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Vol, 94, No. 2 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, August 22, 1983
Conflict lasted 15 days
Tentative contract ends AT&T strike
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Union leaders approved a tentative contract yesterday to end a 15-day-old telephone strike by 675,000 Bell System operators and service technicians.
the agreement
The document was signed last night by Glena
The three-year contract, which still is subject to completion of local bargaining and ratification by the rank-and-file, provides for a 16.4 percent average wage increase during the life of the company.
'It's an excellent contract. It's good for the company, it's good for the workers and it's good for the customers.'
-Charles Dynes
AT&T Spokesman
Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America, and Rev Reed, vice president of labor relations of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
The 17-member executive board of CWA, which represents 525,000 Bell System workers, was the last of three unions to approve the contract.
OFFICIALS OF THE International Brotherhood of Electric, "Workers, which represents 100,000 workers, and the Telecommunications International Union, which represents 50,000, signed
tentative contracts earlier yesterday with AT&T
Watts estimated that $3 billion worth of improvements were in the contract. He said the agreement would raise the current average wage of $12.33 to $14.33 over the three years.
Watts said telephone workers could return to work as early as Thursday morning if local negotiations are completed. A vote on the contract would follow.
"Assuming those local contracts are completed, A members can begin returning to Walking."
Reed, asked whether the package would result in higher telephone bills for consumers, said. "Wage increases do impact on phone rates."
AT&T spokesman Charles Dynes said, "It's an excellent contract. It's good for the company, it's good for the workers and it's good for the customers."
customer
Union employees walked off the job when their contract expired Aug. 7. Supervisors have kept the nationwide Bell System operating.
SCATTERED INCIDENTS of violence and vandalism have been reported since the walkout began, but no one has been seriously injured. Only a handful of strike-related arrests have been made.
been made.
The walkout has had little affect on most telephone service, but delays have occurred in operator-assisted calls.
The tentative agreement was worked out late Saturday between negotiators for AT&T and CWA.
Bad-check writers risk fines
Staff Reporter
By SUSAN WORTMAN
The check policy at the University of Kansas is simple. You do not have to go through the usual ritual of showing two pieces of identification. If you write a bad check to KU and don't cover it, your enrollment will be canceled.
Bad checks are a problem at KU especially during enrollment, said Roger Liebert, general accounting supervisor for the comptroller's office. At the end of enrollment last semester, the comptroller's office had almost $60,000 in bad checks, he said.
A BAD CHECK is treated as a late enrollment and carries an extra $10 charge. This year University officials have added an extra charge for writing bad checks.
"People will write a check knowing full well that they don't have the money to cover it," Liebst said. "Often they will do it to hold their enrollment."
10. Working with an $8 charge for bad checks.
"We now have an $8 charge for bad checks.
That became effective as of late July," Liebst said.
The charge was necessary to offset the cost of processing the bad check, he said. It was costing the University money to send notices and record bank charges.
"We inquired at other schools in the Big Eight and we were about the only ones who didn't go," she said.
The Kansas Union also has a problem with returned checks.
"We carry anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000 in bad checks at any time during the year," said Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union.
THE PROBLEM isn't peculiar to KU. People are writing more bad checks all over the United States, Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, said.
Last year, more than 2,500 bad checks went through the Harper's office.
"Those 2,506 are just the tip of the iceberg." Harper said. "Bad checks are a horrible problem and your account for huge amounts of money last year is between $70,000 and $100,000 in our office alone."
Not all of those checks were written by
See CHECKS on p.5, 4
See CHECKS, p. 5, col. 4
Three soldiers draw their guns moments after opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., in white, was shot at the Manila
International Airport. At left is the men accused of killing Aquino; he reportedly was gunned down after he shot Aquino.
United Press International
Gunmen kill Filipino exile
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Self-exiled Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino was gunned down yesterday seconds after he was whisked by military agents from a jetliner that brought him back to his homeland, witnesses aboard the plane said.
Passengers, including several journalists on board the plane, a China Airlines craft, said they saw Aquino, 50, lying in a pool of blood on the airport tarmac, his head nearly severed.
Witnesses said a flurry of shots had occurred seconds after Aquino left the aircraft in the custody of security men who boarded the plane on its arrival at 12:55 p.m.
"Aquino was lying in a pool of blood," said United Press International's Max Vanzi, who flew in on the plane with the exiled leader.
"Blood was gushing out his head and his mouth. They stuffed his body in a military van and drove away."
"They shot him," said a stunned passenger who was one of the first people off the plane. "1."
WITNESSES REPORTED that they had seen a man in civilian clothes fire a shot at Aquino. The man was then shot by soldiers and slumped to the ground.
At least two witnesses said they had seen uniformed men fire at Aquino from a distance of three feet.
couldn't see him, but they shot him because I heard it, and the passenger, who asked not to
Meanwhile, a U.S.-based organization of Filipinos opposed to the Marcos regime said in New York yesterday that Ferdinand Marcos, president of the Philippines, was responsible for the killing of Aquino.
MEMBERS OF the group, called the Movement for a Free Homeland, which claims 700 members in the United States, said that Marcos had warned Aquino not to return to the Philippines and that members of Marcos had killed him when he detested the president.
"We place the blame squarely on where it rests — on a dictatorial regime and on the shoulders of Ferdinand Marcos," said a statement issued by the organization.
