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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 consecution 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.
Mustgrave, 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 consecration ceremony Monday.
Musgrave said he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial
having nothing to do.
"But of course, that's not the case now."
My musgrav 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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Mustrague, 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
See VANDAL, p. 5, col. 1
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.
But the Senate, citing routine Treasury Department actions that
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.
Senate leaders said the stenation, combined with revenue-raising measures have the effect of covering' bills through about date as the House measure
The Senate action was night on a voice vote with
Because the bills are dll House and Senate will have the short-term extension a day, before the government of money.
that Reagan himself was not to accept the one tension. The threat woll pressure on balanced-buried tied to a year-long in federal borrowing author an increase, the governmen of money at midnight to
But neither deputy press secretary
Larry Speakes, Treasury Secretary,
Roger Foley.
The KCC did agree with utility
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Wolf Creek deni rehearing on rat
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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
valued. Also rejected was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
United Press International
William Easley and Jeff Polack, student body president and vice president, and their terms next Friday. The two say their greatest accomplishment was to "restore organization" to Student Senate.
Suzy Mast/KANSA
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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.
The commission with KCPL's argument incorrectly cost of nuclear fuel in the resulting e
arguments that it mis-
formula to allow the u nitually to recover the e investment through o over the life of the pla Gas & Electric Co. an- ytion Power & Light Together own 94 per plant — contended the mission incorrectly rate base upon which may earn a return.
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