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Vol. 94, No. 82 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, January 20, 1984
U.S. ships reported on alert for attacks
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — U.S. warships off Lebanon were reported on high alert yesterday with warplanes on patrol against possible kamikaze attacks by Islamic terrorists.
The report by Israel Television came amid stepped-up security after the Muslim extremist group that killed American educator Malcolm Kerr vowed to attack U.S. and French targets.
Italy announced it would not replace its 620 troops being withdrawn from Beirut. The withdrawal, which is expected to be completed by the end of the month, will reduce the Italian peace-keeping contingent to about a third.
KERR, THE PRESIDENT of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated outside his campus office Wednesday by gunmen using silencer-equipped pistols. Lebanese universities and the Roman Catholic school system closed in protest of the murder. No arrangements have been announced.
Israel Television reporter Michael Gurdus, who monitors radio transmissions, said U.S. warplanes, were checking all flights entering Lebanese and Israeli airspace in search of suicide
planes that might be flying near civilian airliners to escape radar detection.
The reporter said 6th Fleet ships were on high alert against suicide air attacks but did not disclose what prompted the reported precautions.
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT officials have warned against possible attempts to fly bomb-laden planes into U.S. warships in suicide attacks similar to those carried out by Japanese pilots at the end of World War II.
Israel Radio said the U.S. air patrols were being coordinated with Israel's military forces.
U. S. Marines, wary of any repeat of the suicide truck bombing that killed 241 Marines in October, opened fire yesterday on a jeep that approached their base at "an excessive rate of speed" of about 15 mph.
U. S. officials had no immediate comment.
Marine spokesman Maj. Dennis Brooks said the Marines "showed great restraint" by disabling the vehicle instead of shooting to kill after the driver ignored six warnings to halt. The jeep was carrying two Lebanese airport technicians who were coming to repair a radar installation.
Lebanese army positions, mean-
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Arevalo Bellisario, Los Caracas, Venezuela, sophomore, reads a notice
torge Joseph B., Pearson Hall telling him he won't be able to take a hot
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shower for a few hours. The hot water was turned off for a few hours yesterday afternoon so that plumbers could replace valves.
Social Security numbers might be opened to state
By GRETCHEN DAY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Regents schools could disclose student Social Security numbers to the state to help track down delinquent accounts, if the Board of Regents approves a committee recommendation today.
The Kansas Department of Administration would have access to Social Security numbers to assure compliance with state laws such as the one that says that no student can collect unemployment benefits.
A statement on admissions forms would indicate that Social Security numbers might be given to the state. Compliance would be voluntary.
voluntary. Regent Jordan Haines questioned the legality of giving the state access to student Social Security numbers.
"IT'S AN ABSOLUTE question of invasion of privacy," Haines said. He said it wasn't the Regents duty to provide the state with Social
Security numbers, but the state's responsibility to acquire them.
Former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes disagreed.
green.
"It's the only way to track down people who are taking advantage of federal programs," said Dykes, who is a regent.
Haines said a lawsuit had been initiated that would decide the state's legal right.
"It hasn't been litigated yet," he said.
"Nobody knows if it's right or wrong."
The committee voted five to three in favor of the recommendation, and the full board will decide the issue today.
THE RECOMMENDATION was one of several the Regents Academic Affairs and Special Programs Committee gave preliminary approval to yesterday. The full board will cast final votes today at the Regents monthly meeting in Topeka.
The committee also gave preliminary approval to a 1985-96 academic calendar that would not include the national holiday recognizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
Regents schools now observe Thanksgiving, Labor Day and July Fourth. Schools do not observe Washington's Birthday, Veterans Day or Columbus Day. Schools are not in session on the other three legal holidays — Christmas, New Year's Day and Memorial Day.
The committee also approved pro-rating tuition grants at the state's private schools.
because the Regents had committed more money to students than was available, students were required to pay.
After grant cancellations are assessed in March, students will receive an additional check. The amount will range between $60 and $120.
The state provides $4 million in tuition grants to students at private schools who show need.
to students in particular.
THE COMMITTEE also adopted revisions to the Regents Program Review Document, which was initiated last year. The revisions included items that had been done last year but were not written into the document.
The Student Advisory Committee also met yesterday and decided to make graduate
fellowships its priority during the legislative session.
The committee wants the Legislature to provide $230,000 in graduate student research fellowships — $100,000 to both the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, and $30,000 to Wichita State University Gov. John Carlin made no recommendations for fellowships.
