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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
February 10, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 92
(USPS 650-640)
McFarlane suffers overdose of valium
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, who figured prominently in President Reagan's clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, was hospitalized yesterday for a Valium overdose that a broadcast report said was a suicide attempt.
McFarlane, 49, was admitted to Bethesda Naval Medical Center yesterday morning. Hospital spokesman Lt. Rus Sanford said McFarlane was in good condition.
Peter Morgan, one of McFarlane's lawyers, said the former White House official had taken an overdose of the drug, a tranquilizer that free-enslave prescribed to relieve anxiety disorder and tension resulting from stress.
CBS News, quoting unnamed, informed sources, reported that hospital officials thought the overdose resulted from a suicide attempt. CBS, citing unnamed friends of McFarlane, also reported that he had been depressed recently.
Morgan, reached by telephone after the report had aired, declined to comment.
Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that McFarlane was a private citizen and that the White House had no information on his condition.
Symptoms of a Valium overdose can include sleepiness, confusion,
diminished reflexes, depressed blood pressure or coma. Treatment includes close observation and administering intravenous fluids, according to medical reference books.
The authoritative Physicians' Desk Reference stated that because Valium use can result in physical or psychological dependence, patients should be monitored closely and prolonged to ensure safety. Knowing when McFarlane began using Valium, a trade name for the drug diazepam,
John Henshaw, a McFarlane aide, said, "He apparently had an adverse reaction to a prescribed medication he took. He's in good condition. He's awake, under observation."
Henshaw said McFarlane's wife, Jonny, was with him at the hospital
McFarlane is a former Marine lieutenant colonel and combat veteran and therefore is permitted to use his aircraft near his home in suburban Maryland.
He was the second major figure in the Iran-contra controversy to be hospitalized. CIA Director William J. Casey underwent surgery for a malignant brain tumor and resigned his post last week.
McFarlane resigned in 1965 as Reagan's assistant for national security affairs. He took a position with the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies and became a private consultant to international business firms.
Liquor price controls illegal, Stephan says
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan yesterday declared illegal a state law guaranteeing liquor retailers a minimum profit, giving the controversial issue to the courts unless legislative action is taken to resolve it.
The minimum markup law establishes the lowest legal retail and wholesale prices for liquor in Kansas. The state's law requires underpelling one another's prices.
At a press conference, Stephan said the law was a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and was similar to a New York law recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Stephan's opinion does not have the force of law, but it has prompted the Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control division to discontinue enforcing the law.
Bob Hazzard, assistant chief enforcer of the ABC, said yesterday. "There are attorneys working tonight on a draft to discontinue enforcing the law as early as tomorrow."
But Albert Lollar, a director of the Kansas Association of Liquor Retailers, said the association would seek a injunction to prevent the ABC's action.
"Whatever happened in New York has nothing to do with Kansas," he said. "We don't have the same laws."
However, Stephan's opinion has already influenced legislative discussion on the liquor-by-the-drink bill now awaiting approval from the Senate. Repeal of the minimum markup law is an article of that bill.
State Sen. Richard Bond, R-Overland Park, said that unless definite legislative action was taken, the court would suspend the courts to interpret the law.
"I think the Legislature should speak to the important issues relating to alcohol legislation and not dodge the issue," he said.
The Senate Federal State Affairs Committee approved by one vote Friday the elimination of the minimum markup law and resisted an effort yesterday by some committee members to overturn the action.
See BOOZE, p. 6, col. 3
Kidnappers delay midnight deadline of U.S. hostages
Day's end
The sun begins to set, yesterday, as students make their way home down Jawhawk Boulevard.
United Press International
BEIRUT — Kidnappers of three U.S. citizens and an Indian postponed yesterday's midnight deadline "until further notice" to murder their hostages, citing "positive points" from Israel, said a statement received by a Western news agency in Beirut.
In an earlier message yesterday, the three U.S. captives pleaded for their lives, saying they would be executed unless Israel released 400 Arab prisoners. Both Israel and the United States rejected any deal for the hostages.
A statement received by a Western news agency in Beirut shortly before midnight local time (5 p.m. EST), said the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine "postponed until further notice" the execution of the four hostages.
The statement was accompanied by a photograph of hostage Robert Polhill, looking exhausted and wearing a yellow T-shirt and his eyeglasses. It gave no details on the condition of the other three hostages.
"The Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine announces with the nearing of the last seconds for the time set for executing the four U.S. citizens, it has delayed the execution of the judgement until further notice," the statement said.
The group, which kidnapped the four Jan. 24, said it made the decision in view of pleas to the hostages, their families and various Lebanese organizations.
"In addition there has been mentioned some positive points in the statement of the Zionist foreign minister about the release of 400 Palestinians. The statement said, the statement classified these points as soon as possible."
The group had demanded that Israeli officials agree to release 400
Arabs Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday that such requests should be presented through the proper channels rather than in the form of ultimatums.
The group condemned Secretary of State George Shultz for saying Sunday that Beirut is the source of a plague and is isolating itself, saying it would "teach the American foreign minister the appropriate answer."
At Beirut University College, the wives of the three men had no immediate comment on the statement, which was after an ultimatum of midnight set by the captors.
The appeal from the three U.S. captives, Beirut University College professors kidnapped last month, came as the United States tried to ease regional tensions by moving five more warships to the Israeli port of Haifa.
