VOL. 101, No. 112
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1991
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Bush orders Iraq to pay war costs
President also wants to cut arms sales to area
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday demanded that Iraq pay war reparations for its environmental terrorism and said he wanted to cut arms sales to the Middle East. Yet, the administration also announced new steps to underwrite sales of military goods.
Bush, just back from postwar talks with leaders of Britain, France and Canada, compared notes with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from a trip to the Middle East and Moscow.
The president said he wanted to build on a feeling of good will in the aftermath of the war against Iraq to calm the turmoil in Lebanon, reconcile Arab-Israeli differences and find a solution for the Palestinian problem.
But he said, "I don't think the American people ought to think that you can wave a wand and solve all three of these very difficult problems at once."
However he added, "I think the longer one waits to take any initiatives, the danger is things revert back to a status quo. And I think that will be unacceptable."
The United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf War are conducting talks at the United Nations this week on conditions for a permanent cease fire.
"Broadly speaking, people know what is required." Bush said "I would like to see us
reduce the flow of weapons into the area . . . Iraq must pay reparations or pay damages. The more one looks at the environmental terrorism that they embraced . . . the more the world understands that they have got to do something about that."
He said Iraq was a wealthy nation that spent its money on weapons and aggression.
"Now we've got to see that they use their resources for helping their own people."
The president spoke at a White House ceremony where he received a humanitarian award for his "moral courage and unshake- ment" presented by Nobel laureate Eileen Wiseel.
Separately, the White House said Bush would seek congressional approval allowing the Export Import Bank, a government agency that handles U.S. foreign military sales by U.S. companies.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the program did not conflict with Bush's goal of reducing the spread of arms to the Middle East.
"We're not talking about cutting off all arms sales," he said. "We're talking about a balance and a stability in the region, but we can't do that without reductions, sometimes you have to build up."
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Iraq says revolt crushed
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus Iraq claimed yesterday that it had crushed the revolt in the south, but an official in Washington said the fighting continued there and that a separate insurgency in northern Iraq was gaining ground.
Leaders of the southern rebellion, speaking in Syria, reported new fighting near alKut, 100 miles southeast of Bagdad, while Kurdish guerrillas involved with the other uprising said they were holding onto gains in northern Iraq.
Neighboring Iran declared yesterday a day of mourning for what it called the destruction of Muslim shrines by Saddam Hussein's loyalists.
Iran supports the Shiite Muslim rebels in Iraq's predominantly Shiite south, and its official news agency Sunday quoted Iraqi refugees as saying Saddam's Republican Guard was using napalm to crush the southern rebellion.
Kurdish rebels said the Iraqi army was using virtually every weapon it had — helicopters, bombs, rockets, tanks and artillery. The back of the back of the rebellion in northern Iraq.
None of the claims could be verified independently because Iraq has prevented Western reporters from covering the fighting.
However, an official in Washington, State Department deputy representative Richard Boucher, yesterday confirmed some of the rebel claims.
He said that there was heavy fighting between government forces and Kurdish dissidents and that the rebels appeared to be in control of large portions of predominantly Kurdish areas of northern and northeastern Iraq.
Fighting also is continuing in the south along the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers and in the vicinity of Shia holy cities, Boucher said.
Kid cuffing
KU police officer Burdel Welsh explains the procedure for handcuffing as Erik Houk (left) and Wynton McCurdy receive hands-on experience. The children are members of
a class taught by Nancy Golden (center) at the Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd. Welsh spoke to the class yesterday.
New beer sales debated
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A hearing on legislation that would allow non-alcoholic beer to be sold in grocery and convenience stores Sundays turned into a special interest debate about what the legislation's real aim was.
The Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee heard testimony yesterday from proponents and opponents of a bill that would allow the sales, but the committee took no action.
Non-alcoholic beer is less than 0.5 percent alcohol, but a federal law allows the beverage to be labeled as non-alcoholic
John Webb, owner of Webb's Fine Wine, 800 W. 23rd St., said that alcoholic cereal malt beverages were not much stronger than the
beverages addressed by the bill and that the bill should call the beverage what it really was — a cereal malt beverage.
