Quixote for kids
The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People will present "Don Quixote of La Mancha" next week as part of the Kansas Conference on Theatre for Young Audiences.
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Workmen are completing a two-year renovation of both Watkins and Miller Scholarship Halls. Watkins residents prepare for a reunion this weekend celebrating the 60th anniversary of the hall.
Over hall
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Cool it
Skies will be mostly cloudy today with a slight chance of showers. The high temperature will be in the low 60s. Tonight and tomorrow will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of more showers.
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Vol. 97, No. 35 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday October 10,1986
Senate removes Claiborne from office
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors," making him the fifth federal official in history to be removed from office through impeachment.
The chief U.S. district judge for Nevada was found guilty on three of four impeachment articles by a two-thirds majority. He was acquitted on a fourth article, although a majority of senators voted "guilty."
The votes were: Article I, 87-10; Article II,
90.7; Article III, 46-17; and Article IV, 89.8.
Claiborne, 69, was found guilty on Articles I and II, accusing him of the same willful tax violations that caused a federal court jury to find him guilty in 1984.
Article III, of which he was acquitted, said the judge's criminal conviction alone warranted his removal. Article IV contended his conduct betrayed the judiciary and the nation.
Sen. Alan Dixon, D-III, said many senators voted on the third article because they thought a "guilty" vote would establish the precedent that a criminal conviction "was equivalent to being guilty on impeachment."
Each senator stood in on the historic proceeding to cast his vote of "guilty" or "not guilty." Claiborne sat at a table in the Senate well.
A conviction on any article would have been sufficient to oust Claiborne from his job.
Most senators were somber as they responded to President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond's question, "How say you? Is the respondent Harry E. Claiborne guilty or not guilty?"
Former Sen. Howard Cannon, D-Nev., a member of the judge's defense team, said after the vote, "I feel the Senate did not give Judge Claiborne the trial he was entitled to. It did not
Oscar Goodman, Claiborne's attorney, said the Constitution was "brushed if not broken" by the conviction and vowed to continue the legal battle, saying, "I don't know how to quit, and I don't know what to do."
Cannon said the Senate's judgment was based largely on "hearsay" and unfavorable newspaper articles, but "it was not really based on the facts."
Cannon referred to the Senate's decision to have a 12-member impeachment committee hear all evidence. The defense went to three courts in an attempt to postpone the vote until witnesses could be summoned, but the effort ended when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Thurgood Marshall denied the motion without comment.
that he not be identified, said the Senate leadership did not introduce a resolution to bar Claiborne from holding federal office in the future because, "Their feeling was 'enough' is enough." Such a resolution, introduced at past impeachment trials, would have required only a majority vote.
Three district judges and an appellate judge have been the only officials in the past to face the ignominy of a Senate conviction. Of all 13 officials who faced impeachment proceedings, only Claiborne entered the Senate chamber as a convicted felon.
hear one solitary witness before the full Senate."
Claiborne said federal agents and prosecutors he had criticized as "a bunch of crooks" were responsible for his court conviction.
A Senate aide, speaking only on condition.
He acknowledged that more than $106,000 in income was not reported on his 1979 and 1980 tax returns.
Jozef Garlinski, a Polish author, speaks to a crowd of about 50 people on the origin of the Cold War. Garlinski was born in Poland, fought in the Polish underground against the Germans during World War II and was held prisoner for two years in Auschwitz. He spoke yesterday in the Kansas Union.
Writer expresses hope for summit
By NANCY BARRE
President Reagan is going to the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, this weekend not only for the United States, but also for the rest of the free world, a Polish writer said yesterday.
Jozef Garlinski, author of five books about World War II and the Cold War, spoke to a group of about 60 people in the Kansas Union on the origins of the current conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Garlnski, 74, served in the Polish Home Army, a resistance group, during World War II but was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. He was imprisoned in Auschwitz, the infamous German concentration camp, for the remainder of the war.
Since 1945, he has lived in England, where he received his doctorate in history from the London School of Economics.
Before the speech, Garlinski gave his assessment of this weekend's meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mkail Mkail Gorbachev.
He said he thought the differences between the Soviet Union and the United States were too great for the countries ever to achieve true unity, but a summit could be a step in achieving a secondary goal — peaceful coexistence.
"A summit is always important because we have to avoid military conflict," Garlinski said. "Peace is essential and peaceful coexistence is the aim.
"Reagan has been a good president because he understands that you can only talk to the Russians when you are powerful."
He said that neither superpower
wanted a tull-scale war but added that the Soviets only would be kept in check for as long as the United States remained powerful.
"You cannot talk to Russians when you are completely helpless," he said. "When you disarm, they don't respect you — the Russians will do whatever they want."
'This is a geat country with very nice people.'
Jozef Garlinski Polish author
He said he thought all European nations realized that the United States was the only nation powerful enough to protect them from the Soviet Union.
"This is a great country with very nice people," he said. "But Americans must realize that the freedom of the world is in their hands. Get involved — that is my message."
He said Gorbachev had shown signs of making small advancements in human rights and freedom of the press in the Soviet Union.
"Gorbachev is young and it looks like he might make some changes for the better," he said. "Already the Soviet press is more open, and it looks like the standard of living might possibly improve. But it is too early to tell."
He said Reykjavik was a good place to have a summit because Iceland was neutral.
"Security will be easy there because Icelanders are peaceful people," he said.
President in Iceland for talks
United Press International
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — President Reagan, promising frank talk and no guarantees of success, arrived yesterday to pursue a thaw in superpower relations and reductions in nuclear arms at a weekend summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Cautioning against raised expectations, Reagan flew to Iceland in a bid to bridge differences through personal, one-on-one diplomacy.
