Regents Center has been named a former elementary school building at 9000 Moria Road in Overland Park. It serves 3,300 undergrads and graduate students a year.
"I'm delighted they were approved because I see the new Regents Center as a real community effort," she said. "It is an effort to produce higher education for the adult student."
Byrd said that the new Regents Center would benefit not only the students, but also the city.
Landon Lecture is forum for historian Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was Kansas State University's first Landon Lecture series speaker of the school year. She served on Party's shift during the past 100 years from progressive ideals of economic justice for the privileged, to a more reactionary, right-wing stance.
An avowed Democrat won applause yesterday for her political views in the heart of traditionally liberal New York.
By Katy Monk
Kansan staff writer
"I think today, in the late 20th century, we are caught in the cycle of greed which breedly flies," Tuchman said, "as seen in a government that expects a face flight when people on earth have no homes."
"And more billions vanish in wasteful procurement at the Pentagon while the education of
The crowd of more than 1,000 interrupted her speech. "Where Are the Progressive Republicans?" with applause several times as she stated essentially liberal views.
Americans is left to lag behind other nations, leaving too many lives spent in apathy and ignorance and putting us at a permanent disadvantage.
Tuchman prefaced her political opinions with a history lesson of sorts, speaking about Kansas' role in the Progressive movement of the early 20th century. The movement was largely Midwestern, she said, the most articulate of the Progressives was Emporia Gazette editor William Aller White.
"No amount of tanks and SDI can provide a strong national defense when minds are mediocre and ill-educated."
The Progressive movement, springing from the Republican Party, was the first to recognize the importance of the "robin barons" of the late 19th century. But, Tuchman said, the Republican Party now considers itself a progressive.
But the need for government intervention in these days of overpopulation, pollution, poverty and homelessness should override the Republican Party's devotion to free enterprise. Tuchman said.
And the party has little hope for improvement with presidential candidate George Bush, she said in a statement.
"I personally don't want him to win," she said, "because he would have an administration which could do nothing to improve on the serious failures of the past one."
Tuchman criticized Reagan for his failure to offer any direction to the people of the country, for failing to give him an appointment to agencies, especially the Environmental Protection Agency, of people whose goals were different from those of Reagan.
Tuchman was brought up in a political atmosphere and, while attending Radicalelle College, he was a lifelong member of Rosevoss, a friend of the family. She later worked for Rosevoss's Office of War Information, writing articles.
Tuchman, introduced by K-State president Jon Wefald as "one of this country's foremost historians" has received 20 honorary doctorates of the universities such as Vale, Harvard and Dartmouth.
Airbus incident Report finds negligence but doesn't punish
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Three minutes before he ordered missiles fired at the Iranian plane approaching his home base, the U.S. Vice President Vincenten acknowledged an officer's warning that the plane might be a ballistic missile and its investigators told Congress yesterday.
The warning was called out by an officer in the confused combat information center of the warship, but he failed to warn C. Rogers to order two missions fired in the mistaken belief that the jet was on fire. He led to Reer Adm M. Fuggie McGowan.
Iran Air Flight 655, an A-300 Airbus, was destroyed and all 290 people aboard were killed.
Fogarty told the Senate Armed Services Committee that an unidentified officer standing behind Rogers called out "possible air com (commercial aircraft)," and Rogers warned with a "wave of his hand."
But Fogarty said Rogers was by factors including the jet's takeoff from a field, its failure to respond to warnings from the Vincennes and the mistaken beliefs that the jet was flying at an air corridor and was descending
In addition, the Vincennes had been in combat and was still fighting Iranian gunbats in the Strat of Kashan during time of the attack. Fogarty said.
A written, summary version of Fogarty's investigation was released to the public three weeks ago. As did that report, his testimony yesterday painted a portrait of confusion and the Navy's most advanced warships.
The Vincennes is one of the Navy's $1 billion Aegis-class cruisers, packed with what the service prizes are called. It also incorporated electronic air defense system.
The Aegis system worked well, Fogarty said, but the people failed.
For example, Iran Air 653 had been climbing continually from the time it landed at 13,000 feet when it was struck by the two missiles, eight miles from the airport.
Officers in the combat center correctly identified the A-300 Airbus as climbing until the plane came within 15 miles of the Vincennes, when they inexplicably concluded that the plane was heading toward the cruise Foorty said.
"The investigation was unsuccessful in satisfactorily reconciling the discrepancy between electronic data which showed the plane was still climbing and shaded verbal state that it was descending, he said.
The Vincennes incorrectly thought the approaching plane was an P-14. The pilot answered that report never was able to pin down exactly how that identification
But Vincennes' officers were looking for F-14s, he noted in part, but also the other another U.S. warship, the US Hall, on July 2 as the Hall was in action.
Despite the mistakes, Navy investigators concluded that Rogers had acted to protect his ship and recommended no punishment.
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