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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 122 (USPS 650-640)
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Local merchants stock up for celebrations
Jayhawk fans to watch team shoot for No.1 in Final Four
Staff writer
By Frank Ybarra Staff writer
Jerry Nevever is ready for a party
ties ordered the booze and the food
It just depends on how the ball bounces.
But Neverve's party has a unique flair. He's not sure whether it will be a happy or a sad occasion.
Neverve is the owner of one of the many area businesses preparing celebrations in Lawrence this weekend for the Jayhawk's game in Dallas.
Nevere owns the Kansas Sports Bar and Grill, Seventh and Massachusetts streets in the Eldridge House. He says his establishment and the Eldridge House, of which he is co-owner, have
doubled their supply of food and alcohol for the Final Four game tomorrow against Duke University.
The reason he needs all the party supplies, he said, is that the entire town is going crazy over the success of his campaign. Especially especially his customers this week
"That's all anyone wants to talk about." Neverve said.
Louie Riederer, owner of Up and Under, 403 N. Second St., agrees with Nevere. He says the excitement surrounding the team has helped the morale and the business in Lawrence.
"It's good for the whole town," Rieder said.
His bar, he said, has been keeping
See PARTY, p. 5, col. 1
Fans in Manning support the Jayhawks in Final Four
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
While Lawrence and Dallas gear up for Final Four weekend, things in Manning, Kan., remain quiet.
To get to Manning, take a left at Monument Rocks in Scott County just before the Colorado border, and go south for about 20 miles.
Not much is in Manning - a dozen people, eight houses, a grain elevator and the old schoolhouse that now is used as the community center.
But there are a few KU basketball fans.
Royce Gruver, a 35-year-old farmer, said he didn't watched many regular-season games but planned to watch the tournament at home.
It's going to be a close game, and it's going to be a high-scoring game.
No, Manning was not named after KU's sophomore phenomenon, but after a cabinet member of President Grover Cleveland.
The town was founded in 1887 and once supported about 100 people, a lumber company, church, school, U.S. Post Office and livery stable.
Now, Gruver said, most of the activity is at the Manning Community
Center, where family reunions are held and youngsters come to shoot baskets in the gymnasium.
Another KU fan on Saturday will be 33-year-old Phil Gibbs, who manages the Manning grain elevator and lives in nearby Grigston.
He said he was traveling 15 miles to the county seat, Scott City, to watch the game with friends.
"If they play like they did in the early tournament games, I don't know," Gibbs said.
Gruver said he liked KU's chances in the future.
"I think they'll be good in the next few years. Manning is a really good friend."
But Gruver said he wouldn't be in favor of renaming the town Danny Manning, even if the 'Hawks won the national championship.
"I like it the way it is," Gruver said, "but maybe in a couple of years . . ."
Which is probably better, if the consequences are considered: Larry Brown County (pop. 11,955), Archie Marshall County (pop. 12,720), Jerry Johnson (pop. 1,244) and Milton Newton (pop. 16,332)
Anyway, no town in North Carolina is named after Mike Krzewzski.
DALLAS — Danny Manning dunks the basketball during practice at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The KU basketball team held a closed practice yesterday to prepare for Saturday's semifinal game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four.
State Senate hears tribute to Javhawks
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
With red and blue balloons by his desk and the Baby Jay mascot by his side, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, bragged about the Final Four-bound KU basketball team to the Kansas Senate in Topeka yesterday.
"My phone has been ringing off the hook from people around the state wanting us to commemorate KU's Final Four status," Winter said. "We take great pride in the accomplishments of our basketball team."
During a break in the discussion, Winter passed out Jayhawk stickers to all 40 senators and paid tribute to the Jayhawks, who battle Duke University on Saturday in Dallas.
Winter lightheartedly suggested the Senate rethink its priorities and adopt a Jayhawk Agenda. The list includes making head coach Larry Brown's birthday a state holiday, a state college official shrine and changing the state bird from the western meadowlark to the Baby Jav.
After a standing ovation, Winter hugged Baby Jay, and the Senate got back to business.
Winter said later that all during the week talk in the Statehouse inevitably turned to the KU basketball team.
"Everybody is a Jayhawk this weekend," he said.
Winter will show that pride when he goes to Dallas to root for the Jayhaws.
He also tried to stir up support for the team by making a bet with his legislative counterpart from the campaign, the home of the Duke Blue Devils.
But Sen. Kenneth Royal refused.
He said the idea would have proved an opportunity to share ideas regarding support for higher education.
Winter said the loser would have had to travel to the winner's state, dress up in the school's colors and lobby the legislature for money for the university.
"They chickened out. They obviously lack confidence against the Hawks," Winter said. "The Hawks are going to win, it's that simple."
Senate approves contra aid
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate, in an important foreign policy victory for President Reagan, approved $100 million in military and other aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua yesterday — narrowly rescuing the controversial program.
The bill passed by voice vote, with Vice President Bush announcing the
final tally, after the Senate adopted 53-47 the administration-backed package. The bill pressures Reagan to seek a diplomatic end to the conflict but releases $25 million in aid to the contras, including surface-to-air missiles.
