Monday, September 22,1980 Vol. 91, No. 21 USPS 650-640
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Reagon, Anderson spar over issues, not Carter
BALTIMORE (UPI)-Republican Ronald Reagan and independent John Anderson met in the first debate of the 1980 presidential campaign last week, where time attacking each other than President Carter
Reagan and Anderson clashed sharply on military spending, taxes, inflation, abortion, energy, urban programs and the role of religion in politics during the hour-long debate, televised by CBS, NBC and public broadcasting systems to an estimated 50 million people.
The only point the two agreed on was opposing reinstalment of a peace-time draft.
Both Anderson and Reagan criticized Carter's record and his failure to join them in the debate.
The president spent the evening in the White House after returning from a weekend at Camp David.
ANDERSON AND Reagan lost little time putting distance between their positions.
Six panelists asked each candidate one question. The most emotional exchange came in response to the last question, which partly addressed the topic of abortion.
Anderson criticized Reagan's support of a constitutional amendment banning abortion and said the matter "was a personal decision the woman must make."
Reagan responded that no one asked the unborn fetus what it thought about the abortion.
Much of the time, Anderson took the offensive, challenging Reagan's facts and figures.
Anderson, in one double-edged salve, said that Reagan's increased military budget would be infiltration and that his record of fiscal acclimatization as governor of California was exaggerated.
Reagan responded his lips pulled tight in anger, "Some people look up figures and some people make up figures and John has just made up some very interesting figures."
REAGAN RENEWED his call for a 30 percent tax cut, when he said, would help balance the budget.
Anderson called Carter and Reagan's plans for tax cuts "irresponsible."
"These two candidates are begging for your votes with tax cuts," he said. "Well, I'm going to wait and see that the inflation rate is going down and see that the business tax cuts I favor being phased in."
The two also disagreed on federal aid for the nation's troubled cities. Reagan said that although government could help, the private sector would be able to take over government tax incentives to rebuild the cities.
Anderson called for massive government aid, which drew a sharp response from Reagan, who said, "The tax money John talks about will come from pocket pockets of the people in those urban areas."
Although John Anderson may be running a distant third in the latest presidential poll, at least one of the seven judges scoring last night's debate was Voters' choice chose Anderson as the vice-president.
Donn Parson, director of forensics at the University of Kansas, was one of seven university debate coaches asked by the Associated Press to judge last night's contest between Anderson and Republican Ronald Reagan.
He scored the debate fairly evenly in several
areas, but Parson said Anderson did a better job of responding to the questions asked and answered.
The judges used a ballot similar to that used by the American Forensic Association in student competition. The participants are awarded one vote per participant, and the judge used to evaluate the debates. The categories are:
Landfill checked for pollution
*Analysis—does the speaker identify clear and relevant issues in the question being addressed?*
ing does the speaker offer sound
See FORENSICS page 5
By RAY FORMANEK
Staff Reporter
The site, which is on the floodplain of the Kansas River a few miles upstream from Lawrence, is in violation of guidelines adopted last year by the Environmental Protection Agency that forbid locating landfills on floodplains.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment expects dumping to cease at the Douglas County landfill site Jan 1. However, monitoring efforts are being made to the next department to a department office.
"The testing will still be going on long after my retirement," he said.
Chuck Linn, chief of solid waste management for the health and environment department, said Friday that test wells at the site would be monitored for at least 20-25 years.
A PROPOSED LANDFILL site at a quarry in Jefferson County has met stiff opposition from residents who live near the site. Nine residents filed a suit Sept. 3 in Jefferson County District Court to try to halt efforts to put the landfill there.
Linn said ground water sensors in the test wells at the present landfill site would be checked and the site would be inspected to ensure drainage.
"This is a second generation program that will involve inspection of the old site to make sure it is operational."
"It's a bad site," Linn said. "It wet and inoperable, and much of the time trucks can't get it."
He said most of the sites he had inspected so far looked good. However, the Douglas County site had problems because of standing water that made it difficult for the operators to follow regulations that require trash at the site to be covered by a layer of dirt.
Lynn said his office had set a goal of inspecting 60 sites this year to determine if they were in violation of EPA guidelines and whether the sites could continue operating.
