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Vol. 94, No. 12 (USPS 650-640)
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Monday morning, October 17, 1983
Eighth U.S. soldier dies on fourth day of combat with Muslim militiamen
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — One U.S. Marine was killed yesterday and three others were wounded in fighting with militiamen on the fourth day of the war, the United Nations' Marine spokesperson Mali, Robert Jordan said.
Earlier, Jordan put the number of wounded at five.
He said the Marines had fired two powerful Dragon missiles, M-16 rifles and M-60 guns in response to the attacks launched from a Muslim base, with a rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
He said one Marine had been shot in the head and killed in attacks on Lebanese University,
THE CASUALTIES CAME during a 30-minute burst of fire from rocket-propelled grenades and riffles that began about 7:12 p.m., Jordan said. Some still were under sniper fire around midnight.
At least one of the wounded was in serious condition with an arm injury Jordan said. The wounded were identified.
Eight Marines have been killed since the troops went to Lebanon a year ago as part of a multinational peacekeeping force.
More than 50 have been wounded.
Two Marines have now been killed since a cease-fire went into effect in the Beirut area Sept. 26 after about a month of fighting between warring Lebanese factions.
Jordan said a Marine Medivac CH-46 helicopter sent to ferry the casualties to the USS Iwo Jima, a helicopter carrier stationed in the Mediterranean off the Lebanese coast, came under fire but managed to carry out its mission. EARLIER IN THE DAY a sniper fired at a Marine Mammal, which was retrained from firing back, said a spokesman, Warrant Officer Charles Rowe.
The shot came from the same area where snipers killed a Marine and wounded another Friday. On Saturday, Marine sharpshooters said they killed four snipers, may have killed a fifth, and wounded 10 others in a 40-minute exchange. The attack also involved in an exchange of fire on Thursday.
In South Lebanon, thousands of Muslims mourning a 7th century martyr hurled rocks and daggers at Israel occupation troops in a clash in the Gaza Strip during an audio said. No casualty breakdown was available.
The state-run radio said the casualties resulting from the violence in the town of Nabatiyeh, 20 miles north of the Israeli border, included 10 Muslim demonstrators and five Israelis. The Israeli military denied that any Israelis had been hurt or killed.
THE VIOLENCE IN Nabatiyah, 70 miles south of Beirut, broke out only hours after Sheikh Mohammed Shams Edsam, spiritual leader of the anti-Israel "civil resistance" in Lebanon.
The radio said 100,000 Shihts had gathered in the town for ceremonies marking Ashura, a day on which Shihts flagellated themselves to mark the passing of Imam Hussein bi Ali, a religious leader.
They marched carrying black banners, beating their chests,ushing "Allah Akbar" (God is great) and enacting scenes of Hussein's martyrdom. As the procession was in progress, two grenades were hurled at an Israeli patrol, the radio said.
Israeli troops at first fire in the air, but the crowds pressed ahead, hurling stones and daggers at the soldiers, five of whom fell dead or were killed in a report denied by military spokesmen in Israel.
The Israelis then fired on the crowd, causing a number of casualties, and the angry worshippers set three Israeli jeeps and two other Israeli vehicles on fire, the radio said.
Regan disclaims report that staff edits speeches
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL
Staff Reporter
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, speaking Friday to about 500 people in Woodruff Auditorium, denied a report that his speeches were being heavily edited by the White House
The report, published Friday in The Los Angeles Times, said that White House advisers were asking Regan and chief White House economic adviser Martin Feldstein to submit advance opinions on a review of Prop. 107 and Reagan didn't want them to discuss their policy differences in public.
REGAN AND FELDSTEIN have recently disagreed publicly on the effects of budget deficits on interest rates.
Regan, in a question-and-answer session after his lecture on industrial policy, said that speeches by Cabinet members and White House personnel were commonly checked by the White
"It is so different from what happens to anyone else at the White House. We're all asked to furnish the White House with a copy of our remarks so that they know what is going on," said Regan, whose appearance was part of the J.A. Vickers Lecture Series.
"What happened was that Mr. Feldstein and I, one day about 30 days ago, were making speeches in different cities and came out on opposite sides of the interest rate-deficit issue.
"That would, obviously, be confusing to a newspaper reader as to who's right and who's
Donald T. Regan
ACCORDING TO THE Times, the White House
See REGAN, p. 5, col. 1
Baker crowd appreciates last 'Ballad'
Maple Leaf Festival celebrates autumn without musical play
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
BALDWIN — Don Mueller's musical "The Ballad of Black Jack" met its final curtain call yesterday, but not for lack of an audience.
