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University Daily Kansan, March 4. 1982
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Senate begins the first trial to expel an Abscam senator
WASHINGTON—Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., proclaiming innocence, was accused yesterday of "pure unadulterated greed" and betrayal of public trust as the Senate began its first expulsion trial in 120 years.
Soon after Williams announced at a news conference that he had done nothing wrong, Republican and Democratic Senate leaders began outlining the case, trying to show that his conduct in the Abscam affair was "ethically repugnant."
repguignant.
Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala., vice chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee,
delivered a 39-page indictment as debate began on a Senate resolution titled "Exemplary Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr."
Hefin rejected Williams' defense that the FBI had entrapped him. He said Williams repeatedly failed to walk away from Abscam meetings, which the FBI secretly taped, where he was offered a multi-million-dollar share in a mining venture in exchange for his influence in winning government contracts.
tracts.
As leaders opened debate, fewer than a dozen members' chairs were empty, and, in an unusual step, sergeants-at-arms were posted at each door to encourage senators to remain on the floor throughout the debate.
to encourage senators to remain on the floor throughout. If the expulsion measure is passed, it will be the first time a senator has been ousted since 1862, when Sen. Jesse Bright, D-Ind., was removed from office.
Reagan says economy recovering
HUGAN SAYS—President Reagan, carefully choosing his barometers, said yesterday big budget deficits were only "a necessary evil" and the nation on the verge of an economic turnaround.
"We believe the economy is poised for recovery," the president told a Los Angeles Board of Supervisors' town meeting. "The medicine is beginning to work."
work.
As proof, Reagan said that since he had taken office, inflation has fallen, personal savings have risen and the prime interest rate has dropped by 20 percent.
However, Reagan did not mention the rising unemployment rate, slumping productivity figures or sagging economic indicators. And he brushed over the problem of the record $91.5 billion deficit included in his 1983 budget proposal.
Love Canal rehabilitation to begin
rethink the urgency.
The first series set for demolition were purchased by the state in 1978 and 1989 apart of the evacuation and relocation from the Love Canal, where chemicals dumped nearly 30 years ago began seeping into the yards and basements of houses constructed on top of the landfill.
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - New York state yesterday said it would demolish 227 abandoned homes at the Love Canal, the first step in rehabilitating the former toxic chemical dump.
State officials said that the homes would be bulldozed. The debris, shrubs, walkways, driveways and fences will be bulldozed into the foundations.
walkable. The foundations will then be covered with fill and capped with clay, and the area will be graded.
the area will be graded.
Further revitalization work at the Love Canal will be withheld pending the release of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study of toxic contamination in the area.
GM, UAW may renew negotiations
WASHINGTON - the president of General Motors Corp., F. James McDonald, said yesterday that the giant automaker would be "hard to put say 'no'" to a United Auto Workers agreement to match the Ford Motor Co.'s wage-freeze agreement.
He said he was unsure when negotiations, which broke off Jan. 28, would resume, but was "whelped that within a couple weeks, we can get back to the
UAW President Douglas Fraser said that renewed contract-concession talks with GM could take place this month.
talks with GM could take place this weekend. "If we got back to the table we could do as well at GM as at Ford," said Fraser, who negotiated the historic concessions contract that Ford workers ratified by a 3-1 margin last week.
Israel welcomes Mitterrand's visit
JERUSALEM - French President Francois Mitterrand got a lavish official welcome from the first French head of state to visit Israel and the Middle East in the Middle East.
we can never be content as long as there is no peace and there are conflicts between people." Mitterrand said at the start of a 50-hour visit, which included a one-day visit to a hospital in Sao Paulo.
Later, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin told Mitterrand of Israel's opposition to a Palestinian state during a meeting at Begin's West Bank summit.
Despite his strong support of Israel, Mitterrand, who is also leader of France's societal party, said Israel should accept a Palestinian nation on the basis of its sovereignty.
Mitterrand is the first French president to visit Israel since its creation in 1948.
VOLCANO, Hawaii—The origin of a massive cloud of debris, bigger than the ash cloud from the explosion of Mount St. Helens, has puzzled scientists at observatories in Hawaii, but they suspect it was spawned by a volcanic eruption.
