VOL, 101, NO. 100
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Rob Johnston, Overland Park senior, argues with protesters at the U.S. Army recruitment center, 23rd and Louisiana streets.
Activists arrested at Army center
Lawrence police officer Catherine Kelly guards (from front) Chance Smith. Overland Park freshman; Angie Locke, Lawrence resident; and Tom Howell, an independent minister. The three were detained for blocking the entrance to the U.S. Army recruitment center, 23rd and Louisiana streets.
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
Angela Locke expected to get arrested yesterday.
Locke, a Lawrence resident, and about 20 people, with their hands clasped together, chanted, "Resist, don't enlist" and blocked the entrance of the U.S. Army recruit station, 23rd and Louisiana streets.
The demonstration was organized by independent minister Tom Howell of the Direct Action Movement
As the demonstrators were chanting, Robert Johnston, Overland Park senior, attempted to break through the human chain and enter the recruitment center, but he was shoved back.
"I am an American citizen, and you are saying you are not going to let me go in this building," he said. "This is bullshit. You are violating my freedom. Why won't you let me in?"
Johnston, who has been an Army reservist for four years, said he was tired of anti-war protests.
Police broke up the skirmish and handcuffed about five of the protesters who would not budge from the entrance.
The demonstrators chanted,
"Peace, not war" as they were being taken away by Lawrence police.
Handcuffed and being led away by police. Locke said the group had been prepared to be arrested for their acts of civil disobedience.
Before the police arrived, Paul Longabach, a member of the Direct Action Movement, said, "The suppression president is broad, but it is shallow."
Longabach also criticized the Kansas City Star for being biased because of its "We support our
'The support for the president is broad, but it is shallow.'
"They don't have any that say,
'Resist, don't enlist,' " he said.
- Paul Longabach member of Direct Action Movement
troops" signs.
He said the news media was strictly economically motivated and did not care about the people protesting the war.
"They are part of the whole system that creates an imperialist system that thrusts power onto other countries," he said.
During Longabach's speech, David Schuster, Overland Park senior, and Dwayne Desylia, Windsor, Colo. senior, holding pro-U.S. signs, stood on an opposite corner from the front of the building, chanted, "We showed our troops."
Schuster said he and Desylvia wanted to show support for the troops fighting in the Persian Gulf War.
Desylia said, "Negative support kills the morale of the troops fighting over there."
The demonstrators continued their protest, chanting, "Hey, George Bush, what do you say? How many kids have you killed today?"
Charles Hines, Lenexa junior, said he joined the protest because the war confused him.
Caverly Smith, Chinle, Ariz., junior, said the war was killing many Iraqi civilians.
"I don't understand why the United States is involved," he said.
"They are spending all this money to kill innocent people," he said. "No one is feeling any remorse. Life is more important."
Iraq accepts Soviet peace offer in gulf
Plan is not linked to Palestinian problem, Arab-Israeli conflict
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Iraq accepted a Soviet peace plan that calls for an Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait and an end to the invasion. Kremlin spokesman said early today.
Significantly, the agreement contained no mention of the Palestinian problem or the Arab-Israeli conflict
problem of the Arab Israel com-
mission—the issues that Iraq had previously linked to all discussions of its invasion of Kuwait.
The Soviet spokesman, Vitaly Ignatenko, announced the agreement following more than two hours of talks between President Mikhail Gorbachev and Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, on the terms of a Soviet peace plan proposed earlier this week.
"The response is positive," lignatene told reporters immediately after the meeting, which began shortly after midnight. "The two parties came to the conclusion that it is possible that the authorities are angry in the gut."
Earlier, presidential spokesman Marin Fitzwater said the United States had "serious concerns" about aspects of the agreement.
"The war itself continues," Fitzwater added. "There's no change at this point in our prosecution of the war."
Ignatenko said the two sides agreed on eight points, starting with Iraqi agreement to a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait. Another spokesman said the Soviets would call for disarming Iraq.
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Iraq also agreed to release all prisoners of war immediately after the cease-fire, the spokesman added. He said details of the plan would be worked out and presented to the U.N. Security Council later today.
Gorbachev spoke to Bush by telephone shortly after the meeting with Aziz. Bush had previously said the Soviet plan was not acceptable. But he was encouraged by the possibility of talks about withdrawal.
The plan outlined by Ignatenko did not include any mention of linkage to an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories, one of the sticking points in all previous peace discussions.
The announcement in Moscow came after Baghdad radio had gone off the air overnight, so there was no
U.S. says agreement lets Iraq 'get away' The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviet-Iraqi proposal to end the Persian Gulf War is "unacceptable to the United States" because it sets conditions that go beyond the United Nations a senior Bush administration official said early today.
This official, speaking under rules that prevent use of his name, volunteered the assessment following a meeting of President Bush with his senior national security advisers that lasted more than an hour and 40 minutes.
"The main conclusion is that the Soviet proposal represents a conditional withdrawal which is clearly beyond the scope of the U.N. resolutions," the official said.
The official said the administration was telling its coalition partners of its conclusion and the need for public comments later today.
immediate response from Iraq. The Iraqi news agency had also stopped transmissions for the night.
Nine hours before the announcement in Moscow, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had delivered a bellicose radio speech to his nation in which he said the response being made was that the country was the last chance for peace.
