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Wednesday morning, August 24, 1983
Vol. 94, No. 4 (USPS 650-640)
Kansas' rate of joblessness lower in July
By United Press International
TOPEKA - The Kansas jobless rate, influenced by industry employment, shipped to 5.1 percent in July, a three-tenths of a percent dip from June's unemployment rate, the state Human Resources Department reported yesterday.
Lawrence's rate fell from 5.1 percent in June to 4.8 percent in July. The July 1982 rate was 4.8
Human Resources Secretary Jerry Shelor said economic recovery appeared to be mudging the
The 5.1 percent rate means there were 61,900 jobless Kansans in July. The June jobless rate was 5.4 percent, when 66,000 Kansans were unemployed. In the Labor force was 1,203,100 unemployed.
"Employment was up for most industries from June to July." Shelar said in a statement. "The only significant drop in employment last month was for the auxiliary personnel employed by state and local schools. That job market saw a seasonal drop of 11,000 in employment."
In July last year, the jobless rate was 5.8 percent.
Most of the employment gains in the past year have been in industries and jobs other than those related to agriculture. That increase was from the increase in last year to 1,068,200 jobs this July. Shelar said
There were fewer farm jobs this July than last. In July 1982, there were 76,700 farm jobs while there were 75,000 this year. Shelor said the number would be a part of a long-term farm employment decline.
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From June to July this year, the number of persons working in farm jobs dropped because of the end of the wheat harvest.
Employment in manufacturing, construction and wholesale-retail trades increased in July, Shelor said.
Files are safe in computers at University
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
In a dark, windowless basement room, he sits in front of a computer terminal, using phone lines to peer into the dark recesses of another computer perhaps half a continent away.
After a few minutes of automated guesswork, the access code to the computer is broken, and the electronic intruder is suddenly free to room through mountains of personal or confidential data, possibly unknowingly altering or destroying it.
A group of young electronic adventurers in Milwaukee, who named themselves the "414s" for the area code there, recently became known as a security firm that has unauthorized access to several large computers.
This summer, the 414s successfully broke into about 60 data bases across the country, including those at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the National Armed Nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M.
See COMPUTERS, p. 5, col.3
Filipinos opposed to the regime of Ferdinand Marcos demonstrate in front of the White House in protest of the assasination of former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. in Manila. The Philippine opposition is accusing the Marcos regime of the assassination.
Aquino's slaying sparking protests
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — About 50 Filipino and American demonstrators picketed the White House yesterday to protest President Reagan's planned trip to that country in light of the assassination of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Arinulo.
And in the Philippines, the first firm clue in the assassination of Aquino emerged yesterday from the nickname "Kelly" stitched in the clothing of the man who government said had been a leader.
Government television said the name Rolly, a nickname for Rolando, sewn in brown thread in the alleged gunman's underwear, was "the first firm lead" in the case. Olivas said the man also wore a gold ring with the initial "R."
Aquino was gunned down minutes after his arrival in Manila Sunday from three years of voluntary exile in the United States. The government is investigating the shooting.
WAVING SIGNS calling Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos a "Filipino Hitler" and charging, "The U.S. sent the gun, Marcos
pulled the trigger," the demonstrators marched for about 45 minutes in pouring rain.
"Our protest is to condemn the assassination of Aquino and to lay the blame on the doorstep of the fascist Marco government," said Teresa Rodriguez, spokesman for two Philippine opposition groups in North America that sponsored the demonstration.
Philippine officials have responded to charges that military guards killed Aquino by saying that at least seven soldiers had been disarmed and that tests would be conducted before he could fired weapons during the brief burst of gunfire on the formations of Manila airport.
RODRIGUEZ SAID. "We also wanted to urge the U.S. public to question the planned state visit of Mr. Reagan to the Philippines in November. This is in effect condoning not only the execution of Aquino but also the long track recorder of Mar. McRusky in human violations."
Several U.S. newspapers — including The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal — also said in editorials yesterday that Reagan should reconsider his trip.
'Leftist' denied visa
Writer declines KU visit
By ALBERTO SALDARRIAGA Staff Reporter
The Colombian 1982 Nobel prize winner in literature, Gabriel García Marquez, said yesterday he turned down an invitation to come to the University of Kansas because the United States would not issue him an unconditional visa to enter the country.
Garcia Marquez declined a KU invitation to give a lecture during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Simon Hollar, saying he had denied a visa to him for more than 20 years.
U. S. officials said recently that Garcia Marquez had been denied a visa because of his connections with what they called "leftist organizations."
He has been given only provisional permits to enter the United States for specific and short activities, they said.
"The reasons they are using and have always used are foolish and ridiculous." Garcia Marquez said in a telephone interview from his residence in Bogota, Colombia. "Other persons who really are communists go from coast to coast of the United States without any problem.
"Either the U.S. government gives me an unconditional visa or I won't go there," he
Hernandez said that this decision had resulted "from his previous membership in sort of leftist organizations."
Gabriel Hernandez, State Department Bureau of Latin American Affairs officer, said the United States had denied the novelist a visa because of his leftist background.
Garcia Marquez, author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Autumn of the Patriarch," said he thought at least 80 percent of his students were deaf vision for entering the United States.
He said he now had 17 invitations similar to what he had received all of them for the same reason.
