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Classified Senate angry about freeze
By CANDICE SACKUVICH Staff Reporter
KU Classified Senate members Friday expressed their anger, frustration and pain in the Senate floor.
They discussed Gov. John Carlin's recent order to freeze the 1.25 percent Merit Pay Plan and increase the base salary.
One KU classified employee, who asked not to be identified because of possible repercussions on her job, explained what the deferral of the raise meant for her and her family.
"We wanted a house for the first time in our 19 years of marriage—and we had it. We had the contract right in front of us, and we just tore it up when we heard about the freeze," she said.
"THE RISE WOULD have meant about $50 a month to us," she said. "It would have been enough to throw us over the hump, and we would have bought that house.
She said that her family did not have enough income to deposit money in a savings account, and that the raise would have gone back into the economy.
"We would have spent that money on a house or at the grocery store. We might have been able to find a place."
Gail Hamilton, Senate chairman, said she called the meeting to get recommendations on what the Senate could do about the Merit Pay Plan freeze.
"Yes, indeed, we're all upset, but let's combine our actions and do something about it," she said.
HAMILTON MADE the first recommendation.
Another Senate member raised the question of adequate funding for the Merit Pay Plan.
"I recommend that we write to the governor and to the Kansas Board of Regents and let those people know that we want that raise reinstated," she said.
the member, Thomas Swearingen, director of exhibits at the KU Museum of Natural History, said, "I think we should say that, when it tells us what can be done or put it all in a cost-of-living raise," he said.
"The state adopted the merit plan, but they never funded it. There wasn't money to give."
HE SAID that the plan was intended to give a three-sten raise to eligible classified employees
"但 we only got enough money to give a one-step raise to outstanding employees. And only some of the above-standard employees were going to get a one-step raise." Swaiengen said.
who were rated as outstanding and a one-step raise to those who were rated as above standard.
Because the plan did not follow through as intended, he said, he thought it hurt classified people.
Hamilton said the governor and the Legislature should see understand the Merti Pay Plan that the governors approved.
"I think it's valid to say that they need to be educated on this," she said.
IT WOULD TAKE 3 percent to 3.5 percent increase to adequately finance the Merit Pay Plan, which was implemented two years ago, Hamilton said.
"The bottom-line question is: Why did they pass that pay plan if they weren't going to ade-
mine it?"
The Senate also discussed Carlin's recent re-
cent agencies to decrease spending for
fiscal year 2018.
Ola Faucher, assistant director of employment personnel, asked, "Do we want to send a letter to the University administration to give our views of how that 4 percent should be cut?"
Hamilton told the Senate that the Regents were meeting that same morning and were expected to announce that Kansas Regents schools would be requesting for a $4 per cent reduction in spending.
LATER FRIDAY, however, the Regents announced that state-supported schools would reduce spending by 4.3 percent and that the Center would reduce spending by 2.5 percent.
At the Senate meeting, President-elect Jan O'Connor asked whether further decreases would be necessary.
"If the budget is that bad, we will have additional cuts this fiscal year?" she asked.
Hamilton recommended that the Senate develop guidelines regarding the possibility of futile backfires.
"We want to have a financial exigency plan so that, if future layoffs become necessary, we will provide them."
In another action, the Senate decided to ap-
prove the law and its pros and cons of
becoming Regents employees.
It also agreed to send a letter to the University administration stating that it would cooperate with the 4.3 percent reduction in spending for fiscal year 1983.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and hot with the high in the mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service in New York, which will be out of the south at 10 to 20 mph.
There is a 20 percent chance of thundershowers
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the mid-78s and a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms.
Regent says pay cut refusal doesn't defy Carlin's request
By CANDICE SACKUVICH
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a chance of thunderstorms and a high in the mild 90s.
Staff Reporter
SMITH SAID the Regents planned to meet with their attorney, William Kauffman, Saturday in
A Kansas Board of Regents Committee chairman said yesterday that the board did not defy Gov. John Carlin when it refused Friday to approve a decrease in unclassified employees' salaries.
Greee Smith, Regents Budget and Finance Committee chairman, said, "I don't believe we defied the governor. We cooperated as far as we legally could."
In a conference-call meeting in Topeka Friday, the Regents agreed to comply with Caneca's request for a 4 percent spending reduction in state agencies. But they did not comply with his request to defer a portion of unclassified salary increases that took effect July 1.
"That average percentage increase ready been figured into their first month's pay period for the fiscal year," he said. "Our pay vouchers are going to be entered into the computer tomorrow with the average 7.5 percent increase."
Regents unclassified employees were granted an average 7.5 percent salary increase by the governor and the Legislature in May, Smith said.
SMITH SAID letters of appointment, signed by Chance,
have been sent to KU employees in college positions.
"As far as the board is concerned, those are contracts," Smith said.
