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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 1, 1978
Afghan regime leaning
NEW DELHI, India (AP)—Afghanistan's new military government gave the first hint of its political leaning yesterday by announcing the selection of Nur Mohammed Taraki, a reported leftist, as prime minister in the wake of last week's bloody coup.
New reports indicated that at least 500 people were killed in the coup.
Kabul Radio announced Tarak's appointment in a broadcast monitored in New Delhi and in London. In another broadcast monitored in Islamabad, Pakistan, the radio the Soviet Union yesterday the first country to recognize the new government.
In Moscow, the Soviet government gave no immediate confirmation of that report.
KABAL, RADIO called Taraki a national and international personality but gave him no recognition.
The British Broadcasting Corp. in London identified Taraki as the leader of the People's Faction Party, a purported pro-Communist group that operated underground under the previous Afghan government. He reportedly was one of several persons arrested in left-wing demonstrations that preceded the coup, which began Thursday.
The United News of India said in New Delhi that Taraki, in his late 50s, had been a leader of Afghanistan's former outlawed Socialist Party.
The rebels, who referred to themselves yesterday as the Democratic Republic Revolutionary Council, killed President Mohammed Daoud, 69, and his brother-adviser, Naeem, 68, Friday after the brothers were said to have resisted. The president held the office of prime minister concurrently.
KABUL RADIO reported yesterday that the military Revolutionary Council resolved unanimously at its first meeting to rename the United States Democratic Republican State of Afghanistan.
The country's air force commander and political affairs minister were among those reported killed after they refused to surrender.
Although resistance to the new government was reported dying down, bloodletting continued yesterday in the form of summary executions, primarily of police and Interior Ministry officials, according to Western embassies in New Delhi.
The government had said 200 persons were killed in the coup, but witnesses arriving in Pakistan put the death toll at about 500 soldiers and civilians on both sides. The Pakistani-Afghan border was reopened yesterday.
New Rhodesian leadership falters
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP)—A powerful faction in Rhodesia's civil administration yesterday demanded the reinstatement of black cabined minister Byron Hove, but waved on whether to quit the interim government in a dispute over his
"The party is reviewing the whole question of its continued participation in the transitional government," the facton, the United African National Council, said in a
The statement came after a four-hour meeting between party leaders and their leader, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, an imam of the Catholic church, with marks on Rhodesia's ruling executive council.
HOVE, DISMISSED as co-minister of justice Friday for criticizing the racial
makeup of Rhodesia's police and judiciary, told reporters in London that the two-month government would be in danger without Muzorewa, who is considering leaving. He is thought to have the widest support of any council member among Rhodesia's blacks.
"He is the only honest man in this affair, and he is dealing with rogues." Hove said. "If the spit is permanent, it could mean the collapse of the interim government."
Before the faction's meeting in Salisbury, about 1,500 blacks held a silent demonstration near party headquarters, protesting provisions of the agreement signed March 3 between Muzorewa, the Rev. Nabaimanu Sukumara and white Prime Minister Ian Smith. The four became the ruling executive council.
The agreement would lead to black majority rule by the end of the year and also would provide future safeguards for 84 million blacks in Rhodesia. There are 84 million blacks in Rhodesia.
MUZOREWA, WHO appointed Hove, called the council's action to remove the black minister dissastrous and said Saturday that he had been forced to neither to quit the newly formed government.
Party spokesman Ernest Bule, comisier of finance, called for an immediate emergency meeting of the executive council to reinstate Hove. It was thought that the council would wait and see what the council does before making any final decision about withdrawal.
owrawe and Hove was fired without his
mark. He was charged by the two other
black members.
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P.M.
6:30 Hollywood Squares 4
Wild Kingdom 5
Tattletails 7
MacNeilLehner Report 11, 19
Odd Couple 12
Mary Tyler Moore 27
New Game 41
7:00 Sugar Timel19
Rollerigls (Minieries) 4,27
Garage 6,18
Cousteau Odyssey (Documentary)
Part 11,11,19
7:30 Baseball—Teams to Be
Announced 9
Joe and Valerie (Miniseries) 4, 27
Baby, I back 5, 13
I went home
8:00 **Movie:** "Kill Me If You Can"
*starren Alan Alda, 42*
*M*A*S*H*5
*Onedin Line, 11*
*Bill Clyburn Cruade 13*
*Meeting of Minds 19*
*Movie:** "Heil is for Heroes" 41
Originals (Documentary) 11
9:30 Anyone for Tennyson? 11
No Honestly 19
8:30 One Day at a Time 5
Lou Grant 5, 13
Originals (Documentary)
**Newws** 5, 9, 13, 27
Growing Years 11
Dick Cavett 19
Star Trek 41
10.30 Johnny Carson 4, 27
Medical Center 5
Mary Tyler Moore 9
ABC Captioner News 11, 19
Meredith—"Cancel My Reservation"
stairing Hope, Eva Marie Saint
13
3:00 Art Linkletter 5
Dick Van Dyke 41
11:00 Odd Couple 9
Police Story 41
A.M.
