Students protest Somoza, U.S. involvement
Bv ROBIN ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
A form of protest taken by a group of KU students is the confrontation, compared to nobody rebellion of the Sandhill Crash.
But the ultimate goal of the guerrillas and the local group, Latin American Solidarity at KU, which enlisted as 15 members to distribute leaflets on behalf of the military: oust Nicaraguan President Anastasia Somoza.
Rhonda Neugebauer, Lawrence senior and member of the student group, said the protest at KU was part of a nationwide protest against Somoza's regime and against any U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. She said groups were protesting in front of the school from noon to 1 p.m. Friday all across the country.
distributed by the students Friday already has become outdated.
"We are trying to educate people about the rapid services can't keep us with all of the developments.
"Just Thursday, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced to the Organization of American States (OAC) that it is in compliance."
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It was reported yesterday that the OAS, a group representing 27 nations, had passed a resolution calling for the ousting of Somoa. Saturday the United States withdrew its proposal for an inter-American peace-keeping force to restore order in Nicaragua.
The proposal had been bitterly opposed by Latin American countries. It was also opposed in the leaflet "Congress for a New Mexico" (CNN).
Nuebuenba called the current U.S. position on Nicaragua a complete and sudden turnabout. She said the proposed 13,000 member peace-keeping force would have supported Somalia who they intervened as well.
However, Charles Stansfer, associate professor of Latin American Studies, said yesterday that the United States had not supported Somoza since January 1978.
STANSFER, JUST back from Washington, D.C., where he did research on Latin American affairs, said that before 1798, fear of communist intervention supported it, had caused the United States to support Romova.
But since U.S. withdrawn of support in the form of military aid, Stansifer said "there was no way the United States would have sent troops to keep Sozoma in power."
"I'd say it was no sudden turnabout. The situation was that the government was waiting for a majority of the Latin American countries to oppose Somoza's government."
This opposition was indicated by the 17-2 vote by the OAS Saturday in favor of ousting Semoza.
But Neugebauer said the Latin American governments had long recognized and opposed the self-esteem of Hispanic women.
THE UNITED STATES should listen to the majority of the Latin American states, not to the ones that are so angry with us.
The United States has more than 250 corporate branches in Nicaragua, Neuebauer said, and might be a major market for the company.
Stanisler, however, said that even after Sonza's ouster, he called即能 invitable, the corporations probably would not meet opposition from a new government.
"Therebellion was not activated by anti-American sentiment," he said. "The United States has no extractive industries in Nicaragua as they have in Chile."
Chilean officials have accused the United States of stealing its natural resources through U.S. copper
Neugebauer said the United States had been gradually forced to see that the guerrilla movement was losing its grip.
A RECENT EVENT helped put the United States behind the merillas, she said.
"It was jammed down their throat with the ABC newman's dead that the 'Frente' is the people," she said.
Frente is short for the Sandista National Liberation Front.
Although Stansifer disagreed, saying that the shooting of newman Bill Stewart by a national guardman had little effect in turning around U.S. foreign policy in Nicaragua, he said, "The effect of the killing will galvanize sentiment in the Latin American nation and will make it easier for the guerrillas to get arms."
Neugebauer said the U.S. Congress had called a secret session last week, the first in 198 years, at the Capitol in Washington.
chastised for allowing gun-running from Panama to the Sandinistas.
STANSFER SAID he thought congressmen opposed to the Panama Canal treaty had threatened to revoke the treaty if the gun-running were not stopped.
"They want Somoa out, that's the very first thing," she said. "They also want the destruction of the national guard, and that is something the U.S. wants." They want all Somoa's wealth expropriated. Thirdly they want all Somoa's wealth expropriated.
Neugebauer said the war and gun-running would go on until three main points were resolved to the end.
Neugenbaeu said, "The United States accused Panama of gun-running. They wanted to castigate them but the United States has been gun-running for Somalia for 45 years. It's called gun-running when it's for the Sandistas, but when the United States does it they call it protecting their national security."
"THE FACT THAT he monopolized the economy and allowed foreign corporations into the country caused large sectors of the Nicaraguan population to be excluded from the economy."
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Artist blends poetry, dance rhythm in art
By BONNIE DUNHAM Staff Reporter
Lawrence had its own version of Christo's environmental art yesterday at "Happening in the Park" held at South Park.
John Schuman, 929 Kentucky St., said his art performance, "Stake and String V," was in the same tradition as Christo, who wrapped the sidewalks of Loose Park in Kansas City, Mo., this spring. The Lawrence artist also compare his work to that of Marcel Duchamp, who filled an art gallery with string in the 1920s.
