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Wednesday, July 16, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Egypt demands peace effort
CAIRO-Egypt announced yesterday it wouldn't agree to an extension of the United Nations peacekeeping force mandate in the Sinai peninsula after it expired July 24 unless there were further moves toward peace.
Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said the last three-month extension of the mandate was intended to "afford peace every possible chance."
The decision came in a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary-General Kurt Waldemar and said the Egyptian's representatives the United Nations, Pakistan and is hurriedly summoned to attend.
He said Egypt "will not consent to further renewal of the mandate of the forces" if no stems towards peace were taken.
Israel has profited from the relative prevailing quiet to further its occupation rather than to assist the efforts aiming at achieving a lasting peace, Fahmy said.
Reagan will run, backers say
WASHINGTON—A committee to push Ronald Reagan's campaign for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination was formed and its chairman said he was confident that the former California governor would enter the race against President Ford.
"If we didn't feel that Gov. Reagan was going to be a candidate for the presidency, we would not be here today," the chairman, Sen. Paul Lazalt, R-Nev.
Laxalt said the former governor had consented to the six-person membership of the group, known as "Citizens for Reagan", and had made no effort to dissuade its members.
In a letter, Reagan reaffirmed the position that he would make a decision later in the year, on whether to challenge Ford.
Washington attorney John P. Sears said creation of the committee with Reagan's consent made Reagan "a legal candidate."
State housing authority urged
TOPEKA—the president of the Kansas Home Builders Association urged creation of a state housing authority to spur home building.
the president, Denis Stewart, 9551 Carrier Drive, Shawnee, said a similar program in Missouri had worked well. Such an authority could "meet the housing needs of people who are poor."
The Kansas Legislature's interim committee on federal and state affairs began hearings on a bill introduced in the 1975 session to set up a state housing authority.
The panel was told the cost of an average single-family dwelling unit in Kansas today was $34,000.
Discord delays conference
GENEVA-Discord over three key issues forced a three-day postponement of a decision on whether to convene a 34-country East-West summit meeting July 10 in
Russia.
The European Security Conference's coordinating committee gave itself until Friday to approve the July 30 target date.
A Swiss conference spokesman said it was generally agreed that if the outstanding questions weren't settled by then, "the July 30 date can no longer be missed."
The summit would bring together President Gerald R. Ford, Government General Admiralty, and the countries to give final approval to a 104-dose case on East-West detention.
The three issues which prevented accord on a starting date for the summit were the imminent decision to establish cooperation between East and West, and the definition of conference objectives.
Injury award is state record
WICHTA—A $750,000 judgment, thought to be the largest jury award in a national injury lawsuit in state history, was returned in the U.S. District Court at Dover.
The verdict in a medical malpractice suit awarded $750,000 in damages to a former chiropractic high school student was that the brain of the patient underwent a knee-jerk procedure at Wesley Medical Center in Illinois.
The award to the reacher, Lois Elaine Laptad, 38, brought total compensation to $1.125.000 when added to previous settlements.
Laptop is now a patient in Joplin, Mo., nursing home. Her injuries resulted in severe and irreversible injury which for all practical purposes has made her a valuable resource. We will assist.
The verdict was returned against Dr. Peter Torbey, now of Detroit, who was in charge of the x-ray procedure.
By STANSTENERSEN
To most people, labor is labor, management is management, and never the twain shall meet. Lawrence city officials, a group of college faculty are trying to prove them wrong.
Talk easy for labor, management
Their method? Talk—amended by such adjectives as " frank," " honest," and " friendly." They hope that by talking problems out, the relationship between the city and the sanitation workers will be a cooperative rather than a hostile one.
"You know what words come up when you have a problem." Let's visit." said Ford.
Such hopes for honest talk are not new. They are the staple of international administrations. But Norman Foster, associate administrator, welfare and a union organizer for the past 25 years, said he had never before heard talk about managers that worked as well as this.
The talk began in May, when the sanitation workers, at Forer's suggestion.
asked for meetings with city officials. Sanitation workers had come to Forer a month before, asking his help in organizing them into a union.
