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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, October 3, 1983
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Bicyclists line up at South Park to register for Octoginta 2015.
Yesterday's tour, which was sponsored by Student Union Activities
and the Mount Oread Bicycle Club, was an 80-mile round trip to Perry Reservoir. Nearly 400 people completed the tour. See picture p. 5.
Lebanese officials say Druse starting mini-state in Shouf
By United Press International
BEIIRUT. Lebanon — The government said yesterday that Syrian-backed Druse Muslim militiamen were establishing a mini-state in the Shouf mountains and that it was uncertain whether Druse leader Walid Jumblatt would participate in national talks to avoid civil war.
Farouk Jabre, an adviser to President Amin Gemayel, expressed concern to foreign reporters over Jumbalatt's reported calls for Drusse soldiers to desert from the Lebanese army and for the establishment of an autonomous "civil administration" in the Shouf.
Jabre denounced creation of the Druse administration as a step toward the partition of Lebanon into separate Christian and Muslim states.
Gemayel and former Prime Minister Chefik E Wazzaud huddled with top aides to discuss Jambiata's moves. He said he was "said" pointed to a secessionist trend.
THE WEEK-OLD CEASE-FIRE held, however, in a "goodwill gesture," the Christian Lebanese Front released about 100 Drusse women and children captive since the outbreak of the mountain war early last month.
launch a wide-scale scale offensive to take the steps necessary for confronting this development as well as help spare the country the danger of partition.
The government, the radio said, "will
Jabre said it was too soon to tell whether Jumball's declarations were a violation of the cease-fire agreement in the Shouf.
JUMBLATT, LEADER OF THE Socialist Progressive Party, announced Saturday the creation of a "people authority for civil administration to strengthen stronghold. He also called for Drum soldiers to desert from the army.
"The Lebanese government and the Lebanese people see in this a step towards the realization of de jure partition of Lebanon." Jabre said.
He said the Gemayel government hoped that Jumbaitl's moves were only "tactical" ones intended to gain support at national reconciliation talks."
JABRE SAID THAT the Lebanese government had undertaken urgent consultations but planned no military intervention to the establishment of a Drusse mini-state.
He said that he expected the 12-member national reconciliation committee, as called for by the close-fire agreement reached a week ago.
Proposal would restrict nighttime parking
Board proposes shuttle-bus service
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Nighttime campus parking would be restricted next year under a plan being considered by a council.
Russell Getter, chairman of the Board's subcommittee on rules, said yesterday that a free shuttle bus service from peripheral parking to campus or campus parking for most students and faculty.
The arrangement is being considered to deal with heavy traffic, a shortage of parking spaces and congestion.
THE PROPOSAL, WHICH Getter said might become a "hot political issue," must be approved by the Traffic and Parking Board, the University Senate Executive Committee and the Board of Regents. If approved, on-campus parking would be prohibited from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Thursday, to students, faculty and staff without night parking permits.
Under the proposal, 1,000 night parking permits would be sold to students for $10 each on either a first come, first-serve basis, or by class course. Better, associate professor of political science.
formula that considers the purchaser's years of University service and physical needs.
For those who would be unable to buy a permit, Getter said, free nighttime parking would be available in parking lots near the central Stadium and south of Robinson Center.
FREE SHUTTLE BUS service to campus would be provided from those lots, he said. The shuttle would complete one trip about every 20 bus stops on the marked bus stones on Javahwk Boulevard.
Alternate shuttle parking lots would be used during home basketball games, he said.
See PARKING, p. 5, col. 3
Arizona floods leave trail of death, damage
By United Press International
Gov. Bruce Babbitt declared a state of emergency and toured the flooded area by helicopter. He called the scene "the worst damage I've seen" since he took office.
Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars, and thousands of residents fled the flood
PHOENIX, Ariz. — A helicopter flying a rescue mission through a storm over flood-ravaged Arizona crashed yesterday, killing two Department of Public Safety crewmen and bringing the state's weather death toll to at least eight.
