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Thursday, September 2, 1982 Vol. 93, No.10 USPS 650-640
Reagan urges 'fresh start' in Mideast
By United Press International
BURBANK, Calif. — President Reagan, determined to make a "fresh start" in the quest for Middle East peace, called yesterday for a Palestinian government under Jordan's guidance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
With the end of the Lebanon crisis, Reagan stressed "America's commitment to the security of Israel is ironclad," and declared strong U.S. opposition to any further Israeli settlements in the territories captured during the 1967 Middle East war.
The president, in a nationally televised address last night, embraced for the first time a solution to the problem of autonomy for the European Parliament by the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
the late President Kahn Hussein.
"It is the firm view of the United States that
self-government by the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza in association with Jordan offers the best chance for a durable, just and lasting peace," he said.
Even before Reagan delivered his speech, Israeli officials vowed to resist any U.S. attempts to sidestep the Camp David formula for Middle East peace and said they would "never allow" the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank or Gaza strip.
WHEN PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin received the Regan proposal in a letter Tuesday, the Israeli leader cut short a vacation with the Gaza conflict, raising of his cabinet today to review the proposal.
it was also uncertain how Jordan's King Hussein would react. Hussein had vigorously rejected a suggestion by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday that Jordan already constituted a "Palestinian state" in the region.
Reagan emphasized that the peaceful withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Beirut opened the door to fresh initiatives in the muest for peace in the region.
"TRAGIC TURMOIL in the Middle East runs back to the dawn of history," he said. "It is time for us all to launch a common effort for reconstruction, peace and progress."
*Calling for a “new realism on the part of all the people of the Middle East,” Reasen set aside the role of mediator — scrupulously followed in the United States and then Paris in Lebanon — to outline specific positions.
Reagan said he was plainly laying out the U.S. position because it "it has become evident to me that some clearer sense of position on the key issues in our country encourages wider support for the more process."
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned even before Reagan spoke that Israel would resist his new initiative.
"At Camp David we reached the limit of concessions and any step beyond that limit. We were given a free playground."
"The decisive majority of the nation has vowed never to part with Judea, Samaria (the West Bank) and the Gaza district and never to give up our natural and sacred right to settle and the homeland," Shamir said in a speech to veterans of three Jewish underground movements.
In his speech, Reagan noted that the Camp David accords, signed by Egypt, Israel and the United States, set a five-year timetable for autonomy of the Palestinians of the West Bank
IN A STERN warning to Begin, the president said that during his proposed transition period, "The United States will not support the use of national land for the purpose of settlements."
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President Reagan
DICH RUQQ/Kansan Stah
Some students take any opportunity to get some rest and to study between classes. The location didn't seem to bother Mary Lou Stika, a Linconville graduate slavic languages student, as she stretched out on a bench yesterday near the Kansas Union.
State freezes KU workers' merit pay
Classified employees ready for fight
Staff Reporter
By DEBORAH BAER
Some KU Classified Senate members are angry, some confused and some feel like numbers instead of people, but at the Classified University, most night most of them seemed ready for a fight.
resterday afternoon, about 20 classified senators met with Gov John Carlin to discuss the freeze of their 1.25 percent Merit Pay Plan increase.
After the meeting with Carlin, some senators said they had a better understanding of what was going on, but they were no happier about their loss of money and what they thought was unequal treatment when compared to unclassified employees at the University.
During the 7 p.m. meeting of classified senators and employees in the Satellite Union, the group decided to send the Kansas Board of Public Safety members are unhappy with the freeze on their merit raises.
Under the Merit Pay Plan, classified employees would receive a raise if they were rated above standard on their yearly evaluations. Classified employees are non-faculty workers including janitors, professionals with master's degrees and secretaries.
CARLIN TOLD the group yesterday afternoon that he originally supported the merit increase, but the freeze was necessary because of the state's $47 million deficit.
"I had no other good alternative," Carlin said.
"The problems we had in terms of revenue were real."
He said there were too many variables involved to promise the increase would be reinstated.
"But I support it — I signed it," Carlin said, Galliam Hailton, Classified Senate president, told Carlin that many classified employees were in the budget and no jobs future in the budget were necessary.
