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Monday, October 20. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
City still trying for summit
By JOHN BENNER Staff writer
Just as Lawrence led the nation toward the prohibition of slavery in 1863, so, too, should it lead the world toward the prohibition of nuclear arms, say organizers of a proposed U.S.-Soviet summit in Lawrence.
The group, headed by Lawrence resident Bob Swan, has been seeking a "Meeting for Peace" in Lawrence for more than three years.
swan said a Lawrence summit meeting would allow President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to keep their pledge to meet in the United States in 1986.
The group held a press conference Friday to present the "Lawrence Compromise" — what they called a set of suggestions both leaders to break the arms reduction stalemate.
Mayor Sandra Praeger and Commissioner David Longhurst
also spoke at the conference in support of a Lawrence summit.
support of
Praeger said she supported a summit held "without the trappings of power."
"We're just ordinary people." Praeager said. "We have cares and hopes just like our counterparts in the Soviet Union."
the sovereign church.
Longhurd detailed the $3^{1/2}$ year attempt by the group to bring the two leaders together in Lawrence.
Messages were sent to Reagan and Gorbachev, he said, including a telegram sent to them in Reykavik on Oct. 10.
Longhurst said that on two occasions a letter detailing a "Meeting for Peace" had been sent to every member of Congress.
Also, last month a group of KU students gave 12,000 postcards to Deputy Ambassador Olek Sogel of the Soviet Union and to Tyrus Cobb of the United States National Security Council.
Security Council Swan said the group's plan asked that Reagan and Gorbachev sign a proposed accord on mid-range nuclear missiles and that the two nations begin joint research on Star Wars technology.
Swan said Gorbachev should honor the pledge he made in February to sign the missile accord, which would allow neither the United States nor the Soviet Union to have intermediate-range missiles in Europe.
Swan said that by working together on the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, the two nations can enjoy missile reduction, lower research and development costs and a beneficial spread of technology.
The accord also would call for a limit of 100 such missiles in the Soviet Union and in the United States.
Longhurst said a summit meeting between the two leaders in the United States before the end of the year would be essential.
Docking leads in poll results
From Kansan wires
TOPEKA — Results of a new poll indicate that Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, the Democratic candidate, has pulled slightly ahead of Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden, Republican, in the race for governor.
The Kansas City Times-CBS Kan
ass affiliates poll, released Thurs
POLITICAL PULSE
day has a margin of error of four percentage points.
percentage results show Docking with 43.2 percent of the vote, Hayden with 37.5 percent and 19.3 percent undecided. The poll is the first scientific one to show Docking ahead.
tried one to show
Of those respondents who said they
were likely to vote — 340 out of 520
- 42.4 percent chose Docking, 41.2 percent chose Hayden and 16.5 percent said they were undecided.
said they were. About 28 percent of respondents who selected Hayden or Docking told pollsters that they might change their minds before the Nov. 4 election.
Mail misuse is alleged
State Sen. Ben Vidricken, R-Salina, on Friday accused State Treasurer Joan Finney of misusing state postage and personnel to mail hundreds of news releases and
posters to bolster her re-election campaign.
An official with the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission backed up Vidricksen's claim after reviewing the materials.
the mayor. Carol Williams, a commission administrative assistant, cited a state law that said all mailings by state officers seeking re-election are presumed to be campaign-related if they occur more than 45 days after the Legislature's final adjournment and if the material is designed to communicate with constituents.
All campaign-related material must be produced and mailed at the candidate's expense. Williams said
Vidrickens said a number of private citizens had received copies of "news releases" from Finney's office last week. He said that during the same period, hundreds of small businesses have reported receiving posters featuring a large picture of Finney, a Democrat, promoting refunds from the state's unclaimed property fund.
Finney defended the mailings as part of an effort to remind the public that the state has $8 million in unclaimed funds on hand and that many people can qualify to receive money they didn't know was theirs by calling the treasurer's office.
She said 1,600 posters had been mailed to small businesses across Kansas.
Donations from political action committees made up nearly two-thirds of the campaign receipts for U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, Kansas 2nd District Democrat, during the past two years, Citizens Against PACs reported last week.
PACs support Slattery
Rep. The other Kansas representatives in the U.S. House also received significant amounts of money from PACs, including Rep. Jan Meyers, the 3rd District Republican, who got more than half her contributions from PACs.
from PACs.
Based on the information from the Federal Election Commission as of Sept. 30, Slattery received 64.6 percent of his campaign funds from PACs.
Slattery's opponent, Republican Phill Kline, got 56 percent of his funds from PACs.
Secretary likes Mike
U. S. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said Friday that Hayden's legislative experience made him the best choice in the gubernatorial race.
"I have a friend who has been an active politician in this state for a long time," she said. "I'm an adopted Kansan. Very definitely Kansas is on our minds a lot of the time, and I do feel very familiar with what is happening in the state."
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