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University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Dwyer faces spy charges in Iran
BERN, Switzerland-American freelance writer Cynthia Dwyer, who has spent nine months jailed in Iran, appeared in a revolutionary court in Tehran yesterday to face charges of espionage, the Swiss Foreign Ministry announced.
At the same time, authorities cleared an Iranian-born U.S. citizen of spy charges and released him on $1 million bail. Mobi Sobban, 44, is one of the three Americans who remained in Iran jails when the $2 hostages flew to freedom in Iraq. Newspapers said Dr. Sobran
Tehran newspapers said Dwyer also was accused of "collaboration with an armed group for the release of the hostages, attempting to lay groundwork for a new American attack, consumption of alcohol, drugs and adultery."
A verdict is expected Monday, the ministry said.
suspect. The woman sank.
At the time of her arrest on May 5, she was accused of two weeks after the aborted U.S. rescue mission, Dewey was accused of being a CIA spy, a charge her husband has denied. Evidence cited against her included a telephone call she made to the State Department.
A third American, Afghan-born Zia Nasrani, remained in jail, his fate unknown.
Ephone calls can be made to the state Department.
Iranian officials recently told the Swiss Embassy that Dwyer was only under investigation and had not been charged with any crimes.
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WASHINGTON - The United States has agreed to sell at least 38 advanced F-16 fighters to South Korea, signaling a change of policy from the Carter administration, government sources said yesterday.
source sands yet yesterday.
South Korea has wanted 60 of the single-engine planes since 1977, but the Carter administration withheld application in part because of instability in the Asian country after the assassination of President Park Ching Wei in October 1979.
At least six U.S., refinery raised single-gasoline and home-heating oil prices by as much as a nickel a gallon yesterday in the wave of price increases that has followed President Reagan's decision to control domestic crude oil and gasoline.
Heating oil, gasoline prices rise
South Korea now wants to buy only 36 of the jets, and the new administration reaffirmed the original commitment to sell the planes during President Chun Doo Hwan's visit to Washington this week, the sources said.
Since price controls were lifted Jan. 28, major oil companies have passed about 25 price increases, and some have cited decontrol as a factor. Oil retailers said they were expecting the price to rise.
and the Loo Hwan's visit to Washington this week, the sources said. Details of the timing of the sale have not been worked out because Congress first must approve it, as it does all equipment sales to foreign nations, the sources said. The administration will notify Congress of the intent to sell after the South Koreans officially ask to buy the 36 planes, they said.
Other refiners said they were passing along OPEC's Jan. 1 price increases for imported oil, which are expected to add 11 cents a gallon to Americans' fuel bills by the end of March.
at the end of March.
A new Department of Energy study said decontrol would boost pump prices by at least 15 cents a gallon this year, on top of the OPEC-related price moves.
However, some analysts say they believe refiners may have difficulty recovering higher domestic crude costs from price-sensitive U.S. consumers, who decreased their oil use by 7.7 percent last year.
Embassy attacked in San Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Presumed leftist guerrillas attacked the Guatemalan embassy in San Salvador, yesterday, critically wounding two policemen. Military officials reported heavy fighting between troops and rebels.
The Catholic Church said government troops enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew had killed 176 people, most of them innocent civilians, since the U.S. backed junta imposed martial law Jan. 11 in an attempt to quell political violence.
The Military-Christian Democrat junta, headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, extended the state of siege for another 20 days, Tuesday. It was imposed last March 6 to stem the tide of violence accompanying social and economic reform.
The siege, a modified form of martial law, limits travel within, as well as to and from, El Salvador, imposes press censorship and lifts most constitutional guarantees.
The decision to extend the state of siege came as the Catholic Church sharply criticized the junta for jailing political suspects for as long as four months without formal charges under a recent government decree.
Polish unions threaten new strikes
WARSAW, Poland—Union leaders broke off talks with the government yesterday and threatened to declare nationwide walkouts if authorities use force to end a nine-day general strike in southern Poland.
The threat was made by the pro-Israel Wales after the Solidarity Labor Coalition suppressed negotiations and punishment because of Premier Josef Pinkowski's refusal to accept the resignation of provincial Governor Jozef Labudek, the target of corruption allegations.
the targets of corruption allegations.
Labudek is governor of the Bielsko-Biała province in southern Poland,
which has been crippled by a nine-day general strike by workers demanding
Labudek's ouster.
The local Solidarity union charged that Labudek, his three deputies and other local officials used $500,000 in municipal funds to build villas and to furnish their houses.
The officials submitted their resignations Tuesday, but Pinkowski refused to accept them.
The strike, which has paralyzed the province and idled 120 plants at an estimated cost of $13 million a day, has mushroomed into a new test of wills between the independent unions and the government.
Cabinet to seek minorities for jobs
WASHINGTON - President Reagan told his Cabinet yesterday to seek minorities and women to fill sub-cabinet posts and assured his closest black supporters that his across-the-board budget cuts would not hurt the very poor.
