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University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International Guatemalan junta disregards results of March 7 election
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala's new military junta declared the results of the coup attempt null and yesterday, but the army said he did not intend to take action.
A respected newspaper editor, who claimed the coup was painful but necessary, said public discontent would build rapidly against the junta if members of the ousted government were not brought to trial on corruption charges.
Gen. Efraim Rios Montt, head of the three-man junta that toppled President Romeo Lucas Garcia on Tuesday, said the deposed president was being held under house arrest at his ranch in Sebol, a remote jungle region of Alta Vergenza Province.
Asked if he would run for president once civilian rule was restored, as the army has promised. Rios replied:
"I will not accept any candidacy for the presidency of Guatemala because I have responsibilities that cannot be postponed with the army, and those do not involve my health."
The junta voiled the outcome "because the elections celebrated March 7 of this year suffered from anomalies, defects and general manipulations and clearly hurt the will of the Guatemalan people," the legal decree annelling the elections said.
Wichita man joins governor's race
TOPEKA-Wichita developer Sam Hardage, who earlier this week indicated he might seek the Republican nomination for governor, said in a statement that "the governor's administration is deeply concerned."
Hardage said that if he decided to run, he would hire Dave Matthews, and El Dorado insurance executive, as his campaign manager and Darrell Dailly, now a United Press International reporter in Wichita, as his press secretary. He also appears createdrith the next 10 days.
Received with respect to Hardge lost the GOP nomination for U.S. senator to Nancy Landon Kassaeum in 1970.
So far, three people—L. Gov. Dave Owen, Louis Klemp and Ron Ibun—have been elected to the right for a Democratic Gov. John Carlin in the next general election.
Carlin hasn’t officially announced his candidacy for a second term, although he has made known his running mate: Tom Docking, of former Kansas City Chiefs.
Prisoners' bargaining fails in N.C.
RALEIGH, N.C.—Three black convicts who said they feared for their lives in North Carolina's Central Prison gave up the last of eight hostages yesterday in exchange for transfers to a federal penitentiary. The state later renewed on the deal.
"If somebody's offended by the fact that these inmates may have been misled, that's just tough," said Brent Hackney, a press aide to Gov. James Hunt Jr. "You don't allow somebody to bargain someone out of prison; you don't reward a terrorist act." he said.
But Irvin Joyner, a black civil rights attorney who played a major role in the negotiations, was jolted by the reversal.
"Quite frankly, I was just shocked and dismayed that I have been used, that I was dealt with in bad faith, that the inmates were dealt with in bad faith."
Armed with crudely made knives the convicts—William Darrell Little, 17; Ezekiel Hall, 28; and Melvin Surgeon, 31—grabbed eight hostages Tuesday after a fierce attack on the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
Nicaragua blasts U.S. peace plan
UNITED NATIONS - Nicaragua's junta leader Daniel Ortega Sanveida, presenting a peace plan for war-torn Central America, lashed out at U.S. foreign policy yesterday and called for urgent talks with Washington to reach a peaceful solution to their differences.
"I have come to this forum because Nicaragua has military pacts with nobody, because we cannot conceive that the insensitivity of the North American administration to the needs of change in the region create a crisis of global consequence and because we do not want this struggle incorporated in the geo-political plans of the great world strategies," Ortega told a crowded U.N. Security Council.
In a blistering response, U.S. Ambassador Jane Kirkpatrick accused Ortega of double charges, charging the United States with actions 'of wholly unreasonable and outrageous'.
"These charges are as extravagant as they are baseless," she said.
Dozier's kidnappers are convicted
VERONA, Italy — A court convicted 17 Red Brigade terrorists yesterday of keeping amy My Gen. James Dobson and sentenced them to prison term.
A spokesman for the 14 defense attorneys said all the defendants planned to appeal the sentences.
The longest sentences were given to Cesare D Lienardo and his girlfriend, Alberta Biliato, the two defendants who refused to cooperate or participate in the trial.
The nine defendants in court chatted amabilly in their two steel cages during the trial, which stood up to grip the bars when the judges returned from their deliberations.
Baker urges budget talk progress
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn., said yesterday he would tell his budget committee to start writing its own spending plan next week unless there is progress in talks between the White House and House Democrats.
President Reagan designated James Baker, chief of staff, to be his listener in private talks on the budget, but gave him no power to 'broker any deal,'*I*
House Speaker Thomas N'Neill, D-Mass., sent James Jones, House Budget Committee chairman, and Darian Rostenkowski, House Ways and Means Committee chairman, as his representatives, but made it clear that the final Democratic stance would be up to him and the Democratic leadership.
"I can't wait forever," he said. "Time is sort of running out."
Lady revives severance tax bills
The Senate deadline for reporting out a budget resolution is April 15, and the Senate is scheduled to take its Easter recess April 3-13.
TOPEKA-The Kansas Legislature's most ardent severance tax advocates lost no time in planning ways to revive the severance tax issue Wednesday, when House Speaker Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, quietly resurreced three tax bills that were living dormant in committee.
