THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100.NO.83
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANAS
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WEDNESDAY, IAN. 31. 1990
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Judge decides Reagan diaries needed in trial
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A federal judge yesterday ordered former President Reagan to provide excerpts of his personal diaries to John M. Poindexter for the former national security adviser's Iran-contra trial.
U. S. District Court Judge Harold Greene said a 1989 entry included a ambiguous comment that indicated that Reagan knew of Poindexter's work for the Nicaraguan contras.
Greene said Reagan must surrender the material by Monday, a move that could trigger a claim of executive privilege by the former president and might delay the Feb. 1st dating date of the Pollexent trial.
Reagan submitted more than 100 diary entries to the judge Thursday. Greene said entries covering the trial contained significant information.
Theodore Olson, one of Reagan's lawyers, declined to comment.
If Reagan balks at turning in the material, Greene said he would provide the former president and the Justice Department with a
secret document Poindexter submitted to the court outlining why he needs the diaries.
After court filings by all sides, including Iran-contra prosecutors, the court will "make a final decision with respect to enforcement of the subpoena" for the diaries, Greene said.
Reagan was ordered to give Poindexter a diary entry relating to a trip Poindexter took in December 1965 to Central America.
"The entry includes a somewhat ambiguous comment arguably indicating that the former president knew of Poindexter's activities on behalf of the contras." Greene said.
Greene also said Poindexter must receive diary entries focusing on U.S. military-type assistance to an unidentified Central American country that may have been used in support of the contra-
Poindexter also is entitled to Reagan's diary entries concerning meetings with Poindexter and others in December 1985 "to discuss the sales of arms to Iran," Greene said.
Council restricts drinking
No alcohol at fraternity open parties
By Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
KU fraternities will be prohibited from hosting open parties where alcohol is provided by the fraternity or independently brought onto th
premises under an amendment that was approved last night by the Interfraternity Council.
Open parties are parties with unrestricted access by nonmembers of the fraternities without invitation.
Fraternities will be required starting Feb. 28 to notify IFC 24 hours in advance of any parties or intra-house events where alcohol will be served.
The fraternity having the party will submit a form stating the nature of the party, time, date, location and availability of buses.
IFC had been discussing the amendment since Oct.17.
Jason Lank, member of the IFC judicial board, said the policy was needed to deter large, unrestricted parties that could get out of control.
"We need to take steps to control our parties and eliminate people we don't know and are not responsible for," he said.
All 24 fraternities were represented at the IFC meeting. All but two, Kappa Sigma, 1045 Emery Road, and Phi Kappa Theta, 1941 Stewart Ave., voted for the amendment.
Brian McDaniel, Kappa Sigma vice president, said the representatives voted against the amendment
because they wanted to take it back to their chapter for reactions.
"We think it is a good bill, but we wanted to reflect what our chapter felt," McDaniel said.
Phi Kappa Theta fraternity declined to comment on its reason for voting against the amendment.
Tom Cartmell, IFC president, said alcohol education programs would be forming in the fraternities.
Although KU fraternities practice dry rush, which is rush without alcohol, the amendment stated that no alcohol would be present or served at any pledge/associate social activities in the future.
Director defends Bush budget
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — White House Budget Director Richard G. Darman yesterday defended President Bush's $1.23 trillion budget against Democracy and tried to snuff out a movement to cut Social Security taxes.
More budget news pp.10,11
There are far fewer gimmicks, such as shifting payments from one year to another to make the deficit look smaller, than in past budgets, Darman told the House Budget Committee.
"I think everyone of them (in the new budget) is defensible," he said.
Darman said the administration's figures from July were accurate.
As for projections of greater eco- private economists are forecasting,
"You are not dealing with people who are totally out of bounds," he said.
Darman spent most of the day before the committee listening to Democratic members complain that the budget, which Bush sent to Congress on Monday, does not reflect a changing world because it proposes $292.1 billion for the military in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
"You've blown the opportunity for economic growth by spending more on military," said Rep. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Darman also was peppered with questions about Social Security, specifically a bill by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y. That bill would cut payroll taxes as a way to keep the government from using surplus Social Security taxes to finance other federal programs.
Bush's budget proposes that once the federal deficit is eliminated, and predicts that it will be in 1993, Social Security taxes that are not needed to pay benefits immediately be used only to retire government debt.
Darman bristled when Rep. James Slattery, D-Kan., said "Social Security is the biggest we have told the American people in maybe this generation."
Soviet immigrants welcome diversity of Lawrence
Ry Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
Grigory Voykhansky and his mother, Lena, arrived in New York City in late 1988 after emigrating from Leningrad. But life in the Big Apple left them with a bad taste in their mouths.
"In New York, the city (population) has a goal and nothing will stop them. Grigory said. "They kind of think that what it is like to be a human being."
After a month, they decided to leave the unfamiliar city and move to Lawrence because a friend told them was a culturally diverse community.
Grigory, 22, now a KU student, said he liked Lawrence and planned to go to law school after he earned an undergraduate degree.
Griory and Lena Vorkhanek, Soviet Jews living in Lawrence, discuss differences between the Soviet Union and the United States.
The Voykhanksy are one of several hundred Jewish families from the Soviet Union to settle in the Kansas City area this year, said Susan Elkins, president of the Jewish Community Center in Lawrence.
The State Department set a ceiling of 125,000 openings for refugees immigrating to the United States for fiscal year 1990. Of that number, 50,000 slots are open to Soviets. This is a little more than last fiscal year's allotment, which allowed room for 50,000 refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe combined, said a spokesman for the Public Affairs Office for the Bureau of Refugee Programs.
