VOL.100,NO.61 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
T THE STUDENT NEWSPAIR OF THE T UNIVERSITY OF KANSA SAS
MONDAY
NOV. 20, 1989
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$5 million write off approved by Regents
Med Center monthly revenues are up
By a Kansan reporter
The University of Kansas Medical Center experienced a monetary surplus in October but will write off more than $5 million in uncollectable accounts.
The Regents last week approved the Med Center's request to write off 7,956 accounts totaling more than $5 million.
Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration, told the Regents that 670 of the accounts had been declared uncollectable by Med Center collection attorneys because those patients had filed for bankruptcy. The remainder was being written off under a provision of the department of administration's policy and procedures manual.
Speaking before the Regents, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, "October was an unusually good
month, an excellent month. We anticipate that November will be another very, very good one."
Budig said that budget projections for the month were surpassed by $1,353,000.
Staples said that total revenue charges were up 2.3 percent, and net patient charges were up 2.2 percent.
Staples said that those figures were adjusted because the official report could not show the increases. The Med Center accounts internally for the $3.25 million payback to Medicaid.
The number of patient days was down 9 percent, but the number of pediatric days was up 28 percent.
"This is due to the newborn intensive care unit, which was completed in October," Staples said. "We've had an appropriate response to that new facility."
Thousands join Prague's largest protest since '69
The Associated Press
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — About 30,000 demonstrators yesterday denounced police brutality and demanded that the government and authorities resign. Authorities arrested 10 dissidents but left the marchers alone.
Students marched Friday for five hours to commemorate student Jan Opletal, killed by the Nazis 50 years ago. When demonstrators tried to Wenceslas Square, police attacked them with tear gas and clubs.
Those arrested included Petr Uhl, a leading human rights activist, who was charged in connection with spreading news about the death of Martin Smid at police hands Friday.
Uhl, a veteran member of the Charter 77 group, is associated with VIA'a dissident news service active in several East European countries. If convicted, he could be sentenced to $3\frac{1}{2}$ years in prison.
Some prominent dissidents such as Hana Maranovva of the Independent Peace Association, Emanuel Mander of the Democratic Initiative and Anna Novova, a senior member of the party 77 also were arrested, the sources said.
Dissident sources in Prague and Vienna told The Associated Press that police also arrested Drahomira Drazska, who said she was SmId's girlfriend. She claimed he was killed by red-berated special police Friday.
Plainclothes police in Prague prevented several reporters from attending a scheduled news conference on the Smid case in the home of Charter 77 spokeswoman Dana Nemcova.
Sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity said police picked up some of the arrested people as they were brought to enter Nemcova's apartment.
Informed unofficial sources said there may be three people named Martin Smid in Prague, so the iden-tify of his victim was difficult to determine.
Czechoslovak state television on yesterday evening showed the two, both identified as students of mathematics at Prague's Charles University.
The first one was said to be from the town of Beroum near Prague. The other was identified as a Prague resident, who said "I" was shaken" when told of the report that he was dead.
The first Martin Smid said he did not take part in the protest, while the other said he did. The broadcast said he could be allowed to continue his studies.
Hospital officials said more than 100 people required treatment, and police said more than 140 people were taken to police stations.
Charlotte 77 likened the police crack-
ter to Nazi reprisals during World War II.
It was the largest demonstration in Czechoslovakia since August 1969, when crowds gathered in downtown Prague a year after a Soviet-led invasion crushed Communist reforms.
Protests also took place in at least eight East German cities yesterday and in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. As in Prague, the demonstrators demanded democratic reforms but also punishment of Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria and Erich Honecker in East Germany.
Vigil ends for family of MIA
The mile-long procession from the Wakefield United Methodist Church to the cemetery ends with a full military funeral service.
Members of the Daemonbattlefort and the KANZAN Guard bear the casket of Mau. Larry Eugene Martin, who graduated from KU in 1982 and was killed in the Vietnam War.
By Stacy Smith Kanean staff writer
WAKEFIELD — The waiting and wondering ended Saturday for the Martin family,
More than 20 years after his plane was shot down over Vietnam, Maj. Larry Martin, a 1982 KU graduate, was buried in his hometown with full military honors. He was a hero to both Martin and Larry's mother, "I hadn't given up home."
Larry Martin, 28, was an electronic warfare officer on an F-105 when his plane was shot down while on a strike mission July 15, 1968. The pilot, who ejected himself, said he never heard he did not know what had happened to Martin.
Initially, Martin was listed as missing in action, but in 1974, the Air Force changed his status to killed in
See MISSING, p. 6
Ruth Martin, Larry Eugene Martin's mother, is given a U.S. flag.
Mourners remember tornado victims
The Associated Press
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — More than 1,000 people jammed a school auditorium yesterday for a memorial for seven dead schoolchildren, joining in what Gov. Mario Cuomo called a grief so great it "cannot be borne without being shared."
