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the waiting is sometimes the hardest part there certainly is a lot of that going on in the persian gulf and into fort riley area for family members there's been a support group military wives meeting each wednesday for twenty years now and now there's a groove for waiting wives wives whose husbands are stationed outside the us many are in the persian gulf in addition there's a small group called project manhattan cares cofounder patty samples and is married to a sergeant from fort riley has been in the gulf for a month now she and others are organizing to send magazines to soldiers and to send christmas packages right after thanksgiving she says it's her way of doing anything she can to help out in the beginning i felt so i felt like the argument over there i'm going to work to let you know did you just sit back and you know cause i really felt like was something we could do an

idea from great support from the people in manhattan last night i went to a damn if they're bp goes here and i got an overwhelming response to my bed those buttons are being sold at a dollar apiece to send christmas packages to the soldiers manhattan the area businesses have been asked to donate curved magazines to be sent to the gulf region sampled and says with the exception of the reader's digest they're asking for nineteen ninety magazines only knowing the soldiers are sometimes boarded running out of reading material she knows it's a worthwhile project well tomorrow will be a big one so we can walk up last week probably count with family and we have to have to get in and then for another fee is the good religion over there we have to cut out when and there are women in a sense set

leaving so many writers insisted on some edges the magazine way are we had a camera at one of the employers gave her a couple of your education i watched her a lot about it because i think about ninety percent of town and walk and we have about it and more so those things i am i figure that i might have an eye on the month will open a bit about simpleton says she's hoping to get a good bulk rate sorry hard candy for the christmas packages which she also hopes will include donated toiletry items and angie fryer is also doing her part she's coordinating the military wives and waiting wise groups she says she remembers from her own experiences of what it's like to be separated from a loved one i would have been

important life of prayer for him for twenty one years ago i didn't year of waiting to know if a lot of people who didn't have and i know that when they're gone not only concerned about why they're going and when they're gone and what they're doing and where they are that year and when they think a parent everything they could probably go into the plumbing that back to the all the loathing think you have to make that law that's needed to carry the rio grande to the great at it and hear that i'm very aware about the problem at a time an adult conversation we're going to find where they're at because the soldiers are going to point to different places and doing different

kinds of duties friar says specifics of what's going on in the persian gulf can't usually be discussed what our common are helpful hints and sharing of information to make some of the process is a little bit easier i think that we do and the poor things like you know the one that will open part of attorney and andrew pork exactly what democrats exactly what will happen if a baby born not have been gone what will happen on a lot of the high tech helmet had the noble idea we'd provide that kind of information rather than any political victories one wailing wife says the group's help her get through this difficult time her husband is a captain in the army and then separated before for shorter period of time it's done it easy especially knowing he can come home very quickly in an emergency aid friday night awaiting why the group is purely an intriguingly unnerving can be very highly emotional it can be

funny emotional weekend thank you kelly i mean we had a couple of girls who really were not afraid to open up to me and say exactly how they felt he and share something that i think about it i'm terry about the situation you're angry because of what's happened now you're going to have the birth of your child without her husband you're a single parent for an indefinite period of time he worries that in a potentially volatile area how do you deal with them those kinds of feelings that that are very calming and they're more than just worrisome i think back to that anger we've talked about guilt fair amount of visually and today we had a meeting and only

from a social worker from fort riley kan i don't think i'll probably more anger and guilt personally a lot in a short time how i deal with can i get to a table wine i tell you that i am perpetually optimistic and writer danny and i looked for a good intuition intact one time he did get the country through a company she didn't have to allow that a normal healing and get on with what i can do about it and we talk about being an optimist what you found something good about the situation one of them

he'll win a lot more than i ever really wanted to win of red tape that the army it really put you feel when you do a lot of paperwork and i haven't had the lead them and know that have power of attorney to have at it one doing it for him and i have really want to appreciate we go through she's looking forward to the day she says when her husband comes home from the gulf so they could discuss what each has learned from the situation she says her husband is probably typical that he loves to get letters and packages from home he likes to know every little detail about day to day life their addresses for anyone wanting to send a letter a package to any service personnel in the gulf all for helping with project manhattan cares and we have that information here at kate's cc and kate cd i'm nancy finken fb a spokesman for john kerry's gubernatorial campaigns says the organization doesn't put much stock in polls this after another new poll out over the

