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 covert 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 chanter," said House Majority Whi
"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 earmarked 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
Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers Inc
Basie (John Malkovich) gives 11-year-old Jim Graham (Christian Bale) his first lesson in survival — warding off starvation, in "Empire of the Sun."
production company, Amblin Entertainment,
has been packed with sweeping crane shots
and other camera tricks "guaranteed" to
knock an audience right from their seats. Last year's pathetic "Harry and the Hendersons"
和 "Batteries Not Included" demonstrate this lack of originality. I hope Spielberg will be able to grow past his disciples and give us something refreshing to watch once again.
Pretty pictures and good acting alone do not make a great movie. I like a lot of things about "Empire of the Sun," but the spark just is not
there. So I can only conditionally recommend this one. That is, if you think you will like "Empire," you probably will. But if you need a break from movies that use fancy camera work instead of strong writing and acting to provide emotional involvement, see something else.
"Empire of the Sun" is rated PG because it contains some violence and profanity.
Kevin Dilmore is an Abilene senior majoring in film studies and journalism.
teresting to see today's metal bands plundering from punk (Megadeath doing a cover of the Sex Pistols infamous "Anarchy In The UK"?), and the biggest surprise of all, urban black music. Anyone who's turned on the radio in the past year has heard the Beastie Boys' metal/rap fusion, or, in an interesting turn of events, Run-DMC's ran/metal fusion.
What makes "I'm The Man" a great record is that Anthrax actually does a rap/metal song that slags bands that do rap/metal songs. It's obviously pointless, but it's such a great case of having one's cake and eating it, too, that I'm starting to look at heavy metal as an art form that deserves as much attention as, say, dadaism. Buy it now, and I'd like to suggest the compact disc version: the same songs at a higher price.
Jerry Harrison "Casual Gods"
(Sfire/Warmer Bros.)
Jerry Harrison is the one guy in the Talking Heads who neither married to another band member nor strange. This is his second solo LP, and it's lame. Really lame. There's not much to hold anyone's interest. The music is sedately danceable and the lyrics neither offend nor interest. Considering the amount of money going into the promotion of this album, either a lot of people have money to burn, or someone's really counting on the pre-'Avalon' Roxy Music revival. Either this album will bomb, or it will make Jerry Harrison a household name
on the level of Boy George. Hate it now, and you'll win either way.
I like saving the best for last. Thirst is a band formed by Karl Burns (ex-Fall drummer) and Martin Bramach (ex-Blue Orchids singer/guitarist) with two other musicians whose backgrounds are unknown to me. Similarities exist between Thirst and Fall, but a clearer connection exists between Thirst and the Blue Orchids. The music of the Blue Orchids was impressive. However, their strange arrangements and instrumentation, plus the depth and humour of their lyrics, hardly provided for mass acceptance. In Thirst, Bramah has made his lyrics a bit more straightforward, without losing the mystical undercurrents that make them unique. With an improved rhythm section behind him and a rhythm guitarist allowing him more freedom, Bramah's voice and energy have never been as forceful. "The Unknown," for some mysterious reason relegated to the b-side, is the best rock 'n' roll song I've heard in months. "Hiding the Times" and "Let Go" show a certain fondness for the Stooges and like-minded high-energy rock. "Crystal Kiss," something of a ballad, shares this record, and although it doesn't work as well as the others, it shows the range this band is capable of and exhibits a clarity of vision rarely found in music today.
Thirst "Riding The Times" (Rough Trade Records)
John Henderson is an employee at Pennylane Records and runs Time to Develop, an independent record label based in Lawrence.
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Halftime acrobats entertain audience
KANSAN MAGAZINE February 3,1988
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
In fact, some of the best action occurred at halftime.
Several athletes made spectacular moves at last night's KU-Oklahoma basketball game. But they didn't just include Danny Manning, Harvey Grant or Stacey King
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 on Saturday and 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 he University of Mississippi in it). It was originally a part-time, but when he graduated in 1983, ecame a profession. Cobb said was surprised at the success of Daredevil team.
Real surprised," Cobb said. "It's always just for fun. I feel really lucky."
obb's team includes his ther, Guy, Tim Lancaster and th Eldred.
"Eye-to-eye contact — that kes the whole show," Lancasa said. "It's a real personal encounter to look like we're 'in a party.'"
'art of the team's act is to pull out the audience and get m involved in the performance. coastier says cross involvement
Oh yeah—that crowd—what a
near to come to," he said. "It
aans lot to us. It's been one of
best so far, for sure."
ancaster said that at some ces, the crowd was not too epive to the Daredevils' perman. But he said the Jayk fans were great.
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David Morris, president of the terfraternity Council, said that the uncle hadn't had a chance to review resolution yet but that it would be scussed at an upcoming meeting.
Reese said that a policy to ban oolhot from all functions, even for see who could legally drink, was discussed.
Andrea Reese, president of Gam-a Phi Beta sorority and a member the panhellenic alcohol task force, id that the future might bring even icter policies.
women mparable
I find it a little difficult to liee," she said. "I hope it's true, we've got quite a long ways to
she said that even if the 70 percent ure were true, it was meaningless cause some women still don't get id as much as men, even though y do the same jobs.
between 1986 and 1987, the average eiky earnings of women working 1 time rose by $13 a week, from 6 to $309, but men's weekly earnings rose $17, from $428 to $445.
Barbara Ballard, director of the daily TAYLOR Women's Resource inter, said she didn't know what ators the study was based on but id she guessed the percentage was adaily going up because more men were moving into higher
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