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Vol. 94, No. 48 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, October 26, 1983
Profs see island invasion as show of military might
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Yesterday's invasion of Grenada may have been prompted by the Reagan administration's need to show that, three KU professors said yesterday.
Robert Oppenheimer, associate professor of history who specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations, said he thought the invasion was related to American internal policy issues and not to the interests of Grenada.
"I think the whole invasion is crazy, even from a strategic point of view. We don't have military bases there," he said. "I see it more as a display of power. The Reagan administration would be very typical of what we can do, that Central America is not typical of what we can do.
"He is running for president."
ALMOST 2,000 U.S. Marines invaded the Caribbean island at 5:40 a.m. yesterday. In a news conference to discuss the reasons for the invasion, President Reagan said the U.S. had invaded, "First to protect innocent lives, including up to 1,000 Americans. Second to forestall further chaos and to assist in restoration of conditions of law and order and government."
Reagan said a group of Caribbean nations had requested America's help to restore order and democracy in Grenada.
But Oppenheimer and other professors were skeptical of the president's explanation.
"You can always get people to ask you for help," Oppenheimer said. "I think our inepitness and impotence in Lebanon created a situation where the administration had to show its allies what it could do."
See REACT, p. 10, col. 3
Two soldiers die, 23 wounded in U.S.-led Grenada invasion
By United Press International
NICARAGUA DENOUNCED the
bil-labeled introduction of the pro-Cuba-
ilated gene (GEO).
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Two U.S. servicemen died, and 23 were wounded when U.S. troops and forces from six Caribbean nations invaded Marxist-led Grenada yesterday, marched to the embassy in contorting Soviet and Cuban personnel.
In an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council late yesterday, Nicaragua Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Tinoco said the invasion was illegal and rejected Washington's justification for the landing.
A force of 1,900 U.S. Marines and Army Rangers backed by 11 U.S. warships led the dawn invasion, committed to the defense and police from the Caribbean nations.
prelude to a military assault on Nicaragua.
President Reagan said the invasion
Mexico officials called for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from the island.
U. S. officials rejected the charges, saying icocurium was trapped in the lungs of a dog.
More Grenada news pp. 9, 11
was meant to restore democracy in the eastern Caribbean island and to rescue U.S. citizens there.
Tinooco asked the Council, "When is it legal for seven countries to get together to invade another country?"
"It can been seen as prelude to an invasion of Nicaragua. There are no grounds to justify such a shameless disregard of international law." he
had attempted to delay the meeting. Council members wrangled behind closed doors for more than three hours before deciding to convene a public session. The meeting, called by Nicaragua, opened at 10:15 p.m. CDT
Kirkpatrick dismissed the Nicaraguan charges as "an extraordinary act of disgrace."
U. S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick
TINCO CHARGED THAT the invasion was a "blatant attempt" to deny the people of Grenada the right to choose their own form of government, and he warned that it "implied a risk of independent countries around the world."
Tincoo said before the meeting convened that soldiers from Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent were playing a secondary role in the operation.
The invasion was the biggest Ameri-
Sec GRENADA, p. 10, col. 1
Marine brothers: one in Lebanon, other in Grenada
By United Press International
SLICKVILLE, Pa. — With one Marine son seriously injured in Beirut, Lebanon, and another Marine son on his way to Grenada, the Marine son is hurt and wants both its boys back home.
The family waited anxiously Sunday in its home 30 miles east of Pittsburgh before hearing that their younger son, Marine Lance Cpl. Terry Valore, 22, had survived the bombing in Beirut. Valore is a member of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit.
"My son was the luckiest boy in that building because he didn't have one broken bone. My son made it," said Orlando "Mike" Valore Sr., 52, a light equipment operator for a steel company.
Valore, who talked to Terry yesterday, said his son had suffered second-degree burns and had lost much of his hearing and the use of a leg muscle.
The family's relief, however, was short-lived. Another son, 2nd Lt. Orlando "Mike" Valore Jr., 24, a member of the 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit, was on a ship en route to join U.S. troops in the invasion of Grenada and did not know his brother had survived.
