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KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 62 (USPS 650-640)
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Tuesday morning, November 15, 1983
Beirut talks begin amid gunfire
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — U.S. Mideast envoy Donald Rumsfeld began his first round of talks in Lebanon yesterday as Muslim rockets killed three people in Christian East Beirut and U.S. F-14 Tomcats flew over the capital in a show of force.
Syria charged that the U.S. reconnaissance flights had been "proventive" and warned Washington that it "will pay a very precious price" if it attacked Syria's forces in Lebanon.
Both nations have stepped up their military presence in the region since the Oct. 23 bombing of the Marine base in Beirut in which 239 American servicemen died. Washington said it circumstantial evidence that Syria had helped plan the attack and that it would seek revenge.
TENSIONS ROSE FURTHER last week with a full Syrian troop mobilization and Syrian anti-aircraft attacks for the first time on a U.S. reconnaissance let over Lebanon.
Western sources said that the reconnaissance flights were intended to protect 30 U.S. Navy ships massed offshore amid fear of a possible attack by an unidentified force, SS-21 missiles based within range of the fleet
and 40,000 troops occupying eastern and northern Lebanon,
"We're not losing any sleep over these reports about Syria, but we've got to keep our eyes on them," she said.
"We're in a hostile environment. We realize the overfights are causing tensions among civilians, but we have to weigh this against the need for safety for our Marines and fleet."
AS RUMSEFELD MET with Lebanese President Amin Gamayel at the suburban Baabda palace, Druse Muslim gunmen in the Shoof mountains southeast of the capital fired two dozen Soviet-made Grad rockets into Christian Beirut. Three civilians were killed, police said.
The artillery and rocket fire could be heard during the meetings and shells fell intermittently on residential areas into the night, Beirut Radio said.
Rumsetld also met with Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan and Foreign Minister Elie Salem. He later flte to Rome and was expected to return to Israel within a few days.
Rumsfeld refused to comment on the talks, but Wazzan said, "We drew his attention to the necessity of the United States' adherence to Lebanon to secure an Israeli troop withdrawal."
At night, army positions in Khalte on the seaside road south of Birkut came under shelling that was being conducted by the Nazi
IN SOUTH LEBANON, Israeli troops shot dead a suspected guerrilla who broke away from a checkpoint at the Awail River crossing into the Lebanese border. In another attack at Israel troops. The greenade did not extinguish.
Gemayel was supposed to travel to Damascus yesterday for his first meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has backed the Druse and other opposition groups seeking greater Muslim control of the Christian-led government.
But the meeting was abruptly postponed Sunday night when Assad was taken to the hospital with an inflamed appendix. Beirut Radio, quoting a spokesman for the Syrian leader, said that he had undergone a successful appendectomy.
It also said that Gemayel had called Assad to wish him "good health and congratulations on his 60th birthday."
State-run Damascus Radio condemned the U.S. reconnaissance flights, saying, "The mere presence of American naval forces in the Mediterranean waters and the flights of American planes over other territories are provocative actions.
Soviets reject new U.S. missile offer
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States yesterday made a new offer to the Soviets on limiting medium-range nuclear missiles as the first new NATO cruise missiles arrived on European soil. Moscow promptly called the proposal "unacceptable."
The U.S. offer was made to the Kremlin at arms control talks in Geneva, Switzerland the St. Petersburg
Soviet President Yuri Andropov has said that his negotiators would walk out of the Geneva talks when the first American missile appeared in Europe, but U.S. negotiators have been told to stick with their schedule as soon as scheduled, continuing until they agree on a holiday break sometime in mid-December
"We prepared to stay in Geneva for as long
we'd take to come to agreement," a senior U.S.
officer said.
IN MOSCOW, THE official Soviet news agency Tass said that the U.S. offer was just a refinement of what it called earlier "patently unacceptable" U.S. suggestions.
"There is nothing unprecedented about the substance of these U.S. proposals." Tass said.
Soviet Union agree to deployment of new U.S. medium-range nuclear warriors in Europe."
These weapons, the news agency said, need only six to eight minutes flying time to hit such targets.
Tass said that the Soviet Union "will not accept any agreement based on the American double standard" and that when deployment of the new Pershing and cruise missiles began, the "U.S. SUR" will be forced to adopt response measures in respect to the territory of the United States."
A U.S. official said that Washington author-
orated a seen a report of a negative Soviet
resistance.
THE NEW AMERICAN offer came as the first new missions arrived in Britain for department management.
Under the U.S. proposal both the Soviet Union and the United States would agree to deploy no more than 420 nuclear warheads on the medium-range missiles.
The figure of 420 nuclear medium-range warheads for both sides was described by one U.S. official as "illustrative," meaning that the warheads are prepared to accept a somewhat lower figure.
them could not be based in Europe. The United States would further voluntarily limit the number of its missiles in western Europe, indirectly answering the Soviet objection that the numbers do not count t162 British and French ships that are also aimed at the Soviet Union.
WITHIN THAT GLOBAL limit, both sides would be further limited regionally, so all of
Officials said that leaders of NATO countries had been informed of the substance of the offer over the weekend and that the U.S. proposal had put on the Geneva table yesterday morning
Asked about why the new offer was made as the new missiles arrived in Britain, where they have stirred a large protest campaign, a senior U.S. official said. "Clearly we factor in political considerations, but the real objective is to make every effort to come to an agreement."
State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said that although the United States would prefer complete elimination of medium-range missiles, he would be prepared to discuss other global economic issues.