"It's a mess," Babbitt said.
Thousands of people abandoned their homes, particularly in the mountainous southeast corner of the state. Flood warnings were extended for some areas through this morning.
"IT'S LIKE SOMETHING out of a bad movie," said State Sen. John Mawhinney, who watched water run-off roar out of the Santa Catalina mountains north of Tucson. "The force of the water is enormous, just tearing up the roads and everything in its path."
Homes, trailers, cars, household appliances and other debris were swent down flood-swollen
rivers. Power lines were threatened by the rising water and utility service was cut in many areas,
The two Department of Public Safety officers were killed when their helicopter crashed north of Maraca. They were identified as plot Thomas G. McMullen, Richard G. Stratman, 27, both of Tucson.
RESIDENTS TRAPPED ON roofs and cartops were being picked up yesterday by state and National Guard helicopters flying despite the heavy snow — U.S. U-89 and State Route 19 — were closed
The retirement community of Green Valley south of Tucson was reported to be isolated.
Allan Schmidt, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, said that authorities were concerned because many hard-hit areas in the city could be difficult to bring in food and other supplies.
On Friday, at the onset of the storms, four people were swept down a creek when their pickup truck became stranded in midstream. Two crewmen aboard a military plane were killed when the aircraft, described as an attack bomber from the Atlantic Fleet, crashed Friday
The Phoenix metropolitan area was not severely affected by the rain run-off because it is not situated near steep mountains.
The small southeast Arizona town of Clifton was reportedly inundated. Residents began piling sandbags near homes and businesses just hours before the San Francisco River began spilling its banks with run-off from nearby mountains.
WW II pilots contrast reality and TV image
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
He was sent to the South Pacific as a replacement pilot. There he met Col. Greg
Staff Donor
MONDAY MORNING
John Begert never graduated from college.
He went to war instead.
Begert studied journalism at the University of Kansas in 1937 and 1938, before the start of World War II. Then, with the threat of the draft immer, Begert joined the Navy to train as a naval Corps.
Begert, who lives in Topeka, was with his commanding officer this weekend at the Superbatics 83 air show at Forbes Field in Topeka.
"Pappy" Boyington and became a member of Boyington's famed black Sheen Soudron.
IN THE LATE '70s, NBC-TV bought the right to "Baa Baa Black Sheep," Royettons book
Begert, who was one of the eight black sheep who made up the core of the squadron, said Saturday that he was surprised by all of the attention the show brought to the group.
about his squadron's exploits, and made it into a television series starring Robert Conrad.
"I didn't think we were anything special, that we did have a good record." Begert said. "Patricia."
Both Begert and Boyington said they enjoyed the series, but said it was not a documentary.
THE TRUTH, HE SAID, was that they were all replacement pilots who were constantly being assigned to squadrons that were almost ready to be shipped home.
Begert said he had been in three squadrons before Boyington received special permission to form VMF-214, a squad made entirely of replacement pilots. The pilots were immediately dubbed the Black Sheep Squadron because of the squad's unorthodox flying style.
"I wasn't too crazy about them saying Pappy got us out of court martials." Beert said
The flight patterns did not always resemble those used by other squads, but Bovinon's
ONLY BOYINGTON'S NAME was used in the series. The other names were changed for legal reasons. Although the exploits of Begert and the other pilots were the basis for the series, Begert said he could not identify any of the characters in the show as the men he knew.
Boyington was older than his pilots and was soon nicknamed "Pappy." Actually, said Begert, they called Boyington "Grampe" and they were his "clowns."
"It was really just formula writing. You
would have to have the fair haired boy and
the impetus on him."
flight patterns were designed to confuse the enemy.
Begert also said that the series inaccurately portrayed the relationship between the men of the squadron and the Army nurses on the base island, which was called Espritos Marcos in the show, but which was actually Espritos Santos in the New Hebrides islands.
"The closest we ever got to romances was during a week's leave in Australia." Begert said.
