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University Daily Karisan, July 20, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Soviet soldiers apprehend anti-whaling protesters
NOME, Alaska — An anti-wailing ship of the environmental organization Greenpeace, pursued by Soviet ships and helicopters, scurried across the Bering Sea and docked at Nome yesterday, leaving behind seven protesters whom the Russians seized on a Siberian island.
Crew members of the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's 147-foot converted trawler, said they had film showing both a Soviet whaling operation near Lorino, Siberia, and the arrest of their comrades — six Americans and one Canadian — by uniformed Soviet soldiers.
Greenspace charges the whaling operation with supplying meat to a local mink farm and not to native Siberians as the Soviets claim.
U. S. State Department spokesman Brian Carlson said Soviet officials had not formally notified the U.S. Embassy of the arrests of American
The arrests came on the opening day of the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in England. The commission wants a total ban on commercial whaling by 1986.
Japan, the Soviet Union, Norway and Peru formally objected to the ban, which under whaling commission rules means they may ignore it.
Gemavel visits U.S.: Begin delayed
WASHINGTON — Lebanese President Amin Gemayel arrived yesterday for talks on the future of the Middle East negotiations, while Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin postponed his scheduled visit next week for "personal reasons."
Gemayel is to meet President Reagan Friday.
Begin, who was to visit Reagan July 27, telephoned the Oval Office yesterday and said that he would like to reschedule it later this year. Officials said health problems prevented Begin from attending the meeting:
Gemayel had a brief courtesy meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz yesterday. Lebanese officials quoted Gemayel as saying he believes it is only a matter of weeks before Israel will redeploy its troops to a "security zone" in the southern part of Lebanon.
Abductors want message published
VATICAN CITY — Kidnappers threatening to kill their 15-year-old hostage unless the Turk who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II is freed telephoned the Vatican on a special hot line yesterday and demanded publication of a statement.
“In the course of the telephone call, the only concrete thing that emerged was a request that some of the main organs of the independent press should publish today in its entirety and without interruption by comment, the message is from the news agency ANSA “The Vatican statement said.
The Vatican has said John Paul had forgiven Mehmet Ali Agca for shooting him in St. Peter's Square just four days after the attack and that was all the Vatican could legally do.
Asbestos company sues government
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Manville Corp., the nation's largest asbestos manufacturer, filed a lawsuit yesterday against the federal government to recover nearly $1 million paid to asbestos victims.
government of rebel forces in Iraq — was filed in the U.S. Court of Claims. It seeks $768,361 the firm paid to 50 victims who worked in Navy shipvards during World War II and $185,741 in legal expenses.
The firm argues that the government is responsible for exposing the workers to dangerous levels of asbestos fibers, which can cause the lung disease asbestosis and often-fatal cancerous tumors of the lungs and surrounding tissue.
safety training. Recently declassified government documents obtained by Manville show the Navy and Maritime Commission knew in 1939 that asbestosis was an occupational hazard of shipbuilding.
TOPEKA — A 15-year-old tola boy whose friend was shot to death told his physician that a black man wearing a ski mask beat and sexually molested him, the physician testified yesterday.
Richard Lee Hull testified in the first-degree murder trial of Nathaniel J. "Yorkie" Smith, who is charged with three slayings which occurred near Iola in August 1982. Smith also is charged with four counts of aggravated sodomy and nine other counts.
Gerald Short survived the pistol whipping which left him blind in one eye, but the bodies of two other teen-agers and a 59-year-old woman were found in a rural area outside Iola, which is in southeast Kansas the weekend of Aug. 20. Short will testify in the hearing.
OPEC maintains prices, production
HELSINKI, Finland — OPEC nations yesterday ended a two-day conference agreeing to maintain oil prices and production levels despite forecasts of higher world demand and put off choosing a new secretary-general for the cartel.
Without the usual public acrimony of previous meetings, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries held its benchmark oil price at $29 per barrel and its production ceiling at 17.5 million barrels a day.
At a news conference ending the session, United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Mana Saeed Al Otaiba also said that to keep a dispute between warring Iraq and Iran from erupting, the cartel had deferred naming a new secretary-general.
FDA bars sale of 'sobriety' products
WASHINGTON — The government took formal action yesterday to prevent the marketing of unproven "sobriety" products that it said could lead drunks into mistakenly believing they can drive safely.
The Food and Drug Administration announced that any product intended to prevent or minimize inebriation is a drug and, as such, may not be sold unless test results are submitted to the FDA proving its safety and effectiveness.