weekend showed a substantial lead she had over republican governor mike hayden has disappeared the kansas poll published in yesterday's topeka capital journal showed finian hayden dead even with thirty seven percent each a month ago the same polls show the democratic challenger leading hayden by thirteen points james sheffield a political science professor at wichita state is an expert on public opinion polls he says his perception is the frequency of these polls as increased in general throughout both state and national elections over the past several years pretty much burlington vermont we're not much more money

may be misleading sheffield says the polls during the primary showing former governor karlan a leading john finney are a good example of the inaccuracy sometimes associated with the polls primarily huge day i'm sure we don't after drawing conclusions about quadruple

like more generally i think that you have to be eligible only three would be used in public i don't all right how do you think because i used by each candidate do you think they used much of its measures they won and once that their own party sponsored yeah polls done by reputable professional suspension of their

independent of the campaigns themselves most importantly candidates will pay attention to their own poll because those polls were conducted for specific reason to produce specific information candidates have been able to ensure that their gun we agree i'm doing well james sheffield is a political science professor at wichita state former chairman of the journalism department at wichita state university and retired veteran state journalist charles pearson says he believes public opinion polls can sometimes influence undecided voters eleven a force

probably because of the fact that they're you know and i have to know the public opinion polls that that will work credence placed on the public opinion polls very and there's much speculation within both parties as to why this new poll shows phillies lead a thing of the past one of the issues that may be responsible for the close race now is issues in general governor haden has made his position on that he wants as many public debates as possible on the issues with jon fannie fannie however has been very selective in her acceptance of those appearances oh yeah and he did i

don't know so she may have had to sit down and weigh the options one a narrative being out my can maybe do is well the issues that the other negative is the public may perceive that i'm hiding lately the issue of abortion has been highlighting the campaign's hayden a republican running on a pro choice anthony democrat running on pro life this makes was an interesting twist the campaign pearson says some voters may in fact make their decision based on that abortion issue i mean i

am i am good morning do you think that they should have been covered very well by the candidates and by the media as too much time spent on something like abortion something such an emotional issue that may not a mustang nearly as many people as the property tax issue or education i'm

audie cornish but i think it seems to me that the media have done a better job in that campaign demolished and identify where the candidates had been it wasn't us maybe you know charles pearson is that a newspaper journalist in kansas for thirty years he's

retired from being the chairman of the journalism department at wichita state in hutchinson i'm nancy finken ms bee if you look at the picture for the first quarter for fiscal year nineteen eighty known as july opens in september a combined to revenue to the general fund was only three hundred and twenty two thousand dollars or six hundred so one percent less than the estimate that is down the end of august we were four point eight million head in in the balkans but we have to we have a caf in september three seats compared to estimate that actually underestimate revenue so when you look at the figures for a quarter compared to just looking at the last month of the figures for september which tells you more which do you think should be on the size is where we stand

because receipts can pop up in government the month and it's the moment you have completed the total picture of course any surprises on me mention that you not laugh too far for the quarter but nonetheless you are down just a little bit over the state is is that what tom was predicted maybe last year even the quarter before noam there are any particular surprises things changed a little bit in september compared to where we spoke in august but the island's only really a big surprise as we pointed out to me of committing their turn we're on crude oil

oh because there's a two month wait between production and when the attacks on oil have to be readmitted to the state so we haven't seen that yet and blow their show should show up this month and to some degree no no big surprises so far as i say the bottom line is only three hundred and twenty two thousand words that have been enough of course as far as individual sources of revenue to the general fund are obviously some are more the estimated some are less the most positive single source of foreign and three months would be the sales tax it's about three point four million or one point eight percent over the estimate and then we've done or i had in the first quarter on interest earnings are good the general fund or about an informal estimate but on the other side or individual income taxes about

