University Daily Kansan, August 25, 1983
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Salvador army, guerrillas clash Rebels bomb bridges
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Salvadoran rebels bble up two strategic railroad bridges near the capital city and clashed with governmental command that killed one soldier and 20 guerrillas, officers said yesterday.
The rebels executed two militia commanders Tuesday in eastern EI Salvador, the center of a U.S.-designed pacification program that hings on civilian militias loyal to keep the area free of rebels.
For the second time in a week,
insurgents blew up El Burro bridge,
42 miles east of San Salvador in San
Juan. A bomb exploded and it
destroyed a railroad bridge
over the Acehuate River,18 miles north of the capital.
A spokesman for the state-owned railroad, Ferrocarriles Nacionales, said repair work would force the company to suspend service for two months.
Rebels and troops of the U.S.trained Ramon Belloso battalion fought Tuesday near the Chiontepec volcano, 42 miles east of San Salvador. Officers said one wounded and two injured fighting. There was no independent confirmation of the unusually high rebel losses.
The assault ship, USS Nassau, is to dock in the Caribbean port of Cortes today, bringing 1,000 U.S. troops to Honduras for joint military maneuvers that will go into full swing next month.
Refund possible for use of old home mortgages
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Homeowners who paid large fees to their savings and loan associations in order to assume an existing mortgage may be eligible for a refund, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation said yesterday.
Savings and loan associations are being notified that they should refund any profits they made for closing assumed loans that belonged to the corporation, also known as Freddie Mac, officials said.
The corporation also has established a Washington telephone number that that number is not available.
request a kit that allows them to claim refunds.
To recover processing costs, savings and loans are allowed to charge buyers assuming a loan a fee, which can vary from $100 to $5,000. Because Freddie Mac pays the institutions for handling the mortgages, the savings and loans are not supposed to make a profit from the fees.
Freddie Mac officials acted after news stories of savings and loan overcharges back to 1981 began to spread. A weekend story by the Cleveland Plain Dealer told for $80,000 in refunds already collected by borrowers in that city alone, some for more than $4,000.
Learned library set for completion soon
By JANELLE MARTIN
Construction of a $1 million library for the School of Engineering should be finished on schedule, KU's dean of engineering said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
The two-story, 13.000-square-foot addition to Learned Hall should be ready for occupancy by late February, David Kraft, the dean, said.
University officials also said yesterday that construction of a $14 million addition to Haworth Hall was on schedule, but would not be completed until late 1985.
THE NEW ENGINEERING library, being built by Douglas Construction Co., Topeka, will have a 70,000-volume capacity, Kraft said. He also said it would have all reference materials, a computer terminal system and designated, study areas for engineering students. It will be the first time engineering students have had these facilities in one place.
Several engineering students said that they were looking forward to using a complete library.
Bryan Adams, Osage senior, agreed.
"We've always had to go out of our way to get books," said Linda Houghton, Overland Park senior. "Everyone in the library because of its convenience now."
Bryan Adams, Osage senior, agreed. Although the Learned library will help engineering students and faculty it will also need to know Kravitz. The addition will meet the needs of the engineering school for the next seven to 10 years.
A LONG-RANGE PLAN for the University is to build a $23 million
business and technology library on campus. The Board of Regents made a formal request for the new library last year, Kraft said.
Kraft said that he expected the business and technology library to be built in the next six to 12 years.
The engineering library being built now will later be used for administrative offices on the first floor and an auditorium on the second, he said.
Billie Archer, assistant to the dean,
said that for the past 15 years, various
reference books have been stored at
different sites on campus. About 35
percent of the engineering books are
housed on the first floor of the Burge
Union, in a temporary engineering
library, and the rest are stored in
the stacks of Watson Library, Marvin Hall
and Mallot Hall.
SEVERAL. UNIVERSITY organizations are hoping to use office space that will be available when the interim library is completed next spring.
He has received requests from the KU Printing Service, the KU Federal Credit Union, Legal Services for Ferguson and Union administrators, Ferguson said.
Warner L. Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas Union, said the Burge Union had no definite plans for the space that will be left vacant by the temporary engineering library. He said he did not know exactly when the space would be available. There are a number of requests from potential users.
"Right now I'm just making a list of all the requesters." Ferguson said. "We'll decide later who can best utilize the space."
Ken Slater (left) and Walter Graham, both of Topeka, work on reinforcement beams on the addition to Haworth Hall. The addition is scheduled to be completed in 1985.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Historic desegregation plan starts in St. Louis
By United Press International
ST. LOUISE — Only the normal confusion of the opening of classes marked yesterday's start of a land-mountary school desegregation plan in which thousands of inner-city schools will be bused to white suburban schools.
Classes begin Sept. 7 in the St. Louis public school system, but suburban schools accepting city transfer students already are opening.
About 300 inner-city blacks enrolled in the 6,200 student Rituenour school system were the first students to take part in the historic desegregation plan. Some had 45-minute bus rides to their new schools.
"All in all, for the first day of school things went pretty good," said Tammy Davis, a spokesman for the suburban Ritenour school district. "Some buses were early, a few were late, but that's to be expected."
NO DEMONSTRATORS WERE present as buses carrying the innerity students arrived at Ritenour school, officials said.
Classes will begin within two weeks in other suburban St. Louis County districts, which are expected to accept 15,000 black transfer students by 1988.
"We'll probably have some missing a bus, or some parents may not have received all the information — the usual kinds of things that happen," assistant Ritenour superintendent Gerald Sandweiss said of the opening of classes. "Other than that, we're not expecting problems."
The plan has been hailed by educators and legal experts nationwide as an unparalleled achievement in voluntary big-city school desegregation.
In documents filed with the 8 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ashcroft said the desegregation plan was "nothing but an invasion of the state's treasury."
DESPITE THE CALM at Ritenour, the desegregation plan remained the object of intense opposition by Missouri Attorney General John Ashcroft, who Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to delay its implementation.
Ashcroft said the millions of dollars the state had been ordered to pay would not improve the quality of education "one iota."
Proponents of the plan have said relatively little money would be spent on busing students. Under the plan, the state is to bear all costs of transporting students to school districts in financial incentives to school districts that are sending or receiving students.
Suburban districts with predominantly white enrollments have agreed to accept city students until their total enrollments are 15 to 25 percent black.
CITY OFFICIALS OPPOSE a provision of the plan that gives U.S. District Judge William L. Hungate authority to order a property tax increase to help pay for improving city schools.
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Go to the Greek Sculpture on campus that represents the mythological character who flew near the sun on man-made wings and fell to his death in the sea. Determine, facing North, which direction the right foot points.
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