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Fabian Van earlier warned that Aquino would be the target of assassins who were waiting among thousands of supporters that the opposition said would turn out to be loyal militants back on the same plane he flew in on unless he could provide the proper travel documents.
conspire.
Aquino had been denied a passport by the government because of an alleged assassination plot against him.
BEFORE HIIS ARSIL, opposition leaders in Manila had charged that the alleged assailant
nation plot was a ruse to keep Aquino, a charismatic figure, out of the Philippines until after the visit of President Reagan to the Philippines in November.
Another opposition leader said in New York that U.S. officials should reconsider President Reagan's planned visit to the Philippines because of the death of Aquino.
Heberson Alvarez, former secretary-general of the U.S. based Movement for a Free Philippines, said he doubted the official Philippine government report on the killing of
"The burden of proof is on them." Alvarez said, referring to the government of Marcos.
In Washington, the State Department called Aquino's murder a "owardly and despicable act which the U.S. government condemns in the strongest possible terms."
WHITE HOUSE spokesman Peter Roussel, traveling with Reagan in California, told reporters that the shooting would not change Marcos to meet with Marcos in Manila in early November.
The friends and family of Aquino were shocked at his slaying, but said he had been "prepared for the worst" when he returned to his homeland at the end of a three-year exile.
"We pray a lot and are religious," said Aquino's daughter Kris, 12, one of five children. "My dad was prepared for the worst."
Schneider says he's loved sun for 14 years The 'Tan Man' of KU has devoted his life to worship of the sun
By ALBERTO SALDARRIAGA Staff Reporter
Most people think he killed. Some say he was a soldier in Vietnam who ruined his nerves and then was dropped somewhere in the United States by the Army. Then he who thinks he is a sun monk, many say he has skin cancer and is murdering for his death in the sun.
MONDAY MORNING
according to the Tan Man, is that one day, nearly 14 years ago, he decided he had fallen in love
Most people think he is crazy
The one thing true about the Tan Man
"All those stories about me are false. I just love the sun. That's the only reason why I spend my time, my life, sunbathing," he said.
He was born 40 years ago in Wichita where his mother, three brothers and one sister still live.
615 HIS REAL, NAME is John Schneider, 428 Rode Island St., and he says he has been subbathing in front of Wesco Hall for almost 15 years.
From that day on, he devoted his life to that love — the sun.
He says he never was a soldier. He likes religion, but he is not a monk. And, he says, he is as crazy as any other human being.
"About those skin cancer rumors, I think they also are false. I feel fine I don't have any
See TAN MAN, p. 5, col.1
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Known to most students simply as the Tan Man, John Schneider, fell in love with the sun nearly 14 years ago. Since then he has spent most of his days basking outdoors on the KU campus.
Kansas endures summer Farmers lament drought, crop harm
By ANA DEL CORRAL
By ANA DEL CORRAI Staff Reporter
This year's crops have been damaged beyond repair by what has been called a terrible drought, farmers in the Lawrence area said yesterday.
"We are already over the hill," said Carl Snorav, who farms 600 acres near Lawrence.
Spray estimates that this year he won't be able to get more than one-third of the corn he usually gets. He expects to get about 25 or 30 bushels an acre, whereas most years he gets about 100, he said.
"Soybeans have been holding pretty good, but they'll be small," he said.
THE SITUATION is not likely to change much, at least until the middle of September, said
Warren Sunael of the National Weather Service in Topeka.
"At least until the middle of September, we are expecting above normal temperatures and a dry winter."
Last weekend's rain provided some relief, but farmers said it was not enough to help crops significantly.
"It didn't help," said George Milleret, who also farms near Lawrence.
Danny Brune, who farms 600 acres, agreed
Danny Brunle, who was at the school,
"It cooled the weather off for a day or two," he said. "We need about three inches of rain and three days of cooler weather."
However, the weather service said that the extended forecast did not show rain for this week. It predicted that the weather would be
See FARM, p.5, col. 1
Thirsty KU lawns compete for water
By BRUCE HONOMICHL
Parched
That's the state of KU's lawns, says Tom Anderson, director of the department of facilities operations. High temperatures and humidity, he said, forced facilities operations to put a high priority on using the University's irrigation pumps that push KU's air conditioning units.
In addition, he says, incoming water from the city has been so warm that facilities operations has been forced to use more water in its air conditioning pumps to prevent evaporation.
operations.
The result is that KU's normally lush lawns
POWER PROBLEMS at Lawrence's water plant and lack of rain have left no extra reserves, says Jim Matts, assistant director of landscaping and maintenance for facilities
and shrubs are not being watered as heavily or as often this summer as in the past.
"They're browner than I've seen them in years." Anderson said.
With about one-third of the summer still left, Lawrence has had 44 days in which the temperature has been 80 or higher. The temperature has risen several times, according to the KU Weather Service.
Anderson said that facilities operations normally used two million gallons of water on a daily basis.
"We've had to use more water to cool the tanks this summer because the incoming water temperature is 82 degrees," Anderson said. "We're trying to do more water between midnight and 7 a.m., when the outside temperate has little cooler, and back on daytime watering."
"We've put a lot more emphasis on cooling the buildings this year. It's been hot enough, and there's not enough volume to keep the level of cooling and watering as it has been in the past."
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