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Monday, February 23. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Regan's job status uncertain
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan isn't trying to force any one out, but he will try to keep White Donald Regan, sources said yesterday.
The sources said Regan went into a "blue funk" after the president told reporters, "I have always said that when the people that I've asked to come into government feel that they have to return to private life, that's their business, and I will never try to talk them out of it."
But Regan bounced back and later told aides, "In no way am I going to get out," sources said. Nevertheless, Regan decided Regan would be leaving soon.
'I in no way am I going to get out.'
— Donald Regan chief of staff
"This is the hardest thing in the world for Ronald Reagan — to fire anyone," sources said.
However, White House spokesman Ian Howell said yesterday, "I know of a man who is not a member."
The sources said that first lady Nancy Reagan, who has headed the vanguard to get rid of Regan, was no longer speaking to him. "He hung up on her twice," he said.
They said that the struggle between Regan and Nancy Reagan was about scheduling and the first lady's attempts to control the president's activities. Regan has been tried to get Regan to make more public services since she ran away from prostate surgery Jan 5, sources said.
Among those who are being sought to replace Regan are Treasury Secretary James Baker, who was chief of staff in Reagan's first term; former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis; Labor Secretary William Brock; former Sen. Paul Laxalt of Texas; and Senator John McCain who headed the White House elected legislative liaison during Reagan's first term.
Although many of Reagan's political associates have told the president he must put in a new team to restore confidence amid the unfolding Iran-contra scandal, Nancy Reagan appears to be pushing the hardest.
Friends have said that Reagan was dispirited by the scandal that has endangered his credibility and his popularity in the last two years of his presidency, and that he was trying to more some faith in his administration.
The first lady, sources said, thinks
together attitude and self-interest are
important to help families.
"For one man to rob him of his destiny," a close friend said, is intolerable to her.
Elaine Crispen, the first lady's press secretary, said Nancy Reagan was frustrated because the continuing tension between her and the chief of staff was in the spotlight.
The first lady knows there are things the president should address, Crispen said, but she thinks he should be made aware of Commission report is made public.
The presidential panel, investigating the role of the National Security Council in the Iran-Contrast affair, is to report to Reagan on Thursday.
Commission candidates debate mall question
As expected, the downtown mall proposal and a controversial citizen petition demanding a vote on the proposal took center stage yesterday at the first debate between 10 candidates for Lawrence City Commission.
By TODD COHEN
Downtown development may hinge on a public vote
Staff writer
Challengers Dennis Constance, Tom Graves, Ellis Hayden, Henry Johns, Mike Mundle and Bob Schumm, and incumbent Ernest Angino opposed the current 600-block mall proposal.
However, incumbents Howard Hill and David Longhurst and challenger Carol Brown wouldn't support or oppose the proposal. Instead, they joined the others in supporting a public vote on developing a downtown mall
In the debate sponsored by the Old West Lawrence-Political Action Committee, the candidates disagreed on what the referendum question should be, and whether the vote should be binding on the city commission.
Tomorrow night the commission will decide the fate of the petition, circulated by Citizens for a Better Downtown, which calls for a vote on closing the 600 to 1100 blocks of Massachusetts and Vermont streets to through
Commissioners also will discuss the city's official position on the 600-block mall proposal, which would close permanently the 600 block of Massachusetts and Vermont streets.
City attorneys said last week that the CBD petition's wording was too vague to be legally out on the ballot.
Anglo, Longhurst and Brown supported an advisory
anglist, which Anglo said would bind the commissioners pello-
Angino and Brown said the question legally could not be binding.
"You cannot tie the hands of any future commission," Anine said.
Brown said two questions should be put on the ballot, asking whether voters supported the proposed 600-block
mall, and whether voters preferred a "cornfield" or suburban mall.
"What we need to find out is the feeling of the people," Brown said.
Numum, Johns, Hayden and Hill supported putting the original wording of the CBD petition on the ballot, while Rundle, Constance and Graves supported putting on the same binding question, not necessarily the CBD question.
"The signers intended for it to be binding," said Rundle, who believes that the commission could draft a binding ordinance.
On the mail issue, Schumm broke ranks from the other candidates at the debate by supporting a specific
Schumm said downtown Lawrence needed a free-standing, large department store rather than a mall.