The parents' attempts to reach their elder son
See BROTHERS, p. 5, col. 1
WIESBADEN, West Germany — Wounded Marines await the arrival of Marine Corps commander Gen. P.X Kelly at the U.S. Air Force Hospital.
United Press International
Death toll increases; Marines go on alert
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The death toll of Sunday's bombing of U.S. Marine headquarters rose to 216 yesterday as Marines barricaded their base and went on maximum alert, fearing that three trucks crusing near the base might launch another suicide strike.
"We have intelligence that there are three vehicles in nearby neighborhoods loaded with explosives. We have them under surveillance."
Three days after the Beirut bombing, the Marine base has taken on the look of a fortress, bristling with tank barrels and machine guns aimed at
THE GATE IS CLOSED, the gate is closed” yelled a lance corporal minutes after the Marines snapped into Condition One maximum alert. “The door was open.”
More Mideast news pp.5, 6, 12
commander of the French forces, said of the attackers
In Washington, Vice President George Bush left for Beirut, where he
was in charge of fighting ISIS.
the senators challenged the adequacy of security arrangements that permitted a terrorist to drive a bomb-laden truck into the Marine
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 3
in Sunday's attack on French troops that occurred about a minute after the attack on U.S. Marines, and 26 were still missing and presumed dead "These are like people from another planet," Gen. François Cann,
"from French forces, said of the attackers."
w will be with Lebanon President Obama Committee Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee questioned Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger about what new steps are being taken to prevent terrorist attacks against the Marines in Lebanon.
NATO chief says new missiles in Europe will deter Soviets
Staff Reporter
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe told a packed audience at the University of Kansas last night that new missiles were needed in Western Europe to maintain "a credible and robust deterrent" to threats from the Soviet Union.
Gen. Bernard Rogers, his speech often punctuated by catcalls from 100 or so protesters, challenged his hecklers to think about whether their protests were helping or hurting their
"IVE WORK THIS uniform for 40 years to try to make sure those who are in this auditorium demonstrating tonight have the opportunity to demonstrate in our kind of government," he
Rogers, 63, spoke in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union to about 600 people, and his speech was heard through an intercom by an additional 270 in an adjoining room. Rogers would not comment on the U.S. invasion of Grenada, has stated that country was not involved in operation.
In his only comment about the bombing of the Marine headquarters in Lebanon was that one of his deputies had visited the headquarters
recently and had not reported any security problems. Such an incident, carried out by the driver of a truck loaded with dynamite, would be difficult to prevent even under the best security.
Bernard Rogers
"THAT MAN COMES from the part of the
world where those kind of deeds provide him with a key to paradise, and he was not going to be disdaunted," he said.
Rogers emphasized the need to negotiate for reduced nuclear arms in Europe. But the only way to make the Soviets serious about negotiating, he said, is to go ahead with the planned December distribution of 108 Pershing 2 missiles and 464 cruise missiles.
At his evening speech, the protesters chanted slogans such as "Take the toys away from the boys" and carried signs and banners. Some were wearing raincoats and caps throughout Rogers' speech and pointed at him.
PROTESTS LAST WEEKEND in several Western European nations and in the United States about the new missiles were misguided, Rogers said. The missiles will go ahead as planned unless the Soviets soften at the bargaining table in Geneva, Switzerland, where the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks are being conducted.
Rogers has been supreme commander of the NATO military forces in Europe since 1979. He was born in Fairview, and his three children are also commander of the U.S. forces in Europe.
"The only thing the Soviets respect is strength and resolve," he said. "The political imperatives require that we provide incentives for the Soviets to copulate seriously at the arms-conferent talks."
Allied forces in Europe do not have the
strength in conventional weapons and manpower to meet a Soviet threat without the risk of nuclear war, Rogers said.
The solution is for allied nations to meet their goals in manpower, Rogers said. The U.S. needs to reinstate the draft to cure the shortage of skilled Europe who would replace casualties in a war.
"LET'S FACE IT," he said. "The draft is anathema in this nation, whether we need it or not. But we've been putting Band-Aids on this for years, and we need a major compress."
At an afternoon press conference, Rogers said he had not seen the ABC TV movie, "The Day After," which depicted the destruction of the Lawrence and Kansas City areas by nuclear weapons. But he said that such movies, whatever their political slants, might impress upon viewers the "vast devastation" of nuclear war.