three point eight million or one point nine percent below the estimate and corporate income tax revenues about one point eight million or four point four percent both instruments so says but the bottom line is not profit all now when you mention that you didn't have the figures yet for the oil tax that the state will be receiving now or at least the big change again because of higher oil prices what kind of estimate it giving in that area having done so yet we have an ma investment albeit that's the jimmy webb well estimate of course of what we expected it would come in that that was based on estimates we made last april and of those people you investments haven't been revised code since then they will be revised in november but right now we're working off of

estimates that the consensus estimating group agreed to on april four the consensus estimating group is so scheduled to meet sometime in november i think that the discussions will go now when there's so much of the talk of recession nationwide how that enter the discussion and the estimates for the future of kansas the economic outlook will be discussed but that group in late october before november you know which we actually do this point and then buried the current economic situation obviously will have a very important bearing on there well we come up with i can't i can't speak for the group just one person in a group that poem and what we do and we will we will

be realizing the estimate in november for the current fiscal year or the one that began july first two men's next june thirtieth and will be making our first estimate for fiscal year ninety two which begins in july of nineteen ninety one and a law they know that a recession in the oil situation a bold bold plan will be taken into account when we meet again in october november we look at higher oil prices and its effect on kansas producers because it is some of a mixed blessing for our state we're getting higher prices but was on a higher prices doesn't serve even itself out that one area oh not necessarily a plus size of plus on the severance tax revenue and its crew can also be a drag him another is you know if we if we have an

uprising as in the nation state is that higher interest rates are can be dampening effect on other segments of the economy so it certainly doesn't balance out neatly and there's always that question in this our situation we've seen it in recent years that was that was an active in the three rounds we are no drop in the good we can begin to change and so it's been so volatile delusional when i know if the situation in the mideast not resolved and that we could see prices coming down quite a bit of an unknown right now makes it very difficult so you know you will take into account where we are and what we know about it now and we need that

in our suits is gary biser goes home with prices will stay up there some economic analysts have looked both at the persian gulf situation and that the budget in that seem to be going on in washington that signals to consumers to play safe they don't know what the future for taxes going to be and what the impact of the persian gulf is going to be and i noted that you said the last quarter and that the sales tax was up slightly i wonder if you expect then that it will be more conservative and no sales tax revenues will stay the same or decreased given those two factors literally a possibility that the warhead sales tax receipts for the quarter doesn't necessarily mean that you can afford for fiscal year thank you and then

find the most direct how does the next quarter and that being so the christmas rush in that season influence or change this year because of things i just mentioned do you think that we'll see an even though it's usually a busy time for the economy because of the holiday is that we'll see some in an average quarter because people will be conserving that's cars that's that is going with twitter before then you are indeed in consumer confidence her clothes off and though we can and continued evolution certainly an economic area could do that the activity during the holiday season which is a wheat we do get a lot of sales tax money in december and january and could conceivably i'm not meet previous expectations of fun with this rather do more economic situation continues and ryan says that could mean further problems with a state budget and

hutchinson i'm nancy finken it's been it's not that the folks think poorly of us because we're from kansas is that they're surprised that there's a machine to build there in the middle of kansas this is jean richards division manager at mazda machine tools in southwestern said this week his company shipped a machine priced at over three hundred thousand dollars to be used by nasa asked emmett sheehan served as a vendor for rockwell international to build a tool to create the outside tiles with the space shuttle program so far jackson's wishes for free rotation alexis well with it with a tool of the rotating out of eighteen thousand rpm the motions of the various axes put into all uncommon in contact with the shuttle tile so is to grind it for lack of a better word into a

precise contour required to protect the us space shuttle on re entry into the earth's ailments as richard says all the design work was done at last machine tools he says their program will be better than the one nasa is currently using this will be able to more closely duplicate the actual blueprint and of course on the space shuttle which is essentially an airplane each title is a little bit different this machine the various axes will position within one ten thousandth of an inch so it's an incredibly accurate machine the machines these previously are far more than you will and there is there is there a slower and they're less precise so the closer the tiles are to the actual blueprint when you put the tiles all over the plane you have a a smoother surface if you have a smoother service you have less friction therefore less heat build up so that will be that will be more efficient but also be manufactured