For 13 seasons the play has been a tradition at the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin. A solemn Rev. Mueller took his final bow before a standing ovation and told the crowd at the end of the performance for the historic play because he had been released from the university staff.
Mueller wrote the play, lyrics and the music about the pre-civil war battle of Black Jack, which was fought between pro-slavery and free-staters a few miles outside of Baldwin.
Joe Miller, Baldwin, hangs above the cold waters of the Cub Scout dunking booth at the annual Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin. Miller, a scout coordinator for the Baldwin troop, let out a vell yesterday after one of his scouts hit the bull's-eye.
MUELLER, A TENURED speech professor and an elder in the United Methodist Church, said he and two other professors had been fired because of declining enrollment.
Lee Whale, chairman of the Maple Leaf park, expresses the community's feelings postival.
"His severance from the university will leave a tremendous void in the ballad, the Maple Leaf Festival and the Baldwin community." he said.
Although the community was saddened by the news, a dark cloud wasn't hanging over the festival.
More than 15,000 people crowded the red-brick streets of Baldwin, 13 miles southeast of Lawrence, to watch the opening parade and to take part in the weekend's
The smell of barbecue filled the air as shoppers walked through the downtown area, sampling toods and browsing through more than 150 arts and crafts booths. Carousel music was played, and vendors dared patrons to take a chance in win prizes.
"Two professors and a local insurance man
BLANCH WISE, secretary of the Maple Leaf Festival, said the festival had grown tremendously from its beginning 26 years ago.
began the festival as a community barbecue for the townpeople to celebrate the trees." she said. "Then we decided that we had so many treelets that we had to share it with everyone."
This year the event had 235 arts and crafts booths, a quilt show, a parade, a carnival, tram rides, airplane ride and local historical tours. Next year, only the play will be
"It's good, clean fun," she said. "There's
no beer, no liquor, no gambling. And you don't have to pay a penny if you don't want to."
Wise said she thought that the play had been one reason that the festival had grown so pop.
"They complement each other. A lot come to the play year after year. On the same token, many come to the festival year after year," she said.
WISE SAID SHE didn't know what would
See MAPLE, p. 5, col. 3
Oklahoma blister beetles kill Florida horses
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
Like a horde of thieves in the night, they swarm by the thousands, often unnoticed, into the lush, green fields of alfalfa that color patches in the mosaic of Midwestern farmland.
Farm hands mow and bale the hay, often under the searing summer sun to speed its drying. The horde of blister beetles, its home disrupted, moves on to greener pastures.
A few of the beetles, however, sometimes stay with the hay for the ride through the hay baler, into the bale, onto the trucks and into feed stalls perhaps half a continent away.
A few of the beetles, which look harmless enough at about one-half inch long, are enough, when eaten, to kill a full-grown horse in two or three days.
FOR THE SECOND time in two years, blister beetles in hay from the Midwest have been blamed for the death of two horses in central
Florida, an area not widely known in the Midwest for its thoroughbreds.
Brad Howlett, manager of Tartan Farms near Ocala, Fla., said last week that his farm had lost a two-year-old filly worth $1 million and a three-year-old collt worth $100,000.
Howlett said his estimates were based on the value of the relatives of the filly and on the stud fee of the colt, which was $7,000. Tartan Farms own 458 thoroughbreds that are worth $80 million, he said.
Thomas Lane, extension veterinarian at the University of Florida in Gainesville, said that two Arabian horses died last year on another farm in Florida after eating hay from Oka-
HOMER CALEY, SECTION leader and extension veterinarian in Manhattan, agreed with Howlett that there was no doubt that blister had caused her wounds with horses died after being sick only three days.
"Her death was more violent," he said. "It really raised hell with her. It was an unusual
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After the filly died, Howlett said, farm hands searched its stall and discovered the beetles. Autopies by University of Florida veterinarians on the filly and on the colt confirmed the cause of death.
Howlett originally thought the hay that killed his farm's horses had come from Kansas, as a wireless service story reported Friday. But Lane traced the hay to a trucker from Syracuse, in far southern Kansas, who had hauled it from a farm near Lamar, Colo., 40 miles west of Syracuse.
See BEETLES, p. 5, col. 4
Nicaraguan diplomat dedicates life to writing poetry
By ANA DEL CORRAL
Staff Reporter
Roberto Vargas went from the cutthroat world of San Francisco's minority population "barrios" to the calculating world of diplomacy in Washington, D.C.
anti-Vietnam.
