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Vol. 94, No.7 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, August 29, 1987
Begin announces intent to step down Profs expected move Decision shocks Israel
Menachem Begin's announcement yesterday that he would step down as Israel's prime minister did not surprise some KU faculty members because of the apparent circumstances leading up to his resignation.
Several KU professors said it was not a question of why Begin would step down, it was a simply a matter of when.
The Israeli leader, first elected prime minister in 1977 after 29 years in the opposition and re-elected to a second term in 1981, has suffered two heart attacks, a stroke and a broken hip bone in the past six years. Begin also had become withdrawn over the deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich, as well as the more than 500 Israeli soldiers killed in the Lebanese war.
Ron Francisco, assistant, *offessor of political science*, agreed that the 70-year-old leader's resignation probably was caused by his ailing health and recent family problems.
"It cannot be attributed to Lebanon or to the U.S." he said.
However, political strategy should not be ruled out of Begin's latest action, says Dorothy Willner. professor of anthropology.
Willner, in a prepared statement, said "Begin
he is a consumate politician. Unless he is truly sick, he could be using the threat of resignation, or resignation itself, to counter opposition to some of his policies."
of his policies.
Wilmer, who visited Israel last year, said that there was much dissatisfaction in Israel today over inflation, government economic priorities,
Israel's involvement in Lebanon and West Bank policies.
"Begin may wish to bring about new elections soon," she said.
Willner declined to make any additional comments on a possible successor to Begin.
Who Begin's successor will be already has caused a good deal of speculation among KU faculty members.
any more.
Seems that there had not been any clear
signal that anyone had been groomed for
that position by Begin during his six years in
office.
The ability to appoint a successor to Begin will be able to please all of the opposing factions within Israel will be a decisive factor in Israel's immediate future without Begin. Francisco said.
office.
Francisco said; "At one time it looked as if (former Defense Minister) Ariel Sharon would be a candidate but now I just don't know since it depends not only on who Begin chooses, but on who can hold his coalition together."
"It will be interesting to see who can keep Israel together," he said.
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Menachem Begin shocked Israel yesterday by announcing that he intended to resign, reportedly telling his Cabinet he "no longer functions as a prime minister should."
longer functions as the boss. After Begin dropped the bombshell in the middle of yesterday's weekly Cabinet meeting, ministers spent an hour pleading with the ailing 70-year-old prime minister to change his mind. Began has been prime minister for six years.
Begin agreed to postpone making his resignation official until he met today with his ruling Likud bloc. "I received no indication from him he would retreat from his decision," said Likud parliament member Ehud Olmert after seeing Begin late yesterday.
As the Jewish state reeled from the news, Begin maintained a stony silence, adding to the confusion over whether he will retire from public life or leave his career. He aimed at doing so under his shaky coalition.
strengthening THE RESIGNATION does not take effect until Begin, who signed a peace treaty with Egypt and waged a controversial war in Lebanon, personally informs President Haim Herzog. No date has been set for a meeting between the two men.
"I think if there are people who want to start dancing out of happiness, I will do it," Porta said. "And I would
also tell those who feel like mourning it is also premature."
But Science Minister Yuval Neeman was quoted by Israel Radio as saying, "Begin's reasons were completely personal ones and there is no chance he will change his mind."
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Deputy Prime Minister David Levy — all members of Begin's Herut Party, the major partner in the ruling Likud bloc — have been mentioned as possible successors.
WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY press secretary Larry Speakes said President Reagan was surprised by Begin's announcement when informed at his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. "We expect Israel to continue its cooperation," Speakes said.
He said national security adviser William Clark spoke to Middle East mediator Robert McFarlane in London, and that McFarlane also gave Clark a detailed report on his talks in Rome, Paris and London.
MaeFarlane was encouraged by his discussions with the warring religious factions in Lebanon, Speakes said. He said the discussions centered on the orderly withdrawal of Israeli troops and their replacement by Lebanon's army.
Administration officials said they hoped
Menachem Begin
McFarlane's report of progress in talks with different factions in Lebanon would persuade the Israelis to delay their redeployment of troops to the south until the Lebanese army was ready to take over.
take over
A key coalition partner, the tiny Tami party,
has been threatening to bolt the government
over new austerity measures and leave the
Polish-born Israeli leader with a majority of one
in the 120-seat Israeli Knesset, or parliament.