more precisely more quickly as well richard says the method currently employed at nasa is more closely related to wood working in fact it's called a gun stock mission because that sort of machine is ordinarily employed in initiating non regular shapes in words such as stock on a on a rifle so they're owed naturally we're going to employ something that's closer to state of the art and five access computer numerically controlled machining is just that richard says the company received the job last september and has been working steadily on it ever since he calls it one of the most sophisticated jobs they've ever done this mission represents a terrific accomplishment and that for a company our size we're not a large company were only eight employees that the machine the

sort to have performed as well as it has a forty even exist today is a terrific accomplishment forest lawn the level of sophistication and the precision of this machine is is something that companies ten times our size might be afraid to tackle but if they did accomplish it they'd be justifiably proud so were extraordinarily proud of what we've done and and of the people who have accomplished a rigid says it's a great way to boost morale i'd say there's a good deal of benefit involved with working on and something of this sort from the point of view of of pride and morale in our workforce and in the community and additionally there's a good deal of of public relations of exposure to be gained from ordering program of this notoriety

the public is interested in the space shuttle people don't come out and interview as we build a machine for for the railroad or for a big power tool manufacture but if both of the machine tools associated with something as as glamorous as the space shuttle program where will likely lead exposure so yes there's a good deal of love of benefit of working on a on a program of of this go richard says it's been an extreme pleasure to work with rockwell international because rockwell is directly working for the government many of those regulations are then passed on to his company and he says that's been a real headache now with the us government contracted it doesn't take long to understand how it is that the toilet seats come to cost fifty dollars there is there is an extraordinary amount of red tape involved

most of the most of the regulations are written so that no one needs to ever exercise any common sense in their life discussion of other issues were or resolution of problems rigid says everything is definitely spelled out to the point of redundancy and you have far regulations that refer to another regulation that refer to another regulation and they're entirely circular on live actually refer you back to the original regulation but that they've never said anything of it so that the real the real world irony of the situation is that it's there every bit as difficult for the vendor and in this case master as they are for the buyer in this case rockwell so is that it's not simply a burden on those who choose to to answer these bids it's those people who

are are going out to buy equipment there is there is a tremendous amount of time and energy putting to totally and nonproductive evidence gen richards is the division manager headmaster machine tools and south hutchinson is company just completed a big projects building the machine tool for nasa to grind tiles for space shuttles and even though there was a lot of red tape associated with the job he says it won't deter them from bidding again in hutchinson just about a year ago the cosmos fears board of directors announced the beginning of the seven million dollar fundraising campaign to relocate from the hutchinson community college campus to donated land near the hutchinson mall cosmos fair board directors say they're pleased with the seventy five percent of that bull they've been able to raise but they've had a change of heart about relocating due to rising construction and relocating

costs cousins their executives have decided to ask the college for permission to expand at its existing location cosmos for executive director max ary address the h c seaboard wednesday night as we started bringing the real numbers together after five years of dreaming in theorizing and so on about the facility and the fact as you all know that we look at the possibility of moving off campus to a site that was offered to a citizen mall as we start bringing the real numbers together we became a little concerned that too much money was going to be spent just moving us from their site to a new site the example of the cost and we we could not anticipate when we first started we talk the parking lot earlier and when we moved to them all we would've had to build a metaphorical a parking lot that we would share it with them all but it would've been a dark cast and we set out and it's a very basic figure with parking lot scott you've been through that exercise recently realize it's not very

exact science either especially when we do sit down afterwards was the mall and realized the specifications that they were going to require we're far more than we ever anticipate any extra cost was going to be more than five hundred thousand dollars to build a parking lot over what we had planned because of the extreme aspects that are the more group that was going to require and how they build their parking lot also have areas like the almanacs it originally planned about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and the equipment is going to cost it now turns out is comcast or five hundred thousand dollars and again that's coming because of the company that we get the projector from without a change in direction and they just have a whole new set of contracts that they offered these cast are getting up and we became very concerned that we may not be able to deliver to our donors and hutchinson the type of building the biggest bang for the buck in mindset and other words to spend their money in a very efficient way ought to deliver the best we could for the money that we had as a result kerry

