VOL. 100, NO. 66 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER 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 president who won his own Parliament seat 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.
"There will be trouble in the party if V.P. Singh is not elected prime minister," said Jalip Reddy of Janata Dal, or People's Party, largest of the five parties in the National Front.
A meeting was delayed until tomorrow so legislators from the alliance could try to persuade his main leader, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, to take the job. Singh has repeatedly said he does not want it.
Singh is a former Gandhi minister and ally who has become his most prominent political foe.
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Catalog, Topeka store sell Kansas nationwide
By Lara Weber
In addition to shopping through the catalog, shopper can go to a variety of stores that carry the Kansas Collection. These stores are full of the products featured in the catalog.
For holiday gift giving with a touch of Kansas, the state Board of Agriculture has published a catalog full of unique food items from the Land of Oz.
The Carousel Gift Shop at 10th and Gage in Topeka carries the complete Kansas Collection. The store began specializing in products from Kansas about 10 years ago.
Kansan staff writer
Anita Wolgast, owner of the store, said she had been involved in wheat-weaving classes at the time.
"People started asking for more things from Kansas, not Taiwan or somewhere else," she said. "We had to work hard to
Buffalo meat, spiced apple cider and hand-made chocolate and marshmallow candy are just a few of the specialties offered in the new catalog, which is distributed nationwide.
Hayley Matson, spokesman for the agriculture department, said the catalog was sent to carefully selected groups across the nation, such as KU alumni groups, as well as to many former Kansans who wanted to keep ties to their home state.
"There's a certain nostalgia for some people," she said. "Many people are looking for ways to send a part of Kansas to friends and family."
find nice things.'
Now, Wolgast boasts the largest collection of Kansas products in the state. She said there had been a tremendous turnaround in the past 10 years in how Kansas was perceived by people.
"Many people have a mistaken perception of Kansas, and this is a high-quality way to market our products," she said.
Matson agreed and said the catalog also was helping to change the state's image.
Wolgast said the Kansas Collection offered an excellent way for many Kansans to market products that otherwise may not have been publicized.
"We're trying to promote Kansas in a very positive way," she said.
"They showed a lot of ingenuity and produced something very marketable," she said. "The farmers turned a situation from a negative to a positive."
Wolgast said that some farmers began using wheat crops, which could no longer be grown enough profit on the regular market, to prepare grain mixes, wheat flour and whole grain cereals.
A couple of years ago, for instance, after financial problems hit. Kansas farmers, some sought new ways to sell their goods.
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cookin said that sometimes he did in a room with free-stair-chairs that would have only one chair. He said the rooms should be more
There should be at least one lefty it in every classroom and maybe could designate some in a row in picture hall, like maybe four," he
tirch said, "It's aggravating
ause you have to turn and re-post
yourself and you end up writing
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design package or a building,
he said that he didn't recall
lecture halls had ever been
night to his attention but that his
cee had considered buying freew-
ledge, left-handed desks.
We've considered finding chairs are more ambidextrous, but we can't found a particular style of or that appears to be something would want to purchase for that pose, as far as quality," he said. There have been some conversions about left-handed chairs, but I don't know if we have a particular count of the average number of chained people per room or not."
could waste management
O said in the report to the Senate government Affairs Committee. Controller General Charles Bowy said that the government did to make a major investment in the infrastructure and financial management systems but he did not know how much that aid cost.
Owsher said the multibillion dollar scandals involving the savings loan industry, the Department of using and Urban Development I the Energy Department's ablated plant plants were likely to followed by billions more in fraud, ste and abuse for a common son — lousy management.
le recommended the appointment a government-wide "chief financial officer" to control government ending. Also, deputies at each or agency would be required to detailed financial reports.
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