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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.
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
had boiling water and had nothing to do. "But of course, that's not the case now." Musgruza said. "Speaking as a Vietnam veteran, as a member of
the committee that has worked for two years for this memorial, any impression is that this is not a random act of vandalism or a high-spirited college prank."
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."
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.
But the Senate, citing routine Treasury Department actions that
Wolf Creek rehearing or
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 cheaper coal-fired plant. Also rejected was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
The KCC did agree with utility
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The last time we saw adventurer Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) and romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), they were sailing off into the sunset after their hair-raising Latin American adventure in "Romancing the Stone." But romance doesn't always survive the final fade-out, and things are looking rocky for everyone's favorite screen couple... until they encounter the mystery of the Jewel, and embark on the wildest adventure of their lives. Jack and Joan are back, with their pint-sized arch-energy Ralph (Danny DeVito) still dogging their trail, in the sequel to 1984's blockbuster comedy-adventure: THE JEWEL OF THE NILE.
Director Wolfgang Petersen was nominated for an Oscar when he launched "Das Boot," his tense drama about a German U-Boat in World War II. Now he tackles a
world war II "relationship film"...with a difference: ENEMY MINE starring Dennis Quaid ("The Right Stuff") and Lou Gossett, Jr., who won an Oscar for his portrayal of the martinet in "An Officer and a Gentleman," as enemy space pilots fighting an interstellar war a hundred years in the future. Quaid, a human, and Gossett, a Drac from the planet Dragon, are marooned together on a deadly planet where they have to learn mutual trust and respect to survive. One of the most powerful and unusual films of this or any year.
Screenwriter David Seltzer established himself as a force to reckon with in Hollywood by writing the blockbuster supernatural thriller "The Omen," but his first film as a director is in a very different vein. LUCAS (played by "Firstblood" Corey Hain) is a diminutive rebel who stands apart from his fellow high-schoolers and criticizes their
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