Lebanese civil war hits home for 4 KU students
By ALEXIS WAGNER
The civil war in Lebanon may seem to most Americans to be something going on "over there," but it is a daily part of the lives of KU students from Lebanon.
Four Lebanese students who wished to be identified as Tomey, Fadid, Bassam, and Zouhair, said that until about three months ago when the 15-month old war intensified, they could write or call their families without trouble.
"Now phone lines in some areas have been hit and the New York operator can't place any calls to Lebanon," Tomey said. "I try almost ever day to call home."
He said the only response to his calls was a recording saying the lines were busy or there was equipment trouble. Most phone lines in Beirut, where his parents live, have been bombed, he said.
"Not being able to communicate with your family kills your concentration in class. You just keep thinking about it. It's frustrating." Tomey said.
Jack Harris, Lawrence postmaster, said there was an embargo on all mail to Lebanon and anything addressed to Lebanon was returned to the sender.
Tormey said he had been able to send few letters to his family by mailing them to a friend.
Zoahair said he has a friend who is a hostess for Middle Eastern Airlines and can sometimes communicate with his family through her. He said she has a mailbox at the airport in Lebanon to which he sometimes sent mail.
fles the letters in to the area and then hand-
delivers them to *Tonye's parents*' home.
Zouhair said that his parents can mail letters to him by giving them to the hostess who will put it on any plane flying to the United States.
The airport in Lebanon has been closed, however, and flights to or from Lebanon are rare.
"I mail them and just hope it will reach
Zouhair has been in the United States for about seven months. He said that he had no trouble getting here because when he left fighting had been temporarily stoned.
my family," Zoahair said. "It is a matter of months, not days, to get letter home."
Mail from Lebanon must be taken directly to the Christian city of Jumiyah, but it must be untouched by the war. From Jumiyah, mail it to Cypriot forces. Given Cypriot stamps and sent on, But. it is
difficult and risky for people to travel to Junihay, Faddi said.
"Shells are flying around and wherever they land is destroyed." Padid said.
He said that driving to Juniyah was more impossible because gasoline, when it catches fire, is not as safe as fuel.
Torney and Fadid said the only way they could get clues as to whether their families were safe was by watching television and recording what you find out where the heaviest fighting was.
Bassam said that his family could leave Lebanon and go to a safer area but that his family had not done so.
"He is Lebanonese he will stay in Lebanon. Easily is all the people left, he would be there."
Torney said his father, too, would not leave Lebanon.
"He refuses to live as a refugee," Tomey said.
"People are just sitting and waiting for something to happen," Fadid said. "As long as they can hear the bombs falling, they can do everything." They hear bombs, they know they are dead.
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"We will have to wait until the situation changes before we can go back," Zoathar said.
Tomey came to KU in the fall of 1972, and Fadid came in the spring of 1972. Both Bassam and Zoahair have been here for many years. In 2005, when they will be able to return to Lebanon,
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Reaching a compromise
Yesterday the emphasis of the salary dispute between the Lawrence firefighters and the city switched from the picket line to the conference room. City manager Bufford Watson had been the sole owner of the office, which was vacant.
Staff photos by JAY KOELZE
McMahon, vice president, second district, (right, top) of the International Fire Fighter's Association. When a compromise was finally reached the representatives of the firefighters' association discussed the proposal and how they would present it to their members.
Democrats decry GOP 'Tories'
NEW YORK (AP)—At the biggest show off Broadway, Democratic performers presented Jimmy Carter's platform last week to Republican Republicans as veto-baby, modern Toris.
Meanwhile, Carter considered a vice presidential choice to complete his cam
A Democratic congressional leader reported, and a Carter spokesman denied, that the former Georgia governor had decided that either Sen. Edmund S. Muske of Maine or Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota would be his running mate.
Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell, said the list of vice presidential prospects is one that he had to consider politicism, but Powell it was. He said the field will not be narrowed until late today, that Carter will then speak to all six nominees, and his mission will be announced tomorrow morning.
Humphrey said the voters will throw out the "Republican Tories" and make Carter president. McGown called for the kind of Democratic unity his 1972 ticket was denied, and said America cannot afford four years of an administration in which the veto of $30 billion . . . to paralyze the elected representatives of the American people."
The party's two previous nominees, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota and Sen. H. Humphrey of Minnesota, took turn to asking the Republicans who defeated them.
Then came platform time, but it was a show, not a debate, a succession of speeches by party leaders on each section of the document that was set in advance.
That brought Muskie to the microphone, to accuse President Ford of saying no, no and no again, to economic and jobs programs Americans need.
