THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1989
(USPS 650-640)
VOL. 99, NO.107
Senate approves abortion consent legislation
by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Members of the Senate approved a bill yesterday that would require girls younger than 18 to obtain parental or judicial consent before having an abortion.
After lengthy debate, which included an unsuccessful attempt to amend the bill by State Sen. Richard Rock, D-Arkansas City, the Senate moved to suspend the rules and take final action on eight acts. The Senate approved the parental consent bill 32-8.
State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth,
said the bill addressed the issue of when
parents' rights ceased to exist.
"Do Kansans have rights and responsibilities to their children?" Reilly asked. "The answer is, very simply, yes."
The bill was amended to allow a grandparent to give consent. State Sen. Doug Walker, R-Osawatomi, said it was not uncommon for grandparents to attempt to make the same amendment last
week in the Federal and State Affairs Committee, but his effort was defeated.
Also added to the bill was a provision allowing court counsel for girls attempting to obtain judicial consent. State Sen. Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka, said the provision was consistent with current procedure for juveniles charged with crimes.
Parrish tried unsuccessfully to amend the consent requirement so that it applied to those younger than 16.
Reilly said in opposition to the motion that more than 90 percent of all abortions would be exempt from the bill if the amendment
were approved He pointed out that parents minors' medical bills and acts of vandalism
Rock's attempts to amend the bill stirred debate about parental notification. He suggested that parents be given 48 hours notice of parental notification. This suggestion caused him to appear, he said.
"I have been bombed this weekend by persons who oppose, some violently oppose, this amendment." Rock said. "I do not respect the efforts made to intimidate me, to threaten me, and the suggestion that my religious beliefs are somehow inferior to
theirs."
State Sen. Gene Anderson, D-Wichita, opposed the amendment, saying it would further reduce the rights of parents to exercise responsibility for their children. He said the amendment would not improve the parent-child relations. The motion failed.
Reilly said the notification amendment was not discussed in committee, but should be considered in the House.
He said the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services' role had to be defined for pregnant girls under its care.
In the KU Symphony, Lisa Tannebaum, Lawrence senior, plays the harp during the 1989 Conducting Workshop. The workshop started yesterday and continues tomorrow at Murphy Hall.
Competition rates visiting conductors
by Christine Winner Kansan staff writer
For an orchestra conductor, the orchestra itself is his instrument. And most conductors don't have the opportunity to practice their instruments often, said Evan Fuchs, conductor of the Ohio Light Opera.
wailton is one of three guest clinicians who are evaluating 11 visiting conductors from as far away as New York and Connecticut. The conductors arrived yesterday at the University of Kansas to participate in one of three national conducting workshops sponsored by the Conductors' Guild of America.
Whallon said evaluations were important for beginning conductors.
"You need to know, 'Are you really communicating everything that you can?' " he said.
Being chosen as a workshop site was a boost to the KU orchestra department said, Faye evz. of the professors profuso orchestral activities and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra.
"It's an honor that they gave us because they know we're running a quality program," he said.
The workshop continues tomorrow.
The two other workshops are at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and at Columbia University in New York City.
Perez-Gomez said the guild was the most important conducting association in the country. This is the first time KU has played host to the guild's conducting workshops.
Other guest clinicians for the workshop are Samuel Jones, president of the Conductors' Guild and director of orchestral activities at Carnegie Mellon University, and David Eifron, director of orchestral activities at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., and music director of the Youngstown (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra.
See WORKSHOP, p. 6, col. 6
At the 1989 Conducting Workshop, Leon Burke, director of the Lawrence Chamber Players, conducts the University Symphony
Orchestra. Burke was videotaped and then critiqued by clinicians yesterday at Murphy Hall.
Strike influences spring trip plans
by Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
Local travel agencies have mixed emotions about the effect the Machinists' Union strike against KU students' Normal Break plans.
Nancy Renfrow, manager of Adventure Travel, 544 Columbia Dr., said the strike was going to affect them greatly.
Eastern is canceling flights in 24-hour increments, so the flight schedule for Friday and Saturday is not definite, Renfrow said.
"We have about 50 people, for Spring Break, booked on Eastern," she said.
"I can only assume they're no going to fly." she said.
Renfrow said a lot of people wanted to sell their tickets because they were unsure about Eastern.
going away. the ticket will get a refund as long as their flight is canceled. You can'tust cash in a ticket."
People with Eastern flight tickets may go stand-by on other carriers or confirm space on Continental Airlines. Renfrow said, Continental is owned by Texas Air Corp., which also owns Eastern.
Eastern Airlines yesterday canceled its five non-stop flights scheduled out of Kansas City International Airport to Atlanta, said John Duba, aviation administrator for the airport. "It's no business because they only
"It's no big deal because they out, have five flights," he said.
"For ticketed people, it will be an inconvenience, very definitely," he said. "They are going to try and fly the planes, and they are the best revenue producers."
Duba said that Delta Air Lines and Branifield Airways offered stop-service out of KCI to Atlanta.
Art Kent, vice president of Continental Airlines for corporate communications, said that Continental had been affected by the Eastern Railway.
"We are going to respond to the market demand in those areas where we already have flights," he said.
Of the added sections,he said, "It's like adding a railroad car on a train."
people with confirmed reservations on Eastern can have their tickets endorsed to Continental, or both. They will be in the same class of service, he said.
