THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 198
VOL. 99, NO. 103
Iran parliament votes to end ties with Britain
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iran's parliament voted yesterday to steer tiers with Britain, which were restored to normal only three months ago, unless the United States and the Satanic Verses" and stops criticizing Iran for ordering the author killed.
The official Islamic Republic News Agency said the parliament gave Britain a week to meet the conditions, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatch's government made clear it would not do so.
"The British position will not be altered by threats of any kind," said William Waldegrave, minister of state in the Foreign Office in London.
Thatcher told the House of Commons that freedom of speech and expression are "subject only to the laws of this land . . . and will remain subject to the rule of law. It is absolutely (fundamental to) everything in which we believe and cannot be queried with by any outside force."
Author Salman Rushdie, 41, was
born in Bombay, India, to Muslim parents but now is a British citizen and does not practice religion actively.
Rushidle has been in hiding since Feb. 14, when Iranian patriarch Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini commanded followers to kill him. Khomeini and many other Muslims believe that Rushidle's novel blasphemes Islam and the prophet Mohammed
In Moscow, the Kremlin made its first comment on the controversy
Foreign Ministry spokesman Genendy Gerasimov said that Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet foreign minister, discussed the matter for two hours with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayat and President Ali Khameen during a three-day visit to Iran that ended Monday.
yesterday, saying the Soviet leadership was concerned about the matter.
Charles Redman, the State Department spokesman, said yesterday in Washington that the United States and Britain had urged Shearidnardize
"Every civilized nation has an international responsibility to state its abhorrence to death threats," he said. "No responsible member of the community of nations should let them go unanswered."
to bring up the subject in Teheran.
IRNA said the decision by the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, was endorsed by the Council of Guardians who must approve legislation.
It said "nearly all" the 201 deputies
attending yesterday's session voted for the bill, which was introduced two days ago. The Majlis has 270 members, but some were absent and the credentials of others have not been since elections in April and May.
Deputies stood, cheered and praised Mohammed and his descendants after the vote, the report said. According to IRNA, the amendment requires Iran to comply with Iran's demands was proposed by more than 100 deputies.
Voters narrow field of candidates to six:
Vote will be unofficial until Friday
by Carrie Harper Kansan staff writer
An unofficial 29 percent of Lawrence's registered voters narrowed the field of City Commission candidates from five to one in yester-year election.
The six candidates who will advance to the April 4 general election are, in order by number of votes received, David Penny, Shirley Walters, Dennis Constance, Marci Francisco and Jeff Areisberg.
Patty James, Douglas County clerk, said the votes would be unofficial until Friday's canvassers邀, 29 percent is 8,331.
With the final election results in, Lori Martin, Lawrence resident celebrates with her mother, Shirley Martin-Smith.
The six candidates will compete for three commission seats. Mike Amyx vacated his chair when he was elected to the Douglas County Commission, and Sandra Praeger decided not to run for re-election. Constance's term expires this year.
The top two finishers in the general election will get four-year terms in the commission, and the third place finiser will get a two-year term.
See COMMISSION, p. 6, col. 1
Student Senate will consider condom distribution
Kansan staff writer
by Stan Diel
Ten thousand condoms will be distributed as part of Condom Sense Week in April, if a bill passed by a Student Senate committee last night is approved.
The Senate Finance Committee sent to Senate a bill that would provide $2,330.75 for condoms, pamphlets, buttons and advertising. If passed, the bill would have to be approved by the Chancellor's office and the Board of Regents.
Jane Hutchinson, chairman of the Student Executive Committee and co-sponsor of the
bill, said that the condoms would be distributed as part of Condom Sense Week from April 24 to 28.
"Last year, we did this during fee payment. This year, we're taking a different approach. We'll set up tables at Wescoe Beach." Hutchinson said.
The condoms would be accompanied by pamphlets in an effort to inform students about the danger of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Hutchinson said.
handed a package with a condom in it (last year). We're trying to take a very balanced approach to this issue. It is our responsibility to get this information out," she said
Brook Menees, student body president and co-sponsor of the bill, said that the condoms and packets would not be distributed to pro-life sex but rather to inform students about ADRs.
"The purpose of having condoms in there is to raise discussion." Menges said.
"I think some people were offended to be
to take discussion. Members said.
In other business, the committee voted to
money would go towards an honoraria to pay for speeches by Tony Brown and Julian Bond. Alpha Phi Alpha, a predominantly black fraternity, would sponsor the speeches.
$2,445 @ to pay to start a computerized scholarship search program, which would be administered by the office of student financial aid.
$900 to the General Union of Palestinian Students for a lecture about Palestine by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a northwestern University professor.
Classification of memos questioned at North trial
$ 3,355.20 to the Black Student Union. The
■ $120 to the Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Oliver North's Iran-craontrial trail to a bail and was thrown into confusion yesterday by documents introduced in court as classified, but made available in versions to a private activist group.
Gesell said, "For 2 1/2 weeks, a jury has been ready to try this case and hasn't been able to try it. Now I hear we are dealing with classified documents that can be classified ex post facto."
North's lawyer Brendan Sullivan asked the judge to throw out all 12 criminal charges in the case and he admitted that he were guilty of "a fraud on the defense."
U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gessell said he was "not trying to look for sanctions" against anyone but was concerned about "getting to the bottom of what you're on" regarding what classified information at the trial.
Bromwich said it was his understanding that a document could be classified even though it was in the public domain.