See AIR SHOW, p. 5, col. 1
Drought could qualify county for disaster aid
Estimates of crop damage in 66 counties in the eastern half of the state were to be completed last week by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation offices in those counties, said Brian Morray, Douglas County ASCS director.
The hot, parched summer of 1983 probably caused enough crop damage in Douglas County to quality the county for federal low-income loans to farmers, an agriculture department office.
Staff Reporter
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
THOSE ESTIMATES WILL be analyzed by the Farmers Home Administration state office in Manhattan, which will recommend to Gov. John Carlin which counties are eligible for disaster aid. Carlin will then ask the federal Department of Agriculture to approve low-interest FHA loans in those counties.
Jackson学说, district FHA director, said that if a county's estimated total yield was 30 percent less than the five-year average, farmers in that county would be eligible, after the harvest is completed, to lend loans from the FHA at 5 percent interest.
George said that all counties in his district, which comprises 14 counties in northeast Georgia, have been included.
loans. Most of the farmers in this area use most of their land for pasture or for crops other than wheat, which weathered the drought well.
"Almost anybody who has most of his land in corn, milo or beans is likely to have guinea fowl."
IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, Morray said, the crops damaged most by the drought were corn and soybeans. The estimated yield for soybeans is eight bushels an acre, compared to an average of 30, the expected yield on corn and soybeans an acre, compared with an average of 85.
Morray said the average acreage planted in soybeans in the past five years was 36,320 and the average for corn was 21,280. About 18,000 acres were planted in corn this year.
GROWTH ON PASTURE land, from which farmers cut hay to feed livestock in the winter, is only two-thirds of normal, Morray said. That will force some farmers to buy more hay or other feeds this winter, which will be expensive. Farmers who cannot afford the extra feed may have to sell some of their livestock.
The five-year average acreage of wheat is 22,920, but the ASCS expects no damage to the Douglas County wheat crop. George said that the state planted most of their land in wheat.
See DROUGHT, p. 5, col. 1
Governor's Conference key speaker to discuss comparative economics
During two years of traveling the country for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Mancur Olson found that similarities between regional economies in the United States and those of Europe and Japan were products of history.
Olson, who will be the keynote speaker at next week's Midwestern Governor's Conference in Lawrence, is expected to present his theories and strategies for solutions to the Midwest's economic problems.
"The difference economically is the influence of the age of the regions and the entrenchment of special interest groups," Olson said of the economic difficulties of Midwestern states.
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
OLSON IS THE author of "The Rise and Decline of Nations," a book published last year that discusses the effects of regional differences on states' economies.
Olson's speech will be at noon Oct. 10 at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 W. Turnpike Access Road. His speech will be one of the first events of the conference.
Among other speakers will be William Ruckelshaus, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, who will address the opening session at 9 a.m. Oct. 10.
Governors from 11 of the 13 states included in the Midwest region are expected to attend.
Gov. John Carlin plans to attend, despite having suffered a back injury in a traffic accident.
in Washington, D.C., said John Myers, head of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors' Bureau.
THE ONLY TWO governors in the Region who do not plan to attend are John Y. Brown, D-Kentucky, who is recovering from heart surgery, and Richard Cristele, D-Doho, Myers state Christopher Bond of Missouri, a publican, will be the chairman of the conference.
The conference's theme is "Economic Growth for the '80s and '90s." The governors will debate the issues of interstate transportation of nuclear fuel, international trade and agricultural and international trade issues.
Olson, said economies had stagnated in older regions where special interest groups had little influence.
Olson is a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He traveled the United States evaluating regional economies as an assistant deputy secretary for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1967 to 1969.
"THERE ISN'T MUCH difference economically, historically, between England and the Northeast and Upper Midwest areas of the United States," Olson said. "It's the same for Germany and Japan in comparison to the South and West."
"You must avoid war at any cost, but World War II was good, in a way, for Italy, Japan and Germany, where they had to start all over afterward. Nothing was left to be destroyed, and the economy started new, without the burden of the special interests and greed that led them into war. Their economies blossomed for a long period after the war."