says an architect tell them look at the option of expanding at their present facility but the sticking point is the expansion is it includes encroaching on part of the existing parking lot the lack of adequate parking has been a concern for both the college and the cosmos fear presently the parking lot approximately a hundred sixty cars architect did some work and found that by reporting the parking lot from a standpoint of relying re striping and having straight and party even with these additions could still maintain one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty parking places now the best deal does not leave or that still leaves a parking situations we need more parking and i know your situation too we're going to have to look at some additional options to acquire possibly some additional lambs to take care of the second reporting for its airy says the cosmos fear as it stands today is just too small

many of the recent fines the causes fear has been able to acquire and to restore have no home but by expanding by sixty thousand square feet many more artifacts will be able to be displayed this is a i'm a very rough perspective of what we've come up with and again i want to stress there is nothing set in concrete here ari these are purely conceptual plans just to see what we could do with the current site of where we could expand and what we could do with that this is looking at what may be a proposed design of from the corner of eleventh and blood and what you see here is a major donation put on to the south side president bill clinton can see on the listener it will be a very major attraction you might say because right at this key landmark intersection there will be a large glass tower there could be i should say a large glass tower that

will rise as high as eight stories and inside of that last tower will be a corporate redstone rocket the first rocket the american astronaut erode on it will go completely down through the building into the basement and will be a major focal point of the entire facility and needless to say especially at night it will be an extremely dramatic view from that point the large structure would include more than twice the exhibit area of the present building a new planetarium an upgraded on the next theater and self contained year round facilities for the cause was first base camp also included in the plan are additional classrooms and a hands on science center perry says he expects the biggest challenge in gaining age he sees approval is going to be finding a solution to the parking problem eh cc board is expected to discuss the issue at its regular meeting next month ary says he hopes to be able to break ground at a year from now in hutchinson i'm nancy finken statistics show on average adults will take care of their parents at least as

long if not slightly longer than they take care of their children more and more people live longer today the fastest growing population in kansas is the sixty five and older group for this reason more people are needing living assistance from family members the philosophy for economic and humanity reason seems to be to keep the elderly out of nursing homes and in their own homes or loved ones homes as long as possible this can present problems for caregivers the idea of adult daycare centers is a new summer that are riding for many years but what is new is the demand and the attention this issue is receiving dr linden drew is the director of advocacy for the kansas department of aging that's it i do a lot oh

boy or don't want adult day care drew says sort of falls in the middle in terms of care options oh that form i know the wealth or talk of all auto or more of the total all

thank you i am very articulate why do explains finding options for medicare paid for it and medicaid paid for only all male vote and court order a point out of pocket or clan one example is the adult day healthcare center at st joseph medical center in wichita director eleanor we be says the actual cost to run the center is forty seven dollars per person per day but they're charging a cut rate of thirty five to thirty nine dollars per day she says it's

expensive but it's still cheaper than some other sources of care every day here it'll be twenty or twenty two days and the charges haven't hundred dollars home i've heard anywhere you know the two hundred thousand who are twenty five hundred dollars a month so that gives you an idea of the of the different when he says at present they have thirty nine clients in world to st joseph's program serves no social and medical needs and indeed the individual who needs that care in a parisian who probably had a stroke or really long or depression we all individually an epp here it hurts folks families were it not for daycare might have to consider a nursing home or look for somebody to come into the home and all of

these are more costly alternative another option is for a family member who is working here and they have a job we'd he says there's a support group for caregivers meeting once a week they share problems and solutions and find comfort in each other going to the same ups and downs when he says the change in the caregivers is very noticeable by comparing the first time they visit the center to later visits sweet that we do and we get a lot of common people favor for the white favorite of embalm they own there might be no told the times they know how much better they feel about it and how they're much more able to cope and at how much better their family member than at home general about the whole idea what sort of changes do you see in the arm kind to do if they're depressed doesn't help

