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Tuesday, November 7, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN
Into the light
ternoon sunshine cast shadows along the entrance to Haworth Hall yesterday afternoon.
Candidates wrap up campaigns Today's elections will decide important races across country
The Associated Press
L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia and David Dinkins of New York campaigned to the finish line yesterday in drives to shatter race barriers, one aiming to become the country's first black elected governor and the other the first black city of the nation's largest city.
Democratic Rep. James Florio and underdog Republican Rep. James Courter sought last-minute support in New Jersey's gubernatorial contest, the other high-profile race in today's off-year elections that will be closely watched for signs of changing voter sentiment about abortion.
Ballots also were studded with hundreds of mayoral races, contests for other city and county offices and referendums.
J. Marshall Coleman, discounting polls that showed him trailing Wilder in Virginia's gubernatorial race, told a rally "the undecided are breaking our way. We're absolutely on the eve of a great victory."
But Wilder, the lieutenant governor and grandson of freed slaves, countered that chances were "exceedingly good" that he would win and lead a statewide Democratic sweep of three top offices.
Republican Rudolph Giuliani's did not let up his attacks on Manhattan Borough President Dinkins, who has admitted failing to file income tax
returns for four years two decades ago and has faced questions about a stock transfer to his son.
"David Dinkins has a history of getting away with things that others don't get away with. I don't know why," said Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney and underdog in the New York mayoral race. "He is less than candid. He hides. he evades."
Dinkins replied that his Republican rival entered the race like a "knight in shining armor on a white charger. I suggest that the armor is a bit tarnished and that charger is no longer white."
Elsewhere on the ballot, 11 Democrats went through their final campaign pages in Houston, where they were vying to fill the unexpired term of the late Democratic Rep. Mickey Leland.
New York aside, big city election campaigns were finishing in Detroit, Houston and Miami, where incumbents Coleman Young, Kathy Whitmire and Xavier Suarez sought new terms.
Cleveland's unusually nasty mayor campaign approached its end, pitting City Council President George Forbes against state Sen. Michael R. White.
Voters in 10 states will decide 56 referendums today.
Michigan voters will decide the fate of two competing plans to raise the state sales tax for education. One
called for a half-cent increase and the other for a two-cent increase.
In other referendums, a proposal to raise $115 million for a new stadium for the San Francisco Giants faced a tough fight in light of huge costs from earthquake damage, while residents of Greensboro, N.C., where cigarette manufacturing is big business, were deciding whether to limit public smoking.
Democrats were hoping for a three-race sweep in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City to buoy the party before 1990 elections that will fill 34 Senate seats, 65 governorships and 435 House seats.
President Bush campaigned for Republican candidates in all three
Republicans said the results would prove of little use in handicapping next year's campaign. But all three races, particularly Virginia, were being watched closely for signs of shifting views on abortion.
Wilder has made Coleman's opposition to abortion a cornerstone of his campaign, challenging a decade of laws that have barred women candidates should avoid the issue.
Pro-choice and anti-abortion groups also poured thousands of dollars into television commercials for Wilder and Coleman.
summer's Supreme Court ruling that permits states to impose greater restrictions.
Giuliani and Courter both modified their opposition to abortion during the campaign, the first since last
Ironically, perhaps, abortion largely overshadowed the race issue in the campaign in Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy. Coleman broached the subject indirectly late last week when he said Wilder was benefiting from a "double standard" in press coverage.
Florio, loser in two previous gubernatorial campaigns, spent the final hours saying he was guarding against overconfidence, but also appealing for election of enough Democrats to give his party a majority in the State Assembly. Republicans have a two-seat majority.
Counter scheduled several stops during the final day of his campaign, ending with a "Favorite Son" rally at home in Warren County.
Wilder and Coleman both spent their final day of campaigning in the company of popular Virginians.
Coleman made his rounds with Sen. John Warner at his side and stressed his law enforcement experience as the state's former attorney general and his opposition to higher taxes.
Wilder was accompanied by Gov. Gerald Ballies and Sen. Charles Robb, a former governor, to accentuate his claim to be the heir to eight successive years of Democratic government.
KU's law students get ready for court Teams prepare moot environment cases
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
With points of view firmly set, KU's environmental moot court team members said they were ready to argue their cases at the national level, never swaying in their convictions.
They won't sway, that is, until they swap their opinions with one of the others.
Then, they'll do it again
Members of each of the three teams must prepare arguments for a certain party in an environmental issue, said Linda Guinn, competition coordinator and former competitor.
The moot court pits law students against one another in various mock trials, and by taking part in the trial, students can practice their courtroom skills.
This year's competition is the second year for national environmental moot court. Earlier this year, KU's team took top honors in the oral competition.
Depending on the luck of the draw, each team will represent a corporate interest, a citizens group or the company in which they will interact between two those.
"They are required to write a brief — a written document, a position — and argue that position as best they can," Guinn said. "Actually, you thoroughly prepare in all three areas."
She said team members were asked to defend not only their assigned position but all three sides of the case.
The case at national competition, scheduled Feb. 22-24 at Pace University in White Plains, N.Y., will deal with Superfund hazardous waste sites, said Lisa Torretto, environmental moot court team member.
Toretto, Lawrence second-year law student, said she and team members Rex Stonger, Lawrence first-year law student, and Bill Turner, Topeka third-year law student, were
The number of teams entered nationally is not yet known, but it is expected to be large. Team members said that was because of an increased interest in environmental law.
"There are firms in Kansas City who are looking to develop sections in environmental law," Turner said. "The employment opportunities are just exploding."
Torretta said those opportunities were arising because of an increased awareness that environmental legal matters affect everybody, even if these matters are not always prominent.
"In the future, businesses will have to take that into account," Stonger said. "These things are going to be as important as 'tax' is now."
Fort Riley needs more land, army says
preparing a brief on the part of "the polluter," an imaginary insecticide manufacturer.
The Associated Press
Athena Andaya, Wikicha second-year law student, Micki Koltan, Tarrytown, N.Y., first-year law student, and Sharon Stephens, Lawrence second-year law student, will play the part of representatives from the Department of the Interior. The team Sandy Kent, Kansas City, will play the part of Eric Eugene Montes, Lawrence second-year law student, and Ralph Kieffer, Lawrence third-year law student, will prepare a brief for a concerned citizens group.
"We're the bad guys," she said.
"We're the bad guys," she said. Toretto said that team members had the role on Oct. 23 and that they had until Nov. 30 to submit the brief.
Briefs can be a maximum of 42 pages and must be submitted to all other schools competing in national environmental moot court, Turner said.
TOPEKA - The lack of training space at Fort Riley is a national security problem, an army official told the state Board of Agriculture yesterday.
The University of Kansas will send two "other sides" to the national competition, Guinn said.
"So when you go into court, by and large you know the other side's argument." Stonger said.
"We're under a real crunch to crank this thing out," she said.
LaGrange said the post did not meet Army training standards. He also said a recent study showed that the post used 97 percent of the land it now has.
Some groups are fighting the expansion.
But opponents to the proposed expansion of the military post north of Manhattan said that the Cold War was over and that there was no chance the Soviet Union would invade western Europe.
with adjacent privately owned property. The 100,000 acre post would be doubled by the proposed expansion.
Col. Gary LaGrange, Fort Riley garrison commander, told the board that the base needed about 83,000 more acres for training, and another 18,000 acres to act as a buffer zone
Keith Ascher, chairman of Preserve the Flint Hills, said the Department of Defense had 35 million acres of land already and did not need any more.
"Farmers and ranchers are an important part of our national defense system," Ascher said.
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