University Daily Kansan. September 21. 1983
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LA teachers yield
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The school board and teachers union drew closer yesterday to a compromise that could avert a strike in the nation's second largest school district in Los Angeles. Wages remained as the last stumbling block in the contract negotiations.
Teacher walkouts around the nation, meanwhile, affected thousands of students in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, New York and Washington. In Rhode Island, 21,000 students returned to class after teachers reached a settlement ending a two-week strike.
In Los Angeles, the union surprised district negotiators Monday night by suddenly offering to defer for one year talks about the union's rights. The union also agreed with district's teacher transfer policy and to quickly settle the waive issue.
"It became clear to us last night that it was absolutely impossible to reach an agreement," said Leon Anderson, the co-founder of the United Teachers of Los Angeles.
"If indeed we're going to reach a contract agreement, it would have to be without discussing either of those two items."
THE PURPOSE OF deferring talks on the issues, he said, "is to try, finally after 17 months, to reach a contract agreement."
School Board President John Greenwood announced yesterday afternoon that the district would drop its proposal to order veteran teachers transferred to hard-to-staff schools, mostly in the inner
city. He said that move was made because the UTLA had dropped its proposal to have non-union teachers pay a representation fee.
Marty Estrin, a spokesman for the 550,000-student school district, said the move made the outlook more favorable for a settlement without a strike.
FURTHER TALKS BETWEEN district and union negotiators were scheduled for yesterday evening.
The district's 26,000 teachers, who have worked without a contract since a three-year pact expired in September 1982, currently earn an average salary of $23,000 a year. Teachers who increased their pay 7.8 percent. Teachers are asking for an 8.6 percent wage boost.
FELDMAN SAID THE results of a strike authorization vote taken among the union's 16,000 teachers Monday would probably not be available before Thursday evening because of the lengthy process of collecting and counting the ballots by hand.
One issue teachers agreed to table was a proposal that would require non-union teachers to pay a union fee in return for benefiting from collective bargaining. In return, the district asked for a concession from teachers that would give officials more leeway in transferring veteran educators to hard-to-staff inner-city schools.
"There still remain other issues to negotiate, particularly salary, but that should be easier now," he said.
Marine charged in rape of girl at music festival
By United Press International
SAN DIEGO — A Camp Pendleton Marine was being held Tuesday on suspicion of raping a teen-age girl at a rock concert and fireworks show as a crowd of people watched and cheered, police said.
They said an off-duty security guard pulled the suspect off the 16-year-old victim as she was being assaulted in a men's restroom.
Security guard Mark Chapman, 25
sided to 30 men witnessed the alleged
attack.
"Some were even cheering," he said,
"It turns my stomach when I think about it."
THE ARREST OF the unidentified Marine was one of 107 made during the show Saturday at Jack Murphy stag site, by the British rock group DeLepard.
Police said Chapman hurled several spectators aside and helped the girl get dressed. Her attacker, identified as a 19-year-old Marine, slipped away in the commotion, but was caught by witnesses who held him for police.
Police Sgt. Tommie Powell, a member of the sex crimes detail, said the girl's parents hired a lawyer who used to allow detectives to talk to her
The reported attack is similar to another rape that occurred at a Who concert held at the stadium last October.
STADium AUTHORITY chairman George Mitrovich said Monday night it was time to review the policy of a rock concerts to be held at the stadium.
"I would rather take the (financial) losses and not have women rcped," Mitrovich said.
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STRAH1 IS VISITING the University of Kansas as part of an annual program that allows writers from East Germany to teach a graduate seminar about their own work. The program is unique to the University and is sponsored by a Graduate Diedo Education Accredited to the Soviet and East European Studies program. EA
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Rudi Strail doesn't want popularity. But although the 52-year-old East German comedy writer shuns the traditional dictator's work to stand out in the crowd.
And many do know his work especially in Europe. Some of Strah's books, poetry and short stories have translated into 25 different languages.
"The writer's personality is the background. I want people to know me for my works," Strahl said, with help from a German translator. Strahl speaks English but said he had not been able to speak it for 30 years.
Strahl has written 10 television screenplays and 11 theatrical productions, and has published 35 books. He is also a curator of the future. One of his most famous plays,
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me. I do not want to be special.
Although my lifestyle is somewhat different, I just like a normal life," he said.
"I write on relationships. I try to give a broader view of life. I like to write on simple, everyday people who deal with everyday problems and get involved in fantastic or strange situations," he said.
But he said that after he made two appearances on East German television one year, people on the street began to recognize him.
But success hasn't stopped Strahl from associating with common people, the subject of many of his stories.
STRAHl COMPARED HIS comedy style to American playwright Neil Simon. He said he that he had tried, at times, to concentrate on more serious works, but that they usually turned out humorous.
Strahl goes to the streets for inspiration. He admits to frequently eaves-dropping on conversation in restaurants, waiting rooms, airports, and shopping malls so that he can "try to feel the problems of the common people."
STRAIL, SAID HE liked Lawrence people and their simple lifestyle.
Strahl said he tried to keep his personality separate from his work.
"It's nicer to make people laugh than cry. So many other things can make people cry," he said.
"Adam and Eve," has been performed in 14th theaters across Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera.
