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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, No. 124
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
TOPEKA; KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991
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Facts budget anges election officials
Impact budget surpasses suggested spending limit
By Michael Christie
Kenyan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Elections Commission released the campaign budgets of the two election coalitions yesterday, and both groups have stated they will not follow the commission's recommended spending limits. 705-869.
Facts submitted a budget of $1,292,760.
Impact's budget is $2,200.
The Facts budget is the same as the Student Senate budget for next year. The coalition stated that it wanted to show students how much money Senate controlled and that a campaign spending limit was necessary
The budget received some criticism from
election officials.
"The whole point in allowing them either to abide or not to abide by the limit is that if they decide not to, we're giving them the chance to set their own limits," said Curt Winegarner, elections commission chairperson.
If a coalition does not submit a serious budget, it has no accountability to the public.
Both groups originally stated they would abide by the suggested limit when they announced their candidacy. The limit is a requirement to secure Senate candidate running on each coalition.
The coalitions are required to abide by
our budget. They can spend less than they state, but if they spend more, the elections commission can disqualify them from office and prevent them from. This year's election will be April 10 and 11.
The recommended limit for Impact, headed by Daren Fulcher and Alan Lowden, was $1,725. Fulcher attributed the $475 difference to some unexpected expenses.
"We had to order another 1,000 buttons because they were in demand," he said. "We had some things donated to us and we had to revert them."
Fulcher said the items donated were office supplies.
"We realized that $2,200 was as close as we could cut it and be honest." he said.
Winegarer said he saw the budget submitted by Impact as a good faith effort to submit an honest request and remain accountable for campaign costs.
He was not as complimentary to the budget that Kofi subscribed.
This looks to me like a blatant attempt to
circumvent any kind of accountability." he said.
Jason McIntosh and Giles Smith, Facts presidential and vice president candidates, said their coalition was trying to prove a point.
"We feel that there should be one spending limit. We're not being irreverent." Mintosh's snout
McIntosh said that not everyone in the Facts coalition had been involved in the decision to submit the budget but that a few others in the coalition had decided to make the statement.
"It's to prove a point that this could get out of hand," he said
Winegarner said the action taken by Facts was frustrating.
"We had an official process at the beginning of the semester," he said. A forum was held.
"Even though Jason had mentioned that he was unhappy with the elimination of the limit, he never submitted, nor did any of his subordinates, which is what would have been necessary."
Winegarner said the elections commission this year decided to remove a spending limit on the Senate campaign in part because he had lied about their campaign expenditures.
McIntosh agreed that setting a limit on campaign expenses was conducive to coalitions fudging their budgets, but he said a limit still was needed.
"I keeps a ball on things," he said. McIntosh said he was "very well coached" in the latter part of the season in which the future
He said that he understood the importance of accountability in campaign expenditures but that the point his coalition was trying to make is important.
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Sidewalk completion
C&S Shepard Construction employees Terry Smith (bottom) and Ron Ash (middle) pour the last of the concrete needed to complete the sidewalk along Emery Road just south of Ninth Street. Foreman Vince L. Shockley said yesterday that his crew would need only two or three more days to finish the grading and general clean-up. In February, two KU student senators proposed to the city commission that the city build the sidewalk to make Emery Road safer for pedestrians.
Iraqi rebels received CIA aid, sources say
Bush criticized for abandoning uprising in midst of bloodbath
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush signed secret orders in January authorizing the CIA to aid rebel factions inside Iraq, about the time he was publicly exhorted the Iraq people to overthrow Saddam Hussein, intelligence sources said yesterday.
The orders, known as an intelligence "finding," were described as granting broad and general authority for clandestine activities to undermine the rule of President Saddam Hussein and to support a terrorist force in Iraq, said the sources, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
But be reiterated that the United States would not intervene militarily to protect Iraq's minority Kurds and to stop the rise of insurgents of their uprising against Saddam
"I do not want to see us get sucked into the internal struggle in Iraq," the president said.
It was not immediately clear to what extent the CIA authority might have been used. However, NBC News reported Tuesday that the Voice of Free Iraq, a clandestine anti-government radio station, operated during the Kuwait conflict with CIA financing.
Bush recently sidestepped reporters' questions about any contacts between the United States and Iraqi rebels. And, asked about such collaboration at a congressional hearing two weeks ago, Defense Secretary Cheney said only, "That's a subject - can't get into in open session."
If the authority has been used to aid the rebels, it would add concrete actions to the verbal encouragement Bush and other administration officials have given rebels to overthrow their president.
