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University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan to propose cuts in U.S. and Soviet arms
WASHINGTON—President Reagan visited the Pentagon's War Room yesterday for a first stand look at America's military nerve center on the eve of the war.
Administration officials said the President would call for deep mutual cuts in the number of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons in Europe in his address to Congress on Wednesday.
Although U.S. officials think there is no real hope for Soviet acceptance, they said the United States would be willing to consider the so-called "zero war" between the two countries.
The Soviets now have about 270 of the wamps aimed at Western Europe. The Western alliance has none now and agreed in 1979 to start deploying 500 of them.
David Gergen, chief White House spokesman, denied that the president's speech was timed to steal the spotlight from Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who is scheduled to visit West Germany next week. Gergen said the speech had been in the works for three weeks.
Committee balks at request for cuts
WASHINGTON-The Senate Appropriations Committee late yesterday balked at a request for President Reagan to make deeper cuts from an emergency spending bill, one day after the House dealt Reagan a similar defeat.
The action by the Republican-controlled committee, just hours after Reagan urged the additional cuts, increased the likelihood Reagan will veto
The measure is needed to keep the government running past midnight tomorrow when current appropriations expire. The bill is now headed to the full Senate and will end up in a House-Senate conference committee for compromise.
The bill is necessary because Congress, delayed by White House revisions,
has not completed its 13 regular appropriations bills.
In September, Reagan asked for $13 billion in slashes and $3 billion in increased taxes, but he said yesterday he would go along with the plan. (The administration is planning to make a $20 billion increase.)
Economists say prime rate will fall
NEW YORK—Economists and bankers yesterday predicted further declines in interest rates over the next several months as the recession
Many forecasters expect the prime rate, currently at the 16-16½ percent level, to drop to the 13-14 percent range by early next year. Economists at Irving Trust Bank of New York are even more optimistic with a projection of a 10-12 percent prime rate by next spring.
"Along the way there may be some technical upturs, but the general trend of interest rates will be downward as long as the recession continues—and we expect it to continue until spring," said Gordon Pye, manager of economic research and planning at Irvine Trust.
During a recession, depressed business activity reduces borrowing needs. With credit needs reduced, interest rates tend to fall.
China continues to veto Waldheim
UNITED NATIONS-China used its veto in the Security Council yesterday to block the re-election of Secretary General Kurt Waldheim amid growing concerns over the country's human rights record.
"My opinion is that we have an impasse," said U.S. ambassador Jeanne Kirpatrick as she emerged from eight rounds of secret balloting in the 15th
She said the continued Chinese vetio of Waldheim, who is seeking an unprecedented third five-year term, meant that new candidates must be prepared to answer questions.
Unofficial results of the voting showed Walheim reinforced an edge over his challenger. Foreign Minister Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania.
Committee OKs sale to Pakistan
WASHINGTON—The administration yesterday scored its first and apparently final congressional victory in the proposed $1.1 billion sale of 40 F-16 fighter-bombers to Pakistan, winning support from committees in both houses.
If both the Senate and the House disapprove of the sale by majority vote before Sunday, the deal will be blocked. But in a test vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday a resolution of disapproval was turned down. 9-5.
Technically, the issue still could go to the Senate floor, but in light of the committee vote, it probably will not—especially because there is a crush of
Because it takes both houses to stop a major arms sale, a Senate victory would guarantee the ossage of the sale for the administration.
Defense budget hinges on MX, B-1
WASHINGTON—President Reagan won Senate Appropriations Committee approval for his key strategic weapons yesterday, but floor fight over the budget has delayed progress.
With opposition from Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., committee chairman, the Senate committee voted to keep the more than $2.1 billion the Pentagon recommended for the new manned bomber in a $208.4 billion defense budget it sent to the full Senate.
The House Appropriations Committee restored $1.9 billion for the MX missile by a narrow margin Monday, leaving the two programs intact in the $196.5 billion version of the defense budget it sent to the floor. A House vote is expected today.
Hafftine has already announced he would introduce an amendment on the Senate floor to cut funding for the MX, and Rep. Joseph Addabbo, D-N.Y., chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, said he would move in the House to cut funds for the B-1.
Burger grants CIA delay in ruling
Burger granted a request by the CIA to delay implementation of a federal appeals court order until the agency makes a full-scale appeal to the Court.
WASHINGTON—Chief Justice Warren Burger yesterday blocked an unprecedented lower court decision that ordered the CIA to turn over "sensitive intelligence information" to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
The case began in 1978 when the Unification Church made its original request for the information. After the agency refused to turn over many of the records, the Church refused.
A federal district judge ordered the release of parts of six documents. The judge noted the papers "involved congressional and Department of Justice inquiries into Korean-American relations during the late 1970s and refer only incidentally to the Unification Church or its founder, Sun Myung Moon."
Solidarity, government hold meeting
WAHSAR, Poland—The Communist government and Solidarity held their first extensive talks in seven months yesterday and immediately agreed to a deal with the United Nations.
