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Vol. 94, No. 24 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, September 22, 1983
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz, left, speaks with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. P. X. Kelley during Shultz's testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The committee discussed yesterday the War Powers Resolution and the role that U.S. Marines should have in Lebanon.
House committee rejects war powers compromise
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WASHINGTON — A House committee, ignoring a compromise worked out by the congressional leadership to keep Marines in Lebanon for 18 months, yesterday voted to cut off funds for the troops Dec. 1 unless President Reagan invokes the War Powers Resolution.
The Democratic-cramped House Appropriations Committee voted 20-16 for the provision, which a House Democratic leader said would be an important Congress demands an explanation of why the Marines are in Lebanon.
"If we don't stand up for our constitutional powers to declare war, then we don't deserve to be elected," said Rep. Clarence Long, D-Md., sponsor of the provision.
THE SPENDING PROVISION was attached to a critical stopgap money bill that is needed to keep parts of the government operating past Sept. 30. The bill still must be passed by the full House and Senate and could be vetoed by Reagan.
That legislation is separate from a compromise resolution approved by the congressional leadership and Reagan Tuesday that would authorize the Marine presence for 18 months.
Just hours before the vote, Reagan urged quick approval of the compromise. He said members of Congress who say an 18-month Marine presence is too long are "shredded and saddled," said Kennedy. D-Mass. is wrongly wrenched for calling the authorization on a "blank check."
See LEBANON, p. 5 col. 4
Philippine rioters storm palace
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of anti-Marcos protesters shouting "Revolution! Revolution!" marched on the presidential palace yesterday, hurling rocks and nail bombs in the city's worst roiing in 18 years. Police opened fire on battle that left eight people dead and 105 wounded.
The skirmishes came on a "National Day of Sorrow" that included rallies by more than 100,000 people demonstrating against the government of President Ferdinand Marcos and the assassination of opposition leader Benigno Auño.
The violence, the worst in the capital since Marcos came to power in 1965, continued into the night as bands of youths roamed the streets attacking government shops. One food store was looted and burned to the ground.
BEFORE A MARCH that stretched for a mile toward the palace, angry protesters burned effigies of Marcos and President Reagan and set a U.S. flag on fire.
In Washington, Reagan said that he had no plans to cancel his scheduled November trip to the Philippines, during a five-nation tour of Asia. However, aides said that his activities would be scaled back for security reasons.
"As far as we're concerned, we're going ahead on schedule." Reagan told reporters.
Marcos told The Washington Post that cancellation of Reagan's visit would be an "unthinkable" snub and would raise political tension to the two key U.S. bases in the Philippines.
The eight dead were five demonstrators, two firemen and a marine private.
THREE POLICEMEN REPORTEDLY were seriously wounded when demonstrators tossed rocks and homemade bombs packed with nails over burning buses into a police cordon.
Brig. Gen. Tomas Dumpit, deputy commander of the presidential security guard, and a marine colonel were also seriously wounded by a bomb explosion, officials said.
exploitation, officials said. Hospital officials said the 105 injured included 85 protestors, 14 riot troops, five journalists and one fireman. One of the wounded journalists was identified as Joel Palacios of Reuters, who was hit in the head by a rock.
"We are trying to avoid bloodshed. We are trying to avoid a revolution. But Marcos won't listen to us," said opposition leader Salvador Laurel
More than 1,500 riot police, some in full battle gear and backed by armored cars, blocked all approaches to Marcos' palace as about 5,000
THE PROTESTERS CHANTED "revolution, revolution," "Marcos: Hiller, Dictator, Dog," and "Marcos Resign." They lit a bonfire in the road and attacked police with a barrage of rocks, Molotov cocktails and small homemade grease. When the police came to arrest the crushed bridge a bridge that the riot squad was using as a first line of defense and set two buses and a crane ablaze.
young protestors broke away from the main march and surged through the streets.
Finally, police charged out from behind the burning buses in force, swinging truncheons and firing into the crowd of protesters. The demonstrators raked down a wide swath toward the university.
Demonstrators said they saw truncho-swinging police beat one protester and shoot him point-blank before dragging him behind police barricades.
Within minutes the streets were deserted, except for riot squads and pockets of demonstrators playing cat-and-mouse with troops down sidestreets.
