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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol 94. No.83 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, January 23, 1984
Attorney General plans resignation
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William French Smith is leaving the Cabinet, an administration official said yesterday, and President Reagan is expected to name Edwin Meese, his No. 1 aide, to the Justice Department post.
Smith, a close associate of Reagan's since the 1960s, informed the president in a private meeting Wednesday that he is ready to return to private life, the official said.
Although Reagan told Smith he "could stay as long as he wanted," the official said, Smith signed the letter of resignation on Friday, and it formally announced at the White House today.
SMITH COULD NOT immediately be reached for comment. Meese was contacted but declined to be interviewed.
A longtime associate of Smith's said that the attorney general never really settled in Washington.
"He's never been interested in a career in and around Washington, D.C. His first love is the practice of law," the source said. "He felt it was his way to Los Angeles where he has built a lucrative law practice."
Smith, 66, is the sixth member of the original Reagan Cabinet to leave. Five members of
Reagan's original management team have already left Washington — Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, Interior Secretary James Watt, Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker and Energy Secretary James Edwards.
THE OFFICIAL SAID HE EXPECTED Meese would replace Smith, saying: "It sure looks like him."
The change caps a period of prolonged speculation within the White House over Meese's
But until Smith's full-time replacement is named, it is likely that Deputy Attorney General Edward Schmults will serve as acting attorney general.
As counselor to the president, Meese has Cabinet rank and has been Reagan's chief policy adviser and top side. He runs Cabinet meetings, attempts to manage the affairs of meetings of the National Security Council.
A MEMBER OF THE ORIGINAL Big 3 of inner-circle Reagan advisers and one who has had the president's ear on matters of foreign and domestic policy. Meese has appeared to lose some of the power he once held to chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael
For some time Meese, a one-time prosecutor
See SMITH, p. 5, col.1
Muslim leader threatens destruction of Lebanon
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Drusue Muslim leader BEIRUT, Jumbail demanded yesterday that President Amin Gemayel resign or face a civil war. He said he would "the complete destruction of Lebanon."
It was Jumball's harshest threat yet against Gemayel's Christian-dominated government which has been engaged in fierce daily battles with Syrian-backed Muslim militiamen. Last week 40 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded during these battles.
The government army exchanged rocket and shellfire with Druse militiamen around Qaibr Shamoum in the mountains 8 miles southeast of the Suez canal and Muslims in the southern suburbs, radio reports said.
Secretary of State George Shultz scoffed at the call for the resignation of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel and warned the United States is facing a deep-emptily against Middle Eastern terrorists.
"WE WILL NOT STOP fighting this time unless and until the Gemayel government resigns, even if that means the complete collapse of the Jordaniian government interview with the Amman-based Jordan Times.
Shultz restated the administration's intention to keep American troops in Lebanon until the Gemayel government became "more stable and sovereign" and he said the Soviet Union encouraged terrorism not only in the Middle East, but around the world.
SHULTZ SAID GEMAYEL "represents the legitimate government" of Lebanon, and declared, "Our allegiance is to the legitimate country." In Lebanon, produced by a process that's been there."
In southern Lebanon, a Shite Muslim militia leader said that Israeli occupation troops raided and sealed off three villages outside the seaport of Tyre. 46 miles south of Beirut.
Nabih Berri, leader of a Shiite Muslim militia
Jumblatt, who in the past has demanded the resignation of the Cabinet but not the president, said that Gemayel had not abolished the May 17 Lebanese-Israeli troop withdrawal accord as instructed by the Muslim-Christian national reconciliation conference in November.
known as Amal that operates in the south, said that on Saturday Israelis arrested a religious leader, Sheikh Abass Harb, in the village of Halloussieu. Hard's home and other houses were bulldozed and 12 other residents were detained. Berri told the state-run National News Agency.
JUMBLATT VOWED HIS forces would fight the Lebanese army, "no matter how much arms and ammunition the United States gives," as it said that it is a Christian force out to annihilate the Druze.
In an interview with ABC News, Jumbelt called his move "a logical demand to avoid more killing, more destruction in Lebanon." He said, "I don't see another way out."
Shultz, also interviewed by ABC, noted that Jumbaita spoke from Damascus after returning from talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow. "So it happens, there are challenges on him are having an impact," Shultz said.
DESPITE JUMBLATTS THREAT, a government delegation will go to Damascus to discuss cease-fire violations with Syrian leaders and raise the independent Central News Agency reported.
The National News Agency said American F-14 Tomcat war jets flew over Beirut again, a day after the White House said it was "suspicious" that the U.S. terrorist bases in Lebanon
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Concerning criticism in Congress of the continued Marine presence in Beirut, Shultz noted some voices of support for President Reagan's policy and said, "There may be some swing of the pendulum coming in the other direction. It remains to be seen."
Israeli planes also were seen over the occupied port of Sidon, 24 miles south of Beirut, the city that was targeted.
Lawrence paramedics and firemen place the body of a KU student in an ambulance. The victim, whose identity is being withheld pending the notification of relatives, was pronounced dead at the scene following a traffic accident at 10th and Kentucky streets yesterday morning.
Student dies in auto accident
By the Kansan Staff
A 23-year-old male KU student died late yesterday morning after an automobile accident at 10th and Kentucky streets, Lawrence police said.
Police said the name of the victim was being withheld pending notification of his report.
Several witnesses said the victim and his wife, also a KU student, were driving north on Kentucky Street in the left-hand lane when a car traveling on eighth on 10th Street hit their car.
