THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.50 (USPS 650-640)
T THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF T THE UNIVERSITY OF KAISANSA
FRIDAY NOV.3,1989
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Sandinistas launch attack on contras in north Nicaragua
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Sandista troops launched attacks in Nicaragua's central and northern mountains yesterday to try to wipe out outnumbered contra forces that have infiltrated from Honduras, according to reports.
Lt. Col. Rosa Pasos, a military spokeswoman, said most of the action was concentrated on rebels sneaking into Nicaragua, but she would confirm only one attack near Quilai, in the border province of Nueva Segovia.
The contrast announced yesterday that they had accepted in principle a Sandinista offer to meet Monday and Tuesday at the United Nations to discuss demobilization. Roman Catholic Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo said he had also accepted an invitation.
in a communique, the contrais said they were still awaiting an official invitation from a U.N.-Organization of American States commission to verify Central American peace accords.
The Sandinista party newspaper Barricada said yesterday that combat units in 14 northern Nicaragua towns began operations overnight, but neither the newspaper nor Passos gave details.
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The contra communique, distributed by the Nicaraguan Resistance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, said the Sandinistas mounted attacks Wednesday with tanks, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery.
Passos refused to comment on those reports and said she had no immediate reports on casualties or details of the fighting.
In Tegucigalpa, contra commander Enrique Bermudez said the contras would continue observing the cease-fire because they have not had the resources to launch attacks since U.S. non-lethal aid was cut off in February 1988.
William to stand trial for Settlemyer murder Judge rules transient able to assist in defense
By Jim Petterson Kansan staff writer
William's trial is scheduled to begin Monday in Douglas County district court.
In a memorandum issued yesterday, James Paddock, Douglas County District Court judge, ruled that the transient charged in the July 1988 slaying of a 9-year-old Lawrence boy was competent to stand trial.
William is charged with first degree murder, or in the alternative, felony murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Richard Settlemver.
In his decision, Paddock said that the evidence presented to him in Tuesday's competency hearing combined with his own observations of John William, 28, during the hearing had convinced him that William was competent to stand trial.
Settlemyer's mutilated body was discovered July 14, 1988, floating in the Kansas River.
Paddock's ruling was based on his belief that William "understands the nature and purpose of the proceedings against him," and "is able to make or assist in making his defense."
During Tuesday's competency hearing, William's attorneys, Ed Colliser Jr. and Margie Wakefield-Green, had maintained that William was incapable of assisting them in preparing a defense.
Wakefield-Green said at the hearing that William had constructed elaborate stories about the July 1988 incident. She said that William refused to accept any plan other than
one of innocence and therefore was unable to assist in his defense.
Paddock addressed that concern in his decision and said medical and lay witnesses agreed that William's counsel would have difficulty communicating with and counseling William in areas of his defense.
Two psychologists and two psychiatrists from Larned State Hospital, where William had been treated, testified Tuesday that despite serious mental and emotional problems, William was competent to stand trial.
"That alone does not equate incompetency," Paddock wrote in his decision.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said William's trial could take at least two weeks to complete. He said he planned to call about 40 witnesses.
Republicans call off fight for tax cut
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Senate Republicans yesterday offered to end attempts to attach a capital gains tax cut to crucial debt legislation, all but conceding defeat for this year on what has been Bush's most ardently sought goal in Congress.
"We have tried to work constructively and cooperatively with the Congress in a true spirit of bipartisanship," said a statement from the president. "Now the stalemate must be broken."
With an increase in the national debt limit needed next week to stave off a default by the Treasury, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole told Democrats that Republicans would agree to limit amendments to those repealing a Medicare catastrophic illness tax and a tax provision opposed by business.
in exchange, "no capital gains amendment will be offered," he said on the Senate floor minutes after a meeting with top White House officials including Chief of Staff John Sununu, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and budget director Richard Darman.
A White House statement emphasized that Bush's primary interest was in reducing the federal deficit and preventing Democrats from adding costly new programs.
Republicans have been trying for weeks to break a Democratic blockade of their plan to cut the capital gains tax. The Democrats have called the tax cut a giveaway to the wealthy and have urged Republicans of sacrificing other priorities in their pursuit of the tax cut.
“I deeply regret the tone of partisanship that has entered the economic policy debate,” Bush said. “I would very much have preferred a fair and balanced debate — and vote — on the merits. But the congressional process has bogged down.”
By attaching the popular repeal measures to the debt bill, Reubilicans would take away from the Democrats the most attractive features of a separate tax and entitlement bill now being negotiated between the House and the Senate. Democrats would lose leverage for their sometimes costly initiatives in the bill, including their expansion of health care benefits for the poor.
The stalemate has delayed the legislative agenda to the point where the government is threatened with default next week because the Treasury's $2.8 trillion debt limit has not been raised.
