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Former Kansas assistant basketball coach Bob Hill replaced Hubie Brown yesterday as head coach of the New York Knicks. Hill joined the Knicks after eight years as an assistant coach at Kansas.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 69 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
December 2,1986
Billionaire savs he put up hostage ransom
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot said today that at the request of a now-dismissed National Security Council aide he put up $2 million earlier this year to ransom U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
Perot, in an interview on ABC-TV'S "Nightline," confirmed an account published in today's editions of the Washington Post that said the billionaire had put up the money at the request of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, the NSC aide. North was fired Nov. 25 for what the administration said was his role in funneling Iranian weapons payments to
Nicaraguan contras.
The Post reported that, on May 23, North asked Perot, listed by Forbes as the third wealthiest American, to deposit $2 million in a Swiss bank account. The story quoted anonymous "informed sources."
Perot was on the point of sending the money when North called and asked him to send it by courier to Cyprus, the Post said.
Peret's courier waited five days on Cyprus, but the deal for the release of five Americans fell through for the determined, the newspaper said.
The newspaper said its information was provided by "informed sources, including people with firsthand
knowledge of the transactions described."
When contacted last night, White House spokesman Daniel Howard said the ransom attempt, if it occurred, was undertaken without the knowledge or authorization of the National Security Council.
But Perot told ABC he assumed that North had higher authority.
"My sense is always that people who do these types of things in the government are very meticulous in their approval for their activities," Perot said.
In other developments earlier today, President Reagan, meeting with Republican congressional leaders, insisted flat out he had "no
knowledge whatsover" of a covert arrangement that funneled money from secret arms sales to Iran to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Reagan summoned the GOP leaders to discuss the pros and cons of calling a special session of Congress to address the Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Dole is pushing for a joint House- Senate committee to investigate the Iran-contra link.
Reagan also ordered a top-to-bottom review of the scandal-tainted National Security Council staff. He said he would welcome a special prosecutor's investigation of its secret Iran-contra connection.
our government's foreign policy apparatus, there must be a full and complete airing of all the facts." Reagan said in formally assigning that task to a review board headed by former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas.
He directed the Tower panel to conduct a comprehensive study of NSC practices and to recommend what operational role, if any, that unit should have in covert diplomatic, military or intelligence missions.
"If we're to maintain confidence in
In an executive order, he set a time limit of 60 days.
The Senate Intelligence Committee opened a formal investigation, with the White House willing to allow testimony from former Reagan aides but hinting some questions might be
considered out of bounds, such as those dealing with specific advice given to the president.
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum also called yesterday for the ouster of Donald Regan, White House chief of staff, and the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into the secret Iran conspiracy funds for Nicaragua contras.
Kassebaum, who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was bothered by assertions that Lt. Col. North was the only person who knew the details of the arms deal.
Kassebaum said a staff shake-up on the only way to end the control groups.
George York, left, and James Latham were the last two men to be executed in Kansas. They were hanged in 1965 for shooting a 62-year-old man. The two escaped from an Army stockade and allegedly killed the man.
Death penalty could return
By BETH COPELAND Staff writer
Gov. John Carlin killed death penalty legislation four times in his two terms in the state's highest office. His successor, Governor-elect Mike Hayden, has promised to resurrect it.
Hayden has asked legislators to have a death penalty bill ready for his signature by March.
Hayden, a Republican from Atwood, said during his gubernatorial campaign that he supported the death penalty for first-degree murder and that he preferred lethal injection as the method of execution.
One legislator, State Rep. Clyde Graeber, recently said that a death penalty bill similar to he one sponsored in 1985 was likely to pass during the 1987 session, which convenes in January.
"I feel that many, many legislators support the death penalty," Graeber, R-Leavenworth, said. "Knowing Mike Hayden as I know him, the measure will be signed if it's put on his desk."
Graeber's 1863 bill called for death by lethal injection for people convicted of premeditated murder or murder committed while kidnapping or raping a victim.