While presiding over the first few minutes of House activity, he transferred three severance tax bills from the House Assessment and Taxation Board to the House Judiciary.
The maneuver was executed so quickly and without fanfare that few legislators reacted.
Lady said he was undaunted by the Senate Ways and Means Committee's rejection of the severance tax bills, and Wednesday he sauntered about the HR committee.
The tax panel has already passed its deadline of dealing with House-originated bills, and only two House committees have that privilege now—Federal and State Affairs and House Ways and Means. By sending the tax bills to Federal and State Affairs, Lady is giving them new life.
Correction
Because of a reporting error in the March 24 Kansas, the name of Tami Gannon, assistant administrator of the Big Eight Conference, was misspelled.
Reps uphold clinics' right to dispense pill
By KEVIN HELLIKER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—After an hour of heated theological speeches and tales of teenage pregnancies, a House committee yesterday voted 10-6 to maintain the family planning clinics to dispense birth control, including birth control pills.
The birth control issue, which is one aspect of a bill to revamp the State Pharmacy Act, centers on whether nurses at family planning clinics should be able to dispense prescribed contraceptives.
"What we're doing here is a monstrous thing," said State Rep. Gerald Friedman, R-Great Bend, who spoke against birth control. "I've said that I'm walking of the walk and clean my in a cesspool—that's how dirty I feel today."
But the question of the pharmaceutical skills of nurses was virtually ignored yesterday as members of the House Public Health and Welfare Committee debated the morals and merits of birth control.
FRIEDEMAN TOLD his fellow legislators, "If you don't believe in a law higher than man's law, then you don't belong here. You all took an oath saying you would do your best, so help you God."
"I'm sickened by these moral platitudes that are supposed to protect kids from sex," said Holt, a social worker in psychology. "If we could out of our middle-class perspective, we'd see what was going on here."
But State Rep. Doug Holt, R-Crimaroon, said religious arguments would not help teenage girls who became pregnant.
"The clinics do so much more than birth control," said Branson, a nurse. "Any regulations you put on them will only limit their effectiveness."
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, agreed.
IN ADDITION to allowing county health programs and family planning clinics to dispense medication without in-house pharmacists, the committee voted 9-7 against an amendment to require clinics to obtain parental consent before issuing birth control to minors.
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Referring to testimonies given Monday by pro-life advocates from Hays, Cribs said, "I don't appreciate people coming in from small towns and saying, 'We don't need family planning.'
There are more teen-age girls in some Wichita high schools than the whole population of some of these girls. They don't need birth control but we do."
The issue now will go to the floor of the House, where debate is expected to be equally heated.
Pamela Jarmar, director of Planned Parenthood of Wichita, testified that if minors suddenly cannot receive birth control without consent from their parents, the Kansas women under the age of 18 might start bearing unwanted children.
Holt said most sexually active women under the age of 18 were low-income, minority people who had not been exposed to middle-class morals. Cutting off access to birth control for them would have led to a less socially accepted act, he said.
"The same people who don't like birth control don't like abortion," he
said. "Well, if you don't have birth control, you're going to have abortion."
HOLT SAID opponents of birth control lived in a sheltered, middle-class world. But State Rep. Nina Strahm, R-Sabetha, said her relations with minorities and young people had led her to support legislated morality.
'What I'm hearing from minorities and around college campuses is 'We want a government that leads us,' and 'We don't want a permissive society.'
"What we're deciding here is whether we're going to have a permissive version of the rule."
acknowledge birth control and say we want our kids to use it."
But Holt responded, "We're not making a statement. We're using an asset that we've got to combat a real problem."
State Rep. Lloyd Polson, R-Vermilion, said, "I don't know which side has an edge on Judeo-Christian ethics. It's hard to tell anymore."
"When a guy and a girl live together, we don't call it 'shacking up' anymore. Now we call it 'an alternative lifestyle.'
"But I think here we're using family planning clinics to allow approved appraisals."
Museum will sponsor a fitness workshop
Becoming physically fit is not as hard as many people think, but it does require a lot of attention, the leader of a workshop included for this weekend said yesterday.
The Museum of Natural History will sponsor the Sunday workshop, which will start at 1:45 p.m. in room 602J of Dyche Hall. There will be a registration fee of $3 for Museum Associates members and $4 for non-members.
"There are a lot of different options to make the game more fun, and Mary Elliot, leader works on a workshop."
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Participating in a variety of sports, he was often more physically fit, she said. "Naut sport
Even though many sports are group activities, people must motivate themselves to participate. Elliott said it would be to establish your own program."
will improve all the different areas of fitness."
People whose only activity is running will have muscle and balance but will not have flexibility, she said.
Workshop participants will first define physical fitness and then discuss how it can be achieved. Simple methods to define fitness will be demonstrated, Elliott said.
"I just want people to get an idea of what condition they're in now." Exercises will be an important part of the workshop. she said.
"It's going to be a very participatory thing," she said.
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