TWO KU PROFESSORS have been monitoring the landfill with the help of graduate students who have written their theses on the evolution of a landfill site.
Ernest Angino, professor of geology, said a set of test cells had been put in the ground about 10 years ago when the landfill opened. Test cells are used to take ground water samples in the area to see if there has been contamination of the water table, he said.
In addition to the cells, there are four test wells, two upstream and two downstream of the cell.
So far, the tests for inorganic compounds such as lead, zinc and copper strongly suggest that pollution from the landfill has not reached the wells, he said.
Water from the upstream well is compared with samples from the downstream well to see if there is a significant difference.
ANGINO SAID FUNDING for his sampling
had run out, and he did not plan to take any more
samples.
Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering, said his samples, which he will begin taking soon, look at the gross characteristics and movement of the material of the landfill.
Another KU professor said that he would continue taking samples at irregular intervals.
McKinney agreed with Angina that the testing indicates little chance of contamination.
THE SUIT CONTENDS that Jefferson County Commissioners acted outside their authority when they issued the permit for the site in 1975, according to Jerry Harper, Lawrence attorney representing the nine Jefferson County residents.
The threat of contamination is not the issue for Jefferson County residents who filed the suit, however.
"We just don't want it here," Carl Amereine,
Perry resident and one of those who filled the suit.
"We've already got enough to contend with up here with the quarry.
The planning commission turned down a request in July 1975 for a permit that would have allowed a landfill to be located at the site. However, in September 1975, the county commission issued a conditional-use permit that would allow a landfill at the site.
"Why should we let Douglas County come up here to dump their trash in Jefferson County?"
Harper said Jefferson County zoning regulations gave full authority to the county's landowners.
KEN COMBS/Kansan staff
More than 138 trail riders and 15 wagons took part in the Kidney Foundation's *Ride for Life*, near Lake Perry Saturday and Sunday. Below, blackmilk Anley Smith of Linwood replaces shoes on one of the horses that finished the 40-mile ride. The ride, organized by the Topkea chapter of
Horsemen ride for charity
By PAM HOWARD and BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporters
KEN COMBS/Kansan staff
About 200 riders who gathered with their horses and 15 wagons in a field east of Lake Perry Saturday looked as if they had just stepped out of a western movie. The intent of the riders was to recapture the past, but to make the future bright for people suffering from kidney disease.
The riders participated in the Ride for Life, a 40-mile, two-day trail ride, the main purpose of which was to raise funds for kidney research. The ride was sponsored by the Topeka chapter of the Kidney Foundation of Kansas and western Missouri.
THE IDEA OF THE Ride for Life originated in Springfield, Mo. five years ago and was adopted by the Kansas and western Missouri chapter a year later.
Last year, the ride raised more than $10,000 for the foundation. Marcita Pittman, area director for the Topeka chapter, said this year that the foundation hoped to exceed $12,000 in pledges.
"What really makes these things go," Pittman are the riders who actually go out and get the plice.
She said that unlike many walk-a-thons, the Ride for Life usually collects only 98 percent of her walks made. Pittman attributed the high percentage of natural nature of the ride and the expenses it entails.
"For a lot of these people, coming here cost
the hundreds of dollars in gas and horse care," Pittman said. "Two years ago, a man from Michigan who came to the ride he averaged $500 per mile, and the 900-mile trip because of his horse trailer."
PITTMAN SAID THAT the ride was made much easier by the National Guard, which supplied portable toilets, water and generators. The stationation in the rear of Rittenhouse
supplied porcelain totes, water and generators.
In preparation for the ride, Pittman said, the foundation mailed letters to past riders and anyone who might be interested.
Karl Fink, Holton, and Herb Port, Hoyt, carefully mapped the trail. They used their knowledge of horses and riding to choose the best gravel roads and a lunch stoe.
The Topeka chapter gave trophies for the oldest and youngest backhorse rider, the oldest and youngest wagon rider, the two best trailhands, the rider with the most sponsors, the rider who raised the most money in pledges and the rider who traveled the farthest.
RICHARD "SLICK" FRASER of Lawrence, who flashed a straw hat covered with buttons from previous rides, rode with his wife, Shirley. He was survived by three of his uncles and four grandchildren.
