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The University Daily
Tuesday, April 13, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 131 USPS 650-640
Haig's visit delayed British offers termed unacceptable; Argentina prepares its navy to sail
By United Press International
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Argentina yesterday早逝antly postponed Secretary of State Alexander Haig's planned return trip to Buenos Aires to sail to sail, possibly against the British blockade.
Argentina also pushed ahead with plans to airlift more troops, weapons and equipment to the Falkland Islands. The islands are located 450 miles east of the southern tip of South America
Argentine naval forces were withdrawn from the waters around the Falklands shortly before the blockade went into effect late Sunday, enforced by British nuclear submarines reportedly prowing the area. The bulk of the British fleet was still at about 10 days away from the islands.
HAIG PLANNED to fly from London to Buenos Aires early today to continue his frantic shuttle diplomacy, but the trip was suddenly called off by Argentina in an attempt to regain Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costo Mendez.
A U.S. statement, without giving further details, on "a complication" had arisen in Belgium.
Diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires said Costa Mendez told Haig that the new British responses to the Argentine peace proposals were
unacceptable, thereby triggering the post-
ponent.
The sources said differences continued to reside in the basic question of sovereignty—who has control over the territory?
AR ANGENTINE NAVY communique said navy Commander Jorane Anaya had visited the navy base at Port Belgrano to give a farewell message and to ready to head out "when the commander is given."
A news source in Port Belgrano said the fleet had not sailed and it was not known exactly when it would. NBC said the fleet could sail during the night.
The Argentine foreign ministry said Argentina had, "with a broadly favorable spirit," received Petro's proposal for a 72-hour truce and would continue the action that could lead to an armed conflict."
PRESIDENT LEOPOLDO GALTIERIS' government hopes the Pervian proposal, "if it is accepted by the other side, may contribute to the effort to validate the efforts of the U.S. secretary of state.
"But if the British government follows through with 'If it threat to bring a blockade into effect, the Argentine government will not have any responsibility to respond to the aggression,' the statement said.
TRACEY THOMPSON/Kansan Staff
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Women,grad students to have own Towers
By JAN BOUTTE Staff Reporter
The KU housing department has decided to offer two of the four buildings of the Jayhawker Towers apartments to special student groups: women and graduate students.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said yesterday the plan would offer women more secure housing and offer graduate students the atmosphere needed for their studies.
Tower B will be for women students only, and
A will be designated for graduate and
professors.
Wilson said the decision to restrict the two towers to specific groups was to fill a demand that the housing department had seen in recent years.
"We are trying to not discriminate or secrete or anything like that," Wilson said.
"I think there's a demand. At the moment, we have every reason to believe that we can fill B
EACH TOWER in the complex has about 64 two-bedroom apartments.
Wilson said the women's tower was to make female students feel more secure at home.
Tom Pratt, Towers manager, said the KU sororites had already made commitments to reserve two floors of the women's tower to use as annexes to their houses.
rei said that next year, the doors to Tower B would locked, and women residents with children would be locked.
ne housing department also would install an intercom system that would allow residents to let their guests in the doors with a buzzer.
"It comes expensive, but we think that it will be worthwhile," he said.
Wilson said that the men's athletic training table, which is located in the basement of Tower B, would only be accessible by its outside door, and would not be open to the rest of the tower.
CURRENT MALE residents of Tower B have not been allowed to renew their leases for their apartments, and Pratt said that non-commercial having to switch to another tower for next year.
Wilson said that he also hoped to fill Tower A with graduate and professional school students.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that the graduate tower would be one method of responding to the special housing needs of graduate students.
"One goal with the Towers was to change its image by making it more compatible with the devices."
"We've had a lot of support from the graduate schools and research division," he said.
HE SAID THAT the graduate schools were enlisted to help publicize the Towers offer.
Ambler said he saw the Towers responding to the needs of students and becoming more a part of the community.
If the housing department is successful in filling the two of the four towers with women and graduate students, two will remain open for all other students, including women and graduate
See TOWERS page 5
By COLLEEN CACY
Legislators take 2 weeks off
Staff Reporter
THE REASON behind this is an issue that has managed to become entangled in almost every major piece of legislation for the past two decades. John Carlin's proposes severance tax on gas and oil.
The House and the Senate have been unable to agree on several major issues—such as a plan for public school finance and a statewide repeal of the intangibles tax—largely because legislators are unsure of how much money they have to work with.
TOPFKA-Kansas lawmakers, tired and frustrated after a seemingly unproductive session, will have two weeks to relax and plan new strategies before they return at the end of April with most of the important issues still left unresolved.
"The central issue here is the severance tax," State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said yesterday. "That's exactly what's been holding a lot of things up."
Senators wrangled for nearly four hours last Friday before finally agreeing with the House to adjourn that evening and come back April 27 and 28.
The latest issue to become complicated by the tax dormant production is the date of the legislation.
The Senate recently killed the tax by a 19-21 vote, but the supporters of the tax vow that they would not accept it.
"It it took too long, when we could have spent that time doing other things." Sate Sen. said. "The truth is that we're not having a good time."
SHE SAID she and other lawmakers were frustrated by the deadlock, and most needed a break from the late-night sessions of the past week.
The Senate was divided on whether to concur with a House decision made Thursday afternoon to adjourn for two weeks or to stay through Saturday evening and finish the year's business.