"Is 'near beer' a big enough factor in the market to change our policy on Sunday beverage alcohol sales?" he asked. "Maybe this is just another special-interest attempt to get their foot in the door on Sunday sales of all alcohol beverages in grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations and bait shops?"
Tuck Duncan of the Kansas Wine and Spirits Wholesalers Association Inc., left little doubt as to what would be necessary in would like to see this bill take.
"We have testified in previous years that a policy of uniformity would be desirable and that rather
than specify certain products for sale at certain locations on certain days, all products at all locations on days should be permitted "said."
Brebecca Rice, legislative counsel for the Kansas Retail Liquor Dealers Association, requested that the committee amend the bill to allow liquors to be open on Memorial, Labor and Independence days as well as election days.
"If a person cannot remember to buy enough on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, they should not be drinking the stuff," he said.
But the Rev. Richard Taylor of Kansans for Life At Its Best! requested that the committee kill the bill.
SMSU campus crime report ruling will not have immediate KU effect
Kansan staff writer
Victoria Thomas, general counsel at the University of Kansas, said KU would continue to follow the guide by the U. D. Department of Education.
A federal judge's ruling last week that Southwest Missouri State University may not withhold campus crime reports from the public will have no immediate effect on KU, University officials said yesterday.
The Department of Education abides by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, also known as the Buckley Act, which prohibits universities from releasing students' educational records.
Southwest Missouri State officials had argued that crime reports were considered educational records
under the Buckley Act and did not release them.
KU police release campus crime reports, but names and other information that could identify the students involved is blacked out.
The federal judge's ruling in Missouri concluded a lawsuit filed in January 1960 by Traci Bauer, editor of southwest Mississippi State University.
Bauer contended that she should have access to the crime reports according to the state's open records laws.
In a 49-page ruling released Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Russell Clark of Springfield, Mo., wrote that withholding the criminal investigation could prevent a person from contain names and other personally identifiable information, was unconstitutional.
A representative of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., said yesterday that his office was reviewing the ruling to decide what action, if any, it would take.
KU police Lt. John Mullens said any policy changes in his office depended on whatever action the University General Counsel took.
He said that if the University followed the ruling in the Southwest Missouri State case, KU police would be charged with killing students in campus crime reports.
"It takes time to mark all that stuff out, and it may speed up the process," he said. "But it is immaterial to the role or the other as long as it is legal."
Residents' appeal may not be enough to spare building from wrecking ball
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission will have the last word tonight on a much-disputed proposal to demolish an Oread neighborhood building
The commission will conduct a public hearing at 7 tonight on an appeal to foreigners.
Three residents who own neighboring property filed the appeal last month after the Lawrence Historic Resources Commission permit to demolish the 19th-century house.
Marci Francisco, one of the neighbors who filed the appeal, said the demolition permit was inappropriate not only because the building was within a historical environment but also because the present property owner had not filed for the permit.
A previous owner applied for the demolition permit last summer. The application required a new building permit.
'I'm the one who has taken the bull by the horns, and now I'm receiving the flak.'
— Doug Compton owner of house at 1042 Ohio St.
Doug Compton, bought the property in January.
"He never even applied for it," Francisco said. "They're asking the City Commission to grant a permit based on someone else's application."
But city officials contend that the sale of a property does not invalidate a permit. Instead, the permit simply is transferred to the new owner.
Francisco said she hoped the commission would establish a precedent during the public hearing to require current property owners to reapply for demolition permits.
Opponents of demolition argue that
A new multi-unit complex proposed by Compton would alter the neighborhood's appearance, Francisco said.
although the house at 1042 Ohio St. is not listed on a historic register, it is within the environs of houses listed on both the state and national historic registers.
"He certainly has made an effort to use materials that would conform to the rest of the neighborhood," she said. "But the overall layout was too complex to comply with the rest of the neighborhood."
Compton said his new building plan called a structure that resembled neighboring buildings.
Compton, who has renovated other buildings in the Oread neighborhood, said that the property at 1042 Ohio St. was unsalvageable.
"This house has been a problem for several years," he said. "I'm the one who has taken the bulb by the horns, and now I'm receiving the flak."
The house at 1024 Ohio St. is the subject of an appeal to prevent its demolition.