"The bill proposed in 1985 had the most support." Graeber said. "That bill primarily aimed at particularly heinous crimes and those individuals with a propensity for heinous acts."
The last execution in Kansas took place in 1965, when George Ronald York, 23, was hanged in Lansing for his part in the shooting death of Otto Ziegler, a 62-year-old railroad worker.
Gallows retired in 1965
York and his friend, James Douglas Latham, robbed and shot Ziegler after he had stopped to help him, which had broken down in Wallace.
News reports detailed the final moments before their deaths. The two ate fried quail, french-fried shrimp and barbecued chicken for their last meal. Then, each was given a cigarette.
Shortly after midnight that April, Latham, 22, died on the gallows. York was put to death 33 minutes later. His death was the last of 24 executions in the state's history.
Historians, however, estimate that more than 90 people have been hang-
The most publicized executions also occurred in 1965, when the state hanged Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, the two convicted of the murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family near Holcomb in 1959. Their murders inspired Truman Capote's best-selling novel, "In Cold Blood," and a subsequent movie.
In 1975, a decade after the last executions, the Kansas Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren Burger, in Furman vs. Georgia, declared unconstitutional a Georgia law that said a person found guilty by jury of committing first-degree murder must be sentenced to death.
repealed capital punishment in the state, agreeing with a 1972 U.S. law.
This decision wiped out death penalty statutes in many states, including Kansas.
Graeber's 1985 death penalty bill circumvented problems found in the former Georgia law by requiring two trials, one to determine guilt and the other to determine the penalty — either life imprisonment or death.
The early controversy
The 1975 state Supreme Court ruling was not the first time the death penalty had been repealed.
When Kansas gained statehood in 1861, capital punishment was practiced. According to Justice Department statistics, the death penalty was used only nine times in the 46 years before 1907.
That year, the Legislature decided that people sentenced to death had to be kept in prison for at least one year before the execution, and executions could be carried out only after the governor signed the death warrants.
Prohibition and the growth of organized crime in the '30s prompted the re-enactment of the death penalty, but no one was executed until 1944, when a 31-year-old confessed murderer, Ernest Hoefen, was
See PENALTY, D. 5, col. 1
Women's rights struggles go on
Rv PAM MILLER
Staff writer
Nearly fifteen years ago, 20 women calling themselves the February Sisters seized and occupied the East Asian studies building on campus.
Their reason: to demand more rights for women, both as students and workers.
Since then, work conditions have improved for women, partly because
About the same time, the federal government passed Title IX, which set down anti-discrimination standards.
KU established an Affirmative Action office and started programs such as the women's studies department, a woman's health program at Watkins Hospital and day-care services at Hilltop Child Development Center.
However, although advances at the University of Kansas have been made for women in academia, statistics show that the balance between men and women remains unequal.
According to 1985 KU Affirmative Action figures, 210 out of 1,100, or 19 percent, of the full-time faculty at KU are women.
Only 15.4 percent, or 129 of 834 tenured faculty members are women. 705 are men.
And the same figures show that higher percentages of women are in the lowest faculty salary positions.
According to Robbi Ferron, director of KU's Affirmative Action office two of the 11 cases that went to the
University Discrimination Hearing Board, six of the 15 cases mediated by the office, and eight of the 20 cases investigated by the office last year were sex discrimination cases.
Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life and director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, must continue to work for progress.
Some faculty and administrators say that although the struggle for women's rights may not be as apparent today, the problems of discrimination, unequal pay and juggling career and family still need to be resolved.
"We have more in numbers now, but it's not to say that it's easy or that all women are being paid the same (as men). Like the Virginia Sims ad says, "We've come a long way." That's true."
But today's students need to be aware that more discrimination exists in the job market than they may think, Ballard said.
Since KU Affirmative Action was established in 1973, it has closely watched any potentially discriminatory practices in the University, including hiring. The office also handles discrimination grievances on an individual basis. Ferron said.
