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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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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.
ranted his removal. Article IV contended his conduct betraveled 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."
Article the judge
A conviction on any article would have been sufficient to oust Claiborne from his job.
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
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?"
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.
Former Sen. Howard Cannon, D-Nev. a
hear one solitary witness before the full Senate."
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' 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.
Cannon said the Senate's judgment was based largely on "hearsay" and unfavorable newspaper articles, but "it was not really based on the facts."
Oscar Goodman, Claiborne's attorney, said the Constitution was "bruselled if not broken" by the conviction and vowed to continue the legal
Claiborne said federal agents and prosecutors he had criticized as "a bunch of crooks" were responsible for his court conviction.
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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.
maximum st. 10,000 fine
prison and a $10,000 fine.
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.
Ruggles, who entered the guilty plea as part of a plea bargain, originally was charged with two counts of selling cocaine and one
President in Iceland for talks
United Press International
focus on combating terrorism, especially in the Middle East, McGovenn said. But, McGovenn said, Reagan uses force in response to terrorism instead of studying the Middle East conflict.
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.
tional security issues such as arms control.
"Terrorism is a long way from being the central threat to security that it has been built up to be," he said.
McGovern also criticized what he called the Reagan administration's confrontational, interventionist approach to Third World nations and
ew from Washington, adon
officials emphasized
desire to use the meeting
achiev to set a full-scale
the end of the year and
to month deadlock in arms
again against raised expecta-
tion flew to Iceland in a bid
differences through peri-
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al said the meeting could handshake on an agreeee" on the broad outlines to reduce medium-range sails, with details left to in Geneva.
summit summit, description as essentially a privateween the two, was hastily during the last nine days in a Sept. 19 invitationthew
said he and Gorbachev large staffs with them expect to sign substantive Rather, he said, the obbe be to review the full S.-Soviet relations and high issues directly and an eye on redoubled vards to set a date for a permit later this year.
not pretend that dif- tinct, there seek, to dash off a agreements and then leses about the spirit of Reagan said. "In fact, iious problems with the ons on a great many access is not guaranteed." Gorbache comes to truly cooperative spirit, I make some progress." to the formidable test s talks with Gorbache, for iceeland dogged by bles at home, which he
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it Soviet offers on arms lead continues to build lockpile of strategic
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b refusal to join a ban
which was proposed
U. S. condemnation of apartheid, but said he wasn't sure the sanctions would affect the South African government's policies.
that kind of initiative
ess' recent stance for ce as the first forceful
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 anartheid.
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