KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 29, 1981 Vol.92, No.49 USPS 650-640
Senate approves AWACS; Reagan praises Senate vote
By United Press International
WASHINGTON-President Reagan won a major foreign policy victory yesterday when the Senate voted 52-48 to clear the way for the sale of $8.5 billion in CRS radar planes and other military equipment.
The roll-call vote defeated a resolution to disapprove the sale, which had already been vetoled by the House. A veto from both houses of Congress was needed to kill the deal.
Shortly after the vote, Reagan read a statement from the Oval Office in which he praised the Senate for its "statemanship, foresight and . . . courage," and said "the cause of peace is again on the march in the Middle East."
Regan's persuasive powers were tested to the fullest in the sometimes bitter contest over the weapons package. In the end, four previously opposed senators—three Republicans and one Democrat—made the difference on the final day when they cast their votes with the president.
AWACS opponent Sen. Woolley Heflin, D-Ala,
summed up the intensity of the battle: "I feel as
if I'm going to need an arm transplant. It be
twisted so much—this way and that way."
Fees of the proposal argued until the last hour—night-hour debate that the sale should be rejected.
"we built the AWACS. We paid for them. we should keep them," said Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., paraphrasing what Reagan had once said about the Panama Canal.
But Reagan's supporters, led by Marjorie Leader Howard Baker, R-tenn., and Sen. Charles Percy, R-III, called the vote for the sale a vote for peace in the Middle East.
As the 15-minute roll-call droned on, top Ragan aides at the White House listened on an open telephone line as the votes were cast. The police said he was not listening to the individual voting.
"that did it," Secretary of State Alexander Haig said when the magic man was reached. He recalled that President Obama pronounced the victory "pleasing" and attributed it to Reagan's personal diplomacy.
Reagan won over early opponents of the arms package by stressing his view that the sale was necessary to keep the Middle East on the road to war. Protecting them that the sale posed no threat to Israel.
The president personally lobbied wavering senators right up to the last minute and also sent
a formal letter of assurance to the Senate say the deal could be cancelled at any time.
The crucial tally emerged after a full day of discussion on the question. Although the spectator galleries were packed, there was little drama in the long session until the votes were cast.
Even the declaration by Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, that he was switching his vote to Reagan—to keep Israel from being a "scapegoat" for any hostile Saudi reaction—was a test of his character. Sen. Mark Andrews, R-N-D, had been whispered in the corridors of the capitol hours earlier.
Only Sen. Russell Long, D-LA, remained auctored uncommitted withholding his opinion on the budget.
At stake, from the White House perspective, was Reagan's international prestige, the hope for peace in the Middle East and a message to steer clear of melding in the Persian Gulf.
But opponents of the package—which included Airborne Warning and Control Systems surveillance aircraft and jet fighter equipment—said the sale would only serve to fuel a Middle East arms race and could jeopardize the security of Israel.
Healthy faculty abuse medical permits parking board's chairman complains
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
With a doctor's signature, injured or chronically sick people can obtain a special medical parking permit, allowing them to park virtually anywhere on campus.
There are a few too many sick faculty and staff members driving around campus these days, Tom Mulnazzi, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, said yesterday.
But Mulnazzi, an associate professor of civil engineering, said many of those permits stemmed from doctors said favors for their friends.
"I have a friend who has a medical permit and plays ractacchion and runs every day," he said.
"The parking board has taken on as one of its goals the examination of the abuse of medical records."
"Maybe I'm giving away a trade secret and we'll end up with more medical permits. But when faculty and staff start complaining about the shortage of them, they should look at the number of medical permits."
“It’s a perpetual problem. It’s not anything new. We’re trying to protect the parking
resources we have. It makes me angry to know
that there is a campus, and that they have tracked perms.
MULINAZZI estimated that 20 percent of all permits were medical.
Don Kearns, director of parking, refused to comment on the permits.
"The goal of the board is to try to protect the parking resources we have," Mullinna said.
"It's one of the major weaklings in the parking assignments," he said. "The board is trying to close the parking lot."
Mulinazizi said student medical permits were under stricter control. Although faculty members can use any doctor to authorize a permit, students must go through Wakins Hospital.
"Word has spread that you have to have a good reason to get the permit," he said.
Martin Wollmann, director of the hospital, said that his system was effective.
WOLLMANN SAID many temporary passes were issued for injuries such as sprained ankles or broken legs. But there are some cases, though they always shakes a permanent medical permit is necessary.
"For example, general chronicle illnesses that interfere with their ability to walk in-
element weather," he said. "This is really a wan them brought down here in an ambulance."
Mulnazzi said a different policy applied to students because of their name "same as the one on the star and all over the world."
Mulinazizi said the borad might write to all area doctors asking for their cooperation.
*Faculty and staff supposedly live somewhere near you.* Parking board has to take the signature of the license.
