THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 100, NO.90
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 1990
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U.S., Soviets near deal
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The United States and the Soviet Union made headway yesterday toward new arms control agreements, and also considered a joint condemnation of Israel's resettlement of Jewish immigrants on the West Bank
A half-dozen senior U.S. officials made no mention of the Jewish settlers in a briefing where they summed up more than seven hours of talks between Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze.
However, Gennady I. Gerasimov, the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, said, "It is quite possible that as a result of the Soviet-American talks a common viewpoint will be expressed on this issue, condemning Israel's attempt to resettle immigrants on someone else's occupied territory."
A heavy influx of immigrants to Israel has been caused, in part, by the lowering of Soviet emigration barriers and by limits on how many Soviet Jews the United States is
Yeltsin: Soviet reforms don't go far enough
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Communist maverick Boris N. Yeltsin and progressive activists said yesterday that the party's decision to renounce its legal claim on power was not enough to end Soviet political repression and centralized control.
"It is necessary to eliminate party organizations in the army, the police, the KGB, the courts, in all the state institutions." Yuri Milyunov, a spokesman for one would be opposition party, the Democratic Union, said of the Communist Party.
Yeltsin was the sole member of the party's policymaking Central Committee to oppose the political
reforms Wednesday. He said they failed to go far enough.
He recommended the formation of a second party if the Communist Party fails to excise conservatives at the Congress to be held in early summer.
Yeltsin was a keynote speaker at the largest pro-democracy rally in decades at the foot of Red Square on Sunday. Several hundred thousand people rallied and demanded the party abandon its guaranteed leading role in Soviet society.
Yeltsin said the party must reform itself, but the current strength of conservatives in the Central Committee, to which he belongs, complicates the task.
NATO proposes troop cuts p. 7
willing to take in.
Gerasimov said the United States had informed the Soviet delegation the annual U.S. quota would be raised to 60,000 or 70,000. Currently 50,000 Soviet Jews are permitted to enter the United States as refugees annually. In the first four months of this fiscal year, which began Oct. 1,
some 21,000 were admitted.
the U.S. officials said Baker and Shevardnadze made progress toward treaties to curb long-range nuclear weapons, ground troops, tanks and combat aircraft in Europe, and to ban production of chemical weapons.
Both Shevardnadze and Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessermytk呼 echo the positive U.S. ampersal.
Gerasimov called the discussion very technical and said it would keep U.S. and Soviet experts busy through the night sorting the proposals out.
Bessmertnykh, who specializes in
U. S. relations, said both sides had presented new ideas, narrowing the gap between their positions.
Baker offered at least one concession that would permit the Soviets to exclude from a projected ceiling some of the combat aircraft they contend are defensive.
Abortion bill worries some
By Rod Griffin
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Officials at the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday that a bill prohibiting abortions at public institutions could have a devastating effect on the hospital.
Winter proposes abortion bill p. 6.
The bill, introduced Jan. 26 by State Sen Don Montgomery, R-Sabetha, is modeled after a Missouri law, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services.
"I if implemented, this legislation would make the Kansas University Medical Center significantly different from the remainder of the medical community," said Martin Pernoll, executive dean of the Med Center, in testimony to the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee. "To be different from the local,
regional and national medical communities carries adverse educational and patient care impacts far beyond the simple intent of this bill."
Like the Missouri law, the Kansas bill would define life as beginning at conception. The proposal would ban abortions at public facilities and prevent public employees from performing or assisting with abortions.
It would prohibit encouraging or counseling a woman to have an abortion. The bill would make illegal the spending of public funds for assisting or performing an abortion. Public funds could not be spent for counseling or encouraging a woman to have an abortion.
Pernoll said the Med Center did not encourage abortions and strictly obeyed all federal and state laws relating to abortion. By law, no person can be required to participate in abortion procedures, and hospital
Slattery wants pure air bill to pass
See ABORTION, p. 5
By Pam Soliner
By Pam Solliner
Kansan staff writer
Rep. Jim Slattery has made the passage of a clean air act his personal goal this term.
"I am optimistic that the Congress this year will pass the clean air act, and in fact, I think that will be the crowning achievement of the 101st Congress," Slattery said at a Lawrence press conference yesterday.
Rep. Jim Slattery tells Sigma Nu members about the state budget.
Brian T. Schoeni/KANSAN
Slattery began his scheduled visit by meeting KU administrators and constituents. Today, he will attend the inauguration of Bob Martin, new president of Haskell Indian Junior College.
'I strongly believe that if we're going to be competitive in a global economy in the years ahead, we're going to have to do a better job of educating our children in this country and training our workers.'
Jim Slattery State representative
Slattery, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said President Bush and Congress had supported the clean air bill this year, though he predicted the bill wouldn't be passed until the final hour of the final day of the session. Work on the bill began four years ago.
Although the final draft of the bill remains in its infancy because of complicated, technical information, Slattery said it addressed three basic environmental concerns: acid rain, air toxics and non-attainment areas, which are cities still violating current Environmental Protection Agency pollution standards.
Slattery tells fraternity that B-2 bombers aren't needed
Slattery said congressmen faced the possibility that factories might be shut down as a result of the act. He said cost-sharing problems also would have to be resolved in order to provide cleaner air for everyone.
