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University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Candidates make election eve appeals
President Carter appealed to Democrats yesterday not to desert their party and to John Anderson supporters not to waste their votes. Ronald Reagan, meanwhile, asked Americans if they were happier today than when Carter took over the White House.
Reagan was leading Carter slightly in most final posts on election eve, but seldom has the climax of a national election been as suspenseful as this year. The long-awaited release of the 52 American hostages in Iran could make all the polls meaningless.
Carter, completing his final coast-to-coast, six-state campaign swing, made what he called a special appeal to potential Anderson voters.
"There is a lot in common between us, and I am asking you in these last few hours not to waste your vote," he said at a huge rally in Detroit.
Reagan, meanwhile, ended his 12-year quest for the presidency with a nationally televised appeal for support. In his commercial, Reagan urged his television audience to ask themselves a number of questions about how they viewed themselves and the country.
"Most importantly," he said, "the basic question of our lives: Are you happier today than when Mr. Carter became president of the United States?
Besides choosing a president, voters will decide today all 435 House seats, 13 Senate seats and 13 governorships. Republican once had sought to make big gains in the Democrats' 273-159 seat in the House, but they were unable to get that margin in the Senate, but they probably will have to settle for small gains.
Democrats fight to control Congress
WASHINGTON—Some of America's best-known politicians, including two former presidential candidates, face the voters in today's elections, which are almost certain to give the Democrats continued control of Congress.
are ambassadors to give the public an opportunity. In gubernatorial races, the Republicans could win as many as three Democratic governorships, including the offices held by Joseph Teasdale of Missouri and Dixy Lee Ray of Washington.
Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee; and Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, the 1972 Democratic nominee, are among the prominent Senate and House members up for reelection.
A total of 34 Senate seats will be decided this year. The Republicans, going after 24 Democratic seats and defending only 10 of their own, at one time harbored hopes of seizing control of the Senate. However, late surges by some endangered Democrats have led to less optimistic predictions for the
Among those seen in the greatest danger are Democratic Sens. John Durkin of New Hampshire, Frank Church of Idaho, Gary Hart of Colorado, Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Calver of Iowa. All have been targeted by conservative organizations as being vulnerable to opposition.
Sen. Alan Cranaton, D-Calif., also targeted by the right, appears to be out of trouble. Sen. John Kaster, D-Wis., who ran into unexplained problems with Robert Kasten, Robert Kasten, Jr. and Robert Kasten, Jr.
None of the Republican incumbents, with the possible exception of Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon, appear to be in serious trouble. However, the Democrats have a good chance to pick up Republican seats in New York and Oklahoma.
FBI to investigate Atlanta murders
ATLANTA—Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown asked the FBI yesterday to aid in the investigation of a 15-month string of abduction-slayings in which 15 black children have disappeared or been found dead.
The commissioner also met with reporters one day after the body of 9-year-old Aaron Jackson Jr. was found sprawled beside a south Atlanta stream, the 11th victim known to have been killed among the 15 who have disappeared.
He said 10 investigators were being added to the 25-member task force already assigned to the unsolved cases.
The FBI had previously assigned two liaison agents to work with investigators and was providing laboratory services, but Brown urged the FBI to assign full-time investigators to work with the task force.
"We think a greater effort can be given to us (by the FBI) because of the nature of the problem we have," he said.
brown said medical authorities determined that Jackson had been killed by asphyxiation. Dr. John Feegel, the city's medical examiner, said the death was strikingly similar to four other soffocations among the 11 killings. He added recent victim had been killed Saturday.
Feegel said the most recent victim had been killed Saturday.
The slaying follows by 24 days the murder of 12-year-old Charles Stephens, who was found dead of asphyxiation Oct. 10, one day after he had disappeared. Eight of the nine disappearances since May 17 have occurred at intervals of about 25 days.
Salvadoran leader target of attack
SAN VALADOR, El Salvador - A member of El Salvador's ruling junta escaped assassination yesterday at the hands of right-wing extremists who targeted it in 2016.
Military sources close to the jumbo member, Col. Adalofo Majano, said at least 20 people were wounded in the attempt on Majono's life. Majano was driving past the Institute of Agrarian Reform, three blocks from his home in San Salvador, when the attack occurred.
Authorities have reported at least 53 slayings in the past 24 hours of political violence in the Central American nation. Included in the 53 were 21 people who, leftists said, were captured by army troops Saturday and executed.
At the same time as the attack on Majano, heavily armed guerrillas briefly seized seven radio stations and a town of 3,000 people north of the capital and harangued Salvadorans to join their efforts to topple the ruling junta.
Court approves transfer of refugees
Majano's attackers fired two bazooka shots, which missed the vehicles carrying Majano, 44, and his bodyguards but blew down a 30-yard length of wall surrounding the institute's parking lot, sources said.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court opened the door yesterday for the transfer of as many as 2,000 Haitian and Cuban refugees from camps in Miami to a Navy base in Puerto Rico.
The justices refused a request by the commonwealth government and a "citizen" group to extend a ban on the ship, ordered last week by Justice Scalia.
Puerto Rico's secretary of state, Pedro Vazquez, said the commonwealth would oppose the transfer by all legal means available.
