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February 21,1980
Forer snub off base
Norman Forer is back from Iran—again but this time he isn't talking to the local news media about his latest comments and what it is between the United States and Iran.
Forer says he is concerned that his words will be misinterpreted and that these misinterpretations may get back to Iran, thus adversely affecting the progress of the negotiations he has been carving on.
But he has been taken to the national media, or at least those national media he deems worthy of receiving his releases. And the reason is that in the national media is probably just the same as it is with the local media.
Forer also says that he has no responsibility to let the people of Lawrence and KU know what he has been doing. Agreed, some area residents couldn't care less about Forer and his "international conflict." But there are people around here who have supported him and his projects with their words and work. They deserve more information about his latest project than the pittance he has designed to leak to the wire services.
And Forer, the man who is trying to evade the press, has for a long time used and abused the press to his advantage. His blackout comes just after he attempted to videotake of a photo of the invasion—to raise money to pay for his trip.
But the networks managed to get a copy of the videotape before Forer could talk them into buying his, and
they spoiled the value of Forer's tape by broadcasting their copy to the country.
Now this man who asks the media to subsidize his work is refusing to tell a segment of the media what he has accomplished on those trips. And we are forced to go to the wire services for information that lives no more than five miles away.
Forer complains about distortion in stories about the proceedings in Iran. But then he won't tell us his version. In a situation like the Iranian crisis, the fewer facts that are available the more likely there is an interpretation of those facts we have.
A man who asks so much of the media should not be surprised when they ask for something in return. Forer should be more cooperative with those who only want money about it and not get them to aid—or hinder—the resolution of the hostile crisis.
This reticence comes from a man who has severely criticized others, especially the University administration, for not telling the full story of his first trip to Iran; from a man who last month asked a Kansan reporter to go to Iran with him to help him spread his version of what was said in his own speech, who calls simultaneous press conferences in Lawrence and New York to tell the world that he is off to try to resolve the crisis.
By refusing to discuss his latest trip. Forer is only compounding the confusion about Iran.
American dream lives in immigrants' hearts
Bv JUDITH SLAWSON
New York Times Special Features
NEW YORK> "Do you have illegal aliens in Russia?" Julio asks Yefim.
Yefim speaks slowly: "From Russia people wish to leave, not enter."
Learning a new language isn't easy. Jalio, like most of the Spanish-speaking students in the class, is in his 28s. During the break, he and his friends are reviving themselves from the factory working day with coffee and sticky doughnuts at the takeout counter. They are oldly cut suits, and the hefty, dress Russian women munch on black bread, sausages and oranges, and sip tea from their fountains to exchange information about job-hunting.
They're in the evening course now, about to be launched by the sponsoring Jewish organization into the American economy. They've been involved in a conversational style in this advanced class. Several Latin American students have been here a few years, and despite speaking Spanish at and at work, they have learned of local language and culture in the streets.
"Ask them."
A few months ago they were day students, newly arrived in America, well versed in the English language and English sentence, but eager to communicate. They clustered around my desk after class, searching for words. We used the software Selenium to express/ Solzenhtiny, for dissidence; Tanya, the Russian-speaking woman in the school administration, with pleasing pertaining to the school administration.
"Teacher, why did they leave Russia?" asks Fidelaime with the $2-a-month rents, free child-care centers, specialized kids.
*L'eft Russia because I could not express myself there, because he was ill if the stars were dark.* He was pleased that his English is up to the poetic expression and characterizes Russian literature.
I want for my children a better life. In
the USSR it is hard for Jews to get into the universities, to get promotions at work," Solomon says.
"Only the Jewish people want to leave Russia?" Luis asks.
"Many, many would leave if they could. Only Jewish people are permitted to leave. We had to wait a year for our exit visa and we went home, leaving the day she applied for it," Ida tells him.
The Spanish students gasp. Being without work is something they know about—and having work that doesn't nav enough.
Fidelina describes how she came to New York because she wanted to study to be a secretary and couldn't afford the tuition on what she earned in the Dominican Republic.
"I am here to start my own business," Manuel says.
"my sister was here so I say I will try it," she says. "The first time it was cold and it snowed I say to myself, 'I will die if I have to stay here,' but now I like it. When I finish to study English I will learn to be a bilingual secretary. But I will go to home see me at my desk. I can do whatever I want. I feel sorry for you that我 cannot go home to your mother."
