VOL. 101, NO. 33
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1990
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2 flvers die in gulf crash
The Associated Press
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - A U.S. Air Force F-111 fighter-bomber crashed in today Saudi Arabia, killing both crew members. U.S. military
It was the fourth American aircraft to crash in three days among those deployed to this kingdom for Operation Desert Shield.
Eight Marines are missing in the crash of two helicopters in the northern Arabian Sea on Monday. An Air Force F-4 reconnaissance jet also went down that day, killing both crew members.
Lt. Cmdr J.D. van Sickle, a military spokesman, said the F-11 crashed in the southern Arabian peninsula while on a training mission and that the incident was under investigation.
The names of the flyers were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The aircraft was attached the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenbeath Air Base in Britain. The wing was sent to Turkey as US forces massed the region in response to Iraq's Aug. 2 takeover of
Today's crash brought to at least nine the number of Americans killed in the Persian Gulf region since Operation Desert Shield began.
The eight Marines aboard the two UH-1 Huey helicopters that vanished Monday are still officially listed as missing.
Officials said the F-111 crashed at dawn.
In addition to those killed in Saudi Arabia, 13 other Air Force personnel were killed in a crash of a C-5 jet cargo plane in Germany. That aircraft was ferrying supplies and equipment to the Saudi peninsula.
The aircraft was an F-model, the latest version of the 23-year-old swing wing jet that first saw action in Vietnam.
Arab-Israeli turmoil p. 6
Wichita units activated p.10
President flip-flops on taxes
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Just as Democratic leaders appear ready to deliver President Bush his prized capital gains tax cut, Bush and top Republicans are getting sticker shooters in the city. Tax rates on the rich
"Our uniform position was that we will not go up on the rates, no matter what." Sen. Bob Pawkwood of Oregon said after he and other GOP lawmakers met with Bush yesterday. The president agreed with that. Senator Pawkwood, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.
"Stop trying to buy us off with capital gains," Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, cautioned Democrats.
the presidential flip flop — only a few hours after he publicly said that higher rates on the wealth would be fine in exchange for a capital gains cut — clouded attempts to write a $500 billion deficit-reduction plan.
Packwood announced Bush's turnabout, which was confirmed by senior administration officials, at about the time Congress' two top tax-writers were signaling they were ready to accept the capital gains bargain as part of a deficit agreement.
Under terms of a stoppage spending bill that Bush signed yesterday, Congress has until Oct. 19 to agree on a deficit plan. Tax writing committees in the House and Senate are considering packages that include increased tobacco and alcohol, a capital gains cut and higher taxes on the rich.
Republican senators apparently convinced the president that the capital gains cut offered by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, was not good enough to justify the upper rate increase that Bentsen wanted.
Bush's demand to cut taxes on capital gains — the profits from the sale of investment funds — has been a key contention with his critics since the 1988 presidential campaign.
Cutting edge
Ron Walker of Lawrence prepares a piece of red dlabaster for carving. Walker was working at the Art and Design building yesterday afternoon.
GLSOK display prompts confrontation on campus
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
Kisses by Jayhawk Boulevard have caused some commotion.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas put the poster in the booth Monday to celebrate National Coming Out Day tomorrow and to increase visibility of gays and lesbians, said Christopher Craig, peer counselor adviser of
Posters on the information booth near Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road that display two men kissing, two women kissing and a man and a woman kissing. The confrontation is portrayed by four people on campus
LA John Mullens, KU police spokesperson, said one reported that three people were seen trying to cover the glass box with newspaper and black electrical tape Monday about 1:45 p.m.
Bush popularity slips p.12
KU police would not release the names of the people involved. The report was filed by the person who confronted the three who were covering the box with paper and tape.
the tape, after her individual saw it and began to peel off the tape. "Mullets said." The three individuals asked him to
paper and tape Mullens said there was no indication whether the individual who filed the report was affiliated with GLSOK
But he didn't stop, according to KU police reports. The three officials were called out, and the three officers complied with the order.
"It appears that he was doing it on his own," Mullens said.
Craig said that when he ordered the posters from AIDS awareness groups in Chicago and San Francisco, he had no idea what the reaction would be. Two of the posters read "Kissing doesn't Kill" and "Life, Liberty, and the Constitution."
"The reaction to the posters proves that there is a problem at KU." Craig said.
Mullens said the reported incident was classified as disorderly conduct.
naren cook, GLSOK member, said that anyone could have been the recipient of the reported insults.
disorderly violence.
"They didn't damage the booth," Mullens said. "They would say anything to make another angry. They said things that insulted the victim."
"That person may or may not have been gay." Cook said. "But still, gays and lesbians have to bear the burden."
Mullens said this was the only reported incident regarding the posters in the information booth.
Cook said that the reported incident was one of many similar incidents that she knew had taken place in recent years.
Posters celebrating National Coming Out Day are displayed on a Jayhawk Boulevard bus stop.
"Just last Saturday when I was walking out of Dilson, a carload of men drove by screaming 'yeer seen a dike like that'" she said. "You come to expect it, but I'm still always surprised by the depth of hatred."
