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The University Daily
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 100 (USPS 650-640)
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Wednesday morning, February 15. 1984
Druse militia batters Lebanese forces
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Druse Muslim militiamen broke through Lebanese army lines and advanced to the sea yesterday after battling in a “holy war” down mountains overlooking Beirut despite two bombardments from U.S. warships.
"The Drushe have arrived at the coast and have captured two to three miles of the coast road north and south of Khalee, "7 miles of central Beirut, a French witness said.
The 5-inch guns of the U.S. 6th Fleet ships off the Lebanon coast opened up after dark in support of the government's battered army under the dawn barrage, Christian Phalange radio said.
In another development, the newspaper An Nahar reported that President Amin Gemayel had proposed sweeping reforms that would give Muslims broader parliamentary representation and would curb religious information and disarm all Lebanese militias.
The newspaper described the 28-point package as a "supplement" to Gemayel's televised speech Sunday night in which he criticized the US government for an effort to halt the nation's slide into civil war.
The proposals call for disbanding all armed militias, including the 15,000-man Christian Phalange miltia headed by the president's father. Pierre Gernemel.
An Nahar said Gemayel also offered to establish a new parliament, changing the current 6-5 Christian-Muslim ratio to give Muslims half of the 99 seats.
The proposals would also eliminate religious references from Lebanese identity cards and government files to help stop religious discrimination in government.
Druse militia leader Waid Jumblatt was reported Monday as rejecting the 28-point order.
Prime Minister Cheftik Wazzaan, a Muslim,
resigned 10 days ago, plunging the government
into a crisis.
BEIRUT Lebanon—A French soldier serving with the multinational force in Beirut carries a crying child across the "Green
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 3
Soviet leader talks to Bush after funeral Powers' relations need new 'path,' Chernenko says
By United Press International
Bush also delivered a message from President Reagan to Cherenko yesterday. Bush would not reveal the contents of Reagan's letter to Cherenko, elected Monday to head the Soviet Communist Party following the death of Cherenko's predecessor, Yuri Andronov.
MOSCOW — Vice President George Bush said yesterday that he and Konstantin Chernenko, the new leader of the Soviet Union, agreed on the ties between the constructive path" in ties between the superpowers.
Reagan sent Bush to Moscow to attend Andropov's funeral.
Bush said, "The message conveyed the president's determination to move forward in all areas of our relationship with the Soviets, and to promote productive discussions in every one of them."
Bush said Chernenko "agrees about the need to place our relationship upon a more constructive basis."
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said Chernenko told Bush that U.S.-Soviet ties should be based on equality and equal security, mutual trust and friendship, and non-interference in each other's internal affairs.
"A display by the American side of practical readiness to adhere to these principles would make it possible to start the righting of relations between the two countries," Tass said.
Chernenko, 72, met with Bush and other delegates after delivering a eulogy of Andropov saying he was "a glorious son of the
Gov. Carlin adopts federal EDB policy for grain and food
See SOVIET. p. 5. col. 1
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By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
In response to health concerns about the pesticide ethylene dibromide, Gov. John Carlin yesterday adopted a policy based on federal guidelines that sets acceptable residue levels for Kansas grain and food products.
Carlin's decision comes less than two weeks after the Environmental Protection Agency established EDB residue levels and declared an emergency suspension of the use of EDBs as a fumigant for stored grain and grain milling machines.
Farmers have been using pesticides that contained EDBs since the 1940s to kill pests in stored grain and in grain milling machines, and to rid citrus cross of fruit flies.
Recently the EPA became concerned over the health risks involved with the chemical, which was found to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
Fifty grain samples have been taken, Hollowell said. Two from Wichita contained no
Last week, the Kansas Cabinet Subcommittee on Agriculture and Environment recommended that Carlin adopt the EPA guidelines. Carlin approved all the recommendations.
Mike Swenson, Carlin's press secretary, said that the governor formed the panel Feb. 3 to determine how the state should respond to the threat of chemical in pesticides used to fumigate stored grain.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has sent letters to 52 food manufacturers and grain millers in Kansas to comply with the new guidelines, Swenson said.
Joseph Hollowell, director of the department's Division of Health and a member of the panel, said that department workers have started checking grain and food products from grocery store shelves across the state for EDB contamination.
detectable levels of EDBs. Results from the rest of the samples are not yet known.
William Ruckelshaus, director of the EPA, set acceptable levels of EDBS at 900 parts per billion for raw grain, 150 parts per billion for intermediate level products, such as flour and cake mixes, and 30 parts per billion for processed and ready-to-eat foods. States may use the levels to determine which products have been contaminated by EDBS.
