VOL.100,NO.66 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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 I read."
"A new government will be formed. We extend to them our good wishes and offer them our constructive cooperation," said the 45-year-old former pilot, who won his award 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, Wiyanwan Pratap 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.
Batman and 'traditional' gifts lead area sales
Singh is a former Gandhi minister and ally who has become his most prominent political foe.
Left-handers encounter is at KU
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
holy merchandising! Batman is flying above the rest in sales this gift-giving season, following a trend set this summer with the release of the wildly successful movie "Batman," now available on video cassette just in time for the holiday rush.
Cassius Larry Cornelius, manager of Fun and Games, 816 Massachusetts St., said Batman items including figurines, pencils, buttons and a "Batwing" toy that costs about $30 were his big sellers so far.
"Batman stuff is doing better than average," he said, adding that although several companies manufactured the Caped Crusader's merchandise, it was still in short supply.
Cornellus said his store also did well with glow-in-the-dark stencils stencil, slot-car sets and "Koosh" balls, which are small pom-poms of rubber string.
College students tend to favor more sophisticated gifts such as strategy games, he said.
Spencer gift stores in the Kansas City area are doing well with dancing flowers. Single flowers in pots 'dance' to music when turned on, and some play a guitar as
well. The gag gifts are battery-operated and sell for about $30.
Other popular gifts this season reflect the age of technology, with personal computers, computer games, videotape recorders and non telephones topping the lists of many. Cornelius said that there were not a great deal of new gift items to choose from and
that traditional gifts such as dolls and train sets were still popular.
Brett Butz, salesclerk at Jock's Nitch, 840 Massachusetts St., said that winning teams, were big sellers and that Nike International outfits were going fast.
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Birch said, "It's aggravating cause you have to turn and re-position yourself and you end up writing mov."
Roskin said that sometimes he said he in a room with free-standing chairs that would have only one desk. He said the rooms shouldive more.
"There should be at least one left sk in every classroom and maybe you could designate some in a row in the courthall, like maybe four." he said.
Jim Modig, campus director of cities planning, said that the fixedating in lecture hall was a part of a Design module of a building.
he said that he didn't recall either the problem of left seating lecture halls had ever been ought to his attention but that his ice had considered buying free-standing, left-handed desks.
"We've considered finding chairs it are more ambidextrous, but we won't find a particular style of air that appears to be something 'would want to purchase for that pose, as far as quality,' he said. "There have been some conversations about left-handed chairs, but In't know if we have a particular ad count of the average number of t-handed people per room or not."
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O said in the report to the Senate government Affairs Committee. comptroller General Charles Bower said that the government did to make a major investment in his firm's financial management systems but he did not know how much that id cost.
be recommended the appointment
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ing. Also, deputies at each
or agency would be required to
detailed financial reports.
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