See BEGIN, p. 5 col. $ ^{1} $
Hijacked jet lands in Iran after 24 hours Hijackers want policy of France interpreted; vow to bomb airplane
By United Press International
Four hijackers who commandered an Air France jettier landed in Iran yesterday after a 24-hour, 3,500-mile odyssey, and threatened to blow up the plane and 17 hostages if France did not release unspecified prisoners and explain its foreign policy.
As the Boeing 727 sat on a runway at Tehran airport surrounded by Iranian police, Iranian Prime Minister Hussein Mousavi told Tehran Radio "hijackings must be met with force throughout the world."
"The bijackers have said that if their demands are not met within 48 hours they will blow up the aircraft," said Tehran Radio, monitored in London. It said the four were armed with guns and grenades.
no grenades
Air France officials denied in Paris, however
THE IJLACKERS DEMANDED the French Foreign Ministry release certain unspecified prisoners in jails and justify French policy in the Iran-Iraq war, the Chad conflict and the Lebanese crisis, the foreign ministry said in Paris.
that the blackjacks had threatened to destroy the aircraft if the demands were not met.
Airport control tower officials negotiated directly with the bjackers, and an Air France official said it seemed possible the plane would leave Tehran for another Middle East destination.
Iran initially reported the hijackers to be Lebanese, but later announced it did not know their nationalities. The gunmen defied the Iranian government by forcing the Boeing 727 to land at Tehran airport after refuelling in Damascus.
The French government said it believed the gunmen were Palestinians. Austrian police said the four carried Tunisian passports in the names of Zavdi, Al-Yanki, Hadoun and Al-Sharif.
aton.
At 9:50 p.m. Tehran radio said contact between the plane and the airport control tower was cut off. There was no elaboration.
IRAN HAS CONEYED the demands to the French government, the radio said, adding that the hijackers were specifically asking for the release of Lebanese prisoners in French prisons.
"We have always been opposed to permitting hijacked planes to land. But we were forced to permit the Air France plane to land in Patras due to humanitarian considerations." Monsavi
Ninety-three of the 110 original hostages were released since Air France flight 781, flying from Vienna to Paris, was hijacked Saturday and forced to land in Geneva. It later landed in Sicily and Dassaucus before arriving in Tehran.
Gary Smith/KANSAN
Zayani Gardner, 8, 1717 Kentucky St., reminds an estimated 500 marchers in Saturday's downtown rally commemorating the historic "March on Washington" 20 years ago that Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream for equality is "up to us." Her father, Cedric Gardner, Shawnee County district attorney, walks next to her. See related story p. 14.
King's dream hasn't faded; leaders still hope for justice
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" Martin Luther King Jr. said 20 years ago.
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
But today civil rights leaders across the country still cry out against racial injustice.
MONDAY MORNING
Staff Reporter
Theodus Lockhart, president of the Leavenworth chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Saturday in Lawrence's South Park. "Look
More than 500 people marched here Saturday to share their support of civil rights ideals, commemorating King's March on Washington in 1963 and seeing in nationwide observances. The day was highlighted by a massive celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. that was attended by an estimated 250,000 people.
around, you may have been standing in the same spot."
SPEAKING TO THE Lawrence crowd, Lockhart said today's black Americans faced the same problems that King fought 20 years ago.
"If there are no problems then why the need for human relations commissions? For civil rights commissions?" Lockhart asked
"We have seen our gains slip because of our apathy, complacency and non-c concern. If we
See KING, p. 5 col. 1
AT&T strike concluded, workers go back to jobs
From staff and wire reports
Lawrence-area telephone workers will return to work today after the 22-day strike against American Telephone and Telegraph officially ended early yesterday morning.
They will join thousands of telephone workers nationwide who put on their headsets or picked up their pliers and went back to work within hours of an early morning settlement of the city.
strike The strike — second longest in the history of AT&T — officially ended at 1:05 a.m. Directory-assistance operators and Bell System workers in some parts of the country were on the job by mid-morning when their shifts started.
