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University Daily Kansan, April 8, 1982
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Tanker explodes in tunnel; at least six killed in inferno
OAKLAND, Calif. -- A tanker truck loaded with gasoline crashed into a runaway bus in a highway tunnel yesterday and exploded into a 1,000-degree inferno which melted several vehicles in seconds and incinerated their occupants.
At least six people were killed in their cars by a giant fireball sent hurtling by the crash through the tunnel, which runs more than half a mile under the Berkeley Hills, officials said. Authorities found a seventh body, thought to be that of an animal. Three people were hospitalized.
The tanker truck, carrying 8,900 gallons of gasoline, crashed into the side of the tunnel as the driver swerped in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid colliding with an out-of-control bus, which was empty except for its driver, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The ensuing blast and fireball melted vehicles into pools of metal and dissolved brass fitted on the tunnel walls. The heart popped tiles from the wall.
"It looked like a bomb had gone off," said a spokesman for the highway patrol. "It was just unbelievable."
The bus bounced off the wall of the tunnel and into the tanker truck, which overturned, spilling its load of fuel, witnesses said.
According to witness accounts, the bus driver lost control when he swerved to avoid hitting a car ahead of him in the tunnel.
Reagan begins talks in Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica—President Reagan arrived yesterday to discuss
adaptive, the goals of freedom and prosperity we seek for the Caribbean,
would say.
Larry Speakes, White House spokesman, said Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga and Reagan would discuss the economic development of the country.
Reagan is the first American president to make an official visit to Jamaica. He is renewing acquaintances with Seaga, who was the first foreign ambassador to Jamaica.
The president, whose five-day Caribbean journey was billed as a "working holiday," flies to Harbadines for a luncheon-meeting with several other members of the board.
Phone rates to jump. survev savs
ORKLAHOMA CITY—Telephone rates across the nation will rise 76 percent in the next four years because of inflation and deregulation, a govern-
Bernard Wunder, a Commerce Department assistant secretary, released the survey at a congressional hearing in Oklahoma City.
Some predominantly rural areas will experience even greater increases regions, where the higher cost of providing service to sparsely populated regions. Winters are
The survey said the basic charge for an average customer would increase from $1.16 to more than $18 by early 1986.
Wunder said most of the increase would be caused by inflation, but growing denervation of the industry would contribute to the higher rates.
growing deregulation of the industry would contribute to the higher rates. In the past five years, the basic charge for telephone service has risen 17 percent.
Trial date finally set for Hincklev
WASHINGTON—A federal judge yesterday set April 27 as the opening day or the trial of John Hinckley, 28, the young man accused of trying to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.
U. D. District Judge Barrington Parker issued the date in a brief statement just hours after Hincapie's lawyers asked that the trial not start for at least two months.
Vincent Fuller, head of Hinckley's defense team, asked for the extra time at a brief hearing on grounds that the defense needed it to fully prepare its case—that Hinckley was not mentally responsible for his actions when Reagan was shot on March 30, 1980.
Hinckey's trial has been postponed three times because of wrangling over legal issues.
Hickley faces up to life imprisonment if convicted of charges stemming from wounding Reagan, White House Press Secretary. James Brady, and Andrew S. Gorman have been charged with the crime.
Landon better, may return home
TOPEKA-AIF Landon, former Republican presidential nominee hospitalized for a virus, fell better yesterday and is looking forward to going back home.
Kathy Olson, spokeswoman for Stormtion-Vail Regional Medical Center, said a year-old Landon was in satisfactory condition after entering the hospital.
His doctor has scheduled several more routine tests. Olson said, but has told Landon's wife, Theo, that I landon will be able to go home in "a couple of
During his hospital stay, Landon has undergone a number of medical tests to determine the cause of the troublesome virus. The results of those tests were not available yesterday, Olson said.
House votes to revive gas tax bill
TOPEKA—The Kansas House had second thoughts yesterday about putting to death a gasoline tax increase.
During its morning session, the House had shot down 56-68 a bill that would raise the gallonage tax on motor fuels by 3 cents. However, late yesterday, the House voted to reconsider that action and then voted 71-50 to send the proposal to a six-member House-Senate conference committee.
The fate of the measure is still not certain because House Speaker Wendell Lady, who had opposed the bill, appointed himself to the conference committee.
The bill would raise the gas on gasoline from 8 cents to 11 cents a gallon. The tax on diesel fuel would increase from 10 cents to 13 cents a gallon.
GOP reps draft new budget plan
Lady and other lawmakers opposed the plan saying they could not support such a tax increase unless a severance tax was approved by the Legislature.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Three Republican Congressmen have give President Reagan a few ideas on how to reduce the budget by $111 billion with
The administration still officially estimates its fiscal 1983 deficit at $1.5 billion, although it is expected to be much higher. Budget Director David Stockman has said the red ink will be at least $96.4 billion and his office of management and budget plans to issue a revised proposal Friday.
Reps. Stan Parris of Virginia, Henson Moore of Louisiana and William Dammeier of California outlined the budget options compiled by an ad hoc committee to consider the proposed budget.
They offered a list of $82.3 billion of potential spending cuts, in excess of the changes," for consideration by your administration and by the congress.
