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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV 14, 1985. VOL 96. NO. 59 (USPS 650-640)
Vietnam vet angered over drawing's theft
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansas 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 #1flexugh and stainless steel frame, was placed on a metal pole at the planned memorial site during a coneration 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 suspects. "I don't know why anyone would do something like this." Lisa Ashner, a member of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee said yesterday.
John Minsgrave, 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.
Mustrague, 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 poe drew the drawing was to honor the memory 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.
Musgrave said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial.
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.
"But of course, that's not the case now." Musgrave said "Speaking as a Vietnam veteran, as a member of
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Masgrave, who joined the peace movement after returning from Vietnam, said he thought whover 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."
Mustgrave said that foremost in his mind when he heard about the theft were the faces of some of the people who had attended the conscription 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 assert 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.
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United Press International
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 $1.05 billion Wolf Creek plant should be valued like a cheaper coalified tar. It applied a simple list of other arguments aimed at restoring the rate case.
The KCC did agree with utility
arguments that a formula to allow it to recover investment threat over the life of Gas & Electric Power & Li-together own a plant content mission incorrect rate base upon may earn a raise The committee with KCPL's a utility incorrect rate of nuclear energy
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