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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.
"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.
"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."
"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, 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.
Musgareau 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
See VANDAL, p. 5, col. 1
House, Senate buy time to hash out budget plan
But neither deputy press secretary
Larry, Speakes, Treasury Secretary
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.
raise money, approved an extension only to Dec. 6.
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, beat
Senate leaders said the extension, combined with revenue-raising measure have the effect of coverage's bills through about 40 percent as the House measured.
The Senate action was night on a voice vote with Because the bills are dri House, the bill's short-term extension is day, before the government of money.
rut Reagan himself was not to accept the one-tension. The threat would pressure on balanced-budget tied to a year-long incident federal borrowing authori an increase, the governor of money at midnight ton
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The KCC did agree with utility
Wolf Creek denie 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 cheaper coal-fired plant. Also rejected was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
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William Easley and Jeff Polack, student body preside and vice president, end their terms next Friday. The to say their greatest accomplishment was to "resto organization" to Student Senate.
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