I closed Johnny's
"I opened Johnny's Tavern" bumper stickers will become scrapbook material Saturday when the tavern becomes a club. Tomorrow will be the last day that patrons can belly up to the bar at 7:30 a.m.
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The Jayhawk basketball team's defense led them to an 84-78 victory over the Soviet National Team last night. The Russians have beat most of their other U.S. opponents.
'Hawk defense initiative
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Sun day
Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature in the low 50s. Tonight's low will be in the mid-30s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny again.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 64 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
November 20,1986
Reagan says responsibility for Iran deal was his alone
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, facing his toughest credibility challenge, said in a nationally broadcast news conference yesterday that his administration was deeply divided on the decision to send arms to Iran but that the final responsibility was his alone.
Reagan, making a personal appeal to try to combat harsh criticism over the Iran arms deal, said no further arms sales would be made to Teheran.
In his opening statement, Reagan admitted for the first time that there was considerable debate among his Cabinet officers over the deal, which started 16 months ago under the tightest secrecy.
Reagan said if the arms deal had not leaked to the news media, two more U.S. hostages, held by pro-Iran extremists in Lebanon, would have been freed.
Chris Feelev/KANSAN
Reagan repeated statements that the secret initiative with Iran began 18 months ago with the goals of negotiating an end to the $6^{1/2}$-year-old Iran-Iraq war and, ultimately, gaining the release of the captives.
Polls have indicated that Americans are skeptical of Reagan's efforts to curry favor with the Republican Party.
Reagan said in a nationally broadcast address Nov. 13 that his primary policy goal in approaching Teheran was to re-establish ties with a hostile nation that once was a strategic friend.
A key question that arose early in the news conference was the status of Secretary of State George Shultz, who has openly disagreed with the Obama administration's resignation has been widely speculated about.
Reagan denied that Shultz was resigning.
He said, "He has made it plain he will stay as long as I want him."
"I understand this decision is deeply controversial and some deeply opposed it.) I was convinced then and I am convinced now that while the risk was great, it was worth taking."
Reagan said that only the missiles the government sold ended up in Iran and disputed other reports that several shipments of armaments were sent to the fundamentalist Islamic government of Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini.
Democrats have used the Iran operation to mount an unprecedented challenge to Reagan's credibility that could undermine his effectiveness in his final two years in the White House.
Reagan denied that he had misled Americans, either in the Nicholas Daniloff spy swap case or in the Iran deal.
House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas said Sunday that he thought the administration had broken the law by violating provisions of the National Security Act. The act requires that covert administration actions in foreign policy be reported to Congress in a timely manner.
Reagan has been under especially severe pressure from lawmakers, many of whom said they had not been adequately informed of the secret arrangements.
Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramirez discusses U.S.-Nicaraguan relations. Ramirez spoke to about 600 people last night in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Ramirez says U.S aid to contras must stop
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
Sergio Ramirez, vice president of Nicaragua, called upon the government of the United States to end its support of rebels fighting to overthrow his government and to allow democracy to develop in Nicaragua.
"We call upon the government of the United States to end the war that it not only finances, but also directs." Ramirez said last night.
Ramirez, who was visiting KU in one of several U.S. stops scheduled from Nov. 15 to 27, spoke to about 80 students at the Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
"（The contras）have been suffering defeats throughout the last five years," he said. "They will not be able to achieve victories, even if they were to receive 200, 300 or more millions of dollars."
Ramirez linked the contrasts to the former Nicaraguan government of Anastasia Somoza, who was overthrown in 1979.
"They never will obtain any support from our people, because they are clearly identified as murderers and torturers, the same murderers and torturers of the past." Ramirez said.
Ramirez said that the United States, in supporting the contras, was trying to return power to those who destroyed any vestiges of democracy.
"Sovereignty is an essential element for the achievement of an effective democratic system in each country of Latin America and in our country," Ramirez said.
He called the U.S. support "the greatest conspiracy against democracy known in the history of hemispheric relations."
"Foreign interference has only brought disaster upon us throughout history. Just as it is impossible to export revolutions, it also is impossible to export models of democratic organization."
In a news conference earlier in the day, Ramirez said that
See RAMIREZ, p. 5, col. 1
Budget cut suggestions sent to state directors
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
TOPEKA — State agency directors should receive letters today telling them how much to reduce their current budgets as part of Governor-elect Mike Hayden's plan to cut about $60 million from the state budget.
Hayden announced plans yesterday for a 3.8 percent across-the-board cut in state spending over the next 7½ months. Hayden said the cuts shorts fall and to keep the budget balanced.
"The state faces a $30 million deficit unless corrective action is taken," he said during a news conference at the Statehouse. "State officials must be brought in line with our evenings."
State revenues are expected to fall $63 million short of an original estimate of $1.86 billion for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 1987.
More than 80 percent of the $59.7 million saved by the reductions would come from education and welfare.
The Department of Education would be hit the hardest, losing $24.2 million. The Board of Regents and its universities would lose $12.1 million, and the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services would lose $13.2 million. These agencies would provide $49.4 million of the $59.7 million.
Hayden said he would work with the Legislature during the first days of the session to pass the reductions necessary for his plan.
Meanwhile, each agency will be allowed to decide where the cuts will be made. Hayden said, and they are expected to respond by Dec. 3 with reduction plans.
"I know reductions cannot be made without sacrifice by many Kansans," Hayden said, "However, the option of increasing taxes is untenable."
