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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 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 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 Musgrave, 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.
Musgrave, 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 concession ceremony Monday.
musgrave said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial.
hadinho to do. Well I had no
"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 prank."
college prince.
Musgrave, 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."
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 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 neither deputy press secretary
Larry Speakes, Treasury Secretary
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.
raise money, approved an extension only to Dec. 6.
But the Senate, citing routine Treasury Department actions that
Senate leaders said the st tension, combined with revenue-raising measures have the effect of coercion's bills through about date as the House measure The Senate action was night on a voice vote with Because the bills are dff House and Senate will have the short-term extension i day, before the government of money.
But Reagan himself was not to accept the one tension. The threat woul pressure on balanced-bud tion tied to a year-long ine federal borrowing author an increase, the governme of money at midnight ton
Wolf Creek deni rehearing on rat
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 $3.05 billion Wolf Creek plant should be valued like a church. The commission was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
The KCC did agree with utility
arguments that it miscal-
formula to allow the utilit-
ually to recover the co-
investment through de-
velop the life of the pla-
 Gas & Electric Co. and
Power Power & Light Co.
together own 94 peri-
plant - contended that
mission incorrectly re-
rate base upon which it
may earn a return.
The commission at with KCPL's argument utility incorrectly can cost of nuclear fuel inv The resulting de
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William Easley and Jeff Polack, student body president and vice president, end their terms next Friday. The two say their greatest accomplishment was to "restore organization" to Student Senate
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activities as "superficial" until the girl he loves (Kerri Green of "Goonies") falls for a football star (Martin Sheen's son Charlie Sheen), prompting the desperate Lucas to a grand gesture verging on suicide: going out for the football team.
Before turning to feature directing, Russell Mulcahy established himself as one of the premier directors of rock videos, with memorably eye-catching videos for groups like Culture Club and Duran Duran. In HIGHLANDER he brings his gifts as a visual stylist to a unique fantasy-adventure story about warring Immortals whose battle for a mysterious talismans rages down the ages from the highlands of 16th Century Scotland to the streets and alleys of present-day New York. Starring Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert, of "Greystoke" fame.
American-born Bob Swain took an unusual route to directorial superstardom—he went to France, and made "La Balance" a tough-as-nails police thriller that set boxoffice records and cleaned up when it was time for the French to hand out Les Oscars. Now he returns to English-language filmmaking with
HALF MOON STREET. In this erotic thriller, Sigourney Weaver plays a government think-tank expert who moonlights as a paid escort, and Michael Caine is a diplomat involved in international intrigue who falls in love with her. From the novel "Dr. Slaughter" by Paul Theroux.
Marshall Brickman was Woody Allen's writing collaborator for years before he
turned to writing and directing features, and now he brings his wry sensibility to THE MANHATTAN PROJECT: a contemporary thriller about a resourceful high-school student who sets out to join the most exclusive club in the world...one whose members now include the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and China. Christopher Collet stars as Paul Stephens, who builds his own atomic bomb as a science fair project, just to prove that it can be done. John Lithgow ("Buckaroo Banzai," "The World According to Garp") also stars as a sympathetic scientist who tries to help Paul and his girlfriend Jenny (Cynthia Nixon) when they find themselves the object of a very serious manhunt by foreign and domestic agencies.
A summer camp for future astronauts? It exists already, in Alabama, and kids who want to attend have to have letters of recommendation from their math and science teachers. Then they can spend a summer doing everything from studying astrophysics to practicing their space-walk in a zero-gravity simulator. This real-life training center for tomorrow's space jockeys is going to be the subject of a movie from Leonard Goldberg, the producer of "WarGames": In SPACECAMP, youngsters at such a camp get more adventure than they bargained for when their capsule is launched into space—for real. Stars include Kate Capshaw ("Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom") and Lea Thompson, who sizzled as Michael J. Fox's mother-to-be in "Back to the Future."
Before he changed the face of the horror film with "Halloween," John Carpenter made a non-stop actioner called "Assault on Precinct 13" that has become a cult favorite, and he showed what he could do with action again when he made "Escape from New York," starring Kurt Russell. Now he and Russell have re-teamed for BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, about a tough truck-driver named Jack Burton becomes embroiled in a war in San Francisco's Chinatown, where bad guys and good guys alike have magical powers. The script is by top screenwriter W.D. Richter "Brubaker," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"), who made his directing debut last year with the nutty cut classic "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai."
Sigourney Weaver will also be back this summer as Warrant Officer Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo's
encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial in 1979's blockbuster "Alien." The sequel is called ALIENS (watch out for that s), and it is being made under conditions of top secrecy in England by writer-director James Cameron, who was responsible for last year's sci-fi sleeper hit "The Terminator," starring Arnold Schwarzenger.
When director Howard Zieff teamed with Goldie Hawn on "Private Benjamin", they made comedy history. Now Zieff is collaborating with the brilliant actress-comedienne Whoopi Goldberg—fresh from her first starring role in Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple"—for KNOCK, KNOCK, a comedy-driller about a computer operator in a bank who starts receiving messages on her computer screen from a dashing American spy trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
Besides being Hollywood's leading comedy actor-writer-director, Mel Brooks is also one of the most innovative producers around, with such off-beat films as "The Elephant Man," "Frances" and "My Favorite Year" to his credit. Now he is producing a remake of the sci-fi horror classic THE FLY about an unfortunate scientist (Vincent Price in the original) whose molecules get scrambled with those of a common housefly. Featuring state-of-the-art makeup effects that go far beyond the original, "The Fly" will be directed by David Cronanberg, who proved himself a master of surreal horror with "Scanners" and "Videodrome."
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