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University Daily Kansan, February 17, 1984 Page 8
Ethiopian Jews keep the faith
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
By MARY SEXTON
Falasahs, the black Jews trapped in the highlands of Ethiopia, are a people who ruled the highlands for three millennia. The blacks dates back to the time of Kina Solomon.
But few blacks or Jews know the plight of the 17,000 Jews who live in the United States.
In conjunction with Black History Month, Lisa Freund, congressional representative for the American Association for Ethiopian Jews, last night told the story of the poorest people in the sixth-proud nation in the world.
THE MOVIE, "Falasha: Agony of the Black Jews," was shown rare footage of the Falasahs in fly-infested villages in the hills of Ethiopia, a proud country in which the slogan "Ethiopia First" rings loud.
But Ethiopian Jews are Jews first,
'These people have worked so hard to keep a tradition that Jews in New York City have forgotten.'
- Lisa Freund of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews
and have faced religious persecution for more than 3,000 years because of their strict observance of their faith, Freund said.
Throughout history the Falashas have dreamed of going to Jerusalem, which they consider their spiritual home, she said.
"For these Jews a piece of them is missing if they are not allowed to go,"
The Marxist Ethiopian government
forbids the Jews to leave the country on religious pilgrimages, but last year an underground network succeeded in smuggling out more than 200 Fal-
The true origin of Ethiopian Jews is not known. Freund said.
But legend says that they are descendants of a union between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba or that they are descendants of the lost tribe of Dan, one of the original twelve tribes of Judah.
THE WORD FALASHA, meaning stranger or exile, is spoken as an insult to the Jews who have lived in the region until the 17th century and rushed the region until the 17th century.
Because of the uncertain details of their origins they have not until recently been accepted as Jews, she said.
"THESE PEOPLE have worked so hard to keep a tradition that Jews in New York City have forgotten," Freed said.
Changes at water plant considered
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence utility director said yesterday that he was considering three changes to improve safety at the Clinton Water Treatment Plant, in response to a fatal accident at the plant last month.
Roger Coffey, the director, said that he had discussed the ideas with City Manager Buford Watson, but that he did not submitted them as proposals left.
Coffey said he was considering
putting a railing or a ladder on the side of the plant's water basins and improving telephone communication between the city's utility plants.
THE IDEAS ARE the result of his conversations with workers following the death of a worker who fell into one of the plant's water basins, he said.
"Even though I may not know how or why it happened, we're just trying to look at things that might help us prevent this in the future," Coffey said.
In January, the body of one worker, Billy Lee Roberts, who was working an afternoon shift alone, was discovered by a worker from the next shift.
An autopsy indicated that Roberts had died of hypothermia, after being trapped in the cold water of the basin.
The tanks now provide no way for a worker who has fallen in to free himself. Adding a ladder or railing in or near the two basins at the Clinton plant would alleviate that problem, Coffey said.
He also said that he would like to improve telephone communication
He said that an employee at the Kansas River plant called the Clinton plant every two hours when a worker was there by himself.
Temperature fluctuations could destroy crops
By the Kansan Staff
Area winter wheat crops are starting to grow a month earlier than usual, leaving farmers worried that freezing temperatures could kill their crops.
Farmers in the Lawrence area said yesterday that an overnight freeze would not hurt the crops. However, below-zero temperatures could kill the
winter wheat because without snow
it is not insulated against
harsh weather.
If temperature swings continue to cause the ground to freeze and then thaw repeatedly, the wheat will die because the roots will be forced up from the ground, said Louie Kindred, a Eudora farmer.
DWANE SCHAKE, a Lawrence farmer, said that winter wheat was also
Wheat normally begins to grow in early March, he said, but February's unusually warm temperatures started the wheat's growth two weeks ago.
threatened by late spring freezes that could kill the head of wheat, the part that produces the grain.
Schake has 110 acres of wheat and all but 25 acres have started growing.
An early fall freeze prevented the 25 acres from growing.
Bill limits scrutiny of doctors
TOPEKA - Members of the Senate, shunning emotional pleas from some of its members, yesterday approved a bill that would close certain performance records of physicians named in malpractice lawsuits.
The bill, approved 38-2, would shore up the state's Health Care Provider Insurance Fund, established by court order in 1977 to cover malpractice claims against health care providers. State Sen Paul B. Wrichia, R-Wichita.
'Peer review' records closed under measure
By United Press International
The bill would double the minimum amount of coverage required for health care providers, establish a board of governors to review insurance claims and ensure the current insurance surcharges build on the fund. Hess said.
For the first time, a disciplinary administrator would be appointed by the state Board of Healing Arts to investigate cases where it appeared a physician or hospital was not performing up to standard. The disciplinary administrator would be allowed to obtain "peer review" information from a physician or hospital to help determine the quality of performance.
PEER REVIEW records are compiled by a group of physicians who review the way another physician or hospital handled a patient case — usually a difficult or fatal one — and then determine by a vote whether the patient appropriately or should have done something differently. The reports can exonerate a physician or find him or her at fault in the case.
Hess said the "most crucial public policy" in the bill would make all peer review records confidential.
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