Carlin said state officials were considering every option to tighten the budget, except cutting down on employees. He said that shortening the workday for state employees was a possibility.
workday for state employee was a possibility.
"The idea is to avoid lavoffs," Carlin said.
The idea is to avoid a meeting after the meeting with Carlin, some senators said they were glad that communication had been established with the governor, who requested the meeting, but they were less than satisfied.
"I UNDERSTAND both sides, but it's so darn frustrating." said Tom Swearingen, Classified Senate member. "Obviously, if there's no money, you can't spend it.
Another said she felt like a piece of paper instead of a person when the governor and Patrick Hurley, secretary of administration for
Another senator, Betty Sickles, said "I'm so angry I could not get anger."
"Sometimes you feel like you're spinning your wheels."
the state, talked about classified employees and their relationship to the state's budget.
their relationship to the state's Hamilton was ready to fight
"They're finally recognizing that we are here." Hamilton said.
"We are not going to see immediate results. We are laying the foundation for our brothers and sisters who will be here in the next few years."
The Board of Regents said it would not change faculty salaries because faculty members received contracts signed by Chancellor Gene A. Carlin began cutting the budget this summer.
MANY OF THE senators were angry that their raises were cut while the raises for unclassified employees were not. Unclassified personnel are receiving a 7.5 percent raise.
However, the money for the merit plan was touchable. Carlin said yesterday.
Classified employees are receiving a 6.5 percent cost-of-living raise, as are all state employees.
employees. But secretaries in administrative and other offices said many professors and administrators were receiving salary raises of up to 20 percent.
Hamilton said a 20 percent raise was possible because the average of all raises must be 7.5 percent. Some can be smaller, some bigger.
One secretary who asked not to be identified said she knew of waffleful areas in her district and was told to report.
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$11,943 in Senate property discovered missing in check
By DON KNOX
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
More than $11,000 in Student Senate funded properly discovered missing during a summer inventory has prompted the creation of a Senate subcommittee to investigate the matter.
Staci Feldman, executive secretary of the Senate, said an inventory check by Dan Cunningham, interim executive secretary, disclosed $11.94 in missing property. The Senate also ordered the borough to a number of student organizations throughout the University of Kansas.
"I can't say for sure how much of the property was actually taken," Fieldman told members of the Senate Executive Committee Tuesday night. She speculated, however, that much of the property had either worn out or become obsolete, and had been thrown away.
ACCORDING TO a report prepared by Cunningham, former campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas, missing items included filing cabinets, desks, calculators, a telephone answering system, books, two-way radios and photographic equipment.
Cunningham did not say which student groups were missing Senate-purchased equipment. He did say that no organization accounted for more than $2,000 in missing property.
"It is true that most of the property was undoubtedly worn out, obsolete, or unintentionally destroyed," Cunningham said in an Aug. 4 letter to Caroline Flory, an property accountant in KU's purchasing department. "But one must suspect that some of it disappeared into personal pockets and collections.
"This is a situation that should not be allowed to exist."
Cunningham said he believed much of the equipment could be found in the Senate's upcoming investigation.
"A PROBLEM was that groups were inactive and representatives were not present when the inventory was made," he said. "I can't say for sure how much time is needed, see some of this equipment turn up in storage."
Cunningham criticized past Senate administrations and student organizations for not supporting a fairer system.
The inventory check was, Feldman said, the first in at least three years.
"The inventory checks are required by state law," Cunningham said. "They are supposed to be done annually in all departments of state agencies."
Every student organization that uses Senate-owned property is required to file an inventory statement each year, Cunningham said, even if they no longer receive Senate funds.
cunningham praised David Adkins, student body president, and the present Senate for re-instituting the inventory process.
"You can't blame the people in office right now," Cunningham said. "They're just picking up the pieces.
"IT'S A PROBLEM and something that shouldn't have been allowed to slip under the rug. Stuff like this opens up all kinds of questions."
David Zimmerman, chairman of the Senate's finance and auditing committee, said a special subcommittee would be organized next week to confirm Cunningham's inventory and to propose changes within the Senate's inventory preparation.
