THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.102
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1990
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Hammering away
Mike Flenhage of Lawrence works on the new roof of the Kansas Union. Flenhage works for Vincent Roofing in Topeka. Contractors are nearing completion of the first phase of the Union roof renovation. See related story page 5.
Nicaraguans sweep Ortega from office
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — President Daniel Ortega assured the world yesterday that the Sandinistas would accept the voters' verdict and surrender power, after more than a decade, to an opposition alliance
With 82 percent of the precincts counted, Chamorro had 633,357 votes, or 55.2 percent, to 468,040, or 40.8 percent for Ortega, the Supreme Adjudicator Council said. The coalition adopted majority in the National Assembly.
we leave victorious because the Sandinistas have sacrificed, spilled blood and sweat, not to cling to government posts but to bring Nicaragua out of 1981, he said in a dramatic dawn speech broadcast nationwide.
Chamorro is to take office April 25, and the transition could be difficult given the bad blood between winners and losers.
Ortega spoke hours after it was clear that the electoral tide was against him and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, publisher of the opposition newspaper La Franca, would be scared by the lack of scarred nation that has in the past decade become one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.
Kansans foresee changes after defeat of Sandinistas $ ^{a} $
By Eric Gorski and Ines Shuk Kangan staff writers
U. S. senators from Kansas and KU faculty and students welcomed yesterday the outcome of Nicaragua's elections and forecasted changes in U.S. Nicaraguan relations.
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, presidential candidate of the National Opposition Union, claimed victory yesterday against President Daniel Ortega and the ruling Sandinistas.
In a communique addressed to President Bush, U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum said the peaceful Nicaraguan elections were the result of courageous people who defied the power of the individual vote.
"Mrs. Chamorro has demonstrated that she is a light that could not be diminished in Nicaragua," she said. "Her efforts
embody the principles of democracy."
Kasshemua said that the appropriate U.S. role after the elections was to step back and allow the governments respond to the needs of the people.
In a Senate floor statement yesterday, Minority Leader Bob Dole said the message of freedom that came from Managua was the same beard in Poland, Czechoslovakia and in Lithuania on Sunday.
Dole said it was time for the U.S. government to form a sound, bipartisan plan to support Chaplains who help ensure its long-term success.
"Given a free choice, people will always choose freedom," he said.
"If any newly elected leader ever faced an economic and social emergency, Mrs. Chamorro
House resurrects abortion bill
See REACT, p. 6
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - The House will debate an abortion bill after all.
A few hours after the House killed Gov. Mike Hayden's abortion bill yesterday, anti-abortion forces rallied to force a debate on a measure that would allow the governor to enforce laws when minors attempt to abort babies.
The House Transportation Committee, whose chairman, State Rep. Rex Crowell, R-Longton, supports parental notification, tacked a stricter proposal onto an unrelated bill and sent it to the
Speaker Jim Braden, R-Clay Center, said the House would debate the measure, possibly as early as tomorrow and probably by the end of the week.
"I have said if a bill came out of committee, I would run it," Braden said. "I've never seen this happen in the 16 years I've been in the Legislature."
The bill the Transportation Committee endorsed is identical to another proposal by
State Rep. Artie Lucas, R-Highland, which was rejected earlier in the day by the Federal and State Affairs Committee. The committee stripped all provisions from a bill related to county treasurers' fees and replaced them with the Lucas abortion proposal.
The move also is unusual because the Federal and State Affairs Committee traditionally has handled all abortion legislation.
The action, which came on a voice vote, left some Transportation Committee members flabbergasted.
"It's really incredible," said State Rep. Cindy Empson, R-Independence. "It's a poor way of doing business."
The action also raised questions about House rules. Under the state constitution, a bill may have only one subject. Amendments must be germane to the subject of the bill.
Steve Nearenberg, chairman of the Legislative Action Committee of the KU Pro-Choice
Braden said, "I guess you can do just about anything you can set away with in committee."
Coalition, said Lucas' attempt never should have been considered.
"It seems like the Republican leaders decided to thwart the committee system," Nearenberg said.
The measure that the House will consider would require doctors to notify both parents in writing at least 48 hours in advance when a minor under 18 seeks an abortion. It provides for criminal sanctions against doctors who do not comply. The state's two largest anti-abortion groups support the proposal.
Hayden's proposal applied to girls under 16, required notification of only one parent and allowed the notification to be given verbally. Also, Hayden's plan would have allowed a girl to go to court to avoid notifying one of her parents.
Nearenberg said the coalition would lobby tommorow and Thursday against legislation to restrict abortion.
Kansas reporter Eric Goraki contributed information to this story.
Bv Rod Griffin
Ottawa officer kills suspect who shot him
Kansan staff writers
and Christine Reinolds
OTTAWA — An Ottawa police officer shot and killed a robbery suspect yesterday after being shot about three times by the suspect.
Ottawa public safety officer Bruce Hanson, 35, was taken to the Kansas University Medical Center by Life Flight about 3:30 p.m.
At 9:50 p.m., Reeze Hanson said her husband was in surgery. He remained in surgery at midnight.
Hanson was wounded and the suspect was killed during a shootout 10 minutes after a robbery at the First National Bank of Ottawa, Third and Fourth Avenue, Carnegie Bridge Towe, of the Ottawa Department of Public Safety.
Towe said a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun robbed
the bank about 2 p.m.
Smoke bombs ignited in the parking lot behind the bank, which may have been set as a diversion, allowed the gunman to escape into the front door of the bank, Towe said. The gunman then went north from the bank on foot.