THE PROTESTS MARKED the 11th anniversary of the 1972 invasion of martial law and the first month after Aquino was killed at Manila Airport. He was returning from three years of self-exile in the United States.
Regents to propose program discontinuance
Rv DONNA WOODS
Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents, after an extensive review this past summer, will make recommendations in October to eliminate or merge academic programs at its six universities, the Regent's executive secretary said yesterday.
yesterday's SenEx meeting that several reliable sources had told him that the Regents would recommend program discontinuance at KU.
Stanley Koplik, the director, said that the October report also would identify academic areas that need improvements and would recognize exceptionally strong programs.
Koplik declined to say whether any programs at the University of Kansas would be discontinued.
but James Seaver, a member of the University Senate Executive Committee, said at
continuous program deployment
Seaver declined to identify the sources.
"IN THE OCTOBER meeting of the Regents, one or more of the programs at the University of Kansas is going to be discontinued." Seaver said.
Robert Cobb, KU's executive vice chancellor, said last night that the administration did not know what the Regents would recommend
know what the regimen is.
"It would be exceedingly premature and serves no constructive purpose to speculate," he said.
said.
Seaver said, "It may just be a runor. But if it is just a runor, we need to find out what's happening.
"It is a serious possibility. That's why we're getting the warning signals."
James Carothers, SenEx chairman, said that if recommendations were made to eliminate or merge an academic program, the action would be taken only in areas that were reviewed by the
INCLUDED IN THE programs reviewed this summer were; the department of chemistry; the department of physics and astronomy; the department of geology; and the department of radiation biophysics. Also, the Regents reviewed programs in the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Design Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic
See PROGRAM, p. 5 col. 4
Chancellor says enrollment at KU should show rise Officials had predicted 650-student decrease in on-campus figures
By the Kansan Staff
The expected increase is consistent with first-day enrollment figures, which showed a slight increase over the last 1982 enrollment. But University officials last year had predicted that KU's 1983-84 on-campus enrolment would decline by as many as 650 students.
Although KU's 20th-day enrollment statistics won't be released until later this morning, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said yesterday that figures would show an increase in on-carpus enrollment.
ON-CAMPUS ENROLLMENT figures are taken from headcounts at the Lawrence and Kansas City, Kan., campuses. They do not include students enrolled in programs in Topeka, Overland Park and Fort Leavenworth.
Budig did not say whether off-campus enrollment also would rise. This fall's first-day enrollment of campus was down 283, from 1241 to 958.
A total of 23,384 students were enrolled on-campus on the first day this fall, compared with 23,363 last fall. Enrollment on the Lawrence campus alone was 21,113, down slightly from last fall's enrollment of 21,132. Enrollment at the College of Arts and Sciences in Kansas City was up most students, to 2,271.
by 31 students Last fall's 20th-day enrollment on campus was 24,400, an increase of 410 students from the previous year.
LAST YEAR, KU's office of business affairs had predicted that this year's on-campus enrollment would fall to 23,750 from 24,400. That prediction, made in preparation for the fiscal 1964 budget, was partially based on the shrinking number of students graduating from Kansas high schools.
Twentieth-day enrollment figures are traditionally higher than opening day figures because several hundred students register after classes begin. The figures are important because the Legislature uses them to help determine financing for the University.
The number of students coming out of Kansas high schools peaked in the late 1970s; it has steadily declined since.
stead
the loss of 650 students would have meant a
loss of $241,000 in academic fees.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS predict that oncous enrollment next spring will be lower than this fall's enrollment. Traditionally, spring enrollment is 800 to 1,100 less than in the fall.
When the figures are released this morning, full-time equivalents also will be calculated. The FTE is figured by dividing the total number of credit hours by the average full-time course load for undergraduates.
Edward Zeller, professor of geology and physics, and Gisela Dreschhoff, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, examine equipment used to measure
radiation. In January, the two plan to travel to Antarctica, where they have conducted research since 1976. Stephen Phillips KANSAN
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Staff Reporter
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Profs study geology in icy-cold Antarctic
Gisela Dresschoff and Edward Zeller usually spend their winters summering in Antarctica.
