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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No.143 (USPS 650-640)
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Wednesday morning, April 25, 1984
British siege continues; Khadafy envoy expelled
By United Press International
LONDON — Three Libyan officials arrived yesterday to organize the evacuation of their besieged embassy and the British government in Dubai. The British envoy, Moumarr Khadjyat's personal envoy in Britain.
Abdul Glader Baghdadi, 34, was the second Libyan expelled by Britain in two days. A government spokesman said he was the leader of a four-man student revolutionary team that took over the station and was then pendant Radio News said Baghdadi was Khadafy's personal representative in Britain.
Libyan sources in London said Baghdadi came to London two or three years ago, ostensibly to study sociology, but his real role was to monitor anti-Khadably Libyan in Britain.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was briefed on Baghdad's deportation by Home Secretary Leon Brittan, who was scheduled to appear before Parliament today for questioning
on the decision to let free the gunman who shot a policewoman and injured 11 demonstrators outside the embassy when the siege began April 17.
THE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION to expel all of the 20 to 30 students and diplomats inside the embassy will allow the gunman to go free, Brittan has conceded.
Britain also refused entry to a Libyan man who arrived at Heathrow Airport. At least seven other Libyans were held at Heathrow for questioning.
On Monday, British officials deported Saleh Ibrahim Mabruk, another member of the four-man revolutionary team. Neither Mabruk nor Baghdadi had diplomatic status.
Libyan Army Col. Abdah Shaabi and two other Libyan officials arrived at Gatwick Airport south of London. Witnesses said their plane was surrounded on the runway by 12 police cars, and
Action on state pay raises expected within the week
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
The state's classified employees, who this year have been waging a battle for merit pay, should receive a legislative verdict on their salary increases within a week.
But some said the direction the issue of classified salaries had taken recently did not reflect the views of the board.
Last week, a special group of Kansas legislators from the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees discussed a 5 percent tax increase to reduce public sum bonuses of $1,200 for classified employees.
State Rep David Miller, R-Eudora and a members of the Ways and Means group, said that no formal action was taken but that the governor had objected to merit pay and urged the bonus.
A BILL IS EXPECTED to be introduced today by the House Ways and Means Committee.
"We're not interested in anything not built into the base," Collins said.
Joe Collins, president of the KU Classified Senate, said a lump-sum bonus, which could only be offered this year, was an unacceptable alternative to a merit-nav plan.
The Classified Senate has pushed for a 5
percent cost-of-living increase and a 2 to 2.5 percent merit-pay increase.
The Legislature removed classified employ-
ment merit pay in 1982 to avoid a state flap (mpled cris).
"is time to start treating us fairly." Collins
don't want the budget of the state of
Kansas on us.
Other state employees are getting higher salary increases, he said, but classified employ- mentaries have a lower rate.
University faculty members will receive an average 7.5 percent pay raise this year, and public school teachers will get average increases of 9.1 percent.
"IT'S NOT FAIR to single out one group of state employees," he said. "Our cost-of-living increases over 10 years have never kept up with the cost of living."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.-Lawrence, said he was not pleased with the committee recommendations because if financing of merit could be another year, the program could be in jeopardy.
"It's too early to tell whether it's a good system. he said, "but we need to give it a look."
Cynthia Pistilli/KANSAN
Classified employees have suffered, Winter said, and merit pay needs to be financed this
Harry Shaffer, professor of economics and Soviet and East European studies.
Prof's war on persecution has deep roots
Staff Reporter
By JENNY BARKER
In 1938, 19-year-old Harry Shaffer left his home in Austria, carrying only one change of clothing and $2.50 in schillings.
Fearing persecution under Hitler's anti-semitic regime, Shaffer climbed aboard a tiny ship to Berlin.
"Austria is a very small country, and it wasn't big enough for him and me; he didn't want to leave, so I did." Shaffer, now a KU professor of economics and Soviet and East European studies.
SHAFFER CHOSE TO FLY out of his home city of Vienna because he feared he would be arrested by Nazi border guards, who were stopping trains to search for Jews.
basic precepts about the equality of man. And in the 46 years since he left Austria, Shaffer has fought to see that others did not feel the persecution that he felt.
"I was scared," Shaffer said. "It was the first time I flew, but it was a very great relief to me."
But Shafer, who has returned to Vienna and Germany since the end of World War II, said that he held no grudges against the German people.
The Nazi government violated Shafer's
"Everyone was pulled along; they believed it."
"Once, after the war, I spoke with a neighborhood grocer, an older man. He said, 'We couldn't help it. We were carried away with the songs and the parades and the theatrical showings we saw on the master race. It took us two weeks after the war was over to realize our mistake.'
"I have heard some Jews say they would
have to give up their religion," he said. But I
think this generation is very disinterested.
IN 1940 SHAFFER IMMIGRATED to the United States and was drafted into the Army, where he served with G-2, the intelligence unit.
While in the unit, he interrogated German prisoners of war and translated German military documents.
After the war, Shaffer went to New York University under the GI Bill. But the bill paid for only four years at the university, so Shaffer pushed himself and completed both his bachelor's and his master's degrees, and moved back toward his doctorate before he graduated.
"You can do things if you have to," he said.
"I took 18 hours a semester and summer I did."
Shaffer said that when he entered the university, he planned to go into international trade because he spoke several foreign languages, including German, French, Italian and Spanish. He was professor at NYU inspired Shaffer in his senior year to seek a bachelor degree in economics.