As he flew from Washington, administration officials emphasized Reagan's desire to use the meeting with Gorbachev to set a full-scale summit by the end of the year and to break a 19-month deadlock in arms control.
One official said the meeting could produce "a handshake on an agreement to agree" on the broad outlines of a plan to reduce medium-range nuclear missiles, with details left to negotiators in Geneva.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes described Reagan as well prepared and confident of his position for his six hours of weekend talks with Gorbachev.
"We go to Reykjavik for peace," Reagan said as he left the White House. "Today, we are making history," he said. "We are turning the tide of history to peace and freedom and hope."
The pre-summit summit, described by Reagan as essentially a private meeting between the two, was hastily arranged during the last nine days after accepting a Sept. 19 invitation from Gorbachev.
Reagan said he and Gorbachev would not have large staffs with them and did not expect to sign substantive agreements. Rather, he said, the objective would be to review the full scope of U.S.-Soviet relations and face the tough issues directly and honestly with an eye on redoubled efforts afterwards to set a date for a full-scale summit later this year.
"We cannot pretend that differences aren't there, seek to dash off a few quick agreements and then give speeches about the spirit of Reykjavik," Reagan said. "In fact, we have serious problems with the Soviet positions on a great many issues and success is not guaranteed. But if Mr. Gorbache comes to Iceland in a truly cooperative spirit, I think we can make some progress."
In addition to the formidable test he faced in his talks with Gorbachev, Reagan left for Iceland dogged by political troubles at home, which he
See REAGAN, p. 5. col. 1
Man pleads guilty in state drug case
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
A Lawrence man pleaded guilty yesterday in Douglas County District Court to one count of selling cocaine and one count of conspiracy to possess cocaine.
The minimum sentence for selling cocaine is three years in prison and up to a $15,000 fine. The maximum sentence is 20 years in prison and a $15,000 fine. The minimum sentence for conspiracy to possess cocaine is one year in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. The maximum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Ruggles appeared yesterday in the courtroom of Mike Malone, Douglas County district judge, who set Nov. 10 as the sentencing date.
Samuel F. Ruggles, 28, was indicted along with 17 others on cocaine-related charges in July in state court. His trial is the first of the 18 to be resolved.
ruggles, who entered the guilty plea as part of a plea bargain, originally was charged with two counts of selling cocaine and one
count of possession of cocaine.
Each of these charges carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $15,000 fine
Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, Michael Kiefer and Robert Parker, both of Lawrence, pleaded guilty to cocaine-related charges in September in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said the state agreed to the bargain partly because the sentences for each charge could be added together.
Rob Larson, an agent of the U.S.
Drug Task Force, said Rugles
also pleaded guilty Sept. 5 in U.S.
District Court in Kansas City, Mo.
to one count of distribution.
In addition to the 18 people indicted in state court, the investigation also produced four federal indictments.
Christopher Clark, 24, was charged in both state and federal court. Clark was found guilty of a cocaine-related charge Oct. 2 in U.S. District Court in Topeka.
McGovern criticizes foreign policy
By SALLY STREFF
President Reagan has ignored the tough foreign policy problems facing the United States in favor of a tough, "standing tall," rhetoric, George McGovern, a former U.S. senator from South Dakota, said yesterday.
Staff writer
McGovern spoke to more than 600 people who packed Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Many spectators lined the sides and back of the auditorium to hear McGovern's speech, which was part of the Pearson Lecture Series
"I would plead for a new definition of national security," McGovern said.
He said the United States would be more secure if its leaders focused on solving foreign policy problems rather than scoring victories against easy targets, such as Moammar Gadhaf or Grenada.
McGovern said he was a frequent critic of U.S. foreign policies, even those of Democratic administrations. But he said Reagan's policies on terrorism, intervention in Third World nations and arms-control negotiations had aggravated foreign policy problems.
McGovern, a U.S. senator from South Dakota from 1962 to 1980, was the Democratic candidate for president in 1972. He lost to Republican Richard Nixon in a landslide.
Reagan pledged early in his administration to focus on combating terrorism, especially in the Middle East, McGovern said. But, McGovern said, Reagan uses force in response to terrorism instead of studying the Middle East conflict.
George McGovern
Terrorism stems from the anger, hopelessness and fanaticism caused by the conflict in the Middle East and will stop only if that conflict is resolved.
McGovenn also criticized what he called the Reagan administration's confrontational, interventionist approach to Third World nations and
"Terrorism is a long way from being the central threat to security that it has been built up to be," he said.
he said.
McGovern said Reagan's fixation with terrorism had come at the expense of more important national security issues such as arms control.
The Reagan administration mistakenly thinks all of Central America's problems stem from agression by the Soviet Union or Cuba, McGovern said.
"If we don't have men and women who understand the history of U.S. relations with Nicaragua
its refusal to accept regional solutions.
... we'll have no more luck than we did in Viet nam," he said.
"The biggest enemy in Central America is not communism, it's poverty and misrule," he said.
McGovern reserved some of his severest criticism for the Reagan administration's attitude toward arms control agreements with the Soviet Union.
Reagan has ignored recent Soviet offers on arms control agreements and instead continues to build up the United States' stockpile of strategic weapons.
McGovern said he was especially bothered by the Reagan administration's refusal to join a ban on testing nuclear weapons, which was proposed by the Soviets.
"Why do we let them steal that kind of initiative in leadership?" he asked.
McGovern praised Congress' recent stance for sanctions against South Africa as the first forceful U.S. condemnation of apartheid, but said he wasn't sure the sanctions would affect the South African government's policies.
At a news conference before his speech, McGovern said he was impressed with the way today's students at universities, who were often called conservative, were protesting apartheid.