VOL.100,NO.80
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANASA
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FRIDAY, JAN. 26, 1990
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NY crash rips Colombian jet
The Associated Press
COVE NECK, N.Y. — As many as 30 people were killed and dozens injured last night when a Colombian Boeing 707 crashed in fog and rain as it approached Kennedy International Airport, authorities said.
Aviana Flight S2, with 142 people aboard, was en route from Bogota.
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when it crashed about 8:45 p.m. in this isolated, exclusive hamlet on the north shore of Long Island, airport officials said.
The jet broke into several pieces upon impact, officials said.
"Kids were screaming for their parents. Parents were screaming for the children. The Long Island resident who helped remove six people from the wreckage. After that, "I just couldn't take..."
"There were just dead bodies all over the place. . . It was the worst thing you ever saw," an unidentified
New York City Emergency Medical Service personnel said 25 to 30 people were killed, EMS spokesman Lynn Schulman said. But shg said
Early last night, Kathleen Bergen, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said at least 20 people were taken to area Seventy people were taken to area
hospitals, said Nassau County fire dispatcher Robert Sutton.
Some were in critical conduction with multiple fractures and shock, hospital officials said. Of the injured, at least nine were children.
Doctors said at least 80 survivors were cared for at the scene, according to CBS-TV reports. The FAA reported at least 30 survivors, Bergen said.
Slattery won't seek Democratic candidacy
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery pulled out of the race for the Democratic governor nomination a second time yesterday, saying he must honor a commitment to former Gov. John Carlin not to oppose him.
House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis promptly said he may now join the party's nomination race.
Slattery, who studied the governor's race last summer and announced in August he would seek re-election to a fifth term in the U.S. House this year, said he still would run for governor if Carlin got out, but said he doesn't expect that to happen.
Carlin, who has said he will formally declare his candidacy around May 1, said Slattery's decision came as no surprise.
"The decision all along was his, and he's made it," Carlin said. "It clarifies things. There is a primary, and I will proceed as I set out to do some time ago."
Joni Mullen, 11, Lawrence, explains how she and classmates began a recycling program. See related story page 8.
Senate falls short of votes to override Bush
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday narrowly upheld President Bush's veto of a bill that would protect Chinese students from deportation.
Support of President's veto disappoints many Chinese students
Senators voted 62 to 37 to override Bush's veto, five votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority.
The action left intact Bush's China policy and gave him a victory against the Democratic-controlled Congress in the year's first test of political strength.
The action came a day after the House vote 39-20 to reject Bush's veto.
The Senate was blitzed by intense lobbying from the White House that included telephone calls from Bush and former President Richard A. Johnson.
Before the Senate roll call, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, said that although Bush has voiced support for democratic reform in Eastern Europe, "this veto sends a contrary message to the millions of students and workers in our country, taking for democracy in their country."
Just before the vote, Bush publicly renewed his promise that Chinese students would be protected even without the legislation.
By Carol B. Shiney Kansan staff writer
When a KU student named Liu went to Washington, D.C., in December to lobby for a bill to protect
thought that Sen. Nancy Kassebaum supported the bill.
However, in a Senate roll-call vote yesterday, Kassebaum voted to sustain President Bush's veto of the bill. The legislation was designed Chinese students in the States from deportation and political harassment
Nancy Kassebaum
In a prepared statement, Kassebaum said that she had voted to sustain the veto because she thought the Chinese students who were already in the United States were adequately protected and that the legislation offered the students no further protection.
Liu said, "We are disappointed of the results, but this is not the end of it vet."
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted 39-20 to override Bush's veto. However, yesterday's Senate vote, 62-37, was five votes short of the 67 needed to override the veto.
He said that since August, students had been
lobbying congressmen for the temporary protection of Chinese students and for the support of the pro-democracy movement in China.
The next step, since the veto was not overridden,
is to keep lobbying congressmen, he said.
Liu, whose student visa expires in October, said that he was worried that it might not be renewed. He said that if it were not renewed, he might be returned to China and possibly prosecuted.
Students are afraid to be visible now, he said. He did not want to be fully identified because he feared prosecution if sent back to China.
"We are patriotic people," Liu said. "We love China. We hope one day we will be able to go back to a strong, free China, not a repressive China."
Abut 32,000 Chinese students now are in the United States on "exchange visitor" visas.
Clark Coan, director of KU foreign student services, said that there were about 180 Chinese students enrolled at KU. He said about 75 additional Chinese scholars were at KU doing research.
Before the Senate vote was taken, Coan said the override, if it came, wouldn't change anything because of Bush's administrative order.
Another KU student from China said that although it was disappointing that the veto was not overridden, Chinese students still had hope to remain in the United States.
When Bush vetoed the bill Nov. 30, he ordered government agencies to adopt what he contended would be "miserable" legislation.
"I think the Chinese students now are worried about the possibility that Bush will cancel the order sometime in the future," he said. "Without the bill, the Chinese students are not assured."
The student did not want to be identified for fear that Chinese officials would see his name in the police file.
President Bush's decision to veto the bill can be understood. he said.
"From his point of view, he should issue the order instead of a bill because a bill might annoy the Chinese government," the student said. "Cultural exchange in the Chinese government might be."
Wang Xiaoming, Beijing graduate student, said that he also was disappointed by the outcome of the vote.