THE SOVIETS SAY the new U.S. missiles, especially the faster Pershings, represent a threat because of their speed and accuracy. The United States says they are needed to counter the SS-20s that the Soviets began installing in the late 1970s.
Gary Smith/KANSAN
A web of utility cables hangs above a woman walking past the alley between Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets.
KU scientist's radar project to be on next space shuttle
By GINA K, THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Scientists from the University of Kansas and from several West German universities will be working together on a KU project that will be carried aboard the Nov. 28 flight of the space shuttle Columbia, the project manager said yesterday.
Craig Dobson, project manager at the KU Remote Sensing Laboratory, said that he and two assistants would fly to West Germany two days before Columbia's flight to set up radar monitoring equipment in the Cologne countryside. The assistants are David Brunfeldt, Bartlesville, Okla., graduate student, and Dennis Anderson, a research technician.
DOBSON WILL USE equipment that he developed at KU to check how the space lab's radar measures images produced by radar pulses. The radar on the space lab was designed and built by West German scientists.
"We've had good cooperation from a number of German universities." he said. "The Germans have about 15 ... different universities interested in analyzing the data.
The Remote Sensing Laboratory in Nichols Hall developed the project, which is one of four research laboratories at U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
participating in the European Space Lab experiments on Columbia The European Space Agency assembled the space lab, the NASA laboratory 100 experiments from scientists worldwide.
Dobson will use three transponders to calibrate radar pulses sent from the shuttle. A transponder, which was developed at the Remote Sensing Laboratory, is a device that is a yard tall and a yard wide, and has two upward-facing horn antennas.
THE SHUTTLE WILL beam radar pulses for one second when the path of the space shuttle intersects with the area in which Dobson and his assistants have set up the shuttle to communicate to transponders will receive radar pulses from the shuttle and send them back to the shuttle.
He said that the KU researchers would carry back records of the radar pulses and process the data at KU. The experiment would try to provide a uniform reference scale for scientists to use in future calibrations of radar.
"Using the transponder, we will . . . inject a signal into the radar on the shuttle that will show up on the photograph as a bright dot." Dobson said.
The calibration experiment will also include the use of black and white photo-
See SHUTTLE, p. 5, col. 3
Prof named to academic affairs post
By PAUL SEVART
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A KU professor of physiology and cell biology, brover K. Burchell, has been named associate dean for the School of Medicine.
Burchill will assist Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, who made the announcement yesterday. The position had been vacant in 2013 and she associate vice chancellor to her present position.
Tchaa said, "I simply made the decision early this fiscal year that we needed to have additional
assistance. We were not adequately serving the academic units with the short-staff situation.
BURCHILL'S ADMINISTRATIVE appointment, effective Jan. 1, will be almost full time. He said he would teach one biology course, his usual spring-semester load, next semester.
Tacha said the office's workload had increased for several reasons, including the extra work generated by the Board of Regents five-year review of academic programs. The position had not been filled earlier because of budgetary problems, she said.
Before Tacha moved into her present position
she said, the office had three associate vice chancellors. George Waggoner has retired, however, and was replaced only by the part-time appointment of George Woodyard, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and associate dean of the graduate school in English, who has been working in different office this semester with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
"I SUSPECT THAT we will all continue to work at the same rate." Tacha said. "But this will give us more opportunity to interact with
See BURCHILL, p. 5, col. 1
Reagan says Asian trip secured partnership
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, returning home from Japan and South Korea, said yesterday that his 16,000-mile journey to Asia was more than symbolic — it improved "prospects for a more secure peace and prosperity."
"Working as partners to make tomorrow better and more secure is what this trip was all about," the president said at a ceremony on Friday, after a briefing by about 200 applauding, flag-waving staffers.
Outlining the accomplishments of his six-day trip, Reagan said that in Janan "we established
an agenda for progress" to solve the trade imbalance problem and to strengthen the economic position of all countries.
The president said that in South Korea, where he visited U.S. soldiers on the tense Demilitarized Zone on the border with Communist North Korea, he called for immediate movement to South Korea's peace and freedom.
"AMERICA'S PARTNERShips are stronger, and prospects for a more secure peace and prosperity be better today than a week ago." Reagan said, speaking on a crisp, sunny day.
He said that he had brought home "a renewed energy and a renewed commitment to our fundamental goals" that the administration would put into action "just as soon as we
Reagan appeared to be chafing, however, under some observations that his trip was going well.
readjust our clocks."
"Well." he said, "there is more than symbolism when over a million Coreans lined the streets to wave and cheer Americans and thank America for helping them free.
"THERE'S MORE THAN symbolism in the threat to the people of Seoul who live within the range of North Korean artillery, some 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) away. And there's more than symbolism in the danger to our American soldiers helping to guard the border of the DMZ often in weather that leaves them freezing from their heads to their toes."
INSIDE
STEVE BERGSTROM DENNIS HIGHBERGER KEVIN WALKER SCOTT SWENSON
More than 130 students are ying for Student Senate seats tomorrow and Thursday, and eight of them are seeking the seat — student body president and vice president.
Elections start tomorrow
On Page 6 today, in INSIDE: The 1983 Student Senate Elections, the Kansas continues a series of stories that take an eye to look into subjects of interest to KU students.
Kansan reporters Pete Wicklund and John
Egan interviewed presidential and vice president candidates from the Freedom Movement.
Their reports also include an interview with the presidential and vice presidential candidates from the Momentum Coalition, which wasn't allowed to file because presidential candidate Kevin Walker, Webster Groves, Mo. senior, cannot verify his birth date. University by the Oct. 17 filing deadline. Momentum is running a write-in campaign.
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