Since May, talks have involved leaders of the sanitation workers; Buford Watson, city manager; Mike Wilden, assistant city manager; George Williams, director of public works; and Forer. The participants have discussed such issues as safety, efficiency of the work crews and a more systematized approach to trash packaging.
ANALYSIS
Some of the reasons for the success, he said, are fortuitous—a happy mesh of personalities, a common appreciation of candor. Other reasons stem from both sides' awareness that they are public servants.
"Very simply, the workers need the public," Forer said, "and so does the city management. The alternatives are either to do everything with the community cooperatively. If people believe that they
"At the outset, any kind of cynical
stance is evident. The side went by the
boards," and Forer."
The result, he said, is that city officials and sanitation workers have agreed to work on a comprehensive study to improve both conditions and efficiency of the department.
need each other—that they have a
interest-then what interest from
it is a cooperation pathway.
Again, comprehensive plans are nothing new. But Forer said he had seen too many such plans fall because they were actually presenting only one side.
"There's a contrast between objective data and how they are utilized," he said. "In a community situation, data are used to justify one position or the other. As an academic, wittingly or unwittingly you're working for a client."
Because of the cooperation between the two groups, Forer said, the workers are more willing to be observed by researchers and the city is more willing to provide data for the study. The result will be a more objective study, he said.
The five faculty members are Scott McGill, director of the center; Gary Wamsley, associate professor of political science; Steven Fawcett, assistant professor of human development; Judith Tolman, assistant professor of social welfare; and Forger.
The comprehensive study has brought more people from the University into the talks. The study is being conducted by five faculty members and six graduate students, and is being coordinated through the University Community Services Center.
Because the study looks at all sides of the department's operation, Forer said, it will try to determine how the department can do the best job for the people of Lawrence and also provide for the welfare of its employees. It also provides an efficient and efficiency, and inefficiency, absenteeism, wages and a "good accurate profile" of the average sanitation worker.
"It's tough to provide good service and still pick up six years of National Geographics in the middle of a hurricane," he said.
The study will also deal with the public's role in trash collection. Forer said it would probably make recommendations about the city's enforcement of trash collection ordinances and customers' packaging of trash.
Forer said he thought the involvement of the University Community Services Center
Group's goal efficient flight
The elimination of unnecessary drag in general aviation aircraft is the goal of a three-day NASA sponsored workshop ending at the Arkansas Hall, the Space Telescope Center.
The reduction of drag will significantly fuel consumer demand. Jan Rockan co-founder of the company.
Drag is the force that reduces the forward motion of an airplane. General aviation aircraft includes all planes except large passenger planes and military aircraft.
"We could easily knock off 30 to 40 per cent of fuel use," with only minor alterations in the shape of the aircraft, Rokam said.
Roskam is chairman of the department of aerospace engineering and director of the flight research laboratory at the University of Kansas.
Roskam said when there was no shortage of fuel, pilots didn't have to worry about drag. But shortages and the rising fuel prices that accompany them have now made military industry the new economic incentive to develop new ways to conserve fuel.
During the workshop, 50 representatives of colleges and universities, NASA and the aircraft industry will examine current research on drag and then formulate a research program aimed at significantly reducing drag in general aviation.
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was in keeping with the idea of community involvement stressed by Chancellor Archie Dykes and accented by the Outreach program.
"This is one of the only projects of the university that provides any support for the university's staff, faculty, or students. University usually provides services for the government, management, or the poor. The blue-collar workers are the most numerous of the workforce and account as far as the University is concerned."
"We should do more to make working people feel that the University is actually their property. Most of these men were born and raised here, but they've never set foot on the University except to attend a sports event or pick up the trash."
Phil Bohlander, secretary of the sanitation workers' union, said the workers were surprised that the University would help them at all. There had been much pressure to get things over the talks began, he said, but conditions had improved considerably since then.
Ferer said conditions in Lawrence encouraged cooperation. Lawrence is small, has no concentration of power, and has a small number of friends. In larger, more fragmented cities, he said.
Perhaps the twain can meet. It's not often that you hear someone involved in labor negotiations say, as Fever does, "We make sure we work with the landlord and feel secure that the word is bond."
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