He offered the assistance of KU's research facilities for the necessary technical information. He said that pure air was impossible, but that stiff
Pete Rowland, president of the KU chapter of the Sierra Club and associate professor of political science, met informally yesterday with Slattery, and tried to convince him of the need for stiffer toxic air regulations than proposed by the current bill.
See SLATTERY, p. 5
By Pam Sollner
Kansan staff writer
In the middle of his whirlwind tour of Lawrence yesterday, Rep. Jim Slattery visited briefly with the members of the Sigma Fraternity.
Slattery met for about 10 minutes at the Sigma Nu house, 1501 Sigma Nu Place.
Slattery said he co-sponsored a bill that would terminate production of the Stealth bomber, eliminating $40 billion from the defense budget in the next five years and 100 billion in the next 12 years.
Dave Anstaff, a Dayton, Ohio,
sophomore, asked about his political
 science project to rewrite the
 screened $291 billion defense
 budges.
Slattery, a member of the budget committee, said the committee should be able to cut the budget by $10 billion.
designed to evade radar detection
Slattery said he wasn't convinced that the country needed such technology. The Stealth bomber is a military plane
The bill would stop future production of the $875 million airplanes but allow the U.S. Air Force to complete the 15 Stealths already under construction.
"I don't think the program is going to enhance our security," Slattery said. "We have such an enormous nuclear stockpipe, a major nuclear deterrent. If they get 200 more than we have, are they more secure?"
Anstaett said he enjoyed Slattery's insights on defense.
Offender says community service work is bonus
By Curtis Knapp
Kansas staff writer
Bill Clark goes to work at 7:45 a.m. Monday through Friday for the Douglas County maintenance department. When he leaves work in the afternoon he returns to hisAIL cell.
Clark began working for the department in December. His work there counts toward the 400 hours of community service work, which he was ordered to perform as restitution for his crime of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Stubbs said that community service usually was assigned to an individual who had committed a non-violent crime. She said that not everyone who did community service was also in jail. Those doing work while in jail must obtain work releases from the court.
Clark is one of 425 people who were assigned community service work in Douglas County in 1989, said Rhonda Stubbs, community service coordinator. About 25 percent of those were KU students.
Cark earns five dollars an hour and will remain in the Douglas County Jail until he earns enough money to pay off his fines and court costs. He has completed 208 hours and expects to complete his service and sentence by the end of March.
Bill Clark of Lawrence welds a broken rail at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper Road, as part of his community service.
"I think it's a really good setup." Clark said it of the program. "As opposed to sitting in jail all day long, it's a bonus."
Espir Kahatt, Lima, Peru,
sophomore, was assigned 20 hours of
community service for illegally
connecting into his neighbor's
television cable. He performs his service at the Museum of Natural History cleaning glass and setting up exhibits.
"It saves a lot of money for the state," Kahatt said. "It's free labor."
"I wouldn't do what I did, again. It's not worth it."
Stubbs said different non-profit agencies that were familiar with the program would be contacted to see if they would accept an offender for work. If an agency accepts a person, then the details of work are set up between a supervisor and the offender.
Watson Library, the Animal Care Unit and KANU Radio are also involved in the program, Stubbs said.
Stubbs said the goal of community service was to allow the offenders to take responsibility for
their actions.
Tom Sweairingen, director of exhibits at the Museum of Natural History, said that most of the community service workers he received were KU students and that he had never had a bad experience with any of them.
Proposed property tax relief discussed
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden's so-called "Kansas Proposition 13" received mixed reviews yesterday from the House Taxation Committee. Even supporters of a property tax reduction said the proposed constitutional amendment has problems in its present form.
George Puckett, lobbyist for the Kansas Restaurant Association, said small businesses in the state were so desperate for property tax relief that they would take anything offered.
"We are desperately in need of help, however that help comes." Puckett told the committee. "We suspect that we will place a bill on property taxes."
Hayden's proposed constitutional amendment would roll back property taxes by 20 percent in 1991 from 1969 levels. It also would place a lid on property taxes, which after 1992 could be increased only by the rate of inflation, unless voters approved an increase.
Hayden suggested that local units of government and schools should recoup the lost money through a local option tax.
Paul Fleener, representative of the Kansas Farm Bureau, said some parts of the state do not have enough retail trade to replace the lost property taxes with a local sales tax. He suggested a 1.5 percent state sales tax, with the money being distributed to the local governments.
Rep. Vince Snowbarger, R-Olathe, said it was unfair to use money from a sales tax raised in Johnson County in other counties.
"You're saying you want other people to pay for your local services," Snowbarger said.
Burnt motor triggers hall fire alarm at Templin
By a Kansan reporter
The Lawrence fire department responded to a fire alarm at Templin Hall about 10:45 last night.
Ellsworth fires investigation p.2*
Bruce Dixon, acting director of the Lawrence fire department, said the alarms were set off by smoke coming from a burned out washing machine motor in Templin's laundry room.
Residents of the hall were evacuated by resident assistants after the alarm went off. They remained outside for about thirty minutes until the source of the smoke was determined.
No damage or injuries were reported.
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