for them to get out of the house today feel among years and unfortunately we have a number of hope they didn't hurt your adult daycare would have at home and watch a duty he orders or jet li they see the family members report that they have to come back they want they want to know about what one hand they're curious on enjoy being around people don't know capabilities and have an activity in an anthem when he says she only sees growth for the field of adult daycare she says businesses have to begin planning for adult care just as they have had a plan for childcare i'd like to point out to be something for the future are we know that the other woman the average woman on both been seventeen years caring for children and eighteen

years be responsible for a parent and we have significant for the workplace and that employers are going to take a look at how they can be one flexible with their employee who are involved in the care of a parent knows that their awful looking at you know dr chopra dr linden through director of advocacy at the kansas department of aging agrees with we beat businesses in kansas will have to start taking a bigger role in planning for adult daycare he says it's on the horizon it's already been done in other areas and now kansas has sort of waiting in the wings all right

thank you again but it wasn't inner generational learning and i would assume that that those places that we've heard about bringing down senior citizens into the classroom would carry over into her daycare center oh really

we know that dr linden drew is the director of advocacy for the kansas department of aging talking about the growing need for adult day care in the state in hutchinson i'm nancy finken it's b over forty one million dollars we spent in kansas this year on drug and alcohol abuse programs fifty three percent goes for treatment interventions twenty five percent goes for prevention education and twenty two percent goes for drug enforcement and drug driving enforcement of the programs are aimed at adolescents including programs to keep schools drug free day when davis's governor hayden special assistant on drug and alcohol

abuse the law that by the nineteen eighty eight kansas legislature to get ready to get anyone who sells roads within a thousand feet of a school can now be convicted of the bee colony hotbed of the highest crime all for selling drugs in every day and we believe it's appropriate way so because when school starts abruptly four hundred and twenty five thousand school age children are required by state law to believe the school buildings all over the state and he thought that was very important in the legislature agreed with him that are very day he received special protections when they are going to and from school and while earth school protection from the threat of people trying to the protection from the violence of that all too often accompanies drug trafficking and just the fact that their schools are very special places places were children obviously are they also going to school

her insatiable socialized that is the plan and it's a very important piece of protection that particular law is now in the legislature is the drug free schools anything this is going to happen we really don't know what we have experienced ministers or drug enforcement grant program and she shouts usual today they tell me that they can document virtually every one of them undocumented to asia where a drug trafficker has been arrested caught with him in that area of the school in a close proximity to the schools where techies are pouring out of the house with the end you know is right across from the school i can remember about western kansas where i was

reading one of the you know police department at every grade from our office and we have a tape of an investigation of a major drug trafficker out there that when they arrested a year drug trafficker and found over sixteen thousand dollars in asia various drugs and to members of the house you could look at the person's back window into the playground at the school that was right adjacent to this person but the fact is we wanted to all actually we were going there well and let drug traffickers not wanting to remediate investigate both felt like a date for a major protection for school aged children could really provide additional foresman to be able to use and also you know it is you know children are most important resource in this state and we want to protect the arrest

warrant will come about from the law right now i would tell you that we are wanting to wait for me and at the police department in district attorneys across the state do all we want them to know that the laws in place were working on and on educational program right now do include posters on there should be as well as law enforcement know about the law and let them know that they're here the operator see it by selling the law enforcement know if they can be sure that if it's with the amendment at her school of law enforcement will respond they've coped with the addiction treatment unit at st joseph medical center on what it up what's the drug free zone but he also says that alone is not enough to solve the problem

i don't want to go on you won i don't think that for the majority to work at me feel that fear that you know going out to hear my my friend of purity cedric ford community wide effort law enforcement he won the pr firm confronting the problem and that they're going to take your advice from the home and having an involvement go getting more involved in their child's education and pta and being aware of the problem that they're in their arm it's gonna take education person our teachers i think you know which public school system and there's been a real good

support they haven't been able to do a lot of things in terms of educating kids won't other teachers treatment no treatment programs to help out of unions actually an independent you know the treatment plan that working probation and treatment program did cooper isn't the only one who thinks that networking is part of the key to solving problems in the woodstock area barbara bradley is the director of project freedom through education treatment prevention and enforcement

