University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1983
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Russian vodka getting smashed across U.S.
By the Kansan staff
Barkeepers and liquor store owners from Maine to Iowa are smashing their bottles of Russian vodka to protest last week's Soviet attack on Russia. The state's finance委 have declared a boycott of Russian vodka.
An aquarium store owners in Lawrence haven't smashed any bottles yet and, they say, they probably didn't.
That is, if they have any. Only about half of Lawrence's liquor stores even carry Stolichnaya, the only brand of Russian vodka sold in Kansas.
"That's perfectly good booze. People here would look at us like we nuts," said Mark
Fleecer of Meisner-Milstead Retail Liquors,
2104-B W. 25th St.
insisted them.
"Here they'd just ask, 'What did you do that for?' And it's so damn expensive that most stores don't mess with it."
2014B It's stuff is hard to get. We stock it, but it doesn't often get to the Midwest. It's plentiful back East. Smashing it back there makes a statement because there is more ethnicity. And if you smash a Russian's bottle of vodka, you've insulted him.
fine linen with
Ohio, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Iowa
and Pennsylvania have officially declared a
boycot of Russian vodka in state liquor stores.
Standard Liquor Corp., the company that distributes the vodka.
No Lawrence liquor stores that carry Stolicnaya plan to stop selling it, according to Shelby Leonard, a Lawrence route salesman for
Leonard said that a Kansas City, Mo., liquor chain, Bertiglia's, had stopped selling the vodka.
However, a night clerk at Green's Fine Wines,
900 W. 327 St., said that the voda was popular.
**sow W. 23rd St.**, said that the voda was popular. Chuck Turner, the night clerk, said that Green's sold Stolichnaya to clubs and individuals.
Jon Tihen, a night clerk at Else's Liquor Store, 315 E. 7th St., that said his store had only one bottle of Stohlchaya, and, he said, he couldn't remember selling a bottle of the vodka.
"But anyone who would smash their bottles has to be crazy, considering what we pay for it."
"Is there anyone who without punishment has the right to violate the sovereignty of a foreign state? The answer is no.
"Soviet territory and the frontiers of the Soviet Union are sacred." Gromyko said. "Anyone who carries out these criminal activities will know they will bear full responsibility for it."
IN WASHINGTON, a top Reagan aide said the administration was considering further sanctions to make the Russians "pay a price for this."
Secretary of State George Shultz responded that the Soviets were continuing to lie about the attack.
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Plane
JAPANESE AUTHORITIES said their search of the crash area in the northern Sea of Japan had so far turned up no signs of victims or injuries. The crashed cutter was being sent in to help with the search.
Gromyko, speaking to the closing meeting of the European Security Conference, repeated earlier Soviet arguments for the action over the north Pacific last Thursday, saying Moscow moved to protect its security.
Gromyko, the highest level Soviet official to speak publicly about the incident, also repeated
Russian allegations that the South Korean airliner was on an American spy mission.
crises, to avoid making a bad judgment," Koh said.
A VISIBLY FURIOUS Shultz responded to the speech by saying he was "very disappointed to sit there in that hall and hear the continued falsehood of the Soviet Union on human rights matters."
matters. And at the University of Texas in Austin, an arcade has reprogrammed three video games to suit the mood of the students.
"Robotron" tells players they can save the human race from the "Communist mutant from outer space, Andropoo." "Stargate" players score points by hitting "aggressive Soviet ships," and "Joust" delivers the message, "Russia: We want answers and an apology."
Demonstrators have been near the Soviet Embassy ever since word reached Washington last Thursday that the plane had been shot down by a Soviet fighter.
IN NEW YORK, one demonstrator was knocked unconscious when a protest that started as a peaceful prayer rally by about 3,000 Koreans near the Soviet Mission to the United Nations turned ugly. When a group of the demonstrators tried to storm a barricade, police swung their nightsticks to push back the crowd. Police said the injured man was hit by a brick
thrown into the crowd, but witnesses said he was struck by a police nightstick.
THE ATLANTA BALLET canceled its Oct.