12:00 Tomorrow 4, 27
Merv Griffin 9
11:30 Untouchables 5
Hogan's Heroes 9
12:30 Movie—"The More the Merrier"
starring Joel McCrea, Charles
Coburn, Jean Arthur 5
1:10 Movie—"Hell Is for Heroes" 41
12:10 Wrestling 41
2:30 News 5
3:30 Night Gallery 41
2:40 Love, American Style 41
5:00 Untamed World 41
1:00 News 4
4:00 Thriller 41
5:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre 41
Jacques Coutauet and his crew are featured in a two-part documentary about Coutauet's search for the legendary city of Atlantis. The first program includes 11 images of Coutauet and new exploring aside of the Bahamas.
Tonight's Highlights
At 8 p.m. on channels 4 and 27 is a movie based on an actual attempt of a convict sentenced to die in the gas chamber to save his life by studying law. He did not succeed, but won four stays of execution and lived 12 years after receiving the 1977 death sentence from the 1977 TV-movie, "Kill Me If You Can."
force of Germans in World War II. The stars of the movie "Hell's Wall," which is based on Darien, Feser Parker and Nic Adam. The movie is broadcast at 11:10 a.m.
Meanwhile, on channel 41, is a 1962 movie about a group of Gls assigned to defend an area against a superior
Steve Allen is Dick Cavett's guest at 10 p.m. on channel 19.
David Steinberg is guest host on
"Johnny Carson," at 10:30 p.m. on
channels 4 and 27. Claire Laine, on
Richard Reeves or Richard
Reeves are also guests
On "The Tomorrow Show," at 12 midnight on channels 4 and 27, Mei Torme is the guest.
Joe Bishop is guest host on 'Merv Griffin', at 12 midnight on channel 9. Other guests are Victor Borge, Arlene Francis and comic Phil Foster.
Hamer leaves to teach
Staff Writer
Vicki Hamer's resignation as associate director of the office of affirmative action, effective today, ends a career that began before most people knew what affirmative
By SUSAN MORGENSTERN
Harner smiled slightly as she recalled the incident that brought affirmative action to her attention six years ago. A group of women barricaded themselves in the old East Asian Studies building and demanded that an affirmative development apply an affirmative action plan.
"I had never heard of affirmative action" Hamer, who went on to join the staff of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
HAMER, WHO SAID he had wanted to teach for a long time, has accepted a position as assistant professor of communication at the University of Georgia at Greensboro. This fall she said her work during the past five years had left her tired and frustrated.
She said that, on the whole, she had enjoyed working with KU administrators but she could recall past conflicts.
"Frankly, I'm very pessimistic about the commitment of the University to affirmate..."
One of those conflicts occurred early in her career, after she was promoted in October 1974 from graduate research assistant to acting director of the office of affirmative action.
Harner picked up the University Daily Kansan one morning and read that an assistant and an associate vice chancellor for academic affairs had been selected.
BUT THE ADMINISTRATION had never submitted a summary of the hiring process of the hiring process to her office, which they were required to do.
Harner said she wrote a letter requesting the delay of the appointments until her office could investigate the matter, but the appointments were confirmed anyway.
As a result of the appointments, Hamer said, two people filed a discrimination suit with the federal office of Civil Rights in Kansas City.
About two years later the office's findings were released. The plaintiffs lost.
ENROLLMENT DROPS might mean cutbacks on faculty hiring, which could have an adverse effect on affirmative action hiring programs because such programs are based on filling new positions, Hamer said.
Hamer also mentioned "external" trends that she was concerned about, such as predicted drops in enrollment at universities and colleges across the country.
Hamer sees one problem area that still occurs at KU—the hiring of minority faculty.
Hamer said her job had been a good one and the employee relations in the office of affirmative action were the best she had seen anywhere.
"I think that we are making good progress in hiring women as assistant professors," she said. "We are not making satisfactory jobs, but making minorities in those same positions."
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