THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, APRIL 24,1989
The economy was hampered by sluggish industrial and agricultural performance, disruptions and confusion stemming from Gorbachev's crackdown on illegal mining in the earthquake that struck Armenia in December 1988, the report said.
Gorbachev cuts budget for defense
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Soviet defense spending rose 3 percent last year despite President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's promises to cut his military budget, according to an intelligence report released yesterday.
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Although the reforms have a good chance of success in the long run, they are likely to cause Gorbachev short term political problems from consumers who want to see faster improvement and from bureaucrats who resent their loss of power in the decision-making, the report said.
"According to our estimates, the Soviet economy grew by only about 1.3 percent in 1988 — the second year he yearly showed," the study said.
But the study, prepared jointly by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, also said Gorbachev was laying the groundwork for his pro-20 percent cut in defense spending.
The cost of rebuilding Armenia will exceed the estimated $11-2 billion price tag of cleaning up after the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster, the CTA predicted.
The study said chopping military spending so sharply would require the Soviets to reduce their armed forces by more than the 500 100-troop battalions of the Gorbachev government in December, meaning they cut backs in the Soviet military.
The newly declassified report painted a grim overview picture of the Soviet economy. It said Gorbachev had been forced to slow the pace of his economic reforms and to delay such key steps as allowing the market to set wholesale and retail prices.
All those factors contributed to a budget deficit that the CIA estimated at 9 per cent of the Soviet Gross National Product, which is the value of all goods and services produced by an economy. Last year the Kremlin admitted for the first time that it was running a deficit, although estimates of the amount varied among Soviet economists.
Officer and deputy found not guilty
Kansan staff writer
Poor economic performance has forced Gorbachev to back away from some programs, and the need to provide consumer goods has been impelling him to decrease defense spending, the report said.
bv Angela Clark
"Gorbachev remains committed to his original vision of a revitalized economy," the report said.
soviet media indicated that the campaigns to modernize industrial plants and equipment, reform the economic system and the once-mounted anti-alcohol campaign were one of the most striking major disruptions" it said.
LYNDON — A KU police officer and an OA county Sheriff's deputy Friday were found not guilty of charges of one count each of witness intimidation, conspiracy and battery.
James Michael Hough, a KU police officer since last April, and David C. Linton, an Osage County sheriff's deputy, were charged Feb. 22 in connection with threatening of Lisa K. Shoon of Osage City.
County District Court Judge James Smith
At the preliminary hearing, Hough an-
dion waived their right to a jury trial and cate-
lized that they were unable to attend.
Sloop, an ex girlfriend of Hough's and the mother of his two-year-old child, testified Wednesday against the two men. She said the two men had beaten and threatened her to keep her from testifying against them to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, although she was unsure of the exact date of the incident. The two men also admitted that enforcement officers, including Hough and Linton, had smoked marijuana at an October 1987 party at Pomona Lake.
of marijuana Feb. 8. The case is still pending and no court date has been set, said Cheryl Jenkins.
As a result of the investigation, the five officers were arrested on charges of possession
Hough is temporarily suspended with pay from the KU police force.
Linda Ruth Meier, Wichita sophomore and Hough's girlfriend, was the key witness in Hough's defense. Speaking with a clear and confident voice, Meier said Thursday that she had been with Hough during the time Sloop alleges he was beating her.
"I've been with him every day since the end of January and February," she said.
While on the witness stand Wednesday, Sloop
said that she did not report the incident until days after the beating.
"I didn't report it because I was scared," she said.
When she did report the incident, she spoke to two law enforcement agencies. She told Dave Christy, KBI special agent, that the incident had occurred Jan. 31. Later that day, she spoke to Michael M. Mueller (Usage County sheriff's deputy), and Stewart D. Jillard them that the incident had occurred Feb. 17.
Protesting the use of chlorofluorocarbons by Racon Inc., Doug Schell, Manhattan senior, holds up a sign calling for their ban.
Marchers protest chlorofluorocarbon plants
In response to questions by Stewart, Sloop she had said Feb. it because it was suggested.
hv May Evans
Kansan staff writer
WICHTA — Under a hot, dusty sky Saturday, about 1,300 people gathered in sight of two chemical mixtures that produced chlorolurorcarbons.
Yesterday, 22 of the protesters returned and illegally entered one facility to try to halt the manufacture of CFCs, the protestors said.
The companies, Racon Inc., one of the largest U.S. producers of CFCs, and Vulcan Chemicals, a chemical supplier of CFCs, have neighborling sites about five miles south of Wichita.
Environmental studies have linked the production of CFCs to ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect.
During Saturday's rally, groups from as far away as California and Washington. D.C., congregated near the two chemical plants for an afternoon of music, theater and art, where such groups as the interfaith Ministries of Wichita and the Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation
The activities began about noon and culminated in a police-escorted march to the front gates of the two chemical plants. About 24 state and local police officers monitored the crowd.
Officials of neither Vulcan non Racon were available for comment
Lawrence was represented at the rally, and one of the events was a skit by Lawrence residents, a takeoff on the "Wizard of Oz."
One performer, Bruce Blance, said he was at the rally representing the Lawrence Pagan Political Action Group. He said the group was concerned with the harm caused by the production of CFCs.
"As a pagan, my spiritual ties are to the Earth and its inhabitants." Blanc said, "any harm to humans inevitably returns to us."
