THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1989
Washburn plan deleted
Senate declines request for Regents membership
VOL.99, NO.114
Kansan staff writer
by John P. Milburn Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A proposal that would have made Washburn University the eighth member of the Board of Regents system died yesterday on the Senate floor.
The proposal was attached to a bill that would phase out out-of-district tuition for Kansas community colleges and increase state aid to community colleges. The bill was not passed. The bill did pass without the Washburn proposal.
See related story p. 10, col. 4
Both programs were part of Gov. Mike Hayden'sMargin of Excellence Partnership Act.
Hayden issued a statement saying he was disappointed with the Senate's decision but would continue to search for other ways to finance higher education.
Members of the Senate debated the amendment for more than two hours before voting to delete the proposal. The delegation from Shawnee County brought the university on its merits to Topeka and Kansas.
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Hayden issued a statement saying he was disappointed with the Senate's decision but would continue to search for other ways to finance higher education.
State Sen. Alicia Salisbury, R-Topeka, said that duplication of programs among the Regents institutions was already a problem but that duplication of law schools with the University of Kansas was not because of the local, state and federal courts in Topeka.
She said people visited Topela from all over the nation and world, and it was important to have a large army. "The war was not easy."
Several members of the Senate graduated from Washubn and told the chamber how the university provided the opportunity to get a degree while working at the same time, State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, said he was able to get his degree while working several jobs.
The amendment to delete the Washburn pro
posal was made by State Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Hays. Moran said he was aware that members of the Senate had developed strong positions on both sides of the issue, and who had Regents institutions in their districts.
Supporters of Moran's motion said that more time needed to be spent by the Legislature and the Regents to know exactly what effect the addition of bursarium would have on the state and the university.
Johnston proposed an alternative method of funding Washburn that would have increased state aid to 35.2 percent during a five-year period and would have provided a direct grant of $500,000 to the university's general fund. The proposal was rejected.
"I have not come to the conclusion that the only solution is for Washburn to become part of the Regents system." State Sen. Michael Johnston, D-Parsons and minority leader, said.
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"What's right is to delay this action and look for other alternatives." Winter said.
Regents Center to get partial state financing
by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - The Senate gave unanimous approval yesterday for partial state financing for the construction of a $6 million University of Kansas Regents Center in Overland Park
Senators voted to transfer $2 million from the state general fund to KU's construction and debt service fund. The University is responsible for acquiring an additional $4 million from private sources.
Stanley Kopilk, executive director of the Board of Regents, said he was pleased that the Senate passed a bill that other hurdles still remained.
"In final analysis, when the session is completed, money for the Regents Center will be there," Koplik said.
increase the enrollment capacity from 1,400 students at the present center to 2,200 at the new location. Construction of the center is scheduled to begin in April 1990; the center will be open for use in October 1991.
Completion of the project would
Financing of the project was approved in a bill that fully finances the second year of the Margin of Excellence. The bill will be reviewed and approval after iteration and approval before being signed by Gop, Mike Hayden.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, were not available for comment.
Leaders of cartel indicted for drugs
The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Leaders of Colombia's Medellin Cartel were indicted yesterday on charges of cocaine trafficking and masterminding the slayings of the Colombian minister and a U.S. drug informant.
The sweeping indictment alleges that both Nicaragua and the Bahamas were used as way stations for $1 billion in drug imports to the United States. Among those charged is a former Minister Lydia Dennis, Prime Minister Lydia Dennis.
In all, 30 people were charged in the second wave of indictments resulting from last May's conviction of Carlos Leider Rivas, one of the leaders of the cartel, which officials say is responsible for up to 80 percent of the cocaine imported into the United States.
The indictment accuses cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria of organizing the assassination of Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla on April 29, 1984. It also says Escobar and Fabio Ocho Vazquez directed the Feb. 19, 1986, slaying of former Drug Enforcement Administration informant Barry Seal.