At a Joint Conference Committee meeting, University of Kansas Medical Center administrators presented a report on a kidney stone treatment machine that they said was necessary to keep the Med Center at the forefront of new technology.
THE MED CENTER has asked the Regents and the Legislature to allow $1.8 million to be used from the Med Center's fiscal 1985 budget for buying the machine, called a lithotriptor.
The machine is manufactured in Germany, and only six are in use now in the United States.
D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said, "It's important that we're able to go ahead with this because of its impact on the total program."
From Staff and Wire Reports
Carlin gets two bills meant to relieve prison overcrowding
TOPEKA — Despite efforts to alter the proposals, the Kansas House of Representatives yesterday sent two bills to Gov. John Carlin designed to ease prison overcrowding and to set up pre-release centers for prison inmates at two state mental hospitals.
Carlin is expected to sign the bills within a week to 10 days, said State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence.
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The proposals, which were approved by the Senate, are among the first to reach Carlin's desk this session and were backed by Corrections Secretary Michael Barbara as a way to relieve a critical overcrowding problem in the state's prisons.
One bill would establish pre-release centers at the Winfield and Topeka state hospitals for
prisoners who are within 90 days of eligibility for parole. The other would pay for renovations and the staff needed to establish the centers.
THE $2.7 MILLION appropriations bill also would provide money to renovate a dormitory at Kansas State Penitentiary in Leavenworth to house 127 inmates. Under the bill, the Winfield center would house 144 inmates, and the Topeka center 65 inmates.
State Reps. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, and Joe Hoagland, R-Overland Park, offered amendments that would have required monthly reports on the inmates sent to the centers and that would restrict the centers to felons who committed crimes against property. The Adams would also have required the Kansas Adult Attorney to give prior approval of inmates sent to the centers.
the centers. Hoagland said that only 45 percent of the
inmates were paroled the first time they were eligible.
INMATES ALLOWED AT the centers would have to be within 90 days of parole eligibility and classified as minimum custody. They could not be serious sex offenders or have committed a Class A felony and must not have exhibited violent behavior in prison.
"I am not satisfied with letting the department only, with the problems they have with overcrowding and mixing prisoners, decide who will go into these centers," Hoagland said.
But State Rep. Anita Niles, D Lebo, said that the corrections secretary intended to keep the prisoners separate from the patients. She also said that if the Adult Authority rejected a person's request for parole, the inmate would be
Hoagland also expressed concern about prisoners mixing with mental patients.
sent back to the prisons and would not remain at the center.
the center of the amendments failed following arguments by State Reps. Jack Shriver, D-Akansas City, and Dorothy Flottman, R-Winfield.
"We have to do something and we have to do something now," Shriver said.
something in the game.
**SHIRIVER SAID THAT** he did not object to the concepts of the amendments but objected to their being added without full hearings and so late in the game. He said that he probably could support them as separate bills.
support them as sepal leaves. Hoagland later said that Barbarta was seeking as much flexibility as possible in the centers and separate bills might be vetoed by the governor.
Bunten said that he doubted he would introduce the amendments as bills unless Attorney General Robert Stephan asked him to do so.
Investigation reveals error in planning
KU employee says Art and Design vent keeps fumes inside
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
The ventilation system at the Art and Design Building needs repair to prevent excessive fumes from concentrating in classrooms, a KU employee investigating the problem reported recently.
But the cost of those repairs is still unknown because Joe Waters, of KU architectural services, has not yet completed his portion of the investigation, which he began in September. Waters said that he would complete his investigation next week.
James Canole, associate director of facilities planning, said that the building had been plagued by ventilation problems since it was built. The state Department of Health issued a preemption an investigation until September.
WATERS AND DOUG LOVE, a mechanical engineer for facilities planning, then were appointed by Canole to check in to the problem.
Students in art and design say they worry about the heavy tunes in some classrooms
Jenni Mason, a Chicago sophomore majoring in graphic design, said, "Although I've never experienced any physical harm from fumes, it bothers me when people spray fixitives and adhesives in the hallways. Maybe there should be a room for spraying. The windows are just too small all over."
See FUMES, p. 5, col. 1
Legislators delay perennial issue of a statue to adorn the Capitol
Bv LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Since the days when transportation in the capital was mostly by horse-and-buggy, legislators have hagged over the prospect of adorning the statehouse with a statue of the pagan goddess Ceres
with a Hatchet
The Roman goddess may not adorn the Capitol dome anytime soon. Some legislators apparently still aren't convinced that the goddess of grain, harvest and agriculture in Roman mythology is a woman for all seasons.
