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Vol. 94, No.141 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, April 20, 1984
Libya demands that Britain end embassy siege
Protesters threaten to seek out revenge on Britons in Libya
By United Press International
LONDON — Col. Moammar Khadiyah demanded yesterday that Britain end a three-day siege of Libya's embassy in London and demonstrators in Tripoli warned that an estimated 8,500 British citizens in Libya were being treated as "prisoners."
Khadafy, an in interview broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp. and NBC News, also made veiled threats against Britons who were said that now they were in good condition.
But, he said, "Our people are very, very angry and we hope we can control this."
However, both sides later said they were seeking a peaceful end to the embassy stand-off, which began Tuesday when machine gunfire from the building killed a policewoman and wounded 11 anti-Khadafy protesters.
OLIVER MILES, the British ambassador in Tripoli, yesterday met the head of the Libyan Foreign Ministry, Abdulssalam Traki, JANA, the Libyan news agency, said the two men expressed a "common desire" with this matter through friendly means."
In London, a foreign office spokesman said, "The atmosphere was good and both sides emphasized that they were looking for a peaceful solution."
In the interview, Khadafy blamed Britain for the shooting on Tuesday, which prompted authorities to surround the Libyan Embassy or police sharpshooters and anti-terrorist units.
"British police forces and helicopters and armored forces must withdraw immediately and release our people there, nothing else," said Khadafy.
The British government had been waiting since Wednesday night for a response to a formal request for permission to enter the city, which would mean people inside and search for guns and bombs.
A FOREIGN OFFICE official talked late Wednesday to the newly appointed chief of the Libyan mission, Mufafti Fitouri, and said Britain "urgently" wanted to know from the Libyan government whether police could enter the building.
But the government insisted it could wait out the Libans.
"The police are showing steadiness, patience and resolve," said Leen Britton, the British minister in charge of internal security.
There had been rumors that Britain was readying aircraft to fly the Libyan out, but when asked to confirm the rumors, the minister said. "That's news to me."
Under international law, embassies are considered sovereign territory, so British police cannot enter the Libyan Embassy without permission from Libya.
By midday yesterday, the Libyan government had not responded to Britain's request for a visit.
The foreign office said Libya was still holding three Britons detained earlier this week, including a British Caledonian Airways manager.
IN TRIPOLI. Libya's capitol, angry Libyans demonstrated outside the British Embassy for nearly two hours yesterday, protesting the siege of the Libyan mission in London and threatening revenge "beyond" against an estimated 8,500 Britons in Libya.
Several hundred people chanted slogans and shook their fists in the midday-demonstration, which diplomats believed was government-sponsored.
Discontinuance plan fails Regents review
By GRETCHEN DAY
EMPORIA — A section of a KU policy that outlines steps for the administration to take when cutting academic programs is unclear and needs clarification, a board of Regents committee
Staff Reporter
After reviewing the policy, the Regents Policy and Procedures Committee voted to send it back to the University of Kansas for revision because the policy did not clearly state who had final authority to dismiss faculty when a program was cut.
THE KU DISCONTINUEANCE policy was developed after the Regents amended its tenure policy in 1982 to include program or unit management as a reason for dismissing tenured faculty.
The Regents requested that all of its six universities draft such a policy. Chancellor Gene A. Budig in February approved the KU policy, and his governance had been designed since 1982.
Regents policy states that the chancellor should have final authority to dismiss a faculty member.
But former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes said that one section of the University's document indicated that final authority resided with a KU committee.
"If you read the section literally, I think there is no doubt as to where the final authority rests — it rests with the committee," said Dykes, who is a regent.
Sabbatical leaves will take faculty from art of Zen to tales of Chaucer
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
THE SECTION OF the document in question states: "Normally, the Committee's (Academic
Staff Reporter
Each year, dozens of tenured KU faculty members dust off their suitcases and leave their Kansas classrooms in search of knowledge.
In the next academic year, several faculty on sabbatical are likely to be trapsping all over the world researching such topics as Japan's economic issues in Hong Kong and slavery in Jamaica.
ONE OF THOSE faculty members, Stephen Addiss, associate professor of art history, will probably be scouring the temples and murals in Japan next spring to study Zen monk paintings.
Yesterday, the Board of Regents approved a KU recommendation to grant sabbaticals to students.
Addiss said he would discuss with Japanese monks and other scholars the meaning of Zen monk paintings, poetry and calligraphy between the years of 1800 and 1925. His research will culminate in a book on the art form.