García Marquez said the U.S. government had only given him provisional permits "when I had
gone to do the Americans a favor or when the
respondent thinks a negative (response)
creates a great moral conflict.
"What they have done with the provisional permit system is to hide the real reasons for denying me a permanent visa. They have never disclosed the true reasons."
He said Colombian President Belisario Bentancur denounced the situation to President
'The reasons they are using and have always used are foolish and ridiculous. Other persons who really are communists go from coast to coast of the United States without any problem. Either the U.S. government gives me an unconditional visa or I won't ever go there.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nobel Prize winner
"Reagan said he would do something about it and he hasn't either written back giving an explanation or done anything." Garcia Marquez said.
Reagan when he visited Colombia last December.
He also said American authorities didn't recognize that he was a resident in the United States when he was a New York correspondent for Latin Press, the Cuban news agency, in 1961, "before the Cuban revolution called itself socialist.
"I held then a resident card that I returned later when I lived in Mexico," he said. "After that I have lost the count of the times I have requested a vsa."
Garcia Marquez said he had been forced to file waivers to come provisionally to the United States "as I did when I went to the University of Columbia in 1971.
See GARCIA, p. 5, col. 1
Staff Reporter
AT&T strike continues; local negotiations stall
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
A Communications Workers of America national representative described local negotiations Tuesday between the union and Southwestern Bell as having "a long ways to go."
Negotiators reached a tentative agreement Sunday on a national contract that would provide a 16.4 percent average wage increase during the pandemic, and an extension of pension plans and other wage-related items.
National representatives of the CWA hoped a settlement could be reached by midweek, if representatives of the national union could come to terms on local contracts.
The CWA must negotiate 34 local contracts with regional AT&T subsidiaries, said Ron Allen, a representative of the Kansas City, Mo. CWA office.
THE DEADLINE for negotiations is midnight tonight.
"There's lots of ground to cover on lots of critical issues in a short period of time." Allen
said. "It'll be tough. I'm not saying that it will be impossible.
"If good faith holds up during the negotiations, things will work out, but that doesn't hide the risk."
Tim Clark, the Lawrence CWA representative, was not available for comment.
A team of negotiators is representing all of the CWA workers in the Southwestern Bell region, which is made up of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.
in a tentative agreement is not reached, Allen said, the union will stay on strike. However, he said, the union would go back to work Thursday if a tentative agreement was reached.
ALLEN ALSO said that Sunday's national
town hall election, even if local unions
failed to reach an agreement.
Don Hoffman, president of the CWA Local 6401 of Topeka, agreed with Allen that the negotiation hinge on local bargainers, saying he had been a major issue, issues to be decided in a short period of time.
Hoffman said that he was "optimistic" about the possibility of a settlement.
Students stand in line to get chance to change classes
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Curling up in a sleeping bag, play cards or shooting the breeze are not uncommon pastimes for people waiting to buy tickets to a rock concert, the World Series or the Olympics.
Disturbance of appointment cards was not scheduled to begin until 7:30 a.m., but some students, afraid that classes would close, began waiting several hours earlier.
our students in the long line in front of Strong yesterday morning weren't waiting to buy tickets.
They began lining up as early as 1 a.m. to get appointment cards for adding or dropping
Barb Alfano, a Minneapolis, Minn., sophomore, was the first in line. She went down to Strong Hall at i.t am. in hopes that an early applause would ensure that the classes she would be available
As was the case with most students at Strong Hall, Alfano was concerned about getting the
"If you get in front of me I'll kill you," she jokingly warned the next group of students who arrived.
By the time enrollment officials began distributing appointment cards at 7:15 a.m., 15 minutes earlier than scheduled, the line stretched from 113 Strong Hall, down the first floor corridor, out the west door, and ended at the entrance of Jayhawk Boulevard and Boulevard Road.
Students even withstood a downpour of rain to leafless guard their spot in line.
Gary Thompson, director of the office of
student records, said the line moved quickly, however. About 3,000 appointment cards were distributed by 9 a.m., he said, when student records stopped issuing cards for the day.
Appointment cards will be handed out again at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday and Monday, he said. After Monday, adding and dropping classes will be handled on a walk-in basis.
Even though lines have not been completely eliminated from the add/drop system, the appointment procedure is moving faster than last January's add/drop line. Thompson said.
Last semester, students waited on a first-
come, first-serve basis for several hours to add
new classes.
"Obviously you can hand out appointment cards much faster than you can make the phone call."
Jill Farnham. Independence, Mo., freshman said she had heard that lines were even longer last spring.
"I heard some people had to wait four hours last year, so one hour is fine with me," she said.
"I think they should give you an appointment time when you enroll," said Kurt Morganstern,
But other students thought that there had to be an alternative to waiting in line for appointment cards.
Thompson disagreed with that suggestion, saying that not every student who enrolls needs a transgender student.
About one-third of the students don't make schedule changes, he said, while one-third make one or two. The remaining third completely overhaul their schedules, he said.
Because not all students have schedule changes, Thompson said, a lot of computer time
Several thousand' students at the University of Kansas lined up drop classes. Many had to wait nearly an hour to get the cards. in the rain Tuesday to receive appointment cards to add and the cards were given out from 7 to 9 a.m.
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