Ignatenko said details of the peace agreement remained to be worked out.
Soviet officials had previously refused to disclose contents of the Gorbachev plan.
Mansegi Grigoriev, deputy spokes man for Gorbachev, said in an interview with Israeli radio that the Soviet Union honored a "disarmed Iraq" that does not threaten its neighbors as the final outcome of the war.
The issue of disarmament was not among the eight points outlined by Ignatenko.
"The process of disarmament can be discussed later," Grigoriev said, and he added that it would be looked in now is to make sure "Iraq withdraws from Kuwait.
More gulf news Page 9
Proposal would give power to the people
By Joe Gose
Two of the bills would allow private citizens to propose laws and constitutional amendments on the ballot itself by collecting signatures on a
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A House Federal and State Affairs subcommittee has been grappling with three bills that would allow private citizens to propose and pass them.
Gov. Joan Finney said she proposed the bills to return government to the people.
But legislators on the subcommittee are uncertain whether to give
Kansans direct or indirect access to the ballot.
If a direct-access bill is adopted, the proposed law would not have to pass through the Legislature, and committee members fear that the proposed laws could be unconstitutional.
“What I'm trying to point out is that when laws are enacted under the republic form of government, there is a strong presumption of the courts that anything we pass is constitutional.” Rock said. “If we go with direct initiative, then it doesn't go through the Legislature. The Supreme Court should have the leeway to look at it.
An indirect-access bill would require that the proposed law pass through the Legislature before appearing on the ballot.
The third bill, proposed by State Rep. Rand Rock, D-Akranas City, would mandate that the Kansas Attorney General before allowing the law on
the ballot.
advantage over the rest of the state. Graeber said Senate district populations should be used to establish petition regulations because there was the same number of people in each district.
State Rep Clyde Graeber, R Leavenight, said the bill would have to ensure that heavily populated areas would not have an unfair
"If we adopted indirect initiative, then this would not be necessary."
"We could require that no more than 10 percent of the total amount of signatures could come from any one Senate district," he said.
KU Med Center could face federal cutbacks
But State Rep. Barbara Allen, R-Prairie Village, said the total number of signatures required should be higher.
"We ought to make it really difficult to get something on the ballot," she said.
By Amy Francis
But Keeble said he was not sure how the proposed budget would
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Medical Center is one of the teaching hospitals that would be affected.
Medical teaching hospitals may have to tighten their budgets if President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 1992 is nassed by Congress.
The proposed budget would reduce Medicare payments to the hospitals and money spent on medical education. The plan also aims to increase business affairs for the Med Center.
"We have seen the summary of the proposal," he said. "We haven't seen the specifics of how that would relate to us."
Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor at the Med Center, said, "It would be devastating. No cuts are satisfactory."
affect the Med Center
Keeleb said the Med Center annually received about $2.5 million for direct education and more than $5 million in Medicare payments.
But there also are problems with the way teaching hospitals presently receive financing, Keeble said.
"I think that the whole problem is that Medicare isn't paying its full share now," he said. "I think it's a problem in health care for many years."
If Bush's budget passes, the hospitals will have to decide where to cut their budgets.
"Patients will never fit it at all," Clawson said. "It's no impact on the doctors themselves."
Keeble said. "The last place we would cut back would be direct care."
The cuts might be made in money spent for new equipment or for sup
nort services. he said.
"We haven't developed a plan," Keeble said.
One reason for not developing a plan is that the hospital is not certain in what form the budget will pass.
Clawson said cuts had been proposed for the past 10 years.
Keeble said, "I'm sure it's going to have some strong discussion."
"This is not a new proposal," he said. "I've been in Washington fighting it all those years. You just have to try to take it one day at a time. It is my feeling that it will be passed, but in a modified form."
The Associated Press
Oregon list may allow more to get Medicaid
The list, approved by the Health Services Commission late Wednesday, was praised yesterday as a potential national model
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon health commission spent 18 months devising a list that ranks medical problems from No. 1—pneumonia — to No. 808 — brain deformities — with the goal of providing vital health care to more people.
"It is my understanding that Oregon is the first state in the United States and the first place in the world that has developed a prioritized list ... ranked on the basis of conditions that benefit the most from treatment," Oregon state Sen. John Kitzhuber said.
The commission is trying to balance the medical needs of poor people against the rising cost of medical care. Under the proposal, the Oregon Legislature would determine how much it could afford to spend on Medicaid and draw a line across the list. Only services listed above the line would be covered.
Because the Medicaid program is paid for by both federal and state governments, a federal
Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he did not think that would be difficult.
waiver must be granted for the reform plan to proceed.
"What I think will drive this is the growing awareness that the current system is indefensible," Wden said.
The health commission, created by the Legislature in 1989, first tried to draft a list using a mathematical formula. But the last test required crooked lists ahead of AIDS, required a significant overhaul.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., strongly opposes such a plan.
On the new list, AIDS ranks in the top quarter, unless there is less than a 10 percent chance of survival in five years, in which case it's ranked eighth from the bottom.
Dental problems that do not significantly affect the quality of life are No. 775
Generally, ailments for which treatment is expensive and always ineffective are ranked toward the end of the list, while those with cheap and effective treatment are near the top.
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