VOL.100.NO.144
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, May 3, 1990
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State Senate kills tax relief
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The Senate may have sacrificed the state's last chance to enact substantial property tax relief and not to halt half-a million sales tax increase, 14-28.
The bill, touted as a significant property tax rollback, would have increased the state sales tax from 4.25 percent to 4.75 percent. Three other property tax relief bills also have failed, and the session is expected to adjourn by the end of the week.
The tax increase would have raised an estimated $78.1 million for property tax relief by the end of fiscal 1991 and $121.1 million during fiscal 1992.
you're looking at around a 21 percent decrease in property taxes," said State Sen. Dick Bond, R-Over.
But State Wint, Wint Winter Jr., R- Lawrence, said the bill would reduce property taxes by 8 percent. With a 7 percent increase in property taxes in the last year, the net result would be a 1 percent reduction in property taxes.
The tax bill could not be enacted until a constitutional amendment that reduced property valuation percentages was passed.
Bond said the 27 percent figure included the effect of the constitutional amendment.
"We're looking at this as a piece, the first piece, of a puzzle," he said.
State Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Prault, after the bill was defeated that if property tax relief legislation was approved by members would have to compromise.
"I think this may be the best we can do."
"I don't think we're going to keep this session open for another day or two or three solely for the purpose of finding property tax relief," he said.
Under pressure
Trving to finish a project before today's deadline, Debbie Mesloh, Derby junior, flips through a paper for her Religion in India class
Eric Montgomery/KANSAN
House approves Regents budget
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The House passed the Board of Regents budget last night after Senate action allowed a requirement for competitive bids at the University of Kansas Medical Center to be dropped.
The Senate passed a separate bill introduced by State Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood, that required competitive bids at the Med Center. Because the bill required essentially the same budget as the Regents budget, the requirement was deleted from the budget.
Patrick said competitive bids would save the Med Center between $1 million and $1.1 million a year and could lead to increased salaries. In some cases,工资ings were used to increase salaries and improve programs there.
State Rep. John Solbach, DLawrence, said Patrick also had other reasons for offering the bill.
"Patrick thought somebody was funding what amounted to political patronage for a particular law firm," he said. "I don't think he would have needd to enrich friends or cronies. I should we be above that."
The budget would allocate $597.3 million for Regents schools in fiscal year 1990, $2 million more
than Gov. Mike Hayden recommended. For fiscal year 1991, the budget would allocate $630.8 million for Regents schools, $6.3 million more than Hayden recommended.
The University of Kansas would receive $143.2 million in fiscal year 1990 and $149.9 million in fiscal under the House recommendation.
The committee recommendations approved by the House for fiscal 1991 included $2.9 million for shrinkage adjustments and an additional $157,589 from the state budget for other operating expenditures.
The House budget would allocate $166.9 million for the Med Center in fiscal 1990, and $175.6 million in fiscal 1991.
The fiscal 1991 budget would include $4.3 million for shrinkage adjustments, and $142,349 from the general state fund to raise other operating expenditures to 75 percent of the Regents request.
No funds were included for the Margin of Excellence or enrollment adjustments at KU or the Med Center.
The budget included $2.6 million for enrollment adjustments at Kansas State University. The Regents originally requested $4.7 million.
Autopsy reveals identity of body
Pam Solliner
and Mark McHugh Kansan staff writers
By Bryce J. Tache,
The female body found in East Lawrence on Friday was identified yesterday by Lawrence police.
Lt. Mike Hall, who is in charge of the homicide investigation, identified the victim as Tamar Abara, a 26-year-old Black Lawrence resident. She was reported missing Nov. 6. Her last being seen at Hallowen秋
Hall said the body was identified based on information from an
autopsy performed Tuesday by Carol Moddrell, Douglas County coroner and Kris Sperry, a pathologist from Atlanta.
Hall said he was unable to release any further information about the victim or the case, including cause of death or possible suicides.
However, East Lawrence residents were questioned by police earlier this year about the disappearance of a girl who last was seen Halloween night.
Those acquainted with Baker
See BODY, p. 5
Lithuania to consider temporary suspension of independence laws
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Lithuania's president said yesterday that the Baltic republic would consider suspending temporarily some of the pro-independence policies that drove the Kremlin to impose an economic embargo two weeks ago.
President Vytautas Landsberg agreed to the step in a letter to French and West German leaders who last week proposed that such a compromise would help start negotiations between the republic and Moscow.
"Everything is negotiable, which does not question the matter of restored independence of the Lithuanian state in 1890." Landeborgs said in his letter to French
'Everything is negotiable, which does not question the matter of restored independence of the Lithuanian state on March 11, 1990.'
