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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 47 (USPS 650-640)
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Late data pressure coalitions
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The numbers just don't match up. Coalition leaders say they may have recruited too few or too many candidates for some Student Senate seats because they didn't know how many seats would be available in each school until minutes before yesterday's 5 p.m. filing deadline.
"Right now we're walking a tightepo. "David Epstein, presidential candidate for Common Sense Coalition, said yesterday. "All this should have been done in September. You don't do the day of filling."
Senate seats are redistributed each year according to each school's enrollment.
David Day, chairman of the Elections Committee, said that according to Senate rules the committee had to supply only the enrollment figures for each school by the senators' filing deadline.
Coalition leaders, however, interpreted the rules to mean that the Elections Committee had to tell them the number of Senate seats in each school by the presidential filing discipline, which was Oct. 21, Epstein said.
Ruth Lichtwardt, vice presidential candidate for Chrysalis Coalition, said a tentative listing of seat distribution that was available in the Senate office Friday was based on unofficial University figures.
"It caused a few problems, but we've got it worked out" she said.
Epstein said Common Sense's problems were not yet worked out.
He said he couldn't recruit more candidates for some schools because the deadline had passed, and he would either have to ask some candidates to withdraw or run candidates against each other for the same seats in other schools.
Michael Foubert, vice chairman of the Elections Committee, said the figures on the list he submitted to the Senate office Thursday were based on updated enrollment figures.
He said some members of the Student Senate Executive Committee questioned the numbers because they were not based on the official 20th day enrollment figures submitted to the Kansas Board of Regents.
Foubert said he immediately made a new list based on the official figures, but it was not finished until a few minutes before the filing deadline.
The difference between Friday's list and the one compiled yesterday was that one seat was taken from the school of architecture and given to Nunemaker, leaving architecture with one seat and Nunemaker with 18 seats.
The list of seat distributions is still subject to approval of StudEx, which meets tomorrow.
Hurricane Juan strikes Southeast
From Kansan wires
NEW IBERIA, La. — Hurricane Juan, a surprising late-season storm, sank two ships, an off-shore oil rig and thrashed others with 85-mph wind and waves up to 20 feet high yesterday. At least three have been reported dead and four missing, and more than 146 people had to be rescued as a result of the offshore accidents.
Ashore, high water stranded hundreds of people, while thousands were told to evacuate.
Because the storm came so late in the season, many people paid little attention to warnings until Juan reached hurricane strength Sunday afternoon, and by then three days of rain and high tides already had flooded some homes and roads.
At least four tornadoes spun off by Juan damaged 50 houses, mobile homes and small businesses just north of Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle. Two people were slightly injured.
preparedness office said last night that about 2,000 residents in the state had been evacuated from their homes and that 2,000 were stranded by floodwaters.
And officials in Louisiana's emergency
Tides were reported 5 to 8 feet above normal along the coast. Gov. Edwin Edwards declared 13 parishes in a state of emergency, saying the heavy rains and tidal flooding had badly damaged the state's soybean and sugarcane crops.
In Arnaudville, La., John Broussard, 18, was electrically when he got out of a truck to move a utility pole downed by storm winds and block-ing the river. The Landry Parish sheriff's office said Rooney.
Before dawn, winds collapsed the legs of an offshore jackup oil rig, the Penrod 61. It smashed into another rig, the Penrod 60, 35 miles south of Leeville, sending 82 crewmen into the water. Several of the survivors, who were taken off the rig in a massive helicopter airlift, suffered broken bones and other injuries.
One man was drowned and 80 others scrambled to safety in rescue pods. Another
crewman was found alive floating in the water about 1:30 p.m. About 20 of the workers suffered broken bones and bruises.
The Penrod 61 sank after the collision. The other rig was damaged but remained upright, said Keith Owen, public affairs spokesman for Chevroon, lessee of the rigs.
Another death attributed to the storm was that of a hunter who drowned Sunday when he fell out of a boat, the St. Bernard Parish sherriff's office said.
"The force of the water coming through is widening the break," said Tardo, adding that he might have to order evacuation if flooding got worse.
Storm-driven water breached a canal level near the town of Galliano, prompting Lafourche Parish President Cyrus Tardo to advise about 5,000 people to leave their homes.
In the town of Lafitte, it turned streets into lakes and spilled over into a graveyard. When the mausoleums filled with water, sealed caskets popped open and bobbed out into the floodwaters.
As the storm edge westward along the coast and then stalled, sunshine appeared through partly cloudy skies over New Orleans around noon yesterday.
The Coast Guard reported that it and other agencies had rescued 146 people since Sunday afternoon.
They included 81 of the 82 workers who were forced to go overboard in "unsinkable" escape capsules, special 30-foot lifeboats, when the Penrod oil rig collided.
At 6 p.m. CST, the National Weather Service said the center of Juan was nearly stationary just offshore and south of Lake Charles at latitude 29.1 north and longitude 92.4 west. The storm was expected to continue to drift into the night and to weaken little since it was over water, the service said.
A windsurfer also was reported missing on Lake Pontchartrain, but authorities said yesterday afternoon that the search for the surfer had been suspended pending further developments.
300,000 fans celebrate World Champions get Royal treatment in Kansas City
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
John Lechliter/KANSAN
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Santa makes a visit to the Royals' parade, holding a sign implying that he may have had a hand in the dramatic come-from-behind victory of the World Champion Kansas City Royals. Jack Ralston, Kansas City, Mo., was dressed as Santa at the parade yesterday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City gave its team the royal treatment as 300,000 fans rolled out the blue carpet for the World Champions yesterday afternoon.
Amid the contetti飞翕 above the crowd, a sign read, "Angels, Blue Jays, Cardinals. 3 Up, 3 Down." That it all said.
