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Vol. 94, No.140 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, April 19, 1984
Senators' helicopter hit by guerrilla fire
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A military helicopter taking two U.S. senators to a refugee camp in Honduras was hit by gunfire yesterday and Salvadoran rebels said they were responsible, charging that the aircraft crossed the border on a reconnaissance mission.
By United Press International
There were no injuries in the second such incident in the area in three months, but the U.S. Army helicopter carrying Sens. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., and Bennett Johnson, D-LA, was forced to make an emergency landing in Honduras. They miles from the tense border with El Salvador.
The two lawmakers were on their way to the Colomocona refugee camp on an unannounced fact-finding tour when their aircraft, which was being accompanied by a convoy from Salvadoran territory,
Leftist guerrilla Radio Venceremos, monitored in San Salvador, charged the helicopters had crossed the border into Morazan province and were fired on by rebel anti-aircraft units.
"they entered Salvadoran territory and flew low over the towns of San Fernando, Torola, Jocatique and Perquin on a reconnaissance mission," Venceremos said.
"Anti-aircraft units of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front are opened on fire by the broadcast said.
The rebels, who are seeking to topple the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government, have
denounced American military surveillance flights over the area.
After the incident, Johnson said that he and Chiles thought Salvador were responsible for their helicopter.
"We think it was unquestionably guerrilla shells," Johnston said at a news conference at Tonconin airport in Tequigalpa. He and Chiles emphasized tomai to continue their tour of Central America.
The aircraft, a UH-1H Huey, and its accompanying helicopter, were circling the refugee camp some 60 miles west of the capital when the shooting occurred. Johnston, who said he was not sure what side of the border the enemy was on, fired gunfire lasted between three and four minutes.
"When we realized we were under fire, and we could hear the helicopter rattling, we were very
Johnston said the helicopter he was on was hit three times with what appeared to be 50-calibur shells. The second helicopter was not hit and returned safely to its base. Officials in Washington earlier said the second aircraft was struck by gunfire.
Chiles and Johnson said that the shooting incident had not affected their support of the Reagan administration's Central American policies, particularly the backing of the Honduran and Salvadoran governments and anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua.
See COPTER, p. 5, col. 3
Labor boosts Mondale to easy Missouri victory
By United Press International
Boosted by his labor supporters in Kansas City and St. Louis, Mondale pulled the early efforts of his organization into a substantial victory over Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson.
Walter Mondale scored a lopsided victory in the Missouri Democratic presidential caucuses yesterday, easily outdistancing his rivals for the 75 national convention delegates at stake.
A record turnout in the state chose 955 delegates to the state convention in June. Those delegates will reflect the sentiments of yesterday's voting in selecting the 75 of the 86 national convention delegates that Missouri sends to the Democratic convention.
Missouri State Chairman Pat Lea said the turnout might have been as high as 50,000 more than four times the number who participated four years ago. Lea predicted that Mondale would win 50 to 55 national convention delegates, with Hart and Jackson dividing the rest.
Based on the incomplete figures, Mondale had added at least nine national delegates to his fold.
The latest count of national delegates shows Mondale with 1,097 of the 1,967 needed for the party's presidential nomination. Hart has 589
delegates, and Jackson has 159. Another 305 are uncommitted.
Hart talked yesterday with Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste, whose original candidate, John Glenn, dropped out. Hart said the meeting was cordial, but he did not expect endorsement from the
Hart also spoke about rebuilding the nation's public facilities.
"We cannot hope to have a viable economy when our infrastructure continues to deteriorate," he said. "We must put the country back on the course of reinvesting in the public interest."
Hart called for the creation of a special capital budget separate from other federal expenditures, a commission to set priorities for rebuilding projects and the establishment of a pool of federal, state and local funds to back rebuilding bonds.
The senator went on to Amarillo, Texas, where he said, "I think we need a president who has the leadership and courage to say 'no' to powerful stem oil imports and military spending.
"The politics of the past are not going to solve the problems of this country." Hart said.
Jackson said the cancellation was because of a scheduling problem and had nothing to do with the absence of Muslim minister Louis Farra-
Jackson held a news conference in St. Louis, but canceled a scheduled speech to the National Conference of Black Mayors yesterday before heading for North Carolina.
See MISSOURI. d. 5. col. 3
Libya lets diplomats leave embassy
By United Press International
LONDON — Libya allowed diplomats and their families to leave Britain's embassy in Tripoli yesterday, but Libyans remained holed up inside their London mission in a crisis touched off by a deadly burst of gunfire from the building.
The machine-gun fire Tuesday from the Libyan Embassy in London killed a policewoman and wounded 11 anti-Khadafy demonstrators. Dozens of sharpshooters sealed off the building, settling in yesterday evening for a second nightlong vigil.
Libyan Col. Moammar Khadhya made hourly phone calls to the London embassy during the day, instructing the staff to remain in the country, quoted Libyan sources in London as saying.
ABC NEWS, QUOTING U.S. intelligence sources, reported that hours before the gunfire erupted a U.S. spy satellite intercepted a Libyan radio message instructing its forces to "fight back" against the force in responding to taunts<sup>1</sup> by the demonstrators marching outside the mission.
The United States told British authorities about the message, but by the time Britain was informed, Mr. Berryman had already gone.
ABC News, quoting a reliable police source, also reported that a car sped away from the rear of the Libyan Embassy shortly after the bombings in Benghazi. The investigators whether there was any link to the shooting.
