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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOV. 12, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 57 (USPS 650-640)
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We do windows
Bud Littleton, job supervisor for Window Systems Construction, Lee's Summit, Mo., prepares to replace the windows in a starwell between the third and fourth floors in the Kansas Union. The company is replacing all the windows in the Union. Littleton was working yesterday.
Senator says success in accords not likely
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
On the eve of the superpower summit, Americans should not be expecting any significant agreements on arms control or regional conflicts, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said yesterday.
Sen, Richard Lugar, R-Ind., who has been chairman of the committee since 1984, spoke on U.S. foreign policy in a news conference and interview and in a speech to about 200 students at the University of the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon His speech was part of the Pearson Lecture Series.
Lugar said President Reagan had limited expectations for his summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders will meet Nov. 19-20 in Geneva, Switzerland, in first U.S.-Soviet summit since 1973.
"The president looks at the summit as a way to curtail the threatening feelings, the paranoia, that the Russians have," he said. "Whether or not
that will work. I don't know
"He clearly will give illustrations of regional issues that are of concern to the United States — Afghanistan, Nicaragua and the Middle East. I think that will likely be much of the subject matter of the summit.
"But we're in the early innings, the agreements we come to will be largely ceremonial. We will only begin to bite into substantive issues."
Lugar, who was a member of a Senate observation group that visited the arms talks in Geneva earlier this year, said Soviet proposals on arm reductions were an important breakthrough.
However, he said that he didn't think the Reagan-Gorbachev summit would resolve the arms control issue.
"Many people believe that the leadership will come to some conclusion on arms control," he said. "I think this is very doubtful."
'If you're playing for keeps, and in
the arms negotiations you really are,
details are important," he said.
Lugar said he thought the Russians would give in on their demand that the United States abandon research on nuclear weapons, commonly known as "Star Wars."
"They have a great deal of strategic defense work of their own," he said. "They know the game fairly well."
"They would like to bring some controls to it — to hold down the computer."
He called the recent distribution of cruise missiles in the Netherlands, the last of five NATO countries to accept deployment of the missiles, a sign of unity that the Soviets should not ignore.
"The Soviets know of this unity and it worries them," he said. "Especially now, before the summit, this apprehension will build, the Western allies was important."
Besides the upcoming summit,
Lugar also spoke about the U.S. role
Marcos resigns from post
Urging early elections
See LUGAR, p. 5, col. 3
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos submitted yesterday a conditional letter of resignation to the National Assembly to pave the way for early presidential elections in January, and he urged approval of legislation permitting the vote.
The action by Marcos came as a movement to draft the widow of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino as a candidate gained strength and as the Moral Majority's Rev. Jerry Failwell arrived in Manila for a two day visit.
Marcos, amid growing pressure from domestic opponents and criticism from the U.S., announced Nov. 3 he was calling for early
presidential elections that originally had been scheduled for 1987.
Marcos, facing complaints that the constitution provides for an early election only if the presidency is vacant, submitted his "irrevocable" resignation but made clear it would be effective only when the election is held and the winner chosen.
Many Filipinos believe his call for early elections was in response to pressure from the Americans who are concerned about the fate of two U.S. military bases in the Philippines.
Falwell, saying the former U.S. colony deserves "unswerving" U.S. support, praised Marcos for calling the elections.
"He has done something that has surprised all his enemies," Falwell said. "What more honorable thing could he do?"
The 68-year-old Marcos, president since 1965, said his mandate over the past two years had been the "object of propaganda and dissent that have cast a shadow over the continuing validity of the policies and programs I have instituted.
"I am, therefore, left no choice but to seek a new mandate in an election that will assess, as demanded by the opposition, the policies and programs I am undertaking."
Marcos' letter accompanied a Cabinet bill calling for an early presidential and vice-presidential election to be held Jan. 17.
"Cabin Bill No. 7 shows President Marcos does not want an election. He wants a coronation," said opposition member of parliament Ramon Mitra.
Marcos has faced increasing opposition since the August 1983 assassination of Aquino, slain in military custody upon his return to the Philippines from three years of self-exile in the U.S.
At a suburban sports club last night, Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino, received an endorsement from eight other potential aspirants nominated by the so-called Convenors Group, which is backed by influential educators, church officials and businessmen.
Mrs. Aquino, 52, and former Sen. Salvador Laurel, head of the largest coalition of opposition parties, are regarded as leading presidential candidates against Marcos should an election be held.
Petition arises in support of Tacha's quest for judgeship
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
A petition supporting the nomination of Deanell Tacha as a judge for the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, signed by 80 to 100 KU faculty and staff members, was mailed yesterday to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, was nominated for the lifetime position Oct. 30 by President Reagan. If confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on Thursday in Washington, D.C., she would be appointed to the humanian to be appointed to the 10th circuit bench.
The petition, circulated in several campus
buildings Friday and yesterday, was mailed to Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S-C., the Committee chairman, after Myra Hinman, the vice president, was mailed a letter to Thurmond Wednesday.
In the letter, Himman said that she opposed the nomination because she thought Tacha was not upholding an agreement signed by the University of Kansas with the U.S. Department of Labor in 1982. The agreement emphasized equal employment opportunities at KU.
