The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 1

i -j' 13 LIVING KANSAS BUSINESS FARM Old Town loses pioneer Streepy Texas Roadhouse dies Heroes sold SB SPORTS Big strength underrated KState Colorado early winners IB Taking you to the cleaners Dry deeming primer 1C Do-it-yourself recycling plan in die works Kamen suggests more drop-off sites ID Weatherline 9 k-338-2223 Today's aditorfalsi KU's new chancedon n-r I fox youth on poltlcsSA fisimrffe- are opportunities' JL JL thoat the oath on welfare of offics Un tadyrh Wichita Eaji Speaker disavows part of Contract Graves sets goal of a chance for all at a better life By By Julio WricM The Wichita Eagle TOPEKA Gov BUI Graves his voice cracking as he tried not to cry promised those amassed for his inauguration Monday that he would help Kansas do more with less without abandoning state government's social responsibilities After a Sunday filled with receptions dinners and bails Graves and his wife Linda were among about 700 who gathered on and around the south sfeps of the Capitol for the formal swearingrin ceremony for Graves and other state officers there is one element that will best define this administration it will be that within a framework of limited government and careful allocation of resources we must give each Kansan an opportunity to experience a better quality of said Graves who became the state's 43rd governor on his 42nd birthday of life knows no east or west urban or rural color or creed poor or rich it is for everyone" Graves said goal is to extend the opportunity fin a better quality of life to the weak as well as the strong to the voiceless as well as the vocal" limited-government theme was carried on in the day when both the House of Represents- Eagle Washington bureau WASHINGTON House Speaker Newt Gingrich insisting that Republicans should not be held to the details of their "Contract with said Monday that he has changed his mind about denying welfare benefits to legal Immigrants The controversial ban which would have affected the vast majority of the country's million legal Immigrants was written into the contract's welfare plan But Gingrich says it was written before Republicans knew they would bp in power and able to find more creative solutions The Republican Party is engaged in a complex dialogue with the American people Gingrich said at a news conference changes over time" he said are not going to get trapped into doing something dumb just so you all can say Gingrich who praised legal Immigration as giving America "many of its most dynamic and creative said the GOP was a very difficult position last when the "We didn't have access to the he said were trying to find the least destructive way to pay for a very very important Also he said such action is no longer necessary to raise $20 bilUoa for welfare reform because GOP governors have agreed to accept a five-year freeze on federal money In exchange for state control of the welfare system That would save an estimated $40 trillion he said But Rep: Clay Shaw R-Fla author of the legal Immigrant proposal and chairman of the subcommittee overseeing welfare reform said Gingrich had not spoken to him about his concerns Shaw said he is open to discussion but "I question if someone is stm pledging allegiance to another country why that our responsibility?" The proposal which would have denied access to 80 social programs was "out of moral bounds" for thb country said Michael Fix Immigration expert at the Urban Institute People have been accepted as members of our society not on the besb of citizenship he said but on legal admission to the country and the intent to make a life here determines your place in the political community and thafs just about it in thb Fix said See INAUGURAL Pugs 4A ex-top cat won give up post 1 Wfchito Each TOPEKA Not all members of the Finney £3 fomily vacated Cedar Crest before the Graves femily moved In 7 described by former Gov Joan Finney' as an averagMbe timid calico cat refused to be located based and 3 carted out of the gov-' ernort residence by I the time the Finneys had i removed their See WELFARE Page 5A other cat and their belongings to make room for the new first First lady asks writers for tips on presenting a more likable image See CAT Fogs 4A Briar CaWThfWIcMtaEafif BUI Grave thanks Chief Justice Richard Hotmes after being sworn in Monday i-T ShM ikSjellXtifl By Marian Biww New York Timet Newt Service House conservatives to test power with QPA kftUjfTV 'fl vv Legislature 1 9 9 5 WASHINGTON Saying that she eager to present herself in a more likable way Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she had been "dumb and about national politics and was to blame for the failure of the health care overhaul plan last year The first lady said she sometimes shocked by the harsh way she comes across in news reports as a woman that she herself would not particularly want to know And she asked a group of female writers Invited to lunch at the White House including advice columnist Ann