KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, January 28, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 84 USPS 650-640
Federal, state leaders react to Reagan speech
WASHINGTON - President Reagan's plan for federal-state swap drew quick applause from Republican leaders and harsh criticism from Democrats. The government responded from other key players to signal a tough fight.
Governors and some congressmen said they wanted to wait for specifies before backing Reagan's plan to transfer $47 billion in federal programs to states.
Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling, chairman of the National Governors Association, said yesterday that governors were unlikely to accept the president's plan unless they were given a new way to do it. The governor also wanted a formula to correct financial "injustices" among various states.
The president's proposed program came under
sharp fire yesterday from the Black Leadership
group to top leaders of nearly all black civil rights groups
Reagan's message 'demonstrated a shocking insensitivity to the needs and aspirations of black people, other minorities and the poor,' the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said on behalf of the group.
Republican leadership was more optimistic, about Reagan's proposal.
"I think it's worth the gamble," Howard Baker, Senate Republican leader, said on NBC. "I think it's the only way you can make a basic difference." This is this trend of everything going to Washington."
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kansas, interviewed on CBS.
was more cautious than other leading Republicans, "We ought to wait and look at the specifics," he said.
"We don't have the details. We have the conceat. It sounds good."
Dole urged federal protection for food stamp recipients because some states "might reduce the program and deny some poor people their food."
Johannes Witteveen, the former president of the International Monetary Fund, called Reagan's State of the Union address a disapointment on the Reagan's plans could prolong the recession by a year.
Wittevene said the president's "refusal to consider any increase in indirect taxes" meant the entire anti-inflation battle would have to be fought by the Federal Reserve.
Democratic and Republican leaders agreed that the prospect for tax increases this year will be positive.
House Speaker O'Neill that early public reaction to Reagan's program—about 100 telegrams and mailgrams was about 2-1 against the president, in contrast to the huge favorable response Reagan received when he outlined his economic program a year ago.
The White house said public opinion was in favor, with favor, with more than 5,200 responses received.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, interviewed on CBS, said he was angry about the delay in receiving payments for the project.
Mondale said the deficit was not decreasing, as Reagan claimed, but was increasing.
Sen. Russell Long, D-LA., said the president "did not come to grips" with the problems of high unemployment, high interest rates and high budget deficits.
Illinois Republican Gov. James Thompson, echoing Snelling's concerns over money, enraged the state.
Vice President George Bush was expected enthusiastic about Reagan's pronosals.
Appealing to American values of family, hard work, rugged individualism and cooperation, Bush said critics of Reagan's proposal "don't believe that the power belongs to the people."
City budget future uncertain
By STEPHEN BLAIR
Staff Reporter
City officials may have to make budget decisions without knowing how much money the city has as a result of President Reagan's "new federalism," Lawrence May or Marcel Francisco,
"We set our budget as a city a year ahead so if
The state of Kansas could handle the extra responsibilities the president wants to give states without major turmoil, Robert Harder, founder of Social Rehabilitation Services, said yesterday.
Harder said he was hungry for more details of the plan but thought that the state government would be ready.
In the president's plan, the federal government would take over the Medicare program and
director, said, "The public would end up paying either for day care or welfare, I guess day care
But no one was sure which programs might be cut. Francisco said, "You're talking about a 10-year program and I'm not sure how much control Reagan will have over it. All he'd done is
Francisco said that the problems and the wealth of the nation could be better shared on a
January/February, 1982
Ampersand
the mysterious visitor made earlier to Camargue by a woman claiming both to be and not to be his estranged daughter, or Camargue's announced intention to dismint Natalie Caramieu's an intention he did not to fulfill.
His suspicions take him to California, following the Pacific Highway for possible clues left in Los Angeles suburbia. He has been found that he may have lived on. That trail Westford seeks as well an understanding of him and an agent detecting in a modern world.
Was Gamague's death accidentally is the woman who calls herself Natalie Amo his rightful heir? These are the obvious questions we ask of Wexford must ask himself as to what constitutes an identity. Is it something fixed and stable, or something within us that alters not only because of how and where we live but from generation to generation? In *Death Notes* Wexford must read between the
Questions of identity suit Ruth Ren
dell. Author of 20 mysteries and two collections of short stories, the British ex-journalist writes two very different kinds of novels. The Wexford series of novels is rich with character, a middle-sized Kingwynkham itself, a middle-size village feeling of the intrusions of city life. These are sharp portrayals of or rather exaggerated versions of traditionally trained by violent death. Rendell's non-series novels (such as A Demon in My Vision), which received the 1975 British Crime Writers Association Award, draw on the forces that lead individuals to commute outraged acts. Her criminals are themselves victims of the necessary transition in English society from its pre-modern social classes to a chaos of clandestine.
*Death Notes* can be read at any point in the Westford series with equal pleasure and respect for Rendell's mastery of the genre. Those reading the eleventh Westford adventure need not know of detective or author, and will find themselves satisfying the hunger mysteries share for deeply-rooted
characters and suspenseful plotting.
R. Sue Smith
America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture
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To many Americans it would seem the American dream has finally turned into a nightmare of cosmic proportions. One need only read the letter from James Patterson, *America's sad realities*—seen in an evergrowing maimsia of bloody violence, decaying morals, sexual confusion and economic uncertainty But the letter doesn't down their newspapers in despair or stop reading them entirely, Marvin Harris attempts to sort out the whole mess via anthropological methods that have been used by organizations or organizations do make for mildly annoying total party conversation.
After spending a lifetime studying cannibals and kings, Harris, an anthropologist at the University of Florida, has turned his eye to analyzing the book entitled *American Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture*. Here he examines the seemingly unearly phenomena of American culture (including the rise of homosexuality, gay relationships, liberation and inflation) and theorizes that they are all causally linked. Acknowledging that we are a nation of manipulators and manipulated, Harris writes that our society is driven by the drastic changes that have occurred in America's economy and social structure since World War II. The twin natures of American big business and American government are at odds with each other in all powerful oligopolies, the later for being an inefficient bureaucracy that excels in proliferating more inefficiency. Together, say Harris, they've worked to create an environment that American dream. But writing about cause and effect relationships is '
tricky matter, while Harris takes on some interesting issues — like why there's high unemployment among blacks, deteriorating nuclear families, women who work and vocalizing against them, convince us of the connections between these phenomena. The most interesting chapter is that of homosexuality, in which Harris discusses the practice in prisons and vanished cul
Many of the questions Harris raises simply cannot be answered because American society has no yarback by a yarback. The United States has a unique nation of diverse ethnic and cultural entities without a common thread. In addition, and quite obliquely, most Americans are going time are going to affect America in ways we cannot yet predict since we have little knowledge of how compared. One thing Harris book makes quite clear — in an age of decaying morals, traditions and economy America has very little to comfort it.
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However, on Nov. 12, 200,000 people lined riverbanks and highways around the sprawling space center to see the shuttle make space history on its two-day journey.
Donald Clayton, shuttle test flight manager said that the flight ran superbly and looked considerably better than it did after flight one.
Two burned out rocket boosters were blamed for the Columbia's early re-entry.
The next important goal for the NASA space program, Engle said, would be a permanent orbiting space station. However, the future funding for that project was uncertain.
Engle said that NASA planned many more space shuttle flights.
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