Vol. 99, No. 45 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
Friday October 28,1988
Dukakis speaks amid crowd
400 show up to listen and question
By Katy Monk Kansan staff writer
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis leaves the podium and addresses the crowd from the floor of the Old Memorial Building in Independence, Mo.
Michael Dakisk took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and met his public face to face last night at an Independence. Mo., rally 12 days before the presidential election.
After an introduction by his wife, Kitty, the Democratic presidential candidate spent more than an hour speaking and answering questions from the floor of Memorial Hall, at times talking to people only a few minutes.
Members of the audience of about 400, many of them labor workers, asked questions about health care, education, the campaign and other subjects.
Nineteen U.S. flags formed the backdrop for Dukakis' informal question-and-answer session with an overwhelmingly friendly
plight and other subjects.
Dukakis noted that his plan for universal health insurance, to be provided by all but the smallest employers, was similar to one promoted by President Harry S. Truman, an Independence native, 40 years ago.
inns opening comments, the Democratic candidate referred often to similarities between Truman and him, saying that Truman would have supported the Democrats solidly.
During the question session, John Truman, a Rockhurst High School student who said he was related to the former president, asked, "How is your campaign to be elected president just like the campaign of my great-great uncle, Harry S. Truman?"
Dukakis replied, "We're a little behind, but we're gonna win!"
Like Truman, Dukakis said, he liked to get out among the people and demonstrated passion by the things he did for public service
Please see DUKAKIS, p. 8, col. 1
Soviets' budget to aid consumer, encourage profits
Report lists $58 billion deficit Unprofitable agencies will close
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The government presented its first budget designed to help the long-suffering Soviet consumer and declared yesterday that state-run farms and companies would be shut down if they did not make profits.
make profits.
The government also reported a deficit of $33 billion in the overall 1989 budget of $904 billion.
Inefficient central planning also is to be curtailed, in keeping with President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's program of radical economic reform.
Officials painted a gloomy picture of Soviet life in a burst of honesty unique to the annual two-day budget sessions of the Supreme Soviet
The national legislature's 1,500 deputies usually bear hours of dail speeches on the success of the current Five-Year Plan, but this time they were told of cramped housing, food that rots en route to stores, jammed time during vacation periods, and equipment amped on factory floors.
Yuri Matsukov, head of the state planning committee, promised dramatic improvements as the government shifted from its traditional emphasis on heavy industry to improving the living standard.
One cost of the departure is the deficit. Finance Minister Boris Gosset blamed the deficit on past mistakes.
He described it as "a problem that has not emerged just now, but is a result of the unbalanced economy, of the policy of extensive subsidizing and huge losses, of all that was brought about by the economic management, parasitic attitudes and a pessive financial policy."
Gostev said drastic changes were
necessary, and among those was the possibility of bankruptcy, a device of capitalism that would be new to Soviet society.
"A number of enterprises are on the brink of being eliminated" because they are incapable of operating without massive losses, he said, and some state-owned businesses may even be turned over to private cooperatives.
Masylukov said farms would have two years to straighten out their operations before facing "elimination."
ton. Central planning will be reduced by limiting the powers of planning ministries, he said.
This year, the state bought and redistributed 86 percent of production. It plans to cut that to 25 percent in the next budget year, and everything else must be sold on an open market subject to consumer demand.
He listed several development plans that were dropped because of environmental concerns, including two-thirds of 30 planned water project
Goset praised increases in pensions and payments to low-income families and pledged that price reform would not lower the standard
One seat on the leadership platform was vacant as the deputies convened their regular fall session. The empty chair separated Yegor K. Ligachae, believed to be the major conservative force in the ruling Poli-t bureau, from Gorbachev and Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov.
The seat arrangement might symbolize a diminished role for Liachev, who was removed as the Communist Party's chief of ideology earlier this month and put in charge of agriculture.
Art collection to get home in Lippincott
Kansan staff writer
By David Stewart
More than 100 pieces of art and archaeological specimens will soon have a new home on campus after many years of wandering.