Robert Decker, chief scientist of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, said yesterday that considerable eruptive force would have been needed to produce the cloud, which stretches from Hawaii to Japan and Germany, but no such eruption had been reported.
Mvsterv cloud puzzles scientists
In Washington, a second check of satellite photos of the last five weeks is being made for some signs of an eruptive plume.
Farmer calls for 'Liberation army'
**BURTON - A Kansas wheat farmer said yesterday he was organizing a "burrton's Liberation Army," which will kill baby pigs and burn wheat crops.**
Decker said that weather was so bad at this time of year in some parts of the Pacific that a volcanic eruption could have gone unnoticed. Scientists do not know whether the big cloud moved over Hawaii from the north or the south.
The farmer, Keith Shave of Haistead, said he would present a proposal for the FLA Saturday at the monthly meeting of the state chapter of the Farm Bureau.
Shive said he expected the AAM to turn down the proposal because "it might get a little too violent for them."
However, Shive, 61, said that would not deter him from making the FLA an independent organization.
He said the group would kill young calves and shoot baby pigs to publicize the amount of money farmers lose through low prices.
"This summer, when the wheat gets good and ripe, we'll burn it," he said.
"We're going to prove that we mean business. We'd rather destroy things than give them to big business."
Correction
Because of a reporting error in yesterday's Kansan, former Mayor Dick Raney was mistakenly identified as Jack Raney. The Kansan regrets the error.
Alumni help sought Student Senate revives beer sales issue
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Rights Committee brought the issue of selling beer in Memorial Stadium back to life yesterday by voting to obtain alumni signatures on petitions at football games next fall.
Jim Cramer, rights committee chairman, said that the Senate had organized a task force to investigate the issue, but that it had not met since the Alumi Association voted unanimously against beer sales on Jan. 30.
"I think we should go after the alumni. They were here before us, you know," said Nick Oropeza, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore.
"What we have to do is say, 'Yes, we're aware of the implications and this is how we're going to deal with them.'" Cramer said.
"When you start those petitions, go to the Alumni Association and say, 'When we do get the signatures, you're going to look very bad that you're not representing your people,'" Silbinger said.
STEVE SILBINGER, Fairway sophomore, said he doubted that the Alumni Association's vote represented the views of the majority of alumni.
Cramer said that the Alumni Association had voted against allowing beer in the stadium because it was worried about KU's reputation, and because it thought students were not aware of the problems it could cause.
them. He said the Senate's task force had already compiled information about
how beer sold at sporting events had affected other universities.
"WE WILL BE using the information gathered by the task force to supplement our drive," Cramer said.
1. do not know whether it is necessary for the Senate to approve it. However, we will seek the Senate's endorsement," Cramer said. "There may be unreasonable as far as pensions and petitions. We will, of course, comply with those."
He said the committee would ask the Senate to back the petition when it was presented to the Alumni Association.
David Welch, student body vice president, said anybody could take up a petition for anything they wanted.
Welch thought the committee might have to go through the Senate to make it effective.
The Senate could ask a beer wholesaler to supply beer to a specific bar in Lawrence, McDougal said. Each student who came to write a letter supporting beer sales in the stadium would receive a free beer.
He said the Senate already had plans to organize a committee of faculty members, administrators and students sometime in April when the new college would be established. The committee would also look into the possibility of beer sales in the stadium.
ANOTHER WAY the Senate could express interest in beer sales would be to organize a "Beer-a-letter" drive, organized by a representative and rights committee member, said.
"ASK (Associated Students of Kansas) did it when the Kansas Senate was going to raise the drinking age by 18. It was amazing the response they got."
She said the rights committee would buy advertisements to money to buy advertising for the event.
In other business, the committee voted unanimously to endure a response to the sexual harassment policy that Shirley Harkess, chairman of the Human Resources Committee on Sexual Harassment, presented to the rights committee Feb. 17.
The response, written by McDouglas,
states that the sexual harassment
policy establishment and effective griev-
ance action are appropriate for
viable options to the complainant.
The response asks the Senate to encourage the University administration to accept the policy
McDougal also wrote that the Senate regretted that its response was so late. The ad hoc committee had asked the Senate to make recommendations last fall before forming a policy, but the Senate took no action at that time.
The policy had already been sent to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor. The Senate could take the rights committee's recommendations to Cobb before he makes his decision, if it votes to do so.
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