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Lopez said the recent discovery of arms shipments to Nicaragua from the Iloapan Military Air Base in San Salvador did not surprise him.
"Huge military flight fly out of that airport all the time," he said. "North American soldiers are seen walking around in San Salvador all the time. Nobody really knows why they are there."
"The misconception is that Duarte represents a democracy in El Salvador, and that's not true," Lopez said.
Llopez said that since 1981 the United States had sent more than $2 billion worth of military aid to Duarte's government forces.
"It's not true that the Communists are backing most of the guerrillas, either," he said.
Llopez said Duarte's forces had relocated more than one million people to refuge camps and then declared that whoever remained in the evacuated areas was a guerrilla and would be killed.
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"I know the basic layout of things and I can remember what cars and buildings look like," he said. "I also have the advantage of knowing the beauty of the sunset, flowers, and even insects — I know what a gnat looks like; I can describe even the smallest insect."
Trig, York, Pa., graduate student, moved to Lawrence in August and is working toward a doctorate in counseling psychology. Trig, 30, lost his vision when he was 23. Before he went blind, he taught high school social studies and psychology in Pennsylvania.
Another blind student, Joe Trig,
said he was disoriented when he
heard the noise.
Trig came to Lawrence a few days before classes with his parents, who helped him find his way around campus, he said.
Unlike Turner, who said he preferred a cane, Trig said he liked having a guide dog.
His parents left after a few days, but Trig still has a companion and guide —Tristan, a one-year-old black Labrador Retriever who doubles as a seeing-eye dog.
"A dog is much faster," Trig said. "A dog gives you a lot more independence and a lot more dignity — you don't have to tap along the sidewalk when you have a dog."
Blind people have the responsibility to look as competent as possible in order to avoid becoming dependent upon sighted people, he said.
He said that since the dog helped him to look competent, fewer people stopped to offer unnecessary help than when he used a cane.
"The only problem with the dog, is that more people notice the dog than notice me," he said. "If I walk into a restaurant with Tristan, people say, 'Oh look, there's a seeing-eye dog,' — they don't even notice me."
He said the converse was true when he used a cane, "When I had the cane, people would say, 'Oh, look, there's a blind person.'"
Tristan is Trig's first seeing-eye dog, and he has owned him for only about six months.
charge to blind students, read and tape record assigned readings and class notes and take dictations from blind students during exams.
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She said blind students solved the problem of taking notes by asking the professor to say everything written on the blackboard out loud and by asking another student in the class to make a duplicate copy of his or her notes.
Tape recording lectures is another option, but most students prefer to have notes because listening to the entire lecture again takes too much time, she said.
"Both professors and students have been very cooperative in helping out." Michel said.
The center doesn't provide readers for non-academic reading, Michel said. But it does provide students with the names of private and volunteer readers.
Some visually impaired students don't use the center's services but prefer to hire their own readers, she said.
Hasenfus' lawyer calls court illegal
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A lawyer for Eugene Hasenus, the U.S. flier charged with terrorism for supplying arms to U.S.-backed rebels, entered a not guilty plea yesterday and challenged the right of a People's Tribunal to try his client.
Enrique Sotelo Borgen took the opportunity of filing the plea to lambast the People's Tribunal. He denied the charges against his client and argued that the Sandinista court trying Hasenfus was incompetent, illegal and partial
"I deny, reject and contradict the accusations presented against him." Sotelo said in a statement filed in court yesterday. "My defendant is not a criminal but a worker for a legally formed air company."
he parachutaded from a cargo plane carrying weapons to the rebels, known as contras, is charged with terrorism, criminal association and violation of Nicaragua's public security and order laws.
Hasenfus, captured Oct. 6 after
He faces Nicaragua's maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, and his conviction is considered inevitable.
An aide to Sotoel, Luis Andara Ubeda, read the defense statement to a courtroom packed with attorneys. Hasenwus was not present.
In brief comments to reporters after he filed the papers, Sotelo demanded an appropriate court be appointed to try Hasenus other than the People's Tribunal, which is controlled by the Sandinista Party.
Sotelo did not deny that Hasenfus had made the rebel supply flights.
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Historic theatre reopens with Civil War musical
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"The Belad of Black Jack," a musical about pre-Civil War Kansas, is being performed at 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow and at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $7 for adults and $6 for children; tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for children and senior citizens. Tickets are available at Liberty Hall Video, 749-1912.
The revival of "The Ballad of Black Jack" as the grand opening production in the newly renovated Liberty Hall is a bit like a family reunion, said Don Mueller, playwright and director.
Oldfather also said he had personal reasons for inviting the play to Liberty Hall. He has portrayed John Brown, the famous Civil War era famaker. He was a major influence in the musical for nine out of the 13 years the play has been
Mudell, a Methodist minister from Baldwin City, said three-fourths of the 60-member cast of the historical play during previous years.
The performance history of the 16-year-old play that has been used to highlight Baldwin's annual Maple Leaf Festival is almost as rocky as the pre-Civil War era of Kansas history that the plot represents.
Baldwin City residents Sam Mason and Debbie Miller perform a musical number in "The Ballad of Black Jack."
The play, which was performed once a year from 1970 to 1983 at Baker University in Baldwin, is coming back this year.
"I thought it would be nice to kick off this historical building with a classic historical musical." Oldfather said.
The performance of the play came to a standstill in 1983 when Baker University stopped offering access to its theatre. Mueller received a chance to revive the play this year, but it was not until 2015 that he emeritus of law and co-owner of Liberty Hall, offered use of the hall for production of the play.
performed. He will portray Brown again in this year's performance.
Diane Dultmeier/KANSAN
The play features music, drama and romance set against the backdrop of early Kansas history.
