NATION AND WORLD
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University Daily Kansan, January 17. 1984
Druse shell Christians, killing 15
By United Press International
50 more hurt in worst shelling since September
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lance Cpl. Kirk Altrichter, Lancaster, Pa., uses binoculars to inspect the results of U.S. Navy shelling. The Navy returned fire Sunday when gunmen opened up on the U.S. contingent of the multinational force. Druse militiamen fired on Christian East Beirut yesterday.
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Drusie Muslim gunners bombarded Christian areas of Beirut throughout the day yesterday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50 in the heaviest shelling during warfare erupted last September.
Shells crashed around the president palace in suburban Baadba as U.S. Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld and his team travel for three hours to discuss the crisis.
Meanwhile, in the southern Lebanese village of Marjayoun, Lebanese Maj. Saad Haddad was buried with full military honors in a ceremony attended by top Israeli leaders but boycotted by the Beirut government.
the death of the Christian militia leader, who broke with the Lebanese army five years ago and became Israel's closest ally in south Lebanon, raised the prospect of a security void in the south.
Haddad, who died Saturday of cancer at age 47, led a 1,000-man militia that Israel wants to help guard its border
after the eventual withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon. His death clouded the future of the Israeli-backed force.
In the southern city of Sidon, Haddad's soldiers closed shops at gunpoint and ordered schools shut in memory of the renegade officer. Shite militia leaders called a counter strike against him hot day for the 'Israelis' in protest.
U. S. F-14 warplanes thundered over the mountains east of the capital, but U.S. officials said American forces stayed out of the fighting between Drusse Muslims and Lebanese army troops.
Hospitals listed 11 civilians known dead and more than 50 wounded, and
AMONG THE VICTIMS were a 13-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man, killed when Soviet-made Grad missile exploded next to a school and pierced a schoolbus with shrapnel, Christian Phalange radio said.
state-run television said four Lebanese soldiers had also died. The Druse do not report their casualties in the mountains.
The man's 3-year-old grandson was seriously injured with shrapnel wounds in the head. Other victims included a 3-month-old infant and his mother and a young man whose leg had to be burned because of severe shrapnel wounds.
THE FLAREUP CAME a day after
U. S. Sixth Fleet warships opened fire in response to an attack on the Marines at Beirut Airport and warnings by Syria that there can be no peace as long as U.S. and Israeli troops remain in Lebanon.
The bombardment from the mountains overlooking Beirut began in the morning and continued late into the night with trace bullets streaking through the sky and explosions flashing on the edge of east Beirut.
As shells smashed into Christian east Beirut and the town of Jounieh north of the capital, residents scramble for cover and cars skidded through the Local radio stations broadcast warnings for people to stay off the streets.
Court tells reporters they can't trespass
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court turned aside arguments yesterday that the Constitution's freedom of the press guarantee protects reporters in pursuit of a story — even if they trespass on private property.
The justices, without comment, let stand the criminal convictions of a group of reporters for trespassing at an event on a site covered by a demonstration site while covering a demonstration
LANDUA SAID THERE have been a number of arrests of reporters for trespassing, "but nearly all of them have washed out."
Jack Landau, head of the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, said, "It's disgraceful that reporters can be arrested for going onto private pastures to cover public news events. With all of these anti-nuclear and environmental demonstrations, we need some guidance as to what the rights of the public are to get information."
In other action, the high court cleared the way for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to pay $276 million, one of the largest antitrust awards in history, for cutting a rival company out of the telephone equipment market.
Ignoring warnings from state phone regulators that the ruling would mean higher customer phone bills, the team said and the award to Liaton Systems Inc.
- Agreed, in a case from New
The court also:
Mexico, to give police some guidance on whether they need warrants to install and monitor electronic booper sensors and them track suspected criminal activity.
- Refused to stop the deportation of eight Haitians who asked the United States for political assylm.
- Declined to review a ruling that Los Angeles County may not automatically bar people over 35 years old from law enforcement jobs.
The court's action in the nuclear demonstration case arose from prosecutions of reporters for covering a June 2, 1979, demonstration by the anti-nuclear Sun Belt Alliance at the Black Fox site near Tulsa.
When the 340 demonstrators crossed the perimeter fence of the facility, the reporters followed them, despite threats and warnings that they would be arrested.
THEY WERE CONVICTED and fined $25 each for trespassing
The reporters' arguments that they crossed the fenced boundaries simply to cover a story, not to interfere with their research. The reporters won no sympathy in lower courts.
Oklahoma district judge David Box upheld the convictions, although he held there is a "right of reasonable access to newsworthy events."
Last June, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals agreed, saying the First Amendment does not shield journalists from state prosecution. And the Supreme Court nor does it guarantee "special access not available to the public generally."
Solidarity promises more resistance calls for steps to avoid surveillance
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — The Solidarity underground vowed yesterday to step up resistance against the communist regime and called on supporters of the outlawed trade union to form secret cells to avoid police surveillance.
Another underground publication circulating yesterday criticized Poles for apathy, and a right-wing group charged that former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was losing his authority to come up with a plan of action.
In Rome, Poland's Roman Catholic church leader Cardinal Jozef Glemp arrived for talks with Pope John Paul II on church-state relations, which
including formal diplomatic relations between Warsaw and the Vatican.
