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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 30, 1987
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Local Briefs
Veto sends bypass bill to Congress
President Reagan vetowed on Friday an $88 million highway bill that includes $7.2 million for the proposed South Lawrence trafficway. The bill also would permit states to raise the speed limit to 65 mph on rural interstate highways.
Reagan said the bill was "budget-busting" and a "textbook example of special interest, pork-barrel politics."
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, have agreed to help the president perform the duties to maintain the veto even though Bob Dole had legislation for the trafficway.
However, aides to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., have said that an override is likely.
Saturday accident injures KU student
An accident Saturday evening involving an El Camino and a bus carrying 30 people on U.S. Highway 40-59 injured one KU student and two other people, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported.
The bus was northbound on Highway 40-59 at 12 p.m. Saturday, taking KU students to an Alpha Delta Pi sorority party at TeePee Junction when it was struck in the rear by a 1970 El Camino driven by Frank J. Rushe of rural Oskaloosa, a highway patrol official said.
Kristin A. Smith, Wichita sophmore, and Albert C. Smith, the bus driver, of rural Tonganoxie, were treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then released.
Kristin Smith suffered bruised ribs and Albert Smith suffered back problems, the official said.
Rushe suffered broken ribs and multiple lacerations from going through the windshield, the official said. He was admitted to Lawrence Memorial, and a nursing supervisor last night that Rushe was in good condition.
Committees set meetings for mall
The citizen committees helping the developer of the proposed downtown Lawrence mall have scheduled several meetings this week. The public is invited to attend and participate.
The Urban Renewal Agency's design subcommittee will meet at 3 p.m. today and 7 p.m. Thursday in the planning conference room in City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The traffic subcommittee will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the fourth-floor conference room at City Hall.
Candidate debates today at City Hall
Candidates for the Lawrence City Commission and the U.S.D. 496 Board of Education will face their opponents and the issues at separate debates tonight in City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The six commission candidates will debate at 7 p.m., and the seven school board candidates will debate at 8 p.m. The debates, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, will be broadcast on Cable Channel 6.
Three commissioners and four school board members will be elected April 7.
From staff and wire reports.
Historian criticizes Reagan's policies
By JENNIFER FORKER Staff writer
Staff writer
Presidents are not above the law and should be held accountable for their policy dealings, a former member of the Kennedy administration said last night at the Kehlah Israel Synagogue in Overland Park.
Arthur Schlesinger, a noted historian and author of political histories, told about 400 people that President Reagan's 1980 election sweep loosened Reagan's grasp of reality.
Schlesinger said Reagan disregarded constitutional law in the Iran-contra affair and instead adhered to secrecy and presidential protection.
“This is not a government of laws. It is a government of decrees, and of secret decrees at that,” he said.
Arthur Schlesinger, a former member of the Kennedy administration, autographs one of his political history books after speaking about President Reagan and the Iran-contra affair. Schlesinger spoke to about 400 people yesterday evening at the Kehilath Israel Synagogue in Overland Park.
"This presidency, with its record of international recklessness, deserves to be kept strictly in view and rest of its term in office," he said.
He said that Reagan was negligent, unscrupulous and violated the law at will. He described Reagan's actions as a terrible blow to the system of accountability and to the balance of the Constitution.
He said that the presidency was indestructible and would survive Reagan's "imperial presidency."
"The presidency will survive. Its mighty powers stand ready to be mobilized by any leader prepared to operate within the Constitution and to persuade Congress and the
people that his course is right," he said.
"It's when presidents abuse their powers, when they act illegally, and in secrecy, that they can expect retribution even when the causes have temporary impact in foreign policy."
He said the best insurance against the return of an imperial presidency would be sobriety.
"Once the president embarks on reckless policy and in defiance of the Constitution and the laws, he can expect precisely what is happening to President Reagan today," he said.
realism and responsibility in foreign affairs. In the meantime, he said the wars between Congress and the president would continue.
State considers bill to require AIDS test
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
TOPEKA — People who want to get married in Kansas first may have to take a blood test to determine whether they have been infected with AIDS.
The state House of Representatives gave tentative approval Friday to a measure that would permit state judges to refuse a marriage license to anyone who tested positive for AIDS.
State Rep. J.C. Long, R-Harper, sponsored the measure. He said it was a way to protect children whose parents might be infected with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
"The children of these parents are the ones I am trying to protect," he said. "They are the innocent ones."
