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Death total hits 191 as Marines dig out
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The death toll climbed to 191 yesterday as angry Marines clawed through the ruins of their headquarters to recover the bodies of comrades crushed in a suicide bombing. A pro-iranian group proclaiming its "love of death" claimed responsibility for the attack.
Forty-one French paratroopers were killed a minute later in a similar suicide attack on their barracks three miles from the Marine Barracks. Sixteen French soldiers were wounded and 15 others were reported missing.
AS THE SEARCH went on in the headquarters rubble, the Pentagon said 191 servicemen were confirmed dead and unofficial Marine reports in Beirut listed 32 soldiers as missing. Eighteen of the 75 Marines wounded in the alleyway are still serious condition in military hospitals in Italy, Cyprus and West Germany.
The commander of the Marines in Beirut vowed to track down every accomplice of the lone killer, who reportedly smiled as he crushed a truck packed with explosives TNT into the airport building Sunday and detonated the explosives.
Hospital spokesman Ray Diery said American military personnel burned in the attack would be flown today from a U.S. hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, to Brooks Army Medical Center in Brooks, Texas, for treatment.
The suicide bombing was the bloodiest, attack against U.S. servicemen since the Vietnam War. A Red Cross worker grimly announced, "No survivors have been found. More dead, yes, but no survivors."
CBS News, quoting U.S. intelligence sources, said the bombings were masterminded by a "renegade Lebanon" who was identified as Abu Musaq. Khamni*" identified as Abu Musaq.
PRESIDENT REAGAN, calling the bombers "vicious, cowardly and ruthless," said the Marines must stay in Lebanon because "we must not allow international criminals and thugs to undermine the struggle for peace."
"We cannot pick and choose where we will support freedom. We can only determine how," Reagan said. "If it is lost in one place, all of us lose. If others feel comforted about that, they will come and allies in Lebanon, they will become more bold elsewhere."
Reagan said that an enlarging of the 1,600-member Marine contingent might be warranted "if it would help the mission they're performing." However, he ruled out a more aggressive role for the Marines.
United Press International
THE LEADERS OF THE three other nations in the peace force also refused to pull their troops out of Lebanon, and Secretary of State George Shultz summoned the foreign ministers of France from Italy to a summit in Europe Saturday.
Shultz said "we cannot walk away"
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 1
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The bodies of 12 men killed in Sunday's bombing are loaded into a military plane at the airport here.
Officers give grim news to families of dead men
By United Press International
A few hours after two grim-faced Marines brought word that Sgt. Mecot Camara was dead in the rubble of Beirut, and the carrier brought five fires from him.
His mother-in-law said, "I don't understand why he had to die."
Teams of officers carried the dreaded news to families across the country yesterday and when the first
blind surge of grief eased, parents sought a reason for their loss — sometimes without success.
"My son died in vain," said John R. Price, 32, of Attalla, Ala., a few hours after he learned that his son Chris was among the dead.
"I feel my son was sacrificed," he said. "They tell me they're over there to try to get Lebanon where they can defend themselves from the Svari
See FAMILIES, p. 5, col. 3
Congress divided on Marine pullout
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders, resisting demands for a withdrawal, yesterday backed President Reagan in his determination to allow the leathernecks must not be brought home "at the point of a gun."
But some rank-and-file senators and congressmen, in a flow of speeches, urged the administration to "admit we've made a mistake" and withdraw them. Others suggested that the Marines be replaced by U.N. or Third World troops.
Still others, shocked and sorrowed by recent events and saying the Marines
were "sitting ducks" for a terrorist attack, urged a review of security measures and urged Reagan to clearly define the U.S. mission in Lebanon.
SECRETARY OF STATE George Shultz hurried to Capitol Hill to brief the Senate and the House in separate closed-door sessions — saying that he has no specifics yet on who is to blame for the bombing but pointing to Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran as "enemies of peace" in Lebanon.
Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said Shaulz 'did not give me a chance to explain' if we could determine who did it.
Pell indicated that the administration wanted to get more countries involved
in the peacekeeping force in order to lower the U.S. profile in Lebanon.
He described the senators as "hideously upset by what has happened" and said the session with Shultz had begun without the silence of honor in the dead Marines.
House Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas said that Shultz had told a "standing room only" meeting with House members that some Iranian elements may have been linked to the attack.
But Wright added. "The evidence which he 'shult') mentioned seems to be that he was a wizard."
Rep. Clarence Long, D-Md., saying "I can see no longer any justification to keep troops," said he would seek
a cutoff of funds for the Marine task force when the House takes up the defense appropriations bill later this week.
"I would like to see it done within days," said Rep. Lane Evans, D-III., a marine veteran and the resolution's lead sponsor. "I don't think we have a real national security purpose in being there."
FOUR DEMOCRATIC congressmen, all armed forces veterans, said yesterday that they would file a resolution calling for the "prompt and orderly withdrawal" of U.S. troops from Lebanon.
"We should consider repealing what
See CONGRESS, p. 5, col. 3
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rescue workers pick through the rubble.
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Bulgren to head CS department professor says
Staff Reporter
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
William Bulgren, professor of computer science and mathematics, will be appointed acting chairman of the computer science department, a KU professor said yesterday.
Jerzy Gryzmala-Busse, professor of computer science, said that Bulgren's selection had been made after Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, withdrew an earlier offer to make him and Bulgren acting co-chairman of the department.
