Coffee break
The Glass Onion, a coffee house now under construction above the Yello Sub, will offer coffee, pastries and music beginning Sept. 17.
Story, page 3
Lights out
Officials say a squirrel probably was responsible for the four-minute power outage that left much of campus in the dark yesterday.
Story, page 3
Breezy does it
today's warm and windy weather will turn cool tonight. Tomorrow will bring clouds and a chance of thunderstorms.
Details, page 3
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 12 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday September 9,1986
Japan agrees to be partner in Star Wars
United Press International
TOKYO — Japan, the only country ever to suffer an atomic attack, announced a long-awaited decision today to take part in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, and said it was aimed at the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
The announcement was made by Chief Cabinet Secretary Masaharu Gotoda immediately after the decision was made at a morning Cabinet meeting.
Japan's entry into SDI came more than 18 months after the United States formally invited Japan's participation. Japan was the last U.S. ally to issue a decision.
Gotoda said the Japanese government would enter into formal talks with the United States to set up a framework for a Japanese role in research on the space-based missile shield project, popularly known as Star Wars.
Any formal agreement, however, is expected to face stiff opposition in the Diet, or parliament.
Japan's participation already has provoked resistance from pacifist and anti-nuclear elements. They say participation in the project violates the country's formal ban on arms exports and nuclear weapons research,
and a 1969 resolution by the Diet that space would only be used for peaceful purposes.
"The U.S. government consistently stressed that SDI will be carried out in parallel to disarmment negotiations with a view to attaining the total abolition of nuclear weapons." Gotoda said. "This basic concept conforms to Japan's position to build itself as a peaceful nation."
The government also has been concerned about warnings from the neighboring Soviet Union at a time when Tokyo is trying to improve relations with Moscow. The Kremlin has said it would consider the decision to join SDI as anti.Soviet.
But Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and other officials argued that Japan was virtually committed to taking part because of its joint security agreement with the United States, which has been asking Japan to contribute more to defense.
Gotoda said Japan was convinced that SDI was not designed to achieve U.S. supremacy over the Soviet Union.
"Technological development achieved in the search for a nonnuclear defense system will help strengthen the deterrence of the en-
See JAPAN, p. 5, col. 2
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Going my way?
mournah butterflies rest on a leaf near the chancellor's residence. They rest at KU on their way to Mexico. See story, page 3
Judge sets von Ende trial date
Staff writer
Bv ALISON YOUNG
Von Ende, 43, was arrested in July and charged with three counts of distributing cocaine and three counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Agents to seize von Ende's car
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge yesterday set Oct. 1 as the trial date in the first of two cocaine-related cases involving Richard von Ende, University executive secretary.
The trial date was set after U.S. District Judge Earl E. O'Connor denied several motions made by von Ende's attorney, including two motions requesting that von Ende be tried separately from co-defendants Robert L. Parker and Michael Kiefer.
Mark L. Bennett, von Ende's attorney, made an additional motion to withdraw as his attorney of record. Bennett, von Ende and O'Connor discussed this motion in chambers, and O'Connor deferred ruling on the motion.
By a Kansan reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents are scheduled to seize Richard von Ende's car today, a DEA agent said yesterday.
George Clemente, the agent, said von Ende's car would be seized because it allegedly had been used to transport and facilitate the use of controlled substances.
Von Ende, University executive secretary, has been charged in federal court with three counts of distributing cocaine and three counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Bennett declined comment on either the motion for withdrawal or yesterday's hearing.
Insurance records indicate that von Ende owns a 1984 Corvette.
DEA agents approached von Ende after yesterday's hearing and informed him of the action. The agents told von Ende to remove any belongings from the car.
Clemente said the car would be released to von Ende's bank, which still holds the car's title.
Von Ende and 20 others were arrested in July on cocaine-related charges.
Von Ende, who has been on sick
Von Ende appeared in U.S. District Court for pre-trial motions and to receive a trial date.
leave from the University with a contagious kidney infection since June, was present at westend hospital.
He appeared weary as he left the
courtroom and comment softly when he declined comment on the hearing.
von Ende has been free on a $10,000 bond that requires him to maintain employment, remain within 100 miles of Lawrence and report regularly to federal probation officials.
Oct. 1 will be the beginning of the first trial, involving von Ende and Parker, 31, a Lawrence resident. The case will be tried in federal court in Toeka.
