University Daily Kansan / Thursday, August 28, 1986
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Study reveals trouble in diversion program
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TOPEKA - A survey by the Legislature's watchdog agency revealed that authorities last year had trouble getting about one-quarter of offenders who were placed on diversion agreements in large Kansas cities to follow through with the programs.
The finding was contained in a report the Legislative Division of Post Audit presented yesterday to an interim study panel, the Special Committee on the Judiciary.
Under diversion agreements, people charged with crimes avoid prosecution by agreeing to complete specified activities, possibly including the payment of fees, attendance at therapy sessions and the performance of community service work.
If a defendant fails to complete the assignments, prosecutors have the option of resuming criminal proceedings in the case. Diversion agreements may be drawn up either by judges or prosecutors and can apply to juveniles as well as adults.
A review of 236 diversion agreements in the state's five most populous counties indicated that offenders voluntarily completed the programs in slightly more than half the cases.
"In one-fourth of the cases, the requirements were not fulfilled, or were not fulfilled until the local prosecutor took some action against the offender," according to the report.
Auditors could not determine the outcome in about another quarter of the cases, the report said.
"This lack of documentation could allow local officials to unintentionally dismiss charges against offenders who have not satisfied all their diversion conditions," according to the report.
The report also said a survey of most cities and counties in the state showed local courts and prosecutors arranged a total of 11,000 diversion agreements during 1985, more than half involving charges of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sen Nancy Kassebaum said yesterday that sanctions probably would not change South African policy and described a Senate vote for such measures as a sign of American frustration about apartheid.
Hans Dirksen, the neonatologist in charge of the babies' care, said they probably would leave the hospital in nine weeks, about the time they would have been delivered had they been full term. The newborns — ranging in weight from 3 pounds, $3^{4}$ ounces to 3 pounds, 15 ounces — were larger than doctors had anticipated.
"As violence escalates here, world pressure is going to continue. It is an expression of our frustration with the intransigence of the South African government." Kassebaum said.
“Sanctions seldom throughout history changed a government’s policy,” said K萨塞巴姆, who was in Johannesburg at the invitation of a committee called Women of Our Time. She said she had no
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The first born of the quads was placed on a respirator when he didn't immediately begin breathing. Dirksen said that was fairly routine for small premature babies and he hoped to have the infant off the equipment in two or three days
The Senate voted Aug. 16 to restrict new U.S. investment in South Africa, to withdraw landing rights for South African aircraft and to place bans on the import of steel, farm products, coal and textiles.
Missouri woman gives birth to quadruplets in Wichita
Kassebaum said she doubted the government of President Pieter Botha was concerned by the Senate vote.
Kassebaum voices concern in S. Africa
"I can understand — even if I do not accept — the fear that exists among 6 million whites holding power over 24 million blacks," she said. "If this fear remains the primary force of white politics, South Africa will sink deeper and deeper into a paralysis that will suffocate any hope for the future."
WICHITA — Three boys and a girl born to a 21-year-old southwest Missouri woman yesterday were in air condition in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit of a Wichita hospital. The quadruplets were delivered by Cesarean section to Cindy McMechan of Liberal, Mo. Mrs. McMechan and her husband, Randall, 24, already have two daughters and learned in mid-July that she would have quadruplets.
"I am not sure the South African government cares who members of the Senate think, in fact I am sure they hold them in contempt," she said.
"I anticipate that they will grow up to be nice, natural babies," Dirksen said. "I'm very pleased with the way they are progressing."
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Kassebau called for the release of jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela.
"I think that Nelson Mandela is acknowledged by black and white, after being in prison for 20 years, as a person who can be an umbrella to pull the forces together," she said.
In remarks prepared for the women's luncheon, Kassebaum said the power of whites over blacks is wrong
All aboard on a steam train through Kansas
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The delivery marked the first quadruplets at Wesley Medical Center in four years.
plans to meet with South African officials.
SHARON SPRINGS — At least 400 people looked on Tuesday as the first steam locomotive in 30 years pulled into this northwest Kansas town. They were heralded by blasts from the engine's whistle and a massive plume of steam and smoke.
The train, carrying government and railroad officials, is making the trip as part of the yearlong
The 1-million-pound Union Pacific locomotive was pulling a 12-car train called the "Kansas Special." It made the stop toward the end of the first of a three-day trek from Denver to Topeka.
Says sanctions won't change policy
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During the stop in Sharon Springs, the train took on water from a railroad tower that still stood alongside the tracks. Observers said it was one of the first times the water tank had been used in years.
The railroad no longer has equipment in most towns along the line to deliver water to the locomotive. However, fire departments have ofered to use their equipment to pump water from fire hydrants near the tracks, officials said.
celebration of Kansas' 125th anniversary of statehood. It's scheduled to go on display at a railroad exhibition in Topeka this weekend.
A spokesman with the Union Pacific in Omaha, Tom LaHood, said the engine was loaded with 23,500 gallons of water before it left Union Station in Denver.
But instead of using coal as most locomotives do, Lalfof said, the engine uses 6,000 gallons of fuel oil to heat the water to steam. The steam powers the engine's 80-inch drive wheels.
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The train pulled out of Denver about an hour behind schedule as a result of mechanical difficulties. Later, it stopped in Limon, Colo., and Cheyenne Wells, Colo. In Kansas, the train stopped in Sharon Springs and Oakley.
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