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University Daily Kansan, September 1, 1983
United Press International
BEHRUT — Shiite fighters armed with grenade launchers and assault rifles advanced toward an army position in the suburbs of Beirut yesterday during clashes with the Lebanese army.
People flee Beirut's battlefield
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A week ago streets were jammed with the usual impatient Lebanese drivers and booting taxi cabs.
By United Press International
Women shopped for designer clothes in the fashionable Hamra district. The popular St. George Yacht Club was packed with rich Lebanese sunbathers.
But again yesterday, for the fourth day, fighting raged between Moslem militia groups and the Lebanese army. Beirut was a battlefield of booming explosions, mobilized troops, tanks and war casualties.
The heavy and sporadic clashes Sunday, Monday and Tuesday between the army and its opponents were nasty enough. But it was a hail of artillery throughout yesterday that forced tens thousands of people to basement shells.
THE FEW PEOPLE who ventured into the streets that were like no-man's land, as the army mounted a major operation to retake all of the capital.
risked snipers, falling artillery shells and a shoot-to-kill curfew.
"Don't go out, get back in your houses," shouted U.S. Marines guarding the British Embassy where U.S. diplomatic facilities have been based since the April 18 terrorist bombing of the nearby American Embassy.
They were yelling at Americans who live in the area, which is the center of Beirut's large international community.
On Hamra Street, which is usually safe, UPI photographer Claude Salahi was caught near a firefight as Lebanese army tanks and machine gunners launched a barrage against militiae.
"All hell broke loose," he said.
"Bullets were flying everywhere."
A west Beirut shopkeeper who tried to open for business said, "There were smilers on every corner. I heard a woman in the street thought each one was going to hit me."
BEIRUT RESIDENTS, accustomed to panics after eight years of war and the Israeli siege of the capital last summer, had in the last two days staged runs on food markets and hoarded provisions.
In Kantari, where Shiite militiamen fought the army several hours earlier, a man sat and smoked a hookah pipe next to a Mercedes demolished and charred after taking a direct mortar round.
Hamra Street sidewalk vendors tried to sell newspapers even though people stayed inside because of the violence and curfew.
One enterprising grocer opened briefly yesterday, selling food to neighbors from her back door because the building was coming under shellfire.
And the broad marque of the Etoile west brentul movie theater announced this week at a screening.
Wolf Creek line cut OK'd
WICHTI — A plan to prevent further delays in the completion of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant by reducing the number of transmission lines that appear feasible. Nuclear Regulator Commission officials said yesterday.
By United Press International
Officials of Kansas Gas and Electric Co. asked the NRC yesterday to consider changing from four to three power lines. The fourth power line was to have been built by Kansas City Power and Light Co. It would have
However, the Kansas' Corporation Commission has refused to grant permission for the route. Land owners may say they they will it reduce property values.
stretched from the farm, near Burlington, to Johnson County.
"If we would have had to have the fourth transmission line in by the fuel load date, it could have caused delays," said Bob Rives, KG&E group vice president in Wichita. "Those delays would have been very expensive."
"But it appears based on today's meeting that we will put have such a chance to win."
ELIMINATING DELAYS probably will prevent millions of dollars in additional costs, KCPL officials said.
say the whole thing is resolved, but we are very encouraged."
Nuclear power plants need electrical power from external sources to operate. The four main external transmission lines originally planned for Wolf Creek were to provide power to the plant and are now generated by the plant to consumers.
The change to three lines would require some adjustments in electrical code.
Inflation cited as biggest factor
Education costs may increase
From staff and wire reports
Estimates from the U.S. Department of Education that national spending for education will increase $15 billion this year, according to KU's leading, a KU professor said yesterday.
Education costs are expected to increase to $230 billion from last year's expenditures of $215 billion, U.S. Secretary of Education Terrell Bell said Saturday. Enrollment is expected to drop by more than 400,000 students.
For example, he said, the costs of books, supplies and instructional materials have increased dramatically this year.
But Phil Brody, director of KU's School of Education instructional technology center, said that the increase in high school students in whom inflation was taken into account.
"The figures are a little misleading," he said. "They're really not very much higher."
In a statistical profile released by the Department of Education, Bell said that elementary and secondary schools were expected to spend $141 billion during the year. Colleges and universities were expected to spend nearly $184 billion.
Dale Scannell, dean of KU's School of Education, said the increase in spending probably reflected increases in salaries.
He said that most school systems operated from a salary schedule basis by which a teacher's salary increased with a promotion.
Scannell agreed that inflation also accounted for the spending increase.
Even though spending will increase this year, the report said, the enrollment in the nation's schools will decline from 36.2 million to 30.9 million, the last fall to 56.7 million this fall.
Furthermore, nearly 3.6 million persons will be employed as teachers, superintendents, principals and other instructional staff members.
60 million affected
"Education in the fall of 1983 will be the primary activity of more than 60.2 million Americans." Bell said last weekend. "In a nation with a population of 234 million, more than one of four million children, participate in the educational process."
Scannell said the decline in enrollment was not significant.
"If one-fourth of the population is in school," he said, "400,000 is a small population."
"It hardly represents a major calamity in terms of trends."
Bell's report stated that a trend in declining elementary school enrollment has existed since 1969, reflecting the number of children 5 to 13 years old.
In the mid-1980s, the report said, this trend is expected to be reversed, and modest annual increases are projected for the rest of the decade.
"A lot of the older part of the baby are early 1960s' are at child-bearing age, so it's
Scannell said this modest increase was a "baby boom echo."
Although women are having fewer children, he said there are more women having children. Their children born having to create a small elementary school populations, he said.
Officials predict a decrease from 13.8 million high school students last fall to 12.9 million this year.
