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Vol. 94, No.21 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, September 19, 1983
United Press International
BEIRUT. Lebanon — A Lebanese soldier keeps a watchful eye on movement across the green line separating Christian east Beirut from Moslem-controlled west Beirut.
Libyan soldiers head to Lebanon
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Libyan leader Moammar Khadab put his troops in Lebanon under Syrian command yesterday, a day after U.S. warships shelled targets in Syrian-controlled areas and Syria threatened to retaliate.
Gunners in a Syrian-occupied sector fired 40 rockets on the outskirts of the ancient port of Byzios, 20 miles north of Beirut, in an effort to wipe out the city.
The state-run radio said five people were killed and 13 wounded by the shells that landed 300 yards from their targets — underground hangars used by the handful of Lebanese jets still in service. No military casualties were reported.
THE SHELLING WAS in retaliation for a strike earlier yesterday in which the U.S. Hawker Hunter fighters destroyed three 130 mm howitzers, two jeeps and a truck in a rebel-held village in the Shouf mountains overlooking Beirut, the radio said.
The air strikes were launched in support of Lebanese soldiers who tried to flee from the fronts of Souk El Ghar to dislodge anti-government Drama Militia movement.
U. S. Marines based at Beirut airport were drawn into an exchange of small arms fire with anti-government Moslem rebels operating in Beirut's southern suburbs, a Marine spokesman said. No casualties were reported.
Heavy shelling was reported early yesterday in the area where the Marines are based, but the shelling later subsided.
However, two British journalists were wounded by shrapnel from exploding mortars yesterday while covering tightening in the Shauf militia.
THE TWO MEN, wounded in the area of the army-controlled town of Souk el Gharb, were soundman Sebastian Rich and cameraman Richard Rose of London's Independent Television News, an ITN spokesman in Beirut said.
On Friday and Saturday, two U.S. warships off the Lebanese coast shelled targets in Syrian-controlled areas in response to the shelling of U.S. Embassy offices and the U.S. ambassador's residence.
Syria responded to the U.S. naval bombardment by warning that it would retaliate against any attacks.
In a show of support for Syria, Khadafy placed his troops in Lebanon at the disheasal of Syrian forces.
Soviets comb Sea of Japan for Korean plane
By United Press International
WAKKAANI. Japan — The Soviet Union concentrated its search operations in the Sea of Japan yesterday, sending down mini-aircraft and helicopters to our warriors shot down earlier this month.
Meanwhile, a union of nearly 3,000 groundstaff at Finland's airports decided not to join international action against Aeroflot, keeping the Swiss principal air links between Russia and the West.
Japanese officials said at least 21 Soviet vessels, including a guided missile cruiser, were crisscrossing a six-square-mile section of sea. Today, their area covered 10 square miles.
THE DECISION CLASSED with a call by Scandinavian and international transport federations for sanctions against Aeroflot following the destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with 269 people aboard on Sept. 1.
The Soviets and a separate Japanese search effort were interested in locating the "black box" flight recorders from the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747.
Officials believe recovery of the "black boxes," a system that contains flight data and cockpit conversation recordings, may shed light on why the New York to Seoul flight veered off course into Soviet air space after refueling in Anchorage, Alaska.
The renewed Soviet search efforts came after a brief pause in operations early yesterday that added to rumors they had found the vital "black box" system.
At about 3:30 p.m. Japan time, the 12,000-ton Soviet salvage vessel Georgi Kozuminer lowered a three-man, propeller-driven mini-sub into the sea west of the Soviet-driven island of Sakhalin, said Japanese Maritime Safety Agency Superintendent Masayoshi Kato.
THE SOVIETS WERE using two mini-
submarines, Japanese officials said. One of
them was estimated to be 15 to 18 feet long, and the second slightly larger.
Kato said that among the Soviet vessels in the search area were the 8,000-ton guided missile carrier Vanguard and the 7,000-ton guided missile.
The Soviet search area is in international waters about 100 miles northwest of Wakkanai.
The London Observer reported yesterday that Soviets already had picked up a small water-proof capsule containing the airliner's flight suit, which they had taken to the hangars, but Kato declined to comment on the report.
"We have no information whatsoever," he said.
BITS AND PIECES of the shattered aircraft and several badly mangled bodies have washed up over the past two weeks on the shores of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island. But the main wreckage apparently is still lying on the 600-900-foot deep ocean floor.
