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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
January 22, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 79
(USP5 650-640)
U.S. House passes bypass bill
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
The proposed south Lawrence bypass cleared a large hurdle yesterday when the U.S. House passed a $94 billion highway and mass transit bill that included $10 million for the project.
The five-year House bill passed, 401-20.
Meanwhile, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved its own $52 billion, four-year version of the highway bill. The full Senate is expected to consider the bill next week.
Lawrence Mayor Sandra Praeger said she was pleased and relieved.
"It really is an issue of vital importance to the city and the county," she said. "It's the kind of long-range planning that is so important if you are going to grow and maintain the quality of life in your city.
If the Senate bill passes, both houses would meet in conference committee to work on a compromise bill.
"I'm glad to see they're acting quickly."
Praeger said the bypass, which would be 14.3 miles long and would cost $38 million, would ease traffic in the city.
"We'd feel some immediate relief on some of our city streets," she said.
County Administrator Chris McKenzie had the bypass would reduce traffic that has clogged 23rd Street since Kansas Highway 10 was opened.
"It's a necessary move to anticipate as well as accommodate the growth occurring in Lawrence and Douglas County," he said.
Praeger said the bypass also would help attract businesses to the proposed East Hills Business Park to be built in eastern Lawrence.
Praeger said construction of the bypass still would be delayed until 1988 or 1989, after completion of an impact study and a design study.
Renee Wessels, press secretary for U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., said Congress might quickly lift restrictions by bypass and other states, projects.
The House and Senate will reach a compromise in the conference committee after the Senate
approves a bill of its own, she said
"They'll be able to reach a consensus in conference committee," she said. "We don't know where the funds are waiting for highway funds."
Wessels said the House bill approved yesterday was virtually identical to the one that died when Congress adjourned in October.
The stranded bill left the states without $13 billion in federal high-way funds. Several states planning construction projects could not sign contracts because of the lack of funds.
The new bill is moving quickly through the 100th Congress so that
the funds will be freed in time to finance road construction for the 1987 season, which begins in two months.
The Lawrence bypass is a demonstration project, or a project intended to show a specific quality, such as its support for economic development.
Wessels said that all demonstration projects were financed through the highway trust fund. The money for the projects has already been collected, and the projects would not increase the need for general tax revenues, she
See BYPASS, p. 6, col. 3
Others lied about role in arms deal
United Press International
WASHINGTON — CIA Director William Caye lied to Congress and closed-door testimony yesterday by Secretary of State George Shultz indicated that others involved in the Iran arms sales also have been lying. Lawrence Smith, D-Fla., said.
Shultz testified for three hours in a closed session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as attention in the foreign policy scandal focused on Congress, where both Democrats and administration loyalists were openly characterizing the Iran arms sales as cheating and doomed from the start.
Acting CIA Director Robert Gates, filling in when Casey recovers from his Dec. 18 brain cancer surgery, answered questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He told reporters that Casey, who the administration reportedly was considering replacing, was improving.
Casey, who underwent brain surgery last month to remove a malignant tumor, also suffers from prostate cancer and the disease has spread to his bones. ABC News reported last night.
Shultz, who spent five hours on Capitol Hill, kept a promise to the Foreign Affairs Committee and returned after an open hearing in November and fleshed out his earlier testimony about the Iran arms-contra aid affair, Smith, an outspoken administration critic, told reporters.
Smith said he had already concluded that several major figures in the Iran arms sales were not telling the shult. Shultz, who maintains he was not involved in key decisions that resulted in the sales, convinced him
me is pointing out things now that make other people's testimony appear much less than truthful," Smith said. "Mr. Casey, as far as I'm concerned, lied to the committee when he was here. Casey lied and now Shultz's testimony indicates to us that other people have now said things which conflict significantly with Shultz."
of this.
In related developments yesterday, President Reagan, who has not answered questions about the controversy for two months, met for the second time with David Abshire, the special counselor he named to coordinate the White House response to the affair.
Aides said Reagan would meet Jan. 26 with the special board he named to investigate operations of the National Security Council, which directed the project.
First lady Nancy Reagan said her husband was frustrated at having to "sit here and say nothing" about the scandal. But she said the president believed the best way to put the issue to rest was to wait for the committees to put forth their reports and then say what he had to say.
"He knew nothing about any diversion of funds, he knew nothing about any Swiss bank accounts, anything of the kind," she said.
Both the House and Senate have formed Watergate-style select committees to investigate the controversy. A special federal prosecutor is investigating whether any laws were broken by the clandestine 18-month overture to Iran or the reported diversion of money from Iran arms deals to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels.
Quick action expected on liquor laws
By JOHN BUZBEE
TOPEKA — Several state legislators think liquor by the drink and other changes in liquor regulation will be enacted quickly, despite contegory that could snag the legislation.
"We might as well do it, and do it right," State Sen. Gene Anderson. D-Wichita, said yesterday after hearing recommendations from the Kansas Liquor Law Review Commission.
Former Gov. John Carlin appointed the commission in 1985 to study liquor laws and recommend improvements and ways to implement liquor by the drink if approved by Kansas voters. A liquor-by the drink amendment to the state constitution passed easily in November.
"We we an obligation to carry out the wishes of the people," said State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita.
the people. Said State Affairs Bureau of Haitian Morris and Anderson are members of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, which heard the report of the liquor commission.
The commission's recommendations would significantly change Kansas liquor laws with the least possible stress and strain on the state, said commission member Jeffrey Ellis, a Merriam lawyer.
Liquor-by-the-drink legislation shouldn't be sidetracked by controversial issues, he said.
The injour commission struggled with the question of whether to preserve the legal distinction between beer with 3.2 percent alcohol and stronger beer, before finally recommending not to remove the distinction.