Gov. Carlos Rumero Barcelo, who opposes the transfer and faces a dif- ficiary challenge today, said only that he would confer with his lawyers about the decision.
Nick Nicholson, spokesman for the Inter-agency Cuban-Haitian Task Force, said the refugees, now crowded in makeshift camps in the Miami area, would be moved in about a week.
Nicholson estimated that about 900 refugees, mostly Haitians, would be the first to arrive at Fort Allen, a camp on Puerto Rico's south coast. None of the 7,500 refugees at Fort Chaffee, Ark., will be moved to Puerto Rico.
Both the Puerto Rican government and residents of Juana Diaz, the town closest to Fort Allen, had asked the Supreme Court to stall the move because of inadequate sanitation at the camp and the threat of malaria being carried by Haitian refugees.
Nursing home residents to display talents
Bv VANESSA HERRON
Staff Reporter
In several variety shows at Lawrence nursing homes, gospel singers, belly dancers, actors and some of the residents themselves will perform, said Jimmy Gravely, a Kansas City, Mo., senior, who is organizing the events.
About 40 volunteers from the University of Kansas and the Kansas City, Mo. area, will perform at the Autumn Manor, Cherry Manor, Lawrence Manor and Samaritan Lodge nursing homes, he said.
"Our goal is to get the residents to become part of the show," Gravely said. "We want them to let out what's inside them."
The Lawrence Arts Center is sponsoring the variety show, which will be held at the Riverside Museum.
"When I asked them what they wanted to see, they wanted dancing; when I asked them what they wanted instrumental music; they wanted jazz," he said. "They wanted everything."
Gravely spent two months interviewing residents of the nursing homes.
The residents also wanted to participate in the programs.
As a result, he said, actors will read poetry the residents have contributed and the stages will be decorated with residents' quilts, paintings and crafts.
Gravely said he and a woman resident from Autumn Manor had choreographed a disco dance routine for one show.
A resident from Samaritan Lodge will read a scene from the Broadway play *Amie* in an 88-year-old Lawrence Lawrence honor has volunteered to dance the hula.
"She wants to wear a blue outfit with
She said the KU representatives
behave in such manner, making problems
from her laugage to dimen-
sion.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel and his wife, Carol are hosting a University of Kansas Alumni Association-sponsored trip to London this week.
Shankel hosts KU alumni trip
All Lawrence nursing homes schedule entertainment for their residents, Gravely said, but often the residents do not become involved.
Flying Jayhawk trips have at least four host spaces, Neuer said, which are paid for by the travel agency.
a blue rose in her hair, "Gravely said,
"so I'm going to find one for her."
"Their primary responsibility is to represent the University to the alumni on the trip," she said.
Shankel left for London Sunday, along with Todd Seymour, director of the Kansas University Endowment. The group will attend 46 KU alumni. They will return Nov. 10.
Alumni Holidays, or the KU Alumni or Endowment Association.
"We always try to have someone from the Alumni Association or Endowment or the University administration." she said.
Shankel and Seymour went on the trip to promote and provide information about the University, Doma Neumer, the university of the Jawahral Program, said yesterday.
S six sightseeing trips available for the touring alumni include visits to Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, Oxford University and Stratford on Avon, she said.
Neuer said the London trip was designed for tourists to be able to do that. He said he'd brought all his friends.
Shankel also hosted a Rhine River
tanker to deliver oil; once he was
executive vice chancellor.
"They just inspired me, because they know so much." he said.
businessmen and farmers. He said he learned to admire them.
Instead, he said, residents watch television, listen to the radio or play
Gravely, a part-time poet, has asked an area artist to draw portraits of some of the people he interviewed.
The Flying Jayhawks Program is sponsoring a Caribbean cruise and trips to the Greenland and New York Land, China Bank, Switzerland and Paris during this school year.
"Some old people just whither and
dome Gravely said, "am they don't
have to."
He said that encouraging them to watch and participate in variety shows was the way he wanted them to do.
Neuer said from 25 to 100 KU alumni have participated in each trip.
In his two months of research, carefully said, he met a former principal.
The center cannot afford to pay performers for their appearances at the nursing homes, but Gravely said he would accept a grant to finance future programs.
Gravely said he spent 12 hours a week organizing the shows because he realized that he would want someone to entertain him in his later years.
"I'm going to be old one day too," he said.
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I have done this because I believe you have a right to demand frankness and candor on the issues from every candidate. We, as candidates, must meet this demand if we are to reverse the unfortunate trend of campaigns based on image rather than substance. Anything less will, in the end, diminish our political process.
We are now nearing the end of another long election campaign. During the past several months, I have described in detail my position on those major issues and opportunities facing our community and our State. I have also presented to you openly my legislative record during the time it has been my privilege to serve as your State Senator.
But election campaigns are more than the selection of candidates. They serve to test and reaffirm our system of government. A system of government that, in spite of its imperfections, represents the finest ever conceived and demands from each of us our active participation.
On November 4, we will again experience that right which so few people in the world have--the right to elect those who will represent us in the legislative and executive offices of government. I urge you to exercise that right.
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