"There has to be somewhere in the entire United States, someone willing to put in one free-standing department store." "Schumm said. "And the city commission should find it."
Schumm said developing downtown for a single department store would save the downtown's atmosphere. And it would cost the city less than the 600-block mall, which carries a $20 million price tag for the city.
"It acts as a stimulus for private development. Tax money should be used as seed money, not as an omnipresent act," Schumm said.
Several other candidates also attacked the proposed public financing of the mall
"I am really tax conscious. I like free enterprise, but I don't want to pay for the mail. Not one penny of it." Hayden said.
Graves said, "Public money should not be used for private retail ventures."
The OWL-PAC plans to announce on Wednesday its endorsement of candidates for the March 3 primary, said Steve Lopes, OWL president.
Bob Schumm. Lawrence city commission candidate, answers a question at a debate yesterday afternoon. About 100 people attended the debate sponsored by Old West Lawrence-Political Action Committee.
L. A. Rauch/KANSAN
Pop artist Warhol dies of heart attack
United Press International
NEW YORK — Andy Warhol, the pale prince of Pop Art who turned images of soup cans and superstars into miniature pieces, died yesterday.
Mr. Warhol, who was believed to be
York Hospital a day after undergoing gall bladder surgery. A cardiac arrest team worked for an hour to save him.
Mr. Warhol had undergone
of the avant-garde
"routine gallbladder surgery" at the hospital Saturday and was in stable condition following the operation.
"Andy Warhol was a serious artist whose position was unserious," said William Rubin, director of the Department of Painting Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, home to the Campbell Soup portrait.
A pale, slightly built man who wore a white wig, Mr. Warhol was a fashion illustrator until he turned a Campbell Soup can into a pop art symbol and was deified as the genius
"He was a pioneer of image-appropriating pop art, and the implications of his work proved essential to the development of modernist movement." Rubin said
Julian Schnabel, a fellow pop artist whose early work was influenced by Mr. Warhol, called his death a tragedy.
"He was absolutely one of the greatest we ever had in this country," Schnabel said.
Schnabel said he visited Mr. Warhol's studio last week and was overwhelmed by his latest works, which included paintings of the Last Supper. "One was about 36 feet long," he said. "The image was repeated about 50 times."
1 aik show host dies at 66
NEW YORK — David Suskind, a former talent agent who became one of television's first and most controversial talk show hosts, was found dead yesterday afternoon in his Manhattan hotel room, apparently of natural causes, police said. He was 66.
The Associated Press
A hotel maid found Mr. Suskindk's body lying on the floor of his room at the Windham Hotel in midtown Manhattan at about 1:30 p.m., said Sgt. Raymond O'Donnell, a police spokesman.
The maid went to his room after a friend reported he was not answering his telephone. Mr. Suskink was to
have entered Lenox Hill Hospital on Monday morning to see a heart specialist, O'Donnell said.
Mr. Susskind in the film "A Raisin in the Sun," "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "Fort Apache, the Bronx." On television, he produced dramas such as "Eleanor of Cairo," "The Salesman," as well as series such as "Alice." "Get Smart" and "N.Y.P.D."
Although Mr. Susskind was best known for interviewing such people as Nikita Krushchev, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon and Robert Kennedy, he was a successful film and theater producer also.
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Panhellenic and the Interfraternity Council congratulates the top academic houses at the University of Kansas!
Top five fraternities
1. Beta Theta Pi 3.257
2. Delta Chi 3.032
3. Phi Delta Theta 2.975
4. Sigma Chi 2.885
5. Phi Gamma Delta 2.860
Top three sororities
1. Kappa Alpha Theta 3.196
2. Pi Beta Phi 3.106
3. Delta Delta Delta 3.031
5. Phi Gamma Delta 2.860
The all fraternity average is 2.63, with men's average at 2.61. The all sorority average is 2.97,with all women's average being 2.79. Your hard work is greatly admired and is an example of excellent scholastic achievement
Don't Miss the Excitement of
The Lady Jayhawks vs. Colorado
the last home performance of the year
when: Tuesday, Feb.24 at 7:30 p.m.
where: Allen Field House
Fan Appreciation Night! including
- 400 free Jayhawk tote bags
- halftime drawing for a 5” T.V.
- halftime drawing for a portable cassette player
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