Pets' health can now be insured
LOS ANGELES—Canine TV star, Lassie, yesterday became the first pooch to be insured under a new plan to help pet owners pay for escalating veterinary costs for dogs and cats that might otherwise have to be destroyed.
Mayor Tom Bradley, a democratic candidate for governor, presented the four-legged TV star with her health insurance policy.
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City managers make policy,profs say
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
Although Lawrence city commissioners have said that a city manager was supposed to implement policy rather than make it, in practice a city manager should be expected to do both, Edwin Stone, who helped train about 200 city managers at the University of Kansas, said recently.
"When you have city managers who set the official agenda of the council, control the flow of information, coordinate and monitor the agency heads and don't let the council see the agency heads, provide budgetary information and are full-time, as compared with part-time, it's a real question whether that's administration or policy-making among the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"They prepare the budget." Stene, a former professor of public administration, said of city managers. "The budget is the police instrument."
the general tendency in the city manager form of government and not necessarily to the government in Lawrence.
Robert Lineberry, KU professor of political science, agreed.
Other cities such as Chicago have a mayor-council form of government in which an elected mayor receives a full-time job, also does some administrative work.
LAWRENCE HAS a city manager-
commission form of government.
Lineberry said he was referring to
In February, Lawrence City Commissioner Tomegla wrote a letter to City Manager Buford Watson suggesting that he should face the possibility of being fired.
But following the commission's evaluation of Watson's job performance, no commissioners moved to fire Watson.
One problem with the mayoral form of government is that decisions are often made for political reasons rather than on a basis that is administratively efficient. In law, Edwin O. Stene. Distinguished Professor of Political Science at KU.
"When we have a city manager form of government, we have a chilling effect on politics—a depolarization," Levine said.
"It's a quieter form of political communication," he said. "And if you ever have to know city managers, you'll quickly know why. They are people very comfortable dealing with the issues they are people who are very oriented toward growth, and that's likely to lead the community to conflict."
BUT THE CITY manager form of government lends itself to a less visible kind of politics. Linebervy said.
Recently some people have questioned the value of overall growth,
"Fifteen years ago we almost never had a conflict in American communities about growth," he said.
"Now the city manager system, tied in with the business system, is very strongly committed to the view that growth is good and many parts of the business community don't care where growth takes place."
HOWEVER, PEOPLE in older neighborhoods have become concerned that the city is shifting its resources to the newer, expanding areas and they complain, "Hey, wait a minute, all the growth over here is reducing at the
tention the city pays to us in our neighborhood and we'd like to grow in quality rather than in quantity." Linebery said.
Levine agreed that neighborhood groups were influential in Lawrence and said that they were a new interest group.
"They're reopened the agenda of political discussion here," he said. "What we're seeing is the rise of politics."
an important factor in Lawrence politics is the tendency for middle-class people to move into the older neighborhoods, Linebird said.
"People in older neighborhoods as they have become gentrified—we see that process going on around here—middle-class people tend to move into a neighborhood that's been kind of their own and then sort of pick it again," he said.
"Those kinds of people have a lot of clout, and they don't like to be walked over by city hall. They're bright, young, aggressive middle-class doctors and nurses, and they are not necessary all chamber of commerce, small-business types."
State joins radioactive waste disposal plan
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
Kansas yesterday became the first of nine states to enter into a compact that would regulate the transfer and storage of low-level radioactive waste.
Earlier approved by both chambers of the Legislature, the compact yesterday received the signature of Gov. John Carlin, who dismissed as premature speculations that Kansas could become the storage state for all low-level radioactive waste in the region.
Although Kansas is the first state to enter the compact, Missouri is working on an identical bill during its legislative session this year, and Nebraska has agreed to work on a bill next year. After three states join the compact, the U.S. Congress would have to approve any agreement between the states.
Because Kansas is centrally located, some lawmakers argued that the state was likely to be chosen as the storage location for radioactive waste of the other states.
If no state volunteered to store the waste, a compact commission would choose a state to do so.
But State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, LA-
Lawrence, agreed with Carlin that it
was too early to worry about the
sufficiency of Kansas being chosen for
this task.
"No state probably will volunteer," Charlton, a supporter of the bill in the Senate. "It's the wrong thing."
Carlin said the bill was the culmination of "many hours of hard work by concerned and dedicated individuals."
"By working with other states in this region, we can begin a common sense approach to the very real and complex problem of dealing with the waste products of our technological society," he said.
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Low-level radioactive waste is any material that is contaminated with radioactive elements up to a certain
The compact's purpose is to provide safe facilities for the management of low-level radioactive waste in the nine-state region. The compact would try to limit the number of facilities needed in the region and to encourage the reduction of the amount of waste generated by the member states.
degree. They are generally produced in Kansas at hospitals, research institutions, industry and some government facilities.
Kansas officials began meeting with other states in February 1981 to discuss the feasibility of creating a compact. A compact document was formally approved last January in Kansas City, Mo.
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will be Sat., April 17 at 10:30 a.m. at the Shenk Complex, 23rd & Iowa. Entry deadline is Thurs., April 15 at 5 p.m. in 208 Robinson. For more information call 864-3546.
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