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October 1, 1979
Oread downzone vital
The Oread neighborhood a few years ago seemed like a dying animal that was unable to raise itself out of its deteriorating condition.
But now, after careful nursing by a group of dedicated residents, the Oread neighborhood has not only cared for itself, but is showing strong vital signs.
The most recent sign of life was its ability to convince the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission that the city should downzone the northwest section of the Oread neighborhood.
WHAT THAT WOULD mean is that an area north of Memorial Stadium would no longer be zoned for residential high-density use. Instead, the area would be built on land which would mean that fewer fourplexes, more duplexes would be built.
While the lone dissenter at the commission's meeting last week charged discrimination against students because such a decision would decrease housing, downmong would, in fact, be beneficial to them. But it is also a security and the city. No one benefits when a neighborhood is no longer vital, and the
Oread neighborhood, with its high-density residential zoning, had been losing its vitality.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD directly north of the stadium has been characterized by single-family homes. The residents correctly argue that high density zoning has been wrecking the character of the neighborhood and making it extremely difficult to get homes financed in the area.
There will be fewer students in the neighborhood, perhaps, but the downzoning would allow students to find housing there.
It is now up to the Oread residents to make their vitality known to the City Commission when it considers the recommendation of the planning commission this月内. In July, the city commissioners denied a proposal to downsize the entire Oread neighborhood to residential duplex.
But now, working with the planning commission's recommendation, they will hopefully see the wisdom of a new zoning order in the neighborhood that need such zoning.
In the end, we will all reap the benefits of such a move.
Kuhn's punishment does not fit crime
We should have come to the realization in 1968 that anything can happen in the next few years, win the World Series then we should be prepared for anything, and for the most important thing is baseball, umpire strikes and multimillion dollar contracts. But now it's not as clear as it was a year ago.
So there will be a case heard before a major league arbitrator concerning the right of a major league player to speak on the court. The players can pennant races, razor commercials or artifical turf. Bill Lee, one of the best pitchers in the game today, is the man
LEE, a left-hander for the Montreal Expos of the National League, is a so-called free spirit, a man who has his own brand of luck, including junk food, SALT II and nuclear power. He is not the typical Whitey Ford, clean cut-type baseball player. He is a scraggly-hairy, often bearded activist who still doesn't have enough to have won 16 games this year.
When Lee came to Montreal this season after spending 10 years with the Nets, he got to play in the best season ever and almost led them to a divisional championship. But he also got himself in trouble with baseball's major league commissioner Bowie Kukun.
Lee was quoted during spring training as saying that, among other things, he had used marijuana. When the pressure was put on him about such a radical statement he qualified it, tongue-in-cheekly, "I will never be the one he ever used it was in the morning when he sprinkled it over the top of his organic buckwheat pancakes.
KUHN 'DIDN'T LIKE Lee's statements, nor did he like his flippancy, and he fired the pitcher $250 for "conduct" in a game when he made mistakes of the pitcher is tough to understand, especially in our society where marijuana is commonly used and is also illegal.
The question of the drug's health hazards or legality does not even apply in this case, however. The $20 is not even worth it and there is no effect, that Lee has no right to speak
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about what he wants; what he thinks is important. It is a gross abuse of the power that Kahn has and it is a violation of his fundamental guarantee of freedom of speech.
LEE APPEALED the fine through the player's association and the case will be heard before baseball arbitrator Paul Pappalardo completed. The case may then go to the courts, depending on the outcome of the arbitration. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion against the player's association and a good number of fans. One such fan was quoted in the New York Times as saying, "In 1982, when he didn't begin he started stuffing shirts."
It was what had gone on before this season that probably duped Kuko into the job of shaking up a team couldn't say that he had smoked marijuana. Last year when Kuko voiled the million dollar trades of Vida Blue, he wasn't the only person who was trying to make the trades, Charlie O. Finley, sued the commissioner. The court, however, ruled for Kuko.
Kahn convinced the court that it was in the best interest of baseball to void the trades, and the court agreed. He should not let such success go to his head.
HE CANNOT tell a player what he should say, and a player should have the right to say what he wants as long as it is not slumbered or obscene.
Heshe should not concern himself with the lifestyle and views of a particular pitcher. He especially should not stop his right to freedom of speech.
President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance don't appear to be willing to take the helm of the ship of state. That much more than he did at Sanders' hands on Cuba, Rhodesia and Nicaragua.
One no these days seems to be sure about who is running America's foreign policy.
Defenders of freedom of speech should not worry about the upcoming arbitration and possible court case. Certainly Lee should win the battle for his $250 and his right to speak out on what he wants without fear of being censored.
So now others, spotting the leadership void, have decided to step in and make their own decision. The Americans are dangerous game that threatens to shatter the already fragmented members of America.
But then you never know. The Mets did win the 1969 World Series . . .
PERHAPS THE MOST irresponsible issue in America is American foreign policy is the case of Israel a legislative assistant to Jesse Helms, conservative Republican from North Carolina.