The reason behind the disagreement between the two chambers on an adjournment date once again is that it was not a vote.
Legislators who oppose the tax feared that Carlin would use the time before the Legislature
reconceived for a final blitz across the state—to say the necessary two more senators to his sides.
State Rep. Keith Farrar, R-Hugoton, went so far as to propose to the house that Carlin not be reimbursed for the use of the state airplane during adjournment.
"You know what happened last year," Farrar said, referring to Carlin's unsuccessful year-end severance tax campaign during last year's adjournment.
ALTOUGH CARLIN had said early last week that he would not attempt to push another severance bill through the Legislature unless he had indications that some senators had changed their minds, Solbach said "it wouldn't bother if he did" lobby for the tax during adjournment.
House Speaker Wendell Lady also has said that the severance tax issue was dead until there were no longer such issues.
"I no idea about the future of the severance tax until there are indications that some senators have changed their thinking," he said at a meeting last month. "I will not be campaigning for the severance tax."
But Lady R-Overland Park, said he had several speaking engagements during the break, and had never left.
Several senators have maintained that all minds are made up on the issue and are not likely to be convinced.
But Solbach, who also voted for the tax,
issreed.
"People are on record as voting one way or the other," Eldredge, a severance tax supporter, said. "It's awfully hard to change your vote on an issue like that."
"The vote taken in the Senate was billed as a clean vote, but it came up as a motion to concur, and there were no opportunities for amendments," he said.
The bill voted on began in the Senate and the severance tax was amended into it on the House
1068. The bill was then returned to the Senate, because any changes one chamber makes in a bill must be approved by the other.
THE SENATE voted not to concur with the House amendment.
"Some of the senators who voted against the tax indicated it was because they had no opportunity to consider any amendments," Solbach said. "I don't think we should just roll over and play dead because the Senate has had one opportunity to vote on this issue."
But Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, the tax's most influential opponent, is unlikely to refer it directly to the Senate floor for debate again, where amendments to make it more acceptable to some senators could be made.
Lyon successfully kept the tax off the floor all session by referring it to two different committees. Previous versions of the tax were killed in the 1980s, and Means Committee, of whom Bowyer is a member.
But Doyen said Friday that mounting pressure from the press and other legislators had forced him to cancel the runoff vote.
He said most lawmakers were tired of the issue and were ready to let it die.
BUT THE ARGUMENT over adjournment reflected many tax opponents' uncertainty that the state's tax rate was up.
After protracted debate in the Senate Friday over the constitutionality of adjourning before the required 90 days of the session were over, and after protests that the House was giving up too easily by adjourning early, several frustrated senators denounced their fellow lawmakers for trying to cover up their real reasons for not wanting to adjourn.
"This is all a faacade," State Sen. Norman Gaar, R-Overland Park, told the Senate.
He said they all knew that the real reason for the clash between the House and Senate was the
BUT SOLIBACH said that despite continued failures between the House and Senate to agree on the issues, he thought they would be resolved successfully.
"The chances for agreement on the major issues remain good," he said. "But if we're not able to do it all in those two days, we'll either move into the end of April or the beginning of May."
A two-thirds majority in both chambers of the Legislature is required to extend the session beyond 90 days. If they don't agree, all legislation still unfinished would be dead.
The warm spring sunshine drew people outside yesterday, including Teal Rodgers, Lawrence High School sophomore, who sprayed her 1965 Ford Mustang clean at the Westridge Car Wash, 3300 W. Sixth St.
MARK McDONALD/Kansan Staff
Weather
It will be mild today, with temperatures reaching the low to mid-70s, according to the National Weather Service in Tonga.
Winds will be variable at 5 to 15 mph.
The low tonight will be in the mid-80s.
The extended forecast calls for cooling temperatures and a chance for showers by Saturday.
SenEx opposed to cuts in Western Civ budget
the Senate Executive Committee wishes to express its concern and dismay over recent action taken to reduce the budget of the western department, which has supported two other departments," the resolution stated.
The University Senate executive committee unanimously passed a resolution Friday opposing recent cuts in the Western Civilization budget.
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
"SenEx reaffirms the historical and essential policy that departments must be consulted in advance regarding decisions affecting the quality and viability of their programs. In this particular case, we are also concerned about the quality of undergraduate instruction."
ON MARCH $5, James Seaver, director of the Western Civilization program, discovered that Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, had cut the budget in half,
The resolution will be sent to lineherry
The other $33,500 will be turned over to the history and philosophy departments to finance
graduate students who would be willing to teach Western Civilization.
The resolution will be sent to Lineberry. At a College Assembly meeting April 6, Lineberry said he would discuss the budget again at the next assembly. April 27.
"We were enhancing a graduate program at the expense of an undergraduate program," George Woolfe, ex-officio member of SenEx and professor of English, said Friday.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, Tom Mulinazi, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board and associate professor of civil engineering, appointed his committee's annual report to Senate.
The report included changes in rules and regulations, such as visitor parking, and recent parking lot improvements, such as the construction and paving of Zone X.
The Faculty Senate executive committee accepted an annual report from the Committee.
The report reviews the committee's actions during the 1981-82 year, which included assigning a subcommittee to revise Faculty Senate Rules in working with destroying confidential materials.