The majority of those immigrants are Jews. The Pentecostals, Evangelical Christians and Ukrainian Catholics make up the rest.
Grigory said he liked living in the United States because there was more political and cultural stability. He talked about the recent outbreaks of civil war in some of the Soviet republics.
Although he does not go to synagogue every week, he appreciates religious freedom. Grigory said.
"Gorbachev and everybody else knows there is a deficit in the union, but nobody knows what to do about it." he said.
"If you are Catholic, Protestant or Jewish, it doesn't mean you believe in a different god," he said. "We all believe in God in different ways."
Grigory said religious freedom was another reason he was happier in the United States. He said that the Jew's insistence on being the most prominent and respected in the U.S.
is on the rise, and with glasnost, anti-Semites have more of an opportunity to express their point of view, he said.
One such group, Pamyat, takes its name from the Russian word for memory.
Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union
in Leningrad, who was an orchestraal drummer, was attacked by three men in an elevator after one of his performances. The men cut his throat. It was on April 10, the eve of Hitler's birthday.
Grigory recalled that a friend of his
"That's your gift from Pamytat," one of his attackers said.
Not only is the Pamyat a threat to peace of mind, but the KGB, the Soviet secret police and intelligence agency, would imprison and charge anyone they considered suspicious, he said.
Rumors surface that Gorbachev may give up party post
See SOVIET, p. 5
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Amid reports that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev may relinquish his position as head of the Communist Party, Secretary of State James A. Baker III is rescheduling talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Edward A. Shevardnadze.
The postponement, to avoid interfering with a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee, coincided with the opening of a new network that the Soviet president had spent the past eight days at his country home, considering his
Stock market reacts p.7
Bush administration officials and intelligence sources said that there had been speculation for' weeks that Gorbachev would yield his party post while retaining the presidency but that they had no information he would take the sten.
Aked about the CNN report, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said, "I have no ideas. We've never been of it before. I have no information."
resignation as head of the party.
He said the Baker trip to Moscow
would be delayed one day
Issues to be discussed include arms control and the war in Afghanistan between the Soviet-backed government and U.S.-armed rebels.
Baker and Shevardnadze will meet Feb. 3 and in the Soviet capital, a one-day delay at the suggestion of the U.S. government, said Margaret D. Tutwiler, the State Department spokesman.
"It simply makes more sense to have the Soviets complete their plenum before beginning this important ministerial." Tutviler said.
Baker also is expected to make a
CNN, quoting a "well-informed and usually reliable" party source, said from Moscow that the re-emergence of Gorbachev on television yesterday did not rule out a dramatic resignation when the policy-setting Central Committee meets next Monday and Tuesday.
brief visit to Czechoslovakia, although there has been no announcement on that.
According to the unnamed source, Gorbachev had resisted sending troops into Baku, the capital of the republic, and was suffering severe depression because of the action, CNN said.
Before the TV appearance, Gorbachev was last seen in public Jan. 20 explaining why Soviet troops had been sent to the Azerbaijan republic.
One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there have been reports that Gorbachev was frustrated about efforts to reform the Communist Party. He said the speculation 'was that Gorbachev would remain in charge of the government as president, a post he has strengthened.
Proposal for tax lid criticized
Kansan staff writer
by Rod Griffin
TOPEKA — A two-year ironclad property tax lid, proposed by Gov. Mike Hayden, was given the cold shoulder yesterday by opponents.
The bill would cap property taxes collected by cities, counties, townships, school districts, municipal universities and community colleges at their 1989 levels until 1992.
The goal of the bill is to provide relief from increased property taxes resulting from reappraisal and classification.
But opponents of the bill claimed it would strip local government of its power.
"If we do not pass an ironclad tax lid, we will leave taxpayers vulnerable," said Shelby Smith, secretary of administration.
He said the tax lid proposal would only delay the effects of reppraisal and classification. Torbert called the new tax system fair and equitable but admitted that it had problems. He said it simply needed time to stabilize.
"On a philosophical basis, the bill perpetuates the notion that locally elected officials are incapable of determining the service needs and wants of their constituents," said John Torbert, executive director of the Kansas Association of Counties.
"Give us at the local level some time and assistance to work out the problems that do exist in the system," he said. "Delaying reapraisal for a year, whatever that means, doesn't help. It compounds existing problems and slows down the all-important task of updating and correcting the system."
Torbert asked that if the bill were passed, an amendment be included that would allow sales, earnings and income taxes to be collected to replace lost revenues.
Ernie Mosher, a lobbyist for the Kansas League of Municipalities, said the bill would hinder the ability of local governments to operate effectively and should not become law.
"We think local representative government works," he said. "It should be allowed to function, and we should facilitate its function."
School districts also argued against the bill.
Jim Yonally, a representative of the Shawnee Mission School District who spoke in behalf of other districts, said changing the tax system on schools would not allow school systems to meet the demands of increasing student populations. He said that school districts for years had operated under a system that put limits on the amount of spending for each pupil. Such limits, called budget lids, can be adjusted from year to year.
"To change your approach from a budget lid per pupil to a flat tax lid would not allow districts to cope with growing enrollment without increased state funding." Yonally said.
Some state officials shared skepticism about the bill and tax lids in general.
"My experience with tax labs over the past couple of years has been that they don't work," said State Rep. Vince Snowbarger, R-Olathe. "All they seem to do is shift responsibility from local governments to me as a state legislator."