"Because of the danger, FDA wants consumers to know that no such product has been approved for marketing by FDA," FDA Commis-
There are no such drugs now on the market, but the FDA said several products and advertising plans with sobriety claims have been developed by manufacturers.
Ladv Libertv needs help, team says
WASHINGTON — Her skin has some bad holes and blemishes, and there is something nasty growing near one elbow. Her frame is bent in some places, and her head is not on straight.
But despite all that, there is nothing wrong with the Statue of Liberty that a $20 million to $30 million restoration job cannot fix, a team of American and French architects and engineers reported to the National Park Service yesterday.
The French-American Committee for Restoration of the Statue of Liberty submitted a preliminary engineering report on the physical condition of the 97-year-old Statue of Liberty.
The statue, one of the most revered monuments in the United States, can be renovated in plenty of time for the centennial of its dedication. Oct. 28, 1986, the team said.
Association changing loan policy
By MARY ANN COSTELLO
There have already been a few changes in the loan collection procedures in the Kansas University Endowment Association's student loan program since William A. Shunk was hired in May to oversee the program.
Staff Reporter
Shunk, a retired Army officer who received his master's degree in business administration in December, said that he was hired for the new position of vice president because of an increase in the number of KU students who define on loans.
MORE THAN 7 PERCENT of the loans were uncollectible in 1982, he said. That figure compares with a 4.8 percent default rate in 1980.
"I imagine economic conditions have something to do with it." Shusk said.
Students sometimes take out federal loans in addition to Endowment Association loans, and as a result, may realize that they do not have enough money after they graduate to pay all the loans, he said.
Because of the problem, Shunk said the Endowment Association was making a few changes in its loan program in an effort to make the collection process easier.
BEFORE JULY 1, Shunk said, the office of student (financial accounting at the College of Health Sciences has administered Endowment Association
For one thing, it recently consolidated its loan programs for the Lawrence campus and the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan
Shunk said the consolidation should increase efficiency.
He also said he hoped to increase the amount of money collected by taking a more aggressive approach to loan collections.
The Endowment Association now waits until loan payments are six to
nine months delinquent before turning a loan over to a collection agency. Shunk said he would like to shorten that time.
William A. Shunk
He said a loan that was six months overdue was harder to collect than one that was 30 days overdue because the Endowment Association could lose communication with a student if his address changed.
SHUNK ALSO SAID he planned to send out reminders to students shortly before their loans were due and to send them an email with an occasional telephone call.
He said the Endowment Association's goal was to reduce the default rate to 3.0%.
When students cannot make payments, Shunk said that he tried to work out arrangements on an individual basis. However, students are usually required to make a $30 minimum deposit, as a result of the defaulted loan.
He said it was important to collect on defaulted loans so that the Endowment Association could maintain a constant amount of available money for student loans.
"The loan money is endowed by graduates of the University," he said. "Probably at one time they borrowed money to get through school."
Shunk said the Association had about $4.2 million available for short-term loans to students on the Lawrence campus, and about $1.4 million for short- and long-term loans to students at the College of Health Sciences.
There is $2.1 million worth of loans outstanding, he said.
ONLY SHORT-TERM LOANS are available to students at the Lawrence campus. They have a 6 percent interest rate and are due in a year or less, he said. Once they mature, the interest rate increases to 14 percent.
Undergraduates may borrow up to $500, or up to $1,000 with a co-signer. Graduate students may borrow up to $1,000, or $2,000 with a co-signer, he said. The average short-term loan is about $300.
Shunk said people who co-signed student loans would now be required to complete a financial statement because some co-signers in the past had not been accounted for. Co-signers are responsible for the loan If the borrower defaults.
THERE ARE NOW about 4,400 loans to students on the Lawrence campus and about 2,400 loans to students at the Kansas City, Kan., campus, he said. Some students have three to four loans in association协会 loans taken out at one time.
Sidewalk sale to offer folks big bargains
The sale will last from 8:30 a.m. to around 8:30 p.m. Lee said, and parking
Everybody loves a bargain, and a large crowd of bargain hunters is expected at the Downtown Lawrence Association's Sidewalk Sale tomorrow. Mary Lee, executive secretary-twice of the association, said yesterday.
Besides the bargains found at the sidewalk sale there will be concession boots on street corners and between store entrances set up by 38 non-profit organizations.
The sale will extend from the 700 block through the 1000 block of Massachusetts.
She said that the high turnout of people was not a problem at last year's
"It's pretty slow going anywhere around town that day just because of the number of people and people serving around looking for parking."
"As a matter of fact, I even had people calling me way back in April or May wanting to know when the kids would plan their vacation around it," she said.
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