In January, the two KU professors will again travel to the polar continent, where summertime weather is as balmy as a meatlocker. Mid-summer temperatures often are 50 to 70 degrees below zero, not much higher than in the continent's winter.
lreschenhoff and Zeller find their fascination with the continent, along with their shared love of the outdoors and cold weather, in the geological secrets frozen into the continent's surface.
Zeller, professor of geology and physics, and Dreschhoff, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, have traveled to Antarctica together every winter since 1976. They search for uranium and compile data about natural radiation and fallout in the continent's rocks.
IN LATE JANUARY, Dreschloff and Zeller will fly to New Zealand, where they will board a large cruiser known as an "icebreaker" because it is designed to break up ice formations up to 20 feet thick as it travels. They plan to explore the coast of the continent until they reach the vicinity of the Chilean coast, where the journey will end in March or April.
Among their tools will be a Gamma Ray Spectrometer, a device that alerts the scientists to the presence and amount of the three natural radioactive elements — uranium, thorium, and potassium — in rocks
"Last year, we took the equipment to the pole." Druschhoff said. "There was a deep pit in one point in the ice. We lowered the detection system along the wall of the pit — we do our work from a helicopter — and measured the gamma rays emitted by fallout."
THEIR RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED under a 30-year treaty signed by 12 nations in 1961 that provided for scientific research in Antarctica.
See ARCTIC, p. 5 col.1
Money to cover loss in Hyatt collapse Jury awards $15 million to woman
By United Press International
KANS^S CIT"^ Mo. — In the largest single jee' tedy to the Hyatt Regency
she died in the Hyatt Regency host, Stephanie, a jury last night awarded $15 million to a 36-year-old woman who was left a quadriplegic in the 1981 disaster.
The six-man, six-woman Jackson County Circuit Court jury deliberated less than four hours before deciding actual damages for Sally Firestone, who is considered to be the most seriously injured in the shooting. That was the fourth to decide actual damages, began Sept. 12.
"Well I'm glad it's over," Firestone, whose neck was broken and spinal cord damaged in the disaster, said after the jury's decision. When asked whether she thought it was fair settlement, she said, "That's what the jury decided — I don't know."
The panel only was to determine actum damages — lost income, medical expenses, disability, and past and future pain and suffering. It was not admitted liability or fault in the collapse.
IN JULY, A JURY awarded 4 million to 28-year-old Kay Kent, a law student who now walks with the help of braces and crutches, for the injuries she sustained in the collapse. It was the first of about 40 Hyatt cases to go to trial.
Later that month in two separate trials, eight relatives of an Independence, Mo., couple killed in the disaster received a $3 million judgment and a Leawood couple was awarded a total of $3 million — $2.5 million to Betty Wintz, 61, who was injured in the collapse and $500,000 to her husband for loss of her companionship.
The July 17, 1861 accident left 114 people dead and at least 239 people injured.
The bulk of suits filed by victims and their families were settled out of court.
Firestone's attorney asked the jury to award $35 million to his client.
BUT THE LAWYER arguing for the defense — 10 firms that built, own, designed and operate the hotel — said $3.4 million would be enough for Firestone to lead an independent, near-normal life and to cover medical expenses.
Watt draws laughs with 'jocularity' on minorities, later apologizes
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WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary James Watt drew laughs when he told a business group yesterday that he had an advisory group loaded with minorities — "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple" — but he later apologized for the remark.
remark.
Describe his loke as "unfortunate," Watt said he had apologized to Richard Gordon, a member of a special commission on coal-leasing practices who has a paralyzed right arm.
tary who resigned later.
Watt's comments came during a half-hour, off-the-cuff address attacking Congress, the phrase "liberal Democrats." The program
imputed that I am president of ONE CONGRESSMAN LUMPED Watt with Earl Butz, Richard Nixon's agriculture secretary who resigned after telling a racist joke.
conference was a joy. Julia Walsh, the only woman on the five-member study panel, said, "I resent it being implied that I am the token woman."
practices who have been Gordon, a professor at Penn State University, said he was disturbed by Watt's remarks and wanted "to run this down until I know what's going on." He said Watt had told him that the comment was "a jocular characterization."
James Watt
was sparked by a Senate vote Tuesday putting a moratorium on leasing federal coal pending a review of the program.
The controversial secretary's breakfast audience, trade association executives at the U.S.
See WATT, p. 5 col.1
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