The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, January 21, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 78 USPS 650-640
Profs differ on effects of Iran crisis
By KATHY KASE Staff Reporter
The hostages are in West Germany undergoing debriefing. The crisis is, for all intents and purposes, over. But in addition to the bitter memories of the past 444 days, questions about whether they were safe.
Among the most provocative is whether hostage taking will proliferate.
Yes, says Rose Greaves, professor of history, because the United States negotiations with Iran are underway.
NO, SAYS Ronald Francisco, associate professor of political science. Iran did not receive sympathy for its actions, and therefore no epidemic will occur, he said.
Maybe, says Said Pirnazar, assistant instructor of political science. It all depends on whether the U.S. payment to Iran looks like a ransom payment, he said.
While the three instructors disclaimed expert status on Iran and the hostage crisis, they did offer some insight on its future effect on the United States and the world.
"Iran has taken hostages, received money and made gains. We should not have done any negotiating at all," said Greaves, who teaches Midstates history course. "In terrorism, one does not know the facts."
YET, THE U.S. reaction to and treatment of the crisis fits a historical pattern, said Fran Cawley, the project director.
"Almost all countries have handled it this way and have, in fact, handled it this way when they had had hostages taken in the past," he said. "When the Soviet Union had a similar situation in Albania in the 1950s they just waited it out.
"The British behaved exactly the same way in the Cultural Revolution in China when the Chinese took over the British consulate.
"The U.S. patience was its best ally."
PINAZAR, AN Iranian, characterized the negotiations' tone as a way for former President Carter to cap his career. But that analysis may not be accurate. Pinarazar said.
"It's entirely a situational kind of thing," he said. "It's very difficult to assess."
The resolution of the hostage situation is a result of many factors, not only of President Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Francisco and Greaves said.
"And they found, much to their surprise, that no one agreed with their taking the hostages."
"I's probably the confluence of many factors." Francisco said. "Despite what Bani-Sadr said, the war with Iraq is not going well. The war is one of the internal division and runny economic problems."
GREAVES SAID the Carter administration was much more eager to make a deal with the Iranians and that Reagan had threatened to start negotiations from scratch.
The Carter administration was a known quantity to the Iranians, which may have aided them.
"In addition, there is the ominous unknown factor—Reagan," he said. "It's not like Reagan will invade Iran; it is just that the Iranians are afraid of him because they don't know anything."
But Pirnazar doubted Reagan's effect on the negotiations.
"It may or it may not have affected them," he said. "To tell the truth, it is so difficult, being so far away from Iran, to see what has motivated Iran to go on with the negotiations to this ex-
ALTHOUGH IRAN violated international law by holding the 52 Americans captive, international law has not been harmed, Francisco said.
"All this did was point up the fact, again, that there is no enforcement for international law," he said. "International law has had a rough test, and its effectiveness has been going to say that this is the one damned incident."
Regardless of the Iranian crisis' interpretation, there is a mutual lesson for developed and developing countries, Pirnazar said.
AMERICANS SHOULD remember the hostage
treatment as more than just a powerful symbol,
FIFA will do.
"We can't keep on doing the things we used to do."
A LITTLE WARMER
Tomorrow will be sunny and warm with a high around 54.
It will be partly to mostly sunny today with mild temperatures and a high near 45, according to the KU Weather Service. The weather is cloudy and cool. The low will be around 25.
Students watch the television coverage of the return of the American hostages on television in the Eellsworth Hall lobby.
Weary hostages land in Germany
By United Press International
RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, West Germany (UPI)—Exhausted but unbowed, the 52 U.S. hostages freed to freedom yesterday after 444 days of captivity, leaving behind a taunting Tehran crowd and arriving at an American air base to the cheers of their fellow countrymen.
"It's absolutely fantastic," one of the released hostages said as he got off the plane in West Germany. "Much better than the past 15 months."
TWELVE HOURS and 20 minutes after Islamic revolutionary guardies jeered them out of Tehran with chants of "Down with America" and 4,065 miles after a final cruel twist of the knife kept them hostages until Ronald Reagan became president of the United States, the two women and 50 men came back to something like home.
A crowd of 2,000 military wives and family members came out in the pre-dawn cold this morning to cheer the 52 Americans, who are being deployed to Afghanistan. Air Force winter narkas with fur hoods
"God bless America," another hostage shouted in the previous stop in Algeria.
Former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance led the way to the foot of the ramp to give the hostages a safe place.
Earlier, the hostages, with their departure in doubt until the very end, took off from Tehran's airport at 12:25 p.m. EST, just 25 minutes after Reagan took the oath of office a half way away, ending a capability that began Nov. 4, 1979, when the attackers burst into the U.S. Embassy compound.