U. S. naval vessels sailed nearby, monitoring Soviet activity but apparently no engaging in assaults.
Regents add utility charge but approve building plan
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
The KU athletic department was ready to pay its share of the utility costs of a proposed multipurpose building without Friday's production. The Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday.
The Regents on Friday afternoon approved the preliminary plan for the building, which will cost from $2.5 million to $3 million and be paid for with private funds.
BUT THE REGENTS facilities committee, in a meeting Friday morning, wrote an amendment stating that the athletic department would have to pay the share of utilities and maintenance equal to the proportion the building was used for intercollegiate athletics. The amendment was approved by the full board Friday afternoon.
Johnson said, "I wish they didn't present it as a negative factor. It sounded as if we were asking for something we weren't. To me, it's a business responsibility to do those things."
Johnson said that the University of Kansas would have been premature to include utility costs in its proposal to the Regents at this stage. Those are usually taken up in the second phase of planning. Therefore, the Regents' request would not delay the project.
"All we asked for was preliminary approval to move ahead with the project." Johnson said.
Johnson said that information about utilities and maintenance should be presented when the University is ready for its final proposal and not at this early stage.
ALLEN WIECHERT, DIRECTOR of facilities planning, said Friday that planning had not progressed far enough to indicate how expensive the building would be to heat.
Preliminary plans indicate that the building will be 220 feet by 360 feet, and will include a 70-yard football practice field, a track, an area for field events and a weight training area.
"It could be expensive to heat," he said. "It depends on how the system is set up."
Wiechert said that there are techniques used to heat large, open spaces, such as "layering" to keep heat in lower parts of the building, and the use of ventilation and fans.
Johnson said that he would have a better idea as to how much utilities and maintenance for the building would cost after two or three more weeks of architectural work are completed. He said however, that even the preliminary design was not always appropriate as skylights and fans for improved circulation.
Johnson said, "No one would say that a building shouldn't be built because of energy costs. But energy costs are a deterrent to growth."
AT THE REGENTS meeting, Wendell Lady, Overland Park regent and a former speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, proposed the amendment to ensure that the athletic department would help pay the utility and maintenance costs. He said that he had consulted with Chancellor Gene A. Budig about the amendment before the afternoon meeting.
Lady said that he and Archie Dykes, a Topeka regent and former KU chancellor, had heard legislators say they were worried about the state's paying the cost of utilities on such buildings, although the buildings were built without state money.
"The time has come to come to grips with the cost of energy at our universities," he said. "We have to start concerning ourselves with the cost of operating these things once they're built.
"The matter of paying for utilities is sucking
taste from the purposes for which they should be paid."
Lady said that the department needed to submit further information about energy costs and a figure of how much the building would be required to equip athletics at the October Regents meeting
Johnson estimated that, at least in the first two years of operation, intercollegiate athletics
See BUILDING, p. 5 col. 4
Preliminary plans approved for new science library at KU
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents Friday approved the rough plans for a $12.8 million science library that would be built near KU's Military Science Building.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning,
said that in June the Regents had rejected a proposal for a larger, $24 million structure. The plan he approved was essentially what I asked, the panel asked.
The library, with about 130,000 square feet of usable space, is to be built between Hoch Auditorium and the Military Science Building, according to the preliminary plans. It is needed
to alleviate overcrowding in Watson, Wiechert said.
THE TARGET DATE for occupation of an new library is October 1989, according to the architectural program approved by the Regents. The University will ask for appropriations from the state budget. In the plan, the project, which according to the plan, should be financed entirely by the Legislature
The library's architectural program states, "When complete, it will house collections and services for the sciences, some of the social sciences, business, engineering and music, as well as government documents and the map collection."
See REGENTS, p. 5 col. 1
High taxes may lead to the loss of some schools Proposed plan to give counties with jucos necessary tax relief
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Property owners in counties with community colleges or vo-tech schools now pay an average of 52 percent of the school's operating costs, said Ed Walburn, executive director of the Kansas Association of Community Colleges.
If property taxes continue to rise, within 10 years residents in counties with community colleges and vocational-technical schools will be required to pay a $75 fee for community college president said yesterday.
become formidable.
MARILYN HARWOOD, member of the state Board of Education, said taxpayers in counties with commuting rates as much as $20 to $30 for every $1,000 of assessed property valuation to help support the schools.
Leon Foster, president of Independence Community College, said the only life line that junior colleges had was spreading taxes out over a wider population base.