Helms sent Carbaugh to London recently to observe negotiations on a new Zimbabwe Rhodesia constitution. Britain is trying to persuade both Patriotic Front guerrillas and the Sahibs government to end their agreements and agree on a new government structure.
British officials complained to the United States last week that Carbaugh had thrown a wrench into the works by urging former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith to take a hard line in the negotiations. The officials charged that Carbaugh advised Smith to "hang on" and refuse to yield to British pressure. But there were certain safeguards for white Rhodesians.
Tribute to Jimmy's 55th
Individualism endangers foreign policy
The British Foreign Office believes that Carrough's advice helped stiffen Smith's stance on the issue. The Smith's intransigence has been one of the biggest obstacles to the success of the plan.
Incredibly, Helms defended the actions of his aide, saying that Carbaugh behaved with "perfect propriety."
CARBAUGH ALSO told Smith, according to the British, that the United States would lift trade sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia by Oct. 1. Smith was apparent as he stated that the pressure, as it meant the end of some of the pressure on him from the American government.
HELMS ALSO defended his decision to send an aide to the talks.
made it clear that the PLO must recognize Israel's right to exist. But PLO officials showed no signs of accepting Jackson's peace message. And the trip wrestened already tense relations between the black community and the American Jewish community.
John
logan
BETTER MOTIVATED, but equally risky, was the Rev. Jesse Jackson's recent trip to the Middle East. Jackson made the trip along with leaders of the Southern Baptist Church and other fact-finding and to try to do some peace making in Lebanon and Israel. The result was thatJackson stirred Palestinians on the West Bank into a fever pitch and angered
With knowledge of all the twisted menialities available in the world today—after Auschwitz, and Munich in 1972, and all the other examples of the propriety of human beings, including the human beings, given enough power and desperation—how can a person in full grasp of a sensibility of other humans begin to rationalize the public printing of a course of decision whether a person can say what he wants to or not? Is it for the good of the country to allow a few individuals, in this case, their unenableable right—at peril to the security of the whole of Fuliv or the state Manheim law- lawyer, Kan.
It is tough enough for the United States to develop good relations with the other nations of the world when there is no one in Washington who seems willing to do it.
That is an incredibly irresponsible attitude. What would happen if every United States Senator thought that the State Department had not acted in good faith, and
But the bad situation can only be exacerbated if other groups or individuals try to step in and do the job The State Department is tasked with helping to secure the ship of state, who a whole crew of ensigns.
Thompson uses the current cynical definition of "national security" (her quotes to that, that national security is "the legal system for a long time." It is true that the Johnson and Nixon administrations' abuse of the term "national security" in using it to use excuse their own dimly it illegal activity has given the term poor press, so to speak.
WHERE DO we draw the line between an individual exercising his right to speak and an individual contributing to madness and chaos?
sent an envoy to middle in some distant, delicate negotiations? The world would be in a chaotic uproar.
Dear Melissa, Utopia is not here and now. There are groups of people-politicists (the people) who believe in calculated death, destruction and the matter of group policy. These are desperate people unable to conceive, in their dilemma, an abstract as such—the freedom of speech
To his credit, Jackson urged that the Palestinians use moderation in their efforts to establish a Palestinian state. And be also
The real world, outside of legalistic notions of national security, does yet exist. The idea of maintaining sufficient security for an entire nation is one of which is the First Amendment, of this country from outside physical subversion of American society and protecting our American style in the future.
WITH THIS freedom to speak goes a responsibility. A trust that sets an individual limit on when to speak or not, to be able to learn and grow. Yasser Arafat, et al., access instruction in how to build a hydrogen bomb rings not because it benefits but more, a tad bit, of the insane.
Freedom no excuse for bomb story
I wonder what incubator Melissa Thompson is being educated in that would allow her to use the First Amendment in her work. What is the indication of the Hydro Bomb's construction.
The Press is a conglomeration of individuals, who, no doubt, share all the strengths and weaknesses inherent in each person. The Press is also a journalist decides to print information that could prove directly to promote physical harm to the whole of us he himself. It is his own free speech. His use of his right could promote, in very real and desperate people, the abnormal use or abuse of his powers leading to the deaths of many millions.
Her rationale being that the press has a right to print whatever it wants, wherever it wants under the protection of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to matter the result or consequence that the expression of that right may bring.
To Thompson may I suggest, spin free of your cocoon and discover what freedom implies.
John Varhevich
Vietnam War veteran
John Yarnevich
U.S. aid to Turkey a Cyprus question To the Editor
1 wish to comment on and clarify some points raised in Mr. Mulitz's letter of September 21, 1974. In response to the letter of September 19 that made some observations on John Fisk's 8 September 1974 letter, Mr. Mulitz
In my letter I indicated, among other things, that no U.S. aid should be given to Turkey or to Greece, and the obligations of the United States, Cyprus and Greece and until she stopped using foreign money.
Unfortunately, I am not confused as far as Turkey's aggressive policy and violations are concerned. The Cypriot people have enunciated these actions for the last five years.
The CYPRUS problem is not 'an affair'; as Mutlu calls it. It is an international problem of invasion and occupation, and it ought to allure freedom-loving and democratic people.
