KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.16
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1990
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Up. up and away
Katie Whitsell of Topeka and her 4-year-old son, Shaun, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds precision firing team at the Superbatics '90 air show at Topeka's Forbes Field. See story on page 9.
KU graduate tells of trips in space
By Mike Brassfield
Kanan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
When Steven Hawley was going to high school in Salina, he watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and he wished he could be there.
When Hawley was going to the University of Kansas, he lived in
son Hall He watched all of the Apollo space missions on television, and wished he could be an astronaut.
Steve Hawle
In April, he ley looked down
the Space Shuttle Discovery, 330 miles above the Earth.
Hawley, a 1973 KU graduate, spoke Saturday night to an audience of
"It's really true that a small kid from central Kansas can grow up to do some pretty exciting things," he said.
about 900 students at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive. He was the keynote speaker at the 38th annual meeting of the Student Alumni Association.
"You really can't predict who tomorrow's leaders will be. I never aspired to leadership.
"My interest in astronomy probably developed because I lived in Salina, where you can see lots of stars at night," he said.
Hawley earned bachelor's degrees in physics and astronomy from KU.
"I thought if I was really lucky, I'd
After Hawley finished graduate school at the University of California in 1977, he filled out an application to become an astronaut.
get a free trip to Houston. To this very day, I'm sure there's some other Steve Hawley whose mail I call unexpected to get nicked," he said.
After being selected by NASA as an astronaut in 1978, Hawley spent five years in training before he was assigned to the first flight of the Discovery. After six attempts, the Discovery lifted off in August 1984.
"During the first attempt they had to scrub the launch with nine minutes left in the countdown. That was okay. That's part of the job." he said.
Security Council plans to tighten its sanctions
"The next day they stopped it with four seconds to go. That wasn't okay." he said, laughing.
After serving as a mission specialist aboard the Columbia in a 1986 mission, Hawley served on the crew of the Discovery in April 1990.
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council yesterday unanimously condemned Iraq's raids on the French and other diplomatic compounds in Kuwait and warned that further sanctions against Baghdad, including an air embargo, were likely.
U. S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering said another resolution would be drafted to block Iraq's air routes, and the United States has never taken against a nation.
Western diplomats also said sanctions were planned against nations breaking the U.N. trade embargo, imposed after Saddam Hussein's
Bush speaks to Iraqi people receives scathing response
The Associated Press
BAGHIDAD, Iraq — Iraqi television broadcast a taped message yesterday from President Bush to the Iraqi people but followed it with a scathing response from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"Iraq stands isolated and alone," Bush said in his message from the Oval Office. "Saddam Hussein has not lost control, but a struggle between Iraq and
America. In fact, it is Iraq against the world."
Iraiqi television appeared to have broadcast the message in its entirety yesterday about 7 p.m. Iraiqi time.
"Iraf finds itself on the brink of war," Bush said, standing in front of his desk with an American flag behind him.
But, he said, "War is not inevitable.
forces overran Kuwait Aug. 2
The ambassadors of the five permanent Security Council members — the United States, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union — met at the French Mission to begin laying the groundwork for further measures.
"IF Iraq persists, there will be other resolutions," Soviet Ambassador Yulli Vorontsov said.
Young woman sentenced Former student pleads no contest in train accident trial
More Gulf coverage p. 7
Former student pleads no contest in train accident trial
By Debbie Myers
Kansas staff writer
The early morning hours of May 11, 1989, were filled with celebration for a young woman who would be leaving Lawrence later that day after graduating from junior college.
She had been at a party in Riverfront Park of North Second Street with some of her friends. Although she was intoxicated, she and two of her friends drove away from the building, and she ran a stop sign at a railroad crossing to beat a train
After she crossed the tracks, she sidesteped a car coming from the other direction. She put on the brakes.
She did, and she went on with her life. She heard about the accident that killed Lester Battise, a Livingston, Texas, Haskell Junior College student, and seriously injured Haskell students Dawna Paul, of Cherokee, N.C., and Ricky L. Cooper, of Anadarko, Okla, but she thought it was just another train accident.
Edwina Rae Sandoval, 24, found out differently July 19 in Omaha. She was attacked, Okla. for aggravated vehicular harm, a felony.
Five months pregnant at the time, she was taken away from her husband and son and was convicted Aug. 29 in Douglas County District Court of misdemeanor vehicular homicide.
On rrday, after spending 58 days in jail, she went into Douglas County District Court facing a possible sentence of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine. She left with a sentence of two years' probation.
Her attorney, Craig Stancliffe, said before the sentencing that Sandoval had pleaded no contest to the vehicular homicide charge because she did not want to put the victims' families through a trial or through more pain
"There was no way that the court could punish her more than she was already punishing herself." Staniflee
And there was no way for her to undo what had been
done more than a year ago. Paul, who was driving the car Sanloua had sideswiped, put on the brakes. The car slid several feet before coming to a stop on the railroad tracks.
