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Wednesday morning, August 31, 1983
Marines assailed for deaths
By United Press International
BEIRUT - Lebanon — U.S. Marines and other peacekeepers came under attack for the third straight day yesterday, after five French soldiers died in October in an explosion near Lebanon's civil war.
As the USS Eisenhower nuclear carrier traveled near Lebanon, the Reagan administration expressed concern that hostilities in Lebanon could escalate into civil war. Palms pull back its troops before fighting Lebanese forces and to peace agreement, a U.S. official said yesterday.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin agreed to President Reagan's request that Israeli troop deployment be delayed for "a few days."
CLASIES BETWEEN the Lebanese army and Moslem militias spread through Beirut.
Seventy-four people have been killed in three days of clashes.
days so Chancey
The Lebanese Army may have hit some Moslem militia ammunition stores, the Pentagon said yesterday.
gon said yesterday. Reports from the Marine compound near the Beirut airport showed that Marine positions came under small-arms fire around 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. CDT, and that the Marines went to their highest alert stage, officials said.
All firing had ceased by about 7:10 p.m. Lebanese time, but the Marines remained at "condition" alert, which required them to stay on compound and to move only when necessary.
Heavy mortars attacked Lebanese Army positions north of the airport. Other positions came under heavy small arms fire.
THE MARINES responded with small arms and machine guns, but no mortars.
The Pentagon, responding to queries by reporters, issued a statement clarifying the
purpose behind the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier's presence within 5 miles of the coast yesterday.
"The Eisenhower is in the Mediterranean on a normal deployment and recently participated in Exercise 'Bright Star,'" joint U.S. maneuvers with Egypt, the statement said.
with Egypt.
As our Marines in Beirut have been fired upon, we considered it reasonable and prudent to position Eisenhower in the eastern Mediterranean where the ship will be available to support them if required.
NABHI BERRI, leader of the Shite Moslem militia fighting the army, urged his men and allies to return to their barracks in an apparent cease-fire agreement, a Shiite spokesman said.
But shortly afterwards, clashes between Lebanese troops and defiant Moslem militiamen spread to west Beirut. Multinational peacekeeping forces again came under fire, as did the French, Italian and Soviet embassies
See MIDEAST, p. 5, col. 1
U. S. Marines came under fire for the third day in one of the worst outbursts of fighting since Lebanon's civil war.
Shamir, Levy leading contenders for prime minister
Begin says his decision to resign is final
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday his decision to quit was final, forcing his coalition government to choose a successor.
Begin's Hirth Party met in emergency session to choose a new party leader. Two leading contenders emerged, Foreign Minister Vilzah Shamir and Deputy Prime Minister David Levy.
Shamir, like Begin, was one of the leaders of the pre-independence underground fighters who used terrorism to fight the British. Levy is a French Jew born in Jerusalem, Jews originating from Middle Eastern countries.
Defense Minister Moshe Arens, another leading candidate, is ineligible to serve as prime minister because he is not in the Israeli parliament.
Begin's spokesman, Uri Porat, said the prime minister probably would retire from public life, but did not say whether he would become an elder statesman who wielded influence from the sidelines.
An administration spokesman said yesterday that cooperation between Israel and the United States would continue after Begin stepped down, but other sources predicted a period of confusion in the Middle East.
Officials said that a dominant figure such as Begin could not step down without leaving a large gap in his country's political direction.
They said the process of choosing a replacement for Begin could preoccupy the Israeli government for another year.
Begin told his coalition executive committee his decision to resign was unshakable — "I cannot continue. I cannot go on anymore," one participant quoted Beas sign as saying.
"When he said that in such a strong way there was no way anyone could influence him and we just accepted it," said Ehud Olmert, a leader of Begin's Liked Bloe.
Most of the two-hour meeting centered on persuading Begin to delay handing in his formal resignation to President Chaim Herzig until the various co-workers had time to decide on their environment lineup.
Begin's resignation takes effect only after he submits a formal letter to Herzog, who must then consult all of Israel's political parties before asking a party leader to form a new government
By withholding his formal resignation until his often-fractionous government coalition has time to agree on a new leadership team. Begin in effect ensures the Lilak Bloc remains in power.
"If we will succeed as we all hope to establish a new coalition government within a few days."
then maybe we will avoid the immediate crisis:' Olmert said.