THE PLANES that came out of Iran first to Athens, Greece, for a reaffuring stop and then to Algeria, which mediated the accord between Tehran and Washington, where the formal transfer of the former hostages to American control took place.
Former President Carter, whose presidency ended a half hour before the hostage crisis did,
was flying to Wiesbaden today to greet the nation as president Reagan's representative.
"I will take with me the joy and relief of our entire nation," Carter said in a homecoming talk yesterday. He nearly wept twice as he spoke of the hostages' new freedom.
Several top Carter administration officials, including those who worked on the hostage release, have been arrested.
For the hostages, some looking dazed but all appearing fit, the seven-hour flight from Iran was the first time they had been together in a group in the 14 months of their ordeal.
The hostages hugged, kissed and cried as they greeted one another for the 4,000-mile gig-zip journey to Wiesbaden. Their arrival in Algeria in rain-sweet darkness was no less emotional.
WEARING YELLOW ribbons in their hair,
Elizabeth Ann Swift and Katryn Koob, the two women among the hostages, were the first to step off the red and white jet into the glare of television lights and the applause of diplomats and reporters.
Smiling and laughing, the rest of the former hostages followed one by one, some clean-shaven, others with the beards they grew in cynicity.
At a brief ceremony in the airport's VIP lounge, Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Benyahia formally turned custody of the Americans over to Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the head of the U.S. negotiation队 in Alejers.
Christopher, looking exhausted but delighted after the days continuous negotiations, said, in response to a question from his client:
In Washington, a State Department official said the Americans had confirmed that all 52 hostages were on the plane from Tehran that refueled in Athens.
THE HOSTAGES arrived in a variety of clothing, from bright pink jacket jeans and sundress to black t-shirts.
Washburn annexation faces cool reception
Two hundred journalists, guarded behind a
SECRETAGE PAPER.
By BRAD STERTZ
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
A brisk stroll across the KU campus was begon to longonge in State Rep. William W. Bunten, a Rt. Griffin alum.
But reaction has been decided cool from Washburn University, the University of Kansas and the Board of Regents to Rumman's proposal to direct the University Administration of KU as part of the Recents system.
Bunten said that he did not expect his proposal to gain acceptance this year, but that he hoped it would cause debate on Washburn's long-range financial future.
He said his proposal had met opposition from fellow members of the Shawnee County delegation and influential Washburn alumni, as well as some in the community who power in the Recess's system under the proposal.
Discussion on the proposal between Washburn officials and state legislators will continue Feb. 5.
The first meeting between the groups took place Monday. Both the Shawnee County legislative delegation and Washburn's Board of Education and the school's financial outlook and Burton's proposal.
Under Bunter's plan, Washburn would be absorbed into the state Regents system and come under the administration of KU. The resulting relationship between KU and Washburn would be similar to the relationship between the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City.
After the first meeting, Washburn regents
remained officially "open-minded", as they were when the memorial was first announced.
Individually, however, the board members were unhappy with the plan.
"My opinion on the subject depends on the final concept of the proposal," Merle Blair, chairman of the Washburn Board of Regents, said. "I would not be for it if Washburn would become a branch office of the University of Kansas.
Blair, however, said there had been no cutbacks in Washburn's programs, although the faculty might not receive pay raises without a state allocation.
"But I would be for it if it became necessary financially for the state to take over."
Blair stressed that Washburn was not yet in dire financial straits. He said that Washburn had a low bond debt of $290,000 and would pay off its last building loan payment in 1982.
To keep Washburn as a municipal university, the Washburn Regents are asking for a $295,000 increase from the state and for legislative approval to increase the local mill tax levy to provide $450,000 in local taxes. Last year, the state gave Washburn $2.6 million.
"I think it would behove the state to continue current methods of funding rather than it would to take over a $11 million, soon to be $20 million, Washburn budget," Blair said. "It seems that the state would do better if it could fund Washburn by spending only $3 to $5 million a year."
If the state gave Washburn its budget request, the state would be better off. Blair said.
Another Washburn board member, Mark Morris, said Bunter's proposal took Washburn officials by surprise. He said that as far as he
knew, Buten had not conferred with any Washburn officials.
Morris, however, said he did not think the Washburn regents would strongly oppose joining the state system. He said he did not expect any changes in the near future.
"These kind of issues just don't work very fast," Morris said. "I know it took Wichita State a number of years to get into the state Regents system."
Wichita State was admitted into the state Regents system in 1964.
Morris said Washburn might need the support of the state system in the future because of it.