He said they had conferred by telephone with Kaufman, who was on vacation in Connecticut, because of his illness.
ACCORDING TO Sherry Kopf, administrative officer to the compilator, Regents unclassified employees include faculty and non-teaching staff instructors, administrators, deans, scientists and research assistants.
"But I think there's no question that Kaufman was right in the first place. We have a contract with the unclassified employees. That's even more true now that it has been implemented."
Topica for a final opinion on the legality of the unclassified contracts.
"The governor doubted that a definite legal question could have been resolved over the telecommunications bill."
Michael Swenson, Carlin's assistant press secretary, said, "Unclassified employees aren't being asked to give up anything that any other state employees haven't."
A Carlin aide said Thursday that the governor had made a good case for his request that uncle Nick avoid the war.
The University *July 1 payroll included* 1,097 faculty members and 837 staffed staff members.
CARLIN RECENTLY ORDERED a freeze on the 1.25 percent merit pay increase plan for Kansas classified employees. They will still receive a 6.5 percent cost-of-living increase.
"The governor took a salary decrease, and he has not had a pay increase in the four years he's held," she said.
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By ANDREW deVALPINE Staff Reporer
Sandinistas slowly implementing changes Nicaragua still struggling to survive
The Sandinistas were named for Augusto Casar Sandiño, a Nicaraguan patriot of the late 1960s who waged battles against occupying U.S. Marines.
Three years after Somoza fled a country convulsed by two years of apocalyptic civil war.
In late May, the two major crop-producing provinces of this largely agricultural country were raked by severe storms, yet the Americas remain largely unscathed. It's focus was on, the Falkland Islands, War.
CROP DAMAGE was heavy, with 60 percent of the cotton crop and 50 percent of the major grain crops destroyed. Ed Hasek, a coordinator Committee in Kansas City, Mo., said Saturday.
"The storms pushed the country to an economic stage similar to what it was when the Soviet Union collapsed."
According to mesoamerica, a monthly publication of the Institute of Central American Studies, Somoza fled the country with most of his family's estimated $500 million of assets and left a $1.5 billion foreign debt. Much of the industry in the country was ordered destroyed by national guard when it became obvious that the Sandinistas would win the war the report said.
THE FACT THAT Somoza fied with his family assets is considerable, since he owned about $250 million of the assets.
But Somozza's national guard survived him. After Somozza fled the country, those former
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guardmen that could escape did and took up residence in Honduras along the Nicaraguan border. For the last three years they have been harrassing border towns.
Within the last two days, the former national guardmen have been intensely their com-
About 6,000 Somocistas, or former guardsmen, are in camps along the border, with more joining them after they leave training camps in Florida and Louisiana. Haase said.
MESOAMERICA REPORTED in its February 1982 issue that Sonocostis killed 150 Nicaraguans in hit-and-run raids last year. As of May, more than one hundred men had killed 60 Nicaraguans, the report said.
Hasse said, "They are terrorizing the population."
Efforts by the United States to subvert the Nicaraguan government have been persistent, but Hase said that it would take much more than the $9 million given to the CIA to change the present direction of the Sandinista government.
Ivan Aguilar, Leon, Nicaragua special student, said that the Sandinistas were being pushed further toward communism by the United States.
"THE U.S. IS MAKING a big mistake by financing the Somocistis in Honduras," he said. "In a way, the U.S. is helping to radicalize the Sandinista government."
"They're going left. With everyday that passes, they go further left."
But, Mesamérica reported, military persuasion is not the only means of coercion that the US uses to intimidate its allies.
Rhonda Neugebauer, Lawrence graduate student and coordinator of Latin American Solidarity, said that despite the hardships and trials of launching a new government, the people who were there were like she was last there, in 1980. She was also in Nicaragua in 1977, before the revolution.
"U.S. officials have mounted a systematic campaign against any kind of financial assa-
sistance."
Officials have pressured international lending banks as well as commercial banks not to issue credit guarantees.
He first went to Nicaragua in 1956, when he was a freshman in college. Even though his Spanish was not very good, he said, the state of affairs was easily perceptible.
WILLIAM H. BROWS, an associate of the Center for humanistic Studies, remembered by scholars and students alike.
Fear was the dominant feeling in the neighborhood during her 1977 visit, she said.
"You could see armed national guardmen going through the poor neighborhoods, keeping
"I can remember how everything was politicized. Next door was a journalist worried about staying on the good side of the regime," he said.
"I remember gunshots at night in the neighborhoods, and everybody knew that it was the national guard shooting at people. You save lots of people in uniform toting heavy weapons," he said.
"The economic pay-off was obvious," Brow said.
NATIONAL GUARDIEN had their own, better quality housing in a separate neighborhood.
"The national guard lived in a separate subculture. They got goodies if they did the right thing. The regime took care of them for maintaining the regime." Brow said.