And for many taxpayers, that cost has become formidable.
12,000 enjoy 'down-home' bluegrass at Winfield festival
Walburn said high taxes in some Kansas counties prompted a committee of the state Board of Education to propose a plan last week that would divide community colleges and vo-tech schools into eight or twelve governing regions.
"There's a limit to the number that can and will agree to continue that support," she said after asking if the group would be able to move.
See JUCO, p. 5 col. 3
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
WINFIELD — The sounds of guitars, mandolins and fiddies; the enthusiastic buzz from thousands of people and the smell of food roasting over campfires lingered over the Cowley County Fairgrounds here Saturday afternoon.
"This isn't the biggest festival in the United States, but it's the best," said Bill Ericson, Heston, who has attended the festival for 11 years. "In all the years that I've been here there were a lot of really nice events really nice. The music does it to them. The festival gets bigger and bigger every year."
MONDAY MORNING
The fairgrounds were covered with a blanket of cars, vans, and recreational vehicles. People from as far away as Alaska, Delaware and Florida came here for the Walnut Valley
Bluegrass Festival and 12th annual National Flat-Picking Championship, which began Thursday and ended yesterday.
Ericson and Diana Cool, also from Hesston, have been coming to the festival together since 1994.
RUMOR HAS IT that the festival got its start from a small group of locals who got together each year and played their acoustic instruments. One Winfield resident, Stuart Mossman, probabably came from anywhere than anyone. But Mossman, who keeps busy making guitars by hand, found himself too busy
Winfield is the home of St. John's Junior College, a state hospital and the headquarters of Gott Manufacturing Co. But Ericson said the bluegrass festival "puts Winfield on the man."
to really take charge of organizing the event every year.
"THIS YEAR, people were arriving two weeks early," Ericson said as Cool poked a tom turkey that had been cooking for several hours. "The fairground fills up real fast."
Mossman's idea for staging a festival was popular, and another Winfield resident, Bob Redford, created the Walnut Valley Association from 10 years ago to guide the festival's destiny.
Redford said that the WVA was comprised of many local people dedicated to making the city better.
David Harvey, Manitou Springs, Colo., flat-picks his mandolin at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival, staged annually in Winfield. Harvey, who attended last weekend's festival, is a former national mandolin flat-picking champion and won the title at the Walnut Valley festival in 1981.
The WVA pays several renowned bluegrass artists to perform at each year's festival, but many others come on their own. The days of the summer workshops,inars, workshops, jam sessions and concerts.
DAN CRARY, a bluegrass guitarist who has been to all of the Walnut Valley bluegrass festivals, has four solo albums and has performed on many others. He earned his doctorate of speech from the University of Kansas in 1978. During the week, he teaches speech at California State University in Fullerton. But on weekends, he iams.
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"The traveling is rough, but the rewards are fantastic," says Crary, who was in Australia last weekend and will perform in Washington, D.C., next weekend.
Crary said bluegrass was strictly acoustic music. The traditional bluegrass instruments have been guitars, mandolins and fiddles, several other instruments are now used, he said.
"Bluegrass is relatively new," Crary said as he leaned against a box of his bluegrass albums behind one of the festival's four stages. "It was an exquisite performance." Flatt, Earl Scruggs and Chubby Wise in 1946.
"A GOOD EXAMPLE of bluegrass music is the theme song to the old television series, 'The Beverly Hillsbillies.'" Crary said. "The theme song to the movie, 'Bonnie and Clyde' is also bluegrass. Lester and Scruggs wrote both of those."
According to Crary, bluegrass is a cross between country and folk music.
But a variety of songs seemed to be fitted for a bluegrass style this weekend. A performer on Saturday played Beethoven's Fifth symphony on his banjo.
Acoustical music has a fragile future, Crary said. Bluegrass is not well-known, he said.
THE WALNUT RIVER flows near Winfield, adjacent to the fairgrounds. It runs southward and then makes a bend to the east about one-half mile, where it meets the overnight camps along these banks.
because electrical music, namely rock and roll,
has dominated the media. But Cramy — tall,
slender and slightly bald — said bluegrass
and gave the music because anyone can be involved
The camping area is referred to as the "parking lot," even though it is a grassy meadow full of trees. The lot's atmosphere is called back Call Briession for the past decade.
"The parking lot is where it's at," Ericson said. "This is where the serious get down with their bluegrass. Basically, you go to sleep with it
See WINFIELD, p. 5 col. 1