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Vol. 94, No. 96 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, February 9, 1984
U.S. ships bombard Beirut amid pullouts
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The battleship New Jersey and a destroyer fired more than 500 shells yesterday at Muslim positions east of Beirut in order to U.S. naval cavalry since the Vietnam war.
The bombardment, which involved the New Jersey's 18-inch gun, came on the heels of Presidents Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
U. S. officials said the bombing was in retaliation for shelling from Druse gunners in the Syrian-occupied mountains 'that scored the lives of dozens' of residents and the Lebanese presidential palace.
The shelling came after Reagan's order Tuesday night that U.S. forces would protect Beirut as the multinational peacekeeping force withdrew.
**SYRIA CHARGED THAT** the shelling killed dozens of civilian women, children and old men.
United Press International
Britain began the pullout from the四-nation force by evacuating its unit of 115 a few hours after Reagan said the 1,400-member U.S. forces to withdraw to 6th Fleet ships in the Mediterranean
An uneasy truce between the Lebanese army and Muslim militiamen was broken late yesterday, and sectarian clashes escalated in Irut and the Shofu mountains southeast of the city.
The Pentagon said the shelling by the battleship New Jersey and the destroyer Caron resumed during the evening after a lull in the fighting.
IN WASHINGTON, a Pentagon official said the New Jersey lobbed more than 250 shells from
its 16-inch guns yesterday and the destroyer Caron fired more than 300 shells from its 5-inch guns.
guns.
As the New Jersey's shells whistled overhead, a flare drifted above the "Green Line" dividing Christian east Beirut and Muslim west Beirut, and Christian and Muslim militiamen opened up with a fierce machine-gun barrage.
Bright red tracer bullets cris-crossed the sky as explosions rocked east Berat and the foothills
case Lebanese President Amin Gemayel met with U.S. Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld and U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew in an urgent plea to save his disintegrating Christian-dominated regime.
GEMAYEL A MARONITE Christian, received a 20-minute telephone call from Pope John Paul II, but details of the conversation were not immediately available. Beirut radio reported. The Vatican made no immediate confirmation.
civilian. Civilians cowered in basement shelters for the seventh straight day in and around Beirut. An exact casualty toll was impossible to obtain, but Druse radio reported at least 30 civilians were dead and 50 wounded in the barrage.
A compilation of figures from the Red Cross and other sources said at least 350 people were killed during the last week in the worst violence since the 1975 civil war.
"History will not forget the Americans," said a Drusse spokesman in the Shout village of Aley. "Why this American escalation? The Reagan policy has changed, so he's taking his revenge on us."
GUNNERS IN THE Upper Metn mountains
BEIRUT — A man runs away from a burning department store after an artillery shell crashed, sending great clouds of smoke and fire into the air yesterday in West Beirut. Heavy shelling continued all day yesterday as fighting for positions continued along the Green Line.
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 4
2 weeks of discussion led to pullback of Marines
By United Press International
SANTA BARBARA. Calif. — President Reagan's surprise announcement of the Marine pullback from Lebanon climaxed a decision-making process begun two weeks earlier. White House spokesman Larry Speaks said yesterday.
As Reagan signed documents to implement the pullback and then went riding horseback on his ranch, Speakes traced the evolution of the president's first main foreign policy reversal.
Speakes said Reagan directed his national security advisers to begin looking at pullback
options on Jan. 21 - four days before asking Congress in a State of the Union address to rally behind his embattled policy.
THE DECISION TO withdraw the Marines to U.S. ships offshore, exposing Reagan to charges of a failed foreign policy and to suggestions his hand was forced by politics, came Tuesday afternoon as he spoke — with no reference to Lebanon — to a Republican gathering in Las Vegas, Nev.
Following is a summary of the events that led to the announcement, which came from spokesmen as Reagan was en route to his pountainton ranch for a five-day stay.
- Jan. 21: Special envoy Donald Rumsfeld
returns from the Middle East and meets secretly twice with Reagan, who orders a series of discussions to examine alternatives to "static deployment" of the Marines at Beirut airport
- Jan. 26: At a National Security Council meeting, the Joint Chiefs of Staff present a plan to make the Marine presence "more effective" in bolstering Lebanese President Amin Gemavel's government.
- Feb. 1: Reagan reviews and approves in principle a pullback plan similar to one proposed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last fall but rejected by the White House out of concern it would invite other elements of the
multinational force to pull out and lead to the collapse of the Gemayel government.
Rumsfeld and others are directed to begin "detailed discussions" with the Lebanese government on this plan.
- Feb. 5: With the advance of Syrian-backed Muslim forces and the Lebanese army routed, the situation further deteriorates when the Lebanese Cabinet resigns.
Reagan summons Vice President George Bush and assembles his top national security advisers
During the next hour and 50 minutes, Reagan
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 1
SenEx deliberates on proposal for grade appeals board
Staff Reporter
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
For disgruntled students, a grade appeals board would offer recourse in getting grades changed.
But the proposal for such a board, which went before the Senate Executive Committee yesterday, would strip instructors of their exclusive right to change grades, a SenEx member said. He said that some faculty members probably would fight the proposal bitterly.
James Seaver, the SenEx member, said that creation of an appalls board would change one of
use basic tenets at the University of Kansas - the instructor's right to give a grade.
"I THINK THAT many faculty members are not going to give up this privilege they've had since the beginning days of the University," said Saever, who is also director of the Western University. "We are not going to want to give up the ability to assign a grade — because that's what it amounts to."
Under current policy, only the instructor may change a grade, unless he has died, has been incapacitated, has been found guilty of sexual harassment or academic misconduct.