The ralliers ranged from toddlers accompanying their parents to the very old.
Ann Bergkamp, a Colwich farmer representing the Sedgwick County Farmer's Union, said she and her husband had farmed in Kansas for 60 years. She said problems with crop production and
the drought brought them to the protest.
"Something is causing this change in the weather," Berg-kamp said. "We've had droughts, but not like this."
Darrell Ringer, a Concordia farmer and representative of the Rainbow Coalition, said he was involved with Saturday's event because environmental problems caused his farm to fail.
"I'd like to go back into farming, but I don't want to go broke twice in one decade." Ringer said.
Others at the rally carried signs warning of the effects of ozone depletion, which, according to the
Environmental Protection Agency, allows an increased amount of ultraviolet radiation to reach the earth's surface.
Bill Cather, Wichita lawyer, said he wanted to make ozone depletion a local concern.
Many of Saturday's protesters were from Boulder, Colo., and it was primarily Boulder residents
"People in Kansas aren't aware that their house is on fire," Cather said.
Cather said the Environmental Protection Agency estimated skin cancer cases would increase by 10 percent, and that he already done to the ozone layer.
who, at 7 a.m. yesterday, entered the Racon facility in an act of civil disobedience.
Twenty-two people, none from Kansas, were arrested about one and a half hours after entering the plant and were charged with trespassing. All were released yesterday afternoon on their own recognition and will be arraigned today.
Fooley Lee, part of a Washington, D.C., film crew which entered the building illegally, said the members of the group that entered the plant did no damage but sat quietly until police removed them.
Carl Thompson, a Boulder construction worker, was part of a group of about 25 who rallied at the same time outside the gate. Thompson said that the decision to enter the facility was made Satur-day but that participation in the action was on an individual basis.
"We agreed that those not CDing (participating in the act of civil disobedience) would not be viewed in a harsh light." Thompson said.
"I have a few phobias of this system," he said, pointing at the Sedwick County courthouse.
Jayhawks win three Relays events; 2,000 participate in weekend meet
by Cynthia L. Smith
Kansas sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
it's really scary to have a meet of this size when we we're still learning how the meet runs." Schwartz said.
Being host for the Kansas Relays was a challenge for the first-year coaching staff, coach Gary Schwartz said.
Ballas was less likely to miss high school and college athletics during the weekend, and six Kansas committees were of highest championship watches.
See related story p. 12, col. 3
"I'm a Kansas Jayhawk and this is our meet." KU senior Patt Manson said. "We're supposed to win it."
Sheila Papatiantayilou, Eastern Michigan, trips over fallen runner Dora Kyriacou, Southern Illinois, while teammate Mireille Sanka swerves to avoid them. The mishap occurred during the women's one-mile relay Saturday at the 64th annual Kansas Relays. Southern Illinois finished third, and Eastern Michigan finished fourth.
Manson was an individual champion in the pole vault competition. Senior Craig Watches tied the 5,000 meter relay team that shakes his arm relay team also first finished.
"This is the first RELays for the new staff," said Kansas assistant track coach Them Hamilton. "It's really started out on a good meet, but we still need to attract more teams in the conference."
conference.
Hamilton said he thought Schwartz would call other Big Eight coaches to find out what would lure them back to
Arkansas Tyson Institutional during the weekend because the level of
Nebraska coach Gary Pepin said his men's team participated in the
the Relays.
This artist's rendering of the design for the Lied Center shows the building's main entrance on the south facade.
See KU, p. 12, col.
Performing arts center plans unveiled
1992 finish expected on $17-million facility
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
Architects' plans for the $13-million Ernst F. Lied Center for the performing arts were released yesterday by the University of Kansas.
The center, to be constructed on West Campus, will include a 2,100-sheet auditorium accessible from lab and restroom facilities on campus and reinforced-concrete building.
The structure will be built on a 20-acre site at the southwest corner of 15th and Iowa streets, and a road will be built directly south of the center from the corner of 15th Street and Crestline Road. Jamison planned, and a parking lot with about 1,000 spaces also would be built.
The four floors will include lobbies, the theater boxes, a grand staircase and space for such activities as receiving food and drinks at the building's exterior will be glass.
Planning for the center began when the Ernst F. Lied Foundation of Las Vegas, Nev., donated $10 million in May 1988
A total of $17 million will be needed for the project. Additional financing is being solicited from private sources and University financing.
"I'm sure Hoch Auditorium was a nice building when it was built,but
The architectural firm of Hemingin,
Durham and Richardson Inc. of
Omaha, Neb., designed the building,
and R. Lawrence Kirkgeard and
Associate of Downers Grove III.
Designer for firm for architectural
acoustics.
basisically it is a basketball court," said Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts. "It was not designed for the kinds of things the University uses it for. We have been talking about a new building for 15 years."
Thompson said construction was scheduled to start in January, with the building be ready for occupancy in late spring of 1992.
strong said many of the activities that took place in Hoch would be moved to Lied Center.
"The scale of the building will better serve the University," Modig said. "The size is more appropriate."
He said Hoch would be converted into phase two of the science library, possibly with a link between the two buildings and lecture halls on the north side. The shell of the building will remain intact, but the building will be gutted and the interior reconstructed.
"Right now, it is conceptual," Modig said. "We will hire an architect when the Legislature and the Board of Regents give us funding
The University has requested $13.3 million from the Regents for the three-year renovation of Hoch Auditorium.