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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
March 12, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 114
(USS 650-640)
House approves resolution to cut aid to contras
Measure faces Senate.
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.
United Press International
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 contrasts.
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 House tl
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 were turned to bankroll the contras at a time when Congress banned such aid.
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.
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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.
Republicans were clearly putting themselves in the position to blame aid opponents for a possible victory by the Soviet-armed Sandinista army over the Contras.
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."
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., called the policy one of deception, lies, and cover up and said opponents of the Sandistas "don't have the guts to fight."
KU experts say U.S. reputation could sour
By ROGER COREY Staff writer
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.
"Before Congress voted."
million," Stansifer said.
Jack Bremer, director and campa-
pistor of Ecumenical Christian Minis-
tries, said the humane火力 argue
for Congress and the administration
would be to end all contra support.
"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 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-
is 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 beneficent 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 FOCUS
Student enjoys life behind makeup
Clowning around
Emmett Kelly, a famous clown from Kansas, didn't smile or speak much, but his hobo makeup and costume made him a renowned circus clown.
Jill Towsley, possibly the University of Kansas' first professional clown, almost always is smiling.
"Giggles," as Towsley calls herself, has a distinctive laugh and considers communicating with children and adults the most important part of her role. Towsey appears as Giggle at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, and at private
birthday parties.
As Gigles, Towsley wears a black overcoat with pins that she said were great conversation pieces. She also wears yellow polyester pants held up by red suspenders and covered by a long, colorful tutu. One pink high
However, unlike Kelly, Towsley doesn't wear a lot of makeup because she said she thought it scared children. Instead, she wears a heart and a rainbow on her cheeks, red lipstick, green glitter as eye shadow and a purple dot on the tip of her nose.
top tennis shoe and one purple tennis shoe complete her costume.
"I am really attracted to this costume because it is unique. Each piece has special meaning to me, and I feel comfortable in it."
"Kids always tell me my shoes are different colors." Towsley said, "and I tell them I'd better go home and change them.
Towsley, a theatre and media arts major from watching other students perform in
Recently, as Towsley prepared for her job at the Holidome's Sunday brunch, she listened to jazz music while her cat, Bunny, played with the makeup.
"Being a clown is a job. But it is also a way to improve my talents," she said.
When Towsley, Topeka junior, isn't masquerading as Giggles she's studying theatre and media arts at the University. She performs in one campus production a semester.
Towsley started performing as a clown two years ago, a time when the most difficult part of the job was walking up to strangers and talking to them.
"It's easy to do this as Giggles though." she said.
Often at the Holidime, Giggles walks up to a child, or even an adult, with a balloon and a laugh, and starts a conversation.
Henry and Mildred Green,
Lawrence residents, often attend
Sunday brunch with their neighbors,
Maxine and O.B. Summers.
Even though they all are in their
70s, Henry Green said they looked forward to seeing Giggles on Sundays.
"She makes the outing more enjoyable," Green said. "She makes us old people feel wanted."
Towsley said her conversations with people were important because it was a way to find out their moods and emotions and to try to make them happy.
"I always loved toys, cartoons and being creative as a kid," she said. "Working with the children allows me to keep a part of me that never wants to go away."
"I'm not hiding," Towsley said. "But I play by different rules when I am a clown. It's OK for me as Giggles to walk up and talk to someone I don't even know."
Towsley, who teaches drama to children at the Helen Hocker Performing Arts Center in Topeka during the summer, said she was glad her Giggles routine allowed the childlike part of herself to emerge.
Towsley advertises in local
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