THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1989
Meese testifies in North trial
VOL. 99, NO. 118
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III testified at Oliver North's trial yesterday that the specter of 12 hours hung over the White House in the 72 hours after aides discovered a planned diversion of Iran arms sale money to the Nicaraguan contras.
In two hours of testimony, Meese said he told then-President Reagan about the division the day after North confirmed that the plan, outlined in a memo, had become a fact.
"Your worst nightmare had come true?" asked North lawbrent Dallivan.
"Yes, it was," Meese replied.
"You knew that spelled trouble?"
The nightmare that Sullivan referred to was the revelation that two activities in which North was deeply involved had been intertwined: the admiration of the arms sales — a fact that money from the arms sales — with U.S.
officials' knowledge — was going secretly to the rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government at a time such aid was forbidden by law.
"Merging of those two factors could cause toppling of the president himself." Sullivan asked.
The memo, which had survived massive shred-
ing efforts by North, his secretary and an aide,
was found on Nov. 22, 1986, by Meese aide William
Bradford Reynolds in North's office. The next day,
a Sunday, Meese met with North and others at the
Justice Department.
Meese said that in meeting, North appeared surprised that Meese had obtained the memo, which outlined the arms sales profit diversion plan.
He also testified that North assured him then that the plan was Israel's, and U.S. involvement with it.
"I believe he asked where we had gotten the memo." Meesie said.
had contacted contra leader Adolfo Calero and suggested Calero open three accounts in Switzerland to get the money from the Israelis.
Meese said he talked to the president the next day and they talked of the impact the public disclosure might have.
"I felt it vital that there not be any appearance of a cover-up," he said.
The former attorney general said the administration also was concerned that its political opponents might get hold of the information about the diversion before it could be made public.
"I don't know whether the actual word impaction was used." Meee testified. But he said there was concern over "the tremendous consequences" of the discovery.
It was decided that Reagan would hold a news conference. At the Nov. 25 news conference, Reagan announced that North had been fired, and that his boss, Adm. John Poindexter, had resigned.
Key Soviet officials suffer election loss at hands of voters
Commission reviews plan of expansion for bookstore
MOSCOW - At least 37 key Communist Party and government leaders went down to embarrass defeats in the Soviet Union's first election, according to results trickling in yesterday from across the nation.
The Associated Press
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
The losers in balloting for a new national parliament included a candidate member of the ruling Politburo, the premiers of Latvia and Lithuania, and 27 Communist Party leaders from major cities, regions and departments, according to results obtained from interviews and various press reports.
The Lawrence City Commission last night tentatively approved the expansion of Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Rd., and voted to require all KU fraternities and sororities installed systemally in systems installed within 10 years.
The tentative approval of Jayhawk Bookstore's expansion comes after complaints from neighborhood residents that the addition would cause traffic congestion and would be a major priority in primarily residential neighborhood.
The expansion is dependent on a judgment made by a district court. The court will review city statutes regarding additions to nonconforming structures. As worded, the statutes could be interpreted several ways, said Gerald Cooley, city attorney.
They could be interpreted that the bookstore could expand up to 50 percent of the commercial space of the building, or that the store could expand by 50 percent of the total building space, which includes two stories of apartments above the bookstore.
The statutes also could be interpreted to read that the store be allowed to expand into the apartment and that it would not expand into residential space.
If the court rules against it, the proprietors of the store then would have to submit a new expansion proposal to the commission.
The current proposal would expand Jayhawk Bookstore by 800 square feet on its main floor, 456 square feet on the second floor, add an attic of 916 square feet and build a loading dock next to Naismith Drive.
The commission unanimously approved Jayhawk Bookstore's expansion on the stipulation that the court rule that Jayhawk Bookstore could expand into 50 percent of the space, including space, including the second story.
Cooley said it would take the court about 60 days to decide on the statutes.
The commission also unanimously voted to require all KU greyc houses to install complete sprinkler systems for fire safety by August 1, 1999. The houses are required to have sprinkler systems by 1994, areas and basements by 1994.
He said there was a national average of zero deaths and 11 injuries per 1,000 fires in greyp houses, while 48% of the fires in 1,000 fires in boarding house
Rooney cited several statistics from the National Fire Protection Agency indicating that members of greek houses were at less risk to death by fire than residents of other dwellings.