High school enrollment peaked in the fall of 1976 and subsequently has experienced small decreases each year. Further reductions in high-school enrollment are expected throughout most of the 1980s, as the 14- to 17-year-old population continues to decrease.
Brody said, "Having fewer students gives us an opportunity to work with them."
Last weekend, Bell said that enrollment in universities and colleges reached in high of more than 12 million students and should be close to that number this fall.
"Being somewhat skeptical, I'm not sure it's to result in that."
The number of college-aged people will decline during the 1980s, Bell said, although college enrollment will remain high, because of increased attendance of older students, part-time students, women and minority groups.
The number of elementary and secondary school teachers will also decline this year to about 2.39 million from about 2.4 million last fall, he said.
Horses die; parathion blamed
Government officials anticipate minor decreases in the number of elementary and secondary school teachers this year, and they anticipate the number of college level instructors to remain the same.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
THE ORTHODOX CHRISTANS on campus will have a Bible study from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
AN EPISCOPAL EUCHARIST service sponsored by the Canterbury House
GAY AND LESBIAN Services of Kansas will have an organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
A STUDY AHROAD meeting will be
held p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the
lrg.
TOMORROW
THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF
Kansas will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
the Student Union on Friday, Feb. 21.
By United Press International
THE KU FOLKDANCING Club will meet from 7:30 to 3:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Military Science Building on the drill desk.
THE UNDERGRADUATE Biology
Club meet at 4 p.m. in the
Sunflower Ridge
The deadline for "On Campus" items is three days before the event. The notice should be for a University event that is free and open to the public.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. — A toxicologist said yesterday that he suspected that the dumping of parachute, a large amount of which are horses in a west Jacksonville pasture.
Richard L. Lipsey, a former state pesticide coordinator and now vice president for research and development for Kenco Chemical & Manufacturing Corp., said he had not received results of laboratory tests.
But the convulsions and narrowed pupils that occurred in the horses just before they died "show exactly the menace when parapathy is need," he said.
Parathion is widely used in pesticides.
Lipsie谢 he thought a 40-year-old dump site used by industry and residents near a culvert where the horses drank water was the source of the poisoning. He said a highly toxic element from an old barrel could have leaked when road crews were digging for a new road.
THE ROAD IS being built by the Jacksonville Port Authority across from the pasture, which lies at one end of Herling Field.
as a cause of the horses deaths, saying "mosquito spray consists of about 88 percent diesel or just plain oil. It does not contain parathion."
Meanwhile, a resident of the area said she and some of her neighbors had switched from well water to bottled water because of the deaths of the horses; fish and frogs have died in a pond nearby.
"We're afraid to drink our well water," Diana Stokes said. "Even though the county health department it's OK on it, I doubt if they would drink it. Many of us are buying bottled water. Better be safe than sorry."
Lipsey discounted mosquito spraying
Stokes and her husband, Jerry, live about three-tenths of a mile from the pasture, where the bucking broncos began dying last Thursday.
Reagan seeks federal worker pay raise
SAM ROWLEY, city health director,
told the Stokeses Tuesday that wells in
the area were safe. The wells have been
drilled into a rock-protected aquifer
that could not be affected by surface
contamination, he said.
But Stokes' father, Cleveland Swails — who owns the pond where thousands of dead fish and frogs surfaced — said both her father and mother. Hilda have been sick since Wednesday, the day before the horses started dying."
By United Press International
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan, softening his opposition to any pay increase for federal workers, asked Congress yesterday to approve a percent raise for the federal government's 1.4 million white-collar workers.
The pay raise, estimated to cost taxpayers $1 billion, would take effect in January instead of October, the date specified by current law. A federal court will hold the lawsuit in an effort to increase the raise and have it take effect on schedule.
Reagan proposed the increase as an alternative to a 21.5 percent increase that the administration calculated would be needed to bring federal pay to a level in par with salaries for similar jobs in the private sector.
A 1970 LAW requires the government to calculate how federal salaries stack up against similar private sector pay, but only requires the president to make recommendations for pay raises — not match the difference.
White House officials said a 21.5 percent pay bake buke added $5.5 billion in costs.
budget deficits now estimated to approach $200 billion a year.
They also acknowledged that Reagan, in his original fiscal 1984 budget, proposed no increase in federal salaries.
"The success of the president's economic recovery program, however, allows a modest increase in federal aid," a White House statement said.
The cost of the 3.5 percent pay boost, which would go to 1.4 million federal workers, is estimated by the White House to be $1 billion. Some 2.1 million military personnel, under legislation held up by an unrelabeled dispute over the $800 million paid to a full 4 percent raise whenever civilian workers get their pay increase.
Both the House and the Senate have recommended a 4 percent pay boost to Reagan in January, forcing Reagan to soften his demands for no pay raise at all.
THE WHITE HOUSE said that if the pending legislation is passed, it would cost the government an additional $200 million.
The National Treasury Employees Union was poised to challenge the policies of the Obama administration.
increase and the three-month costcutting delay in federal court.
"As soon as we get the announcement we'll be in court," union president Bob Tobias said before the formal announcement was made.
As general counsel of the union in 1972 he successfully challenged a delay in a pay raise by President Nixon and awarded $333 million in back pay in 1974.
But Congress is expected to sidestep the legal issues by passing new legislation, both union and Office of Management and Budget spokesman
"Separate legislation would supercede court action." Tobias said.
Attorneys for Congress and the White House assume that, with the legislative veto eliminated as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the mechanism by which the president offers an alternative is also unconstitutional, almost guaranteeing that Congress will write a new legislative pay procedure for fiscal 1984.
UP TO NOW, it took a specific legislative veto, a negative vote by the House or Senate, to change the president's executive pay order.
Federal workers received a 4 percent pay raise in fiscal 1983 and a 4.8 percent pay raise in fiscal 1987.
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