THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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(USPS 650-640)
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1989
VOL. 99, NO. 137
TV host Buchanan compares presidents
by Brett Brenner Kansas staff writer
George Bush needs to be more confrontational if he is to be a successful president, said Pat Buchanan, former presidential aide and co-host of the political talk show "Crossfire."
Buchanan spoke last night to about 500 people in the ballroom at the Kansas Union as part of the J.A. Vickers St. Memorial Lecture Series.
Buchanan, who worked for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, said he thought the combative styles of McCain and Reagan made them successful.
Bush runs into problems because he is trying to gloss over the conflict with Congress, Buchanan said.
"He's trying to have an Eisenhower presidency," he said. "But, can he do it when the U.S. is divided as it is today?"
He said that Bush had done a good job during the first 100 days of his presidency.
"He has established himself as the president in the hearts of the Americana public," he said. "His approval rating is proof of this."
Buchanan said Bush should not have backed down, or continue to back down, on four issues: the John Tower nomination, the budget deficit, Supreme Court nominations and Soviet policy.
Bush's first problem was the John Tower nomination.
"He will have to choose on these issues," he said. "He has a lot of assets going in."
"The Democrats defeated him for boozing and womanizing, when some of the biggest boozers and womanizers in Congress were on that committee," he said. "The terrible humiliation to him, and he said. 'Let beygens by beygens.'"
patrick J. Buchanan, co-host of Crossfire, a political talk show, answers questions at a conference before speaking in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Buchanan said that Bush would have two options when considering the budget deficit.
If Bush does allow an increase in taxes, he will break his coalition, and the public will think that no politician can be trusted, he said. The other
See BUCHANAN, p. 6; col. 5
City and firefighters begin negotiations
Kansan staff writer
bv Carrie Harper
Salaries, contracts and staffing requirements were on the table yesterday as city officials met with representatives of the local firefighters' union for the first round of negotiations for 1990.
Ray Hummert, city clerk and director of admin istrative services, is the spokesman for the city. Jim McSwain, Lawrence fire chief and Kelly management analyst, also will represent the city.
Russell Brickell, president of the local chapter of the International Association of Firefighters, presented the union's contract proposal. The city will present its ideas and reaction next week. The union
represents 52 Lawrence firefighters.
A reclassification adjustment of 5 percent that the union requested would bring the department to a salary level that would be competitive with departments in a 36-mile radius. The department is ninth out of 11 area departments in reclassification salaries. Lawrence firefighters received a 3 percent reclassification increase in 1988 and a 1 percent increase in 1989.
The union has requested a 6 percent wage adjustment that would account for cost-of-living increases. The firefighters received a 3 percent cost-of-living increase in 1988 and 1989.
Hummert said the city would concentrate on three controversial issues, including salary adjustments. It also will address initiating two-year contracts and starting requirements. Contracts should include:
The union added three clauses to the contract pertaining to limited duty assignments for employees injured on or off duty or for pregnant employees. Brickell said the union also wanted to have a staff person available to take the place of a person who no longer was able to fulfill his duties on a payroll.
Hummert asked how the department proposed to budget for that position, but Sandy Hart, firefighter at the city's fire station, said.
There's 3 more: Measles persists in county, state
by Jennifer Corser
See STAFFING, p. 6, col. 5
Kansan staff writer
Douglas County has had three more confirmed measles cases since April 17, a total of 15 since the outbreak. A health official said yesterday
In addition to the confirmed measles cases, Douglas County also has 29 probable cases pending diagnosis and 30 suspected cases, said Kay Kent, administrator health officer Douglas County Health Department.
Lawrence has three of the confirmed cases, 21 probable cases and 19 suspected cases. Kent said.
Probable cases have the symptoms of measles, which are a rash, a fever, a cough and watery discharge from the nose. Unprotected cases have a rash and a fever
Kent said the health department would reimmunize students at Kennedy Elementary School tomorrow because of a probable case reported there. Last week, 42 students were infected at Schwegler Elementary School.
David Miller, director of immunization for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said the first largest in Kansas since 1977, a time when few people were immunized. Kansas has had 46 confirmed cases this year and 90 probable cases. However that count increases daily.
Because most of the cases are occurring in junior high and high schools, the number of measles cases is lower than it looks like it for the summer. Miller said
"The opportunity for measles to use schools as a vehicle will lessen," he said.
Miller said he called Watkins Mem-
oral Health Center on Friday to offer assistance with the outbreak at the University of Kansas. He also sent additional vaccines, if they were needed.
KU has had three confirmed measles cases this semester. It has four suspected cases pending diagnosis.
Miller said measles recently had been reported in larger numbers across the country and on college campuses. As of April 16, there were 3,000 cases reported in the United States, including more than 2,000 in Texas, where some have died from complications.
