THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA KANSAS STATE SOCIETY TOPEKA, KS
VOL. 101, NO.24
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66412
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HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
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Bush orders tapping of U.S. oil reserve
CHICAGO — President Bush, arguing there is "no justification" for speculation that has driven up the price of oil and gasoline, said yesterday a sell-off in oil barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The Associated Press
The white House said the decision would send a signal to those who would take advantage of the Persian oil prices as a profit from skyrocketing the oil prices.
Tapping the reserve a move urged
by industry analysts and some members of Congress since Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, was aimed at reducing the price of crude oil on world markets.
The president is turning to the 590 million barrel reserve to stabilize the oil market for the first time since it was created in 1975.
The price of crude oil has hedged toward $40 a barrel this week, nearly twice the level when Iraq's occupies Iran and touched on the current oil crisis.
Ed Kewlens, a Dean Witter Reynolds ncls Inc. trader who deals in oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange, said the selling of reserve oil could have a quick effect. "We could be considerably lower," he said.
Bash in Chicago for a Republican Party fundraiser, said in prepared remarks. "It's especially important to make it very explicitly healthy and militantly strong."
"At home and abroad, let me caution those who might take adven
tage of the current crisis in the Persian Gulf, those who might seek profit by subverting the sanctions or, worse, by disrupting oil supply might try to drive up the price of oil.
The president said that though "the oil market is very tight, with little spare capacity, there is sufficient oil to meet current needs."
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole, who more than a month ago called on Bush to tap the reserve, welcomed Bush's decision.
for the oil reserve for years and they have every right to expect that it be put to good use in the face of an energy crunch." Dole said.
"The taxpayers have been paying
The 14-year buildup of the reserve has cost an estimated $20 billion.
Industry experts have estimated that production in other countries has restored about two-thirds of the 4.8 million daily barrels of oil removed from Kuwait, making takeover of Kuwait and the world embargo against Iraqi Kuwait oil
As recently as a week ago Bush.
who spent nearly 20 years exploring for and producing oil in Texas before entering politics, voiced hesitation about resorting to the reserves, say researchers. They also估化 the market but would not be justified in terms of an oil shortage.
Marlin Fitzwater, White House spokesperson, said there was no evidence that the oil industry was involved in price gouging. "但它’s not the nature that could not be entirely based on legitimate market forces."
Vigia de Flores, volunteer recruiter for the U.S. Peace Corps, tells students in the Kansas Union about work possibilities in the Corps.
Peace Corps seeks volunteers on campus
Bv Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Graduate James Anderson is working in a parks and wildlife program in Sierra Leone in West Africa.
KU graduate Mary Mitchell packed her bags in July and left for the Dominican Republic to work as a volunteer with a U.S. Peace Corps beer with the U.S. Peace Corps.
Mitchell and Anderson are two of the 25 KU alumni serving as volunteers in the Peace Corps. Out of 6,300 Peace Corps volunteers, more than 600 are working in environmental programs around the world.
Peace Corps representatives were on campus yesterday and Tuesday to
speak with students about the Corps environmental initiative as well as other programs underway in more than 70 countries on four continents.
Melanie Martin, public affairs specialist for the Corps, said the Corps was or soon would be working in Panama, Uganda. Poland is using technical assistance to the environmental programs of those countries.
"Environmental degradation is a primary concern in many countries." Martin said.
Responding to requests for assistance in natural resources management and conservation, the Corps has committed itself to increasing
the level of technical expertise among its volunteers, she said
Peace Corps representative. Derek Stanki and Viola de Flores sat at a table outside the Kansas Union campus, where she watched people line up for information
"I'd say we've handed out three or four times as many applications as we did last year," said Stanfill, who served as a volunteer in Senegal. "In the two days we we've been here, we've handed out over 50 applications."
Stanfill said that while any student could apply, he particularly was interested in talking to students who were interested in environmental education, agricultural
ture, education, health, home economics, business and technical trades
Peace Corps volunteers are trained for an average of three months in their host countries before they begin their two years of service, he said.
Stanill said he would conduct on-campus interviews with interested applicants Oct. 16 and 17 through the University Placement Center.
Martin said Corps volunteers in foreign countries worked to increase awareness of environmental problems and educate people about more modern methods of agriculture and irrigation.
Cheney predicts increased threat
Iraq cornered by sanctions
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON  Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said yesterday that the odds of an Iraq military strike in response to economic sanctions are low.
A money said the Bush administration had predicted that the danger in the standoff with Saddam Hussein would increase once the international sanctions began crippling the Iraqi economy.
"We may have seen in the last 48 or 72 hours the beginning commentary from him that would indicate that the animals are beginning to bite honey."
The U.N. Security Council voted to impose an economic embargo against export dependent Iraq on August 6, four days after the Iraq army invaded Kuwait. The United Nations extended the embargo to include air shipments.
In a televised address to Americans broadcast Tuesday, Saddam criticized the United States and the Iranian government for the economy in response to the occupation of Kuwait. Saddam said U.S. forces deployed in the Persian Gulf area faced the prospect of bigger losses than were suffered in the war.
Saddam also said this week that he would destroy the Middle East's oil fields if war broke out.
"We have always operated on the assumption since we started this exercise in early August that there were two moments of danger," Cheney said. He said the first was when too few U.S. forces were in Saudi Arabia to stop an Iraqi invasion of the Saudi kingdom.