—Vytautae Landsbergis president of Lithuania
President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
The letter was read to Lithuania's parliament, the Supreme Council, which gave its approval, said Aidas Palubinska, a spokesman for the parliament.
"Putting our confidence in France and the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as in other Western countries, is Lebanon's democratic, we are asking you to transmit to the Soviet authorities our consent to consider a
ing you to transmit to the Soviet authorities our consent to consider a temporary suspension of the effects of the decisions taken by the sovereign parliament of the Lithuanian Republic that could trouble the Soviet authorities," Landsbergis wrote.
temporary suspension of the effects of the decisions taken by the sovereign parliament of the Lithuanian Republic that could trouble the Soviet authorities." Landsbergis wrote.
The idea behind the proposal from France and West Germany was that if Lithuania temporarily suspended those laws, the Soviet Union, in return, might ease its pressure on Russia and also agree to talks on secession.
Lithuania declared independence March 11, trying to restore the freedom it enjoyed before 1940, when the Soviet Union forcibly annexed it. Lithuania it has since passed laws designed to back the independence drive.
Palubinskas stressed that the proposal from Kohl and Mitterrand did not ask for a recission of the declaration itself, but urged the suspension of laws passed to implement the independence declaration.
De Klerk, Mandela band against apartheid
Gorbachev also has imposed a partial economic blockade, cutting supplies of fuel and other commodities to Lithuania. As of last night, no resumption of any of the fuel supplies had been reported.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has declared the independence declaration invalid and rejected negotiation with the republic, saying such talks are reserved for foreign countries. He also has demanded that Lithuania rescind the pro-independence laws.
The Associated Press
CAPETOWN, South Africa — President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela yesterday urged the swift abolition of apartheid and began training a men aimed at ending white-majority rule.
The three days of meetings are to remove obstacles to full-scale negotiations on a new constitution that would give the 28-million Black majority a voice in national affairs for the first time.
Nearby, the pro-sparitalist Conservative Party walked out of a debate in Parliament to protest the talks. The Conservative leader, Andries Treurnicht, said the government should not negotiate with an organization that has carried out guerrilla strikes, was committed to armed struggle.
De Klekier and Mandela said South Africans of all races wanted swift change. All political parties must work toward a peaceful solution to racial and political divisions, they said.
"South African law forbids all these actions," said Treurnicht, whose narciss is the main opposition in
carriage's white chamber. The tri-cameral Parliament also has chambers for people of mixed-race descent. Blacks are excluded.
But de Klerk warned that violence that has claimed more than 500 lives in the past three months threatens such change. Much of the violence has been among Black groups with high views of a future South Africa.
Mandela, in a statement before the talks began, said, "The pace at which we move to arrive at a just solution should be informed by the fact that the Black masses of our country have suffered a significant change now and not tomorrow."
"The vast majority of South Africans desire the negotiation process, aimed at a new constitution, to get started in all earnestness," de Klek said. "The government wishes this to happen as soon as possible and is consequently approaching the tikis with the utmost earnestness."
The ANC demands the release of all political prisoners, lifting of the state of emergency and the return of exiled activists as preconditions to constitutional negotiations.
The talks are the first between a white government and an ANC delegation since the organization was founded in 1912. The discussions are not yet finished. So the estate, once the official home of South African presidents.
In his statement before the talks
began, Mandela attempted to calm white fears about a Black government, saying whites would enjoy full control in a non-racial democratic state.
Mandela, the ANC's deputy president, was released in February after 27 years in jail.
Moseley loses as Senate names ASK director
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Greg Hughes, presidential runner-up in last month's Student Senate election, was named campus director of Associated Students of Kansas last night after Senate defeated the nomination for ASK veteran Bill Moseley. The vote caused one senator to resign.
Two separate ballots were cast. Hughes won the post 61-3 in a secret-ballot vote. Moseley won 17 votes.
Ed Young, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, submitted a letter to Senate that stated he resigned because of the vote against Moseley. He was unavailable for comment after the meet.
Moseley said he liked the way the debate turned out.
"It shifted from me be insensitive to putting my foot in my mouth and being rude," he said. "Obviously, some of the senators who criticized my choice they could not attack my qualifications."
Hughes said he would continue to fight for higher education.
Senators said Moseley's controversy was created at an earlier
"I have a passion for education that you would not bellève," he said.
Mike Schreiner, student body president who nominated Moseley, said he respected Senate's vote against Moseley. He said that the senate was not about ASK but that he had several good ideas for next year.
Senate cast a tie vote last week for Moseley's nomination, causing another vote on nominations last night
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Finance Committee meeting.
Moseley asked when a student organization would be satisfied with its Senate allocation. The organization received $3,000 in supplemental funds from Senate for Black History Month
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