The AIDS measure, if given final approval, would educate Kansans to the potential of contracting the disease. Long said.
"People think the problem doesn't exist here, and that you can only be infected if you go to the East or West Coast," he said. "But the number of cases in Kansas is rising."
The Kansas Department of Health reported that the number of people with AIDS had been increasing since 1983. The department last month reported 53 cases in Kansas from 1983 to 1986.
Some people who work with AIDS patients on a day-to-day basis said they were pleased the state was addressing the AIDS problem, but doubted that the new testing would reduce the number of AIDS cases.
"I'm certainly not against the testing in terms of prevention," said Mary Wentworth, a registered nurse who volunteers at the Topea AIDS Project. "But it's a little naive to think that this alone will prevent AIDS."
"Most people who marry are already sexually active. However,
when they decide to have children it may help them make that choice."
The AIDS measure was part of a Senate bill concerning the accreditation of laboratories that do blood testing.
State Sen. Richard Bond, R-Overland Park, vice chairman of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, said he was unsure how senators would react to the measure that requires Dr. Hayden to study the AIDS problem more some light on how the state should deal with the problem, he said.
"It is a very emotional issue." Bond said. "But it should be approached rationally and with all the facts."
Long said that his measure was the state's first step in confronting AIDS and that no time could be wasted.
"The number of cases is increasing and something has to be done," he said. "We can't wait or hide from this issue, the time has come."
Long said the state had a similar measure in effect that required premarital blood tests for syphilis. The measure was dropped in 1983, but Long said he had never found a case where a judge had refused a couple a marriage license because one of them had tested positive.
"It's not my goal to prevent marriages but to prevent AIDS," Long said. "The wording of the measure would deal with the issue as it concerns the effect AIDS would have on public safety and nothing else."
Bond said the measure was surrounded by questions of personal privacy versus public safety.
"Those are two very important questions, and dealing with them is not easy."
The test would detect any AIDS antibodies in a person's bloodstream and determine whether that person was infected. The test would add $10 to the price of a Kansas marriage license.
Daniloff scheduled for talk at KU, official says
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
Mike Lauer, director of the Student Senate lecture series, said Daniloff would speak on "The Daniloff Affair and Soviet Relations in Perspective."
Journalist Nicholas Dandilon, who was arrested in the Soviet Union in August and held for 30 days, is scheduled to speak at KU on April 13.
Daniloff will speak at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium, and he will answer questions after the lecture, Lauer said. The program is free and open to the public.
Danloff, the diplomatic editor of U.S. News & World Report, was
arrested Aug. 30, 1986, by a half dozen KGB agents, members of the Committee for State Security. He was in a soldier prison for 13 days and spent another 17 days in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Upon his release, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel called Danioll "the most famous reporter in the world."
Roy Laird, professor of Soviet and East European Studies, said Danloff's arrest exemplified the Soviets' exaggerated suspicion of Western reporters, especially those who spoke Russian.
"They felt it was time to put a new scare into their people and into the
news media," Laird said. "They wanted to make a point in terms of U.S.-Soviet relations and make the U.S. and Western reporters shape up and toe the line."
Llaird said he hoped that Daniilo would talk about the problems and opportunities of being a U.S. reporter in the Soviet Union.
"Being a reporter in the Soviet Union is not like being a reporter in Britain or France," he said. "That game is played differently in the Soviet Union."
Daniiloff was born in Paris in 1934 to a father who was a Russian emigree and a mother who was a U.S. citizen. He grew up in New Hampshire, and
received a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University in 1956.
Daniloff began his journalism career as a copy boy at the Washington Post but left after a year to study economics and economies at Oxford University.
Daniloff joined United Press International in London in October 1959 and also served in Paris, Geneva and Moscow. He worked as an assistant foreign editor for the Post in 1963 and then rejoined UPI in Washington in August 1966. He joined the U.S. News and World Report staff in 1980.
In 1973, Daniiloff received the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied Chinese foreign policy and the Chinese language.
Daniloff was president of the State Department Correspondents' Association from 1969-70 and was president of The Overseas Writers in 1976 and 1977. He wrote a book on the history of the Soviet space program, "The Kremlin and the Cosmos."
Daniloff is now on a national speaking tour.