The underground leaflets came in response to recent government appeals for calm reconciliation in 1984 and its claim that more than a 1,000 dissidents came out of hiding under an amnesty offer that expired Dec. 31.
IN VOWING CONTINUED resistance, the publication of the banned Committee of Social Resistance, KOS, emphasized the underground's success in operating in defiance of Poland's security forces.
"It is a phenomenon without precedence in the communist bloc that the large forces of plainclothes men, riot police and army operating for the last decade are working to arrest Solidarity activists and liquidate the illegal printing shops," KOS said.
KOS urged dissidents to form small secret cells to cut down the risk of cyber attacks.
"If we manage to continue what we have done over the past two years the authorities will fail to break our solidarity." KOS said.
Tygodin Mazowsz, a clandestine weekly published in Warsaw by Solidarity underground leaders, said the calm and reconciliation proposed by the government was "the calm of the cemetery."
BUT IT CRITICIZED the public's failure to respond to recent opposition calls for mass demonstrations against the government.
"The Polish people emigrated from Poland without even leaving the country."
Greek-system ban sparks protests in Maine
By United Press International
WATERVILLE, Maine — In a scene reminiscent of the film "Animal House," angry Colby College students burned mattresses and a piano in bontires to protest a ban on fraternity events due to roydism and poor grades.
Blazes were set Sunday night and early today and some 100 rowdy fraternity members staged a snowball fight, sang fraternity songs and chanted slogans against a decision to Greek system as of September
"It was not vicious or terribly uncivilized so I assume an investigation will be held to see if any action ... is warranted," said college spokesman Peter Kingsley. "This was quite obvious to let out some steam."
Waterville firefighters rushed to three fires — two bonfires in front of Fraternity Row and a dumpster fire at the liberal arts college of 1,650 students. No injuries or arrests were reported.
THE COLBY PROTESTS followed school President William Cotter's comment that the board of trustees decision to ban the Green societies was "one of the most significant Colby has taken in its 171 year history."
The board adopted the recommendations of a commission appointed eight months ago to study the social life at the coeducational school.
The trustees' unanimous vote Saturday made Colby the first New England college to ban the societies of Williamiamstown, of Wilhelmiamstown, Mass., in 1968.
ABOUT 20 PERCENT of the study body belongs to fraternities and sororities but the commission said the university "dominated" the school's social life.
Shefriar, a junior and vice-president of the Inter-Fraternity Council. "They didn't seem interested in helping an organization, and it disregarded student opinion.
"It's disappointing," said Gregory
Also, school administrators say grades in some fraternity and sorority houses consistently fall below the campus average and that fraternities show a "chronic failure" to meet behavioral guidelines.
One fraternity was expelled last year for violating the campus code and the charter of the oldest fraternity was suspended.
A vote last November showed 75 percent of the students favored the Greek system.
READING FOR COMPREHENSION AND SPEED
January 17,24,and 31 (Tuesdays) 7-9 p.m.
(Six hours of instruction.) Register and pay $15 materials fee at the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall.
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AFRICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEETING
Saturday, January 21, 4 p.m.
Council Room, Kansas Union
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JAYHAWKER
The Jayhawker Yearbook is happy to announce the rebirth of an old tradition, the Hilltoppers. The Hilltoppers Awards are the Jayhawker's way of recognizing those seniors who have made high calibre contributions to the University and/or Lawrence community. The award, which was last given in 1973, is being brought back by this year's yearbook staff and interested parties within the University.
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Criteria for selection includes:
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involvement and leadership in campus and community activities
The nominations will be screened by a committee that includes KU faculty, student representatives, and the Jayhawker staff. Anyone can nominate a senior for this award, and seniors can nominate themselves by picking up an application. They will be available at the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 403 Kansas Union, and the Yearbook Office, 121 B Kansas Union. Deadline for acceptance of applications is Friday, January 20, 1984.
— references that can address the quality of the nominee's service
- respect of the nominee's peers as-well-as his or her professors
a GPA of around 3.0, however grades will not play an extremely important part in the selection
PEACE & CONFLICT RESOLUTION
TWO EVENINGS WITH JIM REAGAN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17 AND 18
"THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WIN-WIN ALTERNATIVES TO COERCION FOR THE ARAB-ISRAELI STRUGGLE"
Tuesday, January 17, 1984 8:00 pm Kansas Union Council Room. Kansas Union
DEMONSTRATION AND EXPERIMENTAL PROCESSES: "CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND WIN-WIN ALTERNATIVES"
Wednesday, January 18, 1984 8:00 pm Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
Dr. Jim Reagan will be on campus Tuesday and Wednesday for meetings, lectures, and workshops on conflict resolution and the Peace Movement in the Middle East. Dr. Reagan has recently returned from Israel where he has been working on a project to train Arabs and Israelis in conflict resolution and nonviolent strategies of mediation. He has been networking in this country and in the Middle East to support, create, and nurture joint projects and Arab-Jewish cooperation. Dr. Reagan will demonstrate and share experiential processes Wednesday evening. Dr. Reagan has been a family therapist, organizational developer, and conflict resolver for twenty-two years.
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