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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 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 House that arming and aiding the contra is near death.
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.
Wright
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 Democrat 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 that threaten any nation.
members to say what they think should happen in the future."
"It is language, a message, a data."
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 measured 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 aid opponents for a possible victory by the Soviet-armed Sandinista army over the Contras.
KU experts say U.S. reputation could sour
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 ask for a declaration of war." It is
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.
Jack Bremer, director and campus pastor of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said the most humane action for Congress and the administration would be to end all contra support.
million," Stansifer said.
"Before Congress votes..."
"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.
"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."
Bremner said the administration's policy actually was helping the communists by bringing death to innoc
it power in the last century, the United States was relatively gentle
"And we are still pursuing the same policy." he said.
But U.S. policy in Central America in the past six or seven years has been a failure, Stansifer said.
Barbara Waggoner, adjunct lecturer in Latin American studies, said the current Central American policy was 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 benefic 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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Laundromat life is cycle of studying, passing time
By Christopher Hines
It was a full load recently in more ways than one at the U-Wash I- Laundromat, 602 W. 9th St.
But beyond the wash, rinse and spin cycle of life is the fascinating late night world of a Laudromat. Simon Gilmore, a nine-year U-Wash-It veteran, personally knows this distinct cross section of society.
Gilmore's voice sounded remorseful as he talked about the old days at U-Wash-It, before the new carpet was put in, when idle chatter was heard among the washers.
"No. I don't mean the washing machines," he said. "I mean the people doing laundry."
Gilmore, a janitor, said he usually did is laundry every two weeks or until he got to his last clean shirt. Some of the other people at the 'mat — the word used by fellow washers — said they also were down to their last set of clean clothes.
Paul Rebein, Dodge City sophomore, said he was just doing a preliminary load to hold him over until spring break, saving the best of his dirty laundry for his mom.
who wants to spend two hours here unless they have to?" he asked.
Brebien, an English and philosophy major, said that to help alleviate the boredom, he once climbed into a dryer, shut the door and tried to make it through a 25-cent cycle.
"It wasn't so much the spinning that got to me, but the heat," he said. "I thought my
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It wasn't so much the spinning that got to me, but the heat. I thought my head would keep hitting the insides of the dryer, but it didn't. It must have been the angle of the spin.
Gilmore said things to do while waiting for the laundry to finish were to walk in cir-
head would keep hitting the insides of the dryer, but it didn't. It must have been the angle of the spin."
cles, play video games or look for old Christian Science Monitors.
"Once in a blue moon, a kid will make a ruckus playing a video game and try to break in the machine until the police come by," he said.
Gilmore also said the 'mat sometimes was a place of cultural and religious inspiration. He talked of once being witnessed.
"I was standing around waiting for my laundry to be done when a Jehovah's Witness came up to me, gave me a Bible and started to preach," he said. "I have always thought Laundromats could be considered the cradles of American religion."
Others said that the 'mat provided a good place to study and that it sometimes inspired topics for sociology or psychology term papers.
Mike Maloney, Kingman sophomore, was huddled among other students in an all-night study session in one corner of the 'mat.
"I hate to do laundry," he said. "But I usually get a lot of studying done here. It's sometimes quieter than my fraternity."
Reiben said that while waiting, he often contemplated the philosophical issues confronting a modern Laundromat.
"Should all men and women have their own washers and dryers or should we all share?" he asked. "And what kind of person used the washer before me?"
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