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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. October 2, 1991
Lenexa man, 21, killed in local motorcycle accident
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
A Lenexa man was killed in a motorcycle accident Monday afternoon about 12 miles northwest of Lawrence.
According to a Douglas County Sheriff's report, Michael Haggard, 21, was killed suddenly when his motorcycle crashed and hit a truck on Douglas County Road 442.
The pickup truck, which was east-bound and attempting to make a left turn on to County Road 650, collided with Haggard, who was westbound.
Haggard was not wearing a helmet. The pickup truck was driven by Wendell Kasson Sr., Route 1, who was not injured.
Judy Obsurn of the sheriff's department said Haggard was probably traveling at a high speed.
Carol Moddrell, Douglas County coroner, said blood tests showed no sign of alcohol in Haggard's system.
When two or more vehicles are involved in a fatal accident, the report is always sent to the district attorney's office for review. Osborn said.
occurred during the last two weeks.
On Saturday, Arthur Paolav Jr. of Lawrence was killed when his motorcycle struck a guard rail on Douglas County Road 13 along Clinton Lake Dam, about one-half mile south of the tower. Paolav was wearing a helmet.
A copy of the accident report will be sent to the Douglas County District
Wells said yesterday that he had not seen the report and did not know whether charges would be filed.
Monday's motorcycle accident fatality is one of four that have
On Sept. 20, James Sorrell, 21, of St Ignatia, Mont. and Kim Tracy, 24, of Church Rock, N.M., were killed when the motorcycle they were riding colled with a car at Fifth and Locust streets.
Sorrel and Tracy, both Haskell Indian Junior College students, died less than a week after the accident from head injuries sustained from the collision. They were not wearing helmets.
Bono makes bid for U.S. Senate
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Sonny Bono, former half of the pop duo Sonny and Cher and the current mayor of Palm Beach, will play day that he is running for U.S. Senate.
Bono, a Republican, said he would do his best to establish credibility, even though he acknowledged his can-do spirit and led his one-on-lite night talk shows.
"It's no joke," Bono said at a news conference. "I may have to wear that Sonny and Cher想 for a while, but I will overcome that. I just think that if
talk to people, I'll overcometh that."
Bono, 56, is vying for the seat held by retiring Democratic Sen. Alan Cranston. He enters what is shaping up to be a color-
al GOP primary race against television commentator Bruce Herschelson and U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell.
Bono, a moderate, supports abortion rights and a stronger U.S. energy policy that would make immediate offence drilling in California unnecessary.
Bono's political experience is limited to his nearly four-year stint as mayor of Palm Springs. His support from within the GOP is minimal.
"What sets politicians apart is what I term horsepower," Bono said. "I think it's the individual and what kind of horsepower he has, what kind of tenacity he needs to do, what he gets done. As a mayor I've been able to get things done."
After-school shopping
After an afternoon class, Jennifer Kistler, right, and Kathleen Landry, Colby sophomores, stop in front of Wescoe Hall to examine jewelry for sale. Several tables were set up in front of Wescoe yesterday afternoon containing items ranging from jewelry to KU rugby team sweatshirts.
U.S. team will visit Moscow to discuss implementing nuclear arms cutbacks
Bush still shunning ban on underground testing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration soon will send nuclear weapons specialists to the Soviet Union to begin talks to implement President Bush's proposal for severe armcuts backs, a State Department representative announced yesterday.
They would be willing to discuss the Soviet's longstanding request to prohibit all nuclear weapons tests by the two sides, said Margaret Tutwiler, department representative.
"We would be in a position obviously of listening to whatever they come back with," she said in announcing a U.S. team would depart for Moscow in the next few days.
In any event, she said, "the amount of (underground) nuclear testing we have been doing has been going down," and implement-ment plan could result in even fewer test explosions.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had long proposed outlawing all weapons tests, but the Reagan and Bush administrations turned him down even after Gorbachev unilaterally halted Soviet testing from August 1985 until February 1987
The Carter administration in 1890 initiated the last serious negotiations to add underground testing to the international ban against atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.
The Soviets have carried out only one detectable test in the last two years. The United States exploded a test device in Nevada last month and about a half-dozen so far this year.
Rejecting Gorbachev's proposal, Bush has
argued that the United States must test and develop new nuclear weapons as long as they are required to deter a Soviet attack.
However, his broad-gauged initiative for arms cuts made Friday, including an unilateral ban on U.S. short-range nuclear weapons, was overshadowed by a number of incidents no longer posed a threat to nuclear attack.
The Moscow talks expedite negotiations that were to begin here Oct. 9. The Washington talks remain on the schedule, and an "interrelation agreement" will be arranged in Moscow. Tulwer said
Administration officials said Monday that the result could be a four-nation meeting of foreign ministers in November or even a summit with Bush, Gorbachev, French President Francois Mitterrand and British Prime Minister John Major attending.
The U.S. aim is twofold: to quickly elicit
from the Soviets a proposal to match Bush's decision to remove all battlefield nuclear weapons from Europe and to speed a speedy evacuation of troops from the nuclear missiles based on U.S. and Soviet soil.
The Soviets on Monday approached the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with questions about Bush's overall initiative, indicating their interest in getting started, Tuwiler said.
Yesterday, Gorbachev's representative said that all strategic nuclear weapons would be taken off alert status and that the Soviets may unilaterally cut short-range weapons.
White House representative Marlin Flitzawer called "the prompt and substantive features" of the legislation.
"They are taking steps to reduce nuclear tensions," he said. "These moves hold considerable promise for mutual reductions as we continue the consultative process."
The talks here will be headed by Undersecretary of State Reginald Bartholomew and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Obukhov.
The next step would be a meeting of Secretary of State James Baker with the Soviet, French and British foreign ministers or a summit, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Mitterrand has proposed a four-power summit. Bush said Monday while traveling in Florida that he was "not familiar with that."
He told reporters it's early to think about meeting with Gorbachev
The Soviets, responding favorably Monday to Bush's initiative, indicated their priority goals would include a ban on nuclear weapons tests and bringing other nations in the expanding nuclear club into the discussions.