"I am part of a movement of people that is trying to say that the object is not what is happening." Schuman said. "There's too much emphasis on the art object itself. It is the things that happen while it is going on."
Rhythm provided by wooden clackers to reproduce the sound of driving stakes, a bit of poetry and dance improvisation by the artist was what happened.
"IT IS GOING to be kind of boring and repetitious," Schuman said before the art performance began. Just as the artist predicted, people wandered over to watch briefly, then wandered away during the thirty minutes of stretching white string between stakes to form rows of linear abstract designs.
However, Bob Laing, 330 Tennessee St., stayed for the entire performance and said he was a fan of environmental art.
"Something like this makes everyone's environment a little bigger," Laing said. The artist's mother, Mary Schumann of
The artist's mother, Mary Schuman of
Topeka, said, "His friends think he is a pet a cow, but John is really very serious about his work. I think he is in some ways" ahead of the midwest in some ways."
THE ARTIST SAID he planned to install his work in each of Lawrence's 27 parks. Yesterday was his fifth art performance. While he is working in the parks, people come out and ask him questions.
"It is controversial," he said, "but they also want to know why I am taking it down."
The strings and stakes cannot be left up very long, he said, because someone might trip and fall over them. The stakes extend less than a foot above the ground.
Schuman does have photographs taken of each performance.
"later I will frame a piece of it as it was in the park and then the documentation is for sale," he said. "If someone wants to buy it, they have a bilt of a bill of the sculpture."
ALTHOUGH THE AUDIENCE does not participate, Schuman said it forms the stage for his presentation.
Other art projects at the South Park "happening" were designed to involve the spectators. Dozens of children and adults decorated several 60-yard-long murals with bright paint from gallon cans. Others tie-dyed shirts which they wore while they watched demonstrations of spinning, pottery and silkscreening.
Lawrence's next "Happening in the Park" will be a fiddler and pickin' contest on July 8 also at South Park.
Staff photo by KEVIN KING
Wet paint
Three-year-old Rachel Christofferson and her mother Mrs. Ralph Christofferson, 1509 Crescent Road, participate in a group painting in yesterday's "Happening in the Park." More than one hundred people helped paint two pieces of paper which were more than sixty-yards long.
City, Cleveland firm meet again about mall
City officials met with representatives of the developers of a proposed Lawrence shopping hall in a closed session Friday. It was the first meeting between the two groups since the developers announced their new location for the mall, two weeks ago.
Earlier this month, Jacobs, Viscion and Jacobs, Cleveland developers of the proposed multimillion dollar mail, deferred a commercial zoning request for nearly 60 acres at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road. In favor of the proposed move downtown.
The Armstrong Road location had received heated opposition from downtown merchants, but Mike Wilden, assistant to the city manager, said yesterday he thought the merchants would not be afraid of him. The armstrong downtown mall would act as a magnet to the area.
Wildgen said the developers, who were represented at the meeting by Donald Jones, assistant vice president, and Richard Zinn, chief executive of the company "basic information" about the downtown
area. No specific sites were discussed, he said.
"Mr. Jones' people are going to evaluate the downtown in general," Wilden said. "We gave them information about parking, architecture and street circulation—basic things."
Talk of specific sites in future meetings, however, probably will not be made public in order to keep the property owners from holding out for excessive profits, said Buford Watson, city manager. The city estimates cost estimates on lots in the downtown area.
Wildlife said the developers also discussed two downtown malls they had developed in Wassau and Appleton, Wisconsin.
Also attending Friday's meeting were Glenn West of the Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Barkley Clark and Jack Eisenberg, mayor of the Downtown Merchants association.
Wilden said no future meeting dates between the developers and the city bad
Bridge construction delay costly to contracting firm
The contractor building the Massachusetts Street bridge across the Kansas River is being charged $420 for missing the project's deadline, Mike Dooley, Douglas County public works director, said yesterday.
Anderson Construction Co. Holton, who been charged the fee since June 12, which was the 500th and last working day before the county's acquiring agreement, according to the county's cooperating agency.
The company is being charged whether or not work is done for each calendar day, Monday through Saturday, until the project is finished. As of today, which is the 11th day since the deadline passed, the company has been charmed a total of $4,820.
"The contract explicitly calls for $20 to be assessed daily and it will be" . "Doiley is."
The contractor completed the first span of the bridge, which is on Vermont Street, more than a year ago. The second span, on Massachusetts Street, still must be completed, but the county has been plagued by delays and set-backs since it was started in the spring of 1976.