"The goal of the levels that EPA recommended is to drive down levels of EDB to near zero over a 3-year period," said John Horton, the regional EPA office in Kansas City, Mo.
The EPA's Feb. 3 ban, along with the halting of EDB use for soil fumigation on Sept. 30, has stopped the flow of EDBs into the nation's grain supply, Horton said.
The use of EDBs in grain products concerns the EPA because they comprise 10 percent of the average U.S. citizen's diet, Horton said, whereas citrus fruits account for only 2 percent.
For that reason, Horton said, the EPA is not to ban the use of EDB for citrus fumigation
Furthermore, the EPA requires only imported citrus fruits and those fruits shipped into citrus-producing states to be fumigated. Horton advises that the EPA EB in citrus fruit fumigation would be difficult.
Although human studies have produced inconclusive results, Horton said that the EPA was concerned about the chronic effects of long-term exposure for people.
EDBs pose no immediate health threat, he said.
But because the EPA considers them a "presumed carcinogen," Horton said, the EDB bans were imposed to reduce the possibility of exposure.
Frank deNoyelles, KU professor of systematics and ecology, said, "What the state's doing is the reasonable thing. I think it's another case of a chemical we don't know everything about, like dioxin."
He said that until more research revealed what levels of EDB were dangerous, he would have had to conduct tests.
However, deNoyelles said, "We don't know if the levels are really safe, based on the knowledge we have now."
But David Frey, assistant administrator of the Kansas Wheat Commission in Hutchinson, said that recent public and government attention given to EDBs might have been an overreaction.
"I think for one thing that this whole EDB situation, when you look at it in perspective, has its own point."
"You can't find it in a finished product."
In a recent commission newsletter, Frey cited research that indicated that milling of grain reduced the EDB level measured in raw grain by 95 percent. When baked in a loaf of bread, the EDB level in the flour distilled another 95 percent.
Nonetheless, several states have banned the use of EDRs.
Predicted deficit spurs talk of increase in ticket prices
By MATT DeGALAN
Staff Reporter
With an estimated $300,000 to $500,000 budget deficit looming in the next fiscal year, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation increases ticket prices and trimming expenses.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said he was confident that alumni would come through with additional funds to help offset increased expenses
The projected deficit is based on a preliminary
base budget drafted by the athletic department. The $6 million budget for the next fiscal year is 17.5 percent higher than this year's operating budget.
Part of the increase is attributable to $201,000 in interest charges and $112,100 needed for expected maintenance of the Fred B. Anschutz athletic building now under construction.
Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager, said that the budget was only an early
Construction of schol hall should be finished by 1986
See BUDGET. d. 5. col.1
Construction will probably be completed within two years on a new women's scholarship hall approved this week by the University of Notre Dame, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said yesterday.
Budig said that the University would be studying possible sites for the scholarship hall during the next three to four months and that it eliminate a shortage of scholarship housing.
By TODD NELSON
Staff Reporter
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs at the university, administration did not have a faculty site on plan work.
"I don't know how much money or what it would be to duplicate one of the existing scholarships that I own."
"It would meet an important need." Budig said. "The scholarship halls are always full. There are no waiting days."
He said that the new hall would house about 50 residents. The University now has eight scholarship halls that house about 400 students, he said.
Because they share cooking and housekeeping responsibilities, the cost of living in a scholarship hall is less than the cost of living in a residence hall or most apartments.
Budig said the decision to construct the hall was made several weeks ago.
"Scholarship halls represent a bargain," Budig said. "They also offer an atmosphere conducive to strong scholarship."
Scholarship hall residents are chosen on the basis of their scholastic achievement in high school.
See BUILDING. d. 5. col. 4
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Mary Oehler, Lewis Hall resident director, presents a T-shirt and valentines to Curtis White. White, a 61-year-old jonitor at
Lewis Hall, was all smiles yesterday as residents honored him for his 25 years of service at the University of Kansas.
Kind hearts greet janitor on Valentine's Day
By PHIL ENGLISH
Staff Reporter
Every morning for the past 15 years, Curtis White has trudged into Lewis Hall for a routine day of cleaning trash chutes and mopping floors.
When White showed up at the hall at 7:50 a.m. yesterday, about 50 sleepy residents stood ready to greet him with hugs and Valentine's Day wishes.
But this Valentine's Day was different for the 61-year-old janitor.
Streamers, flowers and cards filled the lobby. A white banner, stretched above the crowd, read, "Our Lewis Hall Sweet Heart, Curtis White."
White, usually a boisterous man, said little
during the celebration. After the women had returned to their rooms she slipped quietly into the kitchen and went home.
"I can't believe what these girls did for me," he said. "I guess that's why I take care of them."
For 25 years, White has been tending to
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See WHITE, p. 5, col. 3
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