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Scuttle diplomacy
Former ambassador Andrew Conteh often relied on patience and tolerance during his five years of dealing with Soviet diplomats. Soviet foreign policy is frustrating, says Con-
teh, a visiting professor, because most of its envoyes are mechanical mouthpieces who cannot respond without consulting higherups. See story, page 3.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 23 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday, September 26, 1984
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
If head basketball coach Larry Brown had his choice, his players would be living in Naismith Hall this year instead of in the Javahower Towers.
Brown said yesterday that he had tried since last spring to get his players into Naismith, a privately owned residence hall. Seven players on the women's basketball team are living in Naismith this year.
But Brown said hall officials had told him at the end of July that the men's team was low on the waiting list to get into the hall and that the players probably would not get in.
THE NEWS SENT Brown scrambling to find living quarters for his team less than a month before the start of school.
"I think they didn't really want an athletic team there," Brown said.
David May, Naismith's general manager, said that was not the case. He said the hall had offered to let members of the men's team contract on an individual basis, as the women's team had done and all other residents were required to do. But the men's team did not complete the applications in time, he said.
Brad Tennant, Naismith's resident director, said. "What happened is the paper work just didn't come through."
Susan Wachter, athletic department business director, said the athletic department understood that Nsaithm would not contract for a block of rooms for the players, as the housing department had done for apartments at the Towers.
HOWEVER, SHE SAID, the athletic department thought it had more time to complete the nurse work than it did.
complete the paper and turn it in.
An athletic department memo said Nassim Smith contracts could be confirmed until July 1. Wachter said, but the memo was wrong.
"So it really was just a great big mess up," she said.
Tennant said Naismith had no specific deadline for accepting contracts. The hall is considered full when 488 contracts are received, he said, and contracts received after that are placed on a waiting list.
Tennant said he thought Naismith had received 488 contracts by late June.
Wachter said contracts for 16 members of the men's team had been sent to Naismith on various dates. She said she didn't remember when the last contract was sent.
"WE HAD PLANNED on putting the men's team there and wanted to put the women's team there, too. It did not work out that way," she said.
Brown said the money for athletes on scholarship was not available in the spring when the players needed to make the down payments.
the scholarships provide room, board,
tuition and books for the athletes.
Brown said the athletic department had promised Naismith that it would pay for each athlete's contract. He said he thought the department and the hall had reached an agreement, so he began telling his recruits that they would be living in Naismith this year.
May said athletic department officials and Brown's staff members were in contact with his staff on a daily basis.
his staff on a daily basis.
"I think there was a communication problem," May said, "and I'm sorry about that."
MARIAN WASHINGTON, HEAD women's basketball coach, said she was pleased her players were living at Naismith. The hall's suite rooms with adjoining bathrooms are nicer than rooms at Oliver Hall, where the team lived last year, she said.
The better living quarters helped in recruiting efforts, she said.
brown said if the men's team lived at Naismith, team members could mix more with non-athletes.
"The hall is a good environment and close to the field house," he said.
to the team work
Wachter said the men's team might live in Naismith next year. If it does, she said, the paper work will be done on time.
But Brown said he wasn't sure whether he would attempt to contract rooms in Nissim
WASHINGTON SAID NOTHING reason her team was living at Naihism this year, because athletes were able to eat in the hall's cateration during regular meal hours. Players can eat at the hall because the team is practicing earlier this year, she said.
is practicing extra work. But Washington said officials at Naishtown would not make special arrangements if the team's practice schedule changed The practice schedule changes from year to year and semester to semester, she said. The men's and women's teams share Allen Field House and alternate schedules.
does for any students.
Washington said she couldn't predict what would happen if the women's team returned to late practices.
HOUSE AND ACCESSORY May said Naismith would offer the players late dinner plates until 8 p.m., as the hall does for any student.
THE OFFICE OF Residential Programs was helpful in arranging late meals and other special requests for the team when team
See NAISMITH, p. 5, col. 1
Pat Hogan, Omaha, Neb., senior, (in black) attempts a shot senior. Hogan and Norby played their basketball game against his one-on-one opponent, Steve Norby, Leawood yesterday at Veterans Park, 19th and Louisiana streets.