They agreed to form a task force to organize the country's scarce food, medicine, coal and clothing and coordinate school shutdowns, power outages and bushes.
The talks bogged down after what the sources called strong discussion on Solidarity's request for another task force to study their demands for the right to enter candidates in next February's nationwide elections for local councils.
The long-awaited negotiations between Solidarity and the government began at the Council of Ministers headquarters in downtown Warsaw with the aim to end a war.
Economics professor to be honored today
Richard Howey, the professor emeritus of economics who spent more than 50 years building the KU economics library into one of the best collections in the world, will be honored today.
In dedication ceremonies scheduled for 2 p.m. in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library lounge, the business and economics reading room in Summerfield Hall will be named in Howey's honor
Since 1930, Hoyew worked as library representative for the economics department at Cornell University.
in 1973, he has continued to amass books for the University of Kansas.
"It isn't just a matter of watching to see what new books will be published." Jeanette Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor, said yesterday.
"It entails watching the bookellers, the catalogs, the second-hand books, like a kind of detective work. He practices hand-boundly built the entire collection."
According to Johnson, experts call
the KU collection one of the two or three best in the world.
One of those experts, Kenneth E. Carpenter, will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Spencer Research Library auditorium.
Carpenter, who is research and publications librarian at Harvard University and editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, will speak about "The Migration of Ideas: A Bibliographical Approach."
Carpenter visited KU in 1978 to look over the collection. He found the
collection so extensive that his planned stay of a few days lasted a week. Johnson said.
She said Carpenter had wanted to return ever since.
In further tribute to Howey, the University libraries recently published a special issue of Books and Libraries Volume 36. This collection is a new collection and an article by Carpenter.
Many of the books will be on display in Spencer through December.
Sculpture defaced; safety still in question
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
Vandals again defaced the "Salina Piece" abstract sculpture Monday night and KU officials admitted yesterday that they have yet to begin a safety check of the controversial sculpture.
The vandals left toilet paper, balloons and graffiti on the large black sculpture sometime Monday night, Thomas and facilities operations, said yesterday.
Anderson said facilities operations employees quickly picked up the mess yesterday morning, and few traces of the vandalism were left by 8 a.m. at the sculpture, Sunnyside Avenue at Sunflower Road.
The sculpture has rested at its installation site since delivery from Salina early last summer.
KU administrators decided that before the sculpture could be raised to its normal 45-degree angle, a structural engineering study must be completed.
Although Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said Nov. 9 that a contract for the study would be awarded to a structural engineering firm by the end of last week, he did not know that no progress had been made.
"The project is still on hold," he said. "Nothing has changed."
He has refused to name the firm
ADMINISTRATORS haven't made a decision yet to award a contract to a structural engineering firm, Wiechert said.
being considered until a contract is awarded.
"We're primarily analyzing a contract proposal from one firm," Wiechert added.
Earlier, Wiechert predicted that a study could delay installation of "Salina Pice" at least one month.
The sculptor has said he fears by that time, winter weather may interfere with the job of erecting the sculpture.
KU officials decided to make the safety check of care "Salina Piece" after an attempt to install it on a skid and the sculpture fell to the ground.
Opposition groups have charged that the 40-tetra sculpture is unsightly and have raised questions about whether it is structurally sound enough to support
its own weight along with the weight of people who might climb on it.
Facilities operations employees repainted parts of the sculpture to cover messages the vandals had left, Anderson said.
"We've got this thing down pat to where we have it cleaned up early when
HOWEVER, some of the messages could still be executed through the fresh session.
Writing on the sculpture Monday night, the vandals repeated a charge written on "Salina Piece" in October that it was a "$30.00 Tax Write-Off" for sculpture donor John Simpson, a Kansas City Kan. attorney.
The vandals also wrote "Take Me Away," "I am an Eyesore" and "This is the Worst Obscene."
TWO HEAVY HITTERS TOUCH BASES ON BATS, BALLS, AND BEER.
BOOG POWELL (Former American Baseball Great). Koichi here has been giving me a new angle on baseball. It seems the games a little different in Japan.
KOICHI NUMAZAWA (Former Japanese Baseball Great)
そう，倒えばフィールドか小さめですわ。
BOOG: That's right. The field is
smaller over there.
KOCHI:来まり, シートーて小さか
日本人の体格に合わせたんです
B00G: Well, now that you mentioned it, I guess you guys are kinda smaller. Does that mean you drink Lite Beer 'cause it's less filling?
KOICHI: いかこ. おしいいから欵むん
してよ。
BOOG: Tastes great? That's why I drink it, too! I guess we have a lot more in common than I thought.
KOICHI: その面り. というです, 日本の野球チームに入りませんか
BOOG: Me? I'm too big to play on a Japanese team
KOICHI: そんな二ないですよ，ショ
ラに最適で上す
BOOG: Shortstop?! Very funny
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