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unique kinship with the Soviet people. He often speaks of them with admiration, especially the 20 million Soviets killed during World War II.
"How could a country survive that and play a primary role in defeating Hitler? It's certainly a heroic contribution," he said.
To continue what they felt was a spirit of friendship, Swan and then-Mayor David Longhurst proposed to athletes at the Kansas Relays.
"The Soviet athletes were like children. They were so excited," Swan said.
Swan has pursued the idea intensely. His motivation, he said, is based on religion and on a "feeling" he had when his two children were born.
Fatherhood made him look to the future and the likelihood of a nuclear war in his children's lifetime. He decided it was his Christian duty to try to stop the arms race.
"If we're Christian, we want
eternal life for us and our children," he said. "I don't happen to believe it's in the cards for all of us to blow up.
"I find a lot of personal serenity in my Christian belief in working for peace."
And work he does, 60 hours a week in his office, including three daylight nights, Saturday mornings and Sunday evenings, half of the time in search of a summit.
"I really don't like to waste time," he said. "I am a perfectionist.
"But that can be detrimental to your health. It can make you critical of yourself, and it can make you critical of others. That's been one of the areas I've fallen down in."
Longhurst said, "He has a tendency to alienate people, or make people mad because he's so persistent. But that's really a double-edged sword. He could never have done all he has without his being so persistent."
If something doesn't work the
way he wants it, Swan does it himself and never loses his temper, said Millie Peters, a Lawrence resident who traveled with Swan to a U.S. veterans' burial at the Elbe River that Swan helped arrange.
The overseas funeral was only one in many ambitious projects Swan has worked on since his boyhood in Topeka. At age 9 he organized a "tent museum" to raise money for victims of the 1951 Topeka flood. Later, he spent months arranging annual summer charity carnivals.
He's most proud, though, that when he was 18 he paid half the cost of a European vacation for his parents, using money he had raised since he started selling Christmas cards in first grade.
"It was really wonderful because within two years, my mom was dead. That was probably the most rewarding thing I'd ever done."
After earning a bachelor's degree from KU, he was accepted
at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, to work on his master's. He never went.
Instead, he decided that the assassinations that year of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the war created crises too important to ignore. He returned to Kansas to run, as a Democrat, against a veteran congressman in the 2nd District. At 26, he was the youngest congressional candidate of the main national parties that year.
"I had some really deep concerns about the Vietnam War. There was an opportunity to express them," he said.
Swan said he tried everything to gain support. He traveled to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to ask the popular singing group Peter, Paul and Mary to perform at a fundraiser in Topeka, which they agreed to do.
"Everyone went to Chicago for the convention. I went there because I knew they would be there," he said.
House passes bill for state job training agency
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
TOPEKA — Kansas businesses soon may have instant access to information on all vocational training programs, giving Kansas a head start in economic development, some state legislators said yesterday.
The Kansas House yesterday approved a bill that would create an
agency to work as a clearinghouse for all information concerning vocational job training programs in the state. The bill now goes to the Senate, where approval is expected.
"It's a way of giving those businesses that want to expand or start new facilities all the information they need about training people to do the job," said State Rep. Phil Kline, R-
Overland Park, chairman of the House Economic Development Committee.
"Our world is becoming more technical, and the skills people value today may not be the skills they need tomorrow." Kline said.
The clearinghouse would provide information on faculty and programs at all public and private vocational
education institutions at the postsecondary level.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said anything that could contribute to Kansas' future economic development was worth nurturing.
"I support the intent of the bill," she said. "And I hope it helps."
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