BUT LINEBERRY, he said, later offered a position to him as acting associate chairman under Bulgren. Grzymala-Busse said he refused the offer.
Lineberry last night declined comment. He said an acting chairman would be appointed within the next few weeks Gilgen was not available for comment.
"In my opinion, the acting associate charismanship is not necessary," Grzymalz-Busse said. "I could better serve the department from my teach-
Grzymala-Busse said that he had told Lineberry that he was willing to serve as an acting co-chairman with Bulgren.
Earlier yesterday Lineberry said, "Every time you change a chairman, it is troublesome — especially when the department is bursting at the seams."
The acting chairman will temporarily replace Victor Wallace, who submitted his resigned as chairman Oct 3.
But Lineberry said that filling the acting chairmanship would not be a problem.
Wallace, whose resignation will take effect Nov. 15, said he resigned because he was frustrated by insufficient financial resources in meeting the department's increasing demand for courses.
Gary Smith/KANSAN
Ray Adair, foundry specialist from Salt Lake City, screws bolts into the newly hatched Jayhawk statue in front of the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center, 13th and Oread streets. The statue was erected yesterday. The 700-pound statue arrived from Utah wrapped in plastic in the back of a pick-up truck. See story p. 5.
Jury to start deliberating murder trial
Bv MICHAEL PAUL
Staff Reporter
After six days of testimony from more than 30 witnesses, the jury in the murder trial of James Chadwick bore witness to the court today at Douglas County District Court.
Fourth is charged with killing 94-year-old Harry Puckett and with aggravated burglary. Puckett's body was recovered room of his house at 1109 Delaware St.
More than 100 exhibits were presented during the first-degree murder
During closing arguments, Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, said that the physical evidence recovered from Puckett's house
'But that doesn't mean that the
defendant didn't do these things," he said.
HARPER CHARACTERIZED Four-
horn as a desperate man.
"He was using alcohol. He was using marijuana," Harper said, describing Fourhour on the evening Puckett was killed. "He was out of work, living on welfare, needing a car, needing money someone desperate enough to rob, to rob."
Harper also told the jurors to consider the testimony of Danny Jennings. Jennings testified that he saw Fourhorn break into Puckett's home, but he agreed to testify only after the verdict was given and would prosecute him in juvenile court.
In his instructions to the jury, District Judge Mike Malone told the jurors to "consider with caution the uncorroborated testimony of accomplice witnesses."
But during his closing arguments, Harper said that "if you take the story Danny Jennings told the police officers and compared everything possible to corroborate it, you would find that the stories fit."
STANTON HAZLett. Fourhorn's attorney, told the jurors that none of the physical evidence linked Fourhorn to the murder.
it's impossible to believe that James Fourthen was in that house and did not leave a single piece of physical evidence." Hazlett said.
Hazlett also told the jurors to consider the inconsistencies of the statements given by Jennings. Mark Crawford said he had written "tunging" the possibility of a frame-up.
tong the policemen.
Hazlett asked the jurors to consider
the different statements given by
Leona Fourhurn to the police.
Walker wins appeal for place on ballot
By PETE WICKLUND
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
Kevin Walker and Mark McKee, the presidential and vice presidential candidates from the Momentum Coalition, last night won an appeal to their names officially placed on the ballots for next month's Student Senate election.
The Student Elections Committee voted 5-4 to approve the action. All five of the board members who approved the action met with their first elections committee meeting.
Also, Jim Clark, the elections committee chairman, said that about 20 of the people who applied to serve on the committee failed to attend last night's
The decision comes a week after Walker, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, and McKee, Overland Park junior, were barred from officially filing because they could not verify Walker's enrollment in the University by the 5 p.m. Oct. 17 deadline that was set by the elections committee.
WALKER, WHO LOST last year's student body president election, said that the Oct. 17 deadline was not what the University of Kansas Senate Code, the document that governs all elected bodies of the University, stipulated for time allotted for filing for office.
In a letter submitted to the elections committee, Walker cited a section of the Code that says: "Candidates for president and vice president shall, at least 30 days before the Thanksgiving recess, file an application announcing their intention to seek office."
Walker said the section came into direct conflict with the Senate's Rules and Regulations, which say that "the deadline for filing will be at 5 p.m. on the date exactly 30 days prior to the election date."
Walker said that because of the confusion between the two sets of rules, he was under the impression that he had until yesterday to file.
BUT HE SAID that when he learned that the elections committee was operating under the Oct. 17 deadline, he
and McKee gathered the 500 required signatures to have their names placed on the ballot for the election, which is scheduled for Nov. 16 and 17.
However, the Senate office refused to accept Walker's petition because it did not have a dean's stamp verifying his enrollment in the University — a requirement for all student election candidates.
Walker said last night that a hold was placed on his enrollment by the Housing Office, and said he was not able to have that cleared until Oct. 18.
Clark said that Walker yesterday submitted to him a letter requesting that he drop the dean's stamps.
A motion to vote on Walker's appeal came after considerable debate. Clark checked with Jim Cramer, student body vice president, on whether the action by the committee was in accordance with Senate rules.
CRAMER, WHO WAS in the meeting's audience, told Clark that the committee could either vote on Walker's appeal or suspend its rules to further consider the matter.