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Wednesday morning, November 2, 1983
U.S. troops capture 23 Grenadians
By United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S. Grenada — U.S. troops搜索 for suspected Cuban holdouts stormed the tiny island of Carriacou yesterday and took 23 Grenadian soldiers prisoner without firing a shot. U.S. officials said.
Officials said that the Marines, who stormed the island in landing ships and
No Cubans were encountered in the six-hour operation on the island about 15 miles north of the main island of Grenada, Pentagon officials said, but it took prisoner seven Cuban Carriacou, a possession of Grenada, has a population of 7,000.
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helicopters, found a warehouse packed with more than 70 rifles, 150 cases of ammunition, 12 cases of TNT and other arms and equipment.
THE PENTAGON RAISED the U.S. military death toll in the invasion of Grenada to 18 — with 86 wounded and one soldier listed as missing.
Maj. Douglas Frey, public affairs officer for the U.S. Army forces on Grenada, said that troops were concentrating efforts to flush out small pockets of resistance in four areas on Grenada.
"The Army is running soldiers all over the island in operations every day to ferret out the last of the resisters," said Adrian Khalil, who were combining four areas of the island.
He said the soldiers were using helicopters and vehicles to search the area south of Pearls airport, the central lake district, an area near the town of
Sauteurs on the northern tip of the island and along the west coast.
FIVE MEN WERE captured near Sauteurs and another was marched into the prisoner of war camp at Point Salines — site of a Cuban-built airport that the Reagan administration said was constructed for military purposes
— bringing the total of Grenadians captured yesterday to 23.
President Reagan had overwhelming evidence to justify the invasion of Grenada as a move that neutralized a Cuban and Soviet threat to security of the Western Hemisphere, Republican congressional leaders said viedeard.
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker and other GOP congressional leaders gave Reagmn a solid vote of support. The Senate voted, that included a review of intelligence information that the administration said detailed a threatening Cuban military build-up on Grenada.
"I think it will emerge that there was a clear pattern of determination by the Cubans, no doubt for the Soviet Union, to use that island as a staging area for military adventure and other parts of oceanism and this hemisphere," Baker said.
PREDICTING THAT A majority of Americans would join them in supporting the president, the congressional leaders sought to allay concerns about U.S. motives and the legal justification for the invasion one week earlier.
The State Department said yesterday that "it would be a very serious development" if the Cuban government were proven to be behind a recent wave
of terrorist attacks against U.S. installations in Central America.
The threats and bombing attacks have occurred since the invasion of Grenada and, Hughes said, "We are obliged to take them very seriously."
American personnel had been warned to be on alert after a series of bomb attacks against U.S. installations in Bolivia, Colombia, and Puerto Rico and a number of telephoned death threats to Americans.
In Jamaica, Prime Minister Edward Seaga ordered the expulsion of four Soviet diplomats and the bureau chief of the official Cuban news agency, Prensa Latina, in connection with an alleged murder plot.
U.S. detains Cubans
By United Press International
HAVANA — American troops yesterday surrounded the Cuban Embassy in Grenada, detaining four Cuban diplomats and ordering the rest to leave the country within 24 hours, an official said.
SOURCES CLOSE TO the prime minister said Seaga's action was intended to draw a parallel between the events in Jamaica and the situation in Grenada.
Two of the detained diplomats were later released, but the fate of the others was not known. Cuban President Raul Alcaron told a news conference.
Alarcon released the text of a
diplomatic message that Cuba sent to the U.S. Interest Section in Havana that said: "Paul Scoon, without any legal representation or authority and acting under instructor, ordered the U.S. government ordered the Cuban diplomat-personnel in Grenada to abandon the country within 24 hours." Paul Scoon is the Governor-General in Havana.
THE MESSAGE SAID that the Cuban government held the United States totally responsible for the fate of its embassy personnel.
Vice Adm. Joseph Metcalf, commander of the invasion force of about 5,200 American servicemen and 300 others from six Caribbean nations, estimated that 69 Cubans had died during the invasion and that 36 others were wounded.