Feldman, Flory and Matt Gatewood, Senate treasurer, will be members of the inventory subcommittee.
Policy cools conditioner use
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
An inside temperature of 84 steam degrees transformed Strong Hall into a locker room yesterday, leaving students faculty and administrators searching in vain or beat the heat
The people in Strong weren't alone. In a move to cut University utility costs, KU officials have shut off the air conditioning in many campus buildings a month earlier than normal.
And the weather didn't help matters yesterday as afternoon temperatures climbed into the upper half.
"It's hot," Linda Revely, a clerk in the KU admissions office, said yesterday.
"WE'RE SWEATING," said Loran Zimmer, the director of the student assistance center.
"I'm wiling," said Joyce Jeltz, the supervisor of the admissions office.
It was, in a word, hot.
"Maximum Strength Anacin, that's how I am feeling." Jelt said.
It was, in a Vodafone, too.
In the admissions office, dotted with tiny cubicles, the partitions cut off the breeze coming through open windows, Jeltz said.
Each of the cubicles has a light and admissions workers were turning off light switches to cut electricity.
"Then we try not to move around too fast."
SHE IS ENCOURAGING her workers to dress for the heat. Many of the employees have asked to wear shorts to work, she said.
"They seem to be coping quite well."
Rose Lichtenberg coped in a different way. "I took off my bose at noon," said Liechtenburg, a boreal forester. "It was kind of scary."
She even confessed to drinking two cans of pop, one above her normal. A cold can of pop, Lichtenberg said, gave her "the illusion of being cool."
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of interviews with candidates for local, state and national positions.
Carlin pins recovery, re-election on severance tax
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Today's interview is with Democratic Gov. John Carlin, who is seeking his second term. Carlin is opposing Witchcraft Republican Sam Hardage in the Nov. 2 general election.
Carlin, a Smolan dairy farmer, defeated incumbent Robert Bennett in the 1978 election. Before becoming governor, he served as Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives.
By JULIE HEABERLIN
and BRUCE SCHREINER
It is the passage of a state severance law — not an unrealistic Republican-backed reliance on industry — that would recharge a sapped Kansas economy, says Gov. John Carlin.
Staff Reporters
"My opponent has no realistic program for financing education and no realistic program for financing highways," Carlin said in an interview yesterday. "You don't bring jobs to Kansas unless you improve highways and education first. Those are the tools you have to work with."
Sam Hardidge of Wichita, the Republican challenger, strongly opposes the governor's belief that a severance tax on oil and gas is the fairest way to eliminate a $47 million deficit. He believes the government campaign to bring economic growth to Kansas from other states.
"There's only so much a good salesman can do." Carlin said. "Kansas has a lot to offer, but you have to protect that offering before you can interest anyone in it."
"You don't have industries coming to communities without a sound higher education system," he said. "We need a new source of revenue, which I proposed with the severance."
In a speech earlier yesterday afternoon at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, Carlin emphasized higher education's role in luring industries to Kansas.
"Those things that need to be done for the future cannot be accomplished with silogae."
Also during the speech, Carlin disclosed that if the latest round of budgetary news remained in force, "the Fed will not be able to control it."
sity of Kansas might skirt the chance of further cuts.
BUT CARLIN REFUSED to promise a freeze on additional cuts until he saw the state's revenue figures for July and August.
Responding to charges that Board of Regents schools bore unfair burdens in the cuts, Carlin said his budget-cutting formula was equitable but hampered by constitutional provisions.
"My feeling is that we're on target," he said. "Right now I don't see the need for anything further, but I want the freedom of a few more days to look at statistics."
"Higher education was treated as fairly as any agency," he said. "But your (higher education's) budget was one-half of the budget I could touch, so you ended up with one-half of the cuts."
Several programs, such as state funding for elementary and secondary education and community colleges, were shielded from Carlin's budget-cutting assaults.
bogged down in charge. Carlin admitted that his belt-tightening policy was not expedient for an election year, but he said it was the only responsible alternative.
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Governor Carlin
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friday will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 80s.