Page 2 University Daily Kansan, May.4, 1981
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland-IRA convict Bobby Sands reportedly slipped into a coma yesterday on the 64th day of his hunger strike, and Sands' mother tearfully pleaded that his death not unleash a blood-red tide across Ulster.
Sands near death, violence feared
Her plea later was echoed by Catholic activist Bernadette Devlin who spoke to Pope John Paul II asked the world to pray for a solution in the troubled new world.
The H-Block Committee, supporting Sand' protest for concessions to IRA prisoners, said the hunger striker, who was elected to Britain's Parliament April 9, slipped into a coma one day after he lost his sight and all feeling on his upper right side.
Meanwhile in New York, hundreds of people chanting anti-British slogans marched on Fifth Avenue yesterday to show their support for Sands.
The British government's Northern Ireland office refused to describe Sands, 27, as being in a coma and said he "is asleep and has been most of the day." Twelve hours after Sands reportedly lost consciousness, the office said he was still asleep.
The 300 to 400 demonstrators paraded for more than an hour in front of a British airway on F18th Avenue before moving to St. Patrick's Church.
Outside the cathedral, fists raised high, the crowd sang "A Nation Once Again," a song of supporters of a unified Ireland, before praying in silence and listening to the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, who tried unsuccessfully last week to visit Sands.
Boston may receive school funds
The bill Tull is expected to sign authorizes payments of funds owed the city state reimburse for school construction. It won swift approval in the City Council on Friday.
BOSTON—Gov. Edward King was to take action on a bill that would增资百万 in state money for help bail out the city's nearly bankrupt system.
Meanwhile, officials braced for a disruption of rush hour traffic this morning by demonstrators protesting layoffs of public employees and cuts in city services on by the fiscal crisis. On Saturday, about 30 protesters rallied near the state Capitol in Calahan and Summer Tunnels, main arteries into Boston, for an about hour.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Thomas Morse Jr. has ordered the city to keep its public schools open until June for 64,000 students. The school department already has spent its $210 million budget, and the city is appealing Morse's order.
Mayor Kevin White, who is struggling with daily protests over the closing of police and fire stations, will have discretion over how the state money is
White has said he may use as much as $3 million to reopen neighborhood police and fire stations and 400 police and firefighters.
The mayor and the city council have rejected each other's compromise proposals on a financial package to get the school department through the budget.
Japan won't extend military power
TOKYO—On the eve of his trip to the United States, Japanese Prime
strength to protect against a Soviet threat in eastern Asia.
Sugui also threatened trade retaliation if Congress passes "protectionist" legislation to limit the use of Japan's naval forces in the United States, which would be a move by Congress to be "suicidious."
The prime minister threatened that if Congress enacted protectionist legislation to limit Japanese car imports, "it would have repercussions on the European Common Market, and Japan might have to do something likewise."
Government sources said albeit Suzuki, who meets with President Reagan Thursday, would formally announce an "alliance" between the two nations, he was prepared for some tough talks with Reagan and Defense Secretary Casan Weinerheuer over Japan's defense commitment.
Japan spends less than 1 percent of its gross national product on defense. The United States spends more than 5 percent. But Suzuki told ABC's "Iases and Answers" that in the last few years, Japan had increased its nuclear power capacity, statistically, which he said compared to a NATO average increase of about 3 percent.
Poles observe ancient constitution
While national leaders marked the day in a ceremony at Warsaw's Grand Theater, about 300,000 people gathered for church-sponsored celebrations in Czechoslovakia, home of Poland's holiest shrine, and heard an expression of hope that Russian troops would not again intervene in Poland.
The participation of the top leadership was an unprecedented demonstration of the Communist Party's drive for national unity in a time of crisis and was a reflection of the deep social and political changes since the labor revolution last summer.
The Democratic Constitution of May 3, 1791, was as progressive as the American Constitution, but it frightened Poland's neighbors and led to intervention by Czarist Russia 15 months later. With Polish independence the country then were partitioned between Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Since then, the date has been celebrated annually by the powerful Roman Catholic Church, which has as its Fostet of Mary. Queen of Poland, and another great church in France, St. Joseph's Church.
