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Thursday, March 3, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
Local sales tax option passes
TOPEKA-The Kansas Senate tentatively approved yesterday a hill giving cities and counties the option of levying a one-half of one per cent sales tax.
citizenship or other appropriate designation, to the extent required by the law, to the office of the Justice Secretary, to the approval of the voters of a city or county before local officials could request approval.
Sen. Bent Chaney, D-Hutchinson, made the successful motion to include the mandatory vote, saying he hoped citizens to have a say whenever the city voted on the budget. He said he decided it was always decided by the voters.
House passes ethics code
WASHINGTON—The House adopted a tougher ethics code for itself last night after Speaker Thomas O'Neill, declaring that "the issue is credibility," helped quell a rebellion over limits on outside income.
quell a rebellion over imms on outside income.
The code was approved on a roll call vote of 402 to 29.
The code was approved on a Roll call. O'Nell's appeal to "eliminate the potential conflict of interest," and "the hours of debate."
Supporters of the bill were able to beat down a series of moves aimed at killing certain sections of the code, and in the end it was approved in virtually the same form as written by a special ethics reform commission.
Minimum wage law approved
TOPEKA- The House, with opposition from 46 Republicans and 10 Democrats,
has a bill at 89-56 vote to create a state minimum wage law.
yesterday approved by a board of the state's legislature and 14 of the 60 Republicans backed the measure that would make Kansas the 40th state in the nation to have a state minimum wage law.
law.
It would set the lowest allowable salary at $1.60 an hour and require that hourly employees covered by the law be paid time-and-a-half wages for work of more than 40 hours a week.
However, exempted from paying the minimum wage law provisions would be employers of agricultural workers; domestic employees; executive, admin-, or professional employees; feeder employees; commission-paid administrators; and persons 18 years of age or younger or 60 years of age and older.
Divorce . . .
From page one
for free legal aid, the society advises hiring a lawyer.
Kansas divorce laws are in step with national trends to treat both partners
"The laws here provide for a test of the best interests of the child and support for either party," she said. "In the late '60s, there were some important revisions that to some extent removed from the courtroom some very unnecessary emotional issues."
"In Kansas, we added the incompatibility grant, where you don't have to have a lot of wrongdoing to get a divorce. Technically, Kansas law doesn't provide for the divorce because it goes a long way toward it. Kansas divorce law is a relatively good law to work with."
In Kansas, people have to live in the state 60 days before they can submit a petition to
the county district court. Filing a petition costs $35. It must remain on the books 60 days before a plaintiff can set a court date.
After the petition has been filed, an employee of the sheriff's office usually serves the petition personally to the defendant. The defendant must answer the allegations within 20 days. Out-of-state defendants can be served the petition by registered mail and have 30 days to file an answer.
A separation agreement, with details on alimony, child support, child custody and other issues, also is filed and signed by the two parties.
If a divorce isn't contested, which is the case about 90 per cent of the time, a trial isn't necessary. In contested cases, both parties are present. The court then decides the case.
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NAIROBI, Kenya—President Idi Amin's security forces swept through the Ugandan countryside yesterday, systematically slaying Lango and Acholi tribesmen in a courage approaching genocide, according to Ugandan fleeing across the border.
From Our News Services
Ugandan forces on killing spree
In Kampala, they said, all government ministries were following Amin's orders to compile lists of Lango and Acholi civil servants, Makeere University was being purged of professors and students belonging to foreign telephone links were being tamed.
The refugee accounts were confirmed by Western intelligence sources and, in some cases, by telephone interviews with foreign dinomats in Kampala.
They said a 5,000-man "death squand" is conducting a door-to-door search for injured victims in some parts of Uganda, and the northern areas native to the three tribes.
All available accounts said Amin's security forces were running amok in the northern provinces, killing and looting at will. The 500 house-Acholi village of Akore—the home of former President Milton Obote, overthrown by Amin in 1971—was reported
One senior government official, an Acholi and one-time friend of Adm. Ibin, escaped to Kenya yesterday and told of his last week in Uganda. Knowing he was marked for death, he slept in a different bed each night, hid in the room, and recorded like a peasant to avoid recognition.
burned to the ground last week and every
in it, including women and children,
killed.
This official and several other highly placed Ugandans who have sought refuge here this week provided The Los Angeles Times with an account of recent Ugandan horrors far more extensive than previously known.
The refugees said that the "disappearances" and arrests first became known about Jan. 18, one week before the celebration marking Amin's sixth anniversary in office. "In Uganda," said a Makerere University professor, "when you bear today that someone is arrested, you know that person is dead."
While there is no firm estimate of how many people have been killed in the past seven weeks, one of Amiri's former companion said that "it is believed 'to be not less than 10,000.'"
The latest death toll wouldn't be out of character for a regime that the Geneva-based International Conference of Jurists had estimated in recent African history." Estimates of the number killed since Amin, a former army sergeant with a second grade degree from a university, 30,000 and 40,000 of thousands of other Ugandans have fled to neighboring countries.
Thousands of others are in flight. Most are Acholi and Lango but to a lesser degree Christians and intellectuals also have fallen victim to Amin's fire.
reports indicate that the unit is both ruthless and effective.
Amin is a Kakwa, from the northwest mb of Uganda beyond the Albert Nile. It's considered one of the most backward of Uganda's 40 tribes.
When, in late January, Amin uncovered what he believed was a plot to overthrow him, he formed a 5,000-man unit, composed of soldiers and civilian security personnel, to track down Lango and Acholi tribesmen throughout the country, sources said. All
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