Forat said Begin would decide today how long he would delay submitting a formal letter of resignation.
resignation:
The delay angered the opposition Labor Party,
but Likud spokesmen defended the move as legal.
one Middle East expert, Joseph Sisco, former undersecretary of state, predicted that Begin would pick Shamir as his successor.
would pick Samir.
"The difference between the two men will not be in substance, because they share the same view, but Shamir is not charismatic and people will be looking toward the next stage, to the man who will follow Samir."
Sisco and State Department officials said the change in power would lead to national elections in Israel in 1894, with Shamir serving as interim
See BEGIN, p. 5, col. 1
Medical experiment in space may help diabetics
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With Challenger's excited crew still marveling at the ball of fire theyrole into orbit, America's first black spaceman yesterday carried out an unprecedented experiment that may lead to better ways of treating diabetes.
Guion Blutford used Challenger's space medicine machine to purify pancreatic cells from dogs. It was the first time the machine, which can process biological materials with greater purity and in larger amounts than are possible on Earth, had been used on live cells.
Scientists hope the project will lead to cell implants that would free diabetics of the need to take insulin.
Bluford and the rest of the astronauts — Daniel Brandenstein, Dale Gardner, William Thornton, at 54 the oldest astronaut to fly in space, and Richard Truly, the only space veteran on the crew. He built up the shutter's doofless mechanical arm and did some work on space sickness experiments.
stuckness Capitol.
Bulford, a Philadelphia native and the father of two, joined the space program in 1978. Somewhat shy about his landmark status, he says he sees himself as just "one of the many others who will be flying in space."
The spacemen turned in for the day near 1 p.m. CDT. Challenger was starting its eighth orbit, whizzing at 17,500 mph about 184 miles above the Earth.
The astronauts are scheduled today to perform their mission's main objective - the launch of a communications satellite for India
The $50 million satellite is designed to relay up to 8,000 telephone calls simultaneously across India, beam television directly to 100,000 rural antennae and take weather pictures.
Another goal of Challenger's third flight is to test the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new $100-million tracking
satellite that will be vital for the Spacelab mission scheduled for late October.
The tracking satellite was used for the first time yesterday to relay shuttle communications to Earth.
Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. E.E. Kitchens estimated 100,000 spectators in the spaceport where saw the shuttle's spectacular first night launch, which was delayed 17 minutes by a violent thunderstorm. People as far as 400 miles away saw the Challenger trek across the sky.
The violent storm, which delayed the launch until 1:32 a.m. CDT, shattered the sky with
See SHUTTLE, p. 5, col. 4
Butch Bond, a worker for Facilities Operations, sweeps the Chi Omega Fountain yesterday morning. Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, says that the fountain needs to be cleaned frequently during hot weather because algae can build up rapidly.
KU police, hall guards say boredom is routine
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL
Staff Reporter
Mike Riner's boring Tuesday morning has been suddenly interrupted.
tuner, a KU Police Department sergeant, is patrolling in the wee hours in a police cruiser, working his usual Tuesday graveyard shift. Mostly, he says, it consists of checking for windows with cobwebs — a window without a cobweb or dirt is sometimes a sign of a break-in.
The dispatcher kills the boredom at 1:21 a.m.
A 10-85; a fire alarm has been pulled at Oliver Hall. Riner turns around for a dash across campus.
— checking on stray valuables ripe for theft and on incidents that "want to happen."
Riner flips on the siren and races through light traffic, scowling. "Somebody thinks he's being cute by waking up all the firemen and 600 other people," he says. "It's probably false, too. I'm glad that this doesn't happen too often."
Later, in Ellsworth Hall, security monitor Joe Humerichouse, St. Louis senior, is finding his duty almost as quiet. He and his partner, Julie Comine, Omaha, Neb. bopher. stand watch at Ellsworth's front door. Humerichouse will facilitate a successful shift with his behavioral analysis text.
"Someone once said that police work is 90 percent boredom and 10 percent panic," he says.
Riner is one of four KU police officers who patrol the campus between midnight and 8 a.m. Humickerhouse is one of a dozen residence hall security monitors on the job at any one time at the same hour in six different halls, often assisting KU police in emergencies.
"It's so boring sometimes you have to do homework. But not always, and that can be either good or bad," he says.
The alarm, which does turn out to be false, is Riner's only call between midnight and 2 a.m.
Their jobs, they say, are almost 90 percent silence on weeknights. Boredom can make them look forward to silencing drunks and other troublemakers.
"The quiel can drive you crazy," Riner said.