Dooley said he received the consulting engineer firm's report for the week of June 11-16 on Friday. The firm, Finney and Associates, handled the charge for the contractor for 504 working days.
The damages will be withheld from the
$8.20 million contract for the project by the
contractor.
Fastest growing crime burns money, lives
By CYNDI HUGHES
Staff Reporter
The flames of arson burn up $3 billion in property losses annually, the president of the Douglas County Arson Squad said yesterday. It also causes more than 1,000 deaths and 10,000 injuries each year.
Three fires of suspicious origin have destroyed about $43,700 in property during the first four months this year. Four similar fires caused damages of $34,00 in 1978. Stephanmann said.
Arson Squam President Larry Stemmerman said arson was "America's fastest growing crime," and he said he would not tolerate it.
In the first four months of 1979, be said, Lawrence had 15 ars scans an estimated $138,300 in property damages, compared with 13 ars in 1978, which caused approximately $66,800 in damages.
FIRE INVESTIGATORS must prove that arson caused a fire before it can be classified as arson, he said. "Suspicious" fires are those in which accidental fires have been ruled out, but arson cannot be proven.
"The community needs to consider have a full-time investigator who is able to follow up on investigations and develop the expertise needed to check out the fires," McSwain said.
Lawrence Fire Chief James McSwain said that because of the increase in arson, the Lawrence Fire Department wanted to add a full-time fire investigator to its crew.
STEMMERMAN, ONE of the three investigators, said, "Arson is an easy crime to get away with because the evidence is destroyed. It's a self-celealing crime."
Each of three Lawrence firemen, who also double as investigators, now work 24-hour shifts during the week, but McMissan and Steimmerman both said they were unable to find arson rates still would justify a full-time investigator.
He said national figures showed that out of every 100 arson fires, ten persons were arrested, two went to court and an average of 0.7 were convicted of the crime.
Stemmerman said that when the cause of a fire could not be determined, the firm in charge would request that one of the three part-time investigators examine the evidence to pinpoint a cause.
In Lawrence, one adult and three juveniles have been arrested on suspicion of arson in four cases this
THE SQUAD IS made up of the three Lawrence fire department investigators, five men from the Douglas Fire Department.
If the investigator needs more manpower, he can request a full or partial activation of the county arrest
"If the size or scope warrants more manpower, we to the directors and ask for more men," Stemmert said.
The investigators search the scene for the point of origin of the fire, from which they can establish the
The directors are the fire chief, the sheriff and the Lawrence and KU police chiefs. They appoint men from their respective departments to the squad, Stemmerman said.
Pranks are the cause of most suspected arsons at University of Kansas, Larry Eving, detective, accused of stealing from a local bank.
Pranks sometimes root of costly KU arson
Evinger, who is also a member of the Douglas County Arson Squad, said an example of a prank-related arson was someone lighting a poster or flyer in front of a hall door. Such arsons can often result in damages.
An incident similar to the above example occurred last spring at a KU residence hall, he said, and Mr. Duncan was involved in the case.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, estimated that there was only one or two arison cases a year in University housing that resulted in more than $100 in actual property damages.
He said he doubted that there were many clear-cut cases of arson.
"Carelessness and vandalism are difficult to sort out."
Wilson said if arson was suspected, his department didn't become involved in the investigation.
heat source and the cause of the fire, Stemmerman said.
"We do try to call it to people's attention," Wilson said about the arson problem.
He said that money spent to repair aron damage would have otherwise been spent on building infirmities.
"The police will make the decisions as to how thoroughly it will be checked out."
To prevent the arrows from taking place, Wilson said the office of housing had a "suble program" that he hoped discouraged arson as well as other vandalism.
Motives for setting fires vary, he said, and juvenile vandalism or seeking revenge are the most common
BUT SOME PEOPLE set fire to their own property to defraud their insurance companies, he said.
The last conviction in Lawrence for insurance fraud from arson came from a fire in March, 1977, he said.
in such cases, the assonist usually tries to make the fire look accidental, making asson difficult to prove that it was started.
Sometimes, if an insurance company suspects fraud, it will refuse to pay. Stefman said. The only way the property owner could then collect would be to sue the company.
Molmain said the incidence of vandalism and prank arson could be reduced by thorough fire
THE NATIONAL FIRE Protection Association estimates that arson indirectly costs $11 billion to $15 billion annually in injuries, deaths, higher property insurance rates and losses in jobs and businesses.
In Kansas, on the average, aran occurs more than once daily, said Chris Christian, the chairman of the Kansas Aran Association.