Mutu says that it is a mistake to write about Turkey's expansion policy. It is not wrong, but the country stopped 1963 and 1967 but was stopped by the U.S. and other countries. What her target then to be is "the biggest Turkish Cypriots?" I do not think so. Why does she continue to send Turkish settlers to Cyprus?
In the past history of Turkey one can cite many examples of such tactics—Alexandretta, Armenia, Ibrahma, Tenedes, etc. Had Turkey suddenly wished to restore constitutional order she would have withdrawn after the elected returned to office. However, she intensified her efforts to turkify the occupied area. In some cases, they are claims
I am sorry to admit that I have not missed Fisher's main argument, as Mulls's suggests—that I arrived at certain obvious outcomes mainly from American taxpayers and they should know how those other countries use that aid. If democracy in America goes bad, it will almost 10,000 troops in Cypriot and spend a bell of a lot of money maintaining them? Turkey could have used that money to solve some of her economic and social problems. She disassociated from economic problems and blockades. Surely she does not keep them in Cyprus for the security of the Turkish community—which consists of only 190,000.
HAD DEMOCRATIC Greece any claims to Cyprus, she would not have signed the 1960 agreement with Turkey and Britain for Cypriot independence.
Restoring the independence of Cyprus surely does not mean legalization of the present situation. This is what Turkey is doing, and through her representative, Mr K. Deplash.
THANKS, MUTLU, for reminding me that Turkey violated international laws, too. The United States has authorized United States to violate U.S. laws and human rights, for surely U.S. laws condemn interference in the internal affairs of other countries. In a way, people's right to freedom and independence.
I am pleased to see that Mutlu favors
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The blame, therefore, is not on the Greek Cypriots, who have sincerely wished for many centuries to reach a lasting peace with their Turkish compatriots.
PROOF OF this is the 1977 Turkish proposals given to U.N. Secretary General Dr. Waldheim, which were rejected.
federation and not confederation, which his government said meant setting up states in Cyprus and, in the long run, double union and thus dissolution of the Republic of
I agree Cyprus would be better off as a free and unified state without any foreign interference. Cyprus belongs to her people.
Maria Hadjipavlou
Maria Hadjipavlou Lawrence graduate student
Iran violates rights
On Thursday Sept. 20, the Kansan printed a letter by Mohammed Zikary, president of the organization, to the university presented a portrait of Khomeni's Iran as a tolerant religious society, with popular backing. This is a mixture of truth and irony, and I would like to explain the distortion.
To the Editor:
Unfortunately, both the American David Preston and the Iranian Zikry see what they would like to see, because of their own cultural background. They see that the Kohmine regime is popular with the Moslim majorities, while Zikry presents the argument that majority views and attitudes of the Moslems are, or must be, simplest simply because they are majoritarian.
IT IS Ziky's view that is socially dangerous as well as distorted, because he particularly fails to tell the truth about the religiously repressive nature of the falacine regime, a repression that I will describe, or be referring to "cultural differences" alone.
Khomeini's Iran is not a religion-tolerant society, and the Kurds are not the only, nor the most sordid, example of the Moslem's religious hyocrissy.
The Bahais experienced severe religious oppression in Iran in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when more than 20,000 Bahais were killed or killed. The religion was officially branded a heresy after an attempt on the life of the Shah, which was motivated by earlier persecution.
THE BAHAL, who number close to ten million in the world, are members of one of the largest independent world religions, and are known especially for their religious tolerance, humanitarian work and non-violent action in revolutionary and partisan politics.
This historical persecution has flared again in the anarchic wake of the Islamic
revolution, which rejects Western culture, ideas and modes of production. However, the second revolution in secession, which involves the attempt to suppress even eliminated Bahais because they are Baheians.
IN THE LAST few weeks, Khomein's Islamic regime has seized all national Bahai properties, and demolished the home of the Bahais. The prime minister is important to the world's Bahas as the Church of Nativity to Christians, or the wailing wall to the Jews, the destruction of this shrine is a fanatic act concurrent with the escalation of escaping violence against the Bahais.
Khomeini's regime has allowed and instigated the widespread seizure and bombing of many citizens and the removal of some Bahias from government jobs. In some sections of the country, literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of families have been left
Statements in the New York Times last spring labeled the Bahais as a "subversive political movement." This is difficult to understand without additional or political status, since the Bahais are forbidden by their religion to join partisan movements in parties, or in general political debates.
OFFICIALLY, Khmeimin has pledged rights for religious freedom and political rights to his students. However, the pronouncements have conspicuously omitted mention of the applause.
These acts are not merely religious hypocrisy, they are apparently part of an entire system of government's physical harassment that, if not recognized and checked, may grow into actual religious hypocrisy.
These events deserve serious recognition and public attention in the United States. One wonders how reliable Zikry's views about Iran are in general, in the light of the facts that "mortality" serts that "mortorities are guaranteed their freedom of a faith" and piously claims that Iran is "not like the West where there is religious intolerance."
Chris Hamilton
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