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Wednesday, October 25, 1989 / University Dally Kansan
Some leeway permitted in zero tolerance policy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The "zero tolerance" guidelines instituted to hit hard at illegal drug users by seizing their cars and boats have been terrorized, so people are payed for-fail and on them. A Customs Service official said Tuesday.
The new guidelines, signed Oct. 18 by Acting Customs Commissioner Michael Lane but effective Oct. 11, somewhat counter the statement by then-Customs Commissioner William von Raab, who said when the zero tolerance provisions were imposed last year: "There will be no mercy."
The limits of drugs for which the new rules apply are an ounce or less of marjurina or hashish, a gram or less of cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine, one-tenth of a grain of LSD, micrograms of LSD. Collahan said.
This is the third shift in the zero
tolerance program since it began. An outcry erupted shortly after the program began when the Atlantis II, owned by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Massachusetts, the $2.5 million yacht Ark Royal and the Monkey Business — the pleasure boat that former presidential candidate Gary Hart sailed on with model Donna Rice — were seized after small quantities of drugs were discovered.
The zero tolerance program was imposed on March 21, 1988. Under proceedings issued in May 1988, Customs or Coast Guard authorities who found small amounts of drugs on boats would seize the boots only if they appeared to be transporting drugs into the country.
Last February, the government also exempted fishing boats en route to or from fishing grounds from immediate physical seizure, instead
Under the new guidelines, the summons procedure has been extended to all vessels, provided only small amounts of drugs are found.
issuing a summons "so as not to interfere with their earning their livelihood." Callahan said.
Other rules apply for those on land.
Given a scenario of a driver who is driving his own car and has a small amount of marijuana in the auto as he tries to cross the border from Mexico to Canada, the man has said the car still could be seized, the option available under the initial zero tolerance rule.
However, under the new guidelines, the car owner instead might be charged with a failure to report that he is bringing marijuana into the country, a violation that allows for a penalty ranging from $5,000 to $10,000.
"Realizing that that is not proportionate to the violation, the penalty would be $500 for the first offense, $1,000 for the second offense," Calla-
"If you pay that penalty at the time of the incident, you get in your car and drive away," he said. "If you refuse to pay the penalty, the automobile will be seized. . . ." he said.
Post office audits Alumni Association
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The alumni associations of the universities of Kansas and Missouri could be billed for thousands of dollars in back postage if it is determined that they misused their non-profit mailing statues.
The Associated Press
The two organizations and other alumni groups nationwide are being audited by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The inspectors are investigating whether the groups sent mail to the University occurred merchandise at lower rate reserved for non-profit organizations.
An official with the postal inspector's office would not say how many groups were being audited, but an informal survey by the Council of Alumni Association Executives showed that as many as 30 percent of the large alumni associations who are members were being audited or had been questioned by the Postal Service, said Robert Forman, the group's president. The group has
Forman said the survey showed that the average association bill could be from $10,000 to $12,000.
about 90 members.
The focus of the audits are cooperative mailings," which offer and send them, and many binders such as credit cards because they raise money for the associations.
Paul Griffo, spokesman for the Postal Inspection Service, said the organizations might have used their non-profit mail rates to send information designed to generate a profit for a private company.
"It may be a situation in which a non-profit organization is going above and beyond what they are allowed to do." Griffo said. "Postage is not being paid that should be paid" in some cases.
The KU and MU associations received letters from the postal inspector in April asking for information on all cooperative mailings since January 1988. Neither organization has heard back from the Postal Service, officials said.
Both organizations also immediately stopped using the non-profit rate of 8.4 cents a letter on cooperative mailings, paying 16.8 cents instead.
According to guidelines involving non-profit cooperative mailings, each of the organizations involved in the mailing must have non-profit status. Cooperative mailings produced by an organization that is not authorized to mail at the non-profit rate must pay the regular rate.
George Walker, assistant vice chancellor for alumni relations at the University of Missouri, said he had been involved in a campaign to be violating postal regulations.
Walker said the questions about the mailings surprised him because Postal Service guidelines required that non-profit mail be approved by a postmaster, and before it was mailed. The MU mailings were approved.
"We're trying to fight this on the basis that we weren't doing anything wrong," Walker said. "I believe what we were doing was well within the bounds."
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Grissom
People who knew Grissom when he was in Lawrence have mixed feelings about the ruling.
Carolyn Masinton, Kansas City,
Mo., resident and former acquaintance
of Grissom, said she was glad
about the court ruling.
"I want him to be tried as soon as possible," she said. "I think it has taken entirely too long to get him here.
In August, Maj. John Round of the Overland Park police department said that Grissom also was a suspect in the death of Tearl Maness, 25, Wichita.
Masinot said she was a close friend of Maness.
"I hope he will eventually get charged in the Wichita murder," Masinont said.
The extradition process has been frustrating, she said.
Lynn Nye, Highland Park, III., senior, knew Grissom. She shared the news of her death but said that she felt safer with Grissom being in Texas.
"I was angry that it was taking so long. Now I am happy they have finally gotten it underway," she said.
Blast
"It scares me that he is going to be in Kansas," Nye said.
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Paul Willhite, chairman of the KU chemical and petroleum engineering department, said that hat a fire could result without question.
▶ The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
The fire raged for more than 12 hours, fed by plastics, ethylene and isobutane gases.
"Certainly, when gas like that gets loose from process vessels and finds its way to furnaces or heaters or the boiler system," he explained. "An explosion is possible," he said.
Howe said that after they had been turned away from the inferno, they drove to a 7-11 store and tried to use a telephone, but the lines went dead.
wouldn't survive. It's really tragic."
Howe said that people were the first thing she thought of once she realized that it had been the plant that had exploded.
wouldn't survive. It's really tragic.
More than 900 people worked at the
800-acre complex just outside of Houston.
thing on the cars that I was able to see were the cars in the parking lot," she said. "I can't imagine what it must have been like. Their roofs were caved in, and their trunks were busted open. I guess from the heat."
"I was so frightened," she said. "I thought a lot of people probably
Howe, who lives about 20 miles from the plant, said she could still see smaller explosions every few minutes after she arrived home.
Three plastics plants were located at the site, each of which produced a different type of plastic.
"For 12 hours, all I could see was black smoke," she said.
Although she did not work in the main plant that exploded, Howd did tour it once when she first began working at the site.
"They have extremely high-level security and extensive safety procedures." she said.
Howe also said an alarm test was run every Monday morning on speakers that could be heard throughout the plant.
Howe worked in Phillips' market research department, which was located in a building next to the main plant that exploded. "The only
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Workers reported hearing a warning that an explosion was imminent 20 to 30 seconds before the blast.
Officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency joined Phillips officials in assessing the decimated complex.
Howe graduated in the spring with bachelor's degrees in English and political science. She plans to return to the University in January to begin work on a master's of business administration degree.
> The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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