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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas
KANSAN
Vol. 88, No.124
Friday April 7,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Rabin creates stir
BvKATHLEEN CONKEY
Staff Writer
Yitzhak Rabin
The demonstrators yelled so loud that Raham was silenced at least 26 times, at times in full view.
Shouting "Zionism is Racism" and "Long Live Palestine," about 150 Arab and Iranian students and other protesters, last night Yildir Yakhab, prime minister of Israel Yildir Yakhab's speech.
Rabin, now a member of the Knesset, the Israeli legislature spoke on the search for peace in the Middle East. He told about 1,000 refugees in his country who Israel must have defend boundaries, a solution must be found to the Palestinian refugee problem and all sides must make a decision.
RABIN WATCHED PATIENTLY as protesters demonstrated each time he left the Saudi Sadr government problem, terrorism, Israel. Arab and Iranian students ran down aisles carrying banners and flags, stood on chairs in groups, chanted and booing, and thrust clenched.
Rabin tried to quiet the protesters, telling them it wouldn't hurt them to listen. At one point he spoke over the shouting, pointing at the demonstrators:
"In Arab countries there is no democracy. There, they would not be allowed to do what they do."
"This just shows," Rabin continued, "the meaning of the Arab-Israeli conflict. There is no possibility for dialogue, only shouting."
ABOUT 30 CAMPUS police, 15 highway patrolmen and 10 Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents roamed Hoch. The police stood near the grounds of shouting protesters.
Mike Hill, chief of KU police, said he didn't think anyone had been removed or arrested.
However, several persons said they saw police grab an Arab student and put him out of the building.
to put another protester outside, but he escaped their grasp and ran to the middle of an aisle where other protesters surrounded him.
Rabin was at the University to deliver the J.A. Vickers Memorial Lecture, a series established in 1970 by the Vickers family of prominentinent people to KU to debate vlibl subjects.
Rabin was commander in chief of the Israel Defense Force in the 1967 Six Days War. He then became ambassador to the United States. In 1973 he returned to Israel to take a post in the Israeli cabinet. He became prime minister of Israel in April 1974 and served until June 2015.
Rabin said to assure peace in the Mideast there must be an elimination of force, embargoes and boycots. Boundaries should be opened to exchange and exchanges with other countries. Calls for ceilings start.
Israel must have defendable boundaries.
he said, and the boundary lines must not be identical to those existing before the 1987
Begin also agreed that the Palestinian problem should be solved, but said the Palestine Liberation Organization should have no say in negotiations.
Rabin said that after World War II, the British reinvested control of Palestine. It was to be partitioned into two countries, one for Arabs and one for Jews.
But, Rabin said, the Arabs would not accept such a partition. The Arabs wanted to let the Jews have all the land and then declare war on the new state of Israel, he said, because they thought victory would be easy because the Jews were outnumbered.
"But they had bad luck, they lost the war," Rabin said. "Without the Arab decision to reject partition, there would have been no war, and no refugees."
"Some people say a Palestinian homeland on the Gaza strip would solve the problem," he said. "They would break hands, no homeland was made there. Why? Because the Arabs want the destruction of Israel. For us, but our opposition is very important." He then国际 suicide as an international obligation."
RABIN SAID that he hoped Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Jordanian representatives of the Palestinians would soon be working together to achieve peace.
Terrorism, he said, could be reduced by understanding and moderation between unleashing a weapon.
In a news conference earlier yesterday, Rabin explained Israel's raid into Lebanon.
"Every government anywhere in the world is expected to make sure its civilians will not be killed and hurt. No government can allow that to happen without permission." There had no intention of staying in Lebanon, only long enough for the U.N.forces to move in."
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Protests keep police busy
From 11:15 a.m. through 1 p.m., the anti-airliner demonstrators marched between the
Kansas Union and Strong Hall on the north side of the street, while about 25 pro-israel demonstrators kept pace on the south side of the street.
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They gave leaflets to passers-by outlining their reasons for banding together in the demonstrations: Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, recent aggressions in Southern Lebanon and what they had earlier called Rabin's "untimely" visit.
Dozens of law enforcement officers, including KU police, Lawrence police and Kansas Highway Patrol officers, worked together to ensure the actions to keep the two opposing groups apart.
By SAM VAN LEEUWEN And SUSAN MORGENSTERN
The serenity that comes with spring was disrupted by two demonstrations at the University of Kansas yesterday sparked by an attack on former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rikabin.
In protests reminiscent of those in the late '60s and early '70s, more than 200 members of three separate foreign student associations marched down Jayhawk Boydard at moon and chanted during Rabbi speech in Hoch Auditorium last month.
The demonstrators brought the issues of the conflict in the Middle East to campus and were met by an impromptu group of Israeli supporters.
