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Vol. 94, No. 137 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, April 16, 1984
Bomb kills diplomat in S. Africa
By United Press International
WINDHOEK, Namibia — A U.S. diplomat and his American military adviser were killed in a bomb blast yesterday when they stopped at a gas station on their way to meet officials monitoring peace between Angola and South Africa, authorities said.
Government officials blamed the South-West African Peoples Organization for the bombing although the guerrilla movement fighting for the government did not immediately say they were responsible.
In Washington, D.C., the State Department said the Americans were attached to the U.S. liaison office monitoring the disengagement of Angolan and South African troops from Namibia. Their names were withheld pending notification of relatives.
STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman Joanne Reams said the officials were on their way to the northern Namibian town of Oshakati for a briefing by South African military officials on progress of the Angolan-South African joint monitoring commission. The commission was formed Feb. 16 to oversee the disengagement of troops from Namibia.
Namibian Administrator-General Willy van Niekier said the bomb tore through a gas station in Oshakati when the Americans stopped for gas at 4:10 p.m.
Officials said one of the Americans died instantly and the other succumbed to serious illness.
Exactly how the device was detonated and its location at the gas station were not immediately clear.
See SWAPO, p. 5, col. 1
Jury acquits KKK, Nazis of 25 charges
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A jury yesterday acquitted nine Ku Klux Klansm and American Nazis of 25 federal charges of violating the civil rights of nonviolent members of the Klan” march in which five communists died.
By United Press International
The all-white jury cleared all nine defendants of conspiring to disrupt the rally and acquitted five of the men of other civil rights charges related to the deaths of the communists. The five had been previously cleared of state murder charges.
"I just thank I died and went to heaven," said Vigil Griffin, Grand Dragon of a Klan faction, after the verdict was read. "It was a clean blooded man." I thought it would be the day we walked in here."
RELATIVES OF THE VICTIMS were outraged by an all-white six-man, six woman federal jury.
"I am totally shocked and totally outraged," said Dale Samson, wife of one of the dead communists. She said selection of an all-white jury was to blame for the verdict.
"This is a green light for the Klan and Nazis to
See KLAN, p. 5, col. 1
BEIRUT. Lebanon — U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew talks with American University professor Frank Regier. Regier and French architect Christian Joubert, sitting next to Regier, were kidnapped in February and were released yesterday at the home of a Shiite Muslim leader.
Shiite Muslim saves two kidnapped men
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An American professor and a French architect, who were kidnapped more than two months ago, were freed yesterday in Beirut, where shelling forced a bar on outdoor windows. (N. Sunny)
In Tripoli, 42 miles north of Beirut, security sources yesterday said six children were killed and 15 people wounded when they were caught in gunfire between rival Muslim militias.
The fighting in Tripoli erupted about dusk, with the Pink Knights militia pitted against the Tawhead, a Sunni Muslim group that supported the Syrian government. The leader was forced to flee the city in December.
FRANK REGIER, an engineering professor at the American University of Beirut, and Christian Joubert, a French architect, were released from Shiite Muslim pulita taught Nebh Bahr home of Shiite Muslim pulita taught Nebh Bahr
"Regier was calm but the Frenchman was in a state of collapse," said a Lebanese journalist who declined to be identified "He was sobbing. He believed his eyes when he was shown Nabhu Herr."
Asked how he felt, Regier said, "There are a mixture of things.
"The main feeling is tremendous relief that this is over, because it was a terrible experience.
"We are absolutely delighted to have Frank and Joubert back." Bartholomew said. "Our happiness for them also has to be combined with our thoughts for the others who remain missing, and we hope to get them back as soon as possible."
BOTH MEN, ABDUCTED from the streets of predominantly Muslim west Beirut in February by unidentified gunmen, wore sandals and red-and-white striped pajamas during the news conference attended by U.S. Ambassador Ashraf Lahani and the French ambassador, charge d'affaires at the French Embassy
The role Berri played in their release was not immediately known.
and I certainly hope it never happens again. I'll do my best to see that it does not."
Regier, 56, a native of Montgomery, W.Va., and a Beirut resident for 27 years, was repeatedly taken into protective custody by the Embassy. The embassy refused to discuss his whereabouts.
Regier was abducted by a carlod of gunmen as he walked near the university Feb. 10, the day U.S. and British helicopters began evacuating foreigners after Muslim rebels drove the Christian-led army out of west Beirut four days earlier.
East Coast families seek out Midwestern nannies
Bv GRETCHEN DAY
Staff Reporter
Lori Shifter found the adventure she was looking for last summer amid the scattered toys of a rambunctious 2-year-old boy.
It wasn't the typical summer job. But Shifter, St. Louis senior, was looking for an alternative to grilling burgers or scooping ice cream for minimum wage.
So she packed her bags and headed for New
MONDAY MORNING
York, where she spent her summer weekdays taking 2-year-old Danny to the zoo, on picnics and to the neighborhood swimming pool. On weekends, she was free to explore the East
LIKE OTHER MIDWESTERN students, Shifter found that she was in demand on the East Coast, where families are looking for young mothers and five-in-mothers belpers for a summer or longer.
"We got along beautifully from the moment I
walked in the door," Shifter said of her summer with the family in Mamaronek, a suburb of New York City. "I adopted this boy for the summer. It was a wonderful experience."
Agencies and individuals on the East Coast, and other areas of the country, who have advertised in the University Daily Kansan for mothers' helps say Midwestern young people are in demand because they are more dependent than young people on the East or West Coast.
Vivian Chill, who lives in Manhattan, N.Y.,
will be visiting Wyoming to care for her 8-year-old son for a year.
"We were_looking for nice, wholesome people." she said.
Students from Eastern cities are more distracted and have more "hang-ups" she said.
