VOL. 100, NO. 66 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY NOV.30,1989
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Gandhi quits post as prime minister
The Associated Press
Opposition parties began trying to assemble a coalition.
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi resigned yesterday, and for only the second time since independence in 1947 his Congress Party did not claim the right to form the next government.
Gandhi submitted his resignation to President Ramaswamy Venkataraman and said he was ready for the role of opposition leader.
"The people have given their verdict," he said in a televised speech last night.
"A new government will be formed. We extend to them our good wishes and offer them our constructive cooperation," said the 45-year-old pilot, who won his own Parliament vote overwhelmingly for a third time.
Congress won more Parliament
seats in last week's elections than any other party but was far short of a majority.
The Congress Party has been out of office only once since independence from Britain.
National Front leaders predicted yesterday that they would choose the next prime minister, but differences arose among the five parties.
A meeting was delayed until tomorrow so legislators from the alliance could try to persuade its main leader, Vishwanath Pratip Singh, to take the job. Singh has repeatedly said he does not want it.
"There will be trouble in the party if V.P. Singh is not elected prime minister," said Jaipal Reddy of Janata Dal, or People's Party, largest of the five parties in the National Front.
Singh is a former Gandhi minister and ally who has become his most prominent political foe.
Salvation Army spreads Lawrence holiday cheer
Left-handers encounter chair problems at KU
By Chris Evans
Kenyon staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The Salvation Army does more than ring bells during the holiday season. Workers and volunteers provide free food, clothing, gifts and good will during their Christmas Cheer campaign.
Salvation Army Capt. John Churchill said Christmas Cheer included all the services offered by the group but centered around feeding Lawrence's hungry.
"We have a Christmas dinner that we offer for the residents of our shelter, and then we have a community Christmas dinner." he said.
The dinner will be served Friday, Dec. 22, Churchill said. Another dinner will be served Sunday, Dec. 24. Both meals will be at the Salvation Army, 946 New Hampshire
In addition to the Christmas meals, the Salvation Army provides groceries to needy families. Churchill said nearly 1,000 people were served in 1988.
Employees of the Salvation Army and Scotch Fabric Care Services work together each Christmas to organize the Share the Warmth program, said Dana Frye, advertising representative for Scotch Services and coordinator of the project.
The program's goal is to provide every needy person in Lawrence and Topeka with a winter coat, she said.
"A lot of these people have never had a clean or warm coat to wear in their lives," Frye said. "What we do is handle all the
advertising and public relations to get people in the public to give us coats. Once we get the coats, we take the coats and clean them and steam them."
This is the third year for Share the Warmth, she said. During the program's first two years, about 13,000 coats were worn by the Topeka. Every coat was given away.
Coats will be given away Dec. 18-19 at 943 Massachusetts St., she said. At the same time, toys will be given as gifts for children in needy families. The toys will be provided as part of the local Toys for Tots program.
Toys for Tots is sponsored by Sunflower Cablevision and the Salvation Army, said Dennis Knipfer. Sunflower Cablevision general manager.
"We are serving as a collection point for Toys for Tots," he said. "It is very closely related to the Marine Corps Reserve."
The Marine Corps has provided a Toys for Tots service for a number of years, Knipper said. Officials at Sunflower Cablevision obtained permission to use the name so they could provide the service in Lawrence.
He said the Salvation Army seemed the natural choice for a distributing agent.
The Salvation Army provides other Christmas community services, Churchill said. Among those is a program of gift-giving and caroling at local nursing homes.
All programs are coordinated to not interfere with similar projects offered by local groups such as Penn House or ECKAN Community Action Agency, he said.
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Birch said, "It's aggravating cause you have to turn and re-posi in yourself and you end up writing papy."
he said that he didn't recall either the problem of left seating lecture halls had ever been ought to his attention but that hisice had considered buying freediving, left-handed desks.
"There should be at least one left sk in every classroom and maybe you could designate some in a row in lecture hall, like maybe four," he
Roskin said that sometimes he had be in a room with free-standing chairs that would have only one desk. He said the rooms should ave more.
Mim Modig, campus director of
clivities planning, said that the fixed
in lecture halls was a part of
a design package of a building.
"We've considered finding chairs at more anibidextress, but we won't found a particular style of air that appears to be something i would want to purchase for that rpose, as far as quality," he said. "There have been some conversas about left-handed chairs, but I won't know if we have a particular ad count of the average number of k-handed people per room or not."
could waste management
AO said in the report to the Senate government Affairs Committee. Comptroller General Charles Bower said that the government added to make a major investment in planting and ancel management systems but it he did not know how much that old cost.
be recommended the appointment a government-wide "chief financial officer" to control government dealing. Also, deputies at each for agency would be required to detailed financial reports.
bowsher said the multibillion dollar scandals involving the savings of loan industry, the Department of using and Urban Development if the Energy Department's ubled nuclear plants were likely to followed by billions more in fraud, ste and abuse for a common ion — lousy management.
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