Thursday February 4,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 89 (USPS 650-640)
House votes to eliminate contra plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A bitterly divided House voted yesterday to cut off U.S. military support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, rejecting President Reagan's aid request in the hope of spurring peace prospects in Central America.
The 219-211 vote, culminating six years of overt and overt military support for the rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government, killed Reagan's request for $36.2 million in new aid to keep the contras alive as a fighting force through June.
It was a serious defeat for the president, who had lobbed hard on the issue for two weeks and had put the contras among the top foreign policy priorities for his final year in office. Only a day earlier, Reagan had argued that failure to extend aid would strengthen communist influence in the hemisphere.
"Today's vote is the end of a charter," said House Majority Whip
"If you vote this package down, you'd better be prepared to bear the consequences," Michel said. "And who among you is smart enough to predict the path on which Daniel Ortega will take you?"
Current aid to the rebels expires Feb. 29, and democrats pledged to hold another vote before the month is out on an alternative package of purely humanitarian aid to the rebels, and to follow that up with a new emphasis on economic development aid for countries in the region that abide by terms of a five-nation peace accord.
The most controversial part of the defeated package was $3.6 million armarmed for weapons and ammunition, which Reagan had said he would withhold until March 31 to see how cease-fire talks went between the rebels and the Managua government. Those talks are scheduled to
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I love you . . . more than . . . more than life, or air, or water, or any of those queer things poets write about. I just knew she could see the naked longing in my eyes as I gazed at her across my living room.
across my living roo Crispy.I love you.
Crispy, I love you.
You are ideal, my obsession. I gazed at her raptly.
She is a beauty. Long dark hair, sweet brown eyes. Cows,
my mother used to call them. The kind you can gaze
into for hours, and see into the person's very soul.
I love you, Crispy. She was small . . . I loved small women. She stood no more than 4 feet 11, with hair down to her waist. Long hair was out of fashion, but she didn't care.
I had learned in the endless week I had known her that KANSAN MAGAZINE February 3, 1988
I had met her a week earlier. I was poring over a chemical engineering book in the college catered during lunchtime. I had a test within hours. I was alone. I was always alone. School was not easy for me. I had served 12 years in the Navy, I had seen Panama, the Philippines, the Orient. Now I was unemployed and desperately trying to turn my technical expertise into a job. I was lost in an
there were not many things she cared about, and I was probably to be numbered among those things. But God, I cared about her.
equation, a steaming cup of coffee in my hand, when I felt a tap on my shoulder.
"This seat taken?" I blinked, startled out of my reverie. It was a woman, or perhaps a girl. Her age was indeterminable, but her beauty was exquisite. Her warm eyes searched mine, and a shy smile came to her lips. She was clothed in faded jeans, a stretched sweater, and a toto-biz denim jacket. She hugged a notebook to her chest
"Uh-no, go ahead." She pulled out the chair next to her and laid her notebook on the table. Written in a large.
Halftime acrobats entertain audience
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
Several athletes made spectacularn moves at last night's KU-Oklahoma basketball game. But they didn't just include Danny Manning, Harvey Grant or Stacey King.
In fact, some of the best action occurred at halftime.
The Bud Light Daredevils, with the help of a mini-trampoline, fascinated the sellout crowd in Allen Field House with their acrobatic slam dunks.
The team will play at Nebraska tonight, Missouri Western tomorrow, Kansas State on Saturday and at the Topeka Sizzlers game on Sunday.
The Daredevils, who are based in Memphis, Tenn., perform around the world. The four-member team has played in over 150 colleges, in every National Basketball Association arena and in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Latin America and Australia.
y Cobb, coach and performer the Daredevils, founded the m when he was a cheerleader the University of Mississippi in 0. It was originally a part-time, but when he graduated in 1883, became a profession. Cobb said was surprised at the success of Daredevil team.
'Real surprised," Cobb said. "It's always just for fun. I feel it's really lucky."
Jobb's team includes his
other, Guy, Tim Lancaster and
ith Eldred.
"Eye-to-eye contact — that akes the whole show." Lancassi said it was a real personal way to look like we're living a party."
?art of the team's act is to pull out pleat of the audience and get im involved in the performance. This involvement is the point of the show.
Lancaster said that at some aces, the crowd was not too ceptive to the Daredevil's percussionist and the Jaykw fans were great.
"on yeah -- that crowd -- what a
one to come to," he said. "It
eans a lot to us. It is one of
e best so far, for sure."
Reese said that a policy to ban alcohol from all functions, even for hose who could legally drink, was being discussed.
Andrea Reeze, president of Gama
Phi Beta sorority and a member
of the panhellenic alcohol task force,
aid that the future might bring even
tricher policies.
rties
women imparable
Ohnemus said that the association vanted the fraternities to sign the resolution too.
David Morris, president of the interfraternity Council, said that the council didn't had a chance to review his resolution yet but that it would be discussed at an upcoming meeting.
"I find it a little difficult to believe," she said. "I hope it's true, but we've got quite a long ways to to."
She said that even if the 70 percent igure were true, it was meaningless because some women still don't get said as much as men, even though hey do the same jobs.
Between 1866 and 1887, the average weekly earnings of women working all time rose by $13 a week, from $296 to $309, but men's weekly earnings rose $17, from $428 to $445.
Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said she didn't know what factors the study was based on but said she guessed the percentage was steadily going up because more women were moving into higher
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