The 114-piece Wilcox collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and replicas of classical statues will on display in 103 Lippincott Hall beginning Sunday in an invitation-only showing.
stanley Lombardo, chairman of the classics department, said that the collection would be open to the public on Monday.
the collection certainly has been nomadic. It was on display in old Fraser Hall from 1888 until Fraser was demolished in 1965. From there, it moved to a tin shed on West Campus, and after 19 years moved to an east Lawrence warehouse.
Last night, workers were putting some of the finishing touches on the display of ancient coins, Lombardo said.
The collection was to be moved to Wescoc Hall, but the hall turned out to be about 20 stories shorter than the original and most of it was available for the collection.
Now, the collection moves into Lippincott. In 1984, Robert Cobb, former executive vice chancellor, secured the necessary money to have the room renovated for the purpose of housing the Wilcox collection
"It was simply an available room." Lombardo said.
However, officials had no special reason to pick 103 Lippincott.
At the Dukakis rally, a teacher praises a pro-education comment by holding up a sign from the National Education Association.
The collection is about one-half actual relics, and the other half consists of replicas of Greek and Roman sculptures. Lombardo said.
Correction
a cast maker in booths.
The replicas were used to teach ancient sculpture in classes before photographic slides were invented.
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■ Because of a reporter's error, an article on page 1 of yesterday's Kansan incorrectly said that Zeta Beta Tau fraternity had abolished its pledge system. The ZBT Supreme Council, the fraternity's national association, voted to abolish the pledge system. The KU chapter has not decided whether to abolish its pledge system.
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Among the original articles are vases, fragments of inscriptions, marble fragments from Roman buildings and the coin collection.
The University of Kansas purchased the replicas, which include one of the Venus de Milo, in 1886 from a cast maker in Boston.
Plaintiff in Stephan case claims emotional distress
The Associated Press
TOPERA — Three children of a woman who sued Attorney General Robert T. Stephan for breach of contract testified yesterday that their mother was devastated when the terms of a settlement of her first lawsuit against him were revealed at a news conference in 1985.
"She was devastated and upset," Deborah Dempsey of San Diego said of her mother, Marcia Tomson Stingley. Stingley is seeking $2.1 million from Stephan and former legislator Bob W. Storey of Topeka in a U.S. District Court trial.
The two held a news conference on Oct. 29, 1985, to reveal details of the settlement of a sexual harassment suit Stingley filed against Stephan in 1982
Nephilim in Isaiah.
Stingley and attorney Margie Phelps, who
represented her in the first case, said terms of the settlement were made orally and were to be kept confidential by agreement of the two sides. No written copy of the settlement exists, both have testified.
have testimony.
Stingley, who was on the witness stand about five hours and completed her testimony yesterday, revealed that she received $16,000 of the $24,000 she was awarded in the settlement. She indicated the remainder went for legal fees.
Stingley, who presently lives in San Diego, used the name Tomson for eight years and filed her lawsuits under that name. But she said on the witness stand that she had resumed using her maiden name She was married to Jim Tomson of rural Toperka for a year in 1980-81.
Stingley worked in Stephan's office from 1979 until she was fired three years later.
stungley also alleges that Stephan and Storey held her in a "false light" before the public by their statements.
"She had thought the whole thing was over, and it was starting all over again." Dempsey said of the psychological impact of the revelations by Stephan and Storey.
inspire.
One of her other children, Robert Stingley, who recently graduated from the University of Chicago, and Linda Hoffman of Edmond, Okla. also said they talked with their mother by telephone shortly after Stingley learned of the news conference disclosures.
Stephan's attorney, Gerald Michaud of Wichita, accused Stingley of conspiring with Phelps and other members of the Phelps-Chartered law firm of Topeka to run Stephan, who was preparing to run for the Republican
kicked out. He did not give Marcia Stingley emphatically denied that
nomination for governor in 1986. He said he knocked him out of the governor's race.
Marcia Stingle emphatically denied that accusation
with whom she said." Michael asked
accused.
"Who hurt who, ma'am?" Michaud asked her.
"He hurt me, a lot." Stingley responded. "I did not want to hurt him. I didn't want to be hurt myself."
Michaul said Stephan never used "vular language" in public statements about her. Yet, he said, Stingley used such language in a November 1986, deposition that was later attached to a press release critical of Stephan that was issued by Phelps Chartered after the 1985 news conference.
Please see STEPHAN, p. 12, col. 3