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University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Oil companies sign pact with Iran
NICOSIA, Cyprus—Shell Oil Co. and British Petroleum have signed new contracts with Iran's state-run oil company, and Japanese firms are next in line, the Middle East Economic Survey said yesterday.
The authoritative oil publication said the contracts, retractive to Jan. 1, would give British Petroleum 85,000 barrels a day of Iranian crude oil and 75,000 barrels a day of Uzbekistan crude oil.
Both will be paying the official rate of $77 a barrel plus a premium of $1.80 a barrel, MEES said.
In addition to the Shell and British Petroleum contracts, a general understanding has been reached between the Iranian Oil Co. and 12 Japanese companies for delivery of 200,000 barrels a day at similar terms, MEES said.
"The release of the U.S. hostages and the consequent lifting of Western trade sanctions against Iran have very swiftly opened the way for a resumption of liftings of Iranian oil by major European and Japanese firms." MEES said.
For all customers, the publication said, the projected 1981 oil imports from Iran are substantially below the amounts bought last year before deliveries
Atlanta investigation needs state funds
ATLANTA—With city police running short of money in their investigation of Atlanta's missing and murdered children, Mayor Jackson plans to send a special task force to the area.
The 18-month series of child abductions, has left 14 children known dead and three missing, has cost the city more than $500,000 in overtime costs and technical or laboratory expenses.
A special 38-member task force has been operating since last July, but despite free use of computer hardware and volunteer efforts of some investigators, the case has become a major drain on city law enforcement resources.
Busbee said last week that he would be receptive to any proposals the mayor made for city assistance. The governor already has provided $10,000 from his emergency fund to help build Atlanta's reward pot, which now costs $275,000 a year. The bureau of Investigation and the state crime laboratory assay in the case.
In addition to investigative costs, the city has been waging an "Outreach" campaign to educate children in poor black neighborhoods about the dangers of drug use.
AMC faces CJ Jeep safety lawsuits
DETROIT—Deaths and injuries in rollover crashes of Jeep CJ models have cost American Motors Corp. more than $8 million in court settlements since 1973, and at least 17 other lawsuits are pending, the Detroit Free Press reported yesterday.
The Free Press said AMC was appealing a $2.2 million verdict and had paid other Jeep accident victims on the condition they do not reveal terms of
The data came from a study of court files and interviews with attorneys, the data indicates that information indicates the automaker is having difficulty defending itself against a lawsuit.
At least one AMC engineer, Robert Blaine, who testifies for the company in Jeep accident cases, has recommended against going to trial in some cases.
The Jeep CJ-3 and CJ-7, two of AMC's best selling products until recently, are narrow-track utility vehicles with high centers of gravity.
A study released last spring by the University of Michigan's Highway
Research Institute found that such vehicles, particularly Jeep CJs,
are expensive to repair.
The study also found the Jeep CJ design did not adequately protect passengers in rollover accidents.
AMC estimates that about 600,000 Jeep CJs are on the road today in the United States.
Solidarity cancels nationwide strike
WARSaw, Poland–Poland's Solidarity union called off a threatened one-hour nationwide strike yesterday but warned the "warsaw" of worker protests and an escalation in violence.
"Every action taken against rural Solidarity will be considered by Solidarity an action against the labor movement," Karel Modkiewski, national spokesman for the 10-million member labor union, said at a news conference in Warsaw on an extraordinary session of Solidarity's national coordinating commission.
The union leaders said the day of the canceled general strike instead should be used as a day for nationwide propaganda in support of the operation of a rural Solidarity union, representing an estimated one million private farmers.
To further dramatize their support for the farmers, a spokesman told reporters that Solidarity's national leadership recommended to all union branches that a nationwide strike be organized some time in the future to back legalization of the farmers' group.
At the same time, the official news agency PAP announced that a government delegation, headed by Deputy Agriculture Minister Anrizej Kowalczyk, has been activeist stronghold of Rzeszow, near the Soviet border, for talks with rural solidarity workers who have been staging a sit-in for months.
South Africa to step up border raids
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—A high-ranking army spokesman said yesterday that South Africa would step up cross-border attacks against Israel.
His comments followed a bloody raid by Pretoria commandes into Mozambique.
Although the raid caused a furor internationally, with black states calling for sanctions and punitive measures against South Africa, local political commentators said the Commands made the move against Mozambique in their administration was likely to block any sanctions voted against the country.
South African commandes struck early Friday in the Maputo suburb of Matola, 40 miles across the border, blasting away with machine guns and explosives from the African National Congress, an exiled black guerrilla group. The army, led by Mozambique as a springboard for urban terror campaigns in South Africa.
Two South African guerrillas died and at least 11 guerrillas and a Fortuguese civil were killed in a violent firefight, Mozambique authorities said. The raiders claimed to have killed more than 30 guerrillas. They left one dead soldier behind.
Ex-governor Grasso battles cancer
Hartford, Conn.—Former Gov. Ella Grasso, who resigned from office weakened by a year-long battle against cancer, lapsed into a "semi-comatose" state yesterday and was placed on the critical list at a Hartford hospital.
Grasso, 61, the first woman elected governor of any state in her own right, began losing consciousness for varying periods of time early yesterday morning, said a hospital spokesman. She has been hospitalized since Dec. 8 for cancer of the liver and intestinal tract.
The spokesman said Grasso's overall condition had deteriorated, although her vital signs remained stable and she was illud when a wake...