The man was pronounced dead in
Police said the other car's driver was a
20-year-old female KU student who might have failed to stop at the intersection's stop light.
Police reports show that the victim's car was struck in the left rear, causing the car to
Police reports also show that witnesses' accounts of the incident reveal that the driver of the eastbound car initially left the scene but then proceeded to the driver later, returned to the scene.
Police said the victim's wife was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she was
Investigation of the accident has not been completed
New proposal for elections before Senate
Special elections panel picks Feb.29, March 1 for student balloting
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The new student body presidential election will be Feb. 29 and March 1 if the University Senate Thursday accepts the proposal of a special elections committee.
The committee voted Friday to recommend that the Senate hold the election at the end of February in order to allow for the 30 school-day session sponsored by the University of Kansas Judicial Board.
Acting on an appeal filed by the Momentum Coalition, the board recommended in December that Chancellor Gene A. Budg order a new law that would allow corporations to "fraught with inconsistencies and ambiguities."
UNIVERSITY RULES ALLOW 30 school days for appeals of the decision, which would mean the election could not be before Feb. 21.
Tom Berger, chairman of the committee, said he would present the committee's recommendations to the Senate at its first meeting on Thursday.
The committee will recommend that the Senate open the election to all interested candidates, subject to eligibility and certification regulations, and that the filing period begin Friday and end at 5 p.m. on Feb. 3. Berger said
Candidates who run in the November election we have to file again if they intend to run, he said.
"This is a new election. Everyone starts from ground zero," he said.
ACCORDING TO SENATE rules, candidates must file a declaration of candidacy form that certifies their enrollment. They also must either be former members of Senate or collect 500 student signatures that request that their names be placed on the ballot.
If candidates cannot meet the eligibility or certification guidelines by the filing date, their application may not be filed.
He said the committee would suggest that the Senate revise its rules for write-in candidates but would not make specific recommendations about write-ins.
"Any attempt to address write-in candidacies on the basis of only Mr. Walker's problems with enrollment certification last fall, defeats the declaration of candidacy." Berger said.
KEVIN WALKER, MOMENTUM Coalition presidential candidate, could not certify his enrollment by the filing date for the November election so he ran as a write-in candidate.
Harper asks Court to stop Fourhorn retrial
By the Kansan Staff
Douglas County's district attorney asked the Kansas Supreme Court Friday to overrule a Douglas County district judge's order for a retrial of a local murder case.
District Attorney Jerry Harper filed the motion in response to a Dec. 2 order by Associate District Judge Mike Malone to hold another trial in January and aggravated burglary occurred last June.
last October of aggravated burglary and the first-degree murder of Harry Puckett, a
BECAUSE SPECULATION arose over the behavior of the jury in their examination of some of the evidence. Malone ordered a retrial, which is scheduled for March 5.
James Fourhorn, 27, was convicted by a jury
The jury acted improperly, he said in his order for a new trial last December, when it tried to match Fourhour's shoes with a bloody footprint left on a plowwood board at Puckett's house.
Malone said the jury relied on unscientific
methods for its test, therefore making the conclusions invalid.
The jurors concluded that the print and the shoe did match, but a similar test run at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation concluded that they didn't match.
in his petition, Harper said that the jury wasn't guilty of misconduct, and that if a new trial took place, the jury should be allowed to examine the evidence in question.
Harper's petition also requests that the Supreme Court immediately reinstate the guilty verdict.
Area residents gather in downtown Lawrence to protest abortion. Pro-life supporters marched down Massachusetts
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Street yesterday, the 11th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision, Roe vs. Wade. Story is on page 5.
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'WKRP' star emphasizes importance of facts in a speech to KU students
By AMY BALDING
Staff Reporter
The station manager of television's "WKRP" is not the bumbling, indecisive teddy bear that his character portrays. In fact, Gordon Jump, who plays Arthur Carlson on the hit television series, showed his serious side when he spoke to a group of about 75 students Friday in Stauffer-Flint Hall about the "grinding ax of creative journalism" in America.
Jump, a former broadcaster, said that some broadcast journalists were so interested in marketing their product that they allowed the media to make more important than telling it without distortion.
"WE LIVE IN A World of creative journalism rather than factual journalism." Jump saddled.
In answer to a reporter's question, Jump said he agreed that sometimes television should deal
In this instance, Jump said, the media questioned him about his portrayal of a child molester; the role he played in the television series *Pulp Fiction*; and the roles he were compatible with his religious views.
Jump recalled with a tinge of resentment an instance in which he believed his comments to the media were distorted. Jump, a member of the Mormon Church, said he had a reputation for being a religious man of strong convictions and for being active in church programs.
with homosexuality and incest as long as the issues were handled in the onerer way.
Later, editing of the interview apparently盖住 him appear hypocritical in light of his reason.
"THEY SET UP A way of grinding their own part axiom and I resented it," he said.
I rented that prompts him to emphasize the great responsibility that
MONDAY MORNING
"You have the means to influence, both good and bad, the lives of everyone within the sound of your voice."
accompanies the powerful position of journalists, he said.
Journalists bear a formidable responsibility on their shoulders that they should never weigh
Despite mistakes by the media, Jump doesn't advocate censorship, he said. His support of freedom of expression has prompted him to issue an apology despite complaints from religious organizations.
"AS LONG AS PEOPLE are taught the correct principles, they can govern themselves," he
Many of the 5,000 complaint letters that he receives daily are from people who have never met him.
See WKRP, p. 5, col. 2