Himan said in the letter, written by her attorney, that Tacha had fewer minorities and underpaid and inhibited promotion of those who already worked at the University.
Her attorney, Fred W. Phelps Jr., Topeka
sent the letter to Thurmond by express mail. Several faculty and staff members said they disagreed with the letter last week
"The petition was started because of the letter Myra Hinman wrote," Marilyn Yarbrough, associate vice chancellor of research, graduate studies and public service, who mailed the petition, said yesterday.
Yarbrough, who has worked with Tacha for nine years, said Tacha had helped recruit her to KU and had supported her.
"I had nothing but support from her when I was up for promotion and tenure." Yarbrough said. "I was successful at both, and it was when Deanell had something to do with it."
Tacha was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Carol Prentice, academic affairs administrative assistant who works in Tacha's office and who signed the petition, said she noticed a lot of support for Tacha.
"The petition is just an expression of the support Donellan has." Prentice said.
Yarbrough said the number of signatures probably was not indicative of the support provided.
"The petition was quickly done," Yarbrough said. "Although there were a lot of signatures, probably not everyone who wanted to had a chance to sign it."
Part of the petition said. "We submit to you, as women and minorities, faculty and
staff, that Deanell Reece Tacha has comported herself admirably and with all due respect for law and equality in her role . . . Her commitment to uphold the law has been sustained in the achievement of qualified women and minorities has been a credit to the ideals of this nation . . .
Yarbough said that the only reason the petition was sent was to respond to the questions raised by Hinman and to "set the record straight."
"I don't think the committee will have any problem with Deanell's appointment." Yar-
"I was elated when I heard of the nomination. I think she will make a very good judge. She knows the law."
AIDS patients deal with death sentences every day
Kansas sufferers know the odds
This is the second in a two-part series dealing with AIDS in northeastern Kansas. Today's story focuses on two patients with AIDS and a patient with AIDS-related complex.
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
As of Nov. 4, the United States reported 14,519 cases of AIDS. More than 7,450 of those people have died.
The numbers:
- Homosexual or bisexual men compose 78 percent of the AIDS cases.
- Fifteen percent are intravenous drug abusers, 1 percent are hemophilic, 1 percent have receivevacy drugs, 5 percent have no known risk factors
But people with AIDS are more
than just numbers. They are human
lives.
the odds every day of their lives.
They are human beings who beat
"It's not easy knowing you have a fatal disease, feeling there's a time bomb."
The revelation that he has AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, was so devastating to him that in a day it was diagnosed from his mind.
"People with AIDS are dealing with a death sentence," Joel Justesen, Topeka, said recently. Justesen has AIDS.
"I don't remember much of that day," he said. "There's a whole period there that is just sort of blank."
Jeff, which is not his real name,
worked on the Gay Rap Telephone
Line in Topeka and had read the
brochures about AIDS.
Others with the illness expected the diagnosis
"I saw that I had these really classic symptoms." he said. "I was
"And then I saw my doctor. He thought I might have Giardia or something like that. That's what he wanted me to have."
really frightened and upset.
"I was expecting it," he said. "But it was also the last hope. There was a slim chance that I could have had something else."
Jeff said he believed in self-regulation and biofeedback and after overcoming the initial fear, he felt confident he could fight the illness.
Jeff said he wasn't surprised when AIDS was the diagnosis.
After being hospitalized twice,
however, he isn't as positive.
"I haven't been as strong," he said.
"Any kind of physical activity is tiring to me if it's more than a few minutes."
Justesen, who hasn't had to be
See AIDS, p. 7, col. 1
Movie portrays tragedy of AIDS
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Joel Justesen, who has AIDS and is one of the co-founders of an educational organization, the Kansas AIDS Project, said that he thought parts of the movie were realistic and parts weren't.
TOPEAK — "An Early Frost," an NBC made-for television movie portraying the struggles of an AIDS patient that was aired last night, was most accurate and informative, a Topека man who has AIDS said.
"There have been close to 15,000 cases of AIDS and each one of those is a different story," he said. "For Hollywood to make a movie that would be realistic, they would have to consider all sides of the issue."
"An Early Frost" was a portrait
"I thought the movie was very sensitive and the struggles were portrayed very accurately," he said.
William Wade, a Topeka doctor of osteopathy who has worked with AIDS patients, answered questions about the illness and the movie after it had been shown at a Topeka private club.
of how members of an American family responded to learning that their 29-year-old son was homosexual and had contracted AIDS. About 50 million viewers nationwide watched the film, which starred Aidan Quinn, Ben Gazarra and Gena Rowlands.
dividuals should take with sex.
Between 50 and 100 people watched the movie and participated in discussions at the Lambda and Bare Essentials, two Topeka private clubs. After the movie, donations were taken for the charity network to support a network for people with AIDS and ADS-related complex
A volunteer for the Topeka AIDS Project, who asked not to be identified, said about 50 "Early Frost" Watches took place in Lawrence, Topeka, Manhattan and surrounding communities. He said he hoped about $2,000 would be raised from the Watches.
As many as 10,000 viewing gatherings were expected to be conducted in private clubs, churches and homes across the countr
See FROST p 7 col 5