Jim Brady, White House press secretary, said Reagan and Vice President George Bush had urged Cabinet members at a morning meeting to be "very mindful of women and minorities" in making selections for sub-Cabinet breads. Jim Brady had adored his Cabinet
Brady said the president had exhorted his Cabinet secretaries, "Go ye forth and seek minorities and women for your appointments." Brady quoted Reagan as saying, "It's morally right."
They're REAGAN as saying, "It's morally right." Organizations representing women, blacks and Hispanics have complained about the lack of appointments from their groups to high-ranking jobs in the administration.
Domestic car sales hit 6-year low
DETROIT—Domestic car sales in January fell to their lowest level for the month since 1975 despite a growing number of rebates, price cuts and other market stimulants.
U. S. automakers said yesterday that they sold 469,832 cars last month, down 20.1 percent from 587,739 in the same month last year. Domestic sales in the final 10 days of January were off 26.3 percent.
So far, Reagan has named only a handful of women to top positions in his administration, and only one of six sub-Cabinet appointments announced Tuesday went to a woman.
Sales of imports cars for the month were estimated at 176,000, down 17.9 percent from 214,428 last year. But the imports managed to improve their U.S. market share to a record for the month of 27.3 percent, up from 26.7 percent last year.
KU work policy viewed as discriminatory
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
Classified employees are discriminated against by a KU policy requiring them to work when weather are called off because of bad weather, according to a KU Classified Senate member.
Joseph Collins, vertebrate zoologist and chairman of the Government Action Group, said that discrimination existed because the faculty did not have to work on those days.
"The faculty doesn't have to show up and they don't get docked pay or time off, like we do if we don't show up," he said.
The inequalities exist because of the KU inclement weather policy, Collins said, and he wants the state to pass legislation requiring the faculty to come to school on bad weather days or forfeit work or time off.
The inclement weather policy states that classified employees must work when the chancellor or executive vice chancellor declares inclement weather conditions or choose an option for making up the work time.
But changing the policy, as Collins wants, is not only at issue. State Rep Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, questions whether remedial legislation is the answer to the inequality. There also appears to be confusion about which inclement weather policies apply to whom and when they apply.
THE OPTIONS ARE to make up the absence during paid leave time, to take leave without pay or to make up the absence within a 30-day period.
"I am sympathetic with the classified employees on this problem, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not a legislative matter," Charlton said. "It is up to the administration of this campus and of the state to change it."
Lloyd Woodburn, personnel administrator in the state department of personnel, agreed that legislation was not the solution but said that the KU administration and the Kansas Board of Regents must change the faculty policy.
She explained that it was because classified policy was determined by the Kansas department of administration.
"Faculty policy is something that has been delegated to the Board of Regents and their member institutions," he said. "They would decide on changes in faculty policy."
The Department of Administration changes classified employees policy and enforces the inclement weather policy, he said.
WHILE THE KU administration differentiates for faculty between an inclement weather days and days when KU cancels classes, the state does not for classified employees, Woodburn said.
"The state just can't close down prison maintenance, the highway department or university maintenance during bad weather," he "Classified employees are expected to come in to keep the state going, regardless if the University cancels classes."
weather days but may be excused from that duty when the weather is very severe, acting Chancellor Del Shankel said.
Faculty, on the other hand, are required to hold classes on inclement
While faculty are expected to make up lost academic time, they will not forfeit pay or time off if they fail to do so, Shankel said.
"Basically, we feel that the faculty and students are going to make up the time without additional pay," he said. "The policies are somewhat different because the duties of classified employees and faculty are somewhat different."
COLLINS INSISTED that faculty never had to teach when the inclement weather policy was declared.
he declared:
"There have never been any in- clement weather days when the University didn't cancel classes, the way the administration describes it, in the 14 years I've been here." he said
He cited the day the University closed classes last year because of snow.
"Chancellor Dykes excused the faculty and students, but required classified staff to report," Collins said. "When we asked the administration about this, they said it was the inclement weather procedure."
But a different inclement weather policy was in effect last year, Woodward's account for Collinson' s change of the policy, the state policy changed last year.
"The old policy provided for the closing off all offices under certain conditions."
conditions, and that's the reason it was changed," he said. "I don't know why the University was closed last year and since the policy was changed, I don't know if anyone here can tell you why."
THE KU POLYCHANGE last year because the University adopted its policy from the state's, David Lewis KU director of personnel services, said.
"The policy came out in December of last year and we just basically restated it," he said.
Collins, however, wants the inclement weather policy uniform for all university employees. Falling that, he said, will increase the classified employees who brave bad weather.
"Our problem is that when it's bad out for some of us, it's bad for out for all of us. We least we should receive overtime or the kind of kind of hazardous weather pay."
WOODBURN REACTED TO Collins' suggestion dubiously.
"For the employee who lives across the street, no, they shouldn't be entitled to extra pay on bad weather days," said. "But I'm not so certain that an employee who lives, by his own choice, 40 miles away, should be either."
"It would seem to me that you would need certain people to come to work to keep the vital functions of the University going, but I would say that all classified employees would not have to come," she said.
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