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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 16, 1991
Zairean opposition leader, jailed for nine years, takes control of bankrupt nation
The Associated Press
KINSHASA, Zaire — Soldiers called off "a march of anger" yesterday as tensions abated in this Central African nation the day after a new government was formed under opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.
r president Mobutu Sese Seko, for the first time in his 26-year rule, was forced Monday to approve the formation of a government controlled by his long-time opponent.
Mobutu supporters retained several important ministries, including defense and foreign affairs, something Tshisekedi as prime minister had opposed.
Tshisekedi, 58, said he would retain the right to intervene if he disapproved of actions taken by the minister of defense.
minister of defense
It took two weeks for Motbutu, 61, and Tahisekedi to reach agreement because Motbutu initially demanded half the 22 Cabinet posts for his Popular Movement for the Revolution.
Tischecked retains about three-fourths of the Cabinets under the agreement.
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France and Belgium which sent paratroopers into Zürich to the evacuation of 10,000 forwards on September, had been pressing for a deal.
On Monday, Paris urged the 300 or so remaining French nationalis in Kinshaa to leave because negotiations appeared to be stalled.
en France and Belgian troops intervened after soldiers mutinised sept. 23, and went on a two-day rampage in Kinshahe and other major cities, looting and ransacking businesses, shops and homes.
soldiers who threatened a protest yesterday in Kinsasa to demand higher wages and better living conditions called off their march after the new government was announced.
France said it was pleased with the new government, but warned it had "an enormous task" ahead.
"The formation of the government is a first stage." Foreign Affairs representative Maurice Gordault-
Montage said in Paris, "We wish it well and encourage it."
Tshisekedi, detained nine years by Mobutu, inherits a bankrupt government. Western diplomats said Tshisekedi would have to prove that Mobutu could no longer raid the treasury before any major aid could be provided.
Tshisekedi'i's opposition group controls the Finance Ministry in the new Cabinet.
Thisckedish, speaking Monday on Zairean television, said, "Once again a government is in place. That is why you see me smiling again. Things had to conclude in the interest of the country."
he said the government was largely made up of technocrats who would rule until elections were held. "It is the people, via these elections, which will decide on the leaders of tomorrow," he said.
No date has been set for elections. The national conference that was to organize them had been unable to make any progress during a month of meetings.
State forms task force to reform public school system
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - Anuniprecedented summit meeting has led state officials to create a task force to draft a proposal to reform the state's system for financing its public schools.
Legislators, Gov. Joan Finney and other officials agreed Monday to establish the task force. Their action was in response to four legal challenges filed by 42 school districts about state financing and attempts by Shawne County District Judge Terry Bullock to resolve the lawsuit.
Bullock implied in a ruling on Monday that the Legislature could have to make dramatic changes in the school finance system to prevent it from being declared unconstitutional.
The judge convened the summit meeting, and officials from all three branches of government participated. It included Finney, Attorney General Bob Stephan, House Speaker Marvin Barkis and Senate President Bud Burke.
"I am hopeful that we can cooperate and negotiate in good faith, working with the three branches united to serve the purposes that are outlined in our constitution that each child be educated equally," Finney said.
the new task force would consist of 17 members. Eight would be lawmakers, four from each house. Finney would appoint eight others, including Education Commissioner Lee Drogemueller and Revenue Secretary Mark Beshears. Stephan would be the final, non-voting member.
runney planned to issue an executive order today, and legislative leaders have promised to act quickly.
"How else would you do it?" Dana Biles, an attorney for the State Board of Education, said of the task force. "I think it's the way to do it."
Former Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, atax attorney representing the Wichita School District, called creation of the task force appropriate and said it indicated that state officials planned to act quickly.
The Wichita district filed the last of the four lawsuits in June. The first lawsuit was filed by parents in the Turner School District in Wyandotte County in January 1990. The others were filed in September 1990 by more than 800 people by Baxter Springs, and in December 1990 by six districts led by Newton.
Each lawsuit challenged different aspects of the state's school finance system and raised questions about the constitutionality of the entire formula. Bullock consolidated them and set a trial date of Oct. 28.
"It it takes a task force, good," said Alan Rupe, a Wichita attorney representing the districts in the Newton case. "The task force is fine."
Bullock said the case might not be resolved until the summer of 1992, after the Legislature adjourned, if it goes to trial. The attorneys involved agreed to give lawmakers a chance to pass a plan to overhaul the school funding system before pressing on with their challenges, he said.
"The mandate is to furnish each child an educational opportunity equal to that made available to every other child," Bullock said.
Bullock's order gives state officials guidelines for modifying the school finance system.