He moved to New York from Peru less than a year ago and with his two brothers he became the founder of Forward in his chair. He is looking for work in his field of construction engineering but also interested in entrepreneurial spirit starting to life. He puts Manuel with questions about the importance of the job.
After the break we open the textbook and the concentration they have thrown into conversation is now lavarled on grammar. The students are learning in the classroom. Outside is the chill of the fear of a recession, rumblings about a crisis of confidence. Inside is the warm of energy and ambition where America is, in the cold of winter, still glowing, the golden land of opportunity.
The talk spills over to the next break and for the first time the two groups don't retreat into their native languages.
Judith Slawson teaches English as a second language at a business and technical institute in Manhattan.
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Kansas prairie park unnecessary
It was more than 50 years ago that conservationists first advocated the creation of a tallgrass prairie park in Kansas. For nearly 10 of those years, Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., has championed the cause and has suggested several park proposals to Congress.
Winn's latest proposal, the Tallgarn Prairie National Reserve bill, has used a completely different strategy than his earlier bills used.
bob COLUMNIST pittman
A bill that was introduced by Winn three months ago would require the government to condemn the land that was part of the proposed park. It would have forced landowners to send their land to the governor, who would take action.
This latest proposal would allow the Secretary of the Interior to buy grassland as it is offered for sale on the market, rather than seeking secretary to acquire it by eminent domain.
Lately, Winn has grown weary of dodging criticism from farm groups, and now seems prepared to cool his heels—for years
Considering the character of Kansas farmers, Winn will have a long wait. Farmers in general, and Kansas farmers in particular, have always been known for their hard work. Inive live in countryside of Kansas and the men that you'll find may surprise you.
You will find men who will criticize government interference into their lives. You will find men who put in long working hours and worry unceasingly about the extreme fluctuations of Kansas weather. You will have to protect a strong bond with the land, man who have inherited their farms from their fathers and expect to leave them to their sons.
They are quiet men. Unless you spend time in one of Kansas' small town on a Saturday morning or on a rainy weekday, you may never notice them.
But speak of, taking the farmers' land away from them, and you ask yourself what kept them quiet for so long. Winn found this out when, after his earlier bill was inspected, wave of protest from Kansas farmers was heard all the way to Washington.
Winn's proposal would require the government to purchase about 374,000 acres
of land in the heart of Kansas' existing tallgrass prairie, a swab of land in Wabunsee, Chase, Greenwood, Lyon and Butter cities that is bisected by 135.
The grassy, generally treeless area is marked by rolling hills, streams and scenery that sends tourists fumbling for the water. It is also undoubtedly beautiful. It is also unspoiled.
Kansas legislators have taken steps that would keep the prairie that way.
In response to Winn's pending bill in Congress, state legislators gave preliminary approval to a bill that would purportedly block the park's creation.
In its amended form, the bill permits land sales to the federal government, but prohibits the government from condaining land and from exercising its right of refusal, a policy that would allow the government to before anyone else as it came up for sale.
The bill's 77 sponsors are clearly carrying out the wishes of their constituents. Opponents of the bill far outnumber the bill's proponents.
land that would be used for the proposed park is in Whittaker's district.
Of the 15,338 members of the fifth district of Robert Whittaker, R-Kan, who were asked whether they favored the proposed solution to the problem of a percent favor it. A large percentage of the
I know from my own experiences that in many small Kansas towns within the park's proposed boundaries, to speak favorably of the park is comparable to speaking in favor of a violent overthrow of the government. The people are sure of how they feel about the park and why they tell someone their views. They love the land and want to keep it.
Perhaps they are right. I wince when I think of the picnic tables, restroom steps, benches and other amenities accompanying a move to change the land into a national park. The land has a natural beauty that could not be enhanced by signs that would direct visitors to the nearest souvenir shop.
The beauty and ecology of the prairie has been preserved by private means for the land grant system, and it is as long as it is owned by the area's farmers and ranchers, people who know the land as well.
Today the tallgrass prairie is a living memorial to the spirit of the people who homeestead Kansas. It is a wild, unspoiled range of pure, untreated beauty—that does not need to be cheapened by the hucksterism of national park.
Vatican does not decry military
To the Editor:
The Feb. 11 Kansan reports the Rev. Vincent Kristen as saying that the Catholic Church has changed its teaching about war: to wit, whereas formerly it taught that war was moral. The Church now, since the advent of atomic weapons, can there be no such thing as a just war.