Another concern was the possibility of asbestos being exposed when the sprinkler systems were installed, causing exposure to the workers and additional costs of asbestos removal to the Greek houses.
Several persons testified against
the ordinance, including Davis Rooney,
member of the Kappa Sigma
fraternity corporation board.
Maj. Richard Barr, Lawrence fire marshal, said 20 percent of KU's Greek houses had experienced fires in the past eight years.
"If the point of this is to prevent deaths, then the wrong group is being singled out." Rooney said.
"We are trying to reduce a threat that is unacceptable." Barr said.
Giuliana Nakashima/Special to the KANSAN
Human molecules
Pharmacy students on the floor of Allen Field House form the molecules that make up water. Yesterday, the 20 students, who are trying to raise money to build wells in Ethiopia, were trying to raise awareness of the need for clean water.
Although those rejected for seats in the new Congress of People's Deputies retain their current positions, the 2014 elections would examine the losses.
The humiliation was greatest for officials who ran unopposed on the ballot and still lost because more voters came to vote the voters crossed out their names.
man Gennady Gerasimov said yesterday that 80 percent of the party's candidates had won.
Activists in cities from Leningrad to Kiev waged "cross-out" campaigns urging citizens to vote against their names on the ballots.
Izvestia reported yesterday what it called the "sensational" result that no one was elected in 168 electoral districts where only one or two candidates ran because so many citizens voted against them.
in the weeks before the election, activists carried posters in Kiev illustrating ballots with several names crossed out. Ukrainian Communist Party chief Vladimir Shcherbitsky won anyway, but voters rejected both the party chief and the president of Kiev. All three ran unopposed.
In Leningrad, Deputy Mayor Alexei Bolshakov also lost despite facing no opposition. Scrapes of hand-made posters appeared throughout the city in recent weeks suggesting that police reason alone, according to a resident.
"Maybe they were wrong for their hears," he said. "Maybe they failed to advertise their platforms. Every case should be taken separately."
The defeat of so many top Communist Party and government officials was seen as a blow to the establishment, but Foreign Ministry spokes-
In Lithuania, where voters rejected the Baltimore republic's president, premier, two vice premiers, the planning commission chairman, the minister of justice, five party officials and a mayor, local media questioned whether the Council of Ministers and Presidium should be dissolved "in light of the people's lack of trust."
Run-off elections are scheduled April 9 for districts in which candidates failed to win more than 50 percent of the vote. But it was not clear how soon there could be new nominations and entirely new elections in the districts where voters rejected one or both candidates.
Human rights activist Andrei Sakharov is expected to be nominated next week as a candidate from the Academy of Sciences, where only eight of 23 contenders received 50 percent of the votes on the first round. The academy has 20 guaranteed seats in the new congress.
Although a number of the winners are progressives from inside and outside the party, it is not clear if they will constitute a significant force on the 2.250-member Congress of People's Deputies, or on the 2.180-member National parliament to be chosen from among the deputies.
Boris Yeltsin, the former Moscow party chief who campaigned for an end to special privileges of the party elite, swept to an 89 percent victory in the parliamentary district encompassing all of the capital.
Senate OKs budget with potential surplus
Kansan staff writer
bv Stan Diel
Student Senate last night gave final approval to the revenue code budget, but not before allocating additional money to eight groups, including $50,000 to the University Daily Kansan and $40,000 to KU on Wheels.
Budgets for 20 revenue code groups were approved, ending more than two months of committee and Senate debate. Revenue code groups receive Senate financing for two years, disbursed in yearly allocations.
The $50,000 Kansan windfall allocation, the largest of eight allocations to revenue code groups, was
The additional allocations were part of a 235,000 windfall that Senate expected in 1991 and that some will receive in their 1991 budgets.
approved after debate about whether a recommendation that the money be spent on a new computer system should accompany the bill.
Julie Adam, Kansan editor, said that money was needed for operating expenses and not a new computer system because the Kansan had a reserve fund already allocated for a new system.
"We need $50,000 for operating costs for putting out the paper. We have the money for a new computer and the money for operating costs," she said.
Brook Mences, student body president, said that he thought the Kansan did not need the money and that any other students would be spent on a new computer system.
"We are here to grant honest requests. We are not here to grant
whims." Menees said. "I think we did a damn good job in deciding what their operational budget will be for the next two years."
