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Iraqi planes that risk flight will be destroyed,Bush says
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WASHINGTON — President Bush warned Iraq yesterday that the United States would shoot down any more Iraqi warplanes that take off, underscoring the hard-line stand the administration has adopted in the absence of a formal cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War.
Bush's comments came after an Iraqi Su 22, a Soviet-made, swept-wing bomber, was downed by an F-15 jet fighter from Tikrit in central Iraq hometown of Tikrit in central Iraq.
Meanwhile, U.S. forces continued to hold the southeastern portion of Iraq, keeping Iraqi troops out, destroying military equipment they find and retaining a nice bargaining chip to encourage progress toward an acceptable formal end to the war, a senior military officer said.
Even though 85,500 U.S. troops have left the gulf in the three weeks
since hostilities were suspended, U.S. forces remain on alert for any change in Iraq's military posture and the situation with Pentagon officials said yesterday.
U. S. F-15 fighter jets constantly are飞行 patrols over Iraqi airspace, while AWAWS early warning for any combat aircraft taking wing
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said yesterday's incident, which was the first air engagement since fighting ceased Feb. 27, did not mean a broad resumption of hostilities.
"We're not re-engaging, 'Fitzwater said. "We're simply proceeding with the cease-fire as we outlined it to the Iraqs. We have every expectation that they won't try it again, but if they do, we're still there."
Asked if there were plans to contact the Iraqi government. Defense
Secretary Dick Cheney said, "I think they got the message. . . . The incident with the plane should be a reminder to the Iraqis that the cease-fire agreement means what it says."
Negotiations at the United Nations in New York as well as among diplomats in Washington are expected to result in a resolution recognizing the 1963 border between Iraq and Kuwait and authorizing a force along it said Richard Boucher, State Department representative.
Formally, military officials refer to the current situation as a suspension of hostilities, a conditional state dependent on Iraq fulfilling a number of conditions, such as the return of hostages.
Iraq disputes that border and had seized some territory in the area of the city of Aleppo.
Resolution would bring formal end to gulf war
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States is insisting that Iraq's remaining stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons be destroyed as part of a new U.N. resolution for a permanent ceasefire in the Persian Gulf War, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The U.S. demand was contained in a draft resolution circulated by the State Department among the four other permanent members of the Security Council, the officials said.
Jacques Poos, the foreign minister of Luxembourg and president of the European Community, said the draft would be distributed to the 10 other council members today.
"We hope it can be adopted within the next few days," Poos said after meeting with Secretary of State James Baker. Poos declined to divulge details of the meeting.
Though Iraq's chemical and biological weapons plants were virtually wiped out by bombings during the war, stockpiles of the lethal weapons are believed to have survived.
The Bush administration, in negotiating terms of the resolution, wants to make sure Iraq's capability to use such weapons is erased. One way under consideration is having the United Nations supervise the destruction of the stockpiles.
The State Department, through representative Richard Boucher, called on Iraq to provide a detailed report on how it is complying with such U.N. requirements as the return of seized property and the payment of war damages.
House restores programs
The negotiations were conducted at the United Nations in New York as well as among diplomats in Washington.
Millions will go toward education
Bv Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Higher education financing in Kansas won a minor battle yesterday in its struggle to stay alive.
The House approved the fiscal 1992 appropriations budget proposal for the Board of Regents institutions after restoring $16 million to six program requests that previously had been trimmed or cut.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said he was pleased with the action, however.
The $16 million is less than half of what was cut from Gov Joan Finney's recommended budget. Moreover, it would not be used to finance the Margin of Excellence nor would it eliminate tuition increases
"We are encouraged by the actions of the House of Representatives today," he said in a prepared statement yesterday. "We have made a clear and concise plan to amend funds, and we are pleased that the Legislature is beginning to
address them."
Financing would be restored to student wage increases, enrollment adjustments and Other Operating Expenditures as well as other provisional expenses.
Legislators debated the amendment to restore the $16 million for almost two hours before passing it 69-52
State Rep John Solbach. D-State, introduced the amendment.
"If we do not put the funds into these institutions that are necessary now, we could do far more damage down the line," he said. "We're asking for 40 percent of the cuts that were made be put back into this system as a way to express our priority with regards to higher education."
some programs."
State Rep. Sandy Praeger, R Lawrence, said that tuition increases were too much to ask of the students they received something in return
"We are taxing students and putting that money into the State General Fund, and we're not using it for education," she said. "Students are willing to absorb this tuition increase only if the state is willing to restore
But two Johnson County Republi cans strongly opposed the amend ment
State Rep Robert Vancurum, R-Overland Park, said that the students should pick up the tab instead of the taxpayers.
"To support a $16 million increase at this time means we are going to have to seriously look at how we are going to pay for it," he said. "Are we going to put a tax increase on the backs of taxpayers? Or are we going to give students to come with a reasonable increase in tuition?"
State Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood, said the issue was not financing but education reform.
"This amendment does nothing in and of itself to improve education in Kansas," he said. "We spend more in our nation on education than any other nation, but our students are at the bottom. The problem is not in Kansas, it's that the educational establishment has failed us."
