Haskell Indian Junior College officials were pondering new directions for the local school after a series of meetings with officials in Washington. Local people wanted more direct input into the operation of the school and had made that known. The Bureau of Indian Affairs said it would consider the requests to give Haskell more autonomy. There were no immediate indications of such, however.

A new Reagan administration white paper asserted that the Soviet Union, using Cuba, was trying to turn all of Central America into a satellite of the Eastern bloc.

A touchy land-use question threatened to put the county commission between a rock quarry and a hard place. Opponents and proponents of a rock quarry proposed south of Lawrence were girding themselves for a showdown with the commission. Involved was Robert Bigsby Sr. property.

A program that for seven years was a Kansas watchdog on health-care costs was about to be ended in the legislature. However, new laws were being studied to bring back better consumer protection.