"We need not government by veto but government by inspired leadership," he
While the television cameras focused on the men at the rostrum, the delegates, onlookers and newmen milled on the convention floor, crowded the aisles and
kept up a constant murmur of conversation.
There seemed to be more people talking
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, widow of John F. Kennedy, attended the convention briefly and received a standing ovation from the delegates.
Wallace put his own stamp on the issue, and in a line he used from a hundred plates that he had taken to tell the convention, "Some of these bureaucratic briefcase toters ought to have their briefcases thrown in the Potomac River, the American people would be better off."
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was chosen to speak on government reform, which is covered in the platform with a plank pledging the kind of overhaul and consolidation for which Carter has campaigned.
Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, the House major leader, said he had learned from someone familiar with Carter's thinking that the vice presidential nominee was Monday or Tuesday had that spot on Humphrey's 1988 test.
Wallace said Carter and a Democratic Congress will see to it that tax money is spent for purposes more productive than bureaucracy and red tape.
"I don't think they would be asking for clarifications if I was out of the race," he
"I've been so busy catching trout . . . I concentrated on them rather than on my chances," he said when he arrived from Maine.
Powell said Carter flatly denied that.
Muskie fended off questions about his prospects.
And John Glenn of Ohio said he was sure he still is in the running, since he had just discussed his background again with Charles Kirbo, Carter's vice presidential candidate.
"He said specifically no, and not only,
that, but that nobody knew." Powell said.
Mondale was cautious, too. He said the
There wasn't much else to run the 37th Democratic National Convention around, with Carter in command of a delegate from New York and murmur of dissent on the business at hand.
decision was Carter's, and added, "I'm not trying to crowd myself on the ticket."
The other three senators Carter interviewed as prospective running mates were Frank Church of Idaho, Adalie E. Johnson and Henry M. Jackson of Washington.
"This is the first convention in modern times that's been run around the vice president's office."
As if to underscore the harmony mood, the convention's second session quickly ratified the no-contests report of its credentials committee, settling an item that
Although it was the convention's first business session, the major order of business was more speechmaking; almost all the decisions had been made in advance. So Democrats who once opposed Carter—and each other—paraded across the platform at Madison Square Garden in unlikely harmony.
"Our business here is not to fight over credentials," said Sen. Alan Cranon of California, reporting for the credentials committee." . . . Our task is to nominate our nation's next president and vice president."
produced party-rending fights four years ago.
The main business of the convention was one night away; the call of the roll that will be heard is given.
Compromise settles firemen's pay dispute
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Lawrence firefighters voted late yesterday to accept a compromise proposal after two negotiating sessions during the dav.
The agreement provided for each fireman to receive four extra days off per year in lieu of a direct pay raise, health and life insurance benefits or equal pay periods.
After reaching the agreement, the firefighters stopped the work slowdown the firefighters stopped the work slowdown the day earlier. According to David Reavis, a spokesman of policemen's association, the one-day-old policemen's speedup in support of their actions ended about 4 p.m. yesterday.
City officials and spokesmen for members of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local No. 1596 discussed several recent developments in an agreement acceptable to both sides.
Joe McMahon, firefighters association international vice president for the second district (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa), attended both sessions.
"I wouldn't say the men are happy with the deal, but they're fairly satisfied," Alvin Samuels, president of the local firemen's association said after the final vote to accept one of the city's two alternate proposals.
At the 10 a.m. meeting, Buford Watson,
city manager, presented a letter to
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In the letter, Watson said he would instruct the fire chief to make "appropriate hourly reductions in pay for the work slowdown," to be effective today.
firefighters' representatives rejecting unlawful proposals offered Monday. Watson offers or consider further requests from the firemen until pickets were removed from construction sites in the city garage, the fire station plant and Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Immediately after he presented the letter to the union representatives, Watson said he had been informed that all pickets had been removed from their picket stalls still remained outside City Hall.
McMahon said he had ordered removal of the pickets in an effort to "come here with chalk."
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McMahon then submitted a counter proposal to the city; one "Kelly" day (extra day off with pay) every two months (to total six each year) and equal pay periods.
"I don't think our differences are that great and I think the firefighters are anxious to reach a workable compromise," he said.
He explained that these additional days off with pay would be apportioned at the end of the year, although available manpower would permit. The equal pay proposal involved division of the
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Commissioners approve praise Watson's actions
Lawrence城 city commissioners commended city manager manuf Bowl Watson during last night's meeting for his success in the police and firefighter's labor disputes.
