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Vol. 94, No. 98 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, February 13, 1984
Chernenko will lead Soviets,experts say
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Konstantin Cherenko emerged yesterday as the apparent successor to President Yuri Andropov, although the lack of an immediate announcement left unclear whether a power struggle might be flaring behind the Kremlin walls.
The lack of an announcement on the state-run television's Sunday evening news assured that the outcome would not be known before today, but officials reported that witnesses reportedly will meet for a special session.
Many diplomats, interpreting a Politburo peeking order they perceived in the latest official photographs of the mourners at Andropov's bier, thought that Chernenko, 72, would emerge as general secretary of the Communist Party.
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IF CHOSEN, CHERNENKO, WHO rose to prominence in the Kremlin hierarchy as the closest aide of President Leonid Brezhnev, would replace Andropov, who died Thursday at the age of 69 after only 15 months in power
the age of 52 after only 16 months.
Another indication of Cherenko's standing was his being chosen to organize the arrangements for tomorrow's state funeral, a job that Andropov was given after the death of Brezhnev in November 1982.
Leaders from around the world headed for Moscow to attend the ceremony in Red Square. Representing the United States will be Vice President George Bush, who said in London Sunday that the change of leadership in the Soviet Union should provide the West a chance to better its relations with Moscow.
BUSH SAID AT A NEWS conference that although President Reagan was not attending Andropo's funeral, he would be willing to meet the new Soviet leader.
He said the United States did not expect major changes in Moscow. "Most people who have studied the Soviet Union know there's a certain continuity to the thing," Bush said. "That is not to say directions can't change."
Among other leaders expected are British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Chinese Vice Premier Wan Li, Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Chairman Yasser Arafat will represent the Palestine Liberation Organization and Egypt will be represented by Mandhu Salah, a former prime minister who is assistant to President Hosni Mubarak, who is in Washington.
DIPLOMATS VIEW CHINA'S representative
Soviet policy with U.S. won't change,profssay
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Konstantin Cherenkeno, if chosen to replace Soviet President Yuri Andropov, will be a conservative leader whose policies toward the United States will change little from the past, two KU professors said yesterday.
Despite the conservative stance, a U.S.-Soviet summit will be more likely under new leadership than it was with Andropov in office, said Roy Laird, professor of political science and Soviet and East Asian studies.
Both countries, he said, will probably seize Andronco's death as an opportunity to meet.
OTHERWISE, LARRD SAID, SOVIET politics under Cherenkov will be "business as usual."
"Soviet leadership, by most definitions, is one of the most conservative leaders in the world."
In the Soviet gerontocracy, he said, "the men are cut from the same cloth."
Andropov, 69, died Thursday after serving 15 months as Soviet leader.
months as Soviet leader. Chernenko will be an extension of past Soviet policies, Laird said, and at 72, probably will not be in office long enough to influence Soviet affairs the way that Stalin, Kruschev or Brezhnev did.
Breznew did.
In the Soviet Union, Laird said, the older, ruling generation doesn't like to bring new blood into the Politburo, the chief policy making body.
THE OLDER GENERATION is wary of younger politicians because they have not proven themselves to be clever and hardworking in Soviet politics, he said. Therefore, the top political replacements are generally older, established members of the party.
"They don't want change — they don't want to rock the boat," he said.
tock the Norman Saul, professor of history and Soviet and East Asian studies, said that selecting Chernenko as a transitional leader indicated that the older Soviet leaders wanted more time to test the next generation's ability to rule.
The older group is still in control and is quite conservative, he said.
conservative, he said. "They resist any major change," he said.
"They relied on the SAUH SAU H EXPECTED a reduction in hard-lined rhetoric, chances for a U.S. Soviet summit before the U.S. presidential election in November are slim."
election in November.
He said he expected that "mini-summites" between Soviet and Western leaders would precede a more significant U.S.-Soviet summit.
Despite a lack of communication between Andropon and President Reagan, Saul said, U.S.-Soviet relations have relaxed. He cited the Soviet Union's decision to send athletes to the summer Olympics in Los Angeles as an example of the calmer atmosphere between the two super powers.
The Soviets will be more concerned with internal economic problems than with improving relations with the United States, Saul said.
Inside an ambulance, Kindling, 3110 Briarwood Circle,
Topeka, has his blood pressure taken by a Douglas County Am-
balance Service attendant Kindling suffered minor injuries when a cabinet of tear gas exploded Friday night at Gunnison's.
Hypnosis may help in tear gas incident
By TODD NELSON and JILL CASEY Staff Reporters
A Lawrence police officer will undergo hypnosis today in an attempt to describe a man suspected of exploding a canister of tear gas Friday in a crowded private club.
main entrance to the club and also saw the suspect.
The explosion sent three people to Lawrence Memorial hospital with minor injuries. About a quarter of the victims were children.
"I remember seeing somebody running, but I couldn't describe him if I had to," Kaplan said.
Officer Catherine Woody was at Gammon's, 1601 W. 23rd St., on a routine inspection for overcrowding and minors when the canister discharged.
WOODY TOLD JEROLD KAPLAN, the doorman on duty Friday night, that she had seen someone run out of the club just before the canister exploded. Kaplan was standing at the
I describe him if I had 10. "Raphan's Detective David Reavis, of the Lawrence Police Department, said that the hypnosis might help Woody reconstruct the incident in her memory to get a description of the person who ran from the club.
Police have not identified any suspects. Doug Brown, the manager of Gammon's, said yesterday that the club was offering a $1,000 reward in order to leading to the arrest and questioning of the suspect.
