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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
February 9, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 91
(USPS 650-640)
Manning scores 40 in KU win
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Associate sports editor
An older man stood just outside the Kansas locker room after the Notre Dame game yesterday with his fists jammed in his pockets, waiting. When Danny Manning finally came out into the hallway, the man extended a hand, smiled and simply told Manning, "That was the best game of basketball I've seen in 40 years."
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Manning just shook his head and said, "Thanks. I appreciate that."
It was a modest answer when compared to his performance on the court just minutes before. Manning scored a career-high 40 points and grabbed six rebounds in Kansas' 70-60 win over Notre Dame in Allen Field House.
"I just want to win," Manning said.
The 40 points at which Manning had shrugged his shoulders was the eighth best single-game scoring performance in KU history.
Manning said the numbers were insignificant. He has said that he would do what was needed to win. But he did not think points as was needed to meet that task.
In Manning's past 10 games, he has made 104 out of 145 shots from the field, 71.7 percent, and is averaging 24.6 points a game.
He has scored 97 points in his last three games for an average of 32.3 a game.
Manning's previous personal best was the 35 points he scored against Oklahoma State his freshman year. He hit 15 out of 16 field goals in that game and lead the Jayhawks to an 88-79 win.
Still, Manning said that yesterday's game wasn't his personal best.
KU forward Danny Manning reaches for the ball during the Notre Dame game. Manning helped the Jayhawks defeat the Fighting Irish yesterday 70-60.
I fill more shots and I scored more
See MANNING, n. 6, col. 3
State liquor law compromise may spur lower booze prices
Staff writer
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Kansans may be paying less for their liquor after a Senate committee approved a resolution Friday that could substantially reduce the price of alcoholic beverages in Kansas, but some legislators say it faces strong opposition.
"I would not be surprised if members of the committee who approved it changed their minds," said Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, chairman of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
"They will read the papers over the weekend, receive a lot of angry phone calls and then come back and reconsider their action."
one vote the elimination of Kansas' minimum liquor price markup. The committee is amending the liquor-by-the-drink bill before sending it to the full Senate.
The minimum markup law establishes a minimum retail and wholesale price for liquor in Kansas, prohibits the use of undercutting one another's prices
"There are a lot of people that opened liquor stores under the present law." Reilly said. "To suddenly change that is going to be difficult."
Reilly's committee approved by
The Kansas Liquor Law Commission recommended in December that the law be repealed as part of the law repealing liquor-by-the-drink amendment.
Kansas has nearly twice as many licensed retail liquor stores as the national average, and the percentage markups are twice the amount of those in New York and Wisconsin, the report said.
that Kansas was one of only three states that apply a minimum price to liquor, creating economic inefficiencies, less competition and too many lour stores.
But markup changes in the bill have so much opposition, some legislators said, that the changes could prevent approval of the entire bill.
Committee member Sen. Ben Vidricksen, R-Salina, said yesterday
See LIQUOR, p. 6, col. 5
Muslims release videotape of U.S. hostage, demands
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Kidnappers may kill captives if prisoners not released
BEIRUT — A Muslim extremist group yesterday released a videotape of a U.S. hostage who said he and his fellow captives faced execution today if Israel did not release 400 Palestinian prisoners.
Another underground group holding U.S. and French hostages warned of severe consequences if the United States attacked Lebanon. The group also accused missing hostage negotiator Terry Waite of carrying a concealed transmitter to reveal the hideouts of kidnappers.
In London, a Church of England spokesman called the charge absurd.
In Syria, Shite Muslim militia chief Nabib Berri said he thought the Church of England envoy would be released soon. He reiterated an offer to exchange an Israeli pilot captured in October for 400 Arab prisoners demanded by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, which says it has three U.S. hostages and an Indian-born U.S. resident.
"My information is that they will release Mr. Waite soon. I did not say in 24 hours or 48 hours. I said days, weeks, and not months." Berri said, without saying who was holding
Waite.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres rejected kidnappers' demands to free 400 Palestinian prisoners for Western hostages, saying Israel could not and would not act in accor- dence with the United Nations, nor flatly rule out consideration of the initiative from Berrl, Lebanon's justice minister.
Steen, a college professor of communications, was abducted by gunmen with American professors Jesse Turner and Robert Pollhill and Indian-born U.S. resident Mithileshwar Singh on Jan. 24 in Muslim west Beirut. At least five other American hostages are among 28 foreigners believed held in Lebanon by various groups.
In a videotape delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut, hostage Alann Steen, 46, read a statement on behalf of the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine reiterating the responsibility and threats to kill its hostages today.
get released, our fate will be execution and the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine is serious about the time it set," the statement said. The words execution and set were underlined.
A text of the message, with certain words underlined, read by Steen on behalf of his colleagues was delivered along with the videotape.
"If our lives are important to America, it must order Israel to release the 400 Palestinians as soon as possible — that is, Monday as a maximum." said Steen, unshaven and wearing a white T-shirt and glasses.
*Feb. 9 is the last date to release (the Arab prisoners). If they don't
In London, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger refused to say what the U.S. response would be if hystages were killed. "I can only hope that no one is deprived enough to do that," he said.
Steen, who read from the statement in a halting manner, looked uncomfortable on the six-minute video tape and ended with the words "signed by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine."
