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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
March 12, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 114
(USPS 650-640)
House approves resolution to cut aid to contras
Measure faces Senate,
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House approved a symbolic resolution yesterday that would cut off military aid to the contras, rejecting Republican accusations that members were handing Central America over to the Soviets.
The measure, which passed the House 230-196 in an extremely partisan atmosphere, would suspend for six months all assistance to the contras, notably the final $40 million of a $100 million package that Congress approved last year. The resolution also demands a public accounting of millions of dollars already sent to the contras.
The resolution was supported by 213 Democrats and 17 Republicans and opposed by 40 Democrats and 156 Republicans.
Speaker Jim Wright of Texas conceded the resolution stood little chance of passage in the Senate and no chance of being enacted over President Reagan's veto. But he said it would send a potent message to the White Ho
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diplomacy and economic aid to curtail subversion in Central America and warned that Reagan's request for $105 million in aid in fiscal 1988 faced probable defeat later this year.
The measure faces a likely filibuster in the Senate where there was strong opposition to the contra program before the revelation of the Iran-contra scandal in which profits from U.S. arms sales to Iran apparently were used to bankroll the contras at a time when Congress banned such aid.
During the often emotional debate yesterday, Republicans accused Democrats of selling out U.S. interests in the region. Opponents such as Rep. Trent Lott, R-Miss., repeated the statement, "I do not want to be recorded as handing Central America over to the Soviets."
But House Democratic leader Thomas Foley of Washington called that accusation a poor and limp excuse in support of a failed program. He said the Soviets knew Congress was united in pledging not to permit Nicaragua to have offensive weapons
members to say what they think should happen in the future."
The speaker said passage of the resolution meant Reagan should abandon his request for the $105 million — a request that could die by a majority vote in either chamber and didn't invite a veto because no legislation would go to the Oval Office.
Wright and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd said that even if the measure passed Congress, they did not have the votes to kill Reagan's anticipated veto of the resolution.
Rep. Robert Mrazek, D.N.Y., countered by saying he refused to have his name recorded "in favor of handing Nicaragua over to the Contras."
Republicans were clearly putting themselves in the position to blame and opponents for a possible victory against Sandinista army over the Contras.
Rep George Miller, D-Calf., called the policy one of deception, and cover up and said opponents of the Sandistas "don't have the guts
KU experts say U.S. reputation could sour
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
The United States' reputation as a peace-loving power and representative of international law in Central America could be destroyed if President Reagan continues to support the contras, according to three KU Latin American specialists.
Yesterday, the U.S. House suspended 230-196 the final $40 million of a $100 million package of aid to the contras that Congress approved last year. The resolution also demanded a public accounting of millions of dollars already sent to the contras.
House leaders admitted that the resolution had little chance of passage in the Senate. They also acknowledged that it had little chance of being enacted over Reagan's veto.
"The $40 million can't be stopped politically," said Charles Stansifer, director of Latin American studies.
Stansifer said that the real issue was not the $40-million outlay but the funds diverted to the contras from the Iran arms sale.
million," Stansifer said.
Jack Bremer, director and campus pastor of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said the most humane action he could give would be to end all contra support.
"I saw the effects of the contra action," said Bremer, who just returned from a trip to Honduras, Nicaragua and the war zone area. "It was mostly terrorism against unarmed civilians."
Bremer said the administration had blocked peace proposals by the Contadora group and by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez because it did not want to see a Central American government free of U.S. influence.
Bremer said the administration's policy actually was helping the communists by bringing death to inno-
"Since 1850, when we sent the Marines to Central America, we have controlled Nicaragua." Bremer said. "It's evident the administration wants to overthrow the Nicaraguan government."
i*st power in the last century, the United States was relatively gentle
But U.S. policy in Central America in the past six or seven years has been a failure, Stansifer said.
"And we are still pursuing the same policy." he said.
Barbara Waggoner, adjunct lecturer in Latin American studies, said the current Central American policy is not effective in terms of U.S. goals.
Waggoner said she had been watching developments in Central America since her first trip there in 1966. She said the effect of the war against the Sandinistas was vast. Farmers' land was being taken over for airstrips, and the fighting had increased economic pressures on Nicaragua. The war also had affected El Salvador and Costa Rica.
Waggoner said the United States had never been considered a beneficial nation by Central Americans. And the last thing the region needed right now was a war, especially in the name of democracy
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In the early "70s, Halcyon House was known as the House Corner and was the site of many wild parties.
the early 78s, some of the best parties in Lawrence were thrown at 1000 Ohio St.
Known as the "House at Poor Choor," the run-down building was home to students and a colorful Winnery.
Seven years, two owners and scads of dollars later,
Pooh's mythical house borders on magical.
The once-condemned building now is a bed and breakfast inn, spoiling its guests with polished hardwood floors, dramatically tall doorways and fresh-cut flowers.
Halcyon House, purchased and run by Esther Wolfe and Gail Towle, is elegant, but unpretentious. "The house sells itself." Towle said from a pastel cushioned chair facing the English brick fireplace in the living room.
The fully restored house sold its owners and now sells itself to guests.
Large picture windows open up the living room. A leafy, seven-foot ficus branches the doorway into the kitchen, yet doesn't obscure the view from its two-story windows.
Since opening a year and a half ago, the inn has attracted all kinds of guests, but KU attractions and activities draw the most people to the eight-room house, said Towle.
The Jullard String Quartet once stayed and practiced at the inn, and rooms for graduation weekend 1900 and early 2000.
Honeymoney couples, retreating businessman and mystery weekenders also stay at Haleyon. Just last weekend, characters came to life in an Agatha Christie-style, dohunit murder.
This was Halcyon's second mystery weekend. During the first mystery, a guest dressed in camouflage gear, boots and a beret. She played the part of Conchita Colombian drug runner posing as a University of Kansas
Her sister, Ima Hustler, was dressed to-kill in a black cocktail dress and brassy red hair. All 10 characters struggled through four rounds of clues before identifying the killer.
Wolfe and Towle laughed as they remembered that a municipal court judge solved the first murder mystery.
The guests, who said they were an attorney and a paralegal secretary, were wanted in five states for passing bad checks. Police later caught them in Independence, Mo.
But sometimes the real guests are more mysterious than the mystery weekend guests.
Wolfe recalled two guests that left her with an unpaid two-day stay, "in a weird feeling" and two missing suitcases.
Wolfe, a KU masters student in communications, first dreamed of owning a bed and breakfast inn while
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