Now, as the first secretary of the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, Vargas, 42, dedicates his life to writing poetry and defending the Populist Sandinista government. Of his "barrios" days, he retains a street-wise sense of humor, a pierced ear and a love for the underdog.
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Latin American Solidarity, a KU group that campaigns against U.S. military involvement in Central America, invited Vargas to Lawrence.
He is part of a cavassing effort urging citizens who oppose military intervention in Central America to speak out.
During the transition period, he was a hippie, a truck driver and a poet, and went to jail for his anti-Vietnam activism.
Arkansas TATURDAY VARGAS SPOKE about Nicaragua's problems to about 100 people at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1294 Orend Ave.
of Anastasia Somoza Debaye. The Somoza family had ruled Nicaragua since 1941.
"I left Nicaragua in 1946 and lived most of my life in San Francisco, Calif. That was an incredible experience itself, living among the people of Nicaragua is almost 70 percent third world," he said.
Nicaragua underwent a revolution in 1979, when Sandinista forces topped the dictatorship.
Before the Somoza rule, Nicaragua had a long history of American intervention. U.S. Marines occupied the country for the last time from 1926 to 1933.
Growing up in the "barrios" led Vargas to a life of struggle. Despite periodical visits, he had little time to think about what was happening in his country.
During an interview Saturday, Vargas talked about his life and discussed his government's policy.
VARGAS' MOTHER LEFT Nicaragua after her husband, whom she divorced, began having an abortion.
"I came from the very ghettoes of this country," he said. "I have been in the jails of this country many times. I have experienced hitting the bottom in this country. I began to drink a
After serving in the Marine Corps for three years and training with the U.S. Olympic boxing team in 1959, Vargas began to wander back to his roots.
"I had been married; my wife had died in 1964 from a childhood illness. I was trying to find you," she said.
In his homeland, Vargas saw with adult eyes the oppression that he had heard about.
"The Somoza guard would stop us and throw us against the wall, search us and ask us what we were doing."
THERE, IN NICARAGUA, he saw his father for the first time in 20 years and, Vargas said, he found him to be like a character out of a surrealistic Garcia Marquez story. His father was 33 years old and had married a 15-year-old girl, also discovered that he had about 50 half-brothers.
Vargas had worked with and had been close to farm workers, Indians and blacks during the 1960s. He was with the Merchant Marines in Vietnam for three years.
"I started to realize that I had to link up the commonality of oppression in this country with the system that supported Somoza," he said. "I was able to take a look at hundreds of Marines and how they fell about their friends being killed. I saw how their lives had turned into nightmares."
sion. His conscience would not let him be at peace with himself.
VARGAS SAID HE began to realize that by supporting the Somoza dictatorship, the United States was providing the foundation for oppres-
"It was madness and it couldn't continue. The more conscious I became, the less I could live with myself," he said. "My poems began to reflect that."
VARGS SAID HE was afraid that Nicaragua would not have a chance to develop its idiosyncracies and its own social system.
"The U.S. is ready to invade us again. We do not talk out of paranoia, we talk out of
Today, he said, he is still deeply worried about the injustice that he thinks the Reagan administration is inflicting on his country.
"We want peace. We need peace." he said. "I am not saying we are a paradise. We are a government in transformation with all the inherent economical and political changes."
Vargas answered Reagan's charges of oppression by the Nicaraguan government by saying that 13 human rights organizations had recently visited Nicaragua. As far as he knew, he said, the organizations had unearthed no evidence of government oppression.
HE SAID one of the first and most important
SANDIS of the Sandina government was not to
execute
After he read some of his poems Saturday night, Vargas told the audience, "The Reagan administration is taking your hard-earned education to new heights and destruction for our own little countries."
Moreover, he cited the 45 percent decrease in his country's literacy rate. Recently Newsweek reported that the illiteracy rate was 11 percent and that before it had been 36 percent, Vargas
THE SANDINISTAS are committed to instituting the electoral process in 1985, he said. If the Nicaraguan government has not called for elections yet, it is partly because it is being forced to fight a war against the U.S. backed "contras."
He said the Sandinista government had struggled hard to improve health conditions.
"The World Health Organization can testify to
he said" they are pointing to us as in-
novators of global health.
"We had to start from scratch. We are a country that deserves to survive."
But he said he had no resentment against the U.S. people, although it was unfortunate that people in Central America tended to associate Reagan's actions with the will of his electors.
"I do love this country. I do love its people. I've lived here for 30 years," he said. "Latin America is going on her own. We don't want Uncle Sam to have the same relationship." Latin America has a date with its own destiny.