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Friday morning, April 20, 1984
Libya demands that Britain end embassy siege
Protesters threaten to seek out revenge on Britons in Libya
LONDON — Col. Moammar Khadady 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."
By United Press International
Khadafy, an in interview broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp. and NBC News, also made veiled threats against Britons who had been killed. He 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 Traiki. TRAIK, 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 by 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 country. The people inside and search for guns and bombs.
A FOREIGN OFFICE official talked late Wednesday to the newly appointed chief of the Libyan mission, Mufatl Faituori, 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 Libvans.
"The police are showing steadiness, patience and resolve," said Leon Brittan, 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 to help it.
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 Lahdia and threatening revenge "beyond Libya" 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.
Panel appro
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The Student Senate University Affairs Committee last night approved a petition asking the Kansas Union Memorial Board to include a fast-food restaurant in its planned renovation of
Staff Reporter
The Senate will vote on the petition at its meeting Wednesday.
The committee voted 8-7 to accept the petition after Russ Ptacek, Nunenmaker senator, presented architectural drawings from Burger King to the commission. The commission would provide 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 convenient for students and would increase student numbers.
He also said profits from the restaurant possibly could be used to offset the price of
A fast-food restaurant franchise would sign a five-year contract with the Union and would pay for construction of the restaurant, Plateck said.
Discontinuance plan fails Regents review
By GRETCHEN DAY
Staff Reporter
EMPORIA — A section of a KU policy that outlines steps for the administration to take when cutting academic programs is unclear and the Board of Regents committee decided yesterday.
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 DISCONTINUANCE policy was developed after the Regents amended its tenure policy in 1882 to include program or unit education 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, which mandated 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
Sabbatical leaves will take faculty from art of Zen to tales of Chaucer
BY GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
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 traiping all over the world researching such topics as in Hong Kong and slavery in Jamaica.
Yesterday, the Board of Regents approved a KU recommendation to grant sabbaticals to 48 staff members.
ONE OF THESE faculty members, Stephen Addiss, associate professor of art history, will probably be scouring the temples and museum upon next spring to study Zen monk paintings.
Addiss said he would discuss with Japanese monks and other scholars the meaning of Zen monk paintings, poetry and calligraphy between the years of 1600 and 1925. His research will culminate in a book on the art form.
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,
Before they pack their bags, however, faculty members must go through an extensive application process to gain ap-
See SABBATICALS, p. 5, col. 1
thought it was clear that the chancellor had final authority.
"We have a document we all think we can live with," Cobb said.
tional companies be permitted to enter the retirement program, which now is limited to THA-CREEF the Teachers Insurance and College Retirement Eunice Fund.
The subcommittee is to reconsider its proposal because none of the three recommended companies, Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity National, and Uniommutual, 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
1984OLYMPICS:
University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1984
Cliff Wiley
continued from p. 12
Here is a look at the former Jayhawks who will be vying for a spot on the Olympic team:
be honored at the Relays. David Blutcher, Kevin Newell and Jay Wagner were the other members of that team.
CLIFF WILEY, 400-meter dash:
If the United States had gone to the Games in 1980, Wiley said he probably would not be competing now.
Oerter, at age 47, is the elder statesman among the Olympic hopefuls who are
Wiley, who earned a law degree from KU last spring, said that his workout schedule is much more strenuous now that he has postponed his law career and is directing all his energies toward making it easier to pass that said that it was "the chance of a lifetime."
AL OERTER, discus:
Wiley, who qualified for the 1980 Games in the 200, was ranked first in the United States in the 400 the past two years and first in the world in 1981. He won the 400 gold medal at last summer's Pan-American Games with a time of 45.02 seconds, and he has a personal-best time of 44.70.
Former Jayhawks are in the pack
"I don't know what it will take to make the Olympics, but I'm of a mind that I can run whatever it takes." Wiley said. "Several athletes in the U.S. can run right at my PR (personal record), but I think I can run much faster than that."
former Jayhawks and has already won four Olympic gold medals, the last one in 1988. He returned to competition in 1976 and won it twice, the almost qualified for the Olympics in 1980.
Known as a performer who peaks during Olympic years, he was ranked 9th among discus throwers in the United States last year by Track and Field News.
"I'll be interesting to see what happens," he said. "A qualifying throw could be easier."
Oerter, who has a personal best in the discus of 227 feet, 11 inches and whose best throw last year was 222.9, said the strict drug testing that will be used at this year's trials may make for some unpredictable results in the discus competition.
track and Field News, in its February issue, said in a preview of the Olympic Trials discuss competition that "some insiders feel the mere presence of Oerter will give some psychological fits, causing a blowup or two."
"The main advantage I have over my competition is not having anything to prove." Otert said. "I can relax and enjoy the experience of the trials and games."
STAN WHITAKER, 800:
Whitaker qualified for the 1980 trials in the 400, but he said he switched to the 800
See OLYMPICS, p. 14
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