Barkley Clark, city commissioner, said he thought Watson conducted the negotiations in good faith and exercised correct judgment in bargaining with the union representatives, despite opposition from the commission to the barwining.
"I think he the smart thing in spite of our determination not to recognize the truth."
Clark also said he thought it was good that the negotiations were opened to the press although Watson had originally begun "private" discussions with union officials.
"I think it's important that this openness was possible. I think it undoubtedly helped to prevent any bitterness being directed at them by officials by public employees," Clark said.
Mayor Fred Pence said he hoped that the firefighter's leaders could now "find something positive to do to better the situation, instead of all this negative action."
Pence and Clark agreed that the prompt resolution of the labor disputes was forti-
"I imagine they were technically involved in all kinds of illegal actions—like murdering boycotts and who knows what. "Claim said, "It's a good thing it all ended nicely."
Commissioners reported that the policemen's support of the firefighters' actions was met with anger by those persecuting them. "We all knew of the 'speed up' during the last two days."
Commissioner Donald Bimns said he had received negative response and frate the commissioners.
"I don't think this thing (the speed up) helped their cause or that of the firefighters at all. In fact, I think it probably has hurt them. But in general, anything else could have done." Binsa said.
Commissioner Carl Mibke agreed that we policemen would the powers of their citizens.
"I just don't like the idea of the police using a position they have to harass people. I think it's plain wrong, no doubt about it," he said.
U.S. denies overflights of Ugandan border
NAIROBI, KENYA (AP)—The presence of a U.S. Navy plane in Kenya prompted diplomatic reports yesterday that it is flying reconnaissance missions to survey a reported military buildup in neighboring Uganda.
But in Washington the Defense Department denied that the four-engine P3 patrol plane had flown along the Kenyah Uganda border and that only to give the crew a rest after a long over-water flight. A Pentagon spokesman said, "The only thing it does is when it lands."
Diplomats in Nairobi the plane was飞行的 along the Kenya-Uganda border after arriving here Saturday from the American military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The plane is expected to be for an indefinite period, the diplomats said.
Relations between Kenya and Uganda, tense for months, have deteriorated sharply since farallah's July 4 rescue of more than 100 children from a nearby airport. Uganda accused Kenya of helping
the islands, and Kenya denied it. Some of the Israeli planes stopped in Nairobi on the flight.
Since then, Kenya and Uganda have accused each other of moving troop reinnervation agreements with Uganda also charged that Israel and American military personnel have moved into Kenya, which has friendlier relations with Washington than most African nations.
The U.S. Defense Department said Saturday that a Navy plane and a frogate ship on a nearby island had been but said they were not connected with the tension between the two East African countries.
Other administration officials, however.
In Washington Ast. Defense Secretary William Greener said he didn't expect a task force to be sent to Ranger, which is now in the Indian Ocean, to visit Kenya. He declined to characterize the voyage of the task force other than to say that U.S. task forces "from time to time" have been sent.
Five ships of the U.S. 7th Fleet, led by the aircraft carrier Ranger, left the Pacific and entered the Indian Ocean Sunday. Sources here believe they may also head for Mombasa although the U.S. Defense spokesman said a Kenyan port call was not scheduled.
seemed pleased that the presence of the task force in the area and the arrival of the frigate Beary in Mombasa Monday were interpreted by some as indicating U.S. support for Kenya in its dispute with Uganda.
At the United Nations in New York, Kenya charged that Uganda's military authorities have killed hundreds of Kenyan residents of Uganda in the past week. Kenyan Foreign Minister Munyu Waiyak said in a letter to the president of the government "an no longer sidle it down in the face of these atrocities and provocations."
Kenya is a normal port of call for U.S. vessels in the Indian Ocean. The aircraft carriers Kitty Hawk and Enterprise have been previous callers.
British diplomat Peter Chandley, second secretary in the High Commission embassy in Kampala, arrived here and slipped out of sight. President Idai Aimin's government had ordered him out of Uganda by last night. It was Chandley who reported to the Foreign Office in London that he saw missing hijackers from a hospital a few hours after the Israeli raid.
The British government says it believes Bloc, who had British and Israeli citizenship, is dead. She was reported hospitalized with an illness before the war, and was left behind when the Israeli spirted the other hostages out of the airport.
A Nairobi newspaper, the Daily Nation, quoted an unnamed Ugandan who arrived here Monday as saying he had seen Bloch's partly burned body in a forest where bodies of people killed by the Ugandan army are often dumped.
Uganda has denied responsibility for Bloch.