Wednesday July 20,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 152 (USPS 650-640)
Jackson urges party oneness
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The Rev. Jesse Jackson saluted Democratic nominee to be Michael Dukakis last night as a rival who "always resisted the temptation to stoop to demagoguery," and he appealed for unity in the party.
"We meet tonight at a crossroads a point of decision. Shall we expand be inclusive, find unity and power, or suffer division and impotence," Jackson said. "The only time we win is when we come together."
Jackson never endorsed the Masachusets governor for the presidency in his speech to the Democratic National Convention as he declared his own work "ancient and endless."
But unity and working toward common goals were the themes in the final major address of Jackson's remarkable 1988 campaign for the White House. Using his trademark image of the United States as a quilt, Jackson made clear his determination to help Dukakis win.
"When we bring the patches together, make a quilt and turn to each other and not on each other, we the people always win. George Bush will be off to a private life, leave Washington on a one-way ticket — a super saver," he said.
The speech was scheduled to be presented in prime time, but the platform debates sought by his forces pushed its start to the last minute before 11 p.m. on the East Coast.
Shortly before the speech, the fire marshal closed The Omni, which had been filled to capacity, leaving hundreds of delegates, guests and reporters stranded outside the convention
hall. Some delegates were allowed to re-enter the hall in time for the speech.
Jackson was greeted by a sea of "red Jesse! Jesse!" signs, Dakisik's aides had urged that the blue Dukus had been kept down during the speech.
"Tonight I salute Governor Michael Dukakis," Jackson said. "He has run a well-managed and dignified campaign. No matter how tired or how tried, he always resisted the temptation to stoop to demagoguery.
"I have watched a good mind fast at work, with steel nerves, guiding his campaign out of the crowded field without appeal to the worst of us. I have watched his perspective grow as his environment has expanded. I've seen his toughness and tenacity close up."
Over and over again, Jackson returned to common ground, the image that has been central to his second bid for the presidency.
"When we divide, we cannot win. So our challenge here is to find common ground," Jackson said.
As he has before, Jackson noted that he and Dukakis had different backgrounds. "There are differences of religion, region and race, differences in experience and perspectives, but the genius of America is that out of the many we become one," he said.
"His forepapers came to America in immigrant ships. My forepapers came to America on slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight," Jackson said.
Violence highlights convention opening
Kansan staff writer
Bv Debbie Bengtson
ATLANTA - Violence erupted Sunday in Atlanta at several demonstrations by white supremacist groups near the Democratic National Convention.
Police had to break up several clashes between the supremacist left and right wing groups.
About 500 angry demonstrators tried to stop white supremacists from staging their scheduled protest near the Omni Coliseum, the site of the convention.
The violence began at the Georgia Capitol, near the Omni, when Richard Harrell, leader of National保美集团, started to speak.
Barrett was surrounded by about 125 supporters, including area Ku
After the speech, he and the other supremacists had planned to march to the protest site, a parking lot across from the Omni.
However, the demonstrators burned U.S. and Confederate flags and later dented Barrett's truck and broke its windows with sticks.
Police intervened when the demonstrators rushed to the stage to stop the protest.
A young female demonstrator said
sau was caught between the riot
ers and the police.
The police officers rushed between the separatists and demonstrators, yelling "move, move" as they stormed into houses with riot shields and nightlights.
"Someone pulled me over the fence so I wouldn't get hurt," she
The permit for the Nationalist Movement protest outside the Omni then was revoked by Public Safety Commissioner George Nappert.
"It's evident from yesterday's violence that we'll have to have a stronger police presence at every public appearance," he said.
On Monday Atlanta mayor
Ballard was appalled by the
show of violence.
Later Sunday afternoon, more violence occurred around the Omni. A group of demonstrators, made up of several protesting groups, marched down Marietta Street in front of the Omni to meet the KKK.
The Klan members were there to block a gay and lesbian organization,
Legislate Equality for Gays And Lesbians (LEGAL), from their planned protest. The demonstrators members chanted, "No rape, no war, no Ku Klux Klan, no fascist U.S.A." as the Klan members chanted back to them. "Thank God for AIDS."
A crowd of onlookers on the sidewalk quickly dispersed when the demonstrators marched closer to the Klan
"Oh my God, here they come," one onlooker said.
When the two groups met, chants turned into more police intervention. The police, still in full riot gear, entered between the demonstrators and the Klan.