Smaller agencies will be hurt the most because they will not have much flexibility to leave administrative positions vacant, he said.
"My plan allows agency heads to exercise discretion in identifying spending cuts," Hayden said, "but I am asking all officials to give special attention to reducing administrative expenses rather than services."
The state budget division will monitor the agencies' proposed cuts and Hayden has instructed the division to reject any that don't meet his objectives, he said.
Hayden said he regarded this figure as an absolute minimum and that he would work with the Legislature to increase the state's future year-end balances. He also supplied some information.
Effects of hiring freeze cutbacks worry officials
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
With the cuts, Kansas will have a projected $30 million surplus at the end of the fiscal year.
Staff writer
By ALISON YOUNG
TOPEKA — Board of Regents schools, including the University of Kansas, must make significant cuts in their budgets because of a 3.8 percent cut in state spending that Governor-elect Mike Hayden announced yesterday.
In addition, a top KU official said yesterday that he expected a hiring freeze, imposed last week, to last until at least the end of the year.
The Regents budget must be slashed by $12.1 million because of an expected shortage in state revenues. Officials expect KU could lose more than $1 billion, but they won't know exact figures until today.
Marvin Burris, associate budget director for the Regents, said making the necessary budget reductions would be difficult.
KU officials also were concerned about the cuts. The Regents are scheduled to discuss various KU capital improvement expenditures and other fiscal matters at their regular meeting today and tomorrow.
The cuts announced yesterday don't eliminate the chances of the state release about $1.2 million in excess student fee revenue generated by the University's record fall enrollment, Zimmerman said.
He said reductions would cut into the flesh of the University and might affect KU's image and place in the academic community over the long run.
"There is no fat in the budget of KU that can be trimmed." Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU head coach.
But Burris said the fee release would seem hard to justify in light of the budget cuts. He said the state might use that revenue to help offset other needs.
But both Zimmerman and Keith Nitcher, KU director of business and fiscal affairs, said the release and the 3.8 percent cutbacks were separate issues, involving two different funds.
"Every argument that was valid a month ago is equally as valid today." Zimmerman said.
Nitcher said that with the additional budget cuts and a bulging enrollment, KU had been dealt a "double whammy."
Mitcher said the hiring tree probably would continue at least through the end of the year.
"It's essential we have the fee release."
Zimmerman said the University could save a substantial amount of money by continuing the freeze. By slowing the hiring process, he said, the University creates savings.
Having the next seven months to absorb the cuts is important, he said, because the University can save money through natural staff attrition by either reducing vacant positions, or do something more solitary.
Nitcher said the hiring freeze was not absolute, but a way of centralizing the approval of new appointments. Exceptions to the freeze must be approved by Nitcher or Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
Cancelling courses and employment lay-offs have not been mentioned by administrators as possible solutions, Zimmerman said.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
1,950 vote in election's 1st day
By SALLY STREFF
About 1,550 students voted during what members of the Student Senate Elections Committee called a smooth first day of Senate elections.
Staff writer
On the first day of last year's Student Senate elections, about 1,000 students voted and polling places were plagued with problems. All polling places opened at least a half hour late, two polling places opened seven hours late and four others closed two hours before the official closing time.
Glenn Shirtliffe, chairman of the elections committee, said pollworkers had experienced no problems with the process for occasional shortages of ballots.
In addition, on the first day of voting last year, some polling places were attended by only one pollworker, and some candidates said some students had voted more than once.
Yesterday, all seven polling places opened on time by 9 a.m., Shirtliffe said.
The unofficial voter turnout for the 1985 Senate elections was 2,093
Other members of the elections committee and pollworkers around campus said a new type of ballot did not cause problems, although pollworkers frequently had to explain to students how to use the ballots.
He said members of the committee shuffled ballots from one polling place to another and continued to print more ballots throughout the day, but some polling places temporarily were closed while waiting for more ballots.
A rush of voters in the first three hours of polling caught the elections committee off guard. Shirtlife said.
The elections committee hired pollworkers from various KU organizations and clubs to work at the polls yesterday and today.
Roger Long, Lawrence sophomore, and a member of the elections committee, was working at the Strong Hall polls, where between 500 and 560 students, many of them off-campus students, had voted by 4:30 p.m.
Long said that no problems had occurred at the polling place and that all of the Strong Hall pollworkers had arrived on time.
Brook Menees, Prairie Village sophomore, who is a member of the elections committee and was working at polls in the Kansas Union, said about 375 students had voted there as
of 5 p.m
Two pollworkers missed their shifts and another was late, Menees said.
Also, the polling place had to shut down for about 25 minutes around 2:30 p.m. because workers temporarily ran out of ballots for student body president and vice president.
At Summerfield, pollworkers had to ask some voters to remove campaign buttons, said Spencer Colvin, Leawood senior and a member of the elections committee. No other problems occurred, he said.
"We didn't expect this many people," Menees said.
Student Senate elections rules prohibit campaign materials within sight of polling places.
Melissa Pilshaw, Leagwood sophomore, said that about 300 students had voted at Wescoe Hall, where she was watching the polls and that lines sometimes were several yards long. But she said most voting had taken place by 3:30 p.m.
Pilshaw said Wescoe pollworkers narrowly had avoided closing down the polling place. Shirtlife walked in with more ballots just as they were running out, she said.
All-Americans
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Enthusiastic fans hold up a flag to show their support for the Jayhawks. KU beat the Soviet National Team 84-78 last night in Allen Field House.