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High, 40s. Low, 20s
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Vol. 94, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, November 10. 1983
Rebels fight Arafat ignoring cease-fire
By United Press International
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Yasser Arafat agreed to a cease-fire yesterday but said that Palestinian rebels had ignored the call and unleashed a new army of tank and artillery fire against his outnumbered fighters in the heart of Tripoli.
Shells fell on northern and central areas of Lebanon's second largest city, where most of Arafat's besieged fighters set up multiple rocket launchers and mortar batteries close to densely populated apartment blocks.
Abu Jihad, Arafat's second-in-command and most trusted aide.
Remnants of Arafat's force of 5,000 Palestine Liberation Organization fighters remained in the beddawi refugee camp — his last outpost just north of Tripoli — and fought off waves of rebel tanks backed by artillery, said
HE SAID THE rebels lost 10 tanks and 14 personnel carriers in the battle, but continued to hold Mount Terbol, from which they poured down shells on the tin-roofed, cinder-block structures that house 22,000 civilians in Beddawi.
"They are destroying everything," Abu Jihad said. "We are the victims. What can we do but go on defending ourselves?"
Sitting at a child's desk in a deserted school in Tripoli, Abu Jihad told reporters that Arafat had agreed to a cease-fire to the spare loss of civilian lives in Tripoli but that the rebels had used it for war with peace with a new offensive at dawn.
"We are not against any discussion," he said as tank fire boomed in the beset area.
Murder trial of Bell moves to final stage
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
The jury in the Bryan Keith Bell murder trial will start deliberations today. Testimony ended yesterday after attorneys questioned a Douglas County detective and the widow of Frank Seurer Sr.
Defense attorney Robert Duncan rested his case without calling any witnesses, saying that most of the present were present had been introduced by the state.
Detective Kevin Harmon testified that Bell had confessed to stabbing Frank Seurler Sr. two or three times on Aug. 2.
The jury will begin its deliberations in Douglas County District Court after hearing closing arguments from Harper and Duncan.
Harmon said Bell told him he did not to Seurier's restaurant intending to take his place.
According to Harmon, Bill said he had gone there to ask for his job back and was standing back-to-back with Seurer when he thought he heard "I can't understand why you black guys have trouble managing your money."
According to Harmon, Bell said that he and Seurer bumped into each other and that Bell then grabbed a knife on a counter and stabbed Seurer.
Harmon testified that Bell said that he had stabbed Searen once in the back and that after stabbing him in the back, that are what you do," and turned to his left.
According to Harmon, Bell then said that he stabbed Searer in the chest and that as Searer slumped to the floor, he smiled with a smile as "You're killing me" or "I'm dead."
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Seurer's body was found Aug. 2 in the kitchen of Pop's Bar-B-Q, 2214 Yale Road, the restaurant he operated with his wife, Seurer, father of KU quarterback Frank Seurer Jr., had been stabbed 23 times with at least two different weapons, a deputy county coroner testified Tuesday. Bell is charged with second-degree murder and aggrieved robbery.
Harmon also said that Bell told him that while he was at the restaurant on Aug. 2 he looked at two letters that had been addressed to Bobby Belle's Bar-Krash.
Bobby Bell, a former linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs and Bryan
See TRIAL.. d. 5. col. 4
Lisa Cangro, left, Overland Park freshman, and Shelley Kunitz, St. Louis freshman, brave the cold wind as they walk to class. Lawrence got its first snow yesterday after temperatures dropped more than 20 degrees during the day.
Sunshine, warmth to follow snow
By Staff and Wire Reports
Lawrence's mild fall weather was interrupted yesterday by a storm from the west that caused rain all day and periods of heavy snow in the late afternoon and evening. However, according to the National Weather Service, the snow was the last remnant of the storm.
Sunshine will return today and temperatures will again be in the 60s by the weekend, the weather service officials said yesterday.
The rain and snow that moved through Lawrence was part of a storm that killed at least nine people in the Rocky Mountain states and the northern plains. Snows were nearly deep in the western mountains.
began about 4 p.m. yesterday, was expected to stop about midnight and melt by this morning, said Ron Bailah, a national staffer with the weather service in Topeka.
"The snow will melt as fast as it falls. The ground is still too warm for it to stick," he said. "Once this moves in, the snow will be in good shape for the next five days."
THE SNOW IN Lawrence. which
Crandall said at about 7:30 p.m. that the Western tip of the storm was moving through Manhattan, about 70 miles west of Lawrence.
The storm dropped .34 inches of precipitation on Lawrence by 7 p.m. yesterday. Drizzle fell during most of the day.
HE SAID THAT the temperature tomorrow would be in the low 50s. On Saturday and Sunday, he said, temperatures would again be in the low 60s. No precipitation is expected through Sunday, Crandall said.
