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Jaruzelski will step down early to help in Poland's transition
President Wojciech Jaruzelski, the only Communist leader to survive politically after democratic revolutions swept the Eastern bloc, told Parliament yesterday he will resign early to help Poland complete its transition to democracy.
Solidarity chairperson Lech Walesa has already declared his candidacy for president, and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowicki, Walesa adviser and ally, also is considering running.
Jaruzkejski's announcement came amid increased calls for his resignation to make way for a new leadership.
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 20.1990
The Senate Judiciary Committee completed hearings on Supreme Court nominee David Souter yesterday with all signs pointing to quick approval.
Souter hearings end in Senate committee may vote next week
Committee chairpersons Joseph Biden, D-DeL, tentatively set a committee vote for Sept. 7, while confident Republicans were already looking to the timing of a vote by the full Senate.
Senate GOP Leader Bob Dole and Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior member of the judiciary panel, said there should be a quick first vote so that Souter could take his place as the nation's 103th Supreme Court justice in time for the start of the fall term Oct. 1.
De Klekr to appoint groups to investigate recent violence
President F W. de Klerk, responding to criticism from Blacks that he is not doing enough to quell factional violence in South Africa, said the unit's special units to investigate four recent incidents
De Klerk also announced an amnesty for individuals or organizations turning in illegal firearms and explosives by Oct. 1, and offered them $100,000 in information leading to discovery of such weapons.
Army calls up reserves
WASHINGTON — The Army yesterday ordered 62 reserve units in 27 states to report for active duty in support of the U.S. military buildup in the Middle East and 24 other units to prepare for possible call-up.
The Associated Press
Also, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he approved "imminent danger pay" for the more than 150,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen in Afghanistan and Iraq, to desert Shield. The pay is retroactive to Sept. 1.
The Navy said it was activating 3 reserve units for construction support duties.
up. The units are in California, Colorado and the district of Columbia.
The Navy said the three units it was activating included 166 reservists, but it noted that not all of them had any combat experience.
The Army said 28 Army National Guard units and 34 Army Reserve units were being activated, effective today. Most of the units provide transportation support, while others include specialists in law enforcement, medivac, water supply and chemical defense.
The units are from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona,
California, Colorado, the District of Columbia,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri,
New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West
Virginia and Wisconsin.
Greenspan assesses crisis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairperson Alan Greenspan told Congress yesterday that the Persian Gulf crisis had piled “new and substantial risks” on an already faltering national economy.
In an assessment of U.S. economic prosperity, Greenspan said the jump in oil prices since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 had increased the threat of both higher inflation and a recession.
But the chairperson of the central bank rejected suggestions that U.S. economic policy-makers were in effect being held hostage by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Private economists said Greenspan's pessimistic comments reflected the tough choices facing him. Normally rising unemployment and other signs of sluggish growth would prompt the central bank to slash interest rates in order to spur demand.
He conceded that the Federal Reserve's job of promoting non-inflationary growth had been made more difficult by the unfolding events in the financial crisis. "The evidence is still hard to mitigate the economic fallout.
But, while increasing the money supply, this measure probably would lead to an increase in prices. And the oil price shock already has put the country in the grips of its worst bout of inflation in nine years. Consumer prices are climbing at an annual rate of 6.2 percent.
Financial markets had been eagerly awaiting Greenspan's first report on economic conditions since the Persian Gulf turmoil began. But for the most part they reacted with disappointment as the Federal Reserve chief seemed to dash hopes of a quick move to lower interest rates.
Lawmakers desert budget talks
The Associated Press
job."
The complaints came as Congress' five highest-ranking leaders met for a twelfth day with three
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Debra Edgerton, a KU graduate, shows a painting at Artframes.
KU students exhibit in local art gallery
Bv Jamie Elliott
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It's the same old catch-22. You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get experience without a job.
Artframes, at Ninth and Illinois streets, is giving students a break. Of the gallery's 45 artists, five are recent KU graduates, and six are recent KU graduates.
"But we made a subconscious decision to keep it at 20 percent or so because there's a certain vibrance and freshness about student work that you don't see at a lot of places because they're so conscious of
How, then, is a student artist supposed to get his or her work shown in a respectable gallery without credentials?
"in the beginning, we were a little conscious of how much student work we showed because we didn't want to be perceived as a student art gallery," said Bock Sack, part owner of the gallery.
Debra Edgerton had been painting and drawing all her life. After graduating from KU in 1980, she took a job as a greeting card illustrator at Hallmark. But after four years there, she looked for ways to be more creative.
"I read an article about the gallery in the Journal-World, about how they worked," he said. "A chance to show them had some talent." Edgerton said, "I thought it sounded pretty friendly, a little more relaxed. So I decided to bring some of the material."
The gallery offered Edgerton space for a solo exhibition, which will continue through Sept. 30. In the meantime, her paintings have been winning awards in regional and international competitions. A painting
help to support the gallery, Art-frames also offers a complete framing shop right on the art. And the collection is in 6,000-square-foot garden sculpture
"The Guild has three shows a year," she said. "It can be a stepping-stone for them to enter juried shows. If you want them to think we have something to offer them, and they can offer us some new blood and enthusiasm. It's amazing the confidence they can get just from their piece of their work hang in a show."
Edgerton also is serving as president of the Lawrence Art Guild and is trying to involve art students in the school to them a chance to exhibit their work.
entitled "Late October Morning" was selected by the Association of Community Arts Agencies of Kansas to present at the Kansas Postcard Series No. 13.
"But that's what it's nice about this gallery," she said. "Other places are just interested in where you've been since you were in college, and you're just starting out, you don't have those kind of credentials. You just hope your work can speak for you."
Artframes is located in a 65 year restored home at 912 Illinois St. The gallery owners, in keeping with an "artist-friendly" philosophy, require only a 25 to 30 percent comment on the top to 40 to 50 percent at other galleries.
Edgeron said that for a recently-graduated artist, breaking into the art business could be difficult.
New restaurants join food scene
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
Although Lawrence offers a seemingly endless choice of restaurants, students now have even more to choose from when they go out to eat.
Sweet Grass, 907 Massachusetts St., opened Aug. 8 in the space formerly occupied by Drake's Snack Shop. Brooks Hanson and his wife and partner, Belinda Ballard, opened the restaurant with a full breakfast, lunch and dinner menu.
Sweet Grass opens at 7 a.m. daily with an American breakfast that includes homemade breads, bacon and eggs, stuffed croissants and biscuits and gravy. Lunch includes sandwiches, French dip and croissants. Prices vary from $2.95 to $4.95.
"We have a lot of ethnic and international specials," Hanson said. "There's a lot of vegetarian stuff on the menu, and we try to run a vegetarian special each day."
The dinner menu includes a variety of fish and chicken dishes, seafood such as shrimp that Sweet Grass was the only restaurant in town to serve half-quarters of beer in 18-inch glasses. Sweet Grass offers a full-service
Dinner prices begin at $5.95 and go to $10.95, depending on the special. Sweet Grab serves breakfast from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., lunch from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., dinner from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., weekdays, 11 p.m. on weekends.
Students who remember Arthur Porter's restaurant. 1511 W. 23rd
St. may have noticed another restaurant in its place. The Country Kitchen opened July 23, and served breakfast, lunch and dinn-
Country Kitchen is open daily from 6 a.m. to midnight and serves meals at an average cost of $30. Kurt Johnson, assistant manager
The restaurant offers eggs, hash browns and skillet breakfasts, sandwiches and hamburgers for lunch, and chicken, fish and steaks for dinner. The average cost of a dinner is $6.
People looking for a little fun and activity with their food can try Benchwarmers, 1601 W. 23rd St., a bar restaurant that opens Friday in the space formerly occupied by Gammon's.
John Heller, co-owner of Benchwarmers, said the restaurant offers a variety of food, sandwiches and steaks with homemade sauces and marinades, hand-packed and seasoned is pound hamburgers and a full range.
"We'll be serving large portions for good values," Hetler said.
Food, however, will be just a part of the new sports bar and grill.
He said Benchwarmers would include basketball and football players. They also machine that already is drawing interest from people as far away as Kansas City. There will be 10 percent more students and eight 27-inch monitors.
Benchwarmers will serve both lunch and dinner, and will be open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 2 a.m.
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