Nothing to cheer about
The KU volleyball team last night lost to Central Missouri State for the second time this season. But the match stretched to four thrill-packed games.
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Missing members
As of yesterday, only 20 undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences had signed up to fill more than 100 available seats in the governing bodies of the college.
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Flurry fury
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and bitterly cold with a chance for snow flurries and a high temperature in the lower to mid 20s.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 58 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Wednesday November 12, 1986
Nicaraguan given visa for speaking tour
Bv TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
Sergio Ramirez, vice president of Nicaragua, will visit campus next week because the U.S. State Department approved a visa on Friday, a Nicaraguan embassy official in Washington, D.C., said yesterday.
"We are very satisfied that the State Department acted in this way, taking into account that the Nicaraguan government has never denied any North American official to visit our country," said Francisco Campbell, minister counselor for the embassy.
Ramirez will deliver a free public lecture, scheduled for 8 p.m. on Nov. 19 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union, said Charles Stansfer, KU director of Latin American
studies and professor of history
studies and pro-
vice. Ramirez will discuss United States-Nicaraguan relations including U.S. aid to the contras, the Eugene Hasenfus case, the dangers of war and the possibility for peace.
The Nicaraguan government charged Hasenfus with terrorism for supplying arms to U.S.-backed contras. Hasenfus, a former U.S.Marine, was captured in Nicaragua after his plane carrying military hardware was shot down in that country.
Campbell said Ramirez's objectives in his visit to the U.S. include increasing communication between the United States and Nicaragua.
The situations between the two countries can and must be resolved. Campbell said. Ramirez will em-
phase this theme throughout his yish in this country.
"I believe that this opportunity will allow our two peoples to help understand each other . . . and to avoid war," he said.
Ramirez's KU visit, sponsored by the KU Center for Latin American Studies, will be one of several stops in the United States on a visit that begins Saturday, Stansiver said.
begins Saturday, June 14.
He will come to the University from Atlanta, where he will attend a conference Nov. 17 and 18 on "Reinforcing Democracy in the Americas," sponsored by former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, Stansifer said. The conference is scheduled to be at the Carter Center at Emory University.
Ramirez will arrive in Lawrence
Nov. 18 and will leave Nov.20.
From Lawrence, Ramirez will travel to Madison, Wis., to visit with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council, a professional exchange program with Nicaragua, Stansifer said.
His travels continue to South Bend, Ind., to visit with officials at Notre Dame University then to Boston, where he will visit Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Technology. On Nov. 27, Ramirez is scheduled to conclude his trip in New York, he said.
Stanssier said he first heard about the visa confirmation from the Nicaraguan embassy Monday. "I was pleased because we have been working to bring him here," he said. "We fought that battle in 1984
and lost."
Ramirez, also an historian and author, considered it disrespectful to his country to come to the United States under restrictions. Stansifer first met Ramirez in 1971 when Ramirez was in exile in San Jose, Costa Rica.
"I hope that this visit will spark some interest about the crisis between the United States and Nicaragua," he said, adding that he thought the Reagan administration was reluctant to interfere because the effort to bring Ramirez to the United States was bipartisan.
Stansifer said that relations with Nicaragua were at the lowest point in U.S. history in the past 40 or 50 years.
"I believe it is extremely important for the U.S. public to hear both sides of the issue," Stansifer said, "in expectation that dialogue would improve the situation."
Kate Barron, president of Latin American Solidarity and senior from Lincoln, Neb., said she agreed with Stansifer by saying opposition, if any existed during Ramirez's visit, would be low-key.
Life had to go on for family of MIA
sau: "I'm sure it will be interesting.
"we get the U.S. angle shoved down pur throat. It's their country,
and I would like to hear their side of
"I hope he can tell us something that we haven't heard already," she said. "I'm sure it will be interesting."
By ABBIE JONES
Special to the Kansai
At their father's funeral in 1972, the Claflin children stared at the American flag draped over their father's casket. They whispered among themselves.
No one was in there.
David, the oldest son, recalls one of them asking, "There's nobody in there, right?"
That was 19 years ago. David was 3, and his brother, Brad, and sister, Kristen, were only 1. They now are surrounded by public over Vietnam and lingering political questions, but they never really knew the man everyone
called "Rocky."
No one was in the air Force Maj. Richard A Claffin disappeared while on a mission over Hanoi on July 26, 1967. Officials found no debris from his fighter bomber, a Phantom F-4, no parachute, no remains. The wingman — the pilot flying in the jet next to Claffin — saw only a ball of fire.
"I don't go walking around and crying and yelling at the world," David said. "I don't think I have that much to be angry about."
The three Clafins said they led a normal life growing up in Overland Park.
Like everyone else, they saw their grandparents often, went to the park, out to dinner and played baseball. They attend the University of Kansas, as did the three generations of Claflins before them.
David is a second-year law student; Brad, a junior, is majoring in electrical engineering; and his twin sister, Kristen, is majoring in business.
But David learned how to shave by watching television.
And Brad was embarrassed in school because he never learned how to throw a football.
See CLAFLIN, p. 5, col. 1
Jill Dalzell, San Diego junior, contemplates the Vietnam Memorial after attending the Vietnam War. She said that she came to the memorial yesterday tending the Veterans Day ceremonies there. Dalzell's father was a Navy pilot to think about him. See other Veterans Day stories, pages 8 and 9.
Mike Finnigan, former Crosby, Stills and Nash drummer, gives students a sneak preview of a Vietnam veterans benefit concert. He performed on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union yesterday. Proceeds from last night's concert will set up a scholarship fund through the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national, non-profit organization.
$46,000 raised by benefit concert
Chris Modrow/KANSAN
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
When the big moment came, Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student, could hardly speak, either because of emotion or nervousness.