"The second period was when the sanctions began to bite," Cheney said. "And as I say, we may have gone through the couple of days, that he may resort to
House backs Bush in gulf
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Two House subcommittees informally agreed yesterday to a resolution that backs President Bush's moves so far in the Persian Gulf crisis but avoids authorizing any future military actions.
"We have no interest in providing conditional authority to the president with regard to future military actions," said the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairperson. Rep. Joseph Koehler will meet of the Middle East and arms-control subcommittee.
The full Foreign Affairs Committee was scheduled to act on the resolution today, breaking the tension between lawmakers who think Congress should take a formal part in the Gulf situation and those who prefer to keep their political distance from it. Similar talks are under way in the Senate.
In their resolution, the subcommittees condemned Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait and said the world should hold Iraq and its leaders accountable for its taking of hostages, support terrorism and development of nuclear weapons
Fasell said he does not consider the resolution to trigger the War Powers Act.
military force in response to the sanctions — the first beginning evidence that in fact he's really beginning to feel the pain."
The Pentagon said Tuesday that Iraq was losing about 100 million a day in oil export revenues as a result of the U.N. embargo, which is being enforced by a multinational naval force, the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea.
The Pentagon also said that Iraq had increased its troop strength in Kuwait and southern Iraq to 450,000 troops. The U.S. has 165,000 troops in the gulf area.
Bush gives budget negotiations boost with possible concession
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush may drop his insistence for a capital gains tax cut, Republican congressman said yesterday. A concession would remove the main obstacle to a budget deal.
But the apparent change in Bush's position was revealed on a day when Bush and congressional leaders met each other of endangered the talks.
Bush, campaigning for Republican candidates in Ohio, said nothing about his reported change
"If and when the ax falls, the Democratic Congress knows that it will be held accountable. And I will make sure it is made a state in the union. It is their fault."
"The hang up is with the Democrats," he said.
He also said that Democrats "have not come forward with a package" at the talks, a remark that sparked a Democratic uprоar.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, and House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., said Democrats had made several in recent bargaining sessions.
Hundreds of unionized federal workers rallied outside the Capitol at noon to demand a quick solution to the budget crisis. They carried signs reading, "Your furlough begins Nov. 6, Election Day," and "Congress, you do your jobs so we can do ours."
Mitchell said that the president had been "badly misinformed" and called the statement "highly misleading and damaging."
"To begin a series of charges or countercharges . . . at this stage is not helpful." Foley said. "It is damaging to the talks, though we are determined it not be critically damaged."
Inside the building, the Senate voted to apply the spending cuts to Congressional salaries and top executives. The Senate approved Vice President Quayle and
members of the Cabinet — items now exempt under the Gramm- Rudman budget-cutting law.
Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia said that the alternatives could include corporate tax breaks designed to encourage businesses to operate in allying urban and rural areas.
After a morning meeting at the White House, GOP lawmakers said that Bush might accept other items he thinks would surpass the economy.
"He might be willing to look at other alternatives in the growth area," said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.
Negotiators are searching for a deal that would reduce the deficit by $500 billion over five years.
The $85 billion cut in government services is scheduled to take place Monday — cuts that could result in furious outcry as for many as 2.1 million workers.
If the cuts take effect, domestic programs affected would be cut by 32.4 percent and defense programs by 35.3 percent.
Fall enrollment stable despite increase to record-high count
Bv Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
Fall enrollment at the University of Kansas increased by 136 students this year, bringing fall enrollment to 2,985. The university officials announced yesterday.
The total fall enrollment at the University reached 28,909 students, up from 28,773 in Fall 1989, said Del Shankel, interim executive vice
Figures include enrollment at the Lawrence campus, the University of Kansas Medical Center and off-campus offices.
Fall enrollment at the Lawrence campus increased by 556 students, from 24,468 in Fall 1989 to 25,024 in Fall 1990.
In the Aug. 29 Kansan it was reported that Fall 1986 enrollment increased by about 1,000 students to 25,822. After Fall 1986, University administrators began working to develop an enrollment management system that was implemented in Fall 1988.
Shankel said University-wide enrollment was stable and credited
the enrollment management system for this.
The management system placed requirements on out-of-state applicants.
opportunity "I'm very pleased that the enrollment management system is working." Shankel said.
The University accepts any student who graduates from a Kansas high school and meets the April 1 in-state application deadline.
Out-of-state students must pay a $15 application fee and meet grade requirements. They must have a 3.0 grade point average or a 2.0 GPA and a composite ACT score of 24 or a "C" average and a high school curriculum that meets Board of Regents requirements.
Del Brinkman, vice chairman of academic affairs, said that the enrollment increase at the Lawrence University is similar to that overall enrollment was stable.
Shankel said the administration's goal was to maintain as reasonable a rate of enrollment as possible while allowing open admissions for in-state students.
He said that fewer high school seniors were applying but that transfer students and students staying in school longer brought enrollment up.
"Our entering numbers are down," he said. "The two offset each other. We have a stable enrollment and we're shooting for." Brinkman said.
He said the fact that the University's enrollment only increased by 136 students meant the enrolment process was managed as efficiently as possible.
Shankel said he would have liked enrollment to increase by only one student, but that was not a reasonable expectation.
He said KU would be able to absorb the additional strain from the 136 students.
Shankel said the size of some classes had been increased and that several sections had been added to some courses.
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"The faculty has responded very well," he said.