VOL. 101, NO.83
KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWS PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1991
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Bush vows victory at home and abroad Speech addresses budget. Iraq Iraqis report POW killed
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON President Bush confidently U.S. citizens last night in his State of the Union address that the war against Iraq would be won and the recession at home would end shortly.
"For two centuries, we've done the hard work of freedom. And tonight, we lead the world in facing down "dececy and humanity." Bush said.
He received a standing ovation when he praised U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf as "truly America's timest" and again when he predicted "we will prevail" over Saddam Hussein
It was the first wartime State of the Union address since the days of Vietnam and the most potent moment came with reference to Hiroshima.
"As Americans, we know there are times when we must step forward and accept our responsibility to lead the world away from the dark chaos of dictators, toward the brightest of hearts," Bush said in his 30-minute speech.
Though Bush devoted the majority of his annual address to the war in the Persian Gulf, he also spoke about his resisting domestic concerns.
For the first time, Bush acknowledged without qualification that the nation was in a recession. "People were in economic distress. I hear them," he said.
"We will get this recession behind us, and return to growth — soon." Bush promised, stopping short of offering a blueprint for recovery
Details of some of Bush's proposals will come Monday, when the White House submits a $13 trillion federal budget to Congress. The budget will project a $138 billion deficit for the current year — more than double last year's deficit — even before the Bush a day war costs are considered.
The president also paid tribute to the democratic aspirations of the people of the Soviet Baltic states and said he remained "deeply concerned" about the Kremlin's bloody crackdown.
Bush, who met Monday with Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bess mertynkh, said the Soviet leadership had made promises that would result
in the withdrawal of some Soviet forces, a reopening of dialogue with the Republics and a move away from violence. Administration sources said the U.S. was expecting a "substantial withdrawal."
Referring to the time of World War II, his own generation's war, Bush said. "Almost 50 years ago we began a long struggle against aggressive totitarianism. Now we face another defining hour for America."
The world wonders, he said, what Saddam is thinking. "If he thinks that by targeting innocent civilians in Iraq, it will create a greater gain advantage, he is dead wrong."
Iraqis report POW killed
The Associated Press
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — One of Iraq's "human shields" , a captured allied pilot, was killed in a Baghdad air raid, the Iraqi said yesterday. Other Desert Storm fliers struck over enemy Iraq and captured stockpiles.
also deploys ping an Iraqi armored convoy dead in its desert tracks.
But U.S. and
Soviet officials
expressed hope
for peace. A joint statement
from Secretary
from Secretary of State James A Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmerkukhii indicated a cease-fire could be called if Iraq took concrete steps to withdraw from Kuwait.
The statement said it would be especially important to try to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict after the war is over. Saddam Hussein has sought to link the Palestinian issue with his invasion of Kuwait
Meanwhile, on land and sea, the tempo of the war quickened
Both sides reported classes and claimed small victories along the remote northern frontier. On the
Kuwaiti coast, allied helicopters attacked and chased a flotilla of Iraqi machine-gun boats.
Refuges fleeing to Jordan told of non-stop bombardment, fire everywhere and civilian casualties in Iraq. "It is really bell," one woman said.
The U.S. command still seemed puzzled, meanwhile, by the estimated 90 getaway flights of Iraqi warplanes to Iran. But a U.S. general warned the Iraqis that if they tried to return to their home bases, they would be intercepted by the allies.
Congressional sources in Washington said yesterday that an Iraqi transport plane had returned to Iraq. The sources, who spoke after receiving news of the landing on the war, had no others details about the cargo or who was on board.
It was a repetition of Saddam's "human shield" tactic of late last year, when he sent Western civilian bombs to Iraqi sites. They were later released
The traps, who claim to hold more than 20 downed pilots, said Jan 21 they were dispersing the prisoners to avoid any effort to ward off allied air attacks.
On Monday, Iraqi broadcasts said
an unspecified number of EOWs had been wounded in air raids. Yesterday, the official Iraqi News Agency said one was dead.
"One of the raids hit one of the departments of the Ministry of Industry, killing one of the captured foreign pilots, who had been evacuated to that department," the agency report said.
Iran's news agency quoted Baghdad Radio as saying the victim was a U.S. citizen. But no Iraqi broadcasts monitored by The Associated Press mentioned the nationalities or identities of any of the reported victims, and the reports were otherwise unconfirmed.
The Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war, to which Iraq is a signatory, prohibits placing prisoners at likely target areas. The U.S. government has denounced Iraq's handling of the captured pilots, and yesterday the State Department said it was summoning Iraq's ranking diplomat in Washington to raise concern about the pilots. It has also indicted rogue subjects subjected to security review by allied military authorities.
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A sign at the Power Plant, 901 Mississippi St., tells of its reopening after closing for a week. The club opened last night.
Club reopens, still owes back taxes
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
Owners of The Power Plant, 901 Mississippi St., reopened their doors for business last night only days after state revenue agents seized the club, alighting the club owners owed nearly $160,000 in back
John Hale, an attorney for the state revenue department, said that although D.J.'s of Hayes fax, the secretary of state, had not actually pay the taxes, the
Agents from the revenue department and the state Alcohol Beverage Control Division padlocked the club Jan. 23 and seized private property from the apartments of Don and Jon Schmidt, owners of the club, after a Douglas County district judge approved a tax warrant.
revenue department agreed to allow the club to reopen.
"The department of revenue is satisfied with what is being held in court," he said.
Jim Conant, acting director of the ABC, said all of the property confiscated Jan. 23, except financial assets deemed to be the Schmidt's on Monday.