Women need to continue fighting to receive equal pay and eliminate sexual harassment, she said.
Watching for sexism
She said that the office dealt with problems of discrimination against minorities, women, veterans and
disabled people.
When the University has an opening for an administrative, faculty or unclassified position, the Affirmative Action offices screens the job description to make sure it meets guidelines that will encourage all classes of people to apply for the job.
For example, no women are on the faculty of the philosophy department. Donald Marquis, professor of philosophy, said that the department has not hired anyone since 1972, because it has not expanded.
Tighter budgets and fewer available positions make it harder for the University to hire more women. The number of qualified women nationwide available for positions has increased, Ferron said, but hiring at the University has decreased.
Marquis said that he thought the department would "bend over backward" to hire a woman for any positions that opened.
Shirley Harkess, associate professor of sociology, said that discrimination was much more difficult to spot today. She said she thought discriminatory acts were not before they were before Rob Established the Alternative Action office and made other improvements.
"The question is 'Why didn't we hire a woman in the 70s or 60s?'" he said. "Affirmative program actions just weren't as strong."
Harkess, who has taught at KU since the fall 1972, said women professors often worked in fields that
"Sex discrimination suits are difficult to win. You have to make the argument that these men are comparable, assuming that the department chair hasn't done something blatantly discriminatory."
If a woman believes she is being discriminated against, she has to produce evidence that a man in another department is being paid more, which is hard because of the kind of sex-segregation fields that exist, Harkness said.
have traditionally lower salaries, such as the English department.
"In my experience, sexism stops when people see your credentials," she said. "Personally, I've been treated well, promoted on time, respected and accepted."
Judith Roitman, professor of mathematics, is the only female professor in the mathematics department. She said that no sexism existed between her and the other members of the department.
Problems women face
Cesart would not say whether KU was one of the six because she said anonymity had been guaranteed for participants.
Joan Cesari, associate professor of counseling psychology, recently surveyed non-tenured male and female faculty members at six Midwestern state universities on their attitudes toward their jobs.
The survey indicated that 26.5 percent of the women who responded
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Local area to miss worst part of storm
Staff writer
By ALISON YOUNG
Lawrence should be spared from the blustery winter storm that dropped up to 7 inches of snow in parts of western Kansas and closed some highways, the National Weather Service in Topeka forecasted yesterday.
"We're not looking for too much snow," said Larry Shultz, National Weather Service meteorologist.
He said that Lawrence was expected to have received about 1 inch of snow by this morning.
Blowing and drifting snow, pushed by 50-mph winds, made traveling difficult in eastern Colorado and parts of Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. The storm also left ice on some highways.
Western and northcentral Kansas received between 2 and 5 inches of snow this weekend. Snow accumulation of 7 inches in Burr Oak, 4 inches at Dodge City, and 3 inches in Beloit was reported. Shulz said.
Interstate 70 from Hays to Denver was closed Sunday, but was reopened at 8:50 a.m. yesterday. Two people were killed Sunday morning when their car collided with a truck on the interstate near Linnon, Colo., during the crash, which cut visibility to 2 feet.
About 300 people were stranded
overnight in Limon and Lamar, Colo.
Yesterday along 17-0, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported that the road was completely covered by snow and ice from the Colorado border to Colby. Conditions improved toward the east, with about 60 percent of the road covered slush from Hays to the Russell County line.
Kansas Department of Transportation crews worked yesterday to clear the interstate. They were expected to continue today, a department spokesman said.
The snow also delayed flights at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, stranding thousands of passengers heading home from the Thanksgiving holiday.
Police in Nebraska reported numerous accidents on Interstate 80 from North Platte to the Wyoming border, as several cars and semi-tractor trailers slid off the road.
Topeka and the surrounding area, including Manhattan and Kansas City, were expected to receive about 1 inch of snow last night. But any accumulation should melt today.
United Press International supplied some information for this story.