Before they pack their bags, however, faculty members must go through an extensive application process to gain ap-
See SABBATICALS, p. 5, col. 1
Policies and Procedures) decision shall be final and binding, and the case shall be deemed closed. If, however, the chancellor or the faculty member affected disagrees with that decision, he or she shall respond in writing to the recommendations of the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems, documenting the reasons for disagreement and requesting reconsideration and final disposition within fifteen (15) days."
But Robert Cobb, KU executive vice chancellor, said that because the policy had been approved by faculty and administrators, he
"We have a document we all think we can live with." Cobb said.
thought it was clear that the chancellor had final authority.
UNTIL THE UNIVERSITY confers with the Regents lawyer, Cobb said, he won't know whether the clarification will have to go through University governance or the administration.
The Regents committee also sent back to a Regents subcommittee a proposal to expand the basic retirement plan for unclassified employees at Regents schools.
tional companies be permitted to enter the retirement program, which now is limited to TIA4-CREF, the Teachers Insurance and Equities Association and College Retirement Equities Fund.
The subcommittee is to reconsider its proposal because none of the three recommended companies, Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity National, and Uniimmunical, is based in Kansas.
The subcommittee is to consider adding a Kansas company as an option, substituting one of the companies for a Kansas company or leaving the proposal as it is.
REGENT JORDAN HAINES said, "I'd feel better if we had a Kansas-based company as an option. If I were a faculty member, I might why a Kansas company wasn't included."
Carol Proffer, a consultant working with the Regents committee, said that the committee had already determined that the only Kansas company that was qualified was Security Benefit Life. But the committee had decided that the other three companies provided better options.
Dykes, who is president and chief executive officer of Security Benefit Life, left the meeting during the discussion of the retirement plan.
Also, the Regents Academic Affairs and Special Programs Committee approved a KU request to waive a Regents policy prohibiting the payments of advertisement costs from centers to allow the University of Kansas Medical Center to use hospital revenue for advertising.
THE MED CENTER plans to use approximately $35,000 of hospital revenue next year for the expansion of its services.
New Life Christian Fellowship member Kenton Oglesby, Overland Park freshman portrays Jesus Christ in a re-enactment of the crucifixion. The New Life group presented the dramatization yesterday on Wescoe Beach as part of the Christian celebration of Holy Week.
Panel approves Union fast-food plan
The Student Senate University Affairs Committee last night approved a petition asking the Kansas Union Memorial Board to include a restaurant in its planned renovation of the屋.
By CINDY HOLM
The Senate will vote on the petition at its meeting Wednesday.
Staff Reporter
The committee voted 8-7 to accept the petition after Russ Ptacek, nenemaker senator, presented architectural drawings from Burger King. The group also recommended that a franchise on the third floor of the Union.
PTACKE, WHO HAS been negotiating with Burger King and McDonald's since October, said that a fast-food restaurant in the Union would be required to accept all meals from Fionn's business by bringing in more students.
He also said profits from the restaurant possibly could be used to offset the price of
A fast-fool restaurant franchise would sign a five-year contract with the Union and would pay a royalty fee of $30,000.
Russ Ptacek, student senator
'The Union is planning to renovate anyway, so why not let someone else pay for it?'
"The Union is planning to renovate anyway," he said, "so why not let someone else not for it?"
Long said that the proposal, modeled on the food service system at Hallmark Cards Inc. in Kansas City, Mo., would offer the same services but would increase the menu.
Jim Long, director of unions, said the Union Memorial Board already had drafted a proposal to renovate the Union Food Services but had not yet approved it.
UNDER THE PROPOSAL' he said, the Union would offer a short-order line, a sit-down restaurant, a deli, a bakery, a soup-and-salad restaurant, a line that would later cater to students' preferences.
Long said he supported the memorial board's present proposal because 'control of food and water' is important.
Union would earn profits and control food service hours.
Long said the Union Memorial Board would make the final decision on the food service renovation plan when it finished tabulating a list of faculty, staff and staff about the present service.
Anne Stucker, graduate student senator and a member of the committee, said she thought a fast-food restaurant could be incorporated into the Union's proposal.
IN OTHER ACTION, the committee sent a
e-mail to the entire senior students to
support KU athletics.
Robyn Nordin, chairman of the Student Sports Council and co-author of the resolution, said that if students didn't buy tickets, the University of Chicago Corporation would offer the tickets to alumni.