Other figures indicted included carte kingpins Jose Gonzalez Rodriguez Gacha, Jorge Ochao Vasquez, Jose Ochao Vasquez and Gonzalo Meja.
Also indicted was Jack Carlton Reed, who was Lehder's co-defendant at last year's trial.
Lehder and Reed were convicted on May 19 of conspiring to import cocaine. Lehder, an uninfected co-conspirator in the new indictment, is serving a life sentence Reed is serving a 15-year term.
The indictment accuses Escobar, Rodriguez, Meja, Reed and the two Ochoas of running a continuing criminal enterprise, which is punishable by a maximum life sentence, and conspiracy to import drugs.
The indictment ment that after the slaying of Bonilla in Colombia, the top cartel leaders led Colombia, and eventually traveled to Nicaragua. Lehder and others paid Nicaraguan officials to allow them to stay in that country and to use it as a base to smuggle cocaine to the United States.
The Bahamian charged in the indictment, Everette Bannister of Nassau, is charged with receiving bribes to allow the cartel to use the islands just off Florida's shores as a wav station for drug shipments.
They allegedly stored 1,400 kilograms of cocaine at Los Brasiles Air Force Base in Nicaragua before flying it into the United States.
Aside from Reed, who was already in prison, only five of those indicted yesterday were immediately arrested, authorities said. They were identified as Yemel Nacel of New York City, who is Lehder's former wife, Barry Kane, a Hyannis, Mass. lawyer, Jeffrey Edward Lewis of Fort Lauderdale, Fl., Diana Helen Thornhill of Southern California; and Donald Gary Parko of San Rafael, Calif.
Serious strategy
Students of the Women and Violence class watch a demonstrating by certified instructor Lisa Elliott, Kansas City, Mo., on how to thwart a 230-pound assailant. Elliott and her husband, Rick
Gibbins, left, who portrayed the assailant, are from Mid-America Model Mugging of Kansas City, Mo. They said the class enabled women to gain self-protection skills.
Atlantis moved to launch pad
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis was moved yesterday to the launch pad in preparation for liftoff on a mission to send a radar probe to map the surface of cloud-shrouded Venus
The spaceship is scheduled for launch April 28, with a crew of five astronauts whose main task will be to start the 7,600-foot Magellan spacecraft on its 15-month journey to Venus.
A U.S. spacecraft has not been launched toward the planet since 1970. Magellan will be the first mission to be released from a space shuttle.
Magellan's assignment is to orbit Venus and map the surface with a powerful radar that will send back images of features as small as 150 yards across. The U.S. Pioneer 13 probe, sent to Venus in 1978, could not distinguish features smaller than 60 miles across.
The April launch will be the four shuttle flight since September, when the program resumed after a 32-month lapse because of the Challenger explosion. Atlantis flew in December.
Veteran shuttle flier David Walker will command the crew of the flight. Ronald Grable will fly the craft; the mission specialists will be Mary Cleave, Norman Thagard and Mark Lee.
Lawrence policy is protection of its central business district
This is the second of four articles about the economic condition of Lawrence. Today's article examines Lawrence and the retail economy.
Plan 95, Lawrence's planning guide through the year 1995, states: "It shall be the general policy to emphasize and lend planning support to the Central Business District as the primary regional commercial
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
The Economic Climate of Lawrence
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town Lawrence, A Kansas Corporation, said, "Over the years, essentially since Lawrence was first begun, the retail store has been the retail center of Lawrence."
City and business leaders have made it a policy to protect that central business district — downtown.
Mike Vieux, president of Down-
"While admitting that we are not geographically in the center of the urban area, economically in the center of the city, we very much in the center of things."
Vieux said the downtown economy was healthy, with a net gain of seven businesses and 33 new jobs in 1988.
See LAWRENCE, p. 6, col. 1
Student,21 in hospital after falling
by a Kansan reporter
A 21-year-old KU student was reported in critical condition yesterday after falling one and a half meters to Design Building, KU police reported.
