University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1983
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Embassy
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crashing, down on employees. Windows were
shattered for blocks around
"The last time I saw such massive damage was during Israel's air strikes on west Beirut last summer," a Lebanese soldier said. "But this week the Israeli air force had of sorts — and a huge one at that." he said.
The street in front of the embassy, which faces the Mediterranean Sea in predominantly Moslem west Beirut, was strenued with dismembered bodies. Flames and black smoke billowed from the ground floor and at least 10 cars outside were engulfed in flames.
In Washington, President Reagan said the territory had been the "target of a vicious terrorism."
"This criminal attack on a diplomatic establishment will not deter us from our goals of peace in the region. We will do what we know to be right." Reagan said.
LEBANESE PRESIDENT AMIN GEMAYEL rushed to the embassy and later called Reagan to offer his sympathy — and to request continued support to re-establish a strong central government.
U. S. Ambassador Robert Dilner emerged from the wreckage unharmed. U.S. Middle East
The attack came minutes after U.S. Marine commander Col. James Mead reported a Lebanese Shiite Moslem faction was believed responsible for recent attacks on Marines in the multinational peace-keeping force and warned there could be more attacks.
MEAD SAID U.S. OFFICIALS suspected the Lebanese Moslem Aman group, "and a certain subset of it that is highly pro-Framan," were