Two other warships had been moved earlier to Haifa from patrol duties with the 6th Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean in an effort to curb speculation about the United Nations mission an attack on Lebanon to free the hostages.
The moves reduced the U.S. naval force in the area by about one-third, officials said.
Earlier in Washington, D.C. State Department spokesman Charles Redman restated the Reagan administration would not harbain for the canvassers' lives.
The earlier message from the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine came in a hard-written letter delivered to the news agency with a photograph of hostage Alann Steen, 46, shaven and smiling.
"The Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine will execute us at midnight because Israel is refusing to release 400 Palestinians from its cells," the letter said.
Staff writer
Bv LISA A. MALONEY
KU, KSU officials discuss after-game riots
KU officials met with Kansas State University officials in Manhattan Friday to discuss ways of preventing another Agieville riot in the fall.
"It was an extension of good faith to bring the heads of two universities together to at least define the problem," Brady Stanton, student body president, said. "I don't think that starting to plan the day after it happened would have been too early."
On Oct. 18, a riot involving more than 6,000 people broke out after the KU-K-State football game in the Aggieville shopping district. The two-block area has as many as 18
closely-crowded bars, said Clark Coan, associate dean of student life.
Coan said the celebrations that took place in Aggieville after the game were 'pretty much built around' his intimation. It's a place to stay away from.
In addition to Stanton and Coan, other KU officials attending the meeting were Ann Eversole, director of the organizations and activities center; Cynthia Woelk, director of Legal Services for Students; Kent Weiser, director of marketing; and KU police officers Jim Denney and Ralph Oliver.
Most of the people involved in last fall's riot were not university students, Woelk said. Students from
local high schools, members of the military from Fort Reilly and people from out of state, attracted by the media coverage of the 1884 riot, were the main participants, she said.
Sally Routsen, K-State assistant to the department of housing, said that the military men, who came to Manhattan to meet college women, might have seen the riot as a way to get even for harsh treatment by K-State students.
"Very often, in a town like Manhattan, they are discriminated against," she said. "In some bars, they may be charged more to enter."
Stanton said the group discussed whether military police should be brought in to help keep the peace this
year, but nothing was decided.
This year the game will be Nov. 9, in the hopes that the colder weather will keep more people inside after the game, Routson said. The game day also will be declared Parent's Day, so that students will be encouraged to spend the day with their parents, away from the bars.
Woelk said ads would be placed in the University Daily Kansas before the game to warn students of the stiff penalties for violating Manhattan's open container and rioting ordinances.
"Sometimes when people are warned about those things, they think twice about getting involved," she said.
Police in popular spring break cities, such as Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach and Padre Island, are warning students that police will control beach activities by strictly enforcing city ordinances. See story page 3.
Trotting home
Former Kansas All-American Lynette Woodard will play basketball on the familiar grounds of Allen Field House at 7:30 tonight, when she performs with the Harlem Globetrotters. See story page 9.
Fair warning
Kansas moves toward pari-mutuel betting industry
Staff writer
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Pat Hurley, a pari-mutuel lobbyist, said Nebraska was quickly losing its monopoly on the region's pari-mutuel wagering. Hurley represents David Schoenstadt, the Kansas City Comms soccer club owner planning to build a Wyndotte County track.
Kansas is galloping toward the creation of a pari-mutuel wagering industry that could earn the state nearly $15 million in taxes annually, but its ractetrack development plans are causing anxiety for some neighboring states.
At least 11 Kansas sites have been proposed by developers. Proposals are under consideration to develop existing tracks in Eureka, Hutchinson, Wichita, Anthony and Kansas City, Kan., said Jonathan Small, an attorney for Kansans for Parimutel.
Ak-Sar-Ben, the Omaha track that is one of the country's top 10 parimutuel tracks, last year had a 29 percent decline in revenue after a dog racing track was set up in nearby Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The Ak-Sar-Ben track garners nearly 70 percent of the state's $154 million "handle," or the total amount
And sites in Great Bend, Abilene, Salina and Dodge City are the subjects of ractetrack feasibility studies. He has also been proposed in Shawnee.
According to some Kansas parimutuel jobbists, Nebraska will be the best state for new jobs.
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Once Kansas and Missouri begin to operate tracks, Ak-Sar-Ben could lose an additional 21 percent, Hurley said.
Daniel Oelschlager, executive secretary for the Nebraska Racing Commission, said, "Kansas City has been a good market for Nebraska. Our market is definitely vulnerable."
"They can argue about what they think the cause is, but there is no doubt that their problem is the failure of the voting in Kansas and Missouri," he said.
Tim Schmad, assistant general manager at Ak-Sar-Ben, said, "Our consultants have said that if a thoroughbred track is built in Kansas City, we could lose another 10 to 20 percent."
But Kansas is not the only state after a part of Nebraska's market. Kansas and Missouri could be locked inhold and operate a Kansas City track
Missouri would be affected only if Kansas built a track in the Kansas city area, said John Lusher, director of the Missouri Racing Commission.
Lusher said the Missouri commission had received proposals for ractracks at six sites. Three of these are in Kansas City, and the others are in Kirbyville, Hannibal and Carothersville.
"A lot depends on who builds first," said Lusher, who expects to have a track in operation within a
See GAMBLE, p. 7, col.1
Source: Racing commissions of Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, and Oklahoma and Kansans for pari-mutuel Bill Sheet/KANSAN
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