Rupe went further. His clients proposed a system under which the state would tell districts how much they should spend per pupil and set their property tax levies. The state would then make up the difference.
Asked whether she thinks Bullock said the school finance system is unconstitutional, Finney said, "That's in effect what he said."
However, Stephan and others noted that Bullock said in his order that the state would be permitted to remove funds for certain purposes from a formula if legislators had a rational basis for doing so.
"What it means is that the state's school finance formula as we know it is unconstitutional," Rupe said.
ON CAMPUS
KU scholarship halls, the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association will take appointments today at Wescos Hall and the Kansas Union for those who want to give blood Oct. 22-25.
- The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center and Students against Hunger will sponsor a food drive today. Please bring food donations to the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
■ Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a lecture by David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, titled "Possibilities for Community at KU" at noon today at the ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
■ The office of study abroad will sponsor a meeting at 3 p.m. today at 4006 Wesco Hall about study abroad in nations where Spanish is spoken. The office also will sponsor a meeting at 4 p.m. today at the department of French and Italian library in Wesco Hall about study abroad in nations
where French is spoken.
Gay and Lesbian Academic and Staff Advocates will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union
- The Recycling Task Force will meet at 5 p.m. today at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union.
■ The Minority Affairs Committee will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Environs will meet at 6p.m. today at Parlors A and B in the Kansas Union.
■ KU Gamers and Role Players will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Frontier Room in the Kansas Union.
- The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will sponsor a program titled "Feminist Men" at 7 tonight at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU Sailing Club will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
ON THE RECORD
■ A car window was broken between 6:15 p.m. Sunday and 8:59 p.m. Monday at parking lot 110, 15th Street and Burdick Drive, KU police reported. Cassette tapes and a cassette tape holder valued together at $300 were taken.
A car window was broken and various papers valued at $30 were taken between 8 p.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday from a car in parking lot 102 west of Lewis Hall, KU police reported.
- Jewelry valued at $1,375 was taken between 8:30 p.m. and midnight Saturday from a room in the 1500 block
01 Kent Terrace, Lawrence police reported.
A window was broken by a pellet from a pellet gun between 6:30 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday at Oread Laboratories Inc., 1501 Wakasura Drive, Lawrence police reported.
■ Loud music was reported at 10 a.m.
Monday in the 500 block of Minnesota
Street, Lawrence police reported.
Supreme Court to decide whether convicted criminals can profit from books on crimes
- Someone pried open a vending machine and took cash between 11:30 p.m. saturday and 9 a.m. Monday at Hird Retail Liquors, 601 Kasold Drive, Lawrence police reported.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Authors invited from St. Augustine to Malcolm X were invoked yesterday as the Supreme Court examined laws that allow states to seize profits that criminals make from describing their crimes.
the justice must decide whether New York's "Son of Sam" law and others like it violate freedom of expression or legitimately help compensate crime victims. A ruling is expected by July.
expected to buy.
Ronald S. Rauchberg, representing Simon & Schuster publishing company, said the New York law is so sweeping that it could apply to a realm of important works in which an author confesses to a minor crime for which he or she never has been convicted.
He cited "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as a work that might never have been published if a state had been allowed to seize the profits based on the author's confession in the book that he committed crimes.
In the books that I have read, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said Rauchberg's argument would protect even the most heinous of criminals and the most worthless of books.
Kennedy's example was a brutal rapist who "writes a lurid account" of his crime.
"We have to tolerate whatever offense we take to protect other valuable works." renied Rauchberg.
"The story about a crime is a direct victimization," Zwickel said, and profits from the retelling should be set aside to help those who have suffered.
Howard L. Zwickel, assistant attorney general of New York, said the state has "appropriately balanced competing interests" in creating a victims' compensation fund from book and movie profits.
Justice Antonin Scallia questioned whether the New York law is too broad.
He asked, for example, whether it could apply to St. Augustine's "Confessions" if the author admitted he once stole an apple.
"That's absolutely correct," said Zwickel.
"He said," said Spain.
But that's ridiculous, she said. Augustine, who lived in the time of the Roman Empire, is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of Christianity.
The "Son of Sam" law, a model for those adopted by most states, authorizes confiscation of royalties to alleged and
convicted criminals and even to those who were not prosecuted but seemingly confess to crimes in their books.
The money is placed in a fund for crime victims, who have five years to claim it. After that, whatever money is left can be claimed by the author.
Those whose profits are seized must be convicted of the crimes before they can be forced to forfeit the money permanently.
The 1977 statute gets its name from the New York Legislature's outraged response to reports that publishers were offering large sums to "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz for the rights to his story.
While the law never was applied to Berkowitz, it has been used to limit book and movie profits in other cases.
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