Landers how she could better make the public see her in the sympathetic more complicated way in which she sees herself am surprised at the way people seem to perceive she said "and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go ugh I like her r' fib so unlike what I think I am or what my think MS got a good chance of QPA was adopted in 1991 by the state Board of Education and enacted by the Legislature in 1992 as part of a sweeping school finance act Under QPA schools must be accredited through a process that focuses on student performance The state establishes general goals or outcomes and school districts determine how to reach them Advocates of QPA see it as a system that win make graduates more competitive: Opponents including most social conservatives say the system is too expensive has not been Wichita Eagle TOPEKA Conservatives who rose to power in the general election and now control the Kansas House aren't going to have to wait to get started on their agenda Quality Performance Accreditation a form of outcomesbased education that has been the subject of controversy since it was enacted by the Legislature in 1992 will be the subject of hearings for the next three days in the House and Senate education committees The issue could be the first test of power for the House conservatives and has the potential to create the first showdown on social House and the more moderate Senate Conservative legislators Including House Speaker Tim Shallenburger R-Baxter Springs predict the House will vote to repeal QPA are very few people who mink ITs a good program" said Shallenburger who ousted moderate speaker Bob Miller of Wellington last month See QPA Fogs 4A See HILLARY Page SA Drug traffickers are moving into jet age in big way By Tim Golden numbers are often printout nr pasted over the old ones The radar transponders that allow than to be tracked easily by air-traffic controllers are shut off Whatever their flight plans they file jets fly much faster than of Mexicc of Mexico's drufrintcrdiction ment doing zero about The landings in Mexico have heightened US suspicions about collusion with the traffickers fey Mexican aviation offldab and a testgrowing Mexican airline with ties to one of the most prominent old-line politicians in foe governing party US offldab say they take for granted the traffickers' corruption of police forces in Mexico through which about twothirds of all Colombian cocaine thought to enter the United States Mexican law-enforcement offi-dab respond that they are just as concerned about the flights as their US counterparts but have limited resources to stop them Despite any significant effect on the cocaine market in the United States But even so the advent of the jets has raised new tensions between the United States and foe governments of Colombia and Mexico US dll-dab and foreign diplomats say US offldab say foe flights could not take off from airports in Colombia and on the Colombian bland of San Andres in the Caribbean without the wowii or aid of local authorities But foe offldab say their protests have been all but ignored by the government of President Ernesto Samper "San Andres completely in foe hands of foe traffickers" a senior US official said of foe island which sib about 110 miles east of Nicaragua the Colombian govern who Hke others discussed the development on condition he not be identified "They are able to bring tremendously large unamti of cocaine in on a single Although the traffickers have occasionally used 727-type aircraft of their own or smuggled their cargoes on passenger airlines in the past drugenforcement offldab say a name ominous pattern has developed over foe post eight months In that time six such planes are confirmed to have landed in Mexico with big loads of cocaine bound for foe United States But drucontrol radar and intelligence reports suggest that many others may have landed unloaded and escaped back to Colombia offldab said Before foe planes set out febe New York Timet Newt Service MEXICO CITY In a daunting new tun in the traffic of Colombian cocaine into the United States smugglers are buying old passenger jets taking out the seab and using the planes to fly huge amounts of the drag Into Mexico US and Mexican offldab say Traveling at night with their lights off the Boeing 727s and French-made Cnravelle jets are thought to be transporting as much as six tons of cocaine on a single flight The drugs are then transported overland into the United States where the wholesale value of such a load about $120 million "Thb creating new economies of said a senior US official The most aircraft mainly smaller Cessnas and are inexpensive enough in a market glutted with newer planes for the traffickers to abandon them on a remote airstrip if they need ta PfHrtoh gay that even when they are detected by foe radar surveillance planes that the United States regularly flies over foe Caribbean foe flight are difficult to catch There no clear evidence that the trafficker use of jets has had See SMUGGLE Page 4A.