Acid dust may be menace to area
By CHIRISSY CLEARY
Staff Reporter
Blowing dust irritates eyes and clings to clothes.
But blowing acid dust could run valuable crop soil and be a health hazard in the area, said Dennis Lane, associate professor of civil engineering
"There is the possibility that if the acid dust builds up, and the soil's alkalinity is down, there could be a severe problem in the next 10 to 20 years," Lane said yesterday.
Lane, who has been coordinating acid dust research for more than two years, said acid dust could be 1) times more harmful to the environment than acid rain.
LANE AND RESEARCH assistants have designed, and proposed to the Environmental Protection Agency, plans for five 90-foot tall towers to monitor acid dust in and around Lawrence. From the towers, which Lane hopes will be built in the spring, researchers
The EFA is reviewing the proposal, and Lane expects to hear whether the agency will help finance the project within the next three weeks.
will collect air samples from different heights.
Aid dust particles, one thousandth the size of a pin head, are composed of nitrates and sulphates, which are produced by coal-burning power plants.
ACID DUST BREAKS down the soil's alkalinity, which allows acid to mix with the soil without harming it. Lane said. If alkalinity decreases, the soil's resistance drops and that could affect crop yields.
"The Great Plains produce a substantial amount of food for the world," Lane said. "We could get to the point where the soil won't produce that much food. That's the
danger. We don't want to reach that threshold."
Usually no one starts working on the acid rain or acid dust problem until the effects become obvious, Lane said.
"Any layman on the street can see whether his evergreens are dying." Lane said. "Once you see effects like that, you go back and take a look at the process that occurred in between. We're not seeing those drastic effects in Kansas yet."
MOST OF THE national research on acid dust has been limited to the East and West Coasts because that is where the most visible damage is. Lane said.
Little data has been collected on acid dust in the Great Plains, Lane said, or on its health effects.
All of the coal burning power plants in Kansas use air pollution control devices, Lane said. The law says the companies must
See DUST, p. 5, col. 2
State candidates expect to be elected on individual merit
By SUZANNE BROWN
Staff Reporter
State candidates running for Congress and the Kansas Legislature said yesterday that the so-called "coattail effect" of the presidential race would hold little sway over Kansas races this fall.
Kansas rates this election, "I don't think there will be any real significant coalition effect this election." Rep. Jim Slattery, a Democrat, said "The people of northeast Kansas tend to be very independent in their thinking."
independent a coattail effect occurs when a voter cast his ballot for a Republican or Democratic state or local candidate based on the party affiliation of the presidential candidate he or she supports.
In 1980, Solbach and State Reps. Jessie Branson and Betty Jo Charlton, also Lawrence Democrats, won their races for the 45th, 44th and 46th Districts despite a national Republican landslide.
THIS YEAR, DEMOCRATS have said that they fear a Reagan victory may cost them seats in Congress and in state legislatures.
Most of the Douglas County candidates interviewed yesterday discounted such an effect on their races.
"Kansans are pretty independent voters, and they usually vote mostly upon the individual." State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said. "The smaller the race, the less coercive effect there will be."
Charlton said the outcome of the national race would have little effect on local Democratic incumbents again this year.
"The national ticket won't hurt us," said Charlton.
"I think it obviously will have some effect, though the record in Lawrence has been for the person," said Julie Hack, Republican candidate for the 46th District.
MOST OF THE Douglas County candidates said the contitutional effect was hardly felt in Lawrence, where voters tended to support individuals rather than political parties.
Martha Parker, Republican candidate for the 45th District, said she thought voters were becoming more loosely bound to political parties.
"There are always some tried-and-true Republicans and Democrats who are going to vote the straight party ticket," she said. "But those who really listen are going to vote for the individual candidate."
STATE SEN, WINT Winter Jr., RLawrence, and his Democratic opponent, Lawrence Seaman Jr., also said national election developments probably would leave Douglas County races untouched.
Kansas races for U.S. Congress, however, may be another story.
