UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 9, 1995
7A
Yumi Chikamori / KANSAN
Building blocks
Mark Hurt, Kempo Karate club coach and Lawrence resident, gives a self defense instruction to Allan Holt, Overland Park freshman. There are about 20 members in the club, which meets at 6 p.m. Monday and Wednesday at 130 Robinson Center.
Soldier questions safety of barracks
The Associated Press
FORT RILEY — A soldier who was shot in the arm when another soldier went on a deadly shooting rampage, said yesterday that the Army must do something to make the north-central Kansas military post safer.
Staff Sgt. Stanley Ellis wore a colorful shirt and seemed in good spirits as he met with reporters at the base. But he wore a cast on his left arm and said doctors weren't sure if he would regain full use of it.
Ellis was shot twice in the arm March 2 when a soldier who apparently was angry with a supervisor opened fire on his barracks. The gunman, whose name still was
being withheld by the Army, killed another soldier before killing himself.
"I think they've got to do something," Ellis said. "It's dangerous. I don't know how they're going to fix it.
"Everyone thinks the counseling here is pretty good, but you can never have enough. Evidently, he was mad at someone. Maybe if they could've found out, he could've gotten help."
Ellis, a native of Griffin, Ga., recounted the events of the shooting.
He said he had been on the second floor of the Custer Hill barracks when another soldier ran down and said someone was firing a gun on the third floor.
Ellis ran downstairs and told people on
the first floor to get in their rooms. Outside, he told soldiers hanging out near the barracks to get inside and take cover.
When he heard shots, he began yelling,
"He's shooting outside."
Ellis was shot twice in the left arm before making it behind the building.
Pvt. James Evans, originally of McGuire Air Force Base in central New Jersey, was killed in the shooting.
Ellis said he barely knew Evans, remembering him as someone who was friendly and easy to talk to.
Ellis said he never saw the gunman.
Army officials say they haven't been able to locate the gunman's next of kin and won't release his name.
Landon Lecture series hits milestone
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN — The Landon Lecture series — the forum for such political figures as Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and William Westmoreland — is about to mark its 100th address.
Defense Secretary William Perry is scheduled to deliver the milestone lecture Thursday morning at Kansas State University's McCain Auditorium.
When he does, he'll continue a tradition former Kansas governor and failed presidential candidate Alf Landon began nearly three decades ago. It's a series that kept Landon interested and involved in politics until his death in 1987, his daughter, Sen.
Nancy Kassebaum, recalled in a recent interview.
"I always felt it added a lot to Dad's life," Kassebaum said from her Washington office. "It kept him young at heart for a long time. Many times the speakers were friends of Dad."
Kassebaum said her father loved to listen to the lectures and debate the lecturers afterward. After Landon gave the inaugural speech in 1966, he was followed that decade by Reagan, then the governor of California; Kennedy, then a U.S. senator; and Gen. Westmoreland, who commanded troops in Vietnam.
Historian Arthur Schlesinger, and every past U.S. president since Richard Nixon,
About a dozen cabinet members and more than 20 U.S. senators have spoken. Several top foreign figures have appeared, to: former El Salvadorian President Jose Napoleon Duarte, Costa Rican President (and Nobel Peace Prize-winner) Oscar Arias Sanchez and Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro.
has given a Landon Lecture either before, after or during their term in the White House.
Sometimes the strongest and best-received lecturers surprised her, she said. William F. Buckley Jr., the editor of The National Review, captivated the Kansas crowd with a speech on "The Assault on the Free Market" in 1973, she recalled.
Sunday liquor sales still may have problem
Representatives say bill may be slowed by House amendments
TOPEKA — A Senate committee on Monday endorsed a Sunday liquor sales bill and steered clear of amendments, even though some lawmakers think the House-passed measure has a problem.
The Associated Press
The Federal and State Affairs Committee sent the Senate a measure that would allow liquor stores to be open on Sundays, as well as Memorial Day. 4th of July, and Labor Day.
Milkman Day, 4th or buy, and labor Day.