Crandall said that today would be partly cloudy and that the high temperature would be in the mid-40s. The weather would be cold. The low will be around 30.
Highs for the last two weeks had been ranging from the upper 50s to the lower 70s, well above normal averages. The normal high for November in the Lawrence area usually ranges from 50 to 55 degrees.
Yesterday's high was 56 degrees The low was recorded as 34 degrees at 7 p.m.
The snow had dissipated into rain and drizzle by the time it reached Lawrence but left varying amounts of snow when it moved through Western Kentucky. Cindall said the most snowfall was reported at Atwood, where 4 inches fell.
Task force advocates increases
Requirements may go up for LA&S degrees
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
A College of Liberal Arts and Sciences task force yesterday recommended that requirements in mathematics, English and Western studies be made by the College for the bachelor of arts and bachelor of general studies degrees.
The Dean's Task Force on General Education in the College also recommended that the College eliminate the emphasis on world civilization and culture requirement.
The 11-member task force sent the proposal to faculty and some students yesterday to encourage comments and criticism of the recommendations. Robert Lineberry, dean of the College, will consider the recommendation next semester after the faculty reviews it and a final report is compiled.
J. Michael Young, associate dean of the College and chairman of the task force, said he hoped the proposed changes would be implemented by full
THE TASK FORCE recommended that mathematics and English requirements be strengthened because students' ability to express themselves articulately and reason mathematical skills for a university education.
Advanced placement in English courses should still be permitted, the request being made.
The current mathematics logic requirement should be strictly defined so that students would be required to complete a college-level algebra course and a second-level mathematics course, the report said.
THE COMMITTEE SAID they would also like to require English and algebra competency exams for all students who wish to complete with a B.A or a BGS. degree.
Young said that a specific limitation of the general distribution requirement also had been recommended because
See TASKFORCE, p. 5, col. 4
Ruth Anthony checks on cabbage and Brussels sprouts that she will pick soon from her garden. Anthony is a survivalist and stores large amounts of food in her basement because she fears a communist takeover.
Survivalist stores home-grown food as a precaution
By SUSAN WORTMAN
Staff Reporter
Ruth Anthony sat primly in her overstuffed armchair. She pulled her pink sweater a little closer to her and peered through the gold wire-rimmed glasses perched on her nose.
Antony, 69, looks like a typical grandmother. She has a huge garden — almost half an acre, she says. She bakes pies and cans fruits and vegetables that she grows in the garden.
But she does not can for fun, she said. Instead she cans for survival.
"The communists will control us with food. If a man is concerned about food for his babies, he won't be revolting. And they ve done it before." And the Communists are notorious and, possibly, they might do the same to us."
Anthony is a retired teacher who has become a survivalist
ANTHONY SAID SHE thought that communities were using their departments of disinformation to try to convince Americans to lay down their arms.
"There will be anarchy," she said. "There will be chaos in the nation in a few years. When the government is disrupted by the communists, people will have to survive out of their gardens.
"I believe there is a conspiracy — a plan to take over the nation," she said. "We are so designing our activities so as to merge with the Soviet Union. We will be one government."
They are trying to scare young people into cutting weapon production with threats of nuclear war, she said. When young people lay down their arms, the communists will move in.
The overthrow will be soon, Anthony said — somewhere in the next three or four years.
"My dad said we would live to see the persecutions. That is what my father taught me," she said.
Anthony was not always a survivalist. She was reared as a Mennonite. But she said that her church had a pacifist philosophy and that she did not agree with it.
WHILE SHE WAS teaching at the Platt Business College in Kansas City, Kn., in 1865, a business manager
After retiring from 32 years of teaching, Anthony moved to Lawrence, she said, because she thought it would be safer than Kansas City and she found a home with a greenhouse.
See ANTHONY, p. 5, col. 1
INSIDE
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Computer science programs struggle with money woes
In the past seven years, enrollment in computer science courses at the University of Kansas has nearly doubled. But budget problems, department officials say, have forced the department to limit enrollment in computer science courses.
The restrictions will delay graduation for "a substantial number" of computer science majors, Victor Wallace, the outgoing department chairman, has said.
On Page 6 today in INSIDE: The Computer Science Department, the Kansan continues a series of stories that take an in-depth look into subsets of interest to KU students.
The package, prepared by Kansan reporter Christy Fisher and photographer Gary Smith, includes interviews with Wallace and University administrators about the problems and the future of KU's computer science department.
Wallace handed in his resignation as chairman last month, saying he was frustrated with dealing with the department's staff. His resignation becomes effective Tuesday.
William Bulgren, professor of computer science and mathematics, was named last week as acting chariman of the department. He will be a permanent chairman will begin soon.
Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recently agreed that the computer science department needed more money and more faculty to meet its increased enrollment. But he said that other departments in the College had been hurt more by budget problems.
“It’s a serious problem,” he said. “There’s no question of that.”