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Vol. 97, No. 30 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday October 3.1986
Senate adds to S. African ban, overrides veto
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate, rejecting President Reagan's veto and ignoring threats of retaliation from Pretoria, voted stiff economic sanctions against South Africa into law yesterday and catapulted the United States into the forefront of a global drive to end an apartheid
The Senate vote was 78-21, well over the two-thirds needed to override the veto and end a yearlong battle between the White House and Congress over U.S. policy toward South Africa's white-minority government.
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showdown on Capitol Hill, and it is the first time he has failed on a key policy issue.
Reagan, who managed to gain support from only 21 of the Senate's 53 Republicans and saw all Democrats vote against him, issued a statement expressing the hope that the sanctions, including a ban on all new U.S.
investments and further curbs on trade, do not lead to more violence and more repression.
"The United States must also move forward with positive measures to encourage peaceful change and advance the cause of democracy in South Africa," he said. "Now is the time for South Africa's government to act with courage and good sense to avert a crisis."
Sanctions supporters in the Senate, led by Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,ushed the issue in passionate tones.
"People are being killed and harmed there now," Lugar said as the Senate debate drew to a close. "We are against tyranny and tyranny is in South Africa."
The veto override was a sharp foreign policy defeat for Reagan and came just nine days before a superpower session in Iceland where he is to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Relations with South Africa have become a major domestic political concern, with civil rights leaders and anti-racism activists making the United States an apologist.
for apartheid, the official system of racial segregation.
"Today Martin Luther King's dream has been advanced," said Coretta Scott King, his widow, who watched the debate from the visitors gallery. "He said many times that apartheid in South Africa was the worst form of institutionalized racism in the world. That form of racism has been dealt a death blow today."
The European Economic Community and several African countries already have moved to impose sanctions against the Pretoria government, which said Wednesday it would halt purchases of U.S. grain if the sanctions were imposed.
The new U.S. sanctions, among the toughest worldwide, prohibit any new U.S. investment in South Africa, and add uranium, coal, textiles and agricultural products to the existing list of embargoed commodities. Effective in 90 days, they also cancel landing rights for South African Airwaves.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Doe led the Reagan loyalists, arguing the
Senate's action draws local praise
Staff writer
See OVERRIDE, p. 5, col. 1
By KAREN SAMELSON
The Senate's strong vote yesterday to override President Reagan's veto of sanctions against South Africa was a sign of encouragement for many local opponents of apartheid.
"The decision is a necessary step and therefore I welcome it." Arthur Drayton, chairman of the depart- ment of African studies, said last night.
The Senate's 78-21 vote to override the veto did not come as a surprise to many who had been following Congressional action, and most were pleased that Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., voted to support the sanctions.
Charles Munson, Leawood junior and president of the KU Committee on South Africa, said he was optimistic that the override would interest a few more students in trying to get the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest funds from U.S. companies that do business in South Africa.
However, not everyone was pleased with the move. Brian Kresin, Topeka sophomore and publicity chairman for the College Republicans, said, "I'm distressed that the public didn't see Reagan's wisdom.
"Sanctions are definitely going to be ineffective."
Jarek Piekalkiewicz, professor of
political science, said that although sanctions might not have much economic impact, the moral effect would be significant.
Piekalkiewicz said the economic effect would be minor because South Africa was relatively rich and produced most of its own food.
South Africa suddenly will realize that the most powerful nation in the world will do more than talk, he said.
However, the moral effect will be tremendous, he said, because it will strengthen the opposition internally and internationally.
Drayton agreed that the move would warn South Africa that other nations might follow the United States' example.
The move to impose sanctions against South Africa will create problems for U.S. foreign policy, he said, but the United States has the capacity to transduce such problems.
However, Drayton said the United States and other countries had to be prepared to make certain sacrifices if they really believed in their principles.
The South African foreign minister yesterday warned that his government would boycott American grain as it went ahead with the sanctions.
Kresin said sanctions would hurt people in both countries, including people who shouldn't't be hurt, such as Kansas farmers.
Dole switches vote agrees with Reagan
Bv ANNE GOWEN
Before yesterday's vote, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole had predicted that the Senate would override President Reagan's act of economic sanctions against South Africa.
The Senate voted 78-21 to override the veto and end a yearlong battle between the White House and Congress, moving toward the South American government.
Monday night, the House of Representatives defeated Reagan's veto on the sanctions with a 313-83
vote.
The House and Senate overrides marked only the sixth time the president failed to win a veto showdown, and the first on an important policy issue.
Dole said in a telephone interview Wednesday that because he expected the Senate to override the veto, he would change his vote to support the president.
In the past, Dole has urged Reagan to toughen his stance against apartheid.
Couple was close to reactor disaster
By PAUL BELDEN
Lucinda Rarick, the daughter of a farmer, loves gardens.
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In stay. She found out differently.
Lucinda was with her husband
Ronald, both Lawrence graduate
students, in Erlangen, West G
ermany. She was studying that country's decorative gardens when a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Soviet Union, blew up. Radioactive rain suddenly made outdoor gardens good places to stay out of.
