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Wednesday, June 21, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Kansas guardsmen join the drug war
by Gary Patton Kansan staff writer
For the first time in history, the Kansas National Guard has joined the state's war on drugs.
Earlier this month, the National Guard transported its first team of drug enforcement officers by helicopter in a search for marijuana fields, said National Guard spokesman MaJ. Joy Moylan revealed the specific details of the mission because of its sensitive nature.
The National Guard will play only a supporting role in the drug war, transporting drug enforcement officers by air and ground to find remote drug farms. Also, ground radar equipment will be used to detect drug smuggling by air.
Galen Davis, Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden's special assistant on drug abuse, said the state goal was to show an increase in identifying cultivated plots. Last year officers destroyed nearly 4 million marijuana plants worth an estimated $1 billion
"The National Guard assists you a better means of surveillance at a time when drug traffickers are using more sophisticated means to protect
their goods," Davis said.
The National Guard's new role was made possible by a $363,000 federal grant received June 1 from the Department of Defense as part of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.
The act appropriated at least $40 million to pay states for local National Guard support. Only Vermont and West Virginia have not requested military assistance, according to an Army Times report.
Moser said the state had received $25,000 more than it had requested. She said the additional funds would be used to pay for maintaining the program's aircraft.
Frank Ybarra, Hayden's deputy press secretary, emphasized the Guard's limited role.
"The Guard will never be involved in drug burs." Ybarra said. "They will never be directly involved in arresting drug offenders."
Moser said only National Guard aviation units, which fly the state's fleet of 42 helicopters, had participated in the program so far. Future military operations would solve any necessary Guard unit that had the necessary support equipment.
WASHINGTON — Hispanics flooded into California, Florida and Texas and accounted for about one-fourth of the nation's total population growth in the first half decade, the Census Bureau reports.
The Associated Press
Population of minorities growing
Those states and New York each now have more than 1 million Hispanics. This detailed analysis of minority populations since the 1980 census.
Sixteen states, led by New York, had more than 1 million blacks as of 1985, while California had the largest number of other minorities, the study found.
But the black population of California was growing faster, adding 243,000 between 1800 and 1855, with more than 600,000 increase for the Empire State.
Blacks comprise the nation's largest minority at 28.9 million, the study reported. New York had the largest black population at 2.7 million, followed by California with 2.1 million blacks.
The nation's Hispanic population jumped from 14.3 million in 1980 to 17.5 million in 1985 through a combination of high birth rate and immigration. Although they were only 6.3 percent of the U.S. population in 1980, Hispanics
California has the largest Hispanic population, the report showed, at 5.9 million — one-third of all Hispanics in the nation.
made up about one-fourth of the 12 million national population increase during the next half-decade, the report stated.
Texas was second at 3.7 million followed by New York at 1.9 million and Florida with 1.1 million.
California added 1.3 million Hispanics between 1980 and 1985, while Texas gained 700,000. Florida, New York and Illinois also added more than 100,000 Hispanics each.
Among states with a million or more blacks the fastest growth rate for that group, 16 percent, was posted by Florida.
Mississippi had the largest proportion of blacks in its population, 36 percent, the report found, followed by South Carolina's 31 percent, and Louisiana's 30 percent.
During the first half of this decade only West Virginia and the District of Columbia had a decline in black population.
more than four out of five blacks reside in metropolitan areas, the bureau found. And the shift continued to be in favor of cities with
blacks migrating out of rural southern regions and into urban areas.
The report added that four metropolitan areas have more than 1 million black residents New York (3.2 million), Chicago (1.6 million), Los Angeles (1.2 million) and Philadelphia (1.1 million).
Almost 90 percent of all Hispanics live in metropolitan areas, with more than half in seven metro areas, the study found: Los Angeles (3.6 million), New York (2.3 million), Miami (815,000), San Francisco (775,000), Chicago (757,000), Houston (595,000) and San Antonio (568,000).
Texas, Virginia and New Jersey had the fastest growing populations in this group, however. Texas' other races increased 67 percent to 314,600 while the group was up 52 percent to 126,800 in Virginia and 51 percent to 184,000 in New Jersey.
nation also included 7.3 million other minorities, a category that includes Asians, Pacific Islanders, American Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts. This group jumped 1.9 million over five years, largely as a result of international migration.
Skinner is anxious to come back
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Nobody's surprised that he's as aggressive and as optimistic as he is because that's the way he always was."
The main goal for Skinner has been getting through school, said his mother. Judy Skinner.
"My mental processes are the same. I can still tell the same dumb jokes." Skinner said. "I can'tuggle but it's not a big problem."
"He's always been enthusiastic about his major," she said. "He wont go back to school tomorrow, but know he will get back eventually."
everyday. Skinner believes his accident will make him a more sensitive industrial designer.
"I think it will make me more aware of how things could be made more accessible for elderly or handicapped," he said.
Skinner said some things will be different when he returns to KU.
"If anything, it'll just change my point of view," he said. "It takes some people years to do that. I lucked out."
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