The Schmidt's attorney, Mike Rilfe, filed a motion Friday in Douglas County District Court to decide the decision to recoup the decision to seize the club to recover
ROTC hopes to bridge discrepancy in policies
Hays owed $72,762 in delinquent corporate income taxes, penalties and interest, $18,140 in sales tax and $8,878 in loan excise taxes.
According to the warrant, DJ's of
ABC officials fined the club's owners and temporarily suspended their license in October for violating liquor laws, and in November for serving alcohol to minors and to non-members. The Schmids have appealed the fine and suspension.
Rv Eric Nelson
back taxes
Lawrence police, along with the ABC and revenue department, began the investigation into the brothers' taxes Jan. 15 after police received evidence that the Schmidt's had violated tax laws.
Kansan staff writer
A statement by the ad hoc committee concerning discrimination in the ROTC was approved by Chancellor Gene A. Budig and distributed yesterday at a meeting of the Senate Executive Committee.
The ad hoc committee was formed by the University Council to investigate the ROTC situation after the University Senate voted to allow
With an approved statement in hand, KU officials will travel to Washington to seme tation the Department of defense policies concerning the ROTC.
Ingemann and Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, are expected to visit Washington in early March, Ingemann said.
"I want to see something happen," she said. "Statements are nice, but we have to keep working for a change."
She said that the statement would be circulated around Washington, but that action and not statements were the goal of the University.
credit for ROTC despite the program falling into conflict with KU's antis discrimination policy, said Frances Ingemann, chairperson of SenEx.
Ingemann said the trip to Washington had been previously planned but was put on hold last semester because of the University Council request for a committee and the decision to late sessions in Congress at the time.
Part of the statement reads, "The current ROTC commissioning and scholarship program, despite its obvious and significant benefits to the University of Kansas and its students, represents major and direct violations of the University's non-discrimination policies."
ARMY Rotc Maj. Steven Johnson said the trip was a good way to work toward the implementation of change.
Siegfried Lindenbaum, professor and director of graduate affairs in
pharmacy, is the chairperson of the ad hoc committee. He said the Persian Gulf War possibly could cause communication difficulties.
He said other groups that would be contacted during the visit included legislators, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and the American Council of Education.
"The way to change policy is to work through the legislative system." he said.
Protestors' drums keep Bush awake
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The drumbeat kept up by antivirus demonstrators in Lafayette Park is getting under President Bush's skin.
Rush reportedly told lawmakers last week, "Those damned drums are keeping me up all night," according to a reporter in yesterday's New York Times.
The din actually has subsided as the U.S. Park Police arrested 11 people in recent days for making too much noise in the small park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
"They can only make a certain amount of noise before they are told to quiet down," said MaJ. William Spillock, the Park Officer representa-
The police have received complaints from the nearby Hay-Adams Hotel and other local residents, Spruill said. He declined to say whether any complaints had come from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Bush's representative, Marlin Fitzwater, said he had not heard Bush's complaint about the noise, but he did
"It's like having an introduction to a film coming to work every day," he said. "Boom-dada-boom-dada-boom — it's great."
Fitzwater said he thought the drums were "kind of nice."
One such veteran is Thomas — he gave no other name — who said he had spent the past decade in Lafayette Park.
The anti-war demonstrators, who keep vigil in the park night and day, actually predate the Persian Gulf War. Some have spent years in Iraq. Park to oppose nuclear weapons in U.S. government policy in general.
The bearded, middle-aged dissident, both hands blistered from drum beating, scoffed at the report that the men were keeping the president awake.
"I don't believe it," he said. "I think it's in his head."
not doubt that Bush said it.
Another White House official confirmed that Bush had complained about the noise, which began before he was released from the bombing Iraq and Kuwait on Jan. 16.
Campaign Kansas achieves goal early
By Eric Nelson
Campaign Kansas has exceeded its goal of $177 million 17 months earlier than projected.
Kansan staff writer
The massive fund-raising effort, the largest in the history of the University of Kansas, already has reached $189.1 million, an official at the Kansas University Endowment Association said.
John Scarffe, director of public relations for the association, said hopes were high at the beginning of the campaign. As it progressed, it became obvious that the goal would be met early in 1991, he said.
"We're excited," he said. "It has exceeded my expectations."
The success of the campaign shows that public support of KU is strong, Scarffe said.
"It's a real show of support for the University on behalf of the alumni all around the country," he said.
In a released statement, Chancellor Gene A. Budig lauded the participation of KU's friends in the achievement of the goal.
"We are indebted to the thousands of KU friends and alumni who pledged their support for KU, to the volunteers who organized and conducted this impressive campaign across the country and to the University and Endowment Association professionals who worked steadfastly on behalf of the campaign for more than six years." he said.
Jordan Haines, national chairperson of the campaign, said in the release that future gifts to the campaign would continue to be counted toward its total through the end of the five-year period designated to the project. The project is scheduled to run from July 1, 1987, through June 10, 1992.
'Legislators who depend on the public for their votes may want to take a look at that support.'
— John Scarffe Campaign Kansas official
Scarife said he hoped the success of Campaign Kansas would send a message of public support for KU to the Legislature, where the Margin of Excellence is in jeopardy of losing its third and final year of financing.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
"Legislators who depend on the public for their votes may want to take a look at that support," he said.
Scarfie said both the Margin of Excellence and Campaign Kansas finances were necessary to the University. He said the revenue created by the Margin could not replace the Margin if it were out from the state budget.