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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 Khadab 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 velled threats against Britons who attacked him. He said that now they were in good condition.
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 policeman and wounded 11 anti-Khadafy protesters.
But, he said, "Our people are very, very angry and we hope we can control this
OLIVER MILES, the British ambassador in Tripoli, yesterday met the head of the Libyan Foreign Ministry, Abdulsalam Trakii, 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, Khadad blamed Britain for the shooting on Tuesday, which prompted authorities to surround the Libyan Embassy with police sharpshooters and anti-terrorist
"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. It is no wonder people inside and search for guns and bombs.
But the government insisted it could wait out the Libvans.
A FOREIGN OFFICE official talked late Wednesday to the newly appointed chief of the Libyan mission, Mufatf Hitouri, and said Britain "urgently" wanted to know from the Libyan government whether police could enter the building.
"The police are showing steadiness, patience and resolve," said Leon 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 help.
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" an assault 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-sonsored.
Panel approc
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 fastfood 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, nenumerator senator, presented architectural drawings from Burger King and The Capital Building for a franchise on the third floor of the Union.
PTACEK, HOW 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 include students.
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, Placek 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 Committee Board of Regents committee decided westerly.
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 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. Budg in February approved the KU policy, which required governance had been designing 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 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 men.
ONE OF THOSE faculty students, Stephen Addiss, associate professor of art history, will probably be scouring the temples and museums next spring to study Zenon monk paintings.
Addiss 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.
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
"We have a document we all think we can live with," Cobb said.
thought it was clear that the chancellor had final authority.
tional companies be permitted to enter the retirement program, which now is limited to TIAA-CREF, the Teachers Insurance and College Retirement Equities Fund
The subcommittee is to reconsider its proposal because none of the three recommended companies, Acta Life Insurance and Annuity National, and Union mutual, 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 Bonte Lifet, left the meeting on Wednesday.
Also, the Regents Academic Affairs and
University Daily Kansan, April 19. 1984
BILLY MILLS
KU finally recognizes one of its own champs
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By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
Although Mills twice won the Big Eight Cross Country Championship while at KU, he said that his performance and motivation were hindered by the different environment he encountered at the University.
The pre-gold medal period included growing up in the poverty and despair of the Oglala reservation, being orphaned at the age of thirteen, following a family tradition by enrolling at Haskell Institute in Lawrence in念念ening his first non-native environment at KU, and joining the Marine Corps after graduating from KU in 1962.
Visitors strolling through the first floor of Allen Field House can gaze at portraits of former University of Kansas athletic greats such as Wilt Chamberlain, Jo White, Gale Sayers, Jim Rynn and Al Oterer. These portraits, more than 100 in all, represent the members of the KU Athletic Hall of Fame.
One former KU athlete whose accomplishments are as great as, perhaps greater than, many in the Hall of Fame, is missing from the field house gallery. His name is Billy Mills.
Mills is a former Olympic gold-medal winner in the 10,000-meter run — the only American ever to win the event in the Olympics; a former 6-mile world record holder, and a member of the Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame, the Kentucky Hall and Field Hall of Fame and the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. Yet he is not in the KU Hall of Fame.
That situation will be rectified Saturday when Mills, a distance runner on the KU track team during 1988-1981, is inducted into the KU Hall of Fame. After that, his sharp, sword-like blade held eeld house walls along with all the other Jayhawk elegs.
One person he at kU was a woman from Coffeville named Pat Harris, whom he married in January 1962.
Mills, who was born on the Oglala Sioux Indian reservation in Pine Ridge, S.D., said that being inducted into the Hall of Fame meant a lot to him because "any time I'm being honored, that's another opportunity for the general public to better understand me and my people."
Mills' life can be neatly divided into a pre-gold medal and post-gold medal period.
Members of the Hall of Fame previously were inducted on the basis of their athletic achievements at KU. Mills' greatest achievements came after he graduated from KU, so the criteria for considering athletes for the Hall of Fame were revised to include Olympic victories after an athlete has left KU.
"It was a culture shock. I had always been taught to respect other people, but I had not been taught how well non-Indian people would respect me," Mills said. "But there was acceptance in rejection. I couldn't get into the school. I would accept, but because of that I met some people who would accept me, and I built up some beautiful friendships."
Mills said he fulfilled a lifelong dream when he joined the Marine Corps.
"It's my feeling, and it may or may not be shared by others, that an Indian who joins the military commands extreme respect on the reservation," he said.
It was while he was in the Marine Corps that Mills stepped up his training in anticipation of the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Mills, who hadn't been picked to finish even in the top six in the 10,000, won the race in dramatic style by overtaking pre-race favorite Ron Clarke of
The victory was a surprise to everybody except Mills.
Australia and Mohamed Gammoudi of Tunisia in the final 50 meters.
Mills proved that his Olympic triumph wasn't a fluke by winning the 6-mile at the 1965 AAU Championships and setting a world record in the process.
"I had written in my workbook book, 'Win gold medal in 10,000 meters,' he said. "In the eyes of society, I had gone from being an unknown to an Olympic champion almost overnight. Nowhere in my life has society given me an opportunity to be myself. By winning the gold medal, I found out who I was."
Mills says that he doesn't tire of talking of his Olympic triumph because it gives him an opportunity to make people more aware of the struggles that the American Indian has had to face and to show what the American Indian was capable of if given the chance.
Toward that end, Mills arranged to have the Ermineksin Indian Band of Alberta, Canada, finance a film of his life called "Running Brave." It was released in November and stars Robbie Benson.
"I wanted to make the movie with the idea that it might give the audience a better understanding of not necessarily my life but of reservation life in general," he said.
The gold medal changed Mills' life, he said that a ring made of Black Hills gold, presented to him in 1965 by the Ogala tribe in honor of his Olympic victory, meant much more to him. He has worn it ever since.
“In a sense, the Black Hills gold ring goes to the core of my existence,” he said. “The inscription on it says ‘Most of the the Black Hills gold that you will never hold.’”
He said that the inscription refers to the occupation of Oglala lands in the Black Hills by the U.S. government when gold was discovered there in 1876.
Injuries and technicalities prevented Mills from competing in the 1968 Olympics. During 1971-74 he was an administrator with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and he is active today in the Billy Mills India Youth Leadership Program. He lives now in Sacramento, Cal., where he works as an insurance executive.
“Although I choose to live in Sacramento, I’m still an Oglala,” he said. “I don’t feel I have to live on the reservation to be an Oglala. I belong to two nations. I belong to the Oglala nation and a proud of that, and I belong to the Oglala nation as well.”
Mills makes frequent trips to the Pine Ridge reservation where he was born. Over the years, he has grown used to seeing fellow members of his tribe losing hope and succumbing to a world of alcoholism and apathy, but he said that the situation is beginning to change.
“In the past year or so, I've seen a tremendous effort on the part of tribal leaders to take control in regards to preventing alcoholism,” he said. “That's exciting.”
Mills has always been accepted on the reservation. When he first came to the University of Kansas in 1987, people weren't so ready to accept him. That won't be the case when he returns this weekend, however. His alma mater will welcome him back with open arms, Hall of Fame portrait in hand.