The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, April 20,1983 Vol.93,No.138 USPS 650-640
Children, dignitaries welcome Soviet athletes to state
KU track coach Bob Timmons, right, welcomed the Soviet delegation at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holidome yesterday.
while Mark Scott, executive director of Athletes United for Peace, translated his speech into Russian.
Habib may have been target of bomb
By United Press International
BEIRUT. Lebanon — The bomb that killed at least 34 people — including a CIA analyst and seven other Americans — was driven into the U.S. Embassy by a suicidal attacker trying to assassinate special Middle East envoy Philip Habib, a Lebanese news agency said yesterday.
Lebanon's Central News Agency said Habib and other U.S. Middle East peace negotiators narrowly escaped death because a meeting delayed their arrival at the eight-story embassy.
The discovery of more victims in the wrecked embassy cafeteria raised the death toll to 34, including a CIA analyst, an embassy first-secretary and six other Americans.
Gov. John Carlin, standing next to the Soviet interpreter and the Soviet delegation leader, welcomed the athletes with a brief historical review, recounting the trek of the Russians who immigrated with their wheat to Kansas more than 100 years ago.
Seven more Americans were missing and presumed dead and officials warned the death toll to rise.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Amid children, officials and other curious onlookers, 15 Soviet athletes and five delegates and coaches walked through Gaynor yesterday at Kansas City International airport.
The Soviet athletes, who have come to Kansas to compete in the Kansas Relays, which begin tomorrow, walked through the crowd and stood against the wall to the right of the Soviet flag.
flag. One by one the children walked over to the athletes and delegation to present pins and bouquets of sunflowers and wheat.
See related stories on page 7 and 16.
The children, from Lawrence area schools, then shuffled hapazhary to the left of the U.S.
Habib, his assistant Morris Draper and aides were scheduled to be at the embassy at the time.
"In the spirit of peace and with the hope of a better future between our countries," he said, "Athletes United for Peace wecolmtes you to the heart of America."
Last November, Bob Swan and Mark Scott, executive director of APU, thought of the idea of inviting the Soviets to the meet as a way of increasing their understanding between the Soviet Union and the United States.
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
BOB SWAN, CHAIRMAN and founder of Athletes United for Peace, which initiated the attempts to bring the Soviets to Kansas, and the track team with the help of an interpreter
AEEV THE PRIVATE BUT well-connected news agency, quoting government sources, said
The U.S. negotiators were delayed by a meeting with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel at the presidential palace in suburban Baadba, the agency said.
A U.S. spokesman said he could not confirm the Lebanese agency report.
Carlin said he hoped the Soviets' participation in the Relays would deepen ties between the two countries.
AUP sent an invitation to Soviet Ambassador Anastasia Dolobychny in January with supporting letters from Carlin, Carlin Rep Betty Jo and Marci Francisco and Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
"WE HAVE TWO competent eyewitness reports that a large van forced its way into the
U. S. Ambassador Robert Dillon, vowing that Habib's mission and the work of the embassy would continue despite the blast, said investigators believed a suicide attacker drove a van packed with explosives to the front of the embassy.
"The explosion aimed at the American envoy and the American delegation mediating between Lebanon and Israel proves that those behind it have been the ones to group a group of specialists," the agency said.
SCHOOL CHILDREN, some of whom were at the airport, also sent letters through AUP to the hospital.
"I sincerely hope the tradition of friendly
"LET US APPEAL to other countries," she said, "to join in our struggle for peaceful competition in sports."
After Carlin's brief welcome, Elena Petushkova, Soviet delegation leader, returned the greetings of Carlin and Swan and commented on the need for more athletic relations between
relations between our two countries continues," he said.
On March 1, the Soviets declined the invitation to come to the Relays, but Sergei Guskov, the New York correspondent to Sovietskis Sport, convinced Gromov, head of the Soviet Sports Committee, to take another look at the invitation. And March 22, Swan and Scott received word that the Soviets would come to the meet.
area you see behind them.$^{17}$ Dillon told reporters he stood in front of what was once the door.
"There was a report that the driver of the vehicle was killed."
The crowd attracted people walking to and from flights, who asked what was happening.
In Washington, State Department officials said the attacker was able to penetrate the heavily guarded embassy grounds because he was willing to die in the blast.
"Well, I'll be damned. You mean right here in Kansas," one person said.
"You can't seal yourself off from the world." State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said, "You do what you can, but there are so many people who are and being an embassy. You have to function."
Lebanese government sources said a Lebanese soldier told investigators he was 100 yards from the scene when a van covered by a black sheet drove slowly in front of the embassy.
"I FELT IN MY heart that something would happen, and I dropped to the ground when the
AURH elections invalid, hearing board rules
By WARREN BRIDGES
Staff Reporter
The Association of University Residence Halls will conduct another election for president and vice president because the winning coalition violated AURH campaign rules during the March 7 and 8 election, the associate dean of student life said yesterday.