The United States massed naval forces in the Mediterranean Sea within striking distance of Lebanon after the professors were seized. Steen said the kidnappers had information that a U.S. attack was being prepared and in the last step.
Student opinion at KU varies on state-sponsored lotteries
Staff writer
By JOHN BUZBEE
George Stern, Boston graduate student, carefully selected numbers that he knew others had passed by. He put his money down. He turned his television on. And he came up a winner.
"There's a little bit of suspense," he said. "It's kind of fun."
Stern and a friend won almost $1,000 playing Massachusetts' state numbers game after spending $100. He's
'It's not that much money. It's exciting when you win.'
- Stacey Shadley
St. Louis, Mo., junior
played the Missouri lottery too, but hasn't won anything.
"t*kinda like the Mass. lottery more." he said.
The House passed a bill Thursday to create a Kansas lottery. It will be considered by the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee in a few weeks, said committee chairman Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth.
Kansas voters passed a constitutional amendment in last November's election to permit a lottery.
Stern said Massachusetts lottery prizes were divided among everyone who picked the right numbers. He had read what numbers were commonly picked, so he chose obscure numbers in hopes of getting a larger prize.
lurcate numbers in hopes of getting a large
the rest, he said, is chance.
The test, he said, is chance. Curt Flowers, DuBois, Penn., senior, said he never has made a profit from either the Pennsylvania or Arizona lotteries.
"All you do is buy more tickets and lose the money." he said.
The Missouri lottery is not any good, he said, because
the prizes are not big enough.
Clark Draper, Olathe junior, will not be playing the Kansas lottery. He said it won't worth the expense.
"I don't like the idea of a lottery, anyway," said Draper, who thinks lotteries tax the poor. "Rich people don't care."
He knows. He dropped $3 on the Missouri and Iowa lotteries.
Gary Swick, McPherson sophomore, does not like lotteries either, although he won $5 from Missouri. Taxes whittle down the big prizes, he said.
Kansas prizes would be taxed as source income by the state. But ticket sales would be exempt from retailers' taxes.
"It itse like it's using a lot of money just to get it going" Swick said.
The Kansas Department of Revenue has estimated that starting a lottery in Kansas would cost $2.5 million to $3 million for tickets, computers, advertising and initial prizes.
The bill would require the state to loan money to start the lottery. The loan would be repaid with interest.
Swick does not play the Missouri lottery often. And if he won the big money, he said, he'd stay in school.
Sally McIntyre, Lawrence graduate student, has played the Washington lottery. She has won a few bucks but lost more. She said the lottery wasn't worth it.
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Stacey Shadley, St. Louis. Mo., junior, plays the Missouri lottery about once a week.
"It's not that much money. It's exciting when you win," said Shadley, who would play a Kansas lottery "it's
For her $2 investment in the Missouri lottery, Nancy Higgins, St. Louis, Mo., senior, has won $2 and a few free lottery tickets.
"It's fun," she said. "It's a challenge. It's something to do."
Lawrence homeless find needed shelter
By ANNE LUSCOMBE Special to the Kansan
Aside from the winter season, Phil Mansfield enjoys his lifestyle.
Although he has lived in Lawrence for years, he is homeless and labeled a transient. He lives that way by choice.
Mansfield, who is about 40, has thick, shoulder-length hair and a full beard. He carries most of his belongings with him, and the rest he sometimes leaves with trusted friends. With his bundles, he looks like a street person, a term he detests. However, when he begins quoting Hindu poetry and discussing Buddhist ideals, the stereotype dies away.
"It is a spiritual quest, because I have been struggling for several years," said Mansfield, who was divorced about five years ago. "I could not have seen myself doing this 10 years ago. At age 35 I found all of my dreams shattered. I found that the things I wanted to do were not happening the way I wanted them to."
He has a bachelor's degree in German from Washburn University in Topeka and had been working on his master's degree at the University of Kansas when he decided the things that had previously been important
to him no longer mattered.
"Sometimes the guys are really intelligent, but some tragedy happens in their life," Carolyn said. "Usually it's with their marriage. They want to go somewhere where they won't have to face the real world. When you are in the inside, and you know you shouldn't be in there, you should be on the other side, it's really tough."
"Now there is no way I could go back to the way it was," Mansfield said. "I have been living on the streets for philosophical reasons."
But Carolyn, a former transient, who asked that her real name not be used, desperately tries to avoid returning to a lifestyle similar to Mansfield's.
Carolyn was on the streets and lived in shelters across the country off and on for several years. The mere idea of going back to the streets terrifies her. She has seen it happen to others and lived it herself.
Mansfield is content with his living arrangements, despite the obvious drawbacks during the winter.
See HOMELESS, p. 10, col. 1
Like Mansfield and Carolyn, many transients fight themselves and the elements just to stay alive.
Shari Getting/Special to the KANSAN
Laura Erma and Fred Campbell stand outside the Salvation Army Shelter, 942 New Hampshire St. No smoking, drinking, drugs or abusive language are allowed inside the shelter. Erma is not homeless, but spends time with the homeless people of Lawrence.
Church ads
Pastor Don Connad uses advertisements to draw attention and worshippers to his weekly services. Last week's advertisement featured a God look-alike contest. See story page 3.
Computer chat
The KU Connection is a computer bulletin board that allows people with computers and modems to send messages to each other. See story page 3.
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