Chants of hate from both sides continued until the Klan members turned and walked away from the scuffle.
Some of the demonstrators chased the Klan members while others went around the Omni to meet them headon.
An Atlanta free-lance photographer said that at a neo-Nazi demonstration a few of blocks from the Ku Klux Klan demonstration, a policeman pushed him aside and a neo-Nazi member elbowed him.
Yet a member of the Anti World War III Coalition, a member group of the demonstrators, said he was pleased with the revocation of National Movement's protest permit.
"As you can see today, the Ku Klux Klan were going to march and the cops were here to protect them," said a member of the group that had chased the Klan. "That shouldn't happen in a democratic society."
"We didn't give up and we got what we wanted," said John Citern of Atlanta. "They couldn't have a platform."
Anticipating more violence, the Atlanta police drove slowly through the thick crowds in a police bus to pick up the trapped Klaim members.
Many angry demonstrators chanted, "Dogs, cops, the Klu Klux Klan, leashes held by Uncle Sam," as they out of the mass of demonstrators.
A spokesperson from the media command center in Atlanta said that there were no known injuries incurred form the protest and that no arrests were made.
There were reports of other demonstrations nearby by right-wing groups.
Joseph Collins, zoologist and editor at the Museum of Natural History, displays Fred, a rare black and white bullfrog. The bullfrog was found near Hays two weeks ago by Terri Funk of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and is thought to be the only one of its kind. Fred, also nicknamed the "calico frog," is about four years old. He will be kept alive in Haworth Hall and studied by the department of physiology and cell biology.
One rare frog
Politicians present views at forum
Sheriff candidates concentrate on drugs, county coverage
By Karen Boring
Kansan staff writer
The television cameras focused on the three candidates for Douglas County sheriff at 7:01 p.m. Monday at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, as the moderator of a "Meet the Candidates Forum" smiled and waited for the cue to start the live broadcast.
Republicans Loren Anderson and Dallas Murphy and Democrat Gale Pinegar were the first of four groups of candidates presented at the forum. The other groups were candidates for President Obama and Douglas County Commission and the 2nd District U.S. House of Representatives seat.
The County Commission candidates were asked about the need for a county administrator to carry out the commission's policies and about the proposed southwest Lawrence trafficway.
The forum was sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. All candidates made opening statements, answered written questions from the audience and made closing statements.
Anderson said he would reorganize and retrain employees to increase the number of patrolling officers. Murphy said he would work to improve the number of patrol areas. Pinegar's priority was persistent prosecution of drug dealers.
Four candidates are vying for the commission's 2nd District seat. Incumbent David Hopper is not running for re-election. The 2nd District contains southeast and north
The candidates for sheriff concentrated on the drug problem and the use of county law enforcement employees.
Lawrence and the eastern and northern parts of the county.
The candidates are Democrats Mike Amyx from Lawrence, Fred Stewart from Eudora and Ruth Verberich from Eudora. Republican Tom Pyle from Eudora.
Amyx, a Lawrence city commissioner and former mayor, said he thought an administrator was necessary to manage the county's $20 million budget. Companies don't run by committee, he said.
Stewart, a builder, said the county needed to pursue new businesses so the young people of the county could find work.
Vervynck, a former Douglas County treasurer, said that power needed to be returned to the people through public votes on more issues.
"There is a need for a five-person board," she said. "People do not feel they are being represented fairly."
The 3rd District covers southwest Lawrence, downtown Lawrence west of Massachusetts Street, and the south, west and northwest parts of the county.
Pyle, a member of Eudora's city council, said he had mixed emotions about the southwest trafficway, but that it eventually would happen as Lawrence grew.
The incumbent 3rd District county commissioner, Republican Warren Rhodes, is being challenged by Republican Louie McElhaney and Democrat I.J. Stoneback. All three candidates stressed caution about spending county money.
McEllanway, chief of the Wakauras Fire Department, said he hadn't jumped on the bandwagon for the proposed southwest trafficway because any issue that proposed spending more than double the
amount of the annual county budget should be voted on by the people.
Rhodes, former president of the First National Bank in Lawrence, stressed the importance of modernizing within the budget and cutting interest payments on outstanding bonds by refinancing.
Stoneback, who was a county commissioner from 1973 to 1976, said a county administrator was unnecessary and that morale in the county offices had gone down since the job was created.
