THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100,NO.66 (USPS 650-640)
T THE STUDENT NEWSPAFER OF THE T UNIVERSITY OF KANSAK
THURSDAY
NOV. 30, 1989
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Gandhi quits post as prime minister
The Associated Press
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.
"The people have given their verdict," he said in a televised speech last night.
Gandhi submitted his resignation to President Ramaswamy Venkatraman and said he was ready for the role of opposition leader.
"A new government will be formed. We extend to them our good wishes and offer them our constructive cooperation," said the 45-year-old chairman who won his own Parliament seat overwhelmingly for a third time.
Opposition parties began trying to assemble a coalition.
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.
Area merchants ready for holiday rush Shopping hustle and bustle will reach peak during week before Christmas
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 Jalap 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.
Left-handers encounter at KU
By Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
By Stacy Smith
The sound of Christmas bells will be muffled by the sound of cash registers ringing at many downtown businesses during the holiday season.
Now that the day after Thanksgiving, considered the busiest shopping day of the year, has passed, local merchants are still out and about as busiest time — the week before Christmas.
Beth Castle, assistant director of the Downtown Lawrence Association, said businesses would become even busier as Christmas approached. She said most downtown stores would be open until 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and during additional hours on weekends until Christmas.
"This is probably the most important time for businesses," she said.
The association decorated downtown Lawrence with Christmas lights and arranged for Sand to make her yearly visits. The owner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets.
"We do these things to make downtown a nicer place to be during the holiday season," Castle said. "We try to help bring people downtown to shop."
"Everyone always seems friendly in the
stores. I think that's a real plus about downtown."
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Ann Szentmienski, sales clerk for The Palace, Eighth and Massachusetts streets, said she increase an increase in business as
Business is pretty steady right now. The week before Christmas, though, it gets really chaotic here.'
"Business is pretty steady right now," she said. "The week before Christmas, though, it gets really chaotic here."
Ann Szemtlenski
Szentlenski estimated that students made up 30 percent of the store's business during the holidays. Boxed Christmas cards, wrapping paper, candy and novelty items are the most popular purchases, she said.
Christmas approached.
"I think students do a lot of major purchases at home, but we have a lot of fun stuff," she said. "There's a lot of unique
at The Palace
"People will come the week before Christmas and wonder why we don't have any cards left."
Kim Kern, owner of The Fields Store, 712 Massachusetts St., said his store's imported tree ornaments and decorative posters were popular Christmas gift items.
"About 40 percent of our holiday business is from students, but probably the bigger percentage is from the older crowds," he said.
"The last Saturday before Christmas is our busiest time. These are real popular gifts", he said. "I'd say 50 percent of our business is students. We're getting a lot
things.
Bob Eberton, manager of Jayhawk Spirit, 933 Massachusetts St., said he geared up for Christmas shopping rush by ordering extra merchandise for the months of November and December.
Students also contribute to the holiday business boom at Pier 1 Imports, 738 Massachusetts St. Charlie McNutt, sales clerk at the store, said he expected the store to get progressively busier as Christmas draws closer.
"During Christmas, anything we have with KU on it sells well," he said. "Alumni come in here from out-of-town and really they usually spend more than $100 at a time."
Children's sportswear, personalized sweatshirts and new items like such as mini basketball, key chains and stuffed jay bird toys, among Christmas shopmas. Etherham told us.
more student business than we have in the past."
"I think students who have to stay here until right before Christmas usually shop in Lawrence," he said. "But the ones who go home on Dec. 15 probably do more shopping at home."
"The things we normally sell, we just sell more of," he said.
The Riverfront Plaza, a factory outlet mall under construction on the bank of the Kansas River east of City Hall, is scheduled to open March 1990. Many downtown merchant stores will affect their business during next year's holiday shopping season.
"I think downtown Lawrence has a personality of its own," McNutt said. "People will continue shopping here, because there's a lot of speciality shops a mall couldn't offer."
Baskets, glassware, brass items, vases and novelty items are most popular to holiday shopper and especially to students, McNutt said.
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