The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday took up the same kinds of arguments for and against the statue that have been traded for nearly a century.
have been out of battle, the legislators delayed action on a bill for placing the Ceres statue atop the Capitol.
at the Kansas is considered the 'Bread Basket of the World'," said State Rep. Fred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs. "But it is also part of the Bible Belt of this nation."
Some committee members made reference to the light fixture now atop the Capitol dome.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, recalled that Ceres was suggested not only because she was the goddess of grain and symbolized Kansas, but because she would remind Kansans that the roots of democracy were in ancient Rome and Greece.
In its action yesterday, the committee tabled the bill in hopes of forming a competition among school children to produce a statue that would capture the "Spirit of Kansas."
If we do nothing today, we have the next year and the next year. Maybe in a
century, we'll still be wondering if that 1,000-watt lightbulb ought to be sitting up there," said State Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden City.
Farmers in ancient Rome worshipped Ceres. The word "cereal" comes from her name.
Ancient Romans explained the change of seasons with a story about Ceres and her daughter, Proserpina.
Pluto, the Roman god of the dead,
kidnapped Proserpina and swept her away to
the underworld. Ceres was so angry that she
let the corps perish.
Finally, Pluto and Ceres reached a compromise. Prosperina spent part of the year with her mother and the other part with Pluto.
Egypt invited to rejoin Islamic organization
By United Press International
CASABLANCA, Morocco — The Islamic Conference Organization yesterday decided to readmit Egypt to the 45-member body, ending nearly five years of isolation since that country signed a peace treaty with Israel.
Moroccan Foreign Minister Abdul Wahb Belzéz announced the summit decision to invite Egypt back into the Islamic fold after a six-hour final session at King Hassan's royal
There was no immediate Egyptian reaction because Egypt was not represented at the talks.
The final declaration read by Belkeziz was,
however, unclear as to whether the invitation
had been extended.
EGYPT REITERATED yesterday that it would accept no preconditions for returning to the conference while Syria urged Egypt to abrogate its 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
in theology. Belkeziz also said the next Islamic summit, the fourth since the body was set up in 1969, would be held in Kuwait, probably in 1987
The move to readmit Egypt followed four days of talks during which hard-line states such as Syria, Libya and South Yemen as well as Algeria and Tunisia opposed Cairo's re-entry. All other Arab, Asian and African states supported the idea.
2a. Conference sources would not say what broke
the ice with Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. However, they pointed out that the hard-liners were outnumbered by the pro-Egypt group represented by a majority of the 41 states present at the summit.
the 41 states present Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat emerged as one of the strongest supporters of Egypt, drawing on moderate support gained since his break with Syria, conference sources said.
The summit was to have ended its three-day parley Wednesday, but officials decided to extend the talks by a day because of the difficulty of reaching agreement.
conference Arafat met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last month in a surprise reconciliation between the PLO and Egypt after the years of strain caused by the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Talks on deciding how to approach the Iran-Iraq war issue were stalement by Iran's
THE EGYPTIAN DECISION was contained in "The Declaration of Casablanca," which spelled out the outcome of the summit. Besides inviting Egypt back into the group, the sultanate of Brunei became its 45th member.
The summit was marred by bitter quarrels, with Libyan delegate Abdus Salam Jalloud, the second-ranking member of Col. Moammar Khadafy's regime, accusing it of being dominated by right-wingers.
A DELEGATION of representatives of Indonesia, Bangladesh, Algeria, Guinea, Turkey and Pakistan and the conference secretariat was chosen to make the mission, but officials would not say when the team would visit Tehran.
absence. Summit leaders debated whether a goodwill mission could persuade Tehran leaders to return to the Islamic venue.
King Fahd's attempts to bring together Syrian, Lebanese and PLO viewpoints on the future security of Lebanon also remained inconclusive.
The organization was set up in 1969. Three previous summits took place in Rabat in 1969, in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1974, and Taif, Saudi Arabia, in 1981.
The Egyptian issue became the core of the moderates' dispute with the hard-line Islamic states as other issues, chiefly the future of the PLO, eluded agreement at the summit.
Belkeziz said the conference had adopted a resolution on the Middle East situation and another one on the Palestinian question, but he gave no details.
THE MODERATES MADE clear early on during the summit that they wanted the plan of an independent Palestinian state to take precedence over the initiative by President Reagan, which gives Jordan a say in the creation of a Palestinian administration on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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