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VOL. 101.NO.44
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY,OCTOBER 25,1990
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Congress close to deficit-reduction vote
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders put the finishing touches yesterday on a deficit-reduction package that apparently has the support of a majority of lawmakers and President Bush.
The Associated Press
Assuming no unexpected hitch, final votes could come tomorrow in the House and Senate. That would mean that the executive would fight between the executive and
legislative branches and remove the major obstacle to final adjournment of the joint Congress.
The stoppup bill extending the government's spending authority through this week, which Bush has signaled he will accept, cleared the House on a 385-40 vote and the Senate with no formal vote at all. It will give the federal government more deficit-reduction plan and the 13 regular appropriation bills for the
fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
The plan will mean higher taxes on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, airline tickets, cars, boats, furs and jewelry. A gasoline tax increase of 0 to 6 cents a gallon is likely, and retires problems are more likely to pay more for Medicare coverage.
above the $100,000-a-year range. But a provision that would have raised taxes on lower-and middle-income Americans by forgoing next year's scheduled inflation adjustment in income taxes was dropped.
Several changes whose details were still being negotiated will mean heftier income taxes on those with higher incomes, especially those
The talks have produced preliminary agreement on major tax issues including:
- Raising the top tax rate on the wealthiest people to 31 percent from the present 28 percent. The 33 percent rate paid by upper-middle-income people on some of their earnings would drop to 31 percent.
■ Phasing out the $2,050 personal exemptions for single people with taxable incomes over $100,000 and couples above $150,000.
- Setting a maximum tax rate of 28 percent on capital gains, which are profits from the sale of investments.
That would mean a tax cut for those whose gains are now taxed at 33 percent.
- Permitting writing off only 97 percent of otherwise allowable deductions against any portion of adjusted gross income over $100,000 a year
The bill that contains tax increases and restraints on Medicare and other mandatory spending would cut the deficit by $250 billion over the five years.
Keith ThorpeKANSAM
Brazilian culture
Sandra Motta and Ana Cristina of a Brazilian perform from "Sonatina," a dance composition choreographed by KU舞 instructor Murei Coulon. See story, page 10.
Student Senate opposes restricted academic fee
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate passed a resolution last night stating that it opposed any restricted use of academic fees and that the consent of student government should be obtained before the creation of any restricted fee.
All Board of Regents student body presidents have opposed a $15 per credit hour equipment fee for engineering students proposed by deans of engineering at the University of Wisconsin and Wichita State University.
The proposed fee, if passed by the Board of Regents in November, would be used to improve and update laboratory equipment.
Senate has always has the right to approve the use of restricted fees, he said.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said he was opposed to the use of restricted fees.
Regents that students do not like not being consulted," Schriener said.
"We need to send a signal to the
Senate also denied an appeal to suspend Senate rules and regulations to reconsider a bill that would have allocated money to the Air Force ROTC drill team. The bill which was passed last year fill the crew for rifles, flag harnesses and office supplies, failed in the finance committee three weeks ago.
Senate also approved a bill to pay a new elections commissioner, who has not been appointed yet, a $200 a month salary.
The bill failed the first time through Senate last night because it did not meet the required two-thirds vote.
After the bill failed, a senator pointed out that Senate had violated its rules and regulations, which state lawmakers commission is a paid position.
Commission members at the meeting told Sentate it could not meet and
start writing election rules until senators decided whether to pay the commissioner a salary.
Carl Damon, student body treasurer, said that the election commission was created so Senate would not be involved with elections and that financing the commission would be a conflict of interest.
Steve Dixon, resident-at-large senator, said the position should be paid because of the amount of work involved with the position.
Senate revoted and approved the bill 27-9 with 1 abstenation.
In other business, Schreiner announced his resignation of his position on Senate Executive Committee. Senate approved Greg Hughes, Merriam senator, to replace Schreiner as a student representative.
Schreiner said that he still would serve on SenEx as an ex-officio member and that he planned to attend its meetings.
Israelis stage raid on Lebanon in response to artillery attacks
The Associated Press
No casualty figures were immediately given by the Palestine Liberation Organization or Israeli military following the 20-minute assault on the Rashidiyah refuge camp near the southern port of Tyre.
TYRE. Lebanon - In a rare night attack, Israeli warplanes yesterday bombed a suspected PLO missile base in response to artillery attacks in Israel and its self-proclaimed "security zone." reports said
A PLO communique said four aircraft dropped bombs and strapped positions manned by guerrillas from the village. The position faced hendered by Yasser Arafat.
It was the first Israel air raid into Lebanon since July 9 and the 15th this year. Israeli officials said they had attempted to avoid attacks in Lebanon since the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
It was also the first attack since Syria, a longtime Israeli foe.
expanded its control in Lebanon by helping government troops oust rebel Christian Gen. Michel Aoun almost two weeks ago.
In Israel, the military command claimed the target was a terrorist launching pad for Soviet-made firefired into Israel the past two weeks.
The last of the rocket attacks was Oct. 16 when a barge landed in northern Israel, causing no damage or injuries. Five days later, six Israel's security zone in south Lebanon, according to Israeli reports.
Rashidiyeh is about 50 miles south of Beirut and 10 miles north of the Israeli border.
Iarsel carried the 404-square-mile security zone in 1985 during the withdrawal of most of its army from Iraq and brought the three-year occupation of the rest.
Previous Israeli air raids have killed 20 people and wounded 62,
police said.
Israel's air force usually strikes in daytime, but helicopter gunships often range into Lebanon during the night to rout guerrillas.
Earlier yesterday, the Lebanese police said Israeli-affiliated militiamen killed two guerrillas of the Islamic State in a southern God, in a south Lebanon firefight.