and after care project freedom what began in march of nineteen eighty nine with about thirty five bridge from a coalition of religious education medical social educational i think part of the community and have been grown to over three hundred and fifty projects representing all the area that well we are trying to find an address all the problems with the coronation leaving county bradley says projects freedom is closely tied to the woods to public school district in very encouraging in that overall drug use have been found among adolescent but proportionally and the population of diminishing in numbers and what about all the picture in addition to learning is that the agent for dropping significant legal and now openly elementary in early middle school age children and also there are more involvement of other more generic drugs than they were in that they have alcohol the legal drug cartels will remain the great problem for both epileptics and the pill

when we talk about dumb some income starting at a younger age is there something that schools are more that schools can do anything they're doing enough to help bring those numbers back up a bit you had quite a year and what they had shot it where there are the prevention program in place within a school that that increase than you think is much less than in those areas whether the provincial programming know even though we're not eliminating you know alcohol use it goes by eleven we are however think the lead to increase when prevent a programming template might get fired if it did bring together with a crime commission for the district attorney's office the police department sheriff's department and often canary level administrator in us the truth fight night to talk about the fact that we need to protect our

limit the media define what a criminal offense is edward crippled off camp that might be criminal on the report barbara bradley is the director of which does projects freedom in hutchinson i'm nancy finken is born the kansas supreme court has ruled parents can't sue to recover damages for the wrongful birth of a child who was severely and permanently handicapped according to the associated press the question stems from a lawsuit brought in us district court by john ended called archie the parents of entry archie who was born in irwin army hospital in fort riley in april of nineteen eighty seven a couple alleged army doctors failed to diagnose and neural tube defect a child has undergone several operations so far she is mentally retarded

and will be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life the lawsuit alleges the mother would have voluntarily undergone abortion to avoid the birth of the handicapped child if doctors had made the correct diagnosis charlene smith as elle washburn university law professor her area of expertise is torte and the situation and you have to understand that in order to understand why we don't have remained that when the particular case was brought up in a federal district court and the judge o'connor who is the judge in in this particular case we do a lot in that area of canada can supreme court had not defined it yet there were then you want to be a better idea to have the process by which a federal district court judges conferred a fight to the faith to dream court asking them the question on whether if this case had written mein

kampf of wood that can the supreme court recognized this particular cause of action or the fruit which the plaintiffs wanted to bring so that's how it originated though it originated in federal district court the federal district court judge certified that over to the camp footprint court erred and gentle codify that there were two issues which he wanted to have that can supreme court defined before he went oh four with a trial the first question was it can give would recognize the new type of thing called wrongful birth and the fact that question what if they recognize that and how would the damage in d major smith says this case files and are very specific category of medical malpractice of which there are three sub sections there are suits called wrongful pregnancy wrongful life and this one wrongful birth they give you for an idea how that wrongful birth get thin than in the finale of the wrongful pregnant the theme park where fran and

i'm a doctor may have performed of affected me and then a couple of the child and that both parents and bring the food to give the doctor for in the live performing of the fact that the candidates recognize it and then parents are allowed to recover the damage is incurred from the profit in other words whatever it cost you to have the child you can get the advantage of the doctor but you're not allowed to recover any damages with regard to that but karen the rating of a child with a burr thinking that that's wrongful pregnant that it was the life it that was brought by impaired child and the idea here is that the child claim that that that doctor failed to detect a brain defect prior to birth and not aware that they had a doctor

had performed the right calf they could have informed the parents that their child was impaired and had the doctor didn't have in the mother could have a boarded the candidate did not recognize that fit in fact if only really recognize them occur a poll of date because most court favorite it's impossible to major non life when life and that there's no right not to be born and i'd have a major and they're really not that often tight his wrongful birth and there's a court that in march or archie cave which was brought before they can drink or at least of the type of who they were bought by parent who are claiming to have been known that the fetus with deformed the mother could have boarded but the doctor did not inform the parents and now they're faced with very a very handicapped child so the difference between a wrongful life in a wrongful birth is that with a wrongful life it's