"We are honoring Eastern ticket holders" he said. "That's the bottom line."
Anne Walters, business manager of Sunflower Travel Service. 704 Massachusetts St., said it had not had too many strike-related problems.
Walters said the travel agency had been watching Eastern closely for the past several months. She
Machinists' strike prompts Eastern to cancel flights
The Associated Press
Strike-crippled Eastern Airlines yesterday shut down shortly all operations and idled more than 5,000 workers, saying it could not afford to maintain its business because plots were full. Three-day-old machinists' walkout.
Earlier yesterday, Eastern asked a ederal judge in Miami to order members of the Air Lines Pilots association to return to work. The association, meanwhile, announced slans for a job action starting today hat could delay every flight on every airline in the nation.
Eastern pilots have honored a strike by 8,500 mechanics and ramp service workers that began Saturday after a 17-month labor dispute. The strike has grounded most flights, stranded thousands, masked the nation's seventh-largest airline to the brink of collapse.
See STRIKERS, p. 6, col. 4
that they had been skeptical about booking flights on Eastern since the airline reduced the number of flights departing from KCI.
"Trade magazines and memorandums we've received from Eastern have indicated it might happen, so we have been looking for it," she
Most people flying out of KCI choose to book a seat on a different airline because all of Eastern's flights go through Atlanta, she said.
"We've only had three phone calls from people who needed to be reaccommodated," she said.
Walters said that Continental had agreed to accommodate Eastern ticket holders as best they could.
Nancy Farrell, an Joyahwk Travel Inc., 2721 W. Sixth St., said that the travel agency did not have any customers booked on Eastern
"They've been talking about this for some time," she said. "I steered away from any package with them."
Water cleanup bill could prevent crisis
by John P. Milburn Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
**TOPEKA** - A bill providing for the cleanup and preservation of the state's water supplies awaits further approval in the House two weeks ago.
If passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Mike Hayden, the bill would set aside more than $18 million ammunition and equipment to contaminate water sources and preserve existing ones. The House passed the measure 80-44 on Feb. 21.
State Rep. Marvin Barkis' 51,458th,
minority leader and chief sponsor
of the bill, said yesterday that he
was pleased with the bill that passed
This is one of the first times we have approached a problem before it
has reached the crisis stage," Barkis said.
He said that the bill was generated entirely by the Legislature to deal with the problem and was not outlined by a state agency. He said the bill would be used by State Rep. Jim Bruden, R-Clay Center and Speaker of the House.
Under the program, $6 million would be appropriated from the state general fund for the project. The fund would come from user fees include
2 percent on the gross receipts from retail sales by public water supply systems of water delivered through mains, lines or pipes.
1 percent on the gross receipts from retail sales of fertilizer used in the production of plants and plant
products for resale
products for resale.
■ 2 cents per 1,000 gallons of water used for industrial use.
used for industrial use
2 cents per 1,000 gallons of water
used for stock watering.
The bill also establishes regulations for the use of pesticides and the disposal of solid waste. According to state reports, these items present the greatest threat to public water supplies.
$50 per well for irrigation use.
Revenue from the fees will go to the cleanup of contaminated water sources and the preservation and maintenance of clean supplies. More than 400 sites, including 10 in Douglas County, have been identified by the Department of Health and Environment in Kansas as being contaminated or potentially contaminated. Revenue from the water program would be used to clean up these sites and help identify others.
Barkis said user fees were important to the financing of the program because the fees would maintain a steady revenue even if future legislation
See BILL, p. 6, col. 1
Soviets propose military cuts
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze's proposals went far beyond the reductions that NATO officials plan to suggest at conventional arms talks Thursday.
VIENNA, Austria — The Soviet Union yesterday proposed huge reductions in troops and armor, and recommended that the Warsaw Pact and NATO eliminate all battlefield nuclear weapons from Europe.
The Associated Press
estimates give the Soviet-led alliance at least a 2-1 advantage in tanks.
"The Warsaw Pact's conventional military preponderance, especially in the spearhead of attack, is what makes it a great threat," Baker said.
He urged Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to implement the new thinking that guides economic and political reform in the Soviet Union by renouncing the Brezhnev Doctrine.
That doctrine permits military intervention in a Soviet boc country in the event of a liberal insurrection. The late President Leonid I. Brezhnev introduced it after the Red army, crushed the liberal Praise Spring of 1968 in
Czechoslovakia.
Baker also said that Australia would organize a conference to prevent the spread of chemical weapons and that Bush was exploring ways to speed the removal of U.S. chemical weapons from West Germany.
However, Baker said unilateral action was not enough.
tainer, said unilateral action was not enough. The foreign minister's arms reduction program went far beyond NATO's by adding missiles, combat aircraft and soldiers.
In the Soviet second phase, 500,000 men on each side would be demobilized.
As Shevardnadze explained it, the Soviet plan would be as follows:
First phase (two to three years): Eliminate the imbalance in troops and arms, cutting 10-15 percent from the lowest numbers.
- Second phase (two to three years): Reduce forces by another 25 percent and withdraw battlefield nuclear weapons to a safe distance from the line of contact between the military alliances. That would make much of West Germany, along with East Germany and Czechoslovakia, a nuclear-free zone.
■ Third phase: Convert remaining forces to a strictly defensive character.