She said. "It was very hard for me, after Chernobyl, when I went out to stomp around in these gardens to study their design aspect, to look at them and say, 'They're different now. I can't see it, but they've been contaminated and I'm walking in it and I'm touching it.'
She studies them. She tends them.
Other than an occasional rash, she never thought they could harm her.
Lucinda returned to Lawrence from Erlangen two months after the accident. Ronald, forced home early by an illness in his family, came home about three weeks after the accident.
Robert Bearse, professor of nuclear physics, said that after the accident, the largest dose of radiation in any part of West Germany was two rems. A normal dose of background radiation for one person for an entire year is two-tenths of a rem
They probably will not be harmed by their exposure to the radiation, but they don't know.
At the time, Lucinda was not amused. She said the contaminated food
See CHERNOBYL, p. 5, col. 2
If a million people are exposed to two rms of radiation, about 250 of those people will get cancer in their lifetime. Bearse said.
Ronald said he was surprised and aggravated at the lack of objective information available after the disaster.
"One group would say, 'The radiation level is 300 times normal,' " he said. "Then another group would say, 'Yes, but it takes a thousand times normal to be dangerous.'
"There were very conservative groups in Regensburg, which had some of the highest radiation recorded in Germany, who had their kids go out and roll in the grass as a demonstration that it wasn't harmful."
Nevertheless, the city of Nuremberg, West Germany, decided not to take chances. Ronald said that upon demand of the people, the city replaced all the sand in public sand-boxes. The Raricks also did not take chances.
"We had a shopping trip that was so bizarre that I thought it was actually kind of funny," Ronald said. "We had canned corn from Canada, tuna from Thailand, apples from Chile, French cookies, French mineral water, French cheese."
"You know, usually you go to stores looking at the price. We were there looking for what country it came from."
Learn to say 'no'
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First lady Nancy Reagan shares a laugh with King Jr, Junior High School in Kansas City, Mo. The first lady participated Lashawn Ladd, left, and Verna Sheepheart, eight graders at Martin Luther in a role-playing session with the students yesterday. See story, page 3.
Committee says 'no' to veteran concert
By SALLY STREFF
A student organization trying to sponsor a Vietnam veterans benefit concert at the University of Kansas will not get the money it requested from Student Senate.
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night killed a bill asking the Senate to make a $45,301 no-interest loan to the Youth for Vietnam Vets to sponsor the concert.
Staff writer
Both the Finance Committee and the Student Senate University Affairs Committee had to pass the bill to allow the full Senate to consider it.
"I'm shocked," Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student and the organization's treasurer, said after the meeting.
"I think it's unfair to the students on this campus that non-elected individuals on this committee have denied them the opportunity to be exposed to George Thorogood and to the other two bands and to the Vietnam issue." Krueger said.
Members of the committee voted 9-9 on the bill, which would have transferred $45,301 from the Student Senate unallocated account to the Senate's own internal account. The Senate rules say that money given to an organization not previously financed by the Senate must pass the Finance Committee by a two-thirds vote.
Youth for Vietnam Vets wanted to sponsor the concert, which would have featured George Thorogood and the Destroyers and two other bands, on Nov. 11 at Allen Field House.
Proceeds from the concert would have gone to the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national organization, to aid the children of Vietnam veterans who were killed in action or disabled, and the children of POWs and MIA.
Committee members repeatedly asked Krueger to name the two other bands that he said had promised to play at the concert. Krueger refused, saying the concert's promoter, Barry Fey of Denver, Colo., didn't want the names released before contracts were signed.
Krueger promised to release the names of the two bands at the Senate meeting Wednesday night if the Senate considered the bill.
About 20 minutes before the committee voted, Krueger said he would tell individual members of the committee the name of one of the bands if they came to him individually.
Krueger told the committee the organization had asked the Senate for help because they had to pay costs incurred before the concert. The bands had promised to play for free but wanted expenses paid, he said.
He also told the committee that the concert would benefit not only the children of Vietnam veterans but the University and its students.
"We're trying to show young people can give something back," he said. "We're trying to show we're not the me generation."
Local man convicted; lawver plans appeal
By RIC ANDERSON
TOPEKA — One of the 21 people indicted in Lawrence in July on cocaine-related charges was convicted yesterday in U.S. District Court in Topeka.
When the verdict was announced, both Clark and his attorney, David Gilman of Overland Park, reacted to the decision with disbelief.
Christopher Clark, 24. 2516 Morningside Court, was convicted on one count of distribution of cocaine in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers. Clark, whose trial began Monday, is scheduled to appear Nov. 14 in Topeka for sentencing.
Clark was the first of the original 21 people to be convicted by a jury. Richard von Ende, former University executive secretary, and Michael Kiefer and Robert Parker, both Lawrence residents, pleaded guilty to cocaine-related charges in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan
Gilman said he was surprised about the decision and would appeal.
The maximum sentence for distribution of cocaine is 15 years in prison and a $125,000 fine.
The jury, composed of nine women and three men, returned the verdict at 10:40 a.m. after two hours and 45 minutes of deliberation.
See CLARK, p. 5, col. 2