21-30 tour of Moscow and Leningrad, to "send a message to the Russians . . . in our small way."
Citing the Soviets' "continued arrogance and disdain to all legitimate inquiry from the world community," both the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., canceled scheduled November basketball games with the Soviet national team.
an airline with 269 innocent women and children aboard. It was not just a Korean airliner, but one with innocent people of all nationalities," she said.
THE GROUP WILL send letters protesting the incident to Reagan, Andropov and United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Lee said.
In Washington, the Voice of America has doubled its transmitters beamed at the Soviet Union in an effort to get more clear broadcasts on the Korean Peninsula and commissar to a spokesman said yesterday.
In Montreal, the world-famed Moscow Circus canceled a two-month, nine-city Canadian tour yesterday because most cities said the circus was unwelcome because of the incident.
nist nation, a species usually uses nine to 12 transmitters to broadcast about 16 hours of daily news and information programming in seven languages into the Soviet Union. The VOA said it stepped up its transmissions to inform Soviet citizens of American and international outrage over the incident.
March
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Cullen, Lee said.
"We wanted to show our sorrow and, as Korean students, hope to speak for the rest of the world in condemning the incident," he said.
"Our country has a glorious, long history, and we wish to preserve our dignity by marching and protesting the awful incident that occurred last week." he said.
The crowd marched solemnly. Some softly sang the South Korean national anthem.
"A quiet, dignified protest is our way of expressing our anger over the terrible incidences that have occurred."
"It is our way of showing that we are a peace-loving people. We see it, we stay it and we encourage the most atrocity."
ONE KOREAN CARRIED a picket that sand,
"Reparation." Another sign asked, "269 Lives
Vanished Without a Tree and No One's to
Blame." Signs called Andropov a "Cold-
Murdered Murderer" and a "Demon." The lead
marchers carried a sign which asked, "Where
Will 269 Spirits Rest?" Many of the signs, all
homemade, were written in Korean.
Among the Americans who marched was a man who silently carried an American flag.
Harbara Bayer, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, another of the American students who marched, said that she had not known any Korean students before the march. However, she said, she participated because "innocent people were killed."
upholding it. Lee said that the turnout for the protest was less than expected but that he was pleased anyway. The organization has 106 members
"It was atrocious that the Soviets should blow up a passenger plane. It was hypocritical and disgusting." she said.
"A lot of people do have classes and such at the time at which we scheduled the march (1:30 p.m.). But it was still successful, and we made our message clear," he said.
New Year
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Meanwhile, Jews in Israel and around the world also celebrated the new year, and prayer services were held after nightfall in more than 8,000 synagogues across the United States, punctuated by shrill blasts of the sofar, the ritual ram's horn.
ISRAELIS JAMMED STORES for last-minute holiday food and gift shopping and then clogged roads on their way to family dinners and resorts in preparation for the two-day festivities and a rare three-day weekend.
Sixty flights in the last 24 hours brought about 10,000 tourists to Israel for the holiday. Tourism Ministry officials estimated that 17,000 people arrived in the country for the holiday.
"The candles distinguish between the ordinary and the holiday," said Sig Lindenbaum, professor of pharmacy and physical chemistry.
In Lawrence, Jews gathered to celebrate a holiday that has retained many of the traditional means of celebration — hymns, pravers and candles.
But, new practices have filtered in. Many elders still recite the prayers in Hebrew, but the younger members now say them in English.
THE HOLIDAY BEGINS a 10-day period of self-examination and soul-searching that culminates Sept. 17 in Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — the most solemn day of the Jewish lunar calendar. During the period between the holidays, no weddings are held and some strict Jews don't even go to parties.
Rush Hashana, which means "head of the year," finds its origins in the Old Testament in Leviticus 23: 23-25 and Numbers 29: 1-7. These passages speak of the first day of the seventh month, when Jewish tradition has it that Creation occurred.
Mystics in Israel have been predicting a year of doom, or at least difficult times, during the new year.
THE FOUR HEBREW letters representing the new year 5744, each bearing numerical values as in Latin, form the Hebrew word Tashmad, which means "destroy."
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