"The rule of thumb is that about one in 1,000 cases is a death," he said. "Measures is not a laughing matter."
Miller said the reason for the outbreaks on college campuses was that few schools required immunization before enrollment. Some studies show that as many as 25 percent of college students are not vaccinated.
College students are highly mobile and could be catching the disease while traveling or when in contact with those who travel, he said.
This fall, KU will require proof of vaccination for six diseases, including the measles, from incoming students and graduate and transfer students.
Janet Carl, registered nurse in the allergy clinic of the Lefete Student Health Center at Kansas State University, said K-State had one probable measles case. The health center has an incubation rate that never had measles to be vaccinated.
Marsail Havenhill, director of the student health center at Emporia State University, said Emporia State had one confirmed messes case on April 17. So far, about 200 students have been reimmunized.
President praises crew of USS Iowa
The Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. — Thousands of greiving friends and relatives of the fallen 47 crewmen from the battle船 USS Iowa gathered quietly yesterday and heard President George W. Clinton address "one as 'brothers in eternity.'"
"We join today in mourning for the 47 who perished and, in fact, for the 11 who survived," the president told a packed memorial service at Norfolk Naval Air Station. "They all fell into the hands of a poet, the man behind the guns."
Victims' relatives and hundreds of sailors and officers in dress blues were among the 6,000 people who crowded into a hangar for the service. A bouquet of red roses was placed in front of the podium; behind were a U.S. flag and the battleships's banners. Outside, another 2,000 people listened to the service on loudspeakers.
The service came a day after the World War II-era battle cased into its home port, its gun barrels and machine guns were replaced with white uniforms and black armbands.
Capt, Fred P. Moossy, commander of the Iowa, told the crowd of mourners that he remembered the men of No. 2 turret.
"I remember their faces as they toiled at their guns, sweating an honest sweat that comes from young members dedicated to a great cause," he said.
At the end of the service, while the "Navy Hymn" was played. Bush and his wife greeted and consoled the families of the lost men.
The Navy said 45 victims' families attended the service.
At a press briefing after the reception, Mossally praised the hundreds of courageous men who fought the fire.
Takeshita says he will resign in May
The Associated Press
After a Cabinet meeting, Takeshita told leaders of his Liberal Democratic Party that he wanted to be elected in a televised broadcast.
TOKYO — Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita announced yesterday that he would resign to take responsibility for a loss of public trust and his leadership in public policy. Kecialis, Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Ouchi said.
Kakeshita, 65, who became prime minister in November 1987, has denied wrongdoing but acknowledged receiving more than $1 million in what he called legal political donations from the
Polis indicate the scandal and an unpopular sales tax, which went into effect April 1., have made Takeshita the most unpopular prime minister since World War II.
Parliament is expected to pass the budget by early May.
Recruit Co.
News reports during the weekend said he also borrowed $381,700 from the information publi- ces. He says the money a few months later.
About 17 politicians or their aides and 150 other influential people are known to have profited from sales of hundreds of thousands of unlisted shares in a Recruit real estate subsidiary. Recruit Cosmes in the United States invested in her profit-taking interests when the price sheoared after the stocks were made available for over-the-counter trading.
Recruit also paid hundreds of millions of dollars to influential politicians and their aides as contenders for the presidency, noting that it was seeking favors in return.
A recent poll by the Kyodo News Service put Takeshita's support at 3.9 percent, the lowest ever by Kyodo for a prime minister.
Japanese consulate pickedeted
by Max Evans
Kansan staff write
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — About 20 protesters yesterday marched in front of the Commerce Tower Building, home of the Japanese Consulate General, to protest Japan's involvement in the clearing of tropical rain forests.
The group, including four Lawrence residents, was led by about a dozen Colorado residents and members of the Boulder Rainforest Action Group.
Arielle Stein, of Boulder, said the protest was in support of an indigenous tribe called the Penans, who live on the island of Borneo. Stein said 34 tribal members were to go on trial today in the state of Sarawak, Borneo, for attempting to halt the clearing of a Malaysian rain forest.
Other protests were scheduled in 10
A member of the Boulder Rainforest Action Group displays a sign on a parking garage in Kansas City, Mo.
other U.S. cities
Stein said that Japan was the world's largest importer of tropical timber, buying about 80 percent of all harvested lumber. The United States was the second largest importer, she said.
Richard Heckler, Lawrence resident, brought his wife and two children to the rally, who all carried signs demanding an end to the clearing of rain forests. Heckler said he wished world governmental officials would take action against the deforestation.
"The necessary people who could stop this do not have the ethical backbone to do it." Heckler said.
One of the rally participants, Wayne Sangster, a retired weather service employee from Kansas City, Missouri, contributed to global warming and a thinning of the ozone. He said recent unusual weather patterns could be
See PICKETS, p. 11, col. 3