CHILL ADVERTISED AT the University of Kansas, the University of Wyoming and at Brigham Young University for mothers' helpers because she said she thought students from the Midwest were more reliable and had more knowledge of the way children should behave.
"New York is a rather frenzied place to live," Chill said. "We're not calm individuals."
Chill's son has learning disabilities and is hyperactive, she said, and she thought that a more stable Midwestern would have a calming influence on him.
Christine Kijek, placement counselor for Overseas Custom Maid Agency in Stamford, Conn., said families on the East Coast wanted mothers' helpers from the Midwest because they were generally brought up in larger families and were more family oriented.
THE IDEA OF living in the East for a summer or a year is also attractive to some Midwestern students, she said, because they have the chance to study there and country they might never have visited before.
"Everybody's happy all the way around," she said.
The Overseas Custom Maid Agency places mothers' helpers with families all over the United States, Kijek said. Some families want more vacations in their United States or Europe.
Allenie Fisch, who operates an agency in Boston that places students with families for a year, said that students coming east to live with another family also had to be adventurous.
The East Coast is different from the Midwest, she said, and some Midwesterners have trouble adapting to the lifestyle.
"It's much more hectic, much more driven," Fisch said. "It is not laid back."
But for those who are adventurous, stable and have a sense of commitment, she said, a summer or a year on the East Coast can offer a few opportunities that might not exist in the Midwest.
SOME STUDENTS WHO, through Fisch's agency, commit themselves to working for a family for a year have time to take classes at one of several schools in Boston. she said.
Fisch said that she placed students mostly in comfortable suburban homes in the Boston area. The parents are usually professionals who work with enough some work work part-time or not at all.
Most mothers' helpers are required to attend to the children and do some light housekeeping, such as laundry, bed-making and cooking. Some may be required to go to work or car to run errands and take the children places.
See NANNIES, p. 5, col. 5
College to divide $300,000 to hire new faculty and TAs
By STEPHANIE HEARN
Staff Reporter
About $300,000 from the salaries of resigning faculty will be left over in next year's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences budget, but not all of it will be saved. Ms. Schwartz, an associate dean of the College said Friday.
Robert Adams, the associate dean, said about $55,000 of that money would be used to hire graduate teaching assistants instead of senior faculty.
"In the long run, we hope to replace all the teachers that left this year." Adams said.
But meanwhile, he said, "We can get an
bang for the buck by hiring graduate teaching
and training."
By hiring more teaching assistants, Adams said, the College will be able to increase the number of courses and the number of times a course is offered.
For the last two fiscal years, money from salary resignations was not available to the College because the money was taken away from KU by the Kansas Legislature.
Faculty vacancies in that time were not filled and the College had to reduce the number of courses available.
Teaching assistants will be instructing labs and elementary courses and tutoring. Adams
"We are removing a little expertise, but we think we can get away with it for a while," he said.
For example, he said, the salary money left
by a teacher in French professor will be
allocated to graduate students.
Although the department of French and Italian
might need another professor of that caliber, he said, the money would be used where it could serve students best - to create more course offerings.
Marlin Harmony, chairman of the department of chemistry, said his department had worked hard not to cut courses during the period of budget restrictions, but that it had eliminated one course and limited enrollment in freshman courses.
But Harmony said that the eliminated course would be reinstated in this fall's curriculum and that the freshman courses would "be full blast next year."
Two KU varsity women's crew teams compete as they row River. The Jayhawks won their fourth consecutive Big Eight underneath the Interstate 70 bridge spanning the Kansas Championship during Saturday's regoatta. See story n.14.
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Suspect's death doesn't end Kansas murder investigation
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Christopher Wilder's death Friday ended a nationwide manhunt for the fugitive, but Geary County, Kan., officials will continue to investigate a murder and rape they think he committed last month near Milford Lake.
Steve Opat, Geary County attorney, said county officials had not closed their case against
See related story, p. 2
Wilder, whom they charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, aggravated kidnapping and rape in the March 26 death of Suzanne W. Logan, 20, of Oklahoma City.
Wilder died from two gunshots to the heart that were fired simultaneously-from his own. 357 magnum revolver during a scuffle with a New Hampshire state trooper who had recognized him.
The 39-year-old millionaire — who was sought for the sexual torture, murder or disappearance of at least eight women — spent 36 hours of his life in prison. Mr. Chow has been a law enforcement officials in Kansas, Opat said.
"We want to make sure that we have the killer," Opat said. "I'm sure that the girl's parents would want us to do that and I'm sure that the general public would want us to do that."
"You just don't give up on a case like this."
Both the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Topeka and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kansas City, Mo., investigated Logan's claim after Officer Jeffrey Peterson yesterday on details of the investigation.
Wayne Berneking, Milford State Park manager, said that a passer-by in the park discovered the body and notified U.S. Corps of Engineers officials at the park. Corps of Engineers officials then contacted the Geary County Sheriff's Department in Junction City.
Both Opat and Berneking said that local reaction to Wilder's death had been a mixture of relief and dissatisfaction that Wilder had escaped responsibility for his actions. They said that Wilder's death would also make finding any other victims he might have left difficult.
Opat said that laboratory tests of evidence from Milford Lake, south of Manhattan, had not been finished yet, but that he was sure they would show that Wilder was responsible for the slaying.
"I think the majority of people that I talked to to like did," Bill said. "He's no menace to like." He would be more.
Wilder's death has left Opat with an "empty feeling." he said, because Wilder would never be prosecuted or punished for the crimes he alleyed committed.
"Obviously that's an easy way for him to end it." Opat said. "I am glad it's over but at the same time I'm sure that's not the way everybody wanted it to end."
Berneking said, "I think it saved the country a lot of money."
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