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Vol. 94, No.22 (USPS 650-640)
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Tuesday morning, September 20, 1983
U.S. warships support Lebanese army
By United Press International
BEIIRUT, Lebanon — U.S. warships, fighting for the first time in direct support of the Lebanese army, unleashed hundreds of rounds of fire yesterday to prevent a Syrian-backed drive from routing Lebanese troops in a key town.
It was the biggest U.S. naval action since the Vietnam war.
Although the State Department called the naval bombardment "defensive," it marked a sharp escalation from the initial American invasion of Iraq and artillery was directed at Marine peacekeepers.
The Lebanese army said the naval firepower helped its troops "inflict heavy losses" on the Brushe Moslem attackers, who demand a greater share of government and control of the Shouf mountains.
THE TROOPS, who have been guarding the Shouf town of Souk el Gharb for three weeks, repelled three onslaughts in five hours and continued to control the town, the army said.
Government sources, however, noted Syrian troops were resupplying the Drume attackers
The town, eight miles southeast of Beirut, controls the only routes into Beirut and has
become the government's major defense line guarding the capital.
If the rebels had captured the town, it would have put their artillery within range of greater Beirut and the Marine contingent of the multinational peacekeeping force.
The rebels, in a statement from the political party of Druse warlord Walid Jumblatt in Damascus, retracted a claim that its forces had taken down and said it only "captured a strategic hill."
THE STATEMENT CLAIMED Druse gunmen, however, shot down a Lebanese jet fighter over the northern Shouf and killed a Lebanese army battalion commander who tried to advance the army position to Eitat, a mile west of Souk el Gharb.
State-run Beirut radio said the lost plane was a reconnaissance craft — not one of its three jet fighters.
The government also reported heavy clashes with Syrian forces north of the coastal city of Bylob, where it has built a makeshift airstrip on the coastal highway. State radio reported mortal dures. It was the second such direct clash in less than 24 hours.
"The naval gunfire support from the USS Virginia and the USS John Rodgers was conducted on military targets threatening the
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Lebanese Armed Forces defense of Souk El Gharb," a U.S. statement said.
THE VIRGINIA, an 11,000-ton, nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser, and the John Rodgers, a 7,800-ton destroyer, pounded mountain positions and supply routes.
Professor's son safe after Sea of Japan crash
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Lt. John C. Nunley
Yesterday morning Robert Nunley, professor of geography at the University of Kansas, and his wife, Ann, received a telegram at their McClouth home from their son.
"Dear Mom and Dad: Don't worry am ok and unhurt. Let enrolle me here when you are ready." U.S. Badge BJP, U.S. Badge JFK
Jock refers to Lt. John C. Nunley, a KU
chemistry professor, the acceptor that
cratched Saturday into the Sea of Japan.
Nunley, two other flighters and a Navy photographer were aboard the helicopter searching for the wreckage of Korean Air Lines, which was shot down Sept. 1 by a Soviet jet.
"Fortunately the Navy called before I had heard any news," Ann Nunley said. "His commanding officer called us. He said he didn't usually call to tell us that people are all right, but
since this was a national news story, he said he decided to call."
THE COMMANDING OFFICER told the Nunleys that their son and three others were picked up by a Coast Guard cutter.
"I don't know how long they were in the water," Ann Nunley said.
The commanding officer said that Nunley ane the others were treated for exposure.
The crewmen were aboard an SH-2 Lamps helicopter that was dispatched from the Pearl Harbor-based Navy frigate USS Badger. The helicopter ditched into international waters off the southwest coast of Soviet-held Sakhalin Island, north of Japan.
The SH-2 is normally used for submarine
warfare activities, but is also used for sea-
surfing.
JOHN NUNLEY graduated in 1977. He was in the ROTC program, his father said, and majored in electrical engineering. He was also a member of the gymnastics team.
Upon graduation, Nunley entered flight school.
Student Senate delays vote on rule changes
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By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
Proposed changes in Articles IV, V and VI of the Student Senate Rules and Regulations were originally supposed to be approved at tomorrow's meeting.
The continuing process by the Student Senate to revamp its operation procedures has been delayed until an Oct. 5 meeting to allow the committee that has drawn up the changes to polish the proposals.
The John Cramer, student body vice president and chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee studying revisions in the rules, said yesterday that the committee needed to polish rough drafts of the articles.
