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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.16
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1992
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Bush outlines economic plans
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President presents agenda during visit to Missouri town
By Joe Harder Kansan staff writer
President Bush propounded his newly packaged economic plan Friday in Excelsior Springs, Mo., asserting that it would maintain the nation's leadership status in a post-Cold War world.
"The defining challenge of the '90s is to win the peace, to win the competition of this new global economy," he said.
About 3,000 people attended the speech on the campus of the Excelsior Springs Job Corps Center, a federally-funded vocational training center for low-income, undereducated youths age 16 to 21.
Bush's 18-minute speech centered on his "Agenda for American Renewal," which he introduced Thursday in Detroit. Under this
plan, Bush said, the nation could attain new economic heights.
"Today our national economy is nearly $6 trillion, and my agenda will make America the world's first $10 trillion dollar economy by the first years of the 21st century," he said as the crowd burst into heavy applause.
The agenda, as set forth in Bush's speech, consists of a wide range of proposals from transferable health insurance to tax cuts for small businesses. The agenda brings together many of Bush's previously proposed economic ideas.
One of the more controversial items has been his appeal for foreign trade agreements. Critics of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement supported by Bush have complained that its enactment could spell the loss of U.S. jobs.
Bush said that one in every six of the nation's manufacturing jobs is dependent on foreign trade and that one-third of the nation's agricultural produce is exported.
Bush also proposed issuing job-training
vouchers to workers, allowing parents to choose their children's schools and making health-insurance packages transferable from one job to another.
He repeated his pledge to give taxpayers the power to earmark 10 percent of their income.
"If Congress won't cut that deficit, let the voters do it," he said.
At one point, Bush accused Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton of wanting to expand an oversized government.
"He wants to make big government even bigger and, to be precise, he is already on record for at least $220 billion in new spending and $150 billion in new taxes, just for openers," Bush said, eliciting boos from the crowd.
Bush also accused Clinton of running a Freddy Krueger candidacy.
"He's more interested in playing on people's fears than in dealing with this country's real problems," he said.
Security at the event was tight. Only those who had previously picked up free tickets were admitted. No signs or plac-
was were allowed into the grassy, fenced-off area where the speech was given, but many members of the crowd wore "Bush-Quayle '92" buttons or shirts.
Bush arrived one hour early in Excelsior Springs in order to make a stop in St Louis to announce the sale of F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. However, many of those in the crowd waited more than an hour at the outdoor stage area before catching their first glimpse of the president.
Richard Hubbard, who graduated from the University of Kansas in May, was one of those who arrived early. He is an ensign in the U.S. Navy and will report Sept. 18 in Florida for active duty.
"I'm pretty pro-Bush, so when I heard he was going to be here, I jumped at the chance to come see him," he said.
For Greg Seaboldt, a high school senior from Blue Springs, Mo., the thrill was in touching the nation's highest political leader.
"I shook his hand," he said. "It was cold."
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--who visited Florida and Louisiana after Hurricane Andrew last month, said he had no immediate plans to visit Hawaii.
Christine McFarland / KAREN
President Bush speaks Friday during a stop in Excelior
Sornes, Mo.
Hurricane Iniki ravages Hawaii
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LHIUE, Hawaii — A military airlift shuttled supplies and equipment yesterday to hurricane-ravaged Kauai. Residents struggled to piece their paradise back together while vacationers waited to leave.
Crews worked round-the-clock to restore power and telephone services that were wiped out when Hurricane Inki steamed overlook the scenic, 30-mile-wide island with sustained winds of 130 mph, and gusts to 160 mph Friday. It was the strongest hurricane to hit Hawaii this century.
"We're just glad to be alive today," said Jan Powell of Fairfax, Calif., who was vacationing with her husband in Koloa, on the island's west side. Koloa's west side appeared to be hit hardest. The Powells were staying in an elementary school-turned-shelter.
Path of Iniki
"Guess we'll be staying awhile," Powell said.
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The hurricane was blamed for at least three deaths, including one on Oahu, and 98 injuries. At least 8,000 of Kauai's 51,000 residents were left homeless, said Federal Emergency Management Agency representative Bjoe Blair.
"Our hearts go out to the people of Hawaii, and we pledge to stand by them in support at this hour of need," Bush said in Maryland before leaving for a West Coast campaign trip. Bush,
President Bush said yesterday that he was told that 30 percent of the island's buildings were destroyed and that preliminary damage estimates reached $1 billion. Bush declared much of the state a federal disaster area.
The wind reduced some buildings to splinters and torre on the upper floors from others. An entire block was wiped近耳 Lilah, on the island's most heavily developed, eastern shore. Yachts were piled atop each other in Port Allen harbor. Palm fronds, shingles and other debris clogged roads.
The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was criticized for slow response to Hurricane Andrew, arrived at Kauai on Sunday. Wallace Stickney was joined by Patricia Sakai, chief of the U.S. Small Business Administration, and a Republican former congress member from Hawaii.
