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Vol. 94, No. 6 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, August 26, 1987
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Lori Poland, 3. is reunited with her parents after being taken yesterday in the bottom of an outhouse in the mountains west from her home Monday. The girl was found by campers of Denver. There are no suspects in the kidnapping.
Terrorist bomb kills 1 in French consulate
By United Press International
BERLIN - A bomb blast ripped through the French consulate building in West Berlin yesterday, killing one person and injuring 23 others. Armenian terrorists claimed responsibility for the explosion.
The blast, in the Maison de France on the Kurtuerstendamm, West Berlin's main street, blew out most of the front wall and sent chunks of roof and scaffolding flying through the air.
An anonymous telephone caller to the West Berlin offices of Agence France Presse said the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia was responsible for the bombing.
The attack, the third claimed by the terrorist group since July, followed threats of revenge after France detained dozens of Armenians in an Orly airport blast that killed six people.
A POLICE SPOKESMAN confirmed that the blast was caused by a bomb, possibly planted on the fourth floor of the French-owned 6-story building. The building also contains the French cultural center, lecture rooms, a book shop, French grocery store, cinema and restaurant.
Police corrected earlier casualty figures, saying the blast killed only one person, a 26-year-old peace activist who was passing out leaflets. Twenty-three others were injured, including passers-by and workmen working on the reconstruction of the building.
A spokesman for the French military government in West Berlin said that first reports indicated nobody from the consulate was hurt. He said the French General was not in attendance at the time.
"We heard a bang, plaster came down from the ceiling and the walls shook," said a young woman who was inside the Maison de France at
the time of the explosion. "Then we just ran down the stairs and out."
THE BLAST DEMOLISHED the top two floors of the building where the consultate offices were situated and littered the street outside with twisted masonry, bricks and broken glass.
"I was just few steps away from the building when I heard the explosion and saw a cloud of smoke appear," said a 38-year-old West German who helped rescue one of the buildings to the upper floors and rushed into the buildings to upper floors, we managed to get four of the injured out."
the injured out:
"THE WHOLE THING is terrible," said Heinrich Lummer, the interior minister of West Berlin, who was summoned to the scene.
The blast is the latest in a series of attacks by
Burmese terrorists who claim they are
avenging the 1915 massacre of some 1.5 million
Armenians in Turkey.
Local phone employees wait for last settlements
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Lawrence area telephone employees would have returned to their jobs today if three remaining local Communications Workers of America bargaining units had settled their differences with the Bell telephone system yesterday.
Southwestern Bell, which serves 177 towns and cities in Kansas, and communities in parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, made its first national office on the CWA yesterday afternoon in St. Louis.
CWA spokesman Albert Bowles, aid to the vice president at District 12 in Austin, Texas, said bargaining still was in progress with South Dakota and manufacturing units of Western Electric.
"There are 34 units to the Bell System, and now 31 of them have reached agreement." Bowles said. "But the rules are that none of us could return to work until all 34 had settled."
The local agreement resolved part of a 10-day strike that began when workers walked off their jobs Aug. 7 as part of a nationwide strike against Bell telephone.
"SOUTHWESTERN BELL, has reached an agreement with CWA districts six and 12 on local issues," said Steve Cathey, assistant vice president of public relations for Southwestern Bell's state office in Topeka. The Lawrence area is included in district six.
Cathey said six highlights of the issues agreed upon included the following:
- An agreement to a trial flex-time work schedule.
- A consolidation of various procedures and improvements in the handling of out-of-town assignments.
- Establishment of a uniform procedure for paying employees who do special duty
- An increase in extra pay for operators who work night shifts.
A national tentative contract agreement made Sunday, not yet submitted for formal approval, calls for pay raises averaging 16.4 percent during the next three years. It also includes job security measures by the officers who fled or were be apporodized by the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph.
BECAUSE OF UNION rules, however,
striking Southwestern Bell employees cannot
return to work until the remaining three CWA
bargaining units settle their differences with
Bell system management. Union rules require that all 34 nationwide local bargaining units settle their disputes before any of the units can return to work.
Cathey said the Kansas workers on strike would return to their regular jobs as soon as they were given the green light by the union. There are 7,500 Kansans employed with Southwestern Bell, of which 60 percent are on strike, and 82,000 in the five-state area.
Low-income families suffer 70% of social-spending cuts
By United Press International
The CWA represents about 72,000 striking Southwestern Bell employees.
WASHINGTON — Households earning less than $20,000 bore 70 percent of the budget reductions in employment, education, health and welfare programs during the Reagan administration, a Congressional Budget Office study said yesterday.
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The study also showed that households with less than $10,000 in yearly income lose most from such cuts.
President Reagan and Congress have reduced federal spending on major social and welfare programs by 7 percent, with 40 percent of the benefit reductions affecting households with annual incomes of less than $10,000, the CBO said. Another 30 percent of the benefit cuts affected households with annual incomes between $10,000 and $20,000.
Census Bureau figures show that in 1982, 49.6 percent of American households had incomes under $20,000 and 23.9 percent had incomes less than $10,000.