Under current law, only 3.2 percent beer can be sold in grocery stores, gas stations and open taverns.
"I think it's a charade, just like private clubs were a charade." Morris said.
Morris, who was also a member of the liquor commission, repeatedly voted against the distinction on the commission.
There is actually little difference in the alcohol content of 3.2 percent beer and regular domestic beer, said committee member Neil Arasmith, R-Phillipsburg.
Class A clubs, not-for-profit groups such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars, could still be reciprocal under the recommendations.
Another snag could develop around the continued reciprocity of private clubs. Although private in name and law, many clubs in the state are reciprocal, which means members from one club can be admitted to other clubs. The commission recommended that this be ended.
"It really flies in the face of the liqueur by the drink vote to allow reciprocity in Class B clubs."
But that would essentially mean residents of counties that voted against liquor by the drink would have to be members of any place where they wanted a drink.
"Their attitude toward the dry counties on the commission was a little bit arbitrary and capricious." Arsmith said.
The commission wanted to completely dry up counties that voted dry, he said.
Ellis said at the committee meeting that the recommendations would reduce hypocrisy in existing laws.
But Arasmith doesn't think there is much hypocrisy in Kansas liquor laws. Supporters of liquor by the drink once supported allowing clubs to be reciprocal, he said.
Committee member Ben Vidricksen, R Salina, said he would oppose a recommendation for temporary permits to sell liquor by the drink.
"That would really open a big, big can of worms," he said.
Morris said sales of liquor on Sundays an election days, which were recommended by the commission, may be another point of debate. Private clubs can now sell liquor on Sundays and election days.
Arasmith said the recommendations still wouldn't make it easier on an out-of-state visitor to understand Kansas liquor laws.
Staff writer
By CAROLINE REDDICK
TOPEKA - Opponents of the death penalty presented arguments yesterday to the Kansas House committee that is considering reinstating it.
The committee will reconvene today to discuss testimony it heard in the past two days and to decide if it will send the bill to the House with a recommendation. It has the authority to sit on a bill for the entire legislative session, preventing it from reaching the House.
However, it is unlikely the committee will stall the bill, said Michael Woolf, lobbyist for the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The committee heard arguments supporting the death penalty Tuesday.
Bill Lucero, coordinator of the KCADP, told the committee that the bill's supporters had no idea of its probable costs.
"How can legislators who cut general public and medical
assistance badges simply write a blank check for killing people'' Lucero asked.
"Out of 138 studies published in sociology and criminology journals in the last 10 years, none contained verifiable evidence of any deterrent effect of the death penalty," Lucero said.
David Gottlieb, KU professor of law, said the death penalty would cost millions of dollars a year. He said the state would face $7 million in capital costs if it decided to build a 100-mmde death row facility.
"Capital punishment cases are more expensive for four reasons." Gottlieb said. "They take more time to litigate before getting a jury verdict. They require a second trial to decide if the death penalty will be imposed. A long appeals process begins if the jury does vote for the death penalty, and during the long process
See DEATH, p. 6, col. 3
Your honor
KU professor Victor Papaken became the first American to receive an honorary degree from the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia Papaken is only the 57th person to receive the degree, which is usually reserved for Nobel laureates and heads of governments. See page 3.
Freshman guard Lisa Brady shot two free throws with 37 seconds remaining and made both attempts giving Kansas the edge over Missouri. The Jayhawks won 74-73. See page 11.
Pressure points
Demonstrators call for impeachment of Reagan
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
Campus grassroots politics had a skirmish of sorts yesterday, as students calling for President Reagan's impeachment squabbled with students reaffirming their support for the president.
Students carrying signs proclaiming "No More Rambo" and "Just Say No to Ronnie" marched yesterday from the Kansas Union to Wescoe Beach as part of an "Impeach Reagan" rally.
About 75 people marched in a parade that was sponsored by the Committee to Unelect Reagan/Bush
Along the route, the students shouted, "Ronnie, Ronnie, he's no good. Send him back to Hollywood."
Beacom was dressed in a military uniform and represented former national security adviser Jared Kushner, an apparent enemy wore a Ronald Reagan badge.
The purpose of the rally was to express the students' discontent with the Iran-contra affair, said John Beacom, Lenexa freshman.
The students gathered at Wescoe Beach and yelled comments over a megaphone while other students stopped and listened.
Hecklers in the crowd shouted,
"If these hippies lost in the '80s feel they can do a better job in the White House, let them do it."
"I think it's a good cause," said Chandra Patel, Wichita senior, who stopped to listen. "People are beginning to think the president is either corrupt or incompetent, and as citizens, we can't stand for that."
Other students were more supportive.
Supporters of the Committee to Unselect Reagan/Bush march down Jayhawk Boulevard. The march was part of the Impeach Reagan rally, which began at noon yesterday.
John Bode, Manhattan senior, said rallies were often the only way to express ideas.
During the impeachment rally, the Committee of Concerned Citizens arrived and began chanting pro-Reagan slogans. They carried signs saying "Help the President Preserve World Peace" and "Keep Communism out of Central America."
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
"We must accept the President's mistakes," said Yourow Tuchinda, Bangkok, Thailand, graduate student. "He has given us jobs and done so much."
Rally members later marched back to the Union and disbanded.
Boog Highberger, Lawrence graduate student and a member of the anti-Reagan committee, said the rally had come off as expected.
"There was no violence." he
said "There were hecklers, but they have a right to free speech. We're here because we believe in free speech."
Beacom said the crowd was abusive and that he didn't approve of the heckling. He had been pelted with several snowballs during the
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rally.
"But we did what we set out to do," Beacom said. "We expressed our discontent."