The administration victory, put over the top by 11 mostly southern-state Democrats, sent the issue back to the House, where it faces a tough test. Last week, House members rejected aid for the contrasts by 12 votes — just before the administration said hundreds of Nicaraguan Sandinistas, hunting contra forces, invaded Honduras.
The legislation, proposed by Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., withholds $75 million of the $100 million for 90 days while Reagan seeks a diplomatic solution. Reagan won an impeachment vote in July 1 if he determines attempts at negotiations have failed
Under the legislation, which provides a five-member commission to monitor the negotiations, Congress could block the release of the $75 million by passing a resolution of disapproval. That resolution would then be subject to a veto.
hailed the vote. "The Senate's action is sure to send a profoundly reassuring signal to those fighters for freedom in Nicaragua and to Nicaragua's threatened neighbors."
Reagan, in California, promptly
The Senate also adopted an amendment by voice vote, placing a virtually ironclad ban on any U.S. military or CIA personnel providing advice, training or logistical support to the contras inside Nicaragua.
weapons, including the portable missiles to attack Soviet helicopter gunships.
Attempts to fashion a compromise that could muster strong bipartisan support failed, leading to the showdown and the narrow margin of victory. Offsetting the 11 Democrats who voted with the administration were 11 Republicans who defected from party ranks.
U.S. forces in Honduras, however,
could train the rebels to use the
Before embracing the GOP-sponsored plan, the Senate killed a Democratic alternative calling for a break between Washington and Managua.
That plan, pushed by Sen. Jim Sasser. D-Tenn., would have releas
See CONTRAS, p. 5, col. 3
Country ready for invasion Nicaraguan educator says
Staff writer
By Grant W. Butler Staff writer
The passage of President Reagan's contra aid package will further convince the Nicaraguan people that a U.S. military intervention is forthcoming, a university dean said last night.
Jaime Whitford Delgado, dean of humanities at Central American University at Managua, said, "Nicaragua lives as if American intervention would come everyday. The defense of our country doesn't depend on one discussion by the Senate."
The Senate decision adopt the most horrendous policy towards Central America that the U.S. government has ever produced, he said.
Delgado spoke on the current political situation in Nicaragua to 35 people in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. The speech was sponsored by Latin American Solidarity.
The contra aid package, which would send $100 million in military aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua, was adopted by the
See SPEECH, p. 5, col. 3
Panel wants 'happy days' back in bars
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday amended a liquor bill that prohibited club owners from selling a drink or cereal malt beverage at a price less than that charged other customers during the same week. The amendment would allow club owners to offer "happy day" specials again, including "twowers" and ladies' nights.
The bill, which originated in the House, was designed to curb excessive drinking in clubs. The committee would vote on the bill tomorrow
TOPEKA Happy days are here again
"I think it will be a little more workable from their standpoint,"
See LIQUOR, p. 5, col. 6
John Lamb, director of Alcoholic Beverage Control, said reversing the measure would please Lawrence club owners.
M'Liss Bullock/KANSAN
On the phone
Steve Frank, Prairie Village junior, urges a KU alumnus to contribute to the Greater University Fund during the Kansas University Endowment Association's annual Telefund Wednesday night in Youngberg Building. The Endowment Association raised $80,423 during the event. See related story, p. 3.
House votes for resurrection of Kansas death penalty law
United Press International
TOPEKA — For the second time in as many years, the Kansas House yesterday, on an 80-45 vote, approved legislation that would reinstate the death penalty.
The bill, which goes to the Senate for consideration, would include all premeditated first-degree murders. After the vote the House clerk read aloud the objections of several lawmakers who opposed capital punishment.
Rep. Theo Cribbis, D-Wichita, said he opposed capital punishment because it was not an effective deterrent to murder. He said passing a law to permit open state progress in the area of human rights.
Rep. Donna Whiteman, D-Hutchinson, said the death penalty would not decrease violence but increase it instead.
"The death penalty does not break the cycle of violence but sends a message to our children that vengeance is justified," she said. "State
"Our state has advanced far toward a humane, civilized philosophy of criminal justice," he said. "We should not destroy the progress we have made thus far by the adoption of such a needless, useless and dangerous measure as the death penalty."
The bill, which was endorsed by the House on Wednesday, originally would have applied the death penalty to people convicted of killing correctional or law enforcement officers. However, House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, amended the bill Wednesday so that it would apply to all people who committed premeditated first-degree murder.
sanction of legalized killings will only breed more violence."
Hayden said he wanted to expand the measure so that the death penalty could protect all Kansans.
One of the bill's sponsor's, Rep. Martha Jenkins, R-Leavenworth, warned that expanding the measure would ruin any chance the feature had of making capital punishment a law.
The bill still must be approved by the Senate. If successful, it would face a threatened veto by Gov. John Carlin.
The governor vetoed capital punishment bills in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1985. The House was five votes short of overriding last year's veto. Despite the governor's success in killing the government legislation, Hayden said the House might be able to override Carlin's veto this year.