Towe said witnesses claimed to have seen the gunman get into a blue and white car and drive off.
The gunman next appeared about 15 blocks away.
Towe said the department of public safety was conducting a fire training program in an abandoned house and building. He also directed traffic away from the activity.
"He just kind of pulled out slowly and drove around," Towe said of the gunman.
See OTTAWA, p. 9
Phone company cuts long distance costs between Kansas cities
by Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday approved cuts in Southwestern Bell long-distance telephone rates.
The cuts will amount to about a 15 percent cost reduction for most customers, said Dave Nichols, community relations manager.
He said the average bill for a residential customer would decrease 68 cents from $5.63 a month to $4.95 a month.
Nichols the company asked the commission last week to drop Southwestern Bell's long-distance rates to 1890 prices.
The reductions will affect the rates of long-distance calls within Kansas, such as calls from Lawrence to Topeka, he said.
The cuts were proposed in accordance with the company's Tele-Kansas program approved last year by the commission. The $160 million program, which costs the cost of reduced fees, is designed to increase the number of long-distance calls by Soutwestern Bell customers.
Nichols said the company was betting that lower rates would draw more people to long-distance calling. The company also hopes customers will feel they have more money to spend on optional telephone services.
Prior to the TeleKansas program, the company was required to prove to state officials the benefits of new programs.
"TeleKeleas permits us to make risk investments without proving immediate benefits," Nichols said. "Before, we often had to raise rates to guarantee the success of a program."
Nichols said Southwestern Bell rates would not increase for five years under the program.
John Landsberg, media relations manager for U.S. Sprint, said that Sprint's representatives would have to analyze the commission's order before determining how much the company would save from expected access rate decreases.
Nichols said carriers usually passed long-distance access savings on to consumers.
He said the rate reductions, which total $17.1 million, included $2 million in reductions on rates that long-distance carriers, such as MCI, AT&T and U.S. Sprint, pay the company for access to Southwestern Bell's network.
"Overall, consumers will bene fit." Landsberg said. "If's premature to say how much customers will save."
Dawn Nettlehorst, Lawrence senior, said she made long-distance calls to her parents in Illinois and to out-of-state friends. She said the long-distance access rate probably would save her money.
DA savs Grissom almost confessed
"It will definitely help with the bills," she said.
By Rich Cornell Special to the Kansas
Special to the Kansan
OLATHE — Richard Grissom Jr., charged with killing three Johnson County women last summer, told police that he knew where the women's bodies were buried, the Johnson County prosecutor said yesterday at Grissom's preliminary hearing.
Defense attorneys countered that the prosecution relied upon circumstantial evidence.
Grissom, while in the Dallas County jail on July 7, 1989, almost admitted responsibility for the kills, District Attorney Paul Morrison said in his opening argument at the Johnson County District Court.
"We'll prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these girls are dead and that they were probably killed for the money from their bank accounts and that Richard Grissom killed them," Morrison said.
Grissom told Kansas City Metro Squad investigators in Texas that he would say where the three bodies were buried in return for a light punishment, Morrison said.
All three women withdrew large amounts of cash from their bank accounts just after they disappeared, Morrison said.
He also faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, four counts of aggravated robbery, two of aggravated burglary and one each of burglary and theft. In an unrelated case, he was ordered Friday to stand trial for six forgery charges.
Grissom is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown, 22-year-old Lenexa roommates, and Joan Butler, 24, a May 1987 KU graduate and Overland Park resident.
This week's preliminary hearing, which will determine whether the state has enough evidence to try
"The rules of evidence will be more important than in any case I can accept."
Andrew Warren, Johnson County deputy public defender, opened his defense of Grissom by stressing that the prosecution relied almost entirely upon circumstantial evidence.
Fourteen people testified yesterday.
Grissom for the killings, is expected to last until Thursday or Friday.
Carla Dipple, Butler's neighbor,
testified that during the Father's Day
weekend in which Butler disappeared,
Dipple's apartment was burglarized while she was out of town
Taken from her jewelry box, Dipple said, was a gold necklace with a small ring.
Grissom listens to testimony at his preliminary hearing.
The necklace, without the pendant, was found by investigators on a hallway floor in Butler's apartment, Overland Park police detective Dan
Police said they recovered the pendant from Grissom's girlfriend.
Carney testified that when he showed Dipple three necklaces from Butler's apartment, she immediately one found in the balleyway, a burg.
Dipple again identified the necklace and pendant yesterday at the hearing.
Three rings belonging to Christine Rusch also were found during the investigation, Morrison said in his book *Grissin*. The rings in Grissin's brown Toyota.
In other testimony, Brian Edmunds, Lawrence police officer, said that on June 25, Grissom was almost caught after Edmunds saw him open the trunk of a car that Butler had rented earlier. Grissom was in a parking lot at the Trailridge apartment complex, 2500 W. Sixth St.
would walk into the apartment to get his identification, but then he ran away. Edmunds chased Grissom but lost him when he jumped out of an apartment window, leaving the car in the lot and the keys with Edmunds
Edmunds said Grissom told him he
tions, all belonging to Grissom.
Rick Fahy and Bill Chapin, crime analysts for the Johnson County Sheriffs Department, testified that they found in Butler's rental car a wallet, checkbook and identification.
Ralph Butler, Joan Butler's father,
also testified yesterday.
When Joan Butler did not call him on Father's Day as she had planned, Ralph Butler was surprised but not alarmed, he said. He became alarmed only when her employer called him the next day when she did not arrive for work.
The hearing continues today
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