The Republican candidates for the 2nd District in the U.S. House are competing for the chance to challenge incumbent Democrat Jim Slattery. Slattery was unable to attend the forum because he was in Atlanta at the Democratic National Convention.
Candidates Stan Eckert of Lawrence and Phil Meinhardt of Topea came down on opposite sides of the contra aid issue.
Eckert, an economist, said military aid should be stopped and economic aid resumed. The way to keep communists out of Central America is to raise the living standard, he said.
Meinhardt, a retired Air Force officer, said he would have voted with Kansas Republican Senators Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum to continue military aid to the contras.
County Clerk Patty Jaimes, County Treasurer Nancy Welsh, Register of Deeds Neuset Foster and District Attorney Jim Flory also are up for re-election. There are no declared candidates opposing them.
The primary election will be Aug. 2 for all offices. A second forum is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at City Hall to precede the Nov. 1 general election.
LONDON — "It's time to bury the hatchet," said the man who organized bonfires across England to copy the warning of the Spanish Armada given 400 years ago, and
Spain's ambassador drove to Corn wall to light the first one last night
The Spanish Armada's 125 ships carried 19,000 soldiers, 8,000 sailors, 2,000 galley slaves and 180 monks and friars, sent by Philip II, the Roman Catholic king of Spain.
to overthrow England's Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.
Processions, pageants and street-dancing were to accompany the blazing line of firefires. Thousands of people rallied in support up pikes and swords, having
The Associated Press
rehearsed for weeks.
Tamlin Thomas, responsible for 10 of Cornwall's 20 fires, said the villagers in Lizard had been celebrated all day, as they have done every anniversary for four centuries.
Tracks set for racing in Kansas
By Linda Gaumnitz Korean staff writer
The commission issued a permit July 8 to the Eureka Downs Race Track in Eureka, allowing 19 racing days this summer, and approved another for one of four Kansas City, Kan., firms.
Kansan staff writer
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Though horse and dog racing fans and organizations now are satisfied that the Kansas Racing Commission has approved two racing permits, skeptics still oppose pari-mutuel gambling, which they think is detrimental to the state.
British coast is set ablaze for holiday
- Dick Clasen Track director.
In the long run, parimutuel gambling will bring in millions of dollars. It's going to mean economic benefits, more jobs, more places to eat and sleep for the people who come to Eureka Downs.'
Eureka Downs
Eureka Downs is a no-betting track, about a hundred miles southwest of Lawrence, that races quarter and thoroughbred horses. Its parimutuel betting season will start Sept. 3.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation still is conducting background checks on the four Kansas City firms.
The commission also is considering permits for dog racing tracks and combination dog and horse racing tracks.
Dick Clasen, track director for Eureka Downs, estimated an average of 2,000 people a day would attend the track this summer.
“In the long run, pari-mutuel gambling will bring in millions of dollars.” Clasen said. “It's going to mean economic benefits, more jobs, more places to eat and sleep for the people who come to Eureka Downs.”
State Rep. Robert Miller, R-Wellington, chairman of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, said that dog racing would bring in people from Missouri, Oklahoma and Alabama, states that don't have dog racing.
Charles Andrews, director of public relations for the Blue Ribbon Downs in Salisaw, Okla., said that pari-mutuel gambling in Kansas wouldn't affect the volume or income of his track much.
"It will affect us a little," Andrews said. "We've raised our purses 10 percent across the board three times this year. We have the highest aver-
See RACETRACK, p. 6, col. 1
Commission saves church on 5-0 vote
By a Kansan reporter
A black-and-white postcard of the Old English Lutheran Church at 1040 New Hampshire St. sat next to each of the commissioner's microphones at the Lawrence City Commission meeting last night.
After more than two hours of public discussion, the commission unanimously denied a demolition request by the church's owner, Allen Realty.
The abandoned building was subject to special consideration because of its proximity to the Douglas County Courthouse. The state regulates the demolition of buildings less than 500 feet from registered historic places.
Todd Thompson, lawyer for Allen Realty, said that the Allen Press needed room to expand and that an architect had assessed the feasibility of renovating the church and had not recommended it.
"Just because something is possible doesn't make it prudent." Thompson said.
John Swift, who lives near the church, said that the church's owner would have to bear the cost of restoration.
"The owner of historic properties has an obligation of citizenship," he said.
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