Connecticut's chief executive for nearly six years, Grasso resigned from office Dec. 31 because she no longer had the stamina to carry out her duties as governor. Lieutenant governor, William O'Neill, was sworn in immediately as governor.
Mrs. Grasso was the daughter of Italian immigrants. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1952 and never lost an election in a political contest.
Weltmer job decision expected in two weeks
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Repor
The KU Judiciary Committee will decide within the next two weeks whether to hear a case brought by a former employee who wants his job back.
Staff Reporter
John Weltner, former assistant sports information director, filed a petition with the committee in November against the KU athletic department, the athletic director and Don Baker, former sports information director.
He charged that he was dismissed for "unlawful, arbitrary and capricious" reasons.
Weltner said Baker told him in May he was being fired effective July 1 for questions raised about his loyalty to the University and the athletic department, with various coaches and staff members and his competence in daily work.
Waltmer said he was notified last week that Marcum and the athletic department had been officially contacted about the petition.
The department has submitted a motion for dismissal of the case, Weltmer said, because one of the
"The basis on which they filed the motion won't stand up I'm sure," Weltner said. "Don acted on behalf of the University while he was a part of the University community and with Marcum's approval."
Baker was KU sports information director for seven years until he resigned in July to work for Southwestern Life Insurance Company.
Weltmer called the motion a "diversion tactic" and said it was a standard action to be taken by the University in such cases.
parties-named, Baker, was no longer part of the University.
Weltmer said that if he did not win the judiciary hearing, he would take the case to district court.
University personnel must exhaust all options offered through the university administration before the district's jurisdiction in such matters, he said.
"At this point, I don't know what to expect," Weltner said. "But I would say there's a very good chance it will get to court."
He said he would be willing to wait several years for the case to work its way through the judicial process.
"I feel like I have a pretty strong case or I wouldn't have filed in the first place," he said. "Even if I lose, there's some strong principles involved."
Eight file for commission seats
Pat Slick, graduate student in religious studies, was the seventh candidate to file, assuring a March 10 selection to pare the field to six candidates.
A KU professor, alumnus and graduate student joined the race this weekend for three City Commission seats up for election April.
Slick, 32, is a member of the Sun-
ner group. He lives at 1340 Tennessee.
Barkley Clark, professor of law and two-time mayor of Lawrence an- niversity.
He is running for an unprecedented third term on the commission.
Clark came to KU in 1969, and has been involved in local government since his 1970 appointment to the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission. He originally was elected to the City Commission in 1973, rolling up a 1,231-vote margin over 13 other candidates.
Also filing for re-election was KU journalism graduate Bob Schumm, who is running for his second term. Schumm was a popular business during the last 10 years.
KU observes black history
Throughout February, a spotlight will fall on the achievements of Afro-Americans as they display remnants of African culture during Black History Month.
in honor of the 55th observance of black history, many activities have been scheduled for the University.
By EDDIE WILLIAMS III Staff Reporter
The office of minority affairs will present a series of programs in collaboration with the Spencer Museum of Art, the Black Student Union and the KU Black Drama Troupe.
"As far as scheduling and coordi-
nating events," Vernell Spearman,
assistant director of minority
work, said. February is our busiest month.
According to Spearman, the highlight of the month will be the feature featuring Alvin Paussain, prominent music artist and author of "Why Black Kill."
Also, Spearman said, a Langston Hughes exhibit will be on display at the Spencer Research Library beginning Feb. 19. The KU Black Drama Theatre will present the Ossie Davis play "Purile Victorious" at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Lawrence Arts Center.
The month will end with the annual Soul Food Dinner Feb. 28 at EllsworthHall.
The idea of setting aside a period to observe black history came from
the late Carter G. Woodson, Spearman said.
woodson, an educator and the son of an ex-slave, is known as the father of black history. In the 1920s, he launched the national observance of Negro History Week during the second week of February. He attended the annual observances of days of Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 12, and Fredrick Douglass, Feb. 14.
The observance of black history was later expanded to a month.
Woodson dedicated his life to removing black sterotypes. He was a prolific author of books and articles on black history.
Woodson felt there a need to instill blacks with pride in the Afro-American heritage and to help them understand their contributions, Toogin said.
Toppin wrote that Woodson wanted to combat the constant refrain of the press, and other historians and racist politicians on the issue, and that people were inferior people who had never accomplished anything worthwhile.
According to a book by historian Edgar A. Toppin, Woodson "had a missionary zeal to tell about the Americans and their African ancestor."
In 1915, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and produced the Journal of Negro History. Published over the years, the Journal has been an author ever since, the Journal source for researchers of black history.
It was through ASNLH that he developed Black History Week.
On the Record
LAWRENCE POLICE are investigating the theft of $900 in cash and checks Saturday from a car parked in the 2800 block of Belle Drive.
in the trunk of the Harbour Lites' owner's car, police said.
The checks, totaling $100, were made out to the Harbour Lites Tavern, 1631 Massachusetts St.
POLICE ARE ALSO investigating the Friday burglary of the Pla-Mor museum. Two people and several pool tables were vandalized and $30 in quarters was taken from them.
The money was in a bank deposit bag
CONOCO, INC.
The Surface Transportation Department of Conoco, Inc. will be on campus to discuss employment opportunities.
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
DATE: Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1981
PLACE: 128 Summerfield
An equal opportunity employer Refreshments will be served.
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