"When you write comedies with happy endings, people think you can solve all your problems. So they write and ask you questions," he said.
of the German Democratic Republic's working class before he received a scholarship from the Institute of Literature in Leipzig and moved into the intelligence class to study writing.
"This is my first time to the United States I was surprised that the difference between the simple people in our country and those we have their troubles on," he said.
THE PLAYWRIGHT ENJOYS his life for the personal freedom it offers. While others go off to their daily job, Strahl raises 4 a.m. and writes until 9 a.m. For the rest of the day he will either go for a walk, go shopping, work in the garden, go sailing, play tennis or answer fmail mail, be said.
"That is my natural way. It is a function of my personality and temperament. I just want to be normal," he said.
Strahli began his writing career when he was 25 years old, after he became dissatisfied with being a blacksmith. Strahli taught the lessons of Strahli wrote three books as a member
"I don't like it," he said. People say different things when they recognize
Even though his book "You Can' Rely On Happy Endings" has sold more than a million copies, he said he always liked his most recent book best.
As for the future, all Strahl wants to do is keep writing.
"I'm 52 years old. I have maybe 20 years to live. It's too short of a time. I is a shame. All I want to do is write. I have the nicest occupation in the world for myself. I can say what I feel, hope will — I can say it all," he said.
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STRAMUS SOCIALIST hupingir is evident as he used the Marxist philosophy as the backdrop for his work
"I believe the future belongs to Marxism. That does not exclude the humanistic point of view. Humanity is the best, most wonderful, most miserable and all encompassing. I'm for the future and fear the end," he said.
The five Defense Department documents dated Aug. 22 and signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer are the result of five months of budget planning for fiscal years 1985-89. They were submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to build up U.S. fighting potential in the Persian Gulf and to prepare for battles in space by buying S8 anti satellite weapons throughout the 1980s, which made available yesterday said.
By United Press International
Report says Pentagon to build fighting power in Persian Gulf
Called "program decision memorandums," the documents earnark spending of $1.9 trillion for that five-year period, within the policy guidance outlined in the spring by Mr. Thayer and Ms. But Thayer was forced to eliminate or defer many weapons programs to meet that target.
The final version of the proposed budget for fiscal year 1985, which begins Oct. 1, 1984, will be sent to Congress in January.
REFLECTING THE GROWING U.S. commitment to act as a world policeman, the Pentagon documents ordered to be deployed by the Obama Deployment Force and improvements
to U.S. force structures in Central America.
Further, they ordered the permanent forward deployment of a fourth aircraft carrier battle group in addition to the task forces now operating in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The papers do not say where the fourth group would operate
A fourth Army division — the 5th Mechanized Division at Fort Polk, La. — was added to the infantry, paratroop and air mobile divisions now assigned to the RDF for meeting crises in the Persian Gulf.
TO BACK UP its role as reinforcement for NATO troops in Europe, the documents ordered an upgrading of the U.S. Army National Guard Armored Division.
It instructed the Air Force to "procure and preposition launch, launch and recovery equipment to support seven tactical fighter wings in South Africa" for $41 million to develop the Civil Reserves Air Fleet to enhance airlift capabilities.
On the ground in the Middle East, the Pentagon earmarked $35 million for a brigade staging facility at Oman. $80 million for "en route support" facilities in Morocco. $145 million for medical and storage facilities in Oman and $9 million for weapons storage on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Agency were told to "fund improvements in U.S. Southern Command capabilities" in Panama and to study "force structure and basing requirements" there, "including the distribution of fiscal 1985 funds to specific projects."
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The documents do not specify the projects, but the command is headquarters for U.S. operations in all of Central America — including U.S. advisers based in El Salvador and Honduras.
Carrying out earlier guidance to develop anti-satellite weapons, Thayer instructed the Air Force to buy three missiles in fiscal year 1985 and a total of four in fiscal year 1986. The air-launched missiles to become anational in fiscal 1987.
A total of 28 "sets of carrier aircraft equipment," presumably for launching the anti-satellite missiles, are to be acquired in the five-year period, the document said.
No specific mention was made in any of the documents about President Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative for the development of a missile shield around United States that is expected to employ depleted energy weapons such as lasers.
THE AIR FORCE has been de-
veloping satellite-killing missiles to
detect threats.
— The Navy was given the go-ahead to buy more F-14 Tomcat fighters, but told to "hold up" purchases of the A-6 Intruder after buying six more in its fiscal 1955. At the same time, it is to study uses for a new 1998 attack aircraft
But Thayer told the Army to "proceed with development of two laser weapon systems concepts, including a close combat version and air defense high energy laser weapon version."
— All services were told to plan for the possibility of a congressional cut of U.S. forces assigned to NATO.
The Air Force was instructed to cut back personnel by 20,000 by 1943 and the Army to hire its numbers by 2,600 a year. The Navy's active reserve by 6,000 people a year.
— The services were ordered to stop squabbling over a rotary wing aircraft and to develop a plan for a low cost aircraft for the US military. “Defense Department mission needs.”
In major points:
— Acceleration of Army purchases of combat zone hospitals, with money to be allocated for 22 in fiscal 1983 and for the remaining nine in fiscal 1984 to add three combat hospitals, one each in fiscal years 1986-1988.
- Preliminary designs were ordered for a new nuclear attack submarine.
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