A CLOUD OF THE IRRITATING tear gas filled the club after someone threw a small canister onto the club's dance floor at about 12:45 a.m. police said. The crowd of about 300 quietly evacuated the building through the club's four exits within five minutes, Kaplan said.
"I heard a pop, like a champagne cork," Kaplan said. "I thought there was a fight, and then I just walked into it.
"My eyes just started to burn and it was hard to breathe because my lungs were burning."
to breathe because my lungs were burning." Kaplan said his eyes cleared within a few minutes of leaving the club. The tear gas did not cause permanent damage to the premises.
cause. The three people taken to Lawrence Memorial were treated for eye irritation and then released, a hospital spokesman said. Douglas County Ambulance Service workers also treated several people at the scene for less severe eye irritation. PARAMOUNT, FOR WATKINS Memorial
A SPOKESMAN FOR WATKINS Memorial Hospital would not intervene after the incident.
Police allowed patrons back into the club 20 minutes later to gather their belongings after exhaust fans from the Lawrence Fire Department had cleared the air inside.
Figures show slight decline in enrollment Students are carrying more credit hours than in spring of'83
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
Enrollment this semester at the University of Kansas Lawrence campus decreased by 77 students from last spring's enrollment, according to 20th day enrollment figures released Friday.
a year ago.
THE FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT enrollment for the Lawrence campus this semester is 20,530,
compared with 20,449 last year, which indicates that 81 more full-time students are enrolled at KU.
The full-time equivalent enrollment figure, which is based on the number of credit hours students take, is higher this semester than it was a year ago.
That figure will be reported to the Board of Regents and used by the Kansas Legislature to determine financing for the University from the state general fund.
compared with last spring. Despite the drop in enrollment, students appear to be taking more hours than they did last spring.
This semester 22,910 students are enrolled, compared with 22,987 in spring 1983.
sale general enrollment is calculated by dividing the total number of credit hours by the average full-time course loads for undergraduate, graduate and law students.
In a written statement Friday, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said he was pleased with the full-time equivalent increase because it would
See ENROLL, p. 5, col. 1
Robert B. Waddill/KANSAN
Barry Bernstein, left, and Richard Brown, both Kansas City, Kan., seniors, improvise under a spotlight in a stairwell on the east side of Wescoe Hall. Their music resounded from the stairwell during a crisp night last week.
Professor says experiences were result of 'higher hand'
By KEVIN LOLLAR
Staff Reporter
"My parents were in the boxcar," Zuther remembers, "and two Russian reconnaissance planes came. The train was going as fast as it could. They were going as slow as they could, and they strafed the train.
In the early spring of 1945, 15-year-old Gerhard Zuther was traveling across Germany in a refugee train. He had gone up to the brake house, a small glass-enclosed room on top of his assigned boxcar, to smoke a cigarette.
and they snuck up to me. "There was no way for me to go. I just sat there and prayed. I didn't smoke. It seemed like hours, but it was probably only eight or 10 minutes. There were several people wounded. Nobody got killed. And finally they gave up."
LIKE A LATTER-DAY DICKENS novel, the life of Gerhard Zuther, one-time member of the Hitler Youth and now a professor and chairman of the English department, rolls out in a series of hardships and coincidences, leading ultimately to happiness.
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Zionism was nine years old and living in Stargard, Germany, when World War II broke out in Europe. He has memories of the war almost from its beginning.
almost from its descent.
"I weaved in a garrison town," he says. "I remember distinctly our regiment leaving town about 10 days before the war in Poland started. It was reasonably clear to everybody where they were going and for what purpose. They left in a very festive mood. It was like a big parade. The whole regiment paraded through town. There were flags and flowers and all that."
years ago and 1940.
MARCH 1940 The first time he heard Allied bombs, dumped by stray British bombers in open terrain six miles from his home. The next day, everyone went to the site to look for shrapnel.
Talking calmly, with feeling, through a regal gray beard, Zuther recalls dates and events of worldwide and personal importance from 40 years ago and more.
He remembers the air raid alerts and warnings, the alerts to indicate that enemy planes were in the area, the warnings to indicate that bombs might indeed be dropped.
JUNE 1941: The German invasion of the Soviet Union. He remembers his father, a Methodist minister, giving a family prayer, the essence of which was, "Dear God, what are we doing? We are in over our eyeballs now."
Throughout the war, Zuther was unafraid,
even when his life was in danger.
FEBRIARY 1945; the date his own town was bombed. He doesn't know why it was bombed. It contained nothing of military importance.
MONDAY MORNING
"I used to walk around in the middle of air
raids," he says. "We were organized into choup groups. I was 14 at the time. We would have the alert and then the warning, and there would be an air raid. Many of them took place in the city in which I went to school first, just 30 miles away.
miles away.
"They would load us on trucks in the middle of the night and truck us over, and we would help people evacuate their houses that were burning. The fire department was totally insufficient, of course."
"And we were utterly fearless. I think kids are the same all over. If it doesn't kill your dog, your cat or your mother, you lose your fear very muckily."
YET ZUTHER INSISTS THAT HE was a physical coward. That was the main reason he disliked belonging to the Young People's Movement and the Hitler Youth.
Movement and the war he had.
He says that he enjoyed the uniforms, singing and marching, and the fact that he was allowed to sail on weekends as part of his training. But he could not endure the mock battles that the boys were forced to fight.
Mock battles weren't the first thing that spurred him to begin questioning events going on around him.
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