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Vol. 94, No. 14 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, September 8, 1983
Evidence is 'irrefutable,' Speakes says
U.S. reaffirms stance that Soviets knew of Korean jet's status
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The White House has obtained "practically irrefutable" evidence that the Soviets knew the Korean Air Lines jumbo jet shot down a Russian missile was an unarmed passenger plane. Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes said yesterday.
Speaks sath yesterday. "Across the nation and the world, demonstrators voiced anger over the incident, which presumably have condemned the act. In Los Angeles longshoremen refused to unload a Soviet freighter. Six states have officially decreed a boycott of the imported vodka in state liquor stores, and at the University of Texas, reprogrammed video games now allow students to shoot down "aggressive Soviet airships."
to shoo down the administration, Speakes said, is with
See related story p. 5
holding some of its evidence because it deals with intelligence methods. 378 a. In the case of the new
with intelligence methods.
"We have evidence that is as plain as the nose on your face," he told reporters. "The evidence is so damning that they should have known."
so damning that. THE UNITED STATES has built its case against Kremiln by releasing dramatic tapes of the Soviet pilots' voices before firing at KAL flight 007.
The release of the recordings forced Soviet leaders to acknowledge Tuesday that one of their pilots shot down the plane, but they charged that it was on a U.S. spy mission.
Meanwhile, President Reagan was described as "mad at hell" yesterday at the Soviet attack and U.N. delegates questioned whether Moscow could be trusted to use good judgment with its finger "on the nuclear button."
In Madrid, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko angrily rejected global protests against the Russian action and warned that any future violations of Soviet airspace would be similarly punished.
similarly punished. Singapore's Ambassador to the United Nations, Tommy Koh, said the downing of the plane made the world question whether the Soviet military command "is subject to the control of the civilian leadership in Moscow."
the person.
Secondly, it makes us wonder whether the person or persons in the Soviet Union whose finger or fingers are on the nuclear button have steady nerves and could be relied upon, in a
Young-Jun Chung, left, Korea graduate student and president of the KU Korean Student Association, and Sung-Chull Lee, Korea graduate student, meditate after a march protesting the Soviet
See PLANE. p. 5 col.1
attack on a Korean jetliner. About 100 students took part in yesterday's march. A banner in the foreground reads, "Where Will the Spirits Rest?"
Korean group voices anger for jet attack
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Hee Soon Chung said that she marched yesterday down Jayhawk Boulevard with her fellow South Koreans because she was angry about the attack on a Korean Air Lines 747 by the Soviet Union.
CHUNG AND HER'SON joined 80 members of the Korean Student Association and about 20 other students who marched from Joseph R. Pearson Hall to the Kansas Union to protest the Soviet attack last week on the Korean jumbo jet. Some of the marchers carried signs in English and Korean denouncing the Soviets and their president, Yuri Andropov.
Soviet Union.
She also marched, she said, because her husband, Young Jun Chung, Seoul, South Korea, graduate student, is the president of the organization that staged the march. But most of all, she said she marched for her 2-year-old son. Won Ho, whom she pushed along the march route in a stroller.
president, Yuri Andropov.
Two hundred and sixty nine were killed in the crash, which occurred when Soviet forces downed the 747 last Wednesday. More than 105 Koreans were reported on the plane. U.S. Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga., was also on the plane.
was also on the plane. The Soviets Tuesday admitted that their military forces shot down the 747. In a nationally televised speech Monday, President Reagan incident an "act of barbarism" and called for reparations and an apology from the Soviets.
Soviets.
THE MARCHERS STOPPED briefly in front of Strong Hall, where leaders read a protest statement. The statement urged the United States to exert more pressure on the Soviets to apologize and make reparations for the incident. The statement also urged North Korea to officially protest the incident.
officially protested.
"We think that the United States could do more to support the biology for the incident from the Russians. We also want our brothers and sisters in North Korea to join us in protest of this great loss of life," said Sung-Chull Chue, Seoul graduate student, a spokeswoman for the association.
student, a spokesman for the law enforcement.
"We don't expect concrete policy," he said,
"but we do expect more pressure and a sufficient apology."
"There were lots of reasons for marching," said Sarah Kim, Overland Park sophomore and a native of Seoul. She said that she had lived in the United States for about three years
the United States for about thirty years.
"Think of the people in the incident. This was ___
See MARCH. p. 5 col. 4
Aquino's ideals must live, prof says
Staff Reporter
By CHRISTY FISHER
The Reagan administration should help carry out the democratic ideals of slain Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino, a KU political science professor said last night at the Kansas Union.
Carl Lande, the professor, also said that President Reagan should persuade President Ferdinand Marcos to return to a democratic government, or face the prospects of a violent civil war.
Lande, who has been in the Philippines frequently during the past 30 years to teach and do research, said that Marcos' military regime had grown too powerful. And in the event of Marcos' death, or if he loses the next election, a military rule would lead to an intolerable situation in the country.
Lande's lecture was sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
Aquino, who was working to re-establish democracy in the Philippines, was shot on Aug. 21 as he stepped off an airliner in Manila. He had intended to end three years of voluntary exile and to lead a challenge to President Marcos' rule.
LANDE SAID THE mission of the opposition to change the Filipino government was urgent because of a threat of the military taking over the country if Marcos leaves his position.
Marcos has been strengthening his military forces to support his regime.