CRAMER SAID that his decision was not related to the Sept. 8 declaration by members of the Senate Student Rights Committee that charged that the Blue Ribbon Committee did not follow proper preliminary steps in introducing the changes to the full Senate.
"That had nothing to do with it," Cramer said. "The three amendments simply were not ready."
Article IV defines responsibilities of the Senate's executive body. Article V explains
committee structures and Article VI sets Senate election policies.
Cramer said that the Blue Ribbon Committee's work was still a rough draft and was being typed by the Senate's administrative staff. If the final version should be completed by Friday,
Robert Walker, chairman of the Rights committee, said that he did not intend to have the Senate ignore his committee's declaration or continue with approval of the Rules changes, unless the Rights Committee first studied the proposals.
ACCORDING TO the declaration, which was written by Rights Committee member Charles Lawhorn, the Blue Ribbon Committee violated the existing rules by sending the changes to the Student Executive Committee which sets the agenda for meetings of the full Senate.
Lawhorn stated that the existing rules stipulated that any proposed legislation must be approved by a standing committee of the Senate before being passed on to StudEx for consideration. The Ribbon Committee is an ad hoc committee formed spring by Student Body President Lisa Ashner.
Cramer agreed that such a rule did exist, but
CRAMER SAID that the ambiguity was the result of action by a past Student Senate to stop senators from by-passing committees when proposing legislation.
said that another rule stated that legislation could be proposed by a temporary committee.
He said the amendment stipulating approval by a standing committee was made without reguard to another rule that said ad hoc committees could propose legislation.
"It's a legitimate complaint, but I don't agree with their interpretation of the rules," Cramer said.
"It's the first time this has happened," Cramer said. "There hasn't been an ad hoc committee that has proposed legislation in quite a while."
THE SENATE already approved proposed changes for Articles I, II and III of the rules at its Senate.
Walker said he was concerned that the proposed changes were being slipped through his system.
Cramer said that after discussing the declaration with Walker, he decided to ask the members of the Blue Ribbon Committee to approve sending the proposals to the Rights Committee, if it could be done before the Oct. 5 Senate meeting.
Price increase for housing urged by residential board
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Residence hall rates for next year would increase $82 if a recommendation approved yesterday by the Residential Programs (RUP) administrator (UU administrators and the Board of Regents).
The recommended increase is $27 more than the board's original proposal, which was measured at $24.
Members of the board said yesterday that high utility rates made the additional rate more attractive.
In other action, the board rejected a proposal by the housing office to scrap a compromise R2 increase for residents of Stouffer Place. The board also suggested rent increases for residents of Jayhawker Towers and Sunflower Apartments.
THE BOARD recommended rent increases of $30 a month at the Towers and $40 at Sunflower Apartments. No additional increase was suggested for scholarships balls.
The vote was 8-0 in favor of the proposal to increase residence rate halls $82 next year. The base rate for residence hall living would rise to $1,974 next year, if the recommendation is approved by David Amber, vice president of Gene A. Budig and the Board of Regents.
The RPAB recommended in April a $55 increase for residence halls. An extra $2 for administrative costs was added at yesterdays meeting, but it was incorporated into the recommendation
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that the increase in residence hall rates would be more compatible with increases in fuel costs.
"WHEN WE MADE our proposal of a 65% increase last spring, it was too optimistic," he said. "None of us are pleased to see this, but you have to see the reasons for it."
Of the original $5 increase, $15 was to have been spent on utilities. The new recomme-
dation asks for $40 in the total increase for utilities.
Fred McElhennie, director of the office of residential programs, said Friday that Amber, Budig and the Regents would decide on the recommendations by January.
Last spring, the Stouffer Neighborhood Association and the office of housing reached a tentative agreement that the rent increase for Stouffer residents would be $2.
SNA had originally asked for a $2 decrease. Housing had asked for a $2 increase. The agreement, which was approved in Mau, will require the rent for Stouffer residents $2 a month.
Wilson said that $60,000 would be budgeted in fiscal year 1985 for permanent repairs and replacement of permanent items at Stouffer. That would include about $13,000 as part of a five-year plan to repair brick and concrete walls confirmed to be flaking and crumbling.
HOWEVER, J.J. Wilson, director of housing, yesterday asked the board to again consider the $5 increase, because of the cost of the project and additional maintenance needed at Stouffer.