Barbara Ballard, the dean and the chairman of the hearing board that made the decision yesterday, said the new election must be completed by April 30.
The controversy began March 10 when two AURH presidential candidates filed complaints with the association's election committee. The complaints charged that Alan Rowe, who was originally elected president, and David Walker, former vice president, violated two AURH campaign rules.
election by four votes over three other presidential coalitions
James Jeffley and Milton Scott, the candidates who filed the complaints, said the Rowe/Walker coalition violated Section 2a of the AURH Campaign Procedures and Offenses. That section states, "Electioneering, distribution of campaign literature and extortion of voters within 50 feet of any polling place . . . is hereby prohibited."
THE ROWE/WALKER coalition won the
In response to the complaints, the AUHU election committee conducted a meeting March 27.
Bob Dowdy, current president of AURH and chairman of the election committee, said after the meeting that because of his committee's finding, a new election would be conducted.
The closed meeting, attended by Rowe and Walker and the committee, found both Rowe and Walker guilty.
Rowe and Walker appealed the committee's decision to a University appeals board, whose
chairman was Clark Coan, associate dean of student life.
THE APPEALS BOARD determined March 31 that the election committee "did not follow due process in finding Rowe and Walker guilty," Coen said.
"The accused were not presented with the list of formal charges until directly before the meeting, not allowed to call witnesses, and then released by a confirmation of 'electioneering' as stated in the rules."
The appeals board did not make a decision involving the election, but instead assigned the judge to decide.
That board heard testimony for about nine hours during three days. Ballard said.
She said she was pleased that a decision had finally been made and that the process might be completed.
WALKER SAID THAT although he was glad a
See ELECTION page 5
Today will be partly cloudy and a warmer with a high of 10. Winds will be from the west.
Surprise witness for Chavez says autopsy was incomplete
Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the upper 30s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer. The high will be 70.
Dr. William Reals, a licensed forensic pathologist and dean of the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, attacked the methods used in an autopsy of the boy, Pratt White. Dr. James Bridges, a witness for the state, performed that autopsy.
A pathologist from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita testified as a surprise witness for the defense yesterday in the trial of Stanley W. Chavez, who is accused of killing a 2-year-old Lawrence boy on Dec. 9, 1982.
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
Chavez also testified yesterday. He said that Lawrence police had accused him of many crimes during his interrogation and that he had only a sketchy memory of some of the incidents that happened during the night of Dec. 8, when he was held captive by the boy's mother, Sabrina White. was at work.
THE BOY DIED OF hemorrhaging in the brain that resulted from any of several blows to the brain.
He testified that Bridges' report said the cause of death was sub-dural hematoma, which is caused by blood accumulating under the dura, a covering of the brain. But in another part of the report, Reals said, Bridges reported that the bleeding came from the spinal cord and limbs not from the dura.
Reals said, "I am confused by the autopsy report."
Under cross-examination by Craig Stlanciffe, Douglas County assistant district attorney, Reals said, "It could just have been a statement, but it was a pretty important one."
Reals also said he disagreed with earlier testimony by Bridgens that said the injuries causing the bleeding were probably inflicted to six hours before the boy's death at 7:14 a.m.
BASED ON THE COLOR and character of blood shot in photographs of the interior of the top of Pratt's skull. Reals said he thought the girl inflicted 12 to 15 hours prior to the boy's death.
When Stanciffe asked him whether the color
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Artisans, musicians revel in festival on campus lawn
Staff Reporter
By SARA KEMPIN
He stood on the wooden platform, his eyes closed and his head down. In his mouth, he clenched a white strip of cloth. A cacophony of music spewed from the tape player he held in front of him. A voice on the tape spoke solitely of life and art. And then silence.
Mark Roseberry, Lawrence senior, said he participated in yesterday's "Inside Out," A Tribute to the Arts, to show how art such as his own, which is a part of its audience to television and stereo.
"It's easier for most people to turn on the television than to read poetry," he said.
ROSENERRY, WHO WHOTE the music and poetry he presented, set a tone for other people.
"It makes me a happier, better person to be able to express myself," he said.
Diana Rosselot, Topeka junior, said Rosehaw's presentation changed her view of art.
"Everybody has their own idea about what art is and how to express and appreciate art," she said. "I've never thought of poetry in that way. It's a different idea about art."
The arts festival was financed by the Student Senate and organized by a subcommittee of the Senate Cultural Affairs Committee.
While watching some Malaysian dancers perform, Amy Lozier, Mount Pleasant, Penn, senior said, "It's marvelous. It's interesting to get to see different cultures and
She said the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. encouraged artists to perform on its lawn.
"The arts festival reminds me of that," she said.
"A LOT of PEOPLE go around blindly
See FESTIVAL page 5
Steve Gotz, originally of Lavern, Okla., jugged balls, swords and flaming torches outside Flint Hall yesterday as part of an outdoor arts festival.
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