The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States announced that it would no longer recognize Grenadian envoys named by former Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, killed Oct. 19 during a curfew by hard-line cabinet members.
The OECS, which requested last week's U.S.-led landing to oust Grenada's militant rulers, also pledged that it would provide emergency food supplies and other aid as the island's 110,000 residents try to return to a normal life.
PERRY — Carl Hughes, Tonganoxie senior and platoon leader for Army ROTC's Recondo, waits for his troops to assemble. See p. 7 for story and photos
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House sets Christmas as Grenada deadline
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to invoke the war powers act and give President Reagan until Christmas to remove U.S. troops from Grenada or get Congress to approve their presence on the island.
The resolution passed on a 403-23 vote and was sent it to the Senate.
The Senate approved a similar provision last week as an amendment to legislation to raise the national debt limit. Though the debt bill was defeated Monday, a motion to reconsider has kept it at least technically alive.
Senate leaders gave no indication that a separate resolution invoking the war powers would be adopted.
THE HOUSE ACTION seeks to set the clock ticking on the 60-day limit set by the Vietnam-era War Powers Resolution for military areas without congressional authorization.
While the House considered its resolution, Senate Republican leaders meet with Reagan at the White House yesterday and emerged with a strong support for the Grenada invasion.
The House resolution, while not critical of Reagan or the invasion, states that the
two-month limit was triggered Oct. 25 when U.S. forces landed on the Caribbean island nation. That gives Reagan until Christmas to pull the troops out or win congressional approval of their mission on Grenada.
The House debated the issue Monday but postponed the vote until yesterday.
It became apparent during the debate that Republicans would support the resolution so long as it was not critical of Reagan or the invasion.
Rep. William Broomfield, R-Mich., senior GOP member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he backed the resolution to ban that U.S. armed forces were sent into hostilities.
HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS Committee Chairman Clement Zablok, D-Wis., said the legislation "does not address whether our presence in Grenada is right or wrong."
Zablocki said Monday the resolution was necessary because Reagan's report to congressional leaders did not cite the section of Powers Resolution triggering the 60-day limit.
"I regret he did not do so. ... the president
should under the proper section.
Zablocki said.
Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in 1973 to assure Congress a voice in committing U.S. troops overseas and prevent military involvement in another situation such as the Vietnam War.
City delays decision on developers
Staff Reporter
BY JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night declined to clarify its legal status with a downtown developer and at the same time issued a list of 15 questions for another developer to answer before next week's City Commission meeting.
The commission has said that the agreement expired in July. But Sizeler says it is still the developer of record, and has indicated it might take legal action if the city changes developers.
The commission met with City Attorney Gerry Cooley in a half-hour closed session to discuss the city's legal tie to Sizerel Realty Co. Inc. (Sizerel), the official downtown developer in March.
THE CITY COMMISSION has set Tuesday as its deadline for naming a developer and will be picking between Sizeler and Town Center in Chicago. The City Commission will choose the downtown developer competition last month.
The Sizezer proposal calls for a retail shopping center in the 700 and 800 blocks downtown, east of Massachusetts Street. Town Center has proposed closing the 600 block of Massachusetts Street to build a mall between Vermont Street and the alley east of Massachusetts Street.
After the commission decided against making a decision on the legal issues of downtown redevelopment, Commissioner Nancy Shontz announced her resignation from the Center to answer before Tuesday's selection.
The questions deal with ownership of the corporation, the company's financial structure, and its operations.
bers and their previous experience building and
mimicking shopping malls.
SHONTEZ ALSO SAID she would have Sizerel answer the questions, although Sizerel has not answered them.
One of those questions asks whether the developer would put up a full performance bond for the project, and if not how much would it be willing to cover with a bond. The second question asks the developer whether it can provide a loan or not, indicating how much the bank is willing to loan
Mayor David Longhunter questioned Shontz about why she brought up the questions only a few times.
"I didn't wait." Shontz said. "I was hoping Town Center would volunteer come forward
See DOWNTOWN, p. 5, col. 1
Applications available for Kansan positions
Applications for University Daily Kansan editor and business manager for Spring 1984 are now available at 200 Stauffer Flint Hall; at the Kansan Business Office, 119 StauFFER Flint Hall; at the Student Senate Office, 105B Kansas Union; and at the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 403 Kansas Union. Applications should be completed and brought to 200 Stauffer Flint Hall by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16.
