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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 3, 1991
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Word seems to be spreading that Kansas is a great place to find plenty of free, wild marijuana, officials say.
Thirteen out-of-state harvesters have been arrested recently in Pottawatomie County, including 10 from Houston and Mexico. Two Houston residents were arrested Monday evening in a northwestern part of the county.
"They're running us over this year," Jefferson County Sheriff Roy Dunnaway said. "They're coming in from Florida, where huaana is really growing everywhere."
In Jefferson County, the number of arrests of out-of-state hemp harvesters is even higher.
Dunnaway said 18 people have been arrested in the last two months for picking the tall, leafy plants referred to locally as ditch weed. Though not as potent as the cultivated varieties, many drug dealers combine the lesser-quality marijuana with the higher dose to increase the amount they sell.
Pickers arrested in Jefferson County have come from Florida, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Illinois, Texas and
Jamaica, Dunnaway said. Many of the
pickers are illegal aliens.
While he admits only a fraction of the pickers are arrested, Dunnaway said all calls about suspected pickers were investigated and anyone caught picking marijuana would be prosecuted.
"We're going to arrest them if we catch them," he said. "We just don't want you."
In addition to possible prison sentences and fines, Dunnaway said marijuana pickers also faced the possible loss of their vehicles.
He said the sheriff's office seized eight vehicles from marijuana pickers this growing season.
Witness reveals CIA discord
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Robert Gates' confirmation hearings yesterday laid bare painful and bitter divisions within the CIA with the testimony of former analyst who said that she spoke for many who couldn't come forward. She accused the director's institution of intelligence analysis.
Former employee gives strong testimony against Gates in hearing
Jennifer Glaudemans, in an emotional appeal to the Senate Intelligence Committee not to confirm Gates, joined two other former CIA heads and invited intelligence to conform with the anti-Soviet views of his superiors.
President Bush, asked about the accusations against his nominee, said it seemed strange that the critics were only now coming forth.
"But I know Bob Gates, and I know he wouldn't slant an estimate for some political purpose," said Bush, a former CIA director who named Gates his deputy national security adviser in 1989.
Nonetheless, Glauademans said she was speaking for many at the CIA who disagreed with Bush. Hal Ford, the former director of the agency's
top analysis-writing body and a respected intelligence veteran, echoed Glaudemens' concern.
Ford, who reversed his initial support of Gates in recent weeks, said he had received calls from about 17level and senior officials currently or formerly at the CIA who told him they admired his courage. He said Ford would side with the operations and analysis sides of the agency.
Ford, currently a consultant at the agency, said the calls indicated that there were major problems in the CIA.
In measured tones that sometimes quivered with strain, Glaudemans described Gates as a heavy-handed manager who imposed his strong anti-Soviet views on subordinates and tolerated no dissent.
"I do not believe I have ever heard such a bitter cry for greater integrity than I have recently come out of my colleagues who hold the view that Mr. Gates and his politicization has contributed to Soviet analysis," she said.
"I think they were ... frightening experiences in that the fear of being labeled a Soviet apologist sharply
inhibited analytical initiative and bureacurate assertiveness."
Glaudemans resigned from the agency in 1989 and conveyed her concerns to the CIA's inspector general and her superiors.
Robert Gates
She said she was particularly disturbed that Gates prevented any analysis that described a declining Soviet Union.
"I think it is a pathetic shame that analysts had this story to tell in 1985 and 1986 but could not get it out," Glaudemans said.
Gates' supporters agreed that a perception existed among agency analysts that they were expected to skew their analyses to suit the policy administration. But they rejected accusations that Gates was responsible.
Douglas Maceachin, currently a special assistant on arms control issues to the CIA director, said Gates
was critical of analysts for sloppy or poor work.
"There is no question that his efforts made our product, corporately, a better one," said Maceainch, who served as the chief of the Soviet analysis division under Gates in the mid 1980s.
Maceachin took issue with some of the most damaging criticisms of Gates, especially that he dictated the essence of a 1986 memo that concluded that action was behind the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II.
The paper has been the subject of heated debate, and at least one of its authors, agency analyst Kay Oliver, said that it was considered as additional witnesses.
But Maceachin lamented the perception of politicization at the agency and said it wasn't simply a product of sour grapes from analysts wounded by Gates' sometime-abrasive criticism.
"We can't have a situation in which managers are intimidating analysts," he said. "We have allowed this to foster too long," he said.
ON CAMPUS
Commuters' Club will meet at 11:30 a.m. today at Alcove I in the Kansas University.
Canterbury House of the Episcopal Anglican Church will sponsor the Holy Eucharist at noon today in Danforth Chapel.