Under the proposal, a board of four faculty
SENEX POSTPONED discussion of the measure so a faculty committee could study the plan. If approved by SenEx, the measure will go to the University Council. Seaver said that if the University Council endorsed the proposal, it would then go before University Senate, which comprises 1,224 administration, faculty and Student Senate members.
members and two students would have the power to change a grade. The members would be appointed for staggered two-year terms. The faculty members would be appointed by SenEx, and the student members by the Student Senate.
If the proposal is passed, students would still be required to seek grade changes from their instructor and from the chairman of the department in which the course is offered before appealing grades to the board.
Students would also be required to submit written complaints about their grades within four months after the grades were given.
"There are a lot of hurdles left," Seaver said.
Hearings of the appeals board would be held privately, and the decisions of the board would be heard.
Earl Nehring, a member of the Organization and Administration Committee, said that the idea of creating a grade appeals board had been considered for about two years.
Senate vote gives election control to outside parties
Committee proposal for voting machines gets no arguments
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The Student Senate last night voted to take the student body presidential election out of its own hands.
The Senate accepted without argument a proposal submitted by the Elections Committee to use voting machines and to have the League of Women Voters run the election on Feb. 29 and March 1. The senators also passed a bill to allot $40 million for special projects account to pay for the election.
for the election. Roy Goldberg, chairman of the Elections Committee, said that representatives from the league had agreed to work at the polls in exchange for a $375 donation to the state chapter of the league.
LEAGUE MEMBERS will register voters, aid voters in using the voting machines and determine the results of the election. Goldberg said. The Elections Committee will supervise the
He said the Shawnee County Election Commission had agreed to lend the Senate six voting
The Senate will borrow the machines from Shawne County because Douglas County does not use them, he said.
Programming the machines will cost about $300, Goldberg said, and moving costs will be about $175, which will bring the total cost of the election to about $845.
MARK BOSSI, Senate treasurer, said the Finance and Auditing Committee had voted to allocate $2,000 to the election based on the expenses of printing ballots for the last Election Committee meet before the Elections Committee had cost estimates for the voting machines.
But insurance for the machines while they are on campus may increase the expense, he said.
Leftero money will be returned to the special projects account, he said.
Goldberg said that the three polling stations would be the Kansas Union, the Frank R. Burge Union and Strong Hall. Each location will have one machine and a back-up.
"The fewer places we have, the less chance there is for a mistake." he said.
The Elections Committee chose the locations based on the amount of student traffic and the facility of security, Goldberg said.
The committee will use the back up machines in case of malfunctions or overloading, he said. The company says it does not have a system.
The voting machines will be locked after the polls close, he said, and they will be stored in closets overnight to ensure security.
In other business, the Senate passed a bill:
- that allows committees to set their own quorum.
- that allots $668 from the student organizations unallocated account to the Grub Street Review, a literary magazine for student compositions.
- that allots $400 from the unallocated account to the Kansas Crew Team for a new urgometer, an indoor rowing machine.
- that allots $85 from the unallocated account to Women Engineers of Kansas for mailing expenses.
Craig Carter, Overland Park senior, auditions for the sports anchor position on the KU news program "Fifteen Minutes." About 18 students participated in the auditions yesterday at Jolliffe Hall. See story on page 7.
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Barber at KU Med Center gets shear pleasure from his work
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Robert Polsfus is handy with patients and has a delicate bedside manner. But he didn't go to medical school to learn his trade.
Polstus is a barber at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he routinely cuts the hair of about 400 people, mostly physicians and students.
It's the patients who make his job unusual.
It's the patient.
"I've gone up to the rehabilitation unit to cut the hair of an unconscious man four times since August," the gray-haired barber said. "He was in an accident and has been unconscious ever since."
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"THAT'S TOUGH work. You've got to prop the head up with one hand and cut with the other one."
When he's not cutting hair in the hospital, Polsfus works in a barber shop across from the main cafeteria in Bell Memorial Hospital. The shop used to be in the Med Center's student union, several blocks from the hospital.
When the barber shop was in the student union, three barbers worked there and Polsufs' main responsibility was to make rounds at the hospital, cutting the hair of bed-ridden patients.
Now Polefish is the only barber at the Med Center, and he makes his rounds throughout the hospital in the mornings and works in the barber shop in the afternoons.
"I've cut the hair of several patients who were flat on their backs," he said. "I just have to position their heads on the pillow. Sometimes I need help if the person is too big for me to turn
"THE PEOPLE HERE are good," Polusfai said. "You don't get a sample of the whole population like you do in barber shops out on the streets."
He has been a barber for 20 years. In the late 1660s he cut hair at the Med Center and then moved to Pretoria cutting to practice his trade. In 1970 he began cutting hair again at the Med
Polsfus said that old-fashioned barber shops had been discarded by many for fancier places. Although the old-time shops may never be as popular as they once were, he said, they are making a comeback.
"THESE HAIR-STYLING places came in because everyone started wearing their hair long during the 1960s," he said. "I had to go back to school so I could learn how to cut the longer hair. All that started when the Beatles came over, but you look back at their earliest pictures, and their hair wasn't really that long.
rostus considers his shop traditional. He doesn't talk gossip though, and he doesn't keep the traditional, old-time barber shop subscription of girly magazines.
"Now shorter hair is becoming more popular and the barber shop is on a come-back. People want their hair cut nicely and they don't want to explain how they want it cut each time."
Over in a corner of the shop, several stacks of National Geographies were piled on a table.
About the only instrument left in Polishtu barber shop that is reminiscent of the old-time
See BARBER, p. 5, col. 4