Wollmann agreed that doctors could help.
"The physician could recommend, 'How close does this person have to, how imperative is this person to, what can happen?'
He said the parking board would not be able to learn the exact nature of anyone's disease because privacy between the doctor and patient had to be protected.
AMID THE crackdown, Mulinaz stressed that medical permits were still necessary.
"If a person does need a medical, fine, I'm all for it," he said. "A professor in engineering had a heart attack. He had several before. The doctor said he shouldn't walk.
"But too many faculty and staff use the medical as a way of getting around the system."
Concentration
Khodadad Yazid, senior, prefers the solitude of Strong Hall for his scholastic endeavors.
KU, city police set guidelines
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
Although Robert Stephan, state attorney general, intends to investigate Emporia State University's method of reporting campus crimes, as well as the methods used by other law enforcement agencies, he will find no problems at the University of Kansas, according to Jim Denney, KU director of police.
Stephan said Tuesday that he was investigating allegations made by Emporia city officials that Emporia State police had not been notifying them of some campus crimes.
Emporia State student, who greeted a teacher with a knife, was dealt with by university staff members before the teacher pressed charges. No police report was filed on the case.
Stephan described an incident in which an
Denney said a similar incident could not happen at KU. If a victim decided not to press charges, a criminal report would still be made and entered into the department's statistics.
The Emporia State teacher did file charges, which brought the case to light.
However, Denney explained that KU police compiled their own crime statistics separate from the police department.
Emporia city officials complained recently about missing reports because Emporia State's
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Women dislike game times
By EILEEN MARKEY
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Women's Sports Corporation has a timely problem.
The non-profit organization is seeking to eliminate the inconvenient time slot for the women's half of KU basketball doubleheaders, president of the corporation, and yesterday.
This season, the women and men will team up for four doubleheader events. Women's games will start at 5:15 p.m. and men's games will follow at 7:30 p.m.
"By putting the games at 5:15 it's an inconvenience for people who are just getting off from work, or who have families and want to cook dinner for them," Ainsworth said.
DESPIITE the inconvenient time slot, however,
the women don't complain about the added
exposure they get from playing on the same
night as the men.
But Ainsworth questioned whether the exposure was worth risking decreased attendance at the women's half of the doubleheaders, which would be caused by the inconvenient time slot.
According to Ainsworth, the athletic department has not given the problem much attention, but she said it probably would be discussed at a university of Kansas Athletic Corporation meeting.
Union absorbs rental costs
"It's not on the agenda, but I've heard that somebody is going to bring it up," she said.
As students paid their tuition and fees at the beginning of the semester, they probably did not realize that $19 of that $450 or $1,117 went for operating the Kansas Union.
By LISA MASSOTH
weeks ago Amssworth wrote a letter to
See WOMEN page 5
KU students have to pay for using the meeting rooms with their $19 fee. Non-University groups and private parties must pay a rental fee, but administrators and faculty members do not.
Staff Reporter
Two years ago, KU officials requested money from the Legislature to cover the cost of administrative use, but the Legislature gave money for only half the requests, David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday.
The University pays about half the rental cost for administrative use with money from the KKU.
CLOUDY
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today with a high in the low to mid-70s, according to the National Weather Service in New York, which will be out of the south at 15 to 28 mph.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Lows will be cooler than normal.
The chance of rain will continue tomorrow, with a high in the low to mid-60s.
Baseball expert reflects on season
Bill James
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
"This year I came to find that I didn't care whether the Royals won or lost." Bill James, a Lawrence book who publishes a widely used baseball statistics book, said yesterday.
the baseball statistician couldn't remember a more dismal season.
"I'm obviously glad to have a good World Series," he said, "but this is easily the most dismal season I've seen since I became interested in baseball in 1960."
Since 1960, James' interest in the game has grown from a stack of baseball cards to his 1810 edition of Baseball Abstract, a 206-page book, which in 1,100 copies have been sold at $35.
The baseball strike and the resulting split season decreased his interest this year, said Joel Doyle.
HOWEVER, HE said his work on next year's book would be getting into full swing.
"This is the height of it," James said. "I'm getting more information now than I would at
"I think the owners were even more irrational than the players were," he said.
Every professional team, except the Chicago Cubs, sends his statistics, he said. The Cubs refused last year because the collected information was "intelligence-type stats."
He called the Cubs a "bush-league" team and corrected predictors that the Los Angeles Clippers
"Anytime a team is ahead three to two games in the series, they're probably going to win," James said. "But they might have some trouble in New York. The Dodgers offense is based primarily on right-handed power hitters, and it's very difficult for right-henders to hit a home run in Yankee Stadium."
Knowing things about teams and stadiums is James' business. He earns his living publishing the abstract and from occasional free-lance writing, he said.
Resting in an easy chair in the front room of his house at 635 Alabama St. James referred