Stucker, who is also a member of KUAC, said she thought the Senate should "unequivocally defeat" the resolution because of the recent reduction of student representation on KUAC.
The KUAC voted on April 10 to reduce the size of the board from 21 to 17 voting members. Student representation was reduced from four to three.
FBI says crime has declined as 'baby boom' children age
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The FBI announced yesterday-day the biggest drop in serious crimes reported to police in 23 years, a 7 percent decline that experts say is the aging of the crime-prone "golf" offense.
The FBI's preliminary figures for its annual uniform crime reports, which are subject to revision, showed declines in all crimes counted, including the part of the country and in every size community.
This is the third year that the FBI has reported a drop in the number of crimes after an all-time high was reached in 1880. In 1881, the bureau reported a statistically insignificant decline of 3 percent. In 1862, the number of crimes dropped by 3 percent, the most significant decrease since 1977.
The FBI's preliminary figures for its annual uniform crime reports, which are subject to revision, indicated that in Kansas City, Kan., rapes increased by 35.2 percent from 1982 to 1983, and burglaries by 38.7 percent, robberies increased by 8 percent and burglaries increased by 12.5 percent.
STATISTICS SHOWED that rapes, robberies and burglaries increased by significant amounts in some major Kansas cities last year, bucking a trend toward a decrease in serious crimes.
Wichita statistics indicated several significant drops, including a 16 percent decrease in murders, an 18 percent decrease in rapes, a 21 percent drop in robberies, a 10 percent drop in
In Topeka, raps increased by 25 percent, robberies increased by 20 percent, aggravated assaults increased by 12 percent and burglaries increased by 14 percent. Those dropped from six reports in 1982 to five in 1983.
See CRIME, d. 5, col. 2
Douglas County water supply contains pesticide, profs say
Staff Reporter
By ROBIN PALMER
Traces of a common pesticide farmers spray on grain crops are often washed into Douglas County water reserves by frequent rain storms or erosion, two KU researchers said recently.
"The pesticide levels are certainly not a health hazard, but they were not expected," said Dennis Lane, associate professor of civil engineering and one of the two KU professors who has spent four years researching pesticide run-off.
The pesticide, atrazine, was found in a northeast Kansas public water supply two years ago. State water officials will not give the exact location.
Before 1982, atrazine had never been found in a public water supply in Kansas and had only been found in a few other places in the United States.
LOW CONCENTRATIONS of the pesticide have been found in the Kansas River, in the section of the Wakarausa River that does not flow into Clinton Reservoir and in underground water reserves in the county, said Don Sneeth, of the Topeka Bureau of Water Protection.
Snethem said that the bureau had not detected traces of the pesticide in Clinton Reservoir when a water leak occurred.
Snethen said that no state drinking water standard had been set for atrazine, which many farmers spray on corn, milo and wheat. The most common on used across the country
The professors' are hoping to discover the main causes of soil erosion and water pollution
FOUR YEARS AGO, professor Lane and David Parr, also an associate professor of civil engineering, began studying water pollution and soil erosion. They are currently working to develop a new Agency model that measures the pesticide concentration in water and the amount of soil erosion.
from pesticides and then study and measure those causes in a field study.
They conduct their research with a 16-foot-long flume filled with soil. The soil is covered with atrazine, and water is then washed through the flume into the soil and is measured for atrazine concentration.
Lane said that some of their findings revealed weaknesses in the EPA model.
FOR EXAMPLE, the depth at which the pesticide diffuses into the soil as it reacts with water is not considered in the EPA model, he said.
The deeper the water and the pesticides penetrate the soil, he said, the greater the concentration of pesticide run-off in the soil and water reservoirs.
water reactions.
He also said that the EPA computer model, which used a model designed only to measure soil erosion, was faulty because the EPA used the model to measure the reaction of pesticides with water and soil.
Lane said the model measuring the concentration and rate of pesticides made many assumptions about the functions of soil and that, according to his studies, were not true.
Lane said that the computer model required more than 100 different types of data on soil, pesticide and physical land characteristics, but it also needed important factors as rain velocity and soil quality.
THE EPA MODEL assumes that the removal of the pesticide from the soil is a function of the soil and not the water.
Parr said, "The EPA model works, but it needs improvements."
Lane said that the study could help farmers determine the efficiency of the pesticide they use and could prevent water pollution by improving cultivation practices.
The study could also help in developing new pesticides, Lane said, if enough information could be gathered to predict or prevent pesticide run-off.