Steve Curtis, campaign coordinator for Reardon, said that Reardon had to gain votes in Johnson County, a traditionally Republican stronghold, to defeat his Republican opponent, former State Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park
Two weeks ago, Jack Reardon, Democrat candidate for the 3rd District, said his campaign might be hurt by a local appearance by Walter Mondale.
Curtis said an association with the Democratic presidential candidate might
"The goal of our race is to keep it at the congressional level," he said.
pairable it; it would be a great opportunity for the students at KU to hear in person an individual who is running for the highest office in the land," he said.
SLATTERY. WHO IS running for re-election in the 2nd District, would not question on Reardon's remark. But he said he would be happy if Monday and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, campaigned in the 2nd District.
office in the趴场. Jim Van Slyke, Slattery's Republican opponent, said he thought a Reagan victory would have a positive effect on his own race.
"I expect it to bring at least a small percentage my way," he said.
Police seize three of five fugitives
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three of five escaped inmates from the state prison were captured in a residential wooded area on Tuesday, and officers with shotguns and led by bloodhounds searched Leavenworth County for at least one other inmate
By United Press International
Two hours later, inmates Arzo Tucker Jr.,
26, and Lawrence E. Lace, 33, were captured
by officers two blocks from where Jones was
arrested.
County for a conviction. Convicted murderer Thaddeus Jones, 28, was arrested shortly before 5 p.m. — about an hour after a resident tipped authorities that the convicts had been seen entering a woods on the east end of city. Areas Tucker Jr.
arrested
JONES WAS ON FOOT and armed but offered no resistance, said Lt. Ron Miller of the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department
There was no immediate report whether the other two men were armed.
All three men were taken to the Kansas City, Kan., jail where they were processed and turned over to prison authorities. Police said they would be returned immediately to the Lansing prison.
Police had cordoned off an adjacent residential area and evacuated some homes. Other residents were told to remain indoors during the search, which ended about 7 p.m. after Tucker and Lane's arrest.
Lane was serving a 10 to 20 year sentence for a November 1982 robbery at Kizet Cummings Jewelers, 800 Massachusetts St Tucker was imprisoned for aggravate kidnapping, sodomy, rape and robbery.
INMATES THAMIL VAN Phan, 20, and John Allen Purdy, 23, both convicted of murder, remained at large late yesterday.
But Randall Butford, deputy prison director, said one of the inmates was being pursued in Leavenworth County with prison dog teams
In Douglas County, Sheriff Rex Johnson said his department was monitoring the manhunt for the remaining fugitives. But the department has not put any additional men on duty to help in the manhunt, he said.
Prison guards from Kansas State Pentitienty in Lansing and local law officers had focused their dragnet in three northeast Kansas communities where the fugitives reportedly had been sighted
The convicts escaped about 1 a.m. Monday from a maximum security cellhouse at the Kansas State Pentituary. They used a band saw to cut through a mesh fence, shimmed three floors through an air duct and then cut through a $14-\mathrm{inch}$ thick bar covering an air shaft opening to the outside wall.
Disneyland employees say 'no' to more Mickey Mouse
By United Press International
it had been, basically, a big happy family out here," said ride operator Tim Stanley. one of the first strikers to picket near the park's main entrance
ANAHEM, Calif — Hundreds of disgruntled Disneyland employees, most wearing "No Mickey Mouse" buttons, ringed the world-famous amusement park with picket lines yesterday on the first day of a strike by more than 1,800 workers.
'But now, it's like Dad has taken our allowance away and given us more work to do,' said Stanley, a park employee for 17 years.
years.
THE STRIKE, THE second called at the park in five years, was sanctioned Monday when members of a five-union coalition
The striking workers drew the support of passing motorists and pedestrians as pickets started organizing several hours before the park opened.
rejected by a 69 percent margin manage
mester's latest master services contract off
parks opened.
Several early morning visitors stopped on the way to talk with the picketers and shake hands. Dozens of motorists honked their horns and flashed victory or thumbs up signs.
"I hope all the unions and the public supports us," said Tom Ravencroft, an employee organizing pickets at the park's front entrance. The entrance displayed a sign welcoming guests to "the happiest place on earth."
please place on my desk.
But I feel sorry for the people who have
See DISNEY, p. 5, col. 4