Branson is innocent, but the resulting controversy sparks off a border war that eventually leads to the sacking of Lawrence, the Potawatomi Massacre and the Battle of Black Jack, near Baldwin.
The play recreates the 1850s border-war years of Kansas history. Jacob Branson, a Quaker and an authentic Lawrence historical figure, is charged with the murder of Charles Dow, his partner in farming.
This will be the second time Johnson has played the lead role. The
The play takes place in 1854, the year of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which said that each new state's residents decided whether the state would be free or slave.
The intensity of the conflict presented in the play is broken by a romance that develops between Branson and a local girl, Melinda.
Branson is portrayed by Al Johnson, associate dean of the School of Law, and Melinda is portrayed by Rob Miller, Baldwin resident.
Mueller said that the play played the framework of history but that he had added embellishments, such as music and dance, to interest audiences.
He said he knew of several audience members who returned year after year.
"The they don't get bored though because I always change or add to the script and score." Mueller said. The group of 20 are from the original year."
first time he did it was in 1970, when he was a senior at Baker University.
Johnson said he had enjoyed returning to his original role, but that it had taken a lot of time. Because it has been 16 years since the original production, he has forgeshed the lines she drew and has had to re-earn them, he said.
“It’s been a lot of fun, but I don’t know if I’ll do it again because it takes so much time,” he said. “I’ve been practicing four or five nights a week and I want to spend some nights at home.”
Diane Dultmeler/KANSAN
Johnson said he liked the character of Branson though.
Bob Newton, Lawrence resident, performs the musical number "Don't Come Back," in "The Ballad of Black Jack."
Actor returns to stage in role of abolitionist
By JERRI NIEBAUM
A retired KU law professor led the abolitionist forces against the Missouri riffians on the Liberty Hall stage at its grand opening last night.
special to the Kansan
The play marked the beginning of Oldfather's acting career. "When my wife and I retired in 74, I'm sure my wife wondered what the hell she was going to do when her father saw me to a tooth grin. He took a long draw from his cigarette.
Oldfather has played John Brown eight times since 1974, when Don Mueller, director and author of the play, asked him to audition for the part. Mueller was inducted into both as part of the October Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin City.
Charley Oldfather played John Brown in "The Ballad of Black Jack," a play about the history of bloody Kansas before the Civil War.
"You can't just get up there and sing songs. You gotta get the songs. That's what acting is. You gotta get the song and feel the part. In acting, you've got to become the person, not pretend to be," he said.
The 66-year-old actor said he learned a lot about acting from singing folk songs, a hobby he had enjoyed for much of his life.
"I work harder on the stage than I worked in my life," he said.
He said that on stage he became the fiery John Brown that most Kansans know. He said he had been letting his blond and gray beard grow for 2 months so it would capture the wild look that John Brown had in John Steuart Curry's famous mural in the Kansas capitol.
Oldfather was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., where his father taught ancient history and classics at Wabash College, a private men's college. When he was 6, Oldfather moved to Lincoln, Neb., where he'd his growing up." Oldfather went east to a private boy's school when he was 13. It was there that Oldfather had his first lead in a play.
Oldfather came to the University of Kansas in 1950. Here he served as a law professor as a faculty representative of the National College Athletic Association
and as KU's first University attorney.
Oldfather said he had not considered leaving Lawrence when he retired. He lives with his wife Hortense, called "Tensie" by her
"I'm fond of saying that my acting career began on the stage at Hotchkiss when I was 13. I played Josephine in "H.M.S. Pinorea," said Oldfather. Because there weren't any girls at Hotchkiss, the younger boys had to play the female roles. He had a tough voice, vowing to deep bass voice. Oldfather has a political science degree from the University of Nehaska and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
'You gotta feel the song and feel the part. In acting, you've got to become the person, not pretend to be.'
Charley Oldfather
friends, in an old stone house southwest of Lawrence. "We love our place in the country. We raised all our kids there, played the same bridge game with the same people for 25 years. I wasn't going to go out and sit on my butt someplace in sun city and get a tan," he said.
Oldfather's 1871 stone house was his first renovation project. His second was Liberty Hall, 442 Merrill Ave., and he built with David Milstein. The two have
been heading the renovation of the 74-year-old theater since May.
Performing on the stage he helped rebuild was not part of Oldfather's original plan, he said. But front and center stage was his favorite place to be.
On a shelf in Oldfather's house sit the 20 to 25 scripts he has read from in the 12 years since his retirement.
"They'll end up someday in a script library down at the local community theater, complete with all the books and underwriting of lines," he said.
Oldfather said he did not regret starting his career late in his life. "I've had a unique opportunity to play a role on the stage, in roles from classic theater." he said.
He said his favorite role was Clarence Darrow in "Inherit the Wind."
"Maybe that's my favorite because I'm a lawyer," he said. Oldfather helped the cast in a state competition last year with his portrayal of the famous lawyer.
Oldfather also was a member of the cast that won a National Civic Theater Competition for its performance of Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor." Oldfather played a writer
"That part, I think I still know," he said.
Oldfather recalled one of his scariest moments on stage. While under a full spotlight during one of his speeches in "The Good Sheep," he said he could not see the stage because of the bright light, but he had to walk forward.
"I had a feeling I was stepping into a void," he said.
Robin Miller, Baldwin resident,
has performed next to Oldfather
several times and will play Melinda
in "The Ballad of Black Jack." She
said Oldfather had taught her a lot
about acting.
"I was so timid. He's the one who took the time to show me how to act and how to project my voice. He told me if I didn't project, I wasn't going to do it."
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Oldfather will perform in a Liberty Hall dinner theater production of "The Odd Couple" in November. He also will appear on television this month in a commercial for the Missouri lottery.
Oldfather laughed and said, "I play an old farmer whose cow makes off with my lottery ticket and wins the lottery."
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