"This kind of thing happens at the time It it more visible as gays and lesbians become more visible."
Although she said she yet intimately held Officer's Lawrence police report regarding the incident at Dollars.
"I will not let anyone silence me," she said. "I refused to be threatened."
Henry Schwaller, GLSOK member, said he tried not to show his anger about discrimination toward gays and lesbians. He does not want to resort to those tactics. He will fight back with education.
He said the posters were eye-opening.
He said the posters were eye-opening.
"A lot of people may see something that in their wildest dreams they want to block out," Schwaller said. "But they won't forget those posters. They are too shocking."
Grissom pleads guilty to forgery
writing last year.
In exchange for the pleas yesterday, Johnson County prosecutors agreed not to charge Grissom with 10 other bad checks he is accused of
The Associated Press
OLATHE — Richard Grissom Jr., accused of killing three suburban Kansas City women whose bodies never have been found, has pleaded guilty to 15 charges of forgery, writing bad checks and theft.
Grissom, 29, entered the pleas in Johnson County District Court where his trial on three counts of first-degree murder ended Monday. He faces nine other charges.
As part of the plea negotiations, attorneys will recommend Grissom a sentence of six to its years, and will send District Attorney Debra Vermillion.
stemming from the disappearances of the three young women he is accused of killing.
In one case, he pleaded guilty before Judge John Anderson III to felony counts of passing three bad checks at Olathe groceries in June 1989. He also was charged with three misdemeanor counts of theft for the merchandise he got from the bad checks.
Elementary students learn how to avoid drugs
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
"No." his adamant East Heights Elementary School classmate said.
"Do you want to smoke a joint?" one sixth-grader asked another.
"What's wrong?" the first boy said. "Are you chicken?"
mcken: "No." the second boy firmly repeated.
Then their skit was over. Steve Brown, a Douglas County deputy sheriff who is an instructor for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, thanked them and asked
their 19 classmates to applaud them
Loren Anderson, Douglas County sheriff, said the program's developers targeted students in high school and college.
DARE is in its fifth of 17 weeks of one-hour lessons in Douglas County elementary schools. After going through a trial period at some county school, students are being throughout the county this academic year.
"The reason they want that age is because they have determined that age as the age when the child is making decisions about his lifestyle and is most receptive to guidance." Anderson
said.
The weekly lessons emphasize participation from students, Brown said. Visual aids, workbook exercises, role-playing and skirts are some of the techniques used to get students involved.
"We try to get them up and get them involved in discovering what the answers are instead of doing it," she said.
The weekly toques include managing stress without using drugs, ways to say no to drugs, building self-esteem, alternatives to drug types and consequences of drug use. Brown said.
The county budget finances the training and salaries for four instructors, Anderson said. The Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcohol bought workbooks for the program the past two years. Financing from Gov. Mike Hayden's "Toward a Drug-Free Kansas" program will be used this year to buy T-shirts for the students.
Brown said he had received 80 hours of instruction in Wichita last year from a team of Los Angeles police officers. The DARE pro-
See Drugs, p. 8
Improving campus lighting a complicated issue, officials sav
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Improving lighting on campus will take time and cost money. KU officials say
The project's $20,000 price tag will be paid with leftover financing from construction of the science library. Other lighting projects are financed by a collaborative effort of the lighting department and the parking department, Moliad said.
Women's groups at KU recently have demanded increased lighting to make the campus a safer place to walk at night.
Modig said additional lighting between the Anschutz Science Library and Mallet Hall had been financed and funded.
Jim Modig, director of facilities planning, said additions to campus lighting were designed based on the amount of funds available.
An $85,000 lighting project is being planned for West Campus Road. New light fixtures will be placed along the road from Joseph R. Pearson Hall to Memorial Drive. The project probably will be completed in the spring.
mounting lines. In planning requested $75,000 to install lighting in Marvin Grove, the wooded area southeast of the Campanile, but the Regents allotted only $35,000 for the project, he said.
The Marvin Grove project is being designed and probably will be completed next summer, Modig said. Additional improvements in Marvin Grove will be considered in the future.
Modig said other possible additions to campus lighting included projects along Jayhawk Boulevard from Sunflower Road to 13th Street and along the sidewalk from West Campus Road down to the west Memorial Stadium
Greg Wade, landscape architect for facilities planning, said the University's overall plan for campus lighting concentrated on increased lighting on highly traveled pedestrian routes from parking lots to campus.
Wade said that projects recently completed included the installation of lights between Watkins Memorial Health Center and Robinson during the summer. Lights were installed in the Memorial Drive and the lot west of the stadium in 1988.
the stadium parking lots and the lot south of Robinson Center are the major lots that students use in the event.
The planned additions near the science library and in Marvin Grove also are designed to light major pedestrian
“Now that we’re heading toward winter, it will start to get dark earlier and earlier,” he said. “We want these days to be warmer.”
Modig said campus lighting was just one of the safety-oriented programs for which his department was responsible. Facilities planning also is responsible for fire protection, repair of roofs and access to buildings for disabled people.
"We do a little bit of everything," he said. "In fairness to other interest groups, we can't concentrate all of our