"I'm disappointed also that the whole thing has been getting so political," Wang said. "It is a moral or psychological blow to the students here because the students were counting on the stabilizers."
He said that the decision would not affect him immediately.
Wang, whose visa expires in September, doesn't anticipate any problems getting it renewed. He said, however, that there might be problems renewing passports, which are needed for the government to renew visas.
The Associated Press contributed Information to this story.
Epidemic of winter flu skips past area
By Steve Bailey
Kansas staff writer
Despite a national outbreak of winter flu that the Centers for Disease Control have termed "epidemic," Lawrence area hospitals have not had significant increases in the number of flu patients during the past few weeks.
At the same time, other Kansas hospitals are struggling to deal with the problem.
More than 1,100 deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia were reported last week to the CDC. That number significantly exceeds the expected for the second straight week, said Walter Gunn, a CDC viral disease specialist.
He said the percentage of deaths attributed to flu or pneumonia was at its highest level since the winter of 1981-82.
The Lawrence area appears to have escaped the epidemic, said Judith McFadden, director of community relations at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
"We have noticed an increase in flu-like symptoms and respiratory type infections, but no exact numbers are available," she said. "Not a significant increase but a noticeable one."
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said Watkins had not treated the number of patients with flu symptoms that had been expected.
Watkins has had 10 to 20 flu cases a day for the past two weeks. That number is down from a usual 25 to 30 cases a day for January, he said.
"We have seen less than the usual amount of flu cases we normally do at this time of year," he said. "There is really no explanation for this."
The flu can be treated effectively in the first 2 to 36 hours with a drug called amantadine. Yockey said the drug was effective used quickly.
"We can cut the duration and severity of symptoms by 50 percent if the patient is seen within the first 24 to 36 hours." he said.
Flu symptoms include an abrupt onset of intense muscle aches, high fever, severe headaches and a dry cough.
Other Kansas hospitals have had a more difficult time dealing with the recent flu outbreak.
Robert Prosser, director of emergency services at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said the hospital had seen a substantial increase in the number of patients suffering from chronic illness complicated by the flu.
"The hospital has been full during
the few weeks of lockdown, but
have managed to keep up in Kangaroo City."
Prosser said that the number of emergency room patients was up about 15 percent.
Terry Giles, spokesman for Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, said the number of patients with flu-related increased during the past few weeks.
The Associated Press contributed Information to this story.
Souvenir Old Jayhawk whiskey quickly selling out
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
A few days before classes began, Jim Hanselman went to Webb's Liquor Store to purchase a piece of history.
Hanselman, St. Louis senior,
said he had heard from an
employee of a different store that
Old Jayhawk Whiskey, a staple of
Nassau liquor store shelves for
years, soon would be off the
market.
"I just wanted to have it as a souvenir," Hanselman said. "It's pretty unique."
The bottle now rests on a shelf above Hanselman's kitchen sink, the newest member of a small liquor bottle collection.
stores, said Cathy Benson of Premier Beverage Inc., a Lenexa company that distributes the product.
Only a few bottles of Old Jayhawk remain to be shipped to
Premier bought Sunflower Sales of Topeka, the original distributor of Old Jawhawk; in Anil 1899.
Sunflower had been distributing the whiskey sporadically since 1847, depending on demand, said Lorenzo, former treasurer at Sunflower.
The whiskey, made exclusively for Sunflower by Jayhawk Distillery of Bardstown, Ky., was shipped to Kansas. The distillery has stopped production of the liquor.
Holmes said Old Jayhawk's exit from the market was the result of requests from the University of Kansas for the company to stop
distributing the product and a drop in sales.
Mike Reid, KU Bookstore manager, said there was no animosity or threat of legal action between flower Sales and the University.
"We don't want to take anybody to court. We don't want to cause anyone any trouble." Reid said. He wanted to protect our name and logo.
Reid said that old Jayhawk was one of the many unlicensed KU or Jayhawk products on the market. He said that the whisky could not be licensed because it was against University policy to put the KU stamp on any alcohol or tobacco product.
International Collegiate Enterprises, a firm that tracks down
unlicensed products, helps the University find businesses illegally using the KU or Jayhawk name, Reid said. Legal action usually is not taken, and companies are asked to submit their product for licensing approval.
The University gets 6.5 percent of the wholesale cost of licensed goods, Reid said.
Last year, KU income from the approximately 200 licensed products was $145.975, he said.
Money generated by the licensed goods is divided between the General Endowment Scholarship Fund, the Williams Fund and scholarships sponsored by the Kansas and Burge unions.
waiting for approval.
As for Old Jawhawk whisky
Reid's office is stacked with everything from neon Jayhawk clocks to Jayhawk Golf Club bags
"As a collector's item, it's probably a good time to buy," Reid said. "Although I'm not endorsing the product."
Collins Retail Liquors, 1906 Massachusetts St., is one of the few locations in town that still has any Old Jayhawk. Milt Collinson, store manager, said yesterday that he had six bottles left.
Chip Thompson, an employee of Borgen's Liquor Store, 917 Ileigh St., said that his store had three bottles left about two weeks ago.
"I bought one as a souvenir," Thompson said.
John Webb, manager of Webb's, said his store sold its last bottle of Old Jawhawk last weekend.