THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY. MARCH 27, 1989
(USPS 650-640)
VOL. 99, NO. 116
Giuliana Nakashima/Special to the Kansan
Brazilian bash
Bringing in Easter to Brazilian music is Vitoria Eaton, left, and her daughter, 8-year-old Melaia of Brazil. Melisa won a prize for her costume during Saturday's sold-out Carnaval in Liberty Hall. Traditionally, Carnaval is celebrated before the start of Lent. This year's celebration was sponsored by the Brazil-Portugal Association.
Soviet Union conducts a real democratic election; vote fraud causes worry
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Millions of Soviets filled out ballots yesterday providing a choice of candidates for the first time in parliamentary elections that President Mikhail Gorbachev called a triumph for his vision of democracy.
However, maverick candidate Boris Yeltsin, running to represent Moscow in the new Congress of People's Deputies, claimed that many people were worried about the possibility of vote fraud and ballet-box stuffing. He complained that the elections weren't completely democratic.
Moscow polling stations, brightly lighted and festooned with red banners and Soviet flags, opened at 7 a.m. Observers reported light voter turnout in the morning, and people were waking up to find their people were waking for the polls later in the morning.
Voters will elect 1,500 deputies of the new 2,250-member congress, which later will choose the country's president and elect from its own ranks delegates to a new full-time Supreme Soviet legislature. The country itself
Official public organizations, ranging from the Communist Party to a national association for book lovers, are directly electing 750 delegates to the new assembly.
In yesterday's voting, hundreds of races were being
contested for the first time in 70 years, a major change in Soviet politics. In the past, the Communist Party has allowed only one approved candidate to run for each seat.
Gorbachev, who voted with his wife, Raisa, at a polling station at Moscow's Institute of Chemical Physics, told reporters that the sometimes boisterous campaign was just what the Kremlin leadership wanted.
"The electoral law that we passed has justified our hopes," Gorbachev said. "It has advanced the political thought and social activity of the people, and this is what we wanted to achieve."
When it was still Saturday night in the capital, voters in the Soviet Far East began casting ballots in voting stations 11 time zones away.
Aboard the riting Mir space station, cosmonauts Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Valery Polakov were also among the first to vote, radioing their choices to Earth. Tass said.
People age 18 and older — about 190 million of the 283 million Soviets — are eligible to vote, according to the Central Election Commission. Voting is not mandatory, and ballots are secret. Tass said.
About 180,000 polling stations nationwide opened yes terday morning and closed at 8 p.m. local time.
Full returns will not be known for about 10 days.
Fishermen seek compensation for losses in Alaskan oil spill
The Associated Press
VALDEZ, Alaska — Fishermen fearing lost income from the nation's biggest oil spill gathered yesterday to seek compensation while efforts continued to clean up the crud oil wildlife-rich Prince William Sound.
"We're not ready to absorb any loss," said Rikit Ohta, spokesman for United Fishermen of Alaska. "We expect full compensation."
Exxon Shipping Company scheduled a meeting yesterday between fishermen and a company claims officer.
Meanwhile, the toll on the Sound's wildlife started to mount. Department of the Interior spokesman
Pamela Bergmann said a wildlife specialist sailed in the Sound on Saturday and saw 75 ducks and two fish. The water was not captured for cleaning, she said
The 987-foot tanker, Exxon Valdez,
carrying 1.2 million barrels of North
Slope crude oil loaded at Valdez, ran
 onto a reef 25 miles from the port
 early Friday after swinging out of a
 traffic lane to avoid ice. Valdez is
 the southern end of the 800-mile
 Alaska oil pipeline.
Estimates put the spill at 240,000 barrels of oil, or about 10.1 million gallons, making it the biggest U.S. spill on record. The only larger oil-related accident in U.S. waters was the spilling and burning of up to 10.7
million gallons of oil when two ships collided in Galveston Bay in 1979.
Tests were under way to determine if dispersal chemicals should be used despite the potential for environmental damage.
The spill came when Prince William Sound fishermen were preparing for the herring season, which is also by harvests of shellfish and salmon.
Many are concerned that they will get only minimal harvests because of the oil damage and will face the short-term problem of bad publicity.
Some city leaders say development will require work
"This could run our reputation in Asian markets for years to come," said Jim Brown, a netter.
by Steven Wolcott
Kansan staff writer
Edison's note: This is the last of four articles examining the economic condition of Lawrence. Today's article focuses on the future of the city's economy.
by Steven Wolcott
Price Banks, city planning director, said the Lawrence economy would keep growing.
Lawrence business and University leaders generally agree that the Lawrence economy will continue to grow, but they differ on how that growth should occur.
"I don't think we need to do very much, just sit and watch it happen." Banks said. "We're blessed with a good university and a great location
"I think a community of this size is pretty easy to track development in. If we started to get into trouble, we'd probably become more pro-active."
