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Vol. 94, No. 50 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, October 28, 1983
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SALINAS, Grenada — A U.S. Forces guard watches prisoners at the Point Salinas air strip. As many as 1,000 Cuban prisoners have been token in the fighting since the Tuesday invasion.
U.S. forces battle Cubans in Grenada
By United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — U.S. forces using artillery fire and air strikes yesterday battled about 1,000 Cubans entrenched on the Cuban-built jet airport at Point Salines on the southern tip of Grenada, a U.S. military official told reporters visiting the scene.
A-7 attack jets strafed the Cuban positions, and artillery fire fired the surrounding hills for about an hour yesterday afternoon while a small group of American reporters watched the attack.
The U.S. forces dropped paratroops into the hills surrounding the airport on three sides, said Li Dian, Truk's commander.
U. S. FORCES were in control of an area 3 square miles around the airport, but a military official said that about 1,000 Cubans were on the airfield, and former salt flats on which the airport was built.
Akers, operations officer for the 82nd Airborne Division, said the invasion force uncovered an arsenal at the airport with thousands of rifles and other weapons amassed inside airport
Akers said the invading forces had found weapons crammed into five corrugated metal
THE AMERICANS were forced to close the airport, interrupting the flow of supplies arriving from Barbados. When the shelling ended, the group of reporters remained on the island until midnight in m. to 7:20 p.m. CDT when they were flown in a military aircraft from the island to Barbados.
"I would estimate there are 1,000 Cubans still left up there, and it could take an awake to leave them."
Between 3 and 4 p.m., CDT, three A-7 Corsair attack jets strafed the hills about 3 miles east of the airport, and land-based artillery opened up and fired a steady barrage at the hills, sending up huge black clouds of smoke from the parched hillside.
Akers said that there were between 500 and 600 Cubans in the position that was being shelled and that the rest were thought to be spread out in the hills to the north and west of the airport.
See GRENADA, p. 11, col. 1
Reagan says U.S. action saved medical students
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday he had ordered an invasion of Grenada because he had feared a repeat of the Iranian hostage nightmare and U.S. troops went ashore "just in time" to keep Cuba from taking over the island.
Reagan asserted the right to defend Americans with military force anywhere in the world. "The nightmare of our hostages in Iran must be addressed," he said in an address from the Oval Office.
The president, also responding to the slaughter of more than 220 Americans in a terrorist bombing in Beirut Sunday, linked the invasion of the tiny Caribbean island and the presence of 1,600 U.S. troops in Lebanon, insisting each country must determine to deter Deter Soviet adventurism.
THE EVENTS in Lebanon and Grenada,
though oceans apart, are closely related." Reagan said. "Not only has Moscow assisted and encouraged the violence in both countries, but it provides direct support through a network of
While Reagan repeated his argument that the military move into Grenada was designed primarily to rescue an estimated 1,000 Ameri- canes on the island, he zoned in on the Cuban connection.
He said the occupying forces had uncovered documents and weapons caches on Grenada as well as more Cuban troops than expected — a fact which has given an occupation of the island been planned."
Reagan said the invasion force — numbering about 2,700 soldiers — would leave Grenada as soon as possible, but he did not indicate any time when he would leave. The democratic government could be achieved
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 1
Professors criticize invasion as unjustified military action
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
President Reagan last night failed to justify this week's invasion of Grenada, three KU professors said after the President's nationally televised speech.
"This reminds me of the Lone Ranger movies I saw when I was a kid," said Richard Stansiver, professor of history. "He thought the kids in medical school were in danger. But he never gave any thought to the charter of the Organization of American States, which says that there shall be no intervention in the internal affairs of a member state."
In his speech, Reagan said that he had ordered Tuesday's invasion because six members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States asked for it and because of the safety of the 1,000 Americans on the island. Nearly 800 are students at St. George's University Medical School.
REAGAN SAID that American troops had encountered more than 600 Cubans and Soviet advisers on the island and thousands of arms. He said that the island was becoming a "Soviet zone."
Stansifer, who teaches a course dealing with Central America and the Carribbean, said. "The students did not say that they were in any danger, except from the American troops when they arrived. Neither did the president. There was no indication that even though there might have been Cuban arms and Soviet advisers on land, that Grenada was a threat in the area."
Robert Oppenheimer, assistant professor of history, said that the invasion was a 'great disaster'.
"The connection that he mentioned to Lebanon was based on the idea of a Soviet conspiracy over there. Reagan is running for office with this move." Openheimer said.
See REACTION, p. 5, col. 5
Marines were warned 2 days before bombing, colonel says
By United Press International
BEIRUT - Lebanon — Marines were warned two days before the bombing in Beirut that a new extremist group had targeted their base and that the government had to reinforce the commander in Beirut said yesterday.
Other Marine officers said a sentry inside the barbed wire perimeter of the base, the first line of defense, was not carrying a loaded gun when the barrel of TNT plowed through his forward post Sunday.
The comments and a detailed map by Marine intelligence officers provided new clues to how
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the attack occurred with such deadly precision and likely would raise new questions on whether it was deliberate.