Washburn's current funding problem, Morris said, is that no single group takes full responsibility for the school's finances, with sources of finance ranging from a portfolio of Topека, the state and Washburn's students.
Morris said that Washburn's students were already shouldering too great a financial burden.
At KU, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said he was concerned about the state system having to fund Washburn at the expense of the current Regents schools.
"My main concern is finding whether there are enough funds to support Washburn and maintain the level of education at the other schools." "The cost of new schools will be financing would be adequate to add Washburn."
According to E. Bernard Franklin, chairman of the state board of Regents, the decision is up to the Legislature. He said that the state system must be accepted to accept the mandate of the Legislature.
Franklin is, however, personally against the
move to add Washburn, because, he said, it would not provide programs and services different from the ones already in the Regents system.
But Franklin said that having Washburn as a part of KU rather than as a separate Regents university would be the better plan for the state system.
However, making Washburn a part of KU would not be supported by the Washburn board.
"The proposal, I think, is mainly negative." Franklin said. "It seems that those who are proposing it are not looking at it to enhance value for the economy." Topeka financially, That is not a viable reason."
Bunten said the merits of having Washburn under KU would be a stronger Washburn campus chancellor and the integration rather than the duplication of programs.
"There is much too much duplication in the system now," Buten said. "We have schools of education, for example, all over the state and four very close together."
Benton said that the programs offered at Waukee University and Emporia State University were similar.
Bunten, using the education schools example, said the problem is that the universities are producing a large supply of teachers while the demand is low.
He said that by being able to integrate the programs, the state system could establish more and better programs that will train students in areas of high demand. Bunten mentioned computer science and nursing as examples of areas with high occupational demand.
KU labs may re-evaluate waste disposal guidelines
By ANNIKANILSSON
Staff Reporter
Most hazardous wastes from KU laboratories are washed down sinks into the general sewage system, but city officials are not worried about the practice.
Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, said he had been able to identify 183 different kinds of hazardous wastes at KU. Most are poured down the drain in quantities of less than half a gram, the weight of a paper clip, Bearse said.
But newly enacted federal regulations and forthcoming state statutes on hazardous waste handling may force the University to re-evaluate its disposal policy.
"The city is happy with us pouring it down the drain," he said.
HAZARDOUS WASTES include corrosive, reactive, flammable and toxic materials but not radioactive wastes, which fall under separate guidelines. The legal definition of hazardous was not always clear and many compounds have to be analyzed before they could be classified.
K. T. Joseph, chemist at the sewage water,
treatment plant, said the city's newer ordinance prohibited discharge of certain levels of hazardous substances. But the concentration of these chemicals in the sewage system to affect the sewage treatment system, he said.
"In the past we have not experienced any problems with waste." he said.
By 1983, Bearse said, the city would no longer be able to allow KU to pour hazardous waste into the sewer system because the city would have to pay for the underground guidelines on pretreatment of industrial waste.
He added that toxic wastes in high concentrations would kill the organoma active in the plant.
THAT IS NOT the only law that affects KU. A federal law effective November 1980 requires an industry that generates more than 2,200 pounds of hazardous waste every month to keep records of the waste from when it is contaminated; it is proposed to require these proposed regulations would set the limit at 220 pounds.
Bearse said he did not know how much waste the University generated. There is no centralized budget for it.
See WASTE page 5
Commission gives approval to Wood Creek rezoning
Yet its repercussions may soon be felt among KU students seeking low-cost housing.
The issue took about 10 seconds of the Lawrence City Commission's two and one-half hour meeting last night.
Staff Reporter
On a 3-2 vote, the commission approved an ordinance rezoning Wood Creek Apartments, 255 N. Michigan. As a result, the building is no longer owned by its owner, but free to convert its apartments to condominiums.
At the time it began the action, Modern Management sent letters to Wood Creek residents that explained the proposed change
By DALE WETZEL
Modern Management began lobbying the commission for the zoning change last December, and succeeded in getting the commission to its first reading on a 3-2 vote last Tuesday.
"I didn't attend the commission meeting because I didn't know the proposal was on the agenda," Black said last night.
and promised to inform residents about developments.
That was the only information Lendley
back, ALL theater graduate student and
Women's Studies professor.
Black added that he hadn't received enough information on the rezoning to know about its relevance.
"Of all the people I've talked to out here,
we've never seen anything about
anxiety." Black said.
He said he probably wouldn't be affected as much as longer-term residents of Wood
"We don't plan to be here much longer anyway, although we did plan to stay for about another year," Black said. "I'll be in school for another year."
See COMMISSION page 5