The memos had been written by Robert Owen to North during a two-year period when Owen acted as a courier between North and rebels fighting the government in Nicaragua.
"My concern is whether this presents an example of looseness in governmental dealings with this problem of classified information," the judge said during a lengthy afternoon hearing. "I would not bother all the pretrial work on rules for handling such information would have to be done again."
The stumbling block was the discovery that 10 memos introduced in the trial with names and other information blacked out had long ago been in the minds of many. The Christian Institute as part of a lawsuit it filed. The group is opposed to
administration policy in Central America.
Thomas Hylden, Owen's lawyer,
said that at a conference with pro-
secutors on Feb. 10, he noticed that
they were working from a censored
version of one memo, and he
remarked at the time that his copy
was uncut and that he had given a
copy to the Christie Institute.
Michael Bromwich, a member of the prosecution team who was at that conference, said he called in a security expert who said he would retrieve the institute's copy. Bromwich said he forget about the matter until the defense raised it late Monday night.
Minority students say racism at KU happens in covert and blatant forms
Two white students walking on campus last spring talked about suntans.
"Who boy, you look like a nigger, one guy said," Green said. "It annoyed me because I thought they were ignorant."
And Stephanie Green, Kansas City, Mo., junior, who is black, was listening
by Cynthia L. Smith
Kansan staff writer
when she was walking at the corner of 15th Street and Naismith Drive because a man leaned out of a passing truck on a passing truck and valled at her.
"he yelled 'nigger' and asked where the white women were," she said. "I looked at him with a like, "I'm so bad." "have you lost your mind?"
Green said she also was annoyed
Green said black students at the University of Kansas would be faced with racism both before and
after graduation.
"You've got to know when to fight back, and when you should just look at the person like they're about to buy about your business," she said.
Environmental lawsuit is dismissed
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the situation for minority students at KU had improved in some ways.
See MINORITY, p. 6, col. 5
"I think there is evidence, some
A lawsuit brought by an environmental group to stop the destruction of cottonwood trees on the bank of the Kansas River was dismissed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., yesterday.
Kansan staff writer
The lawsuit pitted the group against the city of Lawrence and developers of the Riverfront project.
by Candy Niemann
The suit was dismissed when U.S. District Judge Dale Saifell found that the group did not have the power to bring the group had not shown any harm to its members.
He also found that the group had failed to give the defendants 60 days notice of the lawsuit, a violation of two federal environmental acts.
Protect Our Eagles' Trees, a citizen's group formed to protest the demolition of the trees, had filed Feb. 22 against the city of Lawrence, the Lawrence River Plaza Associates, the U.S. Army Corps of Corps of Engineers, the Department of Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The group contended that the defendants violated four federal environmental acts when they
decided to allow trees to be cut for the Riverfront project.
Robert Eye, attorney for POET,
said the 15 trees were used by about
20 bald eagles every winter. The
eagles perched on the trees near
an area of the Kansas River crucial to the birds' feeding, he said.
Eye said members of POET chose to remain anonymous because of fear of retaliation
"The issue of anonymity is a red herring." Eye said. "It shouldn't
See TREES, p. 6, col. 1
Committee amends bill on abortion
Changes would allow
court to give consent by John P. Milburn
Kansan staff writer
Passage of the bill by the Senate would not affect married girls under 18 or those otherwise not in the care of a parent or guardian.
TOPEKA — A bill that would require girls under 18 to get parental consent before having an abortion was approved yesterday for passage by the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
'This is an attempt to make the judicial bypass work.'
Sen. Doug Walker
Case law requires that any statute regarding parental consent have a judicial bypass provision for gaining consent.
Committee members spent more than an hour approving amendments to the bill that were presented by State Sen. Doug Walker, D-Dosawatonie. The amendments sought to reinforce language of the bill regarding judicial bypass, which would allow teenaged girls to get consent from the court instead of their parents or guardians.
"This is an attempt to make the judicial business work." Walker said.
The committee amended the bill to allow Social and Rehabilitation Services workers to counsel teenaged persons in court on their behalf, petitions in court on their behalf.
Walker said that the amendment providing for a counselor was the most substantial change to the bill.
Before it was amended, the bill would have required girls who wanted judicial consent to go through the court process themselves. Walker questioned whether a girl should navigate the court system alone.
A provision for a private meeting between the petitioner and judge to discuss the petition for abortion also was approved. The amendment was intended to protect the anonymity of girls who sought judicial consent.
Walker proposed that if the judicial process became bogged down, consent be granted for the abortion, ensuring that the pregnancy would not pass the first trimester and create health risks for the girls.
A related change would provide legal counsel to girls who want to anneal denials of judicial consent.
The committee approved an amendment to allow only teenaged girls who had been under the supervision of SRS for at least six months to receive consent for an abortion from that agency.
State Sen. Eric Yost, R-Wichita, said that without that requirement, SRS could assume responsibility of a child and order an abortion immediately.
Some committee members said that passage of the bill would create more problems for girls and their parents.
"Everything is referring to the courts," said State Sen. John Strick Jr., D-Kansas City. "We're dragging an individual through the courts for something that is totally the parents' responsibility."
State Sen. Norma Daniels, D-Vailey Center, said that she was opposed not only to the amendments but to the entire bill.
She said that the bill would make it easier to take the life of the unborn. Daniels did not vote for approval of the bill.
A clause requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or licensed surgical facilities was stricten from about its constitutionality were raised