IN HIS FULLEST account of the bombing,
Marine commander Col. Timothy Geraghty did not identify which group he was told was planning the attack, but he acknowledged the Marines specifically had received car bombs threats two days before the bombing.
U. S. officials in Washington have said they had circumstantial evidence that a breakaway group had entered the country.
Hussein Musawi, the leader of that group, the Islamic Amal, told reporters in Syria on Thursday that he was on his way to Jerusalem.
time that we have no connection with Sunday's operation."
He added, however, 'I personally consider it to have been a good deed, beloved by God and his wisdom.'
The Pentagon said at least 225 American servicemen were killed and 79 wounded in the attack. At least 56 French paratroopers were killed in an identical suicide bombing.
IN A MOVING ceremony at the French headquarters, French commander Gen. Francois Cann bid farewell to "my dear parachutists" who died in the second bombing.
Fifty-six coffins, covered with the French tricolor, were arranged in two rows as paraptropes stood guard and a priest sprinkled them with holy water.
Geraghty said that he had a clear indication before the bombing "that there were new elements in town that were specifically targeting Marines."
Slithering fugitive captured quietly after being found in library hallway
He noted that two Marines had been wounded by a booby-trapped car days before the plane.
A MAP DRAWN by Marine intelligence showed the truck circled an adjacent airport parking lot to gain speed, crashed through a barbed wire perimeter fence, a mural of police guards shack before reaching the lobby of the building, where the driver detonated the TNT.
"We receive a lot of warnings. It's not "unaware," Geghami said, declining to explain the reasons.
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
All in all, the chase wasn't too exciting. The witness slipped away before the law appeared, the law simply picked the fugitive up off the floor, and the fugitive quietly went along without a hiss.
The law was John Simmons, collection manager of the division of herpetology for the Museum of Natural History. The fugitive was a four-foot black snake found in a hallway last night by a patron on the fifth floor of Watson Library.
The snake was found resting against a wall in a hallway of graduate-student study carrels on the fifth floor of Watson at 9 p.m. by Michael Browne, according to Watson circulation desk workers.
"It didn't put up a fight. This kind of snake is a black snake, probably found just about everywhere in this area. I just picked it up." Simmons said.
"No problem with this one," he said. "Usually, you use the snake stick for the poisonous ones. You don't use tranquilizers or anything with them because if you're close enough to inject them, you have to pick them up anyway."
Stattery, who apparently left before Simmons could respond, could not be contacted.
Simmons didn't need his 'snake stick', a converted golf club that he uses to pin down
The snake was probably either left in the library as a prank or was brought in as a pet and lost, Simmons said. The only way the snake could have slithered into the library, he said, is to have found its way through one of the elevator shafts.
The black snake. Elaphe Obsoleta, is also known as a rat snake. It is most commonly found in wooded areas and is very common to Kansas.
Simmons said that the snake would probably end up on display as part of the museum's live snake exhibit. The snake left with Simmons in a gym bag.
"There's practically no way that this snake got all the way up to fifth floor Watson all by itself," he said. "It was either brought in as a bad joke or it was somebody's pet and got away."
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Murlin Heffner, facilities operations worker, paints one of the old light poles on Jayhawk Boulevard. Some of the light poles east of Sunflower Road have been replaced with poles that never need painting.
Harper is seeking more information in local shooting DA says self-defense may have been reason behind Schall's death
But Harper said that more questions still needed to be answered before any charges would be filed. Robert L. Schall was killed Wednesday afternoon in a home at 801 Locust St.
By MI'CHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
SCHALL WAS shot to death about 2 p.m. Wednesday after he kicked open a door at the North Lawrence residence of Sherl Haislip He who shot him left his left shoulder and passed through his chest.
The person who shot and killed a 36-year-old Lawrence man may have acted in self-defense, Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Harper said yesterday.
Schall had recently moved from Lecompte to Lawrence, said Maj. Ron Olin of the Lawrence Patent Court.
Olin said that the owner of the rifle had not been determined and that it was unknown whether Schall was armed when he kicked in the door.
Olin said that he had a fair estimation of what the motive was for the shooting but he declined to comment.
"A self-defense question is clearly involved
Harpman says. Yet somebody is dead from
yellow fever."
Lawrence警证 said that they had identified the person who had shot Schall, but that no arrests were made.
The morning before his death, Schall had been arrested and booked on charges of criminal damage to property and criminal trespassing at the Haisip residence. He was released from Douglas County Jail about 10:45 a.m. that morning.
Olin said that the trespassing "may have been connected to the shooting."
WHEN SCALLH was arrested for trespassing, he said he lived at the Haipil address, according to police records at Douglas County Law. Jail. Oln., however, said that Scallh lived at 1308 Massachusetts St. and that he did not know why Scallh had listed 1021 Locust St. as his address.
At least three people were in the house when the shooting occurred. Olin said. But he could not find the gun or any evidence of a crime.
Olin said that the police would interview several more people about the shooting. The shooter was a white man with light skin.
On Thursday morning, a 38-year-old man was released from protective custody in the Douglas County Jail, the jail supervisor said. Olm would be in a hospital soon. He was the suspect in the murder. The man
See SHOOTING, p. 5, col. 1
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