Lauer said Daniiloff's KU lecture was confirmed through the Washington Speaker's Bureau, Inc., which represents Daniiloff.
"It was availability, mainly, that brought him to our attention." Lauer said. "We really wanted someone to focus on foreign policy."
Farmers facing crisis despite lack of media coverage
--crisis.
Staff writer
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
SABETHIA - The farm crisis doesn't make headlines anymore, but northeast Kansas farmers say the crisis, which affects not only farmers but the entire rural community, is far from over.
In response to the continuing crisis and the needs of the rural community, farmers, business people, clergy, local government and others from northeast Kansas sponsored a rural conference, "Sowing the Seeds of Hope," Saturday at Sabeth High School in Nemahaa County.
In Nemaha County, 100 miles north of Lawrence, the Farmer's Home Administration plans to foreclose on 35 farms this spring, 14 more than last year.
Jody Holthaus, conference committee member, said reports that the farm crisis had peaked and was recovering now did not reflect what she was seeing.
"When the FHA is going to foreclose on more farms than they did last year, I don't see how people can say that it's bottomed out and is making a comeback." Holthaus said of the farm economy. "Prices are still down down.
Jerry Strathman, an area farmer who presented a session on farm and rural advocacy, said, "Most people here today realize that the crisis is not over."
"This is the first thing I've worked on where people actually called you and volunteered to help."
Northeast Kansas Farm Advocate Network, a group of farmers, clergy and business people from a seventh county area. The network's purpose is to keep as many farmers as possible on their land and stop the decline of rural communities, Strathman said.
The conference is an outgrowth of a rural women's conference in Des Moines, Iowa, attended in January by eight northeast Kansas women. It was designed to examine critical issues rural people face and to offer practical ways to deal with them.
Strathman is chairman of the
The sessions covered a variety of rural community concerns such as bankruptcy, strengthening family and community, trouble signs for small businesses, radioactive waste disposal, and the church's role in the
The most widely attended session, Rural Resource Organizations, featured representatives from Social Rehabilitation Services; Help the Farmers: Rural Employment Assistance Program; and other organizations that offer help.
Hothaus said she hoped the representatives would be able to show that losing a farm was terrible but not the end of a farmer's life.
In Nemaha County, eight divorces and two suicides occurred in the past three years. To deal with the emotional difficulties inherent to the farm crisis, people in the Sabetha area have formed their own support groups.
"When you lose a business, you usually don't loss your home." Holth
at St. Dominic's Catholic Church in Holton, said he was glad to see sessions of Christian conference focusing on the rural family.
"Through all this, man are re-lic-
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aus said. "Farmers lose their businesses and their homes.
Born and in a farm family himself, Hasenkamp said he knew that a farmer's pride could keep him from seeking help.
"Many who need help aren't reaching out and talking about it," he said. "We need to find new ways to reach people who aren't coming to us."
New York City Opera National Company in GIACOMO PUCCINI'S MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Wednesday, April 1, 1987 Hoch Auditorium
The most touching love story of all time...
soaring romance...bitter pathos...
music of unsurpassed beauty...
A Mid-America Arts Alliance Program
Presented by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Concert Series
8:00
Wednesday, April 1, 1987
Madama Butterfly will be performed with English sub titles
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office. All seats reserved for reservations: call 913-644-3982
Public II $8 & $15, KU and K-12 Students $9 & $17, Senior Carson and Offer Students $7 & $14
This performance is based by learners from the Arts Commission and the National Instrument to the Arts.
Half price for KU Students
President Jeff Mullins Kevin Pritchard, Treasurer
Vice President Brian Kramer Kelly Donohoe, Treasurer
First Class
Coalition for Student Senate sponsors a new tradition First Class wants to score your vote with the following first class concepts
- To get the students their first class options!
- To keep the summer school program alive!
*To assist in obtaining more post season basketball tickets for students!
- To end presidential salaries and wasteful senate retreats!
- To provide a new tradition of first class senators that show the leadership and capability of getting the job done!
Photo by Alan Hagman
- To sponsor student organizations that serve KU students in a first class fashion such as crew, BSJ, forensics, rugby, football and basketball!
Paid for by First Class coalition
Black Student Union Assembly Meeting
Monday March 30,1987 6:30 p.m.
Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union
Elections will be Held