But the Israeli army said members of an elite paratrooper brigade, not militiamen of the South Lebanon Army, killed the guerrillas.
Louisense police spokesperson said three other fighters of the Shite Moslem Hezbollah were wounded in nearby the village of Klar Hounheh.
The Lebanese police spokesperson said South Lebanon Army gunners later pointed the area around Kfar Aziz and Kfar Dawlat to collages of Mashghara and Maidoum.
Hezbollah returned fire with salvoes of Katyusha rockets, he added.
Bush to receive bill demanding crime statistics
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A bill requiring colleges to report crime statistics and athletes' graduation rates cleared its final congressional obstacle yesterday.
The Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act would require federally aided colleges and universities to report campus crime statistics each year to students and employees. Some crimes include murder, rape, robbery and auto theft.
The Senate approved the measure by a voice vote, sending it to President Bush for his signature. The bill passed the House Monday night.
DNA links blood from trunk to missing woman
Information on violent crimes would have to be provided immediately, and all crime data would be available to prospective students on request.
The measure was merged during the committee process with another bill requiring institutions to release graduation rates of all students. Schools would also have to make data available on department revenues and expenditures.
Sponsors included Sen. Bill Bradley, D.N.J., the former Princeton University and New York Knicks basketball star; Sen. Roberts, D.Mass, and Sen Arlen Specter, R.Pa
Bv Eric Gorski
Kansan projects writer
OLATHE — DNA experts testified yesterday at the Richard Grimson Jr. murder trial that blood found in missing 1987 KU graduate students had been in rental car genetically matches Butler's.
Earlier this week, officers from the Johnson County Sheriff's Department crime lab testified that they had found traces of what appeared to be blood in the trunk of the car.
In January 1990, crime lab officials sent blood samples from Grissom and Ralph and Jade Butler. Joan Butler's parents, to Cell phone calls, against the drops in the rental car.
Jurors yesterday endured a morning of testimony by Cellmark analysts, who explained the scientific background of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, the main component of human white-blood cells that carries out many of the numerous individual hereditary characteristics.
Robin Cotton, manager of research and development at Cellmark, explained during testimony that half of a person's eight DNA bands came from the father and half from the mother. The DNA bands are arranged in pairs.
Gary Dirks, a forensic chemist for the crime lab, testified that the samples, which he determined to be a little less than two drops of type B blood, were sent in December 1989 to Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown. Md.
Earlier in the week, the three other Butler children testified that they were not in the Kansas City area at the time of their sister's disappearance and that they did not come
into contact with their sister's rental car.
Cotton testified that of the DNA bands of the blood found in the rental car, four belonged to Ralph Butler and four to Jada Butler.
Cotton explained that the first test, called a cocktail, contained samples of the four blood specimens and included all four pairs of DNA bands from each specimen.
During cross-examination, Kevin Morriary, one of Grisona's court-appointed attorneys, asked Cotton to go through the five-step testing process while referring to transparencies of each step's results on an overhead projector.
Then four individual tests were run to try determine whether the four pairs of DNA found in the trunk sample matched that of Ralph and Jada Butler, Cotton testified. Analysis found matches on three individual tests, but there was not enough DNA to match them. Then another testified that analysis used the cocktail test to match that pair of DNA bands.
Moriarty questioned the reliability of the cocktail method and said the FBI did not use it.
During redirection by Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison, Cotton said, "It's a perfectly good method. I can't think of any other way." The FBI made a poor choice in my opinion.
Butler, 24 at the time of her disappearance, was last seen June 18, 1889, and her Chevrolet Corsica rental car was recovered a later rental by Lawrence police at Traitrillide Apartments. Grissom was seen near the car, but he boarded police and abandoned the automobile.
Motions for mistrial denied Grissom's attorney confirms
Kansan staff report
One of Richard Grissom Jr.'s court-appointed defense attorneys confirmed yesterday that two defense motions for a mistrial made last week were overruled by Johnson County District Judge William Gray.
to say that the article was correct.
Kevin Moriarty, one of the attorneys,
said in yesterday's Olathe Daily News
that motions for mistrial made Thursday
and Friday were denied.
Gray ruled Friday to sequester the 12 member jury and its five alternatives for the duration of the four- to five-week trial in August, which printed last week in the Daily News.
He would not elaborate further, except
Gray said that he was quoted out of context in the article, and that sequestration was necessary because jurors might be exposed to misleading information.
Gray would not comment regarding the mistrial motions.
Grissom, 29, faces three counts of first-degree murder and nine other charges relating to the June 1989 disappearance of Bulter, of Overland Park, and Lenexa roommates in January 1989. She then 22. The woman never have been found. Grissom pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Jim Brown, Theresa Brown's brother,
testified that he received a call 26 from
Testimony regarding the disappearances of Brown and Rush on or about June 26 began yesterday, with friends and family accounting their last contacts with the women.
David Rusch, Christine Rusch's father,
testified that his daughter had not reported to work June 26 at Firestone Optics in North Kansas City, Mo. a company he owns.
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his sister's employers at a dental hygienist's office asking if his sister felt well. Theresa Brown also had called in sick earlier that morning.
Brown and Rusch had a party June 24 at their apartment in Lenexa, according to testimony. Brown last was seen about 6 a.m. June 26 at her boyfriend's home. Rusch last was seen at an Overland Park bar about 12:30 a.m. June 26.
james Grooms, a friend of Brown and Rusch, testified that he attended the party and that he did not see anyone fitting in there. He could fit or any other time preceding that weekend.
Kansan reporter Holly M. Neuman contributed information to this story.