Lande said, "No problem is more serious than the growth of the military. Now that Marcos has let the gene out of the bottle, it can never be reduced to its former position. When one thinks of succession, the prospect of the military taking over is a rather ominous one, which scares a good many Filipinos.
"I don't see these people letting this slip away from their grasp. It's gone too far, for too long, and it may be too late."
because Marcos has built a pattern of regional divisions — especially between the northern and southern regions of the country.
The north remains loyal to Marcos because it is his home region and also because his policies and officials have favored the area.
However, the south is where the most conflict and hostility has been generated since Marcos took office in 1965, and especially since martial law was imposed in 1972. Lande said the south is also the area where Muslim, communist and democratic opposition is growing.
THE PROBABILITY OF a violent overthrow and a civil war is also likely. Lande said,
Martial law in the Philippines was lifted in 1981.
1842. I met Aquino while studying in the Philippines and also in the United States when both men testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on aid to East Asia.
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Lande spoke in admiration of the slain leader.
he spoke in denunciation of the slain leader. "Aquino wanted to get back to the Philippines to speak to Marcos and to persuade him to allow the 1984 presidential elections to be honest, peaceful and to return to the democratic process," he said.
Jack Winerock, professor of piano and music, and Susan Elkins, a Lawrence resident, lead Rosh Hashana services at the Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive. More than 70 people last night celebrated Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the Jewish New Year.
Jews celebrate new year, time for forgiveness
From Staff and Wire reports
The lit candles by the alter at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center suggested that last night's celebration was something more than an ordinary Sabbath.
"Rosh Hasana is a time to renew yourself, to get a fresh start," said Winerock. KK associates with the company and wronged someone, it is a good time to forlive and start over with a clean start.
The celebration was Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the Jewish New Year, and for Jack Winerock it was a time for forgiveness.
Winerock was one of more than 70 people ushering in Jewish new year 5744 at sunset yesterday at the community center, 917 Highland Drive.
See NEW YEAR, p. 5 col. 5
U.S. fighters fly over Beirut; radio says shelling may stop
By United Press International
and his driver.
After two U.S. fighters flew over Beirut, state-run Syrian radio said that Drusel Mosseum gunners would attempt to halt rocket attacks on Lebanese army positions in Beirut. The army posts are situated adjacent to bases maintained by the 4,800-member multinational peacekeeping force.
THE LEBANESE ARMY shelled and destroyed a convoy thought to be a joint Palestinian-Druse force driving toward Beirut, but other armored vehicles rolled towards the capital, the radio said.
However, fighting did not let up between the army and the Palestinians and Druse fighters, state-run Beirut Radio said.
BEIRUAT, Lebanon — U.S. and French jets raided over the Beirut battlefield in a show of force yesterday, and the Lebanese government warned that Palestinians and Druse Moslem fighters threatened army positions around the city.
around the city.
Super Eternalend fighters from the French aircraft carrier Foch, sailing off the coast of Lebanon, swept over the battlefield after a rocket attack killed a French heientenant colonel and his driver.
A separate report carried by rightist Phalangist radio said Syrian forces were included in
The Army said three of its soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded on the various fronts.
fronts.
Shortly after the French planes flew over Beirut, two American F14 Tomcat fighters from the nuclear-powered carrier Eisenhower also roared over the city in what Pentagon officials described as a reconnaissance flight.
of Aley, 10 miles south Lebanese army positions around the coastal village of Khalde —9 miles south of the capital were the target of "fierce and concentrated" mortar and rocket shelling, the government radio said.
officials described as a "These missions will be conducted as required consistent with the mission of protecting U.S. forces," a Pentagon official said.
The Eisenhower and its support vessels were within sight of the coast as the U.S. planes went into action.
into action.
IN PARIS, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson said that if French soldiers were attacked, they would fire back "without the slightest doubt."
"We did not go to Bertrut to make war, but we cannot accept that our soldiers defending peace are being fired upon," Cheysson said.
the 30-vehicle convoy near the Druse stronghold of Alex, 10 miles southeast of Beirut.
U. S. Marine positions at Beirut Airport came under fire at dusk. A U.S. spokesman said one Marine was slightly wounded by shrapnel. Four Marines have been killed and 25 wounded in 10 days of battles around Beirut.
Woman booked for death of her baby
An 18-year-old woman was arrested last night in connection with the death of her newborn baby, who was found dead Tuesday evening on the campus of Haskell Indian Junior College.
By the Kansan Staff
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A supervisor for the Douglas County Jail said last night department detectives from the Lawrence police department arrested the woman about 7 p.m. last night. The supervisor said the woman was booked on first-degree murder and bond was set at $500,000.
was set at $400,000.
The supervisor would not say where the woman was arrested. Police reports will be completed today.
The woman's first appearance in court, in which she will be formally charged, will be at either 11 a.m. or 4 p.m. today in Douglas County District Court, the supervisor said.
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The police officers recovered the body of the male infant about 6 p.m. Tuesday after a woman walking her dog found the body between concrete culverts on the west side of the campus.
rence reports said the baby died between 2:38 a.m. and 6 p.m., Aug 31. The reports are in a new location for information.
that the baby apparently died from suffocation. An autopsy performed yesterday by Allen Sanders, deputy county coroner, did not reveal the cause of death. Sanders said the body was badly decomposed. He said the baby was about a week old.