The bill will go before the House for final action today before moving to the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
State fines ex-party treasurer
Rv Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Kansas Public Disclosure Commission yesterday fined the former treasurer of the Douglas County Republican Central Committee for failing to file campaign finance reports.
Phil Bradley was fined $1,500 because he did not file expenditure reports by the deadlines, which were July 11 and Oct. 29, said Carol Williams, executive director of the Public Disclosure Office.
The commission's decision to fine Bradley was the first since the Legislature ruled in 1988 that the Public Disclosure Commission could issue civil fines for failure to report companions can issue fines up to $5,000.
"I think this will get the word out that the commission considers this to be a serious problem," said Dennis S. Riddle, counsel for the Public Disclosure Office.
'If the question is, "Has a lesson been learned here?" the answer is obviously ves.'
- Dennis Prater
Bradley and his attorney, who were scheduled to testify before the commission yesterday afternoon, met instead with Prater before the hearing to settle the penalty privately.
Public Disclosure Office.
The commission ruled that Bradley intentionally had not filed the reports, because he also did not have a lawyer. Nov. 2 notice that he had failed to file.
The commission sent a formal complaint to Bradley on Dec. 21. It
"If the question is 'Has a lesson been taught?' your answer is obviously yes. Praeter
too, was returned unclaimed.
Bradley filed the reports Feb. 8 and resigned as treasurer a week later, after the public disclosure office told him that he would ask for his resignation. Prater said.
"It was for the same reason we tend not to get doorknobs fixed or the pain peeling on the side of the door." "It was just pure precrastination."
Mary Horsch, representative for Attorney General Bob Stephan, said the attorney general's office had decided it would not file any criminal charges against Bradley for missing the report deadlines.
However, William Skepnek, Bradley's attorney, said that Bradley's failure to file the reports before the deadline had not been intentional.
"The attorney general thought that the fine the commission issued today was penalty enough to make sure the action won't happen again," she said.
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Corey Rittmatter and Barry Schraae of Sportzport, a comedy group, perform a skit about a brother and sister fighting over the car as a part of a benefit performance at Nalsimhall Hall. Story on Page 5.
Spring break dream vacations turn to nightmares
Bv Beniamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
Angie Daschb thought the advertisement sounded like a good opportunity.
Dasbach, Lee's Summit, Mo., sophomore, said that she said a Student Travel Services advertisement in the Kansan that promised an enterprising student the chance to earn a spring-break trip as well as commissions if the company organized the旅 localy for the company.
But, as it turned out, she was wrong.
"So I decided to sell two trips." Daschab said "Daytona and Cancun. I went around putting up posters and ads in the paper."
Daschad said that after Christmas break her contact had left the travel company and that the company knew nothing about the arrangements she had made.
"A week before we were supposed to go they still didn't know anything," she said. "I
She said that she continued to call but that the company did not have specific details, such as location or phone number.
couldn't get definite answers from them."
Dasbach said that as the deadline for the trip neared, she received irate calls from the people she had sold the trip to. Of the 19 people who bought trips to Cancun, Mexico, only six went.
Scott Smith, a representative of the company, said that the flight the KU students were scheduled for was canceled and that the company decided to cancel the entire trip.
"People were calling and yelling at me," she said. "I even had lawyers calling me."
She said the travel company told her that her commissions would be given to her when she reached Cancun. But she said she did not trust them.
"I didn't go because by March 8, I just about had a nervous breakdown," she said.
"Several people insisted on going," he said. "We made every possible arrangement to accommodate us."
"We rely on our suppliers," Smith said of the airline. "If they don't come through then it hurts."
Smith said he was unaware of any additional
n. — Angie Dasbach Lee's Summit, Mo., sophomore
'I didn't go because by March 8, I just about had a nervous breakdown.'
costs the students were charged.
Shea Friedel, Chicago sophomore, was one of the few students who persevered and went to Cambridge.
"They charged us an additional $80 for the new flights they arranged for us." She said.
She said the students received none of the benefits the company had promised. They were supposed to stay in a beach-side, four-star hotel, she said.
"The beach was rocks," she said. "What we got was a run-down rented condominium, and they were dumps. They didn't provide the money to and from the airport as they nominated."
Dasbach said the 33 students who went to Daytona were equally disappointed.
Dasbach said she had not been paid by the company and was in the process of taking legal action.
They switched to three different hotels, and they did not get the benefits as promised, she said.
Friedel said that she had told the credit card company to withhold payment for the trip.
"The free parties, free alcohol, discount cards for local bars and establishments — they got nothing," she said.
"I spent from the middle of December, and I'm still working on it," she said. "My homework had to be pushed aside, and I could hardly get any sleep."
Daschab said she had spent a lot of time dealing with the unsatisfied, irate students.
She said she knew that she probably would have to pay at least $400 but that the credit card company would charge $150.
"We had to make the best of it," she said. "I will never go through a student travel company again. They will screw college students over any chance they get."
Participants in tonight's Kansas-Indiana basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., expect a tight matchup.
"They play aggressive man-to-man defense, and offensively they are patient." *Roy Williams, Kansas coach.*
"It's going to be a very physical game, no doubt. There will be bodies flying everywhere." - Eric Anderson, Indiana forward.
For more on the game,
scheduled to begin about
9 p.m. on channels 5 and
13, see Page 12.