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University Daily Kansan, February 23, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan, governors negotiate new federalism proposals
WASHINGTON - President Reagan said the nation's governors yesterday he was ready to negotiate on his "new federalism" despite their rejection of key proposals for the states to take over most welfare and food stamp programs
The governors' sentiments were echoed by several local government groups, including the National Association of Counties, which adopted a position similar to the state chief executives' on the new federalism plan.
"I think there is the beginning here of a pretty good romance," said Gov. Bruce Babbit, D-Ariz., after meeting with the president. He was the chief governor to oppose transferring welfare programs to states, saying "the safety net ought to be a national function."
The governors said they would pick up the cost of other federal government programs if Washington would pay the states' share of Medicaid.
Although most governors said they were pleased with Reagan's reaction toward their scaled-down version of his program, they said Reagan made no promises about what would be in the legislation he hoped to send Congress within six weeks.
The governors will hold a final session of their winter meeting today to formally adopt their revised version of the president's plan, which they will release on Tuesday.
Williams denies knowing victims
ATLANTA—A nervous Wayne Williams testified at his murder trial yesterday that he had never met the two young blacks he is accused of killing.
Williams, called as his defense team prepared to wrap up its case in the eight-week-old trial, wasted no time in challenging the only motives presented by the prosecution for the犯害murders of Jimmy Ray Payne and Leroy Dillen. Williams also faced a 22-month period. Prosecutors have linked Williams to 10 other killings.
"Aim 'no way I'm homosexual," protested Williams. "I don't have no grudge against them as long as they keep their hands to themselves and
Asked by Alvin Binder, defense attorney, about a prosecution witness's claim that Williams fondled him sexually, the defendant replied, "He's a
He also denied testimony from another witness who said he saw Williams holding hands with Caterer on the night that prosecutors think Caterer was guilty.
Cooke immune from court-martial
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Court of Military Appraisal ruled yesterday that 2nd Lt. Christopher Cooke could not be prosecuted for passing missile secrets to the Soviets. Cooke was discharged from the Air Force and released from prison.
The appeals court, which is a civilian court, said Cooke, a 26-year-old former deputy commander of a Titan II missile site in Kansas, could not be court-martialed because he was offered immunity to cooperate with authorities.
The court, which decided 2-1, was highly critical of the way the military handled the case.
The Air Force "created reasonable expectation that if he satisfactorily cooperated with command in matters concerning national security, there would be no risk of any harm."
The Air Force released a statement saying that Cooke had left the Air Force under conditions "other than honorable."
Polish militants face treason trial
WARSHA, Poland—In the first big political trial since martial law was declared, four leaders of a militant anti-communist dissident group, charged with trying to overthrow the government, went before a military court yesterday.
At the same time, a government security official warned that the regime might be under criminal mental law restrictions if what he called acts of torture and subversion is not avoided.
The indictment said the dissidents passed sensitive information to the West and were "financed and supported" by "hostile centers of foreign subversion"—a code phrase for Western intelligence services and radio stations like Radio Free Europe.
PAP, the official Polish news agency, published one of the harshest attacks on Lech Walessa, the interned Solidarity Union leader, since the imposition of martial law in December.
The test, administered to civilians on a broad scale for the first time, was undertaken to measure the quality of recruits in the all-village force (VMF) of Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON-Military recruits reread better than the average civilian in qualification tests, according to a Pentagon study released yesterday.
Critics of the volunteer force, which started in 1973 when the draft ended, have charged that military recruits were less skilled than the general.
The study indicated that recruits fared better than civilians in mathematics and verbal skills.
In the tests of civilian men and women, whites averaged 56 percent, blacks 24 percent and Hispanics 31 percent.
LONDON - Day-long talks on voluntary staff reductions to save the Times and the Sunday Times taken in connection with Rupert Murdock, publisher, and 101 clerks workers.
London papers fire 210 workers
Murdock, who is calling for 600 resignations to save the papers, maintains that with 2,600 employees, the newspapers are so overstaffed that they are "bleeding to death" financially. He said he would lose more than $27 million on their operation this year.
LIBERAL—Contestants failed to break the world pancake-eating record yesterday in pre-Lenten festivities that climax today with a pancake footrace between the women of Liberal and their counterparts in Olney, England.
Traditional pancake gala continues
Murdoch's announcement, issued after 10 hours of negotiation, left the unions with few options besides accepting Murdoch's demands for staff reduction or staging a strike that would almost certainly lead Murdoch to shut down both historic newspapers.
Every Shrove Tuesday since 1951, the women of Liberal and Oline have donned traditional dresses, aprons and head scarves to race down the streets of their respective towns and compete for the international pancake championship.
English legend says the race was started in Otney in 1445, after a woman made a last-minute dash to church carrying a skillet and a pancake as the horse.
Disc jockey, 'the fifth Beatle,' dies
LOS ANGELES—Murray "the K" Kaufman, the king of rock 'n' roll jockeys who anticipated the British rock invasion in the early 1960s and was dubbed "the fifth Beatle" by George Harrison, died Sunday of cancer. He was 60.
Murray the K, perhaps the first American disc jockey to grasp the importance of the Beatles' popularity, led a contingent of thousands of screening teenagers to meet the "fab four" when they arrived in New York in 1964 for their first U.S. tour.
Nuclear Reactor Center declared safe
By ANNE CALOVICH and LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporters
One student's complaint has caused the vice chancellor for academic affairs to question the safety of the Nuclear Reactor Center.
"Our radiation safety officer has inspected the building thoroughly and has certified it as safe for human habitation according to all of the standards. Dennis Tarba, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
"For this semester, I am confident it is safe."
However, Teddi McCullough,
Lawrence junior, said she dropped her
biology class, Environment and Human
Cancer, last week because it was held
in the reactor center, which is near
Learned Hall.
"I'ts my decision to fly in an airplane, 'it's my decision to watch a color TV, but it's not my decision to go to a nuclear plant.'" He answered. I dropped the class." McCullough said."
The reactor, in the south end of the
THE COMPLAINT reached Tacha, who contacted the radiation safety officer, Benjamin Friesen. Tchaa said that Friesen assured her that the class would remain in the nuclear center for the rest of the semester.
McCullough complained to the instructor of the course, Edward Shaw, and the head of the department of biological sciences, Gunther Schlager, who is in charge of the students should have to go into a nuclear reactor to go to a class at a university."
center, is visible from the classroom in which McCullough had her class.
McCullough dropped the class anyway.
Tacha and Schlaiger said they knew of Tacha not other student complaints about the school.
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of safety, but on whether the classroom space was needed and the room was suited to courses taught.
Tacha said classes had been held at the center for 26 years.
HOBART WOODY, operator of the nuclear reactor for 20 years, said any radiation emitted from the reactor was minimal.
"It's a research reactor, not a power reactor," Woody said.
"People have some funny ideas about nuclear reactors."
KU'S "swimming pool" type reactor was built in 1961. It stands approximately 30 feet high and is cooled by 7,000 gallons of water. It is shielded by three tiers of solid concrete walls, Woody said.
"But the radiation is very minimal," he said.
The reactor was used to make materials for nuclear medicine and is now used to produce radio active samples for classes, he said.
"It's a facility for the University in case someone wants something to be activated," he said.
"It gives off some radiation and radiation is what we use to activate the samples.
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