"Death, like life, is a mystery . . . a mystery that deepens when the people taken from us are like Amy, Joanna, Larae, Peter, Charles, Adam and Maria, said Duomo, naming the youngest girl to blew an elementary school wall onto lunching students Thursday.
"We gather here because, despite the inadequacy of our words, so great
More than 1,000 gather to share grief
"We have come together in response to an experience that has shattered us and unified us," the Rev. John Rottenberg of the First Reformed Church in Walden said.
a grief cannot be borne without being shared. "Cumbo said."
Many residents greeted each other with silent hugs as they arrived at the Valley Central High School for the service.
The school's auditorium, which seats 1,200, was filled to capacity more than an hour before the service started.
"Everybody hurts deeply, and we need each other now," said Elena
Stahl, a sixth-grade teacher at Valley Central Elementary School, before the service. "By being together we will find some solace."
"It will be a terrible memory for the families every year about this time," she said. "Maybe it will make us all a little more thankful for what we have right now."
Vera Dibitetto stroked the blond hair of her 5-year-old son. She said it would be a bad Thanksgiving Day for the community.
The seven students, aged 7 or 8, were killed at the East Coldenham Elementary School. Eighteen others were injured, two critically.
On Saturday, hundreds of mourners, many of them young children who wept uncontrollably, filled funeral chapels to hear services for two young victims of the tornado, Peter Orsino Jr. and Larae Marie Litchhult. both 8.
Flowers adorned the trodden ground outside the cafeteria. Letters were also placed near the now-demolished cafeteria wall encouraging families to be strong.
"Children — The Greatest Gift God Can Give Us," read one note.
"God never promised us that we would not have these terrible times in our lives . . . that there would not be hurricanes and tornadoes, earthquakes and floods," Bechtel said during the services for Peter Orsoni
SEATTLE — Boeing Co. and Machinists' union negotiators, spurred by an unusual move by a federal mediator, agreed to a tentative contract yesterday that could end the 47-day-old strike by 57,000 workers in nine states.
After 14 hours of talks that ended about 3:30 a.m., chief Boeing negotiator Larry McKean said the production workers could be back on the job as early as Wednesday at the world's No. 1 maker of passenger jets.
Tentative Boeing contract could end 47-day-old strike
The Associated Press
'Hawks upset No. 2 LSU with 89-83 victory
Kansan sportswriter
By Dan Porkina
Coach Roy Williams had been saying all through the precession that his Jayhawks were going to surprise people, but he may be a little surprised himself at this point.
On Friday night, Kansas made it 2-for-2 in the surprise category by stunning second-ranked Louisiana State, 88-83, in the second round of the寡寡 Season Dodge NT.
"I don't know that we deserve to be ranked.
The other semifinal game matches No. 25 St.
Joker's against DePaul at 8:30 p.m.
but if you go to LSU and beat LSU, that’s pretty
arrived good." Williams said.
Whatever the ranking, it will be put to the test Wednesday night when Kansas faces the top-ranked Nessia-Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels.
UNLV, led by Larry Johnson with 25 points, roamed California, 101-81, and advanced to the semifinal game set for 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden in New York.
LSU coach Dale Brown predicted Kansas
would win the tournament.
After leading 46-44 at halftime, the Jayhawks quickly jumped to a 50-44 lead on baskets by Jeff Gueldner and Mark Randall.
"At this point we're looking forward to a favorable vote on this contract and a return to normal operations," he said.
The Tigers came back for the first of seven second-half ties at 57-57 0.1 a three-pointer by Chris Jackson with 13: 10 remaining in the game.
The two teams traded basket's until Randall scored on the third of four second-half goal-tending calls against the Tigers 7-foot-1 Stanley Roberts, giving Kansas 8-9 lead.
See NIT, p. 11
Negotiators for the union were divided, saying arguments for and against ratification would be presented when members meet to vote on the three-year pact today. But the United States is commending acceptance. Baker said.
Tom Baker, president of Seattle-area District Lodge 751, said that the proposal was a "substantial improvement" over previous offers. Lodge 751 represents nearly 80 percent of the Boeing workers covered by the Machinists contract.
The strike, which began Oct. 4.
brought production at Boeing to a virtual halt, delaying deliveries to airlines worldwide amid rising concern about aging passenger jets.
mediator Doug Hammond said he proposed the deal a few hours after talks resumed Saturday for the first time in two weeks. He said submitting his own recommendation, rather than helping the two sides toward a settlement, was "an unusual and, for me, a rare step."
Baker and McKean praised Hammond's action.
"The parties were far apart on the issues, and I guess what it took was some bold steps on the part of the man in the middle; the parties together," Hucker said.
Justin Ostro, an international union vice president who is in charge of aerospace-industry negotiations for the Machinists, attacked both the agreement and the mediator's role.
"This was a 3-to-2 vote on the proposal tonight, and I would have to share the opinion of the two, since I am not a voting member." Ostro said.
The Machinists represent 43,300 workers in the Seattle area; 12,000 in Wichita; 1,700 in Portland, Ore.; and a few hundred others at scattered sites in California, Hawaii, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and other states.
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