If one looks up the subject "War" in the New Catholic Encyclopedia, a standard, up-date reference work, one tends an article on Christ's suffering and sacrifice in Church on the morality of war in our times. This article makes it clear that the church has not "eliminate" the concept of a just world or a moral system. There also it is made clear that Pope John XIII's controversial remarks in Pacem in Ferries (to which Krische alludes) may not be used as denying that there can be a just war.
Since the Catholic Church has great influence not only among its millions of members but also among the general public, a report issued on this major issue be corrected.
The Vatican II document, "The Church in
the Middle Ages," has remarked in such a way that they cannot bear the interpretation reported as
interpretation of the document also states plainly that defenses are necessary.
It is not my intention here to justify or to spell out in detail the position of the Catholic Church on this complex issue. And I do not wish to suggest that there is no controversy among Catholics on the issue; indeed, there have been highly publicized priests who have been publicly accused of abuse all unjust. These men do not speak for the Catholic Church, however.
The popes from Pius XII to John Paul II
have been acutely conscious of the new conditions, and have been aware that they have stressed the urgency of peace, and some have said that aggressive war is no longer an acceptable way to redress grievances.
But no pope and no council has said that there can be no just war. If they had taken that position, then all faithful Catholics could join the war, but, as I understand the laws, exemptions from military service on religious grounds are granted normally only to those who are of a certain age, and who have a service. Such religions are very few, and the Catholic Church is not one of them. Indeed, the Catholic Encyclopedia article previously cited asserts Catholic teaching to be sufficient to justify an invasion jection is morally indesfensible." This is merely to paraphrase P Pope Pius XIX, who reaffirmed the right of the state to arm itself to enter military service.
Dennis B. Quinn Professor of English
Rock fan lambastes 'Hatchet' reviewer
To the Editor:
I was amused at reading Bill Vogrin's belated attempt to critically review the Malate Hatchie concert that took place Saturday night in Bali Audioturk.
Vogrin couldn't seem to comprehend why everyone but him liked the music and didn't consider it "monotonous."
I didn't find the vocalist's lyrics unrecognizable. To me and to the people
Danny Joe Brown's referral to whisky and dope seemed to shock Vogrin. Well, maybe he ought to reconnect the Mormon Taborable marmalade with the chutney unscattered by such "gutter-level remarks."
He also found the group "boring for people" because he said they were not willing to Voguin try to take the time to listen to the first two albums—one of which is already platinum and the other one heading that
around me, the guitars sounded clear and concise.
Our reviewer complained because the duck did not have a glittery light show, and he didn't have a bright red eye around. What did he expect? Did he want them to stand in one place possibly and play with them?
Bill Griffith
Humboldt sophomore
I do agree with him on his thought that he does not reach the same level as the early man, but is more Skynyd, but who has? To even be compared with those bands in an honor Mayol
cert—they were Molly Hatchets fan, who unliked the reporter, are not unfamiliar with the music. The 4,000 people in Hochstett made Hatchets second album on platinum.
To the Editor:
Molly Hatchet fan denounces review
In the first place, it's not so hard to understand why the audience loved the con-
Once again, the Kanasi sends the wrong person to cover a concert, a person who has no knowledge of the event covering. Bill Vogrin's review of the Molly Hatchet concert was ridiculous and showed the bad side of a concert.
The "distortion" was no worse than any other group would have in an auditorium like Hoch. A polished, studio sound isn't possible, nor desirable in a live concert. True, the sound should be as close as possible to the actual performance to strike a careful balance between perfection and authenticity. In my opinion, Malvette achieved this balance.
Molly Hatchie's style depends on those four guitarists to lay out strong rhythm and piercing guitar solos. A comparison to her previous works is that Band may not be accurate, but it is no joke. I don't understand the term "rock purist." What is pure rock? Driving rhythm, a strong, steady beat, with lyrics that have been repeatedly copied. I cannot deny that Hatchett fits that definition.
Missouri was a disappointment, I'll agree, when it happened to 38 special theoblasts. So she needed all of them this group was formed by three surviving members of Lynn Skirvy Skyrving. I also have had an awful time attending their own concerts, as was the case in Wichita this past December when they failed to show up to the Cottontown event, because of the capacity crowd waiting for them to appear.
Maybe you were bored, Vogrin, because you went to the concert without a else as tlp or who what you were going to hear. Stick tlp Bill. Bill. You harmless in that department.
Tim Sharp
Winfield sophomore