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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 54 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday November 6,1986
Landslide victory grants Democrats a Senate majority
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democrats savored a Senate landslide victory yesterday and pledged to change the nation's political agenda, but the White House vowed that President Reagan would not become a lame duck despite the GOP setback.
Running far beyond even Democratic expectations, Democrats will have a solid 55-45 majority in the Senate next year, a dramatic reversal of the Republicans' present 53-47 edge. In the process of gaining eight seats, the Democrats ousted seven Republican freshmen senators without losing a single incumbent.
But voters gave Democrats only modest gains in the House while giving Republicans victories in governorships. The GOP picked up a net of eight statehouses, including Texas, Florida, Wisconsin and Alabama, where the first Republican governor was elected in 112 years.
Reagan covered 25,000 miles
coast to coast in the closing days before the election in an effort to keep the Senate in Republican hands. In the end, however, his popularity could not be transferred, and 12 of the 18 candidates he campaigned for lost.
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W-Va., already was planning to move back into the office of Senate major leader and put a new trade bill high on the agenda for next year's 100th Congress.
While the Democratic landslide was not expected to trigger a liberal swing, it probably will to halt Reagan's ability to build a conservative federal pulicary and dramatically alter the balance of the Supreme Court.
Byrd said Democratic control of the Senate would restore balance and called for an end to White House "arrogance" in dealing with Congress. In the House, Democrats gained a net of only four seats with other四 race still undecided. The Democrats oc-
See ELECTION, p. 5, col. 4
Student Senate race becomes poster war
Staff writer
Bv SALLY STREFF
Betsy Bergman and Stephanie Quinney, presidential and vice presidential candidates with the Initiative coalition, yesterday filed a formal complaint with Glenn Shirliffe, the Student Senate Elections Committee chairman.
Two students running for student body president and vice president have accused their opponents' coalition of tampering with campaign posters. Members of the opposing coalition, however, say the two have no basis for the charges.
The complaint charges that on Tuesday night, several Initiative posters in campus buildings were removed and that posters for the Cheers coalition were put up in an illegal manner.
Shirtliffe said he had talked to the candidates of both coalitions yester-day about the incident and had told them that his party was presenting for the remainder of the election.
He said he would forward the complaint to the Elections Review Board, an independent board that reviews the Student Senate elections. The board can't take any action on the complaint until after the election, he said.
Bergman said she and Quince were upset because the incident demonstrated disregard for Senate elections rules, and because Initiative would be unable to replace most of the posters in the two weeks remaining before Senate elections.
Initiative had printed about 1,500
posters and had distributed all but
one.
"We have only a very limited amount of posters left," Bergman said. "This is costing us a lot of time and money. We can't make that up."
were justified in blaming members of Cheers for the incident.
"It's just too widespread to be a coincidence," she said.
Jason Krakow, a campaign manager for the Cheers coalition, said members of the Cheers coalition and other campaign workers had hung posters Tuesday night. But he said all members had been informed of regulations on posters and told not to tamper with Initiative posters.
He denied that the Cheers coalition was directly responsible for the killings.
Bergman said the two thought they
Quincy said she had called Allan Klenke, the vice chairman of the Elections Committee, on Tuesday night after hearing reports of some tampering with Initiative posters.
She, Kleken and another member of Initiative went to buildings around campus and removed several illegally placed Cheers posters. Quincy said. They also found two crumpled Initiative posters in a trash dumpster behind Stauffer-Flint Hall, she said.
Shirliffe said that several of the illegally placed posters were on bulletin boards reserved for faculty or departmental uses. One poster was on a bulletin board reserved for pre-schoolers outside the human development department in Haworth Hall.
Klenke said he had removed 146 illegally placed Cheers posters on Tuesday night.
Part of the problem occurred because the regulations governing where posters may be hung differ among buildings and often are unclear, Krakow said.
Krakow said members of Cheers were upset that Kleienk had removed posters without consulting them and that they did not all of them had been hung illegally.
Red tape ties Nicaraguan's plans
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
The Nicaraguan embassy in Washington, D.C., has not yet received any official response about the Nicaraguan vice president's application for a visa to enter the United States, an embassy official said yesterday.
Francisco Campbell, minister counselor of the Nicaraguan Embassy, said that Vice President Sergio Ramirez had applied for a visa Monday and that the embassy had received it. The Department about its status.
Charles Stansifer, KU director of Latin American studies and professor of history, said earlier this week that Ramirez had accepted a formal invitation to visit the University.
Stanisler also said the issue had been when the State Department would grant Ramirez a visa allowing him to visit the places where he had been invited in the United States.
State Department officials were unavailable for comment yesterday.
Stansifer said that the plans for Ramirez's visit
were tentative but that the visit could include an open discussion on United States-Nicaraguan relations.
"We expect them to do the right thing." Campbell said. "We expect the State Department to do it."
Ramirez also has been invited by former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford to attend a conference on peace and democracy in Central America. The conference is scheduled to be at the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.
Campbell said Ramirez also had received invitations to visit Harvard University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ramirez's KU visit, if allowed, would be one of several stops in the United States beginning Nov. 10.
At KU and the other proposed engagements, Ramirez would speak on United States-Nicaraguan relations, the dangers of war and the possibilities for peace. Campbell said.