Layne Pierce, chairman of SNA, said that even with the proposed $2 decrease that SNA originally wanted, enough money would be available for the needed repairs.
"Any look at our proposal would show that we figured in the maintenance items with the $2 decrease," Pierce said. "We figured in the $13,000 for the concrete and brick repair."
"With the $2 increase, which we agreed to,
there would be even more money."
KEVIN WALKER, Webster Grove, Mo., senior, who represents SNA, said, "We saw the $2 decrease in the figures. We wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. Nobody wants an increase."
Wilson responded by saying, "We wanted a $1 increase originally. What we'd like to do is increase the deposit and improve our methods of cleaning the apartments."
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
KU seeks to increase Defense grants by sending officials to symposium
The University of Kansas will send at least 11 people to a symposium Friday at the University of Oklahoma to find out about the research KU is conducting on Defense, a KU research official said yesterday.
The official, Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor for graduate studies, research and public service, said the trip was part of an effort to recruit new faculty in areas of defense grants and contracts for research.
"This is potentially worth several million dollars in income to the University," Bearse said. "It is well worth the $1,000 or so all told for these people to get there."
"This symposium is sort of a godsend. It will
say that of money we'd spend in going to
Washington.
BearSEA SAID HIS department was interested in increasing the amount of grant and contract money for research primarily from the Department of Energy, but also from the Department of Energy.
For fiscal year 1983, KU received $15,601,583 in federal research grants and contracts. Bearse said $722,638 of that was from the Department of Energy and $437,726 from the Department of Energy.
Other agencies, however, have spent much more for research at KU. Grants from the
Bearse said the 11 KU representatives were from the pharmacy and engineering schools and the chemistry and physics departments. They will be looking for projects that focus on basic pharmacology, pharmaceutics or ordinarily researching anyway, he said, rather than on purely military or defense problems.
Although some of the research done for the Defense Department involves classified material, KU's research policy does not allow students to include classified research in their theses or dissertations. That would conflict with the purpose of University research, Bearse said.
China version of Western outlaws killed after five-day running battle
PEKING — The murderous Wang brothers, China's modern-day version of Wild West outlaws, were killed in a barrage of military gunfire that they had set to attack battle, Daily said yesterday.
WHEN A RESEARCHER gets a grant to do research, Bearse said, his work is usually not checked closely until it is finished. A contract, however, involves periodic reports on the project, and the researcher's work done through a grant or a contract depends on how fast the agency wants the work done.
By United Press International
Wang Zongfang and Wang Zongwei, who diplomats said had murdered between nine and 15 people, were killed Sunday as they tried to break out of a mountain hideout in
'The net of justice has large meshes but it lets nothing through.'
"There isn't much of the University that wouldn't have some connection to what the Department of Defense is trying to do," Bearse said.
See DEFENSE, p. 5, col. 1
People's Daily Chinese newspaper
He said the defense money was spent "all over the campus" for a variety of research projects, from aircraft wing configurations to the teaching of foreign languages.
Guangchang county, 880 miles south of Peking.
"The net of justice has large mueses but it lets nothing through." People's Daily, China's leading newspaper, said of the bandits' end.
National Institutes of Health totaled $4,291,220 in fiscal year 1983, the largest chunk of research dollars from any agency.
The bandits' deaths came amid a national crackdown on crime, which has resulted in
hundreds of executions and tens of thousands of arrests in the past six weeks.
Both criminals had rewards promised for their capture.
Chinese sources said Wang Zongwei, a 1984 former military marksmans in a special army unit who once shot five people with five bullets, a bank robbery in Wuhan in central China.
Through wanted posters, their names and crimes became as well known to Chinese as Frank and Jesse James, outlaw brothers of the Old West, were to Americans.
The brothers began their crime spree in February when they shot their way out of a police station in northern China and traveled to the banking banks along the way, the sources said.
The bandits' downfall began Sept. 13 when an official spotted them buying cigarettes and alcohol.
Wang Zongfang, 30, once served a 3-year
camp sentence for theft, the sources
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Police intercepted the brothers two miles from town. The bandits opened fire and fled to the bus station.
Army troops and militiamen pursued the Wang brothers for five days.
Stephen Phillips/Kansan
This duck is not standing on water, but is perched on the drain near the dam at Potter's Lake.