The University Placement Center will sponsor a workshop titled "Preparing for the Interview" at 3.30 p.m. today in 110 Burge Union.
will meet at 6 p.m. today in 501 Summerfield Hall
University Scholarship Hall for Ethnic Reality will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall.
- Women's Student Union will meet at 5 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
Psi Chi will meet at 7 onight in 547 Fraser Hall.
KU Champions Club will meet at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union.
- KU Civil Liberties Union will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alcove C in the Kansas Union.
Minority Business Student Council
KU Equestrian Club will meet at 7:30tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union.
Gay and Lesbian Services of
Pioneer Meet at 17 to 30 tonight at the
Jacqueline C. Woods Center
KU Fencing Club will meet at 8:30
ton in 130 Robinson Center.
ON THE RECORD
Books valued at $120 were taken between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. tuesday from 113 F Summerfield Hall, KU police reported.
A man exposed himself to a woman at 6:15 p.m. on Monday in the 700 block of Alabama Street, Lawrence police reported.
A vehicle was vandalized at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of E. 23rd Street.
Books valued at $70 were taken between 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. yesterday from 313 D Summerfield, Lawrence police reported.
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Man cleared in farewell party for dead mom
The Associated Press
BATESVILLE, Ark. — A prosecutor dropped a corpse-buse charge against a man who threw a party for his dead mother in which he placed a cigarette in one of her hands and a beer in the other as she lay in an open casket.
Johnny Tee Harrington, 29,
authorizes her organization
the April 13 party because his
49-year-old mother, Lulu, had
told him to have a party when she
died.
"I did exactly what she told me to do, and I would do it again," Harrington said during a court-ordered psychiatric examination, according to courtrecords.
Harrington was arrested at his home in Thida in northeastern Arkansas after another member complained to police.
With 11 Democrats ready to support Thomas, opponents say they're urging senators to study the nominee's testimony in confirmation hearings and the Senate Judiciary Committee's report.
Prosecutor Don McSpadden said he dropped a felony charge of abuse of a corpse Monday because he thought Harrington loved his mother and was complying with her last wish.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Dioh,
who's leading the fight against the
nomination, said the Senate Judiciary
committee refused on a 77 vote late
week to endorse Thomas that prompted
second thought among some colleagues.
WASHINGTON — Faced with mounting Senate support for Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination, opponents were left yesterday with the task of changing senators' minds in the African-American conservative.
Thomas opponents urge senators to reconsider support of nominee
The Associated Press
"I won't say to you that he won't be confirmed," Metzenbaum said. "But I car tell you with certainty that some members who initially cated expected a vote for him, are now having some com
having some concerns as to whether they will."
Clarence Thomas
Nan Aron, executive director of the Alliance for Justice, a liberal advocacy group that opposes Thomas, said a major task is to "persuade those who have announced their position to rethink it in light of the 7-7 vote."
support for the federal appeals judge wouldn't withstand a close scrutiny of the hearing record.
Metzkenbue预测 that none of the Senate's 43 Republicans would vote against confirmation, saying that President Bush is trying to turn the ball into a test of partisan loyalty rather than Thomas' fitness for the high court.
Aron said she was optimistic that
"I so think if the president were to say, 'Gouit, vote your conscience, it is not a political issue with me, and as far as I'm concerned, do what you think is right,'" Judge Thomas would not guess is Judge Thomas would not guess is Metzenbaum said.
The Senate is scheduled to begin debate tomorrow on the nomination and vote Tuesday, a day after the Supreme Court begins its fall term.
The Associated Press
Jump in home sales may mark start of economic recovery
the industry to continue its traditional trade leading the economy out of recession.
WASHINGTON — New home sales surged 6.7 percent in August to their highest level in a year, according to a government report yesterday that showed housing recovery remained on track after a brief retreat.
Most analysts said home buyers took advantage of falling mortgage rates to re-enter the market. The housing crisis sparked more housing starts and permit
All regions registered increased sales except for the West, where home-buying activity was flat. Sales in the Midwest, which had plunged in July, reboubled strongly and more than made up the loss.
earlier, according to the Departments of Commerce and of Housing and Urban Development.
Nationally, sales of new single-family homes totaled a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 540,000, up from a sharply revised 506,000 rate a month
The July decline was the first since sales fell to a 414,000 rate last January, the trough of the housing recession. The August rebound boosted the rate to the highest level since a 541,000 sales pace in July 1990.
But despite the favorable mortgage environment, most analysts agreed the housing recovery will remain moderate.
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Fri., Oct. 4, 10am-8 p.m.
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"Half Price Day"
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