Mideast truce broken by fighting
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Renewed fighting was reported yesterday in Beirut and around Jaffa, where an city shattered a five-day siege and leopard snakes swam through the city.
Phalangist "Radio Free Lebanon" charged that Syrian units were being reinforced around Zahat and Mount Samnite, where both sides had fought with insurgents.
But just after nightfall, heavy gunfire was reported around Zahle, east of Beirut. The front at Mount Sannine, northeast of Beirut, apparently was
The radio said the alleged Syrian buildup, coupled with Israeli warnings to Syria about stationing SAMING anti-aircraft missiles in the Beka'a Valley, dimmed chances that reconciliation talks today between the Syrians and Lebanese factions would succeed.
In south Lebanon, Israeli-backed Christian militiamen and Palestinian gunners traded artillery fire overnight, state-run Beirut Radio said.
Clarification
A former attendant of Fred Markham, a cerebral palsy victim, has disemuted the accuracy of an Annel K Kanan story by Markham.
In that story, Markham gave a first-person account of the care that he had received as a handicapped person.
The attendant said Markham's care was not influenced by misuse of drugs and said Markham erroneously asserted that his nose was bloodied as a result.
The attendant said he gave Markham responsible care throughout his association with him.
Finals guideline violators to receive letter
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
The Senate executive committee will send out a "friendly reminder" to some faculty members who have violated University guidelines governing finals scheduling. Laurence Rose, professor of law, said yesterday.
Shelly Senecal, a Liberal Arts student senator, said five students had told her that their professor had rescheduled a course's final to last Friday.
The most distressing aspect, she said,
was that the instructor announced the
change April 27, only four days before
the test.
ROSE SAID the letters would not be a reprimand, but more of a reminder that the faculty member was violating the rule governin the scheduling of finals.
The Rules and Regulations of the University Senate spell out the guidelines for final examination schedules.
"The final examination for a course must be given at the regularly scheduled time," the regulations read. "No final examination shall be given on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday days prior to the last day of regularly scheduled classes."
"It the isolated circumstance, the violation probably occurs out of ignorance of the rule," he said. "If they wouldn't break there, where they probably wouldn't break it."
Any exceptions to the rule must be approved by the University Calendar Committee, the body that determines the final examination schedule.
Rose said that most faculty members probably complied with the rule, and those who did not were not purposely doing so.
"I think you know that my position on whether doing something is right or wrong is to go ahead and do it until someone slaps me on the wrist," he said.
"Somebody ought to pick up the ball," Ernest Angino, professor of geology.said.
At Friday's meeting, SenEx members questioned whether SenEx was in the position to take action such as intervening if the fight might have violated the finals rule.
Senecal, a lawrence sophomore, said that the students had brought the case to her attention because they knew she was involved with government. She explained that proper channels to go through in entering a complaint about the rescheduling.
SENKEM MEMBERS agreed that a problem results when students are not aware of their right to take complaints in the Ballour, the University Ombudman.
Worth noted that many students were reluctant to do so, fearing the angered instructor who learns of the complaint may change their grade.
However, Worth pointed out that all complaints taken to the ombudsman would be kept confidential.
SenEx is not in the position to take any action against faculty members who violated the rule, Worb said, and the letters written this week would merely inform faculty members that they were in violation of the rule.
At a meeting after SenEx, the Faculty executive committee approved recommendations for a voluntary early retirement program at KU.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS will be sent to the Board of Regents, who will be discussing early retirement at their meetings this summer.
The recommendations were developed at a Regents Faculty Senate Presidents meeting in Emporia April 17.
Included in the recommendations were;
- Any voluntary early retirement plan that is adopted should include an option for either part-time or complete retirement.
- The part-time plan should include an additional 10 percent contribution to the employee's retirement program from the institution.
- The foregoe Social Security benefits caused by the faculty member's early retirement should go toward the employee's退休program.
- The faculty member on part-time retirement should receive fringe benefits such as health insurance, sick leave and tenure privileges.
- The faculty member who retired fully under an early retirement program should receive a 20 percent contribution to the retirement account at the same amount of those foregone from Social Security benefits.
- Health insurance benefits would be comparable to those received by full-time employees.
- Extensive counseling should be made available to those faculty members who are interested in retiring voluntary early retirement program.
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