The tax and entitlement bill's underlying purpose is to reduce the federal deficit and thus cancel $16.1 billion in spending cuts which took effect Oct. 1 because Congress and the president failed to meet the goals of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law.
Republicans said that the move was designed to force Democrats to pass a "clean" deficit-reduction bill or face the prospect of leaving the Gramm-Rudman cuts in place.
See TEACHERS, p. 8
Hayden looks for one of the squirrels released at Cedar Crest.
Onlockers watch one of the squirrels as it climbs a tree after being released In MacLennan Park
Two black squirrels find new home with governor
By Derek Schmidt Konean staff writer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Two black squirrels moved onto the grounds of the governor's mansion yesterday.
While a wildlife worker prepared to release each of the squirrels, which were being relocated from Marysville, Gov. Mike Hayden admonished a crowd of about 50 observers to watch carefully.
"They'll be quick," Hayden said. "They'll be gone in a flash."
When each squirrel was released from a cage trap, it scampered up a tree and then leaped from treetop to treetop, causing about 50 observers to gasp at the acrobatics.
"They were cute. I didn't expect them to fly," said 10-year-old Brian Wadley, one of about 25 fourth graders from Randolph Elementary School, Topeka, who attended the event.
Linda Wright, the children's teacher, said she
See SQUIRRELS, p. 6
Lawmakers approve cut in SDI spending Bill slashes $1.1 billion from request
The Associated Press
The plan, the product of nearly eight weeks of wrangling between House and Senate conferees, provides much of Bush's request for land-based nuclear missiles and restores some funds for two conventional-arms programs that the president sought to kill.
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators yesterday approved a $365 billion defense bill that cuts $1.1 billion from President Bush's Strategic Defense Initiative and eliminates one B-2 Stealth Bomber.
The bill provides $3.55 billion for SDL, popularly known as Star Wars, in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. That allotment is about $200 million less than the amount spent in fiscal 1989 and the first decrease in funds since former President Reagan proposed the anti-missile shield six years ago.
The Star Wars total falls between the $2.8 billion approved by the House and the $4.3 billion adopted by the Senate.
Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who complained about the restoration of funds for the V-22 Osprey and the F-14D jet fighter.
The negotiators' agreement, which still must be approved by the full House and Senate, includes approximately $1.1 billion for the rail-based MX multiple-warhead missile and the truck-based Midgetman single-warhead, about $150 million less than Bush had requested for the two nuclear weapons.
"We feel that the proposed deal on the B-2, Strategic Defense Initiative and mobile ICBMs is inadequate, and we cannot sign the conference report in its present form," the four said in a letter to Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., chairman of the Armed Services panel.
The budget for the MX and Midgetman drew complaints Wednesday from four House members, including three chairmen of Armed Services subcommittees.
The bill also includes House language imposing a 50-missile cap on the MX.
History of SDI funding For the first time since the program began, funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative, "Star Wars," will be reduced. $3.5 billion
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Signing the letter were Repa, Charles Bennett, D-Fla., and chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials; Patricia Schroeder, D-Dole., and chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities; Ronald Dellums, D-Calf., and chairman of the Subcommittee on Research and Development; and Lane Evans, D-III., and a member of the full panel.
Forum cites difficulties of being Black and male
Speaker urges them to become leaders
By Cory S. Anderson Kansan staff writer
Problems facing Black males in society and at the University of Kansas were the subject of the "Black Male Forum" last night.
The forum at the Kansas Union was organized by several KU students, including Darren Fulcher, Coleman McGraw, Kevin Lewis, Kawasaki City, Mo., senior.
Crowder spoke to students about many of the problems that face Black men, such as a lower life expectancy than white men, a higher probability of dying a violent death and the rising suicide rate among Black males.
About 20 students attended and were addressed by Ralph Crowder, assistant instructor in history.
The pressure of living in a society where one of every 22 Black males will be killed in a violent crime and one of every six will be arrested before he reaches the age of 19 are reasons that Crowder cited for the rise in the suicide rate.
"Young Black males are killing themselves in the prime of their lives," Crowder said. "Suicide is the third leading cause of death."
"These are distressing statistics,"
he said.
Crowder encouraged students to take on leadership roles at the University and in their own communities.
"It's extremely important for strong Black men to step forward in every section of our existence," he said. "Ultimately, I think it's important for brothers on this campus to step forward and address some of the contradictions that exist."
After Crowder spoke, students were allowed to ask questions and express their opinions.
"I think there is a renewed type of brotherhood," he said. "That's what I see coming out of this first meeting."
Fulcher said the forum turned out well.
An official student organization might be a result of the forum, Fulcher said.
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"The way I see it, we may need a student organization to meet and address some of the issues that are concerning the Black people up here, as well as the Black men," he said.
The first goal of the group, as well as that of the forum, is to bring about a togetherness among Black males, Fulcher said.