According to a survey conducted by the
The Economic Climate of Lawrence
Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, Lawrence has budgeted $130,000 in economic development money for 1989.
The Institute surveyed the 30 largest cities in Kansas, and Lawrence' development business
Wichita, at $1,474,116 had the largest budget. Chanute, at $48,500, had the smallest.
Bill Martin, director of economic development for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and one of the people responsible for using the $130,000 in development money.
takes an active role in the city's economic growth.
Martin said an important part of his job was to recruit new businesses to Lawrence.
"You continually have to create new jobs to replace the jobs that you lose," Martín said. "We develop lists of companies we like to see here, companies that would fit well."
Martin said most of the targeted companies hadn't expressed an interest in relocating in Lawrence.
in going to law school.
"Companies just don't work that way," he said. "They don't say, 'Oh God, I've got to have a facility in Lawrence, Kansas.'"
Martin said he spent much of his time recruiting businesses from the Kansas City
"Kansas City is a good market for us because it's easy for us to get over there and work it." Martin said. "It would be attractive for a Kansas City firm to open up a branch
facility here because it would be easy for them to manage it."
Existing firms are often the bait that attract new businesses to Lawrence.
A meet new www.wakarusa.com Martin said Oread Laboratories, 1501 Wakarusa Drive, was doing a lot of work with Japanese pharmaceutical companies.
"It's our goal to try and attract some of those companies into establishing research and development facilities here," Martin said. "That way they'd be closer to their coworkers at Oread, and to the people at the University that are doing research in their
Anthony Redwood, professor of business and executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, said the primary focus of economic development in Lawrence should be the creation of good-quality, high-paying jobs.
He said that most people employed in Lawrence could earn more elsewhere.
"I think the potential in Lawrence is for the gestation of small, technology-driven firms, which are, in one way or another, related to research-driven university." Redwood said.
He said for that to occur there had to be close collaboration between the University and its faculty mentor in Law professors.
"We need to be pressing for the good-quality, clean industry providing good-quality jobs," Redwood said. "Every (city) wants that, but Lawrence has the potential to get it that most other communities in Kansas would not have."
Mike Views, president of Downtown
downtown industry corporation, said he
had to interview him.
"We're getting to be much more of a basic industrial center." Vieux said. "There are a lot of businesses in the Kansas City area and even farther away that see Lawrence as an
Drought, limited employees bring heavy load to maintenance workers
See ATTRACTING. p. 14. col. 1
by Merceda Ares
Kansan staff writer
Allen Mitchell and Don Reed utility workers for facilities operations, planted a row of juniper bushes this month in front of Hoch Auditorium — for the third time this year.
Mitchell said last year's dry summer had caused extra work for the landscape maintenance crew, which has seven fewer people than in 1983 when they had 36 workers. He said it was hard for the sparse crew to keep up with the usual campus maintenance work because of the added burden of replanting lawns and bushes.
See related story p. 6, col. 1
"There's four of us taking care of the top plus the north side (main campus), Mitchell said. "We define it, our management team, we could be a heck of a lot better. We wouldn't be showing bare ground."
Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscape maintenance for facilities operations, said 25 fullday and four part-time employees cared for KU's 1,000-acre campus. Compared with other schools in the state, KU has the fewest landscape workers per acre cared for.
"About 10 years ago in midsummer, I had 70 people," he said. "This year we'll have 40, if we're lucky. We were able to do a lot more maintenance with 70 people. A lot of the campus was more accessible as such, the sweeping sidewalks — the finishing touches."
Mathes said because of budget cuts in 1983, all facilities operations departments were experiencing personnel shortages.
Budget cuts detrimental
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said that when the cuts were made in 1983, all departments lost money and
personnel. However, he said the cuts did not have a dramatic effect on facilities operations.
"It was balanced out across the board over the 17 departments," Anderson said. "We're making changes, and we're adjusting, training, planning techniques, and we've changed our lawn-care techniques."
He said the department purchased bigger and better equipment in the last eight years that would enable it to do more with less manpower.
"I feel that we're maintaining the campus as well or better in some areas than we have in the past," he said. "The campus is as good as it was."
But Bob Forter, associate director of the physical plant for facilities operations, said personnel in the rescue escape department was a problem.
"It certainly has hurt them more than it has anybody else," Porter said. "I don't think they'll ever reestablish all the positions that were lost. It would be nice to get back to full speed, but we survive."
Source: Facilities and operations
KANSAN graphic
He said that since the 1983 cut, the total number of employees had
"It's a hard time getting kids to work for us," he said. "There's some pretty soft jobs around
stayed about the same. However, it is difficult to get students for part-time help, he said.
they'd rather get into. There are some other avenues to pursue such as seasonal help, but we don't like it because our costs us more money in benefits.
See KANSAS, p. 6, col. 4