"it's the weekends that you've got to watch out for, it won't till Street" by any means."
However, says Riner, who has been on the force since 1977, the job and the hours can cause stress.
One night two years ago, he arrested a drunk driver who threatened to kill him after the driver was herded into a holding cell. The driver was out on bail in two hours. Riner stopped him again for drunk driving. That time, a gun was found in the vehicle.
Humerickhouse, who is in his third year as a security monitor, also has faced bizarre situations. He refers to the night "the chickens were brought to a party and got kicked to death" and says that he has confronted countless drunk, disorderly students.
"Sometimes they just come around to cause trouble for us. We're just a target a lot of times. You just have to keep your cool with obnoxious people." Humerickhouse said.
Ellsworth, like many of the other residence halls, requires that residents show their hall identification cards and keys to security monitors between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. on weekdays and between midnight and 5 a.m. weekends, the hours that security monitors are on duty. Non-residents must be guests of residents.
residents.
Humerickhouse said, "People beg to get in,
and they take it sometimes as an infringement
on their civil liberties when we ask for kove
on their civil liberties when we die.
"The first week is always the toughest,
because people don't know our policies and
they're scared to death."
"It's boring much of the time. But it pays the bills, and it's a good way to get some homework done."
done.
As he moves up and down the stairs,
Humerichouse rattles the doorknobs of broom
closets to see whether they are locked and peeks
into the trash closets at the extreme ends of both
wings.
Humerickhouse's locked closets are Riner's dirty windows.
to touch his face. "Nobody home this time." he said off-handedly.
dirty windows
"It ites interesting when you find someone hiding in there," he says, flinging open the door to the ninth-floor trash room.
Girls put off by computers director says
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Two psychologists have reported that girls are shying away from learning about computers, and the KU Academic Computing Center's 1983 summer camp enrollment reflected that finding, a center official said yesterday.
The official, Herb Harris, assistant director of user services at the Academic Computing Center, is the coordinator of the center's summer camp program for junior high and high school students. Harris said that about 30 percent of the 136 students in the six summer sessions were girls.
The psychologists, Irene Miura and Robert Hess of Stanford University, told the American Psychological Association convention in Anaheim, Calif. Monday that the apparent difference between males and females in computer interest could put women at a disadvantage in a workplace that is becoming increasingly dominated by high technology.
Their survey of 23 summer camps and classes around the country offering training in computer use indicated that of total enrollment of 5,533 girls composed 27 percent of the beginning and intermediate courses. 14 percent in advanced courses and 5 percent in higher level programs.
They also found that the percentage of girls in the computer camps decreased in proportion to the increase of the cost, which ranged from $25 for two weeks of day sessions to $1,500 for four weeks.
The difference, the researchers said, "may reflect the general inclination of parents to encourage computer literacy more aggressively for their sons, perhaps looking ahead to their futures in a technical career."
But determining the cause of the difference is not so easy to do, KU's Harris said. The questions of "nature vs. nurture" and of whether men and women are better suited for different intellectual pursuits, he said, have been discussed without conclusion for more than 2,000 years.
Harris said, "You have no data to say one way or another. That's a case of stating what you want to believe. You could say that and not be able to prove it one way or another."
"There have been some studies that show there are some different talents in men and women. Whether they are valid, I don't know."
tray Foster, owner of Camelot Computer School and Store. 927 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Massachusetts St., has taught composing classes to adults at his store since January. The women outnumber the men by at least 2-to-1. he said.
A possible reason, he said, is that computer science is popular as a new career, and more women than men have the desire to begin a career or enter a new one.
Foster said he helped teach students and teachers at Cordley Elementary School, 1837 Vermont St., how to use a computer the school purchased last year.
r ester said he could understand how girls might not be as interested in computers if their first exposure to computing was in junior high or high school, after they might have perceived that society expected different things from girls than from boys. But if they started in kindergarten, he said, the difference would not be as great.
Naney Penney, a Lawrence graduate student and teaching assistant in the computer science department, said that as a high school and undergraduate student, she was encouraged in her field of study, mathematics, more than she would have been as a male.
Another study done by the Stanford researchers indicated that boys and girls generally differ in the kinds of computer games they prefer.
"Girls generally select games that involve writing or music." Miura said. "Boys are more attracted to more competitive, 'action' games requiring eye-hand coordination. The lack of suitable software has been offered as one reason for the differences in computer interest and usage."
Information for this story was also supplied by United Press International.
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