Monday January 25,1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 81 (USPS 650-640)
Dole's error?
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A newly published autobiography of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and his wife, Elizabeth Dole, contains an error about the University of Kansas. The Kansas senator attended KU in the early 1940s before he joined the Army.
A caption for a photograph of Dole in a track meet says, "In the fall of 1941, I entered Kansas State University at Lawrence. With a little talent and a lot of perseverance, I break the tape at a quarter mile."
Dole actually attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He left KU to enlist in the Army in December of 1942.
Walt Riker, Dole's press secretary, said the senator was told of the mistake immediately after the
first printed copies of the book arrived in his office.
Riker couldn't recall Dole's reaction, however.
The book, "The Doles: Unlimited Partners," was written with Richard Norton Smith and published by Simon and Schuster.
The Kansas Republican, who is seeking the 1988 GOP presidential nomination, said in the book that he considered abandoning politics for another career after he left out of the 1980 presidential race.
He decided to remain in politics and seek re-election to the Senate in 1980 because "I did want to be a plaver."
"For a few weeks I toyed with the idea of leaving politics altogether," Dole wrote in the joint autobiography with his wife.
Contra plane shot down
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Sandinista soldiers shot down a cargo plane after it had air-dropped supplies to contra rebels in southern Nicaragua, and four crew members were killed, a survivor of the crash and authorities said yesterday.
The Defense Ministry, in a communique, identified the four crew members as three Nicaraguans and a Colombian.
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The communique said a Nicaraguan survived the crash and was captured. It did not specify how many people were on board the vintage DC-6 aircraft.
The survivor, Alejandro Sanchez Herrera, 25, told reporters that two men had parachuted out of the plane when the supplies were dropped.
He also said the Colombian, whom the other crew members only knew by the pseudonym of "Richard," was piloting the plane.
"The communique claimed that "Richard" was working for the CIA. Both the government and the contras side had been on board the propeller-driven plane.
Nicaraigan President Daniel Ortega said the incident was proof that the supply mission "was actively mounted by the United States in their territory," and a violation by Honduras of the Central American peace plan.
"President Reagan should reflect over this, since his policy is being shot down just like this plane was shot down," Ortega said.
Earlier yesterday, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega, quoted by the government radio, said 10 of the 11
people on board were killed. Contra spokeswoman Marta Sacaza, interviewed in Miami, Fla., said 11 were killed.
Sanchez Herrera was interviewed by reporters yesterday while in military custody at the town of San Carlos. He said the plane took off from a Honduran air base at Swan Island.
Sanchez Herrera said he thought the men who parachutaled out of the plane were experts in explosives who were trained in the United States. He said the air-dropped cargo consisted of rice, beans, boots, clothes and ammunition.
Swan Island, in the Caribbean Sea, belongs to Honduras and for decades has been used by American military forces to monitor the area.
troops at 10 p.m. Saturday with a Soviet-made C-2-M Rocket, and crashed on the jungle-covered Arrancazos Mountain, near the village of El Arena. The village is 18 miles east of the Costa Rican border and 144 miles southeast of Managua.
Lt. Col. Roberto Calderon, Chief of the Fifth Military Zone where the plane crashed, said rescue squads had to hack their way through the jungle with machetes to get to the site of the crash.
Reporters and photographers who visited the scene said they saw two badly burned bodies in the cockpit of the wreckage, a third in the fuselage and a fourth lying on the ground outside the plane.
They were told by Calderon and other authorities that these were all the bodies found at the site.
About 230 demonstrators walk down Massachusetts Street to protest the 15th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortions.
Local citizens march to protest abortion
Kansan staff writer
By Donna Stokes
About 230 area citizens marched Saturday to protest the 15th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion.
The group left City Hall at noon and marched down Massachusetts Street
Jim Ryun, president of Lawrence Kansans for Life, said the march was to raise public awareness of the issue. Ryun said the protesters had marked the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision with a
march for the past several years.
"I think we have had an impact and will continue to have an impact," he said.
Protesters chanted "not abortion — adoption" and sang "God bless America" as they passed more than 100 onlookers during the march.
"We believe there are better alternatives to abortion." Carl Burkhead, professor of civil engineering, said. "Marriage, fidelity and knowing Jesus are important in stopping abortion."
Angela Williams, 11. walked along
sidewalks and handed anti-abortion pamphlets to shoppers and store clerks.
"I don't like abortion," she said. "I think all babies should live."
Lawrence police escorted the protesters down the southbound lane of Massachusetts Street. Some protesters carried symbols that quoted biblical
verse and read "Unborn Babies are
Brad Hunt, a member of Lawrence Kansans for Life, said, "It is time for the public to speak the truth and stand against the tyranny of abortion." Mr. Mussolini did it, Stalin did it, and now the U.S. government is doing it."
Patrolman Steve Coon said the march didn't cause any problems for the police.
"It only ties up two (patrol) cars, one for in front of the group and one for behind. They usually move along pretty good; they do it every year," he said.
The march ended with a prayer and the singing of hymns near the gazebo in South Park. At 1 p.m., many protesters went to the
Lawrence Public Library and
that showed an abortion surgery.