See related stories pgs. 8,9
About 3,000 concert-goers and performers David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Mike Finnigan and George Thorogood were all staring at him as he stood on the stage of Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan.
"We're doing this for a peaceful world," Krueger said.
But, he concludes.
But the words didn't seem that necessary last night at the Vietnam Veterans' benefit concert that Krueger and Reggie Estell, Overland Park law student, had arranged after a yearlong struggle. The music was important this Veterans Day.
Then he could go no further.
From the audience's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" that started the show, through the folk and blues songs sung together by Crosby and Stills, to the driving rock 'n' roll sets of Thorogood and John Fogerty, crowd-pleasing music filled the auditorium throughout the evening.
Staei Ketchum, Kansas City, Mo,
senior, said of Crosby and Stills, "It gave me chills — all that old music.
"Their music comes from that generation. I think it reminds the vets about those days."
That sentiment was echoed by Bob Moran, associate legislative director of Paralyzed Veterans of America in Washington, D.C.
Moran, a double amputee combat veteran of the Vietnam War, appeared on stage last night to express the national.
non-profit group's appreciation to the performers for performing in the concert
"Words could not express what we owe you," he said to the performers
Then addressing the audience he said,
"Tonight, these guys are the real heroes"
"Tongtit, these guys are the real
Moran announced at the concert that
about $46,000 for a scholarship fund to
benefit the children of Vietnam Veterans
had been raised from the gate receipts.
About $7,600 more was raised from a radio
fund-raising drive sponsored by KYYS-FM
on Monday.
Throughout the concert, performers and a large U.S. flag above the stage called attention to the importance of the cause of the Vietnam veteran.
Stills told the audience, "You're helping out a worthy cause. You're trying to give somebody a chance who never had a chance."
Embargo shrinks bone supply
By COLLEEN SIEBES
A shortage of human skeletons is threatening the teaching framework of medical institutions across the country.
country. A little more than a year ago, the government of India, the only country that sold skeletons to other countries, banned the exportation of human bones.
Six months ago, a shortage of skeletons in the United States had reached a critical point, said Gordon Kaye, a spokesman for the Association of Anatomy Chairmen.
And, without exposure to human bones, future medical students will not have as good an education, Kaye said.
Melvin Mohn, professor of anatomy at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said he was aware of the ban and thought it might eventually hinder education at the Med
"The lookout is relatively bleak," he said.
Center.
On Aug. 19, 1965, the Indian government imposed the embargo in response to allegations of grave-robbing and reports of poor families killing their daughters and selling the bodies to bone distributors in the country.
However, Mohn said KU's present supply of bones was sufficient to last for several years or at least until an alternative source is found, he said.
Previously, India exported 50,000 skulls and between 10,000 and 15,000 full skeletons to the United States, Australia and Europe annually.
country.
The average cost of a skull in the United States is $125, and a full skeleton runs from $280 to $400.
Many educators say they only have a few parts left, and they are guarding the bones that they have, Kaye said.
After between 15 and 20 years, bones begin to deteriorate, Kaye said.
tually have to rely solely on plastic replicas of bones, which are of second-rate quality.
Plastic reproductions are adequate for general medical studies, but more refined fields such as dentistry, orthopedics and neurosurgery, require the fine detail of human bones, he said.
Kaye said professors may even.
The small holes in the skull through which arteries and veins pass cannot be deplicated with plastic, he said.
In the United States, Kaye said, the Anatomical Gift Act required medical institutions to return the bones from cadavers to the families of the deceased. This prevents the use of the cadaver bones for research.
The Association of Anatomy Chairmen has invited a member of Congress to a meeting in December to discuss alternative sources for human skeletons, Kaye said.
Charles Kilgore, chairman of Kilgore International Inc., a bone dealer in Coldwater, Mich., said his
inventory had decreased drastically.
Kilgore International Inc. is one of about eight bone dealers that exist in the country, Kilgore said.
"My large inventory has dwindled to less than 100 pieces, including 35 childrens' skulls and a few fetal skeletons." he said.
Kilgore said he had appealed to President Reagan, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and the American Medical Association requesting that government officials negotiate with Rajiv Gandhi, the prime minister of India, to rescind the embargo.
"Everyone is thumbing their nose at me," he said.
The AMA refused to help Kilgore because his business was a profit-making organization, Kilgore said, and U.S. government officials won't help because they sympathize with the Indian government.
the midst govement. In addition to writing letters, Klgore has visited other countries, such as Haiti and Mexico.
Staff writer
Von Ende could be paroled after a year
Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, may spend only one year of his three-year sentence in federal prison, a federal official said yesterday.
By ALISON YOUNG
A U.S. District Court judge in Kansas City, Kan., sentenced on Ende on Monday. He pleaded guilty Sept. 22 to one count of distributing cocaine and one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
U. S. Attorney Benjamin Burgess said that, technically, von Ende could be paroled immediately. However, he said, parole is usually considered after a person has served one-third of a prison sentence.
"Don't think that just because
Burgess said the investigation that led to the July indictment of von Ende and 20 others for cocaine-related crimes was continuing.
these individuals have been prosecuted that's going to stop the distribution in Lawrence, Kansas," Burgess said.
Burgess said. Burgess said officials were concentrating on finding the big suppliers of cocaine in the area.
Von Ende is scheduled to report to the Federal Correction Institute in Fort Worth, Texas, no later than Dec. 8.
Von Ende's attorney, Mark L. Bennett Jr., said in court Monday that the Fort Worth minimum-security prison was preferable because of his client's family ties in the area. Von Ende is a native of Austin, Texas
An unrelated civil suit involving von Ende was dismissed Friday because he had failed to file certain court documents, according to Douglas County court records
See VON ENDE, p. 5, col. 5