Campbell said the vice president's tentative itinerary was scheduled to take him first to Atlanta.
On Nov. 27, Ramirez is scheduled to conclude his trip in New York, he said.
Stansifer, who had initially invited Ramirez to the University, said he shared Campbell's optimism.
“(Ramirez) wouldn't have applied for it unless he expected to get it.” Stansifer said. “I'm optimistic until it's turned down."
Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said that Chancellor Gene A. Budig had formally invited Ramirez to the University as a courtesy to Stansifer.
Many foreign dignitaries would consider it odd not to receive a formal invitation from the top executive of the University, Scally said.
Wilfredo Lee/KANSAN
Winnied LeekANSAN
Lawrence firefighters,
below, extinguish a
residential fire at 2407
Yosemite St. The fire,
which was ignited by
a furnace, caused an
estimated $8,000 in
damages yesterday. No
injuries were reported.
Pat Sullivan, left, holds
Scamper, the family dog,
after its rescue from the
burning house.
Firefighters searched for
an hour before finding the
dog.
Local fire causes $8,000 damage
A Lawrence Fire Department officer said a furnace had started a residential fire yesterday afternoon that caused an estimated $8,000 in damage.
No injuries were reported.
The owner of the house at 2407 Yosemite Drive, Pat Sullivan, was at work when the fire broke out, and her two sons were at school.
The fire began in the utility room of the house when some linoleum that was too close to a furnace ignited, according to Maj. Robert Coleman from Fire Station No. 3. Flames quickly spread up through walls and into the upper part of the house.
One firefighter said the heat in the utility room had melted a water pipe, causing it to burst.
Two plead guilty in local cocaine case
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
Two Lawrence residents arrested on cocaine-related charges in July pleaded guilty and another resident received a continuance on his trial this week in Douglas County District Court.
ing cocaine
The three were arrested along with 18 others on cocaine-related charges in Lawrence in July.
James Paddock, Douglas County district judge, granted Donald P. Bay, 28, Phoenix, Ariz., a continuance on his trial because his lawyer's mother was ill. The trial, which had been scheduled to begin yesterday will be Jan. 14.
Pamela D. Shields, 27, Lawrence, and Jackie Lee Strong, 28, Lawrence, each pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the delivery of cocaine. Strong also pleaded guilty to a count of sell-
The lawyer, Mickey Allen of Lawrence, said he could not devote his full attention to the trial.
Paddock agreed and ordered Bay, who was released on a $10,000 recognition bond, to report the theft.
Jim Flory. Douglas County district attorney.
The sentence for aiding and abetting the delivery of cocaine ranges from three to 10 years in prison.
said yesterday that Shields had pleaded guilty Monday. Shields, who was originally charged with one count of selling cocaine, is sued to be sentenced Dec. 5.
Shields is sheduled to enter the Douglas County
jail Wednesday, where she will await sentencing
Flory said Strong had pleaded guilty Tuesday to the two charges against him. Strong originally was accused of fraud and theft.
Polygraphs called invaluable in KU police reports
A suspect sits in a wide, black, high-backed chair in a small office in Carruth O'Leary Hall. Pneumatic tubes are strapped across his chest and abdomen. A cuff squeezes one arm, and electrodes cover his fingertips.
By BENJAMIN HALL
Special to the Kansan
Four small, colored pens begin to scratch a series of peaks and valleys on a flowing piece of graph paper as the suspect answers a detective's questions.
The KU police polygraph is r
This year, at least 26 suspects have faced the polygraph exam, an investigative method in which the police have
But while police say the polygraph can distinguish between people telling the truth and liars, others are doubting its usefulness.
David Holmes, KU professor of psychology, said recently that polygraph tests could deceive detectives
"They may dismiss someone as a suspect who's guilty as sin because the test couldn't pick it up," he said. "I think it just should not be used.
However, the 1985 annual report from the KU police, called the polygraph invaluable. The report said polygraph exams had been instrumental in obtaining additional information from suspects and had helped weed out some innocent people who were suspects in certain crimes.
Detective Lt. Vic Stridn, who proposed the polygraph program and conducted the exams, voiced few doubts
"The principle in the way it works is the fear of the detection of deception." he said.
instruments put together in one pack." Strand said. "When a person lies, there are certain physiological
The polygraph is a machine capable of measuring heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and the amount of sweat produced by the palms. The concept behind it is that the stress of telling a lie and the fear of getting caught create measurable changes in these bodily functions.
Strand said that by measuring these responses to questions, he could tell in 95 percent of the tests whether the answers were correct.
The polygraph exam is a more objective method of evaluating a suspect than other methods that would normally be used, such as observing body language during an interview. Strnad said.
"You could come in here, smoke 11 cigarettes and never look me in the eye, but if you tested truthful on the machine, then in my eyes you're honest," he said.
Strand said that if two suspects tested "truthful" on the polygraph exam and one tested "deceptive," then in investigators would focus on the one who tested "deceptive."
But Holmes said that because more emotional people were likely to have greater bodily responses to questioning, Strnad and the department would be better off flipping a coin.
Holmes, who has led research in polygraph testing at
See POLYGRAPH, p. 5, col. 1