"No, nuclear war is not winnable, nor is it limitable to any particular theater," he said. "I think we would have that escalation, sooner or later."
"The Soviet Union does not want war. It does not want to risk its own destruction. But it does seek to expand aggressively its influence and to absorb an absence of determined resistance permits."
Injured elderly man in critical condition after being hit by car
A 56-year-old Lexington, Neb., man was in critical condition this morning after he was struck by a car and thrown 100 feet last night while crossing Iowa Street near Ninth Street.
Dale Boyle underwent surgery at 1:30 morning at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He was flown there last night from Lawrence Memorial Hospital by Life Flight helicopter, said Becky Bishop, nursing supervisor.
The accident occurred at 8:49 p.m. officer Robin Moore of the Lawrence Police Department said that Boyle was walking east across Iowa Street just north of Ninth and Iowa streets when he walked in front of a car driven by Thomas McGowan, 23, of Columbus, Ohio, that was northbound on Iowa Moore said Boyle apparently was not looking where he was going when he stepped in front of the car.
McGowan said he could not avoid hitting the man, Moore said. Police officials said this morning that McGowan would not be given a ticket for the accident.
INSIDE
Student career search begins at KU
Fourhorn convicted of murder and burglary
Finding a permanent, enjoyable job is the goal of many KU students. But good jobs are not always easy to come by.
Still, Frederick Madua, director of placement for the School of Business, is convinced that many jobs are available if students make efforts to "turn over all the rocks."
On pages 17 through 20 today, in INSIDE: Careers and KU, the Kansan continues a series of stories that take an in-depth look into subjects of interest to KU students.
Kansan reporters Lauren Jones, John Simonson, Jill Casey, Robin Palmer, John Reimringer, Susie Simpson and Mary Carter recently talked to placement directors, administrators, faculty and students about the job outlook in a variety of fields.
By MICHAEL PAUL
Staff Reporter
A jury of five men and seven women yesterday found James Chadwick Fourhour, 27, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 94-year-old Harry Puckett in June.
The jury, which delivered for six hours in Douglas County District Court, also found Fourhour guilty of aggravated burglary in connection with the June 24 break-in of its house.
FOURHORN SAT UPRIGHT in his chair and stared straight ahead as the verdicts were read. But as two sheriff's deputies escorted him to the front of the courtroom, Fourhorn turned, waved his arms and tried to implicate Danny Jennings, his brother-in-law, for the murder.
"But I didn't want to say anything." Fourhorn explained to the people in the courtroom.
Ida Walker, Harry Puckett's daughter, walked out of the courtroom with her head bowed.
After the verdict was announced and the jury dismissed, Walt Puckett, Harry Puckett's son, thanked a detective for the work the police had done in the case.
break into it.
In his instructions to the jury on Monday,
Stanton Hazlett, Fourhour's court-appointed attorney, said he would ask for a new trial. Associate District Judge Mike Maleon set 1:30 p.m. Nov. 29 as the date for hearing the motion. If the motion is denied, Fourhour will be sentenced that day.
...sings had testified that he had accompanied fourhour to Puckett's house and saw him
ACCORDING TO THE agreement, Jennings, 18, would be tried in juvenile court, instead of district court, on a charge of aiding and abetting an aggravated burglary.
Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney who prosecuted the case, said he expected Jeimmings to abide by the agreement he had reached with the attorney's office in exchange for his testimony.
Daryl Eos, a juror, said the jurors followed those instructions.
Malone had told the jurors "to consider with uncorroborated testimony of accomplice witness."
"Everybody took it into consideration at first," he said. "But Jennings' story was corroborated several times."
Enos, a welding teacher at Baldwin High School, said the jury deliberated on the aggravated burglary charge first and by 2 p.m. had reached a decision on the charge. The jury then completed deliberations on the murder charge.
THE JURY VOTED two or three times before reaching a verdict on the aggravated burglary charge and voted three or four times before reaching a verdict on the first-degree murder charge, he said.
The jurors' deliberations were not emotional but were logical, Enos said. And the fact that none of the physical evidence linked Fourhour to the murder "was on everybody's mind."
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