In addition, the bill would allow people to buy liquor with a lenders' card. That is a credit card issued by a bank, such as VISA or Master-Card. Credit cards offered by companies such as Discover or American Express, could not be used, however.
The House passed the measure on a 63-61 vote, to the surprise of many Statehouse observers.
While Sen. Lana Oleen, R-Manhattan, the committee chairwoman, said she wanted to correct what she sees as a flaw in the measure
and change lenders' card to credit card. Supporters of Sunday liquor sales declined to offer an amendment.
If the Senate amends the bill, then it will have to go back to the House. Senators who support the bill are worried that some House members who voted for it have changed their minds since its passage Feb. 2.
"We're all aware of the political situation involved in this bill," said Sen. Mark Parkinson, R-Olathe, who urged committee members not to amend the measure. He said amending the bill would "greatly jeopardize the possibility of this becoming law."
Under the bill, county residents would have to vote to allow Sunday liquor sales. The earliest election could not be held until 1996.
Parkinson said that liquor stores in the border cities, such as those in Johnson County, were losing business to Missouri.
"There's no public outcry for this bill," said Sen. Carolyn Tillotson, R-Leavenworth. "There is an industry-generated outcry."
He acknowledged that Sunday sales would increase alcohol consumption in other parts of the state, where people cannot drive to another state to buy liquor.
She also said that selling liquor on the three holidays will increase consumption during those days, when traffic is high.
Abortion bill considered
The Associated Press
TOPEKA— Opponents to a bill that would require a woman to wait 24 hours before ending a pregnancy contend the measure is an attempt to block a woman's access to an abortion.
Supporters said women simply need the time to think about what they were about to do.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday took up two abortion bills. One would require all abortions performed in doctors' offices and clinics to be reported to the state and another would require women to wait a day after being advised about the procedure.
parents of minors at least 24 hours before performing the abortion. That notification would not occur if the minor had gone to court and received judicial permission to forego informing either of her parents.
"A waiting period may be an irritation to a woman who is determined to abort, but to a woman who is unsure or is being rushed, a waiting period will protect her from making the wrong decision," said Jeanne L. Gawdum.
Meanwhile, a House committee removed from a budget bill a provision that would have restricted abortions at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Med Center proposal would prevent doctors from performing abortions on property owned or leased by the state, except to save women's lives.
"The implication that women have to be forced to think about this is very condescending and very paternalistic."
The House added it as an
Poggy Jaramn lobbyistFor ProChoice Action League
amendment to the proposed budget for the Med Center, but then sent the entire bill back to committee. Some legislators thought the anti-abortion rights provision was crucial, but other legislators' spending issues prevented the bill from passing.
During the Senate committee hearing, State Sen. Phil Martin, D-Pittsburg, the principal sponsor of the bill, said the proposal to ask women to wait a full day before having an abortion has thrown abortion-rights advocates into a frenzy. Presently, state law requires women to wait eight hours before having an abortion.
a lobbyist for Kansans for Life.
The House Appropriations Committee voted 11-8 to leave the proposal out of the bill.
The bill also would require doctors to notify
Sharon Stringfellow, a lobbyist for the Kansas chapter of Concerned Women for America, said information about abortion should be given to a woman at a clinic, and not by mail, which is what presently occurs.
Opponents of the measure maintain that the expanded waiting period is an attempt to take the decision away from women.
"The implication that women have to be forced to think about this is very condescending and very paternalistic," said Peggy Jarman, lobbyist for ProChoice Action League. "Women do not lose their minds when they become pregnant. They give it
enormous thought before entering the clinic."
Douglas Johnston, representing Planned Parenthood of Kansas, said any type of waiting period is inappropriate, even the present eight hours.
"It's a direct threat to a woman's right to choose," Johnston said. "This legislation is bad for women's health care. It's bad for women."
The committee is also considering a measure that would require the reporting of all abortions to Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), including those performed in doctors' offices and clinics. The present law requires only hospitals to make such reports.
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