Stumping on stilts
Members of two coalitions vying for freshman class officer positions used some unorthodox methods to try to capture potential voters' attention yesterday.
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Caps for kids
A downtown merchant has started a drive to collect stocking caps and warm hats to distribute to needy children in Lawrence this fall.
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The livin' is breezy
Cloudy skies will bring a 70 percent chance of rain today and a high temperature of about 60 degrees. But warm breezes should blow from the south at 10 to 15 mph.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 43 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Wednesday
October 22,1986
Von Ende may get sentence of 3 years
By ALISON YOUNG Staff writer
The U.S. Attorney's office will recommend a three-year prison sentence for Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, U.S. Attorney Ben Burgess said yesterday.
Von Ende, who pleaded guilty to two cocaine-related charges Sept. 22, is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 10 in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.
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Mark L. Bennett Jr. of Topeka, von Ende's attorney, said he had no comment on Burress' statement.
"I'll make a statement to the court." Bennett said.
The maximum sentence for the two charges that von Ender pleaded guilty to is 30 years in prison and $250,000 in fines, according to Burgess.
Burgess said he couldn't comment on why his office recommended only a three-year sentence.
"There are aspects of the case I'm not at liberty to discuss."
Both Burgess and Bennett declined to comment on whether von Ende was assisting in the drug investigations.
Von Ende was one of 21 persons indicted in July on cocaine-related charges. He originally was charged with three counts of distributing cocaine and three counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Charges against von Ende were reduced in exchange for a guilty plea.
When von Ende pleaded guilty and the charges were reduced on Sept. 22, Burgess told the Kansan this had been done to increase the chances that von Ende would be given a stiffer sentence on the remaining charges.
The maximum sentence probably would not have been given in the case. Burgess said..
cause, Barges said. In Kansas, drug cases usually receive a sentence of between two and six years in prison, he said.
Von Ende pleaded guilty to two drug charges. The first was to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, one of the original charges made in July.
The second was to an additional charge of distributing cocaine to Bradley Smoot, a lawrence attorney and von Ende's former attorney in a separate civil suit. This charge was not part of the original July indictments.
Final touches
John Stanley, owner of Baldwin City Woodworks, puts trim around the stained glass windows of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. He worked on the windows yesterday.
More companies end involvement in South Africa
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. companies, squeezed by a lagging economy in South Africa and pressured by anti-apartheid activists at home, are leaving the white-rulded country at a brisk pace, analysts say.
International Business Machines Corp. and General Motors Corp., two industrial giants, are the most recent
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companies to announce plans to sell operations in South Africa.
IBM announced plans yesterday to sell its South African subsidiary, GM said Monday that it would sell its South African operations to local management.
Their decisions increase to 29 the number of U.S. companies that have left or voiced plans to do so in 1986, according to Investor Responsibility Research Center, a Washington-based group that tracks U.S. business activity in South Africa.
The Coca-Cola Co., Procter & Gamble Co. and the Marriott Corp. are among the others who are pulling up stakes.
Thirty-nine U.S. companies left in 1985, compared with seven in 1984. U.S. companies in South Africa number 244, with investments totaling $1.3 billion, down from $2.6 billion in 1981.
IBM said the worsening economic and political climate in the racially divided nation prompted its decision to sell its interests.
"We consistently have said that IBM would remain in South Africa as long as we could maintain an economically sound business and contribute to peaceful change." Chairman John Akkers said in a statement issued from IBM's headquarters in Armonk, N.Y.
IBM South Africa employs fewer than 1,500 people, 23 percent of them non-white, said Richard Coyle, and IBM spokesman. He said the subsidiary accounted for less than $250 million of the parent company's $50 billion in worldwide revenue last year.
Disinvestment has long been a goal of U.S. opponents of South Africa's apartheid system of strict racial separation. They argue that withdrawing U.S. capital sends a strong message to Pretoria's white government.
This remains a major victory for the anti-apartheid movement," said Randall Robinson of the lobbying group TransAfrica.
Disinvestment, however, is not a requirement of the sanctions legislation passed by Congress earlier this month. The law, which was enacted over President Reagan's veto, prohibits any new U.S. investment in South Africa, among other things.
group Transition The announcements by GM and IBM especially were significant because those corporations are large and internationally known, Robinson said.
Marcy Murningham, president of the social investment division of Mitchell Investment Management in Cambridge, Mass., said the disinvestment moves reflect a growing consensus on how to deal with South Africa.
