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Vol. 94, No. 56 (USPS 650-640)
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Monday morning, November 7, 1983
Mass graves discovered within Grenada village; Bishop presumed buried
By United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — U.S. officials found several bodies yesterday in mass graves where Grenadian soldiers reportedly buried Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and dozens of others.
Five leaders of the coup that ousted Bishop — including the head of the defunct Revolutionary Military Council, Gen. Hudson Austin, and Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard — were transferred from the USS Guam to Richmond Hill Prison.
The commander of U.S. ground forces on Grenada said American troops would have to stay on the troubled Caribbean island, 1,900 miles from the coast of a Cabanaback counterattack was eliminated.
"IF WE TOOK THEM (the troops) out now, they would have to come back right in again," said Gen. Jack Ferris in an interview. "The sooner it is, to get out soon and the sooner the better."
Andrew Antipup, a counselor at the newly-established U.S. Embassy on Grenada, said officials feared that 100 to 150 people might be caught in the canal. The navy might sign east of the island's Cuban-built jet airport.
U. S. officials located the army truck driver
who hauled away bodies of people — presumably including Bishop — killed Oct. 19 by soldiers firing into a crowd of more than 3,000 who freed Bishop from house arrest, Antippus said.
A U.S. INTELLIGENCE officer who declined to be named there were at least two grave sites and said some bodies had been found in the graves of the graves. The officer did not identify the bodies.
Former Agriculture Minister George Louison told a delegation of visiting U.S. congressmen yesterday that soldiers had buried or dumped at the site and said the were killed at the Fort Rupert massacre.
The Rev. Billy Hamilton of Trinidad, who spoke to a soldier of the People's Revolutionary Army, last week that Bishop's body and those of his brothers had been dumped in a mass grave and burned.
A guard at Richmond Hill Prison, Devil Bowen, 25, said the five prisoners were "brought to the hill under heavy guard on a bus. They were taken into blindfolded and placed in individual cells."
BESIDES AUSTIN AND Coard, the other three prisoners transferred to the prison were Maj. Leon Cornwall, Lt. Col. Liam James and Lt. Col. Ewart Joseph Loayne.
By United Press International
POINT SALINES, Grenada — Cuban prisoners are escorted to a transport plane that will take them to a Cuban plane in Barbados.
Official says low pay caused 11 officers to leave KU force
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Because the University of Kansas has been unable to find money to pay its police what a state department says they deserve, 11 out of 30 police officers have resigned from the force since Jan. 1, the director of the KU police said yesterday.
Jim Denney, the director, said that in early 1982, the state Department of Personnel had determined that KU police were not as well paid as other police officers and should be reclassified from patrol officers to University police.
The patrol officer classification is for a security guard-type job. Denney said.
"THIS IS FOR people who are not armed, who
don't enforce the law, who stay at a post and guard something." he said.
Since early 1982, the University has been studying ways to find money that could be used to pay new salaries under the reclassification, he said.
But 11 of the 30 KU police officers apparently became tired of waiting.
"The officers just got tired of waiting and went elsewhere," he said.
Denney said that 11 officers had resigned during the first six months of this year because of a dispute over their pay.
Demey said that he had hired people to fill the 11 positions but that he expected more resignations if the KU police did not receive the money due them under reclassification.
See POLICE, p. 5, col. 1
Humor encourages students in classes with HOPE winner
Staff Reporter
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
Humor makes some things easier, including occupational therapy, Erica Stern, assistant professor of occupational therapy, said last night.
The 1984 HOPE award was presented to Stern before Saturday's football game against Colorado.
She was one of five finalists selected by KU seniors for the awards. The others were: Timothy Pondent, associate
professor of journalism; Don Green, professor of engineering; Louis Michel, professor of architecture and urban design; and Lawrence Sherrr, professor of business.
THE HOPE AWARD is given as the KU Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator. The Hopper Award is given to individuals
each year is presented by a member of the senior class to honor a KU faculty member.
Stern received her bachelor's degree in occupational therapy from Indiana University Medical Center at Indianapolis and her master's degree in health science education and evaluation from State University of New York, Buffalo.
“But I was surprised that I made it into the semifinals and even more surprised that I made it into the finals, and then when I won, well, I was happy. I had to learn what happens when you receive something like that,” she said.
Stern, 29, said she was not surprised that she had been nominated for the award because she also had been nominated last year, but was not a semifinalist.
SHE CAME TO KU in 1977 and taught respiratory therapy at the University of Kansas Medical Center for two years and occupational therapy at the Lawrence campus for four years.
Stern teaches Occupational Therapy Treatment Techniques. Physical Disabilities; teachers teach students about temporary assistance devices used to support parts of the body; and Neurology.
See HOPE, p. 5, col. 4
Palestinian and Syrian forces seize main Arafat stronghold
By United Press International
TRIPOLI Lebanon — Palestinian rebels and Syrian forces seized one of Yasser Arafat's last strongholds yesterday and surrounded the battlefield its fighters at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
Hours later, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman said that the beleaguered Arafat forces at the Beddawi camp had been ordered to back beat the attackers for the time being.
THE ANTI-ARAF ATF forces seized the Nahr el Baref refuge camp 10 miles north of Tripoli yesterday morning after three days of fierce fighting with Algeria south along the coastal road to besiege Beddawi.