Montessori schools stress independence as a part of learning
By JOHN UNREIN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
MONTESSORI SCHOOLS, for the most part, differ from traditional pre-schools and public school systems in that children learn to work independently of the teacher. An Italian physician named Maria Carducci developed a system that children as young as 2 $ _{1/2} $ could learn effectively in the classroom.
A teacher sits down to complete the circle, as the 20 or so pre-school children, between the ages of 2 $ \frac{1}{2} $ and 6, look on with anticipation.
At the beginning of school in a Montessori classroom, children sit quietly in a circle near a living room, a kitchen and a variety of learning materials.
But despite an apparent increase in interest and support of the Montessori method of teaching pre-schools, a director of Montessori school in Lawrence said that most universities, including the University of Kansas, did not offer courses to train teachers in the Montessori method.
Llois Caips is director of the Montessori Children's House, 2312 Harvard Road, which is one of three Montessori schools in Lawrence. She said recently that Montessori training had been offered only in private American schools because the United States had not recognized a need for Montessori education.
AVILA COLLEGE. A private college in Kansas City, Mo., is one of the few schools in the United States to offer certified Montessori training as an
Why isn't the Montessori method taught in Kansas when, according to Capps, public school systems in places such as Milwaukee and Cincinnati
See SCHOOL, p. 6, col. 3
"Working hard on making a silence," Kristopher Arrandale, 3, sits quietly on the floor of a Raintree Montessori School classroom.
Art curator at Nelson-Atkins will head Spencer Museum
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
KU officials yesterday announced that an assistant director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art would become the permanent director of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
Jay Gates, assistant director and curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., will assume his duties as director on Jan. 1.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday said, "Jay Gates is one of the most promising young professionals in art museum administration today. We are delighted to have him at the University of Kansas. He is nationally known for his documentation of the high standing of Spencer museum."
BUDIG SAID THAT the ties between the two museums should be strengthened by, Gates' appointment.
Douglas Tilghman, acting director of the Spencer museum, said that the two museums had already cooperated by sharing special displays. He said he hoped Gates' knowledge of the Nelson-Atkins Museum would increase interaction between the museums.
Following his graduation from the College of Wooster, Gates studied at the Vienna Institute of European Studies and earned a master of arts degree at the University of Rochester, N.Y. He has completed course work toward a doctorate degree in art history at the University of
Gates came to the Nelson Museum in 1981 after serving three years as director of the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery in Memphis, Tenn. He also served as curator of education at the St. Paul's School of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art and museum curator at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
IN ADDITION TO his duties as museum ___
See MUSEUM, p. 5, col. 1
New system delays twice as many paychecks as originally anticipated
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The number of state paychecks at the University of Kansas that were delayed yesterday by KU's change to a statewide, computerized payroll system almost doubled earlier expectations, the KU Endowment Association controller said.
The association controller, Stephen Carttar, said no-interest loans would be available for state employees who the payroll office knew would not receive their checks on time because of the change.
At least two student employees, an undergraduate on work-study and a graduate teaching assistant, also reported that taxes were improperly withheld from their paychecks.
Cartart said the comptroller's office and the association had expected that 125 to 140 employees would not receive paychecks yesterday. They prepared 134 loans, and 50 of those were nicked up yesterday.
AN ADDITIONAL 1/16 loans, which will fill in for state checks identified as missing yesterday, were to be prepared and ready to be picked up at the KUEA office on West Campus after 1 p.m.
Keith Ratzloff, KU assistant comproller, acknowledged some problems had occurred but
Cartar said the usual number of no-interest loans caused by missed checks this late in a semester was about 30. Checks are routinely returned to a bank, and you can in turn to the state on time, or if other errors occur.
Students who miss their checks can apply for loans at the office of student financial aid, CAC.
State employees other than students may apply to the dean or department chairman under State employment laws.
See PAYROLL, p. 5, col. 1