The Lawrence-area chapter of the Communications Workers of America had reached a settlement with the Bell telephone system Thursday but, because of union rules, could not return to work until all 34 local unions nationwide rejected their differences with the Bell System.
System.
"It's about time we go back to work." Larry Alexander, vice president of the local CWA chapter, said last night. The Lawrence-area CWA represents about 100 workers from Lawrence and Ottawa.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL, which services Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri, received $2.7 million this year from its local contract settlement with AT&T. The money
will be used for such expenses as traveling and meals. Alexander said.
1rm Clark, president of the local CWA,
presented the details of the contract to about 50
local telephone workers last night.
meds, Alexander said that AT&T's entire $3.3 billion contract would provide increased job security, medical-palent benefits and salary increases
said.
Clark said the new national contract ensured that if workers' jobs were threatened by technology, they would be trained for other jobs.
local telephone workers were hired. Job security and medical-plan benefits were the two key issues at the bargaining table, he said.
Clark said the job-security issue was important because more than 100 area telephone employees had lost their jobs in the past 10 years, because of technological displacement
employees who know about "One of our concerns was to get people retrained — at least not put them out on the street," Clark said.
1977, Lawrence had 200 telephone employees. Alexander said. Now, he said, about 100 employees work in Lawrence and Ottawa.
The national contract will provide an average 5.2 percent pay increase for the local CWA workers. The highest-paid workers will receive a 5.5 percent increase, Clark said.
Local pay levels low
Of the three levels of pay scales available to
Ser STRIKE, p 5 col. 3
Membership drive to begin Lawrence NOW gets new life
Staff Reporter
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL
The Lawrence chapter of the National Organization of Women is getting new life again.
Since the chapter was originally founded in 1970, its members have disbanded three times, each time attributing it to either lack of member involvement or lack of a cause. The chapter president and two other officers resigned last spring, saying they were disillusioned and burned out, largely because of the failure of the Enal Rights Amendment.
The members agreed to wait until later in the year to either choose new officers or turn their treasury over to the state NOW organization.
treasury over his biggest boost since his election.
The GROUP'S NEW president, Cary Briley, elected when the previous president resigned, is now trying to revive the chapter. She said Saturday that new leadership, a restful summer and President Reagan's attitude toward women's rights might give the chapter its biggest boost since his election.
"We had lots of people involved at one time, especially after Reagan's election. But then the ERA extension ran out and the group just lost its focus. It went pfft," Briel said.
The ERA, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution, failed to be ratified by the states despite a three-year extension granted by the federal government that was originally proposed by Congress in 1972.
NOW's national membership tripled in the months after the 1980 election. The last attempt at organizing a NOW chapter in Lawrence occurred immediately after the 1980 election.
"Reagan made us afraid of what would happen to women's rights and that was a boon to us in 1960." Briel said.
"He's going to be the face on our dartboard in the 84 elections. He doesn't understand or care about women's issues. His defeat is now our main goal in Lawrence as well as nationally."
Briel, a member of the NOW chapter since 1980, said she was planning to lead a membership drive late next month that would include radio advertising, posters and fliers. The chapter might invite an official from the national organization to speak in Lawrence.
BRIEL SAID THAT the drive would come immediately after NOW's Sept. 21 national conference.
she said.
She said money was not a problem in the collapse of the chapter in February. Even though the membership and other sources were making adequate financial contributions, she said that attendance at meetings was low and that some of the officers had become too busy with personal and professional commitments.
conference. Elections of officers probably will take place sometime in late September or early October, she said.
"We had a horrible problem with burnout," she said. "People were just tired. They had other things to worry about." Only four people came to the meeting at which we decided to disband.
ABOUT 50 PERCENT of the chapter's 200 members last spring were students, says Lucy Smith, the previous president, and a majority of the students were graduate students.
"There is still a place for this organization, especially in a college town," Briel said.
Smith agreed, saying that the country seemed to be,"bored with conservatism."
smtn, who no longer is affiliated with the chapter, said, "There will always be a need for NOW — unfortunately."
NOW - understandable.
She explained that if equal rights for women was not an issue, there would be no need for the organization.
"But now that public awareness seems to be on our side and there is more public acceptance of us, we're getting more support from other groups. Society is more liberal, and we're not looked upon as being so radically as we were ten years ago," she said.
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