Chris Shirling, Senate treasurer,
said that it was irrelevant whether
the money was labeled for operating
expenses or a new computer system.
"It's semantics," Shirling said.
The $235,000 windfall, from which eight groups could receive additional funds, would be a result of Recreation Trust's investigation and restricted fee status beginning in 1991.
Senate also allocated $40,000 of the windfall to KU on Wheels. Pat Warrine, Finance Committee co-chairman, said that $25,000 of the $40,000 could go to pay for a new Secure Shuttle service. The previous service went bankrupt early this semester.
Windfall allocations
Student Senate last night approved the revenue code budget and allocated the $235,000 windfall that will result from Recreational Services receiving restricted fee status in 1991.
women's Transitional Care Services $ 3,700
KU Bands 22,143
Graduate Student Council 5,000
University Daily Kansas 50,000
KJHK 11,470
Legal Services for Students 10,560
Campus Transportation 40,000
Student Senate Special Projects 10,000
Unallocated Account 82,127
Total $ 235,000
The windfall would occur because the $28 student activity fee, from which Recreation Services currently
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Researchers collect documents to show Kansas' black history
by Candy Niemann
Kansan staff writer
receives financing, would not be reduced if Recreation Services gets its financing from the new fee.
From a Kansas high school yearbook to a telegram from Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall that was sent during the 1648 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case. The project in Kansas project has penetrated the lives of more than a thousand people in the state.
They have done research in Kansas City, Kan, Wichita and Topeka and have traveled to Manhattan, Salina, Coffeyville, Junction City and Hutchinson.
Since spring 1986, KU researchers have been traveling across Kansas gathering more than 150 linear feet of documents and photographs to demonstrate the history of blacks in the state.
An advisory council of Lawrence citizens will meet Saturday in the Spencer Research Library to begin the search for black history materials in Lawrence.
Now they are focusing on Lawrence.
The project was made possible in 1986 by a $108,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in Washington, D.C.
"We have great expectations for land, and we're rich in material said Dabraber Dambridge."
The project will result in an exhibit that will be housed in the Spencer Research
Dandridge said that the project would officially end May 30 but that the library would continue to collect information on black history in Kansas.
Library as part of the black history section
Collection. Parts of it are
already on collection.
"We want to make sure that the black operatives from the Kenya experience." Dardsiage said.
Exodusers were blacks who migrated to Kansas after the Civil War. That migration is considered to have been part of the first migration from South to North during the 1870s and 1890s.
The exhibit is called "Beyond the Exodusters."
The exhibit focuses on the family, church and education experiences of blacks in the city.
"We want to look into all corners of the black community, from the famous to the so-famous," said the Rev. Bernie Norwood, advisory council member. "It would be like a Swiss cheese if we didn't touch on everyone."
Norwood said that the Lawrence population was about 25 percent black during the period.
"We have a very rich history here." Norwood said. "I hope this project will help kids who grow up in Lawrence to identify
Black history materials are on display as part of the "Beyond the Exodusters" exhibit at the Spencer Research Library. The exhibit will promote black culture in Kansas and will become a permanent part of the Kansas Collection.
with their roots and want to stay here. There is a lot to be proud of."
Bryan Ruby, Kansas City, Kan., junior and student forecaster for the KU Weather Services and Statistics, said Lawrence received 1.54 inches of rain between 8 p.m. Monday and 2 a.m. yesterday. This brought Lawrence's total March precipitation to 1.29 inches, he said.
It's a bit late for St. Patricks day, but the campus is green to wear a touch of lace.
Recent rain adds color to campus but drought stays
by a Kansan reporter
Alen Bacon, weather technician for the National Weather service in Topeka, said that although every little bit helped, the drought still persisted.
Ruby said Lawrence's precipitation still was low this year at 3.01 inches. The average for this period is five inches. He said the two inch deficit, added to last year's 13 inch shortage, meant there still was a long way before the drought would be broken.
Meanwhile, many students are enjoying the spring weather, and some said the recent rain had helped change the campus' suit of brown to a lively green.
James Taylor, Kansas City. Mo., senior, said he noticed the change on his way to class yesterday.
"Over on the hill by the Campanile it really got a lot greener overnight," Taylor said.
The forecast calls for a 30 percent chance of rain tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures are expected to range from 50°F to 75°F.