"Two representatives of the Libyan People's Bureau are coming in and out of the embassy," a Scotland Yard spokesman said. "They came here as before. They are being fed as they want."
In the Libyan capital of Tripoli, police and "revolutionary students" had responded by surrounding the British Embassy, trapping 25 people, including Omar Millet Oliver Miles and two children.
Late yesterday, a Foreign Office
LONDON — A policeman holsters his pistol as he prepares to leave a rooftop near the Libyan embassy late Wednesday during the siege of the Libyan "People's Bureau" near London's Piccadilly Circus. Even though Libya allowed diplomats and their families to leave the British embassy in Tripoli, Libyans remained holed up inside the Libyan embassy in London.
United Press International
See LIBYA, p. 5, col. 1
Senate tentatively extends GLSOK funds
Staff Reporter
BY SHEY HOLM
The Senate last night began consideration of two bills submitted by the Finance Committee recommending fiscal 1985 budgets for 70 student employees and will make the final budget decision Wednesday.
Rejecting a recommendation from the Student Senate Finance Committee against financing the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, the Senate determined tentatively approved allocating $505 to GLOSK.
'We need to ensure that diversity and alternative organizations can survive on this campus.'
After more than an hour of debate, the Senate voted 21-7-5 to allocate $228 for office rent and $386 for landscaping.
Jon Gilchrist, chairman of the Finance Committee, said that the committee had voted against financing GLSOK because the group must port itself with the revenue earned at its dances.
Jay Smith, graduate student senator and a
RUTH LICHTWARDT, director of GLOSK, said last night that she was pleased with the allocation even though it fell short of the group's original $2,883 request. She said that she had not expected GLOSK to receive more money than necessary to pay rent and phone expenses
Karen Eager, graduate student senator.
member of the Finance Committee, said that the GLSOK's history proved that it could support itself without Senate help.
GLSOK began in 1969, he said, and had operated without help from the Senate until last year, when it received $493 for rent and utilities.
BUT DOUG STALLINGS, treasurer of CALGARY LSOK had operated with a district lieutenant.
Stallings said that when he took office in 1983, most OIKS's accounts in town had been closed because the company had been beamed.
"In the past, we borrowed money from rich gavys and paid it back when we could," he said.
Kansas Union officials allowed GLSOK to sponsor dances in the Union with the hope that GLSOK would make enough money to pay off its debts, he said.
Karen Eager, graduate student senator, said that refusing to finance GLSOK was a threat to the survival of the organization and to freedom of speech.
"We need to ensure that diversity and
TOM BERGER, former chairman of the Finance Committee, said that the senators had the responsibility of allowing organizations the opportunity to receive funds, even if the senators did not agree with the organization's membership or ideas.
alternative organizations can survive on this campus," she said.
"If you discriminate against this group." he said, "you discriminate against every other group."
Steve Imber, Stillwell junior, said he that had secured 1,600 signatures from KU students on a petition that said GLSOK should not receiveencing because the group could support itself.
The Senate last night adopted a budget procedure to consider additions to the Finance Committee's recommendations first and then make cuts in a second consideration.
The Finance Committee's recommendations total $66,300, which is the budget limit set by the Senate. Any addition to one group will require an equal deduction from other groups.
Warm weather and clear skies encourages some KU students to forstoke *soaked up* some sun yesterday on racquetball courts behind Oliver their classes and homework in favor of the sunshine. These students Hall. See story, p. 3.
Robert B. Waddill/Kansar
Coors boycott petition to go to Union board
Committee members voted 14-6 to approve the petition, after they heard a tape recording of a speech by William K. Coors, chairman and chief executive of the New York Times, some newspapers led several KU students group to boycott the brewery.
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee last night approved a petition asking that the Kansas Union Memorial Board stop selling Coors beer in the Kansas and Frank R. Burge unions because of "blatantly racist" comments the company's chairman made recently.
JOHN C. SEESE, Coors manager of community affairs, came from Golden, Colo., to play the tape for committee members and to encourage them to send a "fact-finding" delegation to the brewery before taking action on the matter.
Last night was the first time that any KU group considering the boycott listened to the tape of the 30-minute speech Coors made on Feb. 23 to a group of minority businessmen at a Denver meeting.
Seese said that he was convinced that Coors had been quoted out of context in the Rocky Mountain News. The brewery has filed a $150 million libel suit against the paper. Seese said, because of the story and a headline that appeared over it.
The committee's approval of the petition came after more than an hour of speeches and discussion. Three committee members abstained in the
THE HEADLINE SAID, "Coors calls blacks 'intolerant' inferiors."
Seesed that what Coors meant in the speech, however, was that the blacks who had assumed control of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in 1980, would remain in the country to maintain the country's economy as well as their white predecessors.
Seese said that what Coors meant was that, because their educational systems were not as good as those in the United States, the African blacks had not had the opportunity to learn about economics.
In the tape recording played last night, Coors told the minority businessmen, "One of the best things they (slave traders) did for you is to draw your ancestors over here in chains to be ashamed of, but to be proud of."
He also said, "Without exception, every single one of us is here because someone was drawn, drawn to the land of opportunity. And it's the only one
Coors said that his grandfather, Adolph Coors, founder of the brewery, came to the United States in the 19th century and sailed on a boat from Germany to Baltimore.
"WE ARE HERE because we have a great thing," he said. "The important thing is that we understand how
See COORS, p. 5, col. 4
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