James Skinner, Overland Park junior and industrial design major, had been working on a project for a class early yesterday morning, said Schuyler Bailey, KU police spokesman.
While taking a break with a friend, Skinner sat on the fourth floor railing of the building's open starwell and looked up at the sun. The second and one-half floor starway.
Skinner was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and taken by LifeFlight to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Nancy Miller, Med Center spokesman, said Skinner was in critical condition and comatose. She said he had a severe, closed-head injury
Joe Zeller, chairman of the department of design, said that students usually were in the building late at night to work on projects.
Cristiani is named president
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador — Alfredo Cristiani of the rightist Republican National Alliance was yesterday in the presidential election.
Francisco Merino was the vice presidential candidate of the alliance, known as Arena. The council did not immediately release a final vote tally from Sunday's election.
Preliminary results gave Cristian slightly more than 53 percent of 576,339 votes tabulated to just more than 36 percent for Fidel Chavez Mena, candidate of the incumbent Christian Democrats. More than 1.8 million registered to vote, and turnout has been estimated at close to 50 percent.
In a statement, the coalition charged that council members were voiding ballots cast for its candidate, Guillermo Ungo, and padding the vote for the candidate of the conservative National Conciliation Party.
Chavez Mena conceded defeat on Monday.
Also yesterday, President Jose Napoleon Duarte flee to Washington for further treatment of his terminal cancer, and the defense minister pledged investigations into the slayings of two Salvadoran journalists and a Dutch cameraman covering the election.
The leftist Democratic Convergence announced to the elections council that its delegate withdrew from the official vote count to protest what it called fraudulent maneuvering by the body.
Air Force troopers killed Roberto Navas, 30, and seriously wounded Luis Galdamez, 34, near a roadblock on the outskirts of San Salvador Saturday night. Both were photographers for the Reuters news agency.
Mauricio Pineda, 26, a soundman for a local television station, was killed Sunday morning by a soldier in the eastern province of San Miguel. The army acknowledged Pineda that he had been shot and said that a corporal implicated in the killing was under arrest and would face prosecution.
Cornel Lagrout, 30, a cameraman for the Dutch television network IKON, was fatally wounded during a gunfight Sunday between rebels and troops in San Francisco Javier, about 70 miles east of San Salvador.
More than 70,000 people, most of the civilians, have been killed in the 9-year-old war between the guerrier and the U.S. backed government
Attempt to revoke Kansan funds rejected
bv Stan Diel
Kansan staff writer
In a vote that failed, Student Senate last night considered rescinding the University Daily Kansan's revenue code status, a move that could have been over how the paper's money would be spent.
After the motion to rescind revenue code status failed on a 30-9 vote, Senate heard a motion to revoke all Senate funding of the publication. That motion also failed.
Kevin Farley, the liberal-arts senator who
moved that the Kansan's budget be cut to zero, said the Kansan could support itself.
Farley said he thought many people who picked up the paper on campus did so to clip the edges.
"A lot of time I don't think the purpose of putting up the paper is to get the content. Faring it."
If the paper were sold on a subscription basis or sold in machines on campus, Farley said he thought Senate would be removed from a risk of liability if the paper were sued for libel.
Steve Brown, senator and Kansas City, Mo.,
senior, said he didn't think the budget should be
"I don't know why the UDK is being persecuted to the bejesus by everyone here tonight," Brown said. "This, to me, is absurd, and there is no rational way it will pass."
"What's going on here? They increased their salaries by $21,000, and we didn't know it."
Martha Aaron, a law senator, said she questioned the Kansan's ability to manage its
Aaron said. "I have serious questions about their fiscal responsibility."
Paul Leader, co-chairman of the finance committee, said the Kansan, which was the only revenue code group to receive a cut from last year's allocation, had been cut enough.
"I think a 50-percent cut is a sufficient cut," leader said. "It's based on what they need to equip."
after deliberating about changes in the business code group groups, including the Kasman, no change is made.