University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 19, 1987 5 Kansas ambassadors share their thoughts on the Soviet Union By TODD COHEN Staff writer The day after returning from a weeklong trip to the Soviet Union, members of a Kansas delegation to a Moscow peace forum did everything but sleep. "I haven't slept yet," City Commissioner David Longhurst said after attending a city committee meeting that adjourned at 3:30 p.m. yesterday. Longhurst said he and other members of the delegation, including Lawrence Mayor Sandra Praeger, Meeting for Peace chairman Bob Swan and Attorney General Bob Stephan, had been awake for more than 24 hours when they arrived at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at Kansas City International Airport. Jetlag left the travelers sleepless. The flight from Moscow to Washington via Newfoundland took 12 hours, Longhurst said. Moscow is nine hours ahead of Lawrence. When it’s noon in Lawrence, it’s 9 p.m. in Moscow. Praeger said at an 11 a.m. news conference in Topeka that she had been able to sleep only a few hours yesterday morning. At the news conference, Stephan discussed his experiences talking to Soviet Jews in Moscow. The Jews had been protested the 1983 imprisonment by the Soviet Union of Hebrew teacher Josef Begun. A group of the protesters charged this week in Moscow that they were beaten by Soviet security agents. Three protesters were kept under house arrest Sunday after sending a telegram to the peace conference protesting Begun's imprisonment. Stephan said the protesters he talked with hoped the peace conference was a sign that the Soviets were moving their emigration policy toward dews. They told Stephan to tell the United States to continue putting pressure on the Soviet government, Stephan. "I was told to say to not give up." Stephan said he had adopted, through the Jewish Community Relations of Kansas City (CHK) and Committee of Soviet Jewry of Washington, D.C., a Soviet Jew who was trying to emigrate to Israel Stephan said he tried to contact the man but failed because of the Soviet's faulty telephone system and the language barrier. Praeger said the same telephone system also had barred the group from calling home or even calling each other's hotel rooms. The telephone problems, though, were minor in comparison to the group's sightseeing. Praeger, who kept a journal of the trip, said the group attended the Bolshoi Ballet in the famed Bolshoi Theater. "We were certainly treated to first class hospitality." Praeger said. They also saw the Moscow Circus and a Russian folk dance performer. The mayor also proudly displayed the autograph of Soviet dissident Andre Sakharov, which she got on a picture drawing the Kansas state flag. Swan said the red and blue Meeting for Peace buttons he distributed were a big hit with the Soviets. The proposed Lawrence downtown mall is now larger, more expensive and increasingly controversial. By TODD COHEN Larger mall proposal submitted Staff writer The Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacob's Company, developers of a proposed 360,000-square-foot mall in the 600 block downtown, presented an updated feasibility analysis for the mall to the Urban Renewal Agency yesterday. The new proposal, though, was met with a laugh and angry words from a downtown retailer opposed to the site. JVJ wants to add a third department store to the mall, which increases the city's part of the bill from $15.2 million to $20.2 million. The total cost, including the developer's cost, would be more than $55 million. Don Jones, vice president of real estate for JVJ, said the mall would close Massachusetts and Vermont streets between Sixth and Seventh streets. Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., would remain as a part of the mall. But the post office, 645 Vermont St., would be forced to relocate. Also proposed is a third lane for Kentucky Street between Sixth and ninth streets and a parking garage at Sixth and Kentucky streets. Richard Gern, senior vice president of Barton-Aschman Associates, said the city could easily handle the increased traffic attracted to the mall. JVJ hired Germ's company to make a traffic study of downtown Lawrence. But when Jones said that if the mall wasn't built downtown, a suburban "cornfield" mall would be built instead, Jack Arensberg, owner of Arensberg Shoes, 825 Massachusetts St., responded. To be given two options, a corn- milk mall or this, is blackmail," he said. Arensberg said JVJ had not sought input from downtown retailers and the surrounding neighborhoods. Jones said he was concerned about the Citizens for a Better Downtown Arensberg laughed when Gern said the mall would increase traffic and retail business downtown. petition that calls for an ordinance that would ban the closing of Massa- chusetts and Vermont streets between Sixth and Eleventh streets. The legality of the petition, which has been certified as valid, is in doubt and will be decided at Tuesday's city commission meeting. Jones said the city should let JVJ develop a complete proposal before making a decision about the site. "You owe it to youselves to let the process continue. Let the proposal flesh out." Lawrence's credibility with department store companies is suffering because the city has failed to settle on a downtown mall site for 20 years, Jones said. Sociologist talks about anti-busing By BRIAN BARESCH Special to the Kansan Working-class women in Boston were unlikely candidates to lead the 1970s anti-busing movement that led to several violent racial incidents, a visiting sociologist said yesterday. Both racism and a desire for a return to what used to be motivated the women who led the fight against school desegregation, said Jule Wriley, associate professor of education and sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. About 40 students and faculty attended the speech in the Pine Room. presented as part of the department of sociology's Colloquium Series on Social Movements. Wrigley's speech was based on her study of working-class women's role in the 1970s anti-busing movement in Boston. Wrigley spoke of neighborhood information networks efficient enough to summon an angry mob within minutes of an attack on a neighborhood child by a black schoolmate. Up to 3,000 honking cars would circle the house of the groups' opponents. money to such organizations as the Boston Home and School Organization, one of the neighborhood groups opposing burglary, Wrigley said. Wrigley told of two incidents where mobs of young whites nearly killed blacks who happened to be innocently nearby. Neighborhood businesses would often be "forced" to contribute She said that Pixie Palladino, one of the anti-busing activists, said of one man who escaped with his life, "They should have killed him." The women already had a strong sense of neighborhood unity, in p:r't because these areas were ethnically homogeneous. They also could organize during the day while their husbands were working. The working-class women, who did not have access to powerful institutions or trade unions, used pure emotion to justify their appeals for continued segregation. Wrigley said the women's militance was in part racism and in part a reaction to enforced change in school makeup. 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