Residents of Kansas City and the surrounding area put Monday on hold and suspended their normal daily activities to attend the two-day meeting of the Royals' World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Marian Borchers, office manager of Risipd and Curtis, a Kansas City, Mo., law firm, said she and the rest of the office staff
persuaded their boss, John Rijsjord, to take the day off and attend the parade.
"Actually, they demanded the day off," Risjord said. "We had a big pot for the Series. Everybody bet on the Royals, but no one figured they'd score that many runs. So we took the money and put it into some pizza and some liquid refreshment."
They lounged on blankets that covered the grass while they munched on pizza and drank champagne.
Risjord said there was no way they were returning to work yesterday.
The parade, which began on Grand Avenue near Admiral Boulevard and ended with a pep
See PARADE, p. 5, col. 2
John Lechliter/KANSAN
John Lechliter/KANSAF KANSAS CITY, MO — Kansas City Royals pitcher Leibrandt receives a faceful of contenders as he nears the end of the parade honoring the World Champion Royals. The parade ended with a pep rally at the Liberty Memorial yesterday.
Spy gets life sentence in plea bargain
From Kansan wires
BALTIMORE — John Walker Jr., mastermind of one of the damaging ring spies since the Cold War will get life in prison as part of a deal with the government yesterday. The testimony for his role in saying for the Senate.
The principal beneficiary of the arrangement is 22-year-old Michael, who was subject to two life terms and that he had been convicted in a later trial.
The elder Walker, a retired naval communications expert, pleaded guilty to three counts of espionage, including a new indictment that accused him of 20 overt acts of spying between 1968 and 1985. Walker's son, Michael, pleaded guilty to five similar counts.
In return for a 25-year sentence for Michael Walker, the father and son agreed to cooperate fully with the government -- including testifying against Jerry Whitworth, another former Navy man, at his spy trial in San Francisco. That trial is scheduled for Jan. 13.
John Walker's lawyer, public defender Fred Bennett, said his client accepted a life term so that his son could someday be free.
"The reason we entered into this agreement is because John Walker has something of vital interest to this
The trial of the older Walker had been scheduled for yesterday, but the plea session was held instead.
"John Walker loves his son very
country," said Michael Schatzow, assistant U.S. attorney. "We need to know what has been broken and what needs to be fixed."
were exceptional circumstances in the Walker cases.
-Fred Bannett
public defender for John Walker
'John Walker loves his son very much. He is more concerned for his son's future than for his own. Michael will be out of jail before his 40th birthday.'
The agreement specified that the sentences, to be imposed later by U.S. District Judge Alexander Harvey II, will be two life terms plus three-year terms plus Walker and two 25-year terms plus three 10-year terms for Michael.
The sentences will be served concurrently, making John Walker eligible for parole in 10 years and his son in eight years and four months.
Harvey said he did not usually allow prosecutors and the defense to work out sentences, but that there
much," Bennett said. "He is more concerned for his son's future than for his own."
Bennett said Walker probably would spend the rest of his life behind bars. But, Bennett said, "Michael will be out of jail before his 40th birthday."
Under the agreement, the Walkers also will reveal complete details of their spying efforts so that the government can assess how damaging they were to America's naval
operations, particularly its sub marine network.
Although Harvey approved the deal, he will not sentence the Walkers until they cooperate with government inquiries into John Walker's actions. Hennett said sentencing could be conducted in four to six months.
A fourth member of the spy ring, John Walker's brother, Arthur, 50, also a retired Navy officer, was convicted in August of stealing secret documents his employer, a Virginia defense attorney. He is awaiting sentencing.
Investigators say John Walker and the ring members obtained information from the world's largest naval base in Norfolk, Va., and from Navy installations on the West Coast where Whitworth lives. They also say John Walker went to Tiewa and Hong Kong to meet Soviet contacts.
Officials have characterized the ring as the most damaging to U.S. security.
In addition to the jail sentences, John Walker, 48, faces more than $500,000 in fines, but will pay only $100 in court costs. The government dropped a pending income tax evasion case.
Dinosaur Days net museum thousands
About 40,000 people have flocked to Dyche Hall to step into the prehistoric past since Dinosaur Days opened Oct. 5 at the Museum of Natural History.
Admission figures show that the museum has taken in more than $70,000 from the exhibit. Dwiggs said final figures on how much the museum cleared would not be available until next week.
As of Sunday, 39,825 people — 17,331 adults and 22,244 children — from all over Kansas and Missouri had seen the exhibit, Cathy Dwigans, assistant director of membership today, and Kathryn Dwyer today. Today is the last day the exhibit will be shown at the University of Kansas.
By Sandra Crider Special to the Kansan
The museum charges $2 for children and $3 for adults. Special group rates are available for groups of 10 or more. Costs for the exhibit, labor, supplies, plants and wiring will decrease the intake substantially, Dwigans said.
About 13,700 school children from 334 scheduled groups from as far away as Hill City and Wichita had visited the exhibit.
"Sundays have been very big days," she said. The museum's biggest day was Oct. 20 when about 4,200 people stared into the eyes of the Jayhawk-like diatryma and heard the roar of the saber-toothed cat, both featured at the museum.
The Museum Shop has had a significant increase in sales because of best-selling items such as Dinosaur Days T-shirts, books and stickers, said Beverly Holmes, store manager.
The animated dinosaurs were seen in May at the Oklahoma State Fair, courtesy of the Stovall Museum of Science and History at the University of Oklahoma, before coming to KU.
Peter Tirrell, assistant director of the Stovall Museum, said their museum had cleared more than $16,000 after paying $23,000 to the suppliers of the dinosaurs. Dinamation of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and after absorbing other costs.