The forces advanced to key heights overlooking the camp, on Tripoli's outskirts near the Mediterranean Sea. Anti-Arafat Palestinians holding Mount Terbul, a strategic hill above Beddawi, rained shells down on the camp, lighting up the sky with incessant flashes.
As his position worsened, Arafat sent a message to the Soviet Union's leadership in an
apparent attempt to enlist support from the Kremlin, Syria's main backer, in calling the attack off.
"There will be no negotiations." Arafat told reporters he camp. "Syria has chased me to Tehran."
Several stray shells fell on Tripoli, 45 miles north of Beirut. Some street fighting was reported in the port city Saturday night, but yesterday the streets were deserted.
Violence also flared in Beirut yesterday, with several shells crashing down on on the city's streets.
BEIRUT RADIO SAID Lebanese troops at the Shouf Mountain town of Souk el Gharb, eight miles south of Beirut, came under sporadic shelling, wounding one soldier.
Elsewhere in the capital, U.S. Marines strengthened the defenses around the British embassy, where U.S. embassy offices have been moved to New York and the embassy was destroyed by a car bomb on April 18.
The Marines closed off the coastal road that runs past the embassy, blocking off the area with anti-tank barriers and rolls of razor-tipped wire.
Military party loses Turkish elections
By United Press International
ANKARA, Turkey — The right-of-center Motherland Party surged ahead of its more conservative, military-backed rivals by a two-to-one margin yesterday in parliamentary elections ending more than three years of martial rule.
Although the cautiously prepared election marked a return to democracy for Turkey—the only NATO country ruled by a military regime President Kenan Evan banned many former politicians from running for office and only three prime parties were allowed to present candidates.
Four hours after polls closed, the state radio said unofficial returns from 21 provinces showed economist Turgut Ozal's Motherland Party won 29.46%, a total — a 29.69% out of 483.83 valid votes.
OZAL, THE CHIEF planer of the military regime's economic recovery program, is more
independent than the Nationalist Democracy Party's ultraconservative retired Gen. Turgut Sunalp, who won support Friday from Evren in a nationally televised speech.
Despite the endorsement, Salapal's NDP trailed the liberal Populist Party, winning only 23.3 percent, or 106,937 votes. The Populists, led by former provincial governor Needet Calp, had 26.7 percent, or 122,247 votes.
Smalp told reporters in Ankara he was not dishearpened by Ozal's early lead. "We are depending on the vote from the rural areas," he said.
Voters defied rain, mud and cold weather to line up at the polling centers. There was no immediate indication of the turnout in the voting across the country's 67 provinces.
More than 19.6 million Turks were registered to vote at more than 84,000 ballot boxes for 400 members of a parliament called the Grand Alliance, whose results would not be announced for a week.
United Press International
Guillermo Gibens, Caracas, Venezuela, special student, looks at a picture of his American grandfather who went to Venezuela in the 1920s and then mysteriously returned to the United States. Gibens is hoping to find his roots in the United States.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Venezuelan student searches for relatives in United States
By ANA DEL CORALL
Gullemro Gibens felt emotionally attached to the United States long before he visited the country for the first time.
Staff Reporter
And now he is determined to find the roots that bind his emotions to the
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United States by digging up an explanation of why his `American grandfather` left his young, pregnant mother, her native country, never to return.
Gibens, who has a degree in journalism, decided to go to graduate school in the United States to try to find his relatives.
"I ALWAYS CARRIED it in my blood. I always had a great admiration
for the United States," Gibbs said recently. "When I was little and I was told that my grandfather was American, I always thought, 'I want to know that country. I want to know where I come from.'"
The reasons for his grandfather's return to the United States remain hidden behind the veil of his grandmother's silence, said Gibens, Caracas, Venezuela, special student at the Applied English Center.
See ROOTS, p. 5, col. 2
"When I asked about my grandfather, they would never tell me why he left Venezuela or why he went there," he said.
He knows that the American company who hired his grandfather notified his grandmother of his death and sent her a yearly pension. But his grandmother has always refused to reveal details about her husband's life.
By United Press International
Greensburg mayor,4 others die in crash of small plane
GREENSBURG — Sheriff's deputies found the wreckage of a small plane yesterday and the bodies of its five passengers, including the mayor of a southwestern Kansas town, authorities said.
The Cessna 210 crashed about a mile and a half northeast of Greenbsn between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, the dispatcher said.
A dispatcher of the Kiowa County Sheriff's Department identified the victims as Greensburg Mayor Crawford Barber, 51, his grandson Rigel Barber, who authorizes drought relief to farmers. Day, 47, of Greensburg, Shelldon Louthan, 49, and David Leach, 47, both of Wichita.
Sheriff's deputies found the plane in a field about 1 a.m. yesterday.
The victims died at the scene, the dispatcher said.
THE CRASH WAS being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the sheriff's department, the dispatcher said. However, the cause of the crash had not been determined.
T. J. Chandler, 47, of Greensburg, who operates a crop dusting service from the city airport, said that the party was returning from a football game at Colorado Springs. Colo. The flight takes about two hours, Chandler said, and the mayor, who owns the plane, was the pilot.
Chandler, who said he was a friend of the elder Barber, said residents reported hearing a plane crash on Wednesday at airport about 8 p.m. or 9 p.m.