About 300 Hawaii Army National Guard troops also landed yesterday on Kauai. Ten military C-130 cargo planes mounted a 24-hour airlift to bring in food, portable kitchens, medical supplies, communications equipment and other relief.
On Kauai, Hideo Kabutani of Lauwai said the devastation was worse than that of Hurricane Iwa, which swept over the island in 1982 and caused $216 million in damage there and on neighboring islands.
Leo Amijimaqia swept away debris from her home in Nawaliwi but said
"This looks like a war zone," Amiya-jima said. "But we'll come back. This is the Garden Island."
Kathleen Driscoll / Special to the KANSAN
Life imitating art
While shopping at a market at the Lawrence Indian Arts Show, Amy Teri, who is visiting Lawrence from Chicago, imitates one of the award winning statues. The weekend market at Haskell Indian Junior College featured American Indian jewelry, pottery, sculptures and food. The arts show continues until Oct. 25 with music and art exhibits at both Haskell and the University of Kansas.
KU police report dry day on Hill
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt
Kansan staff writer
No arrests for drinking alcohol were made Saturday on Campanile Hill as football spectators complied with a city law banning alcohol and beer on the Hill, a KU police official said.
No kegs were spotted as fans set up tents, lawn chairs and blankets on the Hill before the game.
Lt. John Mullens, KU police representative, said 31 contacts were made before the game with fans who were asked to pour out small containers of alcohol or return six-packs to their vehicles.
"When we get the information out, people usually comply. They may mumble and grumble, but this is the third major group we've dealt with and had mostly the same results," he said, referring to last school year's Day on the Hill and KU graduation ceremonies.
A new city ordinance prohibits drinking or possessing 3.2 beer in public areas. State law had previously banned only alcohol over 3.2 in public areas.
Many KU fans agreed that it had been a quiet day, but some had mixed reactions to the alcohol ban on the Hill.
Jack Schmidt, a KU fan from Overland Park, said he was pleased that the team had been good.
"It makes it a family affair. There were just a handful that had a tendency to go a little farther than they should have," he said, referring to past occurrences on the Hill.
Troy Hilton, Yakima, Wash. sophomore, said he saw no reason for the ban.
"There are never any fights" he said.
"There's never any trouble. They've ruined a tradition."
KU police director Jim Denney said it was a good day because there were no problems with alcohol.
"I think that just goes to prove that people will do what's right," he said.
The $2.5 million renovation and expansion of Lewis
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Fine dining
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The new dining area will offer more menu choices and longer serving hours to students in the five
Grissom appeal
The attorneys for Richard Grissom, convicted of three counts of murder, will argue before the Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday that Grissom cannot be found guilty because the bodies of three women were never found.
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Nine Kansas counties vote to leave state
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
Group plans to petition the Kansas Legislature
More than 150 people from nine southwest Kansas counties decided on Friday to petition the Kansas Legislature for permission to form a 51st state.
The 51st State Committee, which held its first convention Friday, selected West Kansas as the proposed name for its state, and chose a flower and the pheasant as the state bird.
The group also revealed the proposed state's constitution. The constitution calls for term limitations for elected officials, requiring the president and a balanced-budget requirement.
None of the committee leaders could be reached yesterday for comment.
Last April, voters in nine counties in southwestern Kansas voted to begin plans to secede from Kansas.The movement stemmed largely from the new school finance plan created last spring by the Kansas Legislature. The plan calls for the state to control money for the statewide school district.
Leaders of the 51st State Committee said other factors in the secession movement included a 1983 severance tax on oil and gas that in their opinion has crippled the region, and under-representation in state government.
State Sen. Leroy Hayden, D-Satanta, whose district includes much of the area involved in the secession movement, said the movement began because of the frustration the people in his district felt over taxation and money for schools.
be paid out here."
"People in Stevens County will have to pay ten times what people in the rest of the state pay in state taxes," he said. "And 87 percent of the statewide severance tax will
"A lot of them will say we're just blowing smoke again, like farmers always do," he said. "But this is for real."
Russell Getter, associate professor of government, said he thought the committee's complaints were valid.
Hayden, who is up for re-election in November, said he would use all of the information the 51st State Committee had gathered in an attempt to convince his colleagues in the legislature that the concerns were serious.
Getter said that he thought the Legislature would be responsive to some of the concerns of the area, but that it wouldn't allow secession.
"The attempt at secession is a way for that part of the state to show their concerns over what they feel are some significant inequalities," he said. "This is basically a rural versus urban issue."
Leaders of the committee, many of whom are elected officials in the area, have
A new state?
The 51st State Committee will now petition the Kansas Legislature for permission to form a 51st state.
The group of nine southwest Kansas counties selected West Kansas as the proposed name for its state, the yucca landowner and the pleasant as the state bird.
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threatened to withhold property taxes from the state. Attorney General Bob Stephan said Thursday that if public officials from the nine-county area withheld taxes, they would face removal proceedings.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.