brought by the child and that birth is the parents as right and this is your can be known recognized in kansas as a result of the idioms recognized intent and eventually what you can supreme court if in telling their federal district court in that can now recognize that kind of cause of action and plaintiff can go forward with this type of fruit you mentioned that with a wrongful life that there were only a couple of states that had recognized what about wrongful birth is that more widespread recognition here certainly i don't know exactly how many states that i think weigh over a majority of the states who have been who have faced the problem have to recognize the type of cutbacks in spending cuts somewhere in the twenty if i remember correctly the number of states that recognize the wrongful birth smith says the opinion takes into account the nineteen seventy three us supreme court

decision of roe versus wade which recognized a woman's right to an abortion the division the idea that french women do have the right to abortion roe v wade is going to have that within that right there if it all the information given to the parents that a woman can divide whether to have an abortion or not to have an abortion and therefore it would be a companion belief to wrongful birth because if you were cold favorite furry friends that the fetus that you're carrying and terribly impaired or you might want to have an abortion and didn't it think that we should be your decision if we're not told that their fetus they're terribly and impaired you go ahead with the bird they knew of faith with rearing a child who is that terribly deformed smith emphasizes the court's language in the opinion which says the child's handicap must be a grocer disability end up her handicap it must also be a

handicap that could've been diagnosed prior to birth smith says in addition the court clearly spells out the way damages can be recovered recorded by a parent can collect it's been caught by the trial handicap but not really being a child going to be only you're really going to be able to get them for beyond the normal regular trial let's have special education special nurse karen special heart will care medical care medicine and things like that but then the normal radio troubled be got the gap that clinton unveiled that you can only collect them out but if you're in the majority or not whichever one crime or charlene smith is a law professor at washburn university in topeka now that the state supreme court has answered that yes it will recognize wrongful birth suits and is a spell that's opinion of damage

recovery the case goes back to the federal district court jerry slaughter the president of the kansas medical society says he's concerned about this decision he says anytime you create a new cause of action for people to sue it will have an effect furthermore he says it's bad timing because the state is just starting to see a decrease in medical malpractice rates and this could change all that and finally slaughter says it hits the physicians got ecologists obstetrician who are already being had the most by lawsuits but he says the real test of damages won't come until more wrongful birth suits were filed in kansas courts in hutchinson it's week for the middle east crisis the most significant development seems to be saddam hussein's call yesterday for all women and children hostages to be allowed to leave iraq james mckenny a political science professor at wichita state says it's hussein's way of negotiating

it is a bargaining tactic that may work that may harm bring at least someone from his side and someone from the western side into some sort of a decision about the situation well no i'm ready that's

right those two main goals being to prevent any sort of invasion to saudi arabia and to get that rock out of kuwait mckinney says even talk of negotiations now has a much more optimistic and several days ago we need it oh good

robert i think we do saddam hussein has taken on sort of a new tactic recently using the us media placed at least he's been using television pictures to sort of soften his image or at least attempt to end the west wing kenney says tv crews are eager to use any sort of pictures that iraq wants to send he says that's not all bad what is it thank you we talk about some of the pictures we've seen lately of children

and women saddam not wearing his military outfit on television but walking through shaking hands putting children's heads so kenya show that he's not as harsh as is maybe some westerners think that certainly comes across on on television you think that has much of an impact about how the world views him seeing him and cordial toward the hostages stop look and the typical tactic when we get up again but i do not think republicans hope and then what about president bush setting aside his fishing pole to deal with the middle east well mckinney says it's not too strange that he has an interrupted his vacation to take up for residency in washington

did you really they weren't we will do well what's going on people do you think that it sends the image to the american people that life

goes on as usual or was it to say that saddam hussein you had to shake me and this isn't going to you know rattling make age renewable energy thank you dr mccary says while he personally is optimistic that some sort of negotiation a compromise can be reached in the middle east are about war united states and its occupation of the area it would not be over probably for quite sometime he says saddam hussein is much too dangerous for the united states to pull out quickly we're

going to be going forward we need to go he says president bush would have to continue to get the support of the american people i'm renee montagne don't do that did you know well

they haven't been in the president about getting more nina totenberg reporting dr james montagne is a professor of political science at wichita state and nancy finken