Critics have accused Bush of misleading resistance groups into believing the United States would come to take aid if they challenged Saddam's rule.
'I do not want to see us get sucked into the internal struggle in Iraq,'
President Bush
Feb. 15. Bush suggested that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi military should take measures to force Saddam out of power.
In January, while saying it was not U.S. policy to target Saddam, Bush declared, "No one will weep when he is gone."
As recently as March 19, Bush suggested that Iraq's continuing use of helicopter gunships to put down revolt would complicate a final cease-fire. However, he has retuled the forces to attack the helicopters.
Kurdish and other dissident groups have said they felt betrayed by the United States as Saddam's forces brutally re-established control over cities in rebel-controlled areas and created a flood of refugees fleeing what they feared an impending mass slaughter.
Yesterday, Sen. Al Gore, D-Tenn., joined those attacking U.S. inaction.
"I don't think it's right for us to stand by and do nothing while the Kurds and others who oppose Saddam Hussein are being slaughtered," he said at a news conference, adding that the refugees were simply responding to a U.S. call to rise up against Saddam.
Gore, who supported Bush's decision to go to war against Iraq and is regarded as a potential Democratic presidential contender for 1992, said Bush had made a cold calculation that it was in the best interests of the United States to hold Iraq together by allowing Saddam to remain in power.
"I understand the logic behind it, but I think it is a terribly wrong decision." he said.
Repeated administration statements have made it clear that U.S. military forces will not be used to interfere in the conflict, because such efforts are often a scene of the U.N. mandate that called for Iraq to drive from Kuwait.
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Government secrets may rise after war
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Gulf war probably will cause an increase in the number of secret documents produced annually by the government, although that figure has held steady in millions in recent years, according to a report to the president.
Garfinkel's office estimates that the government produced 6,797,720 secrets during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. That's an increase of just 1,219 secrets over the previous year.
The government does not actually sit around counting its secrets, though. Those numbers are estimates derived statistically from samples examined by the military services
Overall, the number of times that the government uses the “confidential,” “secret” and “top secret” stamps has fallen since Reagan left office in 1985. The number of secrets was estimated at 15 million, according to the security oversight office report.
"Their impact . . . is likely to be significant," wrote Steven Garfinkel, director of the security oversight office, which annually the annual report on the government's level of secrecy
House may revive KU work study
When the statistics for 1991 are compiled next year, they likely will show a marked increase in the number of secrets, because of Operation Steel and the war that followed.
Men's basketball coach Roy Williams tries to fill the remaining scholarship available with a 6-foot-10 center from California. If Kansas signs him, he will round out the nation's second-best recruiting class.
The government's effectiveness at keeping secrets during the war brought a letter of praise from President Bush, a former CIA director who also said it was important that the government operate out in the open.
Subcommittee may recommend restoring money for program
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TOPEKA — The Career Work Study Program that was killed by a House subcommittee last month could be brought back to life.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.-Lawrence, said that he and State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, would recommend that more than $450,000 be put back into the program. Winter and Gaines compose a subcommittee that reviewed Board of Regents fiscal 1992 requests.
Kansan staff writer
By Joe Gose
Although the amount still would reflect a 2.8 percent cut of program financing last year, Winter said that 97.4 percent was better than nothing.
"I tried to get 100 percent returned to the program, but Senator Gaines
would not go for that," he said. "So I suggested that we cut it the same percentage we're cutting general fund spending, 2.6 percent. It was totally wrong to be cutting that whole program."
The program pays half the salaries of students who work for companies off campus, and the employers pick up the other half.
Winter said the request would be made today before the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Julie Cooper, who works at the office of student financial aid, said that 65 employers participated in the year and hired about 128 KU students.
Cooper said that everyone in the program was uncertain what would
'I tried to get 100 percent returned to the program, but Senator Gaines would not go for that. So I suggested that we cut it the same percentage we're cutting general fund spending, 2.6 percent. It was totally wrong to be cutting that whole program.'
happen when it was announced the program had been terminated.
- Wint Winter Jr.
State Sen., R-Lawrence
"We had several employers call and ask what they could do," she said. "We suggested they talk to theirators and express their concerns."
that program."
The Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets, employs four students through the program.
"We've had a lot of concerned students call as well. They depend on
Lisa Marie Rousseau, education program director for the center, said that without the program the center is understaffed. On the number of students it hired
David Lambertson, a diplomat-in-residence at the University of Kansas, rides to school every day on a black 600 cc Yamaha motorcycle. He may be the next U.S. ambassador to Thailand.
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