On Friday, members of Maranatha Christian Ministries and the Great Commission Students, a campus Christian organization, marched from the Chi Omega countain to the Kansai, then back to Wescoe for a protest anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling. About 30 people participated.
Kansan reporters Julie Adam and Dave Sodamann contributed information to this story.
President to review past years
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — One last time, President Reagan is going before Congress with a State of the Union address, giving an upbeat assessment of his seven years at the White House and setting a limited agenda for his final months in power.
There will be no sweeping proposals or bold promises when Reagan delivers the nationally broadcast speech before a joint session of the House and Senate at 9 p.m. EST today, officials said. That would be unrealistic in a presidential election year.
After trying to slash education spending last year, Reagan will ask for an increase this year, to nearly $21 billion, with more money for magnet schools and remedial education.
Instead, Reagan will restate familiar themes on foreign and domestic policy, look back over the full span of his presidency, and challenge Congress to reform its erratic budget process and try harder to cut federal spending, the officials said.
He also will propose initiatives in the fight against illegal drugs, another area that was targeted for spending cutbacks last year.
The address will not contain a lot of unrealistic goals that can't be accomplished, one official said.
"It will show that he's still willing to put a few challenges out there, that he is not ready to just sit back and watch the days and months go idly by," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The speech urges Congress to act in a bipartisan spirit and help him make his final year productive, the official said.
Seminar teaches fearless flying
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Larry and George Ann Seymour of Olathe have grown children and are beginning to think about retiring. They want to be able to pick up and go somewhere when they want.
Larry is a licensed pilot and loves to fly. But George Ann is afraid.
That upsets Larry because it has interfed with plans for week and trips.
"They don't have a bridge to Hawaii," he said.
The Seymours were part of a group of ten people who attended a all-day seminar Saturday at the University of Kansas Medical Center on aerophobia, the fear of flying. It was conducted by Walt H. Gunn, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and a former TWA pilot. The cost was $90.
"She'll go if she has to, but it's white knuckles all the way." Larry said. Once, after a flight, George Ann got off the plane and kissed the ground.
George Ann Seymour will fly, but it's not a pleasant experience for her.
The Seymours are expecting their first grandchild in June, and George Ann wants to be able to travel to Maine to see her grandchild. This finally made her decide to do something about her fear. Larry couldn't be happier.
"It was very embarrassing," Larry said.
About 25 million are fearful of flying, Gunn said. He said most aerosphobics had multiple phobias, not necessarily all related to flying, as anything from snakes to elephants
ten of anything I shake to elevators.
Gunn did his best to convince the group
that air travel was perfectly safe, in spite of what seems to be a rash of airline accidents in recent years.
"The accidents that have happened lately have to have some attribution to deregulation," Gunn said. But he said he think the situation was as bad as it seemed.
"I'm here to champion and defend air transportation," Gunn said. "You are in good hands; you can be confident of the pilots."
Even if the engine conks out, a 747 can glide more than 100 miles without power, he said. But he minimized the possibility of that happening.
"They dearly love to play investigative reporter," he said. Their conjectures about causes, he said, were a bunch of garbage.
I flew few for 22 years and had maybe no engine failures where I had to shut the engine.
Gunn blamed the media for sensationalizing every airline crash.
Megan Brim of Overland Park said she hadn't always been afraid of flying. She went to college in Minnesota and flew back and forth to Kansas City frequently.
But this summer, for some reason she could not explain, she became afraid to fly. She flew to Minnesota and couldn't even get up the nerve to return to the airport for her flight back. She took a bus home, and, after a very long ride, decided that wasn't the answer to her problem.
Megan's sister Katie came with her to the seminar. She said she wanted Megan to be able to fly so the two could take trips together.
"She's in control of so much of everything else, this is out of character," Katie said.
Fifty percent of phobics are concerned with matters of control, Gunn said. They often try to avoid the experience.
Megan Brim agreed. "I feel like I ought to give the pilot some pointers, but I don't know."
Although most people who are afraid to fly are afraid of crashing, Gunn said that no one who had taken his seminar had ever been in a plane crash.
Getting through a flight without crashing doesn't ease the fear, either. Each flight gets worse and it becomes not worth the trip. Gunn said.
Eddie Feinstein of Overland Park said, "If you know you're going to die in a plane crash, after one successful flight, you know it's the next one that will kill you." He attended the seminar with his wife, Gloria, who is afraid of flying.
But Gunn said refusing to fly was not the answer.
As long as you avoid, you'll never overestimate you. You have to confront the fear to get at your best.
Gunn described aerobophiles as high performing, high achieving people.
"Iass Asimov can write about interstellar space travel in the safety of his studio, but I don't fly to San Francisco to receive an award for science fiction writing," he said.
Gunn said that when he was a pilot, he had had a number of entertainers and artists at his disposal.
Wayne Gretzky, hockey player for the Edmonton Oilers, could oply overcome his
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Inside the simulation room at KCI Airport, Megan Brim, Overland Park
dread of flying by being allowed to sit in the cockpit, Gunn said. He said he thought that John Madden, CBS sportscaster, quit coaching football because he didn't like to fly.
resident, tries to overcome her fear of flying.
The day-long seminar ended with a trip to Kansas City International Airport to the TWA training academy.