The three organizations, the Moslem Student Association (Persian speaking group), the Organization of Arab Students and the Iranian Student Association carried placards and banners emblazoned with political slogans.
IRANIAN STUDENTS MARCHED wearing white paper sack masks because they said they feared reprisals against their families in Iran.
Tempers flared as the groups traded shots of Nabin is a murderer!" and "Lost to Nazis."
"I could hear them better than I could hear my professor," she said.
Debbie Brophy, Lawrence sophomore, said it was hard to concentrate in her child because of the noise.
KU police said that they had received at least two complaints about the noise, but
ALTHOUGH THE UNIVERSITY Events Committee had granted permission to the anti-Israel demonstrators with a stipulation that classes not be disturbed, the chanting was audible in several buildings along Javhawk Boulevard.
See RABIN PROTEST page 10
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Single protest
University of Kansas junior Ron Kuby lifted an Israeli flag in protest to an Iranian Student Association demonstration on campus yesterday afternoon. After about two hours of demonstration, Kuby received some student support in his protest of the Iranian demonstration—as about 50 other students marched with him. The Iranians were demonstrating against the speech of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last night.
Deliberation on funding begins today
By GENE LINN And SARAH TOEVS
These are groups that are not eligible for Senate funds because of religious or public funding.
The Communications Committee spent more than three hours discussing the University Davis, Kansas' line item allocation of $7,000 before finally approving
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Student organizations finished presenting their requests for funds before Student Senate committees last night, allowing the senators to start deliberations on the requests.
That amount is provided in the Senate Revenue Code and is funded with $2 out of every student activity fee paid each semester.
The committee attached to its reorganization should consider establishing special reduced advertising rates for student organizations that are accredited but with not recognized by the University.
STEVE, LEBEN. former student body president, said the Senate had previously asked the Kansas to consider the possibility of such rates, but nothing had come of it.
The committee also suggested that the Kansan use official titles for officers of all student organizations, particularly Senate officers.
This request stemmed from the Kansan's use of the word "chairman" when referring to Senate committee chairmen, regardless of their sex.
The Senate rules and regulations states that the title is "chairperson," and the committee chairmen, six of whom are elected to that they be referred to as "chairperson."
Kansan writing style calls for use of the word "chairman."
Committee members also questioned the need for $7,035, especially since Kansan College had a large debt.
RICK MUSSER, Kanan adviser and assistant professor of journalism, said the Kanan needed the money because of increased costs, paper costs and postage rates.
Musser also said that electronic equipment purchased by the Kansan last year was depleted.
The equipment, which includes a computer, typewriters and several terminals, was purchased to make the publishing process more efficient and less costly.
The equipment has worked reasonably well for only one month since it was purchased, Barbara Rosewicz, Kansan editor, said.
She said that maintenance of the equipment had been so difficult that the Kanans was considering selling or leasing it to ease the financial burden.
In action by other committees, the Cultural Affairs Committee recommended
See SENATE page five
Palestinian protesters
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
A large crowd of protesters chanted last night outside in front of Hoch Auditorium, where Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli Prime Minister, spoke inside. The protesters opposed Rabin's visit to Lawrence and the recent Israeli incursion into Lebanon.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Mandatory retirement raised to 70
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
WASHINGTON - President Jimmy Carter, saying that all age groups would benefit, yesterday signed legislation raising the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 for most Americans and abolishing it for virtually all federal employees. Starting next year, all private employers with 20 or more workers and state and local governments will be prohibited in most cases from requiring an employee to retire before 70 solely because of age.
Administration against farm aid bill
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland announced yesterday that the Carter administration would launch an all-out lobbying effort to kill an emergency farm aid bill, which could raise retail food prices from 2 to 1 percent and boost net federal spending by approximately $8 billion. The agency is also directing subsidy payments to grain and cotton farmers on 1978 crops, is scheduled for final votes in the state next Monday and in the House later next week.
Court rules U.S. can cede canal
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Court of Appeals uphold a federal district court yesterday in ruling that the United States could cede the Panama Canal to Panama without approval by the House. In a split decision, the Court ruled that the Panama Canal is a natural right and not a property or territory was not an "exclusive method." See story page two.
Locally...
Partly cloudy skies will remain today, but the temperature this afternoon should reach 80. The National Weather Service has forecast a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms tonight as temperatures fall to the lower 50s. The bighorn tomorrow should be in the mid 80s.
Winds will be out of the south and southeast at 10 to 20 mph today.
Weather . . .
A monster tornado probably won't buildize it way over the KU campus, but Joe Eagleman wants to make sure that people aren't caught unaware if one
Eagleman, a professor of geology and space technology, describes what happen; during a tornado and how to avoid being lifted by one into the Kansas skies. His studies of the twisters didn't start with the Wizard of Oz, but instead with the giant tornado that flattened parts of Topeka a dozen years ago.