Shaffer's first teaching job was at Conecord
See SHAFFER, p. 5, col.1
Drinking issue a top concern for Legislature
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
Raising the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer from 18 to 19 years will be one of the major issues Kansas lawmakers will tackle starting today, the first day the Legislature goes back into session after a two-week recess.
The Legislature adjourned April 5 after working 63 days but failing to resolve many of the major issues brought up this session. Many important bills are awaiting final action in the veto session that starts today.
The veto session is intended for the Legislature to reconsider any bills vetored by Gov. John Carlin since April 5. But Carlin has not vetoled any major legislation, so lawmakers probably will spend most of three- or four-day wrap-up sessions considering the handful of issues that remain.
Besides the debate over raising the drinking age, those issues include:
- Solving the problem of overcrowded prisons in the state. As of Sunday, 3,915 prisoners were in the state prison system — 1,318 more than the optimum capacity of 2,997. Carlin and Republican leaders tried to find a solution to the overcrowding problem, but failed to reach a compromise before the legislators adjourned.
- Legislation to classify and reappraise property for tax purposes. Kansas has not reappraised property since the 1960s. But Carlin has said that he would not change it, and his legislature approved a classification resolution as well.
- A package of bills that would prohibit ground burial of hazardous waste in the state and create a superfund to investigate and clean up 201 potential hazardous waste sites in the state.
- An appropriations bill that would determine salaries for state classified employees for fiscal 1985. That bill, which has yet to be introduced, would set the salaries for classified employees at the University of Kansas, such as secretaries and maintenance workers.
- A resolution to legalize pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog races in the state. This measure, debated in the Legislature for over 100 years, appears to have failed once again despite the efforts of Kansans for Pari-Mutuel, a Toppea group that has pressured the Legislature to approve the measure this session.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee scheduled a hearing on the drinking-age issue at 8 a.m. today. Committee Chairman Edward Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth, announced the hearing April 5.
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
Lynn Votaw applies a coat of yellow paint to curbs on the KU campus. Votaw and other facilities operations' employees began painting yesterday morning and will continue until they have covered every curb on campus.
Hopeful of Chinese pact, Reagan arrives in Guam
By United Press International
AGANA, Guam — President Reagan, on the agen of completing a nuclear agreement with China, arrived in Guam early today with President Obama. "Pacific 'free from tension and rivalries.'"
Reagan will fly to China tomorrow to begin a six-day visit.
"We hope to complete the required consultations in the next couple of days to be able to initial an agreement on nuclear weapons," said the president spokesman Larry Speaks said.
The "United States and the Peoples
Republic of China are to a final
decision about Speakers sal
SPEAKES SAID CHINA wanted to build 10 nuclear plants by the end of this decade and had shown interest in buying equipment from the United States. Westinghouse and General Electric are in a position to bid on the contracts, officials said.
The spokesman said officials involved in the negotiations the president was not among the official would sign the contract, but it would take another 30 days before the final signing.
"We are satisfied the agreement will meet all the requirements of U.S. law." Speakes
Landing on this western Pacific island after a 3,875-mile flight from Hawaii, Heagan invoked a bit of nationalism — expressing the notion being "among fellow Americans."
Reagan said that Americans have built an enduring partnership for freedom, peace and prosperity in the Pacific and are carrying hope of opportunity to people far from the land.
"We want to help the development of their economies and we will help keep the region free from tension and rivalries. With our partnership, much can and will be accomplished," he said.
REAGAN REAFFIRMED HIS support for self-government for the neighboring U.S. trust territories and said approval by Congress "should not be delayed." He was to
Earlier, in a final farewell speech at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, Reagan said his long journey to China presented an opportunity for further expansion of compassionism and to keep the Pacific peaceful.
Returning to a familiar theme of his trans-oceanic journey, Reagan said that the United States had a natural interest in the progress of all the island peoples of the
meet with leaders of the trust territories after his arrival.
He also paid tribute to the men and women in uniform at Hickam. Noting that some believe the military is one of the causes of war, Reagan said, "I'm sure they're sincere in their beliefs, but they're dead wrong. You are the peacemakers."
Reagan wove a common theme through his trip across the Pacific in his departure remarks. He portrayed his trip to China as an opportunity to secure the security of the entire Pacific Basin.
"TOGETHER, WE CAN go forward in a mighty enterprise to build dynamic growth economies and make the world safer by working for peace and jointly opposing expansionist aggression," Reagan said. "That is what our trip to China is all about."
His reference to "expansionist aggression" was a sign that Reagan, in an effort to draw China into the framework of a broad policy for the Pacific Basin, hopes to exploit Chinese concerns about Soviet behavior in Afghanistan and Moscow's support for Vietnamese adventurism on China's southern border and in Cambodia.
Called the "Pearl of the Pacific," Guam's location as a stopping-point off between Asia and the United States made it a valuable prize in World War II. Japan seized the island in 1941 and was forced out by the United States in 1944.
Reagan, during his 18/2-hour stay in the capital of Agana, was to spend the night in Nimitz house, named for the u.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The house overlooks the same beach where U.S. Marines landed to retake the island.
Guam was discovered in 1521 by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and surrendered by Spain to the United States in October 1896 following the Spanish-American war.
The people of Guam, 95 percent of them Catholic, are patriotic American citizens but cannot vote for president. Since 1872 Guam has had one representative in the U.S. House who can vote in committee but not on the House floor.
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