HOUSE SPEAKER Thomas O'Neill Jr. D-Mass, who requested the CBO study, said the findings showed Reagan "has denied millions of American families the basics of the American dream."
"The president projects the image of a man concerned about the welfare of the average American family." O'Neill said in a written statement. "His record shatters that image."
In Los Angeles, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the Office of Management and Budget would analyze the congressional report and "other than that, I cannot comment."
But he noted, as the report did, that it does not include the effects of the 25 percent income-tax rate reduction "or the obvious benefits of the tremendous upturn in the economy."
At O'Neil's request, the CBO limited its examination to five major areas of the budget / retirement and disability programs, other income-security programs, health care, education and social services, and employment programs.
THOSE PROGRAMS MAKE up 96 percent of all "human resources" spending, one-half of the total federal budget and just over two-thirds of non-military spending, the CBO said.
- Federal spending for these programs has been reduced by about 7 percent compared to what it would have been under laws existing at the beginning of 1981. Reductions are steepest in
See BUDGET, p. 5, col. 5
Watkins Hospital expands services in attempt to serve students' needs
By SUSAN WORTMAN
Staff Reporter
Watkins has treated patients for GYN, gynecological problems, in the past, but a defined department has never existed. With the new department, gynecological patients won't have to be exposed to the cold of other patients, said Raymond Schwegler, chief of staff
In an effort to expand its services and increase efficiency, the staff at Watkins Hospital decided this semester to create a gynecology department and added a system for scheduling student appointments.
to Raymond Schlegel.
"We are putting all of GYN together in one
place. That will decrease patient waiting time. However, the main reason for the readjusting was so that we would be more efficient and quicker." Schwegler said. "It also helps us specialize nurses aides and assistants. We can train them more precisely."
The GYN department will be staffed with two permanent doctors and other Watkins doctors will be rotated in, said James Strohl, acting head of the department. Students on staff will also rotate into the department.
After 20 years, grad still marching toward dream of equality for blacks
WITH THE EXPANDED department, Strobi and Schwegler would also like to see the educational part of the gynecology department expanded.
See WATKINS, p. 5, col. 2
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
The decisive march, scheduled to be re-enacted this Saturday, was neither the beginning of Banks' fight against racial inequality nor the end.
Staff Reporter
Twenty years ago, KU alumnus Lacy Banks joined 250,000 people in the historic "March on Washington."
Led by Martin Luther King Jr., blacks and whites alike gathered in the nation's capital to protest racial discrimination and inequality.
The march helped bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. But racism still exists. Ranks said
"You have to be aware that racism is alive and well," he said. "It's just more covert now."
Even though the public doesn't hear of Ku Klux Klan lynchings anymore, he said, blacks still face racial discrimination in such areas as housing and employment.
By trimming social programs and not dealing with the problem of black unemployment, he said, Reagan has widened the gap between blacks and whites.
"TODAY WE HAVE a variety of problems that are not that much deadly," he said.
However, Banks said he thought recent cutbacks affecting blacks might rejuvenate the civil rights movement.
Oums said the Reagan administration had successfully negated many of the advancements in health care.
"I think Reagan has gotten a lot of blacks off their butts," he said. "I think Reagan will turn out to be a blessing in disguise."
Many blacks have let themselves become too complacent, he said.
"They let the ghetto get in them." Banks said. But Banks has not quit fighting.
AS A SPORTS writer for the Chicago Sun-Times and a minister, Banks hopes to
See BANKS, p. 5, col. 1
Stephen Phillips/Kansan
Lawrence firefighters chop a hole in the roof of Bob's Bernina Sewing and Vacuum Center, 2449-B St., to let smoke out of the crawlspace. Firefighters have not determined the cause of a small fire that started in the sewing store yesterday afternoon:
it also revealed a violation of local fire codes, Lawrence fire officials said.
Small fire damages roof at sewing store; code violation cited
Firefighters responded to the fire at Bob's Bernina Sewing and Vacuum Center, 2449-B Iowa St., at about 2:30 p.m.
firefighters at the scene said the cause of the fire had not been determined, but that there would be an investigation.
An employee of the store attributed the fire to faulty wiring in the lights.
"We have those fluorescent lights. One of the bolts came out and the light fell. When it fell, I think a wire rubbed against something and it shorted out," said Mike Hess, the employee.
A smart tire yesterday afternoon left a hole in the roof of a local sewing store and caused an undetermined amount of damage.
Lt. Greg Crossman of the fire department said a fire code violation had been uncovered after
"There is a locked fire exit door here. No one could have gotten out if they had wanted to," he said.
Hess said that workers at the store did not notice the fire. An employee of JPL Firearms and Sports, Inc., 2449-A Iowa, called the fire department when he smelled smoke in his store.
"We couldn't see any flames, but the smoke started coming from the back of the store. About then, we walked out the front door, and a fire car pulled up. Then the engine showed up." Hess
The Bernina store, in the Holiday Plaza shopping center, does not have a sprinkler system or smoke detectors. Crossman said. Fire code fires do not require them in small stores.
Crossman said that if sprinklers or smoke detectors were installed, they would have heard a great smell.
One of the store owners in the Holiday Plaza was cited for having a locked fire exit during store hours. The name of the store owner was not available.