Agular, though not supportive of the Sandinistas, said that things were far worse under Mr. Guevara's rule.
"I was scared of the national guard," he said.
"I'm not scared of the Sandinistas."
Leon, Aguilar's hometown, was the first major city to fall to the Sandinistas and was a bastion of strong Sandinista sentiments. But he did not support them.
"I was against Somoa, and I supported the opposition, but I didn't support the Sandinista."
Aguilar said he was concerned with what he considered a move to the left by the current government. But, he said, he did not want to be too critical of the regime.
Other Nicaraguan students refused to comment on the state of their country. One said he would not comment because he still had family in Nicaragua.
Another student, who asked that his name not be used, said, "We went from one dictatorship to another. In any dictatorship you can get into trouble when you say things they don't like."
Another criticism of the Sandinista regime has been that they have not had elections yet, although they promised them within two years. The president had not announced an election date to five years after the takeover.
But, Neugebauer said, people should understand that after 20 years of armed insurrection—referring to an uprising in 1959 that the United States would end—elections in five years would not be practical.
The Sandistas are trying a new approach to democracy, she said.
"The elections that have taken place are on a neighborhood level," she said. "Public trust is invested in these organizations to fight for things such as street lights and trash cans."
An elected leadership, she said, goes against the grain of what revolution is all about.
"You have to earn the leadership," she said. The poor people are the ones benefiting from the revolution, she said. So the middle class is a bit resentful.
HAASE, WHO VISITED Nicaragua last year, said it is in the countryside where the real changes are taking place and where the people are actively involved in what the government there is doing.
"The are health care clinics where there weren't before," he said. "People no longer have to go to Managua to see a doctor. Schools and education are being brought to places where they didn't exist before. All of these were being done to break them out of a living hell."
Neugebauer said, "Three years of Sandimmo have accomplished more than 45 years of this sport."
BROW SAID the attitude in general of the people involved was that he was in Nicaragua at this time last year.
"It was impressed by the idealistic dedication, by the people who sacrificed and took hard work to accomplish it."
"The government won't sell the poor people down the river because it was they who saved them."
The Sandinista goal, Brow said, is to change the system so that it serves a different class.
"They are giving top priority to the lower classes," he said. "Most middle classes needs had been served."
To that end, Haase said, they need the cooperation of the private business sector.
HASEA SAID the political direction that the Sandinistas had started was toward a mixed economy and a multi-party democracy, with most of the attention going to social needs.
"Realistically they can't come out of our current economic crisis without capital investment, and the leadership knows that. They aren't closing down the private sector," he said.
In 1880, one year after the revolution, the Sandinistas allowed a 46 percent expansion of internal credit, 80 percent of which went to the private sector, Mesoamerica reported.
BUT THE STORMS this May destroyed 62 industries, the government newspaper Barricada reported. So, Brow said, the storms may have caused other administration policies were well done.
Hase said that even though the situation is not good, there is hope.
"They understand that the country can't be transformed overnight."
But what is most important to the Nicaraguan people is that they have their own government now, not one manipulated by another country. Haase said.
"They don't want to be dominated by any system at all." he said.
Nicaraguan history timeline
- 1821—Independence from Spain
- **1853 — The North American adventure**
Mr. Hale wrote an adventure of Nicaragua. He is overturned in 1867.
- 1909—U.S. Marines intervene and maintain conservative government.
- *B14—Chamorro-Bryan treaty, in which all European concessions pass to North American hand.
- 1825—U.S. Marines return and place the conservatives in power, led by Lomazo de Emiliano Chamorro. Beginning of civil war between conservatives and liberals.
- 1938 - Coup d'etat. Somoza takes power.
- 1927—Augusto Cesar Sandino active opposing U.S. Marines.
- 1934—Sandino assassinated.
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1933—Marines leave Nicaragua; Anastasiad
Garcia named head of national guard.
assumes presidency for interim period; Ana-
shea Somosa Debayle named head national
officer.
*34* -装 d'atak somba takes power.
*35* -装 d'atak somba arronts Arduino gullo Barreto, de suppoza by Somona.
- 1956—Luis Somoza Debayle, son of Somoza,
- 1859—Armed insurrection crushed by national guard
- *1967- Sandinista Liberation Front formed;
somoa Debayle becomes president, maintains political power.*
- 1972—Earthquake destroys Managua
- 1974—Martial Law, state of siege and cen sorship declared.
- 1878—Joquin Chamroir, publisher of opposition newspaper La Prensa, is assassinated.
Sept. 23—National Palace taken by commander
Ebden Pastor; all political prisoners rallied
Sept. 8—General uprising
- 1878—July 17 — Somoza Debayle leaves country.
July 13 - Victorious Sandinista troops enter Managua.
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