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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 59 (USPS 650-640)
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Vietnam vet angered over drawing's theft
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Within 24 hours of its being placed at the site of the planned Vietnam memorial Monday, an architect's drawing of the memorial was stolen. A Vietnam veteran says this isn't a typical college prank.
typical context.
The drawing, in a Plexiglas and stainless steel frame, was placed on a metal pole at the planned memorial site during a consecration ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday and was discovered stolen at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, KU police said.
Police said they had no suspects.
Police said they had no reason to "i don't know why anyone would do something like this". Lisa Ashner, a member of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, said yesterday.
John Musgrave, a veteran of the Vietnam War, said he remembered a time when people did this sort of
"This is a cowardly act made by a person or persons wishing to make some sort of twisted statement about the war or the policies that led us there by attacking the first physical evidence of the memorial," he said.
thing too frequently, and why they did it.
Mustgrage, who has worked for two years to see the memorial become a reality, said the theft had not been the first act against the memorial project. The pole the drawing was to be placed on was stolen before the ceremony, he said.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said his staff worked to replace the pole in time for the consecration ceremony Monday.
Musgrave said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial.
"But of course, that's not the case now," Musgrave said. "Speaking as a Vietnam veteran, as a member of
the committee that has worked for two years for this memorial, my impression is that this is not a random act of vandalism or a high-spirited college clark."
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Muscgrave, who joined the peace movement after returning from Vietnam, said he thought whoever took the drawing was behaving in the same way some people behaved during the war — blaming the veteran for a situation he had not created.
"Far too often the Vietnam vet has been held up to ridicule and to blame, when we did nothing more that what our forefathers had done — we served our country."
Musgrave said that foremost in his mind when he heard about the theft were the faces of some of the people who had attended the consecration ceremony — the widow of a man who was killed while serving with the
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House, Senate buy time to hash out budget plan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate yesterday approved different versions of a small increase in the federal debt limit to buy another month to work on balanced budget legislation and avert a U.S. default while President Reagan is in Geneva.
But because the two houses failed to agree on how to approach the short-term increase in the government's borrowing authority, the issue was still unresolved.
The House agreed to an $80 billion increase in the debt ceiling, up to $1.9 trillion, which they said was enough to cover the nation's bills through Dec. 13.
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TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday denied a rate rehearing to utilities that own the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, but did adjust its order to permit two of the firms to earn an additional $6 million.
In an administrative meeting, the commission rejected utility arguments that it had acted arbitrarily when it declared $3.05 billion Wolf Creek plant should be valued like a cheaper coal-fired plant. Also rejected was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
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(Clockwise from top) Whopi Goldberg in a pensive moment in Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking The Color Purple Speaks Like Us brings Chevy Chase face to face with a gun-toting Russian agent (Vanessa Angel); Broadway dancers get their moment in the spotlight in A Chorus Line, which features (inset) Nicole Fose (daughter of director/choreographer Bob Fosse) in a starring role.
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Like Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile provides a healthy dose of comedy along with the action. However, Douglas, who is also producing, promises Jewel will have a lot more action than Romancing the Stone, including a perilous train ride, a climb up the side of a mountain under enemy gunfire and a chase through the desert.
Kathleen Turner is happy to be playing Joan again. She was reluctant at first because she, "didn't think the script was very good. Then Michael went to work, and now it's right in tune with *Romancing* People liked Joan and the spirit of the first film. She is probably the closest to me that I've ever played. She's got that mixture of cockiness and fear. She'll say, 'I'll try even if you can't handle it.'
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Revolution
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it was our war too," says English director Hugh Hudson (Chairman of Firestone)
(Continues with the chronicle of the American Revolution, "and we lost it for precisely the same reasons that America lost the war in Vietnam.
"We were 3000 miles across the Atlantic. It took 11 weeks for supplies to get to America. It was the first guerrilla war, and the Americans hid out much like the Vietcong did."
Shooting took place in a remote town in East Anglia, England, where the architecture and harbor of colonial New York could be duplicated. "There wan't any place in America with enough period wooden build-
Revolution, which stars Ai Pacino, Nastassia Kinski and Donald Sutherland is essentially the story of a father son relationship that is complicated by twin love affairs and political events beyond their control.
mgs still standing," says Hudson, "so we in England."
"The story is fictional, the history is accurate," says Hudson.
Mike Bygrave & Joan Goodman
Enemy Mine
The time is 100 years from now, and America's enemy is no longer Russia but a distant planet named Dracon. Dennis Dquaplays an Earth space pilot and Lou Gossetton an alien "Drac." They both crash on a hostile planet during a dog-fight in the year 2085. Despite being marooned in alien territory, they continue hostilities.
**Enemy Mine**, 20th Century Fox's $25 million science fiction film, "promises to be a combination Robinson Crusoe and Hell in the Pacific. "I'm not a real sci fi buff" admits director Wolfgang Petersen, best known for his 1982 film *Das Root*.