The indictment charges von Ende and Parker jointly with two counts of distributing cocaine and two counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. It also charges Parker separately with two counts of distributing cocaine.
The case will be followed immediately by a second case, involving von Ende and Kiefer, 24, a Lawrence resident.
Von Ende and Kiefer are charged jointly with one count of distributing
See VON ENDE, p. 5, col. 2
Triathlete's condition is 'critical, grave'
By RIC ANDERSON
Paul Childs, the 21-year-old KU senior who collided with a truck during the biking portion of the Baptist Medical Center Triathlon on Sunday, still was in critical condition last night at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Staff writer
Childs received severe head and back injuries in the accident.
Charles Pointer, hospital supervisor for Truman Medical Center, said Childs had undergone about three hours of neurological, orthopedic and general surgery Sunday. As of 11 p.m. last night, he said Childs was in "critical, grave condition."
Di Palermo, a detective with the Lee's Summit Police Department, said the accident occurred when Childs collided with a truck, driven by Curtis Arnold, 49, of Pleasant
Valley. Childs was riding south on Wade Road and the truck was at the intersection going west on Highway 150.
The course was planned so that cyclists rode through the Missouri Highway 150 and Wade Road intersection twice. According to Palermo, the accident occurred when Childs was racing through the intersection for the second time. A truck drove through while a Lee's Summit police officer was stationed at the intersection.
Bryan Dahms, a cyclist and one of Childs' three roommates, said he thought Childs was going 35 miles an hour when he hit the truck.
rom Howe, Lawrence resident, was at the race and was told that the officer was looking at the group of cyclists on the other side of the road
See ACCIDENT, p. 5, col. 5
New student seating arrangement at Allen Field House
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Seating plan relocates students
Bv NICOLE SAUZEK
Star Writer Fewer seats behind the Jayhawk's bench at Allen Field House will be allocated to students this year because of changes in the seating plan
Changes in 675 student and public seats have been completed by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, an official said yesterday.
A KUAC committee created new seating arrangements this year because of complaints KUAC received last year from ticket holders about students who were standing during home basketball games.
"We looked at several different plans," said Monte Johnson, athletic director. "Basically we wanted to get students behind students and public behind public. It's amazing the new system Richard (Konzem) came up with — it took into consideration the people it would be affecting."
Konzem, assistant athletic director, designed the new seating arrangement.
As a result, fans behind the standing students said they couldn't see
New bleachers were installed last fall behind the KU bench — a section reserved for students. The new bleachers in the area were six feet higher than the 30-year-old bleachers they replaced.
the game even when they themselves stood.
in January, the KUAC had planned to block off 400 to 500 seats in the upper portion of the section, but decided against it after realizing students still could crawl over any barriers.
Then KUAC announced it would wait until this year to make the necessary changes.
In the new plan, half of the section directly behind the home bench was changed from student to public seating. The same number of student seats, 110, have been allocated behind the remaining student section along the bench, the location where most of the complaints originated.
Letters and seating plans were mailed this weekend to season ticket holders explaining seating arrangements for the 1986-87 basketball season. Konzem said.
Five-hundred seats also will be added to the field house before the season opens Nov. 19th.
Workers are adding a 25th row raising attendance capacity to 15,700. Three hundred of the seats will be designated to students, said Konzem
Although no seating places were taken away from either the students or the public — consisting also of alumni and faculty and staff members — KUAC made five section changes, Konzem said.
bringing student seating to 7,300
Keeping the students behind the KU bench also was a factor that was taken into consideration, said Konzem
Konzem consulted with basketball head coach Larry Brown before making seating changes.
"Everyone wanted to keep the students behind the bench," Konzem said. "The people who sit there are usually the most enthusiastic. That's an asset to the team. Larry wants to keep the students there."
Brown was out of town and unavailable for comment.
Although only half as many students will be behind the bench, Johnson thinks the change is fair.
"We don't expect that much of a problem from the fans," he said. "The effort was made to be as fair to everybody as we could. This plan made the most sense — it had the least relocation and it didn't kill out any seats."
Individual seating may still present some problems. Konzem said Splits were made down the middle of two sections. So family seating may have been split.
"That's another area that is going to be a great deal of work," he said. "Hopefully not many family tickets
See SEATING, p. 5, col. 1