One of Fraser's daughters, Michelle, 16, was honorary chairman of the 77 ride. She had been at the University of Kansas Medical Center recovering from a kidney transplant then.
This year's honory chairman, Vicky Moran, also underwent kidney transplant surgery. Moran successfully received a kidney from her on February, three days after her 36th birthday.
Regents delay banner policy decision
By CINDICUBRIE
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Board of Regents decided Friday the best action on its banner policy was no "nasty"
The Legislative, By-Laws and Policy Committee referred action on the policy to the Council of Presidents, the chief administrators of Kansas universities, which will discuss the writing of the policy next month and submit its recommendation to the committee and then to the Board.
Richard Cole, chairman of the KU Blue Ribbon Committee on the Freedom of Speech, which recommended the changes in the policy, was not dispointed by the delay.
"If the Blue Ribbon committee could spend
three to four months (examining the policy) then the Board of Regents can reasonably spend one month reviewing the policy.
It's reasonable that the Regents would want a recommendation from the Council of妨害
THE COUNCIL OF Presidents chairman, John Visser, president of Emporia State University, said the group had not had enough time to conduct the study. Mr. Blue Ribbon committee at its meeting Thursday.
The committee recommended last April that the Regents change the wording of the policy to say that "freedom of political expression on the campus should be protected subject only to the rights of the university to maintain order, assure security and promote freedom," and the continuity of the educational process."
The portion of the current policy that has
caused controversy states "political advertisements shall not be permitted in enclosed areas of the campus devoted primarily to information or enclosed areas during non-political events."
That policy had been tested at KU by 12 protesters who were arrested at Commencement last May after they displayed a banner that read "Declaration of First Amendment rights at the University."
CHARGES AGAINST the protesters were dropped by City Prosecutor Colt Knutson after a similar display at KU's Convocation last month.
Cole said that one way to “get things going” on the policy would be for EU to present a proposal to the Council.
"It would be useful if the University of Kansas,
See REGENTS page 5
Poland must reform or regress, economists say
By VANESSA HERRON
Staff Reporter
Faced with a $20 billion debt and lingering strikes, the Polish government has two alternatives, either reform and decentralize its economic system or return to a completely centralized system, according to a KU assistant. The Polish National Bank of Polish and American economists last week.
Poland is the only East European country that had negative growth last year, said John Garland, an acting assistant professor of business.
Garland delivered a report on the Polish economy to 10 economists from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Trade and 15 American
businessman, government officials and professors at a seminar at the University of
"Everyone agrees that something must be done, but they can't agree on what," he said. The country can either reform and continue its growth or move forward and live off the goodness of the Soviet Union."
Garland, who has researched East European economics for about five years, outlined the present economic crises in Poland in a report to the European Commission Committee. That report was released last month.
POLAND RELIESS HEAVILY on Soviet trade, like other nations in the communist bloc; Garland said, and the country accumulated a $20 billion surplus years while trying to modernize its technology.
As a result, 96 percent of the revenue from Poland's exports is used to pay off its debt.
"That leaves only 5 percent to import wheat as a grain and advanced technology," he said.
Poland's central planners are now faced with a dilemma. Garland said.
Poland must increase exports, such as coal or cured火, to cover its debts, but to provide incentives for workers and keep consumers employed. Poland must produce more for the domestic economy.
At last week's conference, Garland said, U.S. economists recommended that Poland deci-
"There comes a time when people wonder what happened to that better life that was promised to them," Garland said. "This is what happened in Poland."
tralize its economic system and join the International Monetary Fund, a non-political system created to help countries with economic problems.
IN POLAND, ONLY sweeping reforms, such as achieving a balance between supply and demand and allowing prices to reflect the costs of production, will be effective, Garland said. In the past, however, the Polish government was reluctant to make such changes.
"It is perceived to be a political trade-off," Garcia said. "I see think, they will lose piece of the ground."
By making small, ineffective policy changes,
we have lost our most creditable with the
Polish people, he said.
GARLAND, WHO HAS visited Poland three
See POLAND page 5
Weather
It should be partly cloudy today with temperatures ranging in the mid-70s, according to the National Weather Service, which has a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms.
The extended forecast calls for much co-operation and a chance of thundershowers Wednesday.