The unanswered question is whether disinvestment will have any effect on the white South African government or whether it will become more compromising.
The Reagan administration, meanwhile, continues to oppose disinvestment because it fears possible harmful effects on black workers, said State Department spokesman Charles Redman.
Four KU students arrested at Aggieville riot
Staff writer
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
San Wader
Four KU students and one former KU student were arrested Saturday night with 23 others in Manhattan after the KU-K State football game, according to the Riley County Police Department.
Sgt. Scott Campbell, supervisor of records and communications with the Riley County police, said the charges ranged from driving under the influence, criminal damage to property and aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer.
The 30 people were arrested Saturday night after post-game crowds converged on Agnieveville, an area of bars and shops adjacent to the Kansas State University campus.
The riot resulted in $20,000 to $30,000 in damages. An estimated 6,000 to 7,000 people were in the Aggieville area after the game.
Most of the damage was done by party-goers, who threw full bottles and cans of beer through breezeways.
Geoffrey Garren, Prairie Village, who was enrolled at KU last year, was charged with aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer.
Campbell said
Garren was taken to the Riley County jail and was released on $1,000 bond. Campbell said, Garron is scheduled to appear Friday in Riley County District Court for arraignment.
Michael Mainey, Topeka junior, was charged with criminal damage to property in connection with a damaged window at Kites Bar and Grille in Aigieville. The police report listed the damage at $30. Mainey is to appear for arraignment Oct. 29 in Manhattan Municipal Court.
Jason Smelser, a KU freshman whose hometown was unknown, was charged with
telony criminal damage to property in connection with a broken window at Westron Wynde Music Shop in Aggieville.
He also was released on $1,000 bond, Campbell said. Smelser will be arraigned Oct. 29 in Riley County District Court.
Duane Qualls, a freshman whose hometown was unknown, was charged with misdemeanor theft from the Optical Studio in Aggieville Qualls was released on $500 bond.
Edward Bass, Wichita freshman, was charg ed with felony theft from the Optical Studio
International benefactors help nations in debt Countries fight Bank gives aid national debt in world effort
By ATLE BJORGE
Staff writer
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Enrique Moreno's parents have to work a few extra hours each day to keep up with rising prices in their country.
Moreno, a Guadalajara, Mexico, junior, said his family was feeling the effects of rising debts that mark many poor Third World countries.
The debt crisis mars most of South America, Africa and a few Asian countries. Brazil owes the largest amount, about $106 billion, and Mexico and Argentina are close runners-up.
Many countries have such a big national debt that installments on their loans swallow up most of what they earn through exports to other countries.
"They are able to make a living because they are part of the upper-middle class," he said, "but they get really sad and depressed to see that most people aren't able to keep up."
earn through exports to be a businessman. Andrew Feltenstein, professor of economics and former senior economist for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, recently told a story that he said was an indication of the problems facing some economies.
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About three weeks ago, an allying South American country sent a delegation to the 151-nation annual meeting of the World Bank and the IMF in Washington to negotiate badly needed loans.
"When they got there they stayed at the Hotel Pierre.
"When they got there they stayed at the hotel Pierre."
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Andrew Feltenstein, KU professor of economics, lectures to a graduate level class in Bailey Hall. Feltenstein is a former senior economist and researcher for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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By ATLE BJORGE
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have sent Andrew Feltenstein, professor of economics and one of its former senior economists, around the world, but this semester he chose to settle in Lawrence.
Feltstein traveled and did research for IMF from 1977 to 1885 and for the World Bank as a senior economist from 1885 to 1886.
When these two large sources of loans to poor countries met with representatives of 151 nations in Washington, D.C., three weeks ago, Feltenstein read about it in the newspaper.
newspaper.
Forty-one countries founded the sister institutions at a major conference in 1944. They are on opposite sides of a street in Washington. The countries have different voting shares, depending on how much they contribute
The World Bank mostly gives loans to countries for specific projects, such as bridges or textile plants. The bank's objective is to improve the standard of living in poor countries.
The World Bank loans out $12 billion a year
The World Bank lofts out $12 billion of funding Feltenstein said he thought people sometimes expected miracles from these institutions, especially from the IMF
Sweder van Wynbergen, a senior economist for the World Bank who visited Lawrence recently, said the World Bank had a staff of about 6,000 and a U.S. Senate-
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