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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
The drawing, in a Plexiglas and stainless steel frame, was placed on a metal pole at the planned memorial site during a concession 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.
"I don't know why anyone would do something like this," Lisa Admir, a member of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, said yesterday.
John Diageo, a veteran of the Vietnam War, said he remembered a time when people did this sort of
thing too frequently, and why they did it.
"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.
Mustrugra, 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 hold was removed before the ceremony, he said.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said his staff worked to replace the pole in time for the concession ceremony Monday.
Mustgrave 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." Mustgrave 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 prank."
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Mustrage, 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 concession 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
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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.
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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 contract. The commission listed a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
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