Paul who sustained injuries, said that after the accident she could remember nothing. Cooper, whose lower body is now paralyzed, said that either the car's engine had died on the tracks or Paul was trying to rock the car back and forth because it was stuck there. He could not remember which.
The train hit the center of the rear door on the driver's side and threw the car to the right of the tracks. Paul was
On Friday, District Judge Ralph King read a statement from Battise's mother that said although her life would never be the same without her son, she did not want revenge.
King said he placed Sandoval on probation because Sandoval had shown remorse, because she did not usually abuse alcohol and because it would be hard to get prenatal care in jail.
King also said that in this case, it was hard to determine what had happened
Jerry Wells, first assistant district attorney, agreed. He said the original felony charge brought against Sandoval was reduced to a misdemeanor because the accident involved two cars and a railroad crossing and because the witnesses could not testify because they had trouble traveling.
Stanciffe said Sandoval's life had been like hell since she was arrested. Although she was accepted to nursing school at Tudsa University, it started without her a few weeks before the depression that she soult counseling from a minister.
"This is a no-winners case," Stancliffe said. "This is a tragedy. She recognizes that. She doesn't want to cause any more pain to anybody."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Crowd marches to Kremlin demanding Gorbachev quit
The Associated Press
Ryzhkov and Gorbachev support different economic programs. The prime minister favors a more common model, while Gorbachev and Russian
"The Economy is a Disaster" read banners carried by the crowd, which gathered under heavy rain at Gorky Park, crossed the Moscow River and then headed for central Moscow, where they listened to speeches just outside Red Square.
MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to the Kremlin yesterday, demanding that President Mikhail S. Gorbala be removed and to take responsibility for the country's deepening economic crisis.
republic legislators have a more radical plan for swift reform.
Yesterday's rally came a day after a leading reformer, Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov, said on national television that Zhrykhov's Cabinet should step aside to be replaced by a government trusted by the people, the 15 Soviet republics and foreign nations.
Popov said Ryzhkov had no real plan for reforming the economy.
Gorbachev, however, has been criticized for not implementing market reforms sooner. Soviets face shortages of food and many other products; store shelves are bare.
Ryzhkov, who appeared in a TV program Saturday night, defended his plan for moderate economy
reform and said, "We will stop at nothing to implement it."
Popov, who left the Communist Party in July and favors the plan for radical economic reform drawn up by economist Stanislav Shatalin, said. "The government did not have, does not have and does not want to have any real plan for a transition to the genuine market."
"We are sick and devalued of empty shops and devalued money, we want no more crises," Popov said.
Shalinat's plan, approved by Russian legislators, calls for transferring most economic authority from the national government to the local ones who then could move independently toward market economies.
lawrence City Commission votes to appeal census figures
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
After studying preliminary census results, city officials are challenging the Census Bureau's figures, which they say missed about 1.500 Lawrence residents.
The Lawrence City Commission voted Tuesday to send an official appeal letter Friday challenging the total count listed at 64,726.
Dave Gunter, a city planner, has been studying the preliminary population figures
for two weeks.
Guntert said most of the inaccuracies were in the count of group-living quarters northwest of Washington.
"We went through the census tracts and discovered entire buildings that were left out," he said. "For example, the census department had to call the hospital, a nursing home, the KOA campground, the Salvation Army Safe House, several motels and two fraternities."
city's estimate to the population count from the tracts the Census Bureau provided. In some cases, he called managers of the group-living quarters to verify the number.
Jeannie Blankenship, the director of homeless services for the Salvation Army Safe House, 924 New Hampshire St., said census data not come the day they were supposed to.
Guntert said his office was comparing the
"When they came in, it was 7 o'clock, and most of the residents hadn't come in for the evening yet."
The bureau listed the population of the Douglas County jail, 111 E. 11th St., as zero.
Jail sergeant Doug Woods said that the jail did not have a census procedure but that it did keep records of daily admissions. On April 1 there were 68 people in the jail.
Phil McKnight, member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said the importance of the census
The populations of two fraternity houses, Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1454 Tennessee St., and Pi Kappa Alpha, 2000 Stewart Ave., were listed at zero.
"We had to turn the forms in on a certain day, and the house妈 was strict about us."
count was stressed to the house members.
There were discrepancies in the reported populations of residence halls as well.
Guntert said Gertrude Sellards Pearson-
Corbin Hall's population was listed at 299.
According to Guntert, the actual count was
707. Lewis Hall and Hashinger Hall were
listed at 325, but Guntert said the actual count
was 621.