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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
By United Press International
LONDON — Col. Moammar Khadhy 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, in an interview broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp. and NBC News, also made veiled threats against Britons who had been healed. 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 situation."
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, JANA, the Libyan news agency, said a man expressed a "common desire... to deal 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, Khadiya 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, and people inside and search for guns and bombs.
A FOREIGN OFFICE official talked late Wednesday to the newly appointed chief of the Libyan mission, Mufahf Tuitori, 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 Libyans.
"The police are showing steadiness, patience and resolve," said Leen 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 for a charter.
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 limits" against an estimated 8,500 Britons in
Several hundred people chanted slogans and shook their fists in the midday-demonstration, which diplomats believed was government-sponsored.
Panel approc
By CINDY HOLM
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
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 Union.
The Senate will vote on the petition at its meeting Wednesday.
The committee voted 8-7 to accept the petition after Russ Ptacek, nominator senator, presented architectural drawings from Burger King on Tuesday. The board approved a frame for 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 a new business. Union's business by bringing in more students.
A fast-food restaurant franchise would sign five-year contract with the Union and would pay for construction of the restaurant, Placeck said,
He also said profits from the restaurant possibly could be used to offset the price of tequila.
Discontinuance plan fails Regents review
By GRETCHEN DAY
EMPERORIA — 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.
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 training 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 she said 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
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 trapping all over the world researching such topics as the role of slavery in homes in Hong Kong and slavery in Jamaica.
Yesterday, the Board of Regents approved a KU recommendation to grant sabbaticals to 48 faculty members.
ONE OF THOSE faculty members, Stephen Addiss, associate professor of art history, will probably be scouring the temples and Japanese next spring to study Zen monk painting.
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 tnai 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 TIAA-CREF, the Teachers Insurance and Association and College Retirement Equities.
The subcommittee is to reconsider its proposal because none of the three recommended companies, Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity National, and Unimmutual, 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.
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Dykes, who is president and chief executive officer of Security Benefit Lifet, left the meeting in Boca Raton on Friday.
Kansas Relays enjoy colorful history
Also, the Regents Academic Affairs and
By JAN SHARON Staff Reporter
The crowds, color and track stars drew Raymond Nichols, then a KU freshman, to the dirt track at KU's newly constructed campus. Two years ago to see the first Kansas Relays.
Since that time, Nichols, who was KU chancellor from 1972 to 1973, has gone to most of the Relays, but he says the early days of the meet were especially exciting.
"There was a newness to it," he said.
"To a young man from western Kansas who had never seen anything like that, the girl was not sure of all that sort of thing was thrilling to me."
The Relays, too, were new in 1923, had the idea for the meet had indeed on the ground.
IN 1920, John Outland, a former KU student and athlete, returned to KU from the University of Pennsylvania, where he had earned his degree in medicine, with the idea of starting a Kansas version of the Penn Relays.
Not until Memorial Stadium was completed in 1923 as a memorial to the 129 KU faculty, staff and students who died in World War I did Outland's idea take form.
Only once since the stadium was completed were the Relays held in locations other than the stadium. In 1978 a $1.8 million stadium renovation project scattered the Relays to five sites in Kansas and two others as a center of the Relays events in Norman, Okla.
Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, KU's athletic director, made certain back in 1923 that
KU had used McCook Field, north of Memorial Stadium, before 1923. The new stadium was better suited for track and field events than McCook Field.
Soviet account of 1983 Relays praises Kansans' peace efforts
By the Kansan Staff
Last April, 14 Soviet athletes came to the University of Kansas, by invitation of Athletes United for Peace (AUP), to compete in the Kansas Relays.
AUP is a Lawrence organization founded by Bob Swan, a local insurance executive, to promote peace between unions and the United Union through competition in athletics.
The organization sent an invitation to the Soviet Union Jan. 13, 1983, asking that the Soviets send a track team to compete in the Kansas Relays.
At first the Soviets declined the invitation. However, after numerous people, including Lawrence school children, wrote letters encouraging the Soviets to not notified Swan and Mark Scott, executive director of AUP, that a Soviet track
team would be competing in the Relavs.
The Soviet delegation of athletes was headed by Elana Petushkova, vice chairman of the National Olympic Council of the Soviet Union.
THE FOLLOWING is an account of last year's Kansas Relays, written by Petushkova, which appeared in the May 14, 1983, issue of Soviet Sport. Soviet Sport has a circulation of more than 4,000,000, making it the most widely read sports magazine in the world.
"Lawrence: The Friendship Relay."
"The Russians are coming!" proclaimed the large red letters spread across the poster's white background. And underneath in smaller print, "In Peace. To the Kansas Relays."
Here in the state of Kansas, in the
See SOVIETS, p. 7, col. 3
the track at the stadium would be satisfactory.
The new track was not perfect, however. It was a dirt track, and it turned into a mire every time it rained. And it rained often.
MEMORIAL STADIUM, when it was first completed, had a track with the fourth longest straight-away in the world. Harvard, Yale and Princeton were longer.
Records show that hard rains and high winds were reported at the 1923, 1926, 1929.
IN 1969, Jim Hershberger, a former KU
athlete and owner of oil holdings and an oil
manufacturer, was one of the first
women in baseball.
Because rain has been an almost constant companion of the Relays since the first year, the dirt track has been a problem at past Relays.
1932, 1947, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1974,
1975, and 1768 Relays. Although extremely severe weather was only recorded in these years, it has rained or drizzled during almost every Relays, including last year's.
University for the installation of an allweather crack was com-
pleased with the time for the project.
Many great track athletes have run on the Memorial Stadium Track
Glenn Cunningham, the 'Elkart Express' was called 'Kamass' greatest sports figure.
He held the 1,500-meter, indoor mile and
1,000-yard run world records in 1934.
In 1932 and 1936, he was a member of the United States Olympic teams and won the silver medal in the 1938 Olympic 1.500. In 1938, he ran the fastest mile that had ever been run by man with a time of 4:04.4.
The roster of great KU runners includes Wade Santee, a member of the 1982 U.S. national team, and August 1982
BY 1952, he had a series of 48 sub-4-10
miles. Six of them were anchors on艇
board.
Santee won six outstanding performer awards — two at each stop on the Midwestern Relays circuit, which is made up of the Texas, Kansas and Drake Relays.
He clocked his best time of 4:00.5 in the Jerry Thompson Mile at the 1955 Texas Relays, which was a U.S. record. Jim Ryun and Bill Dotson were the only KU milers who were able to better Sanitee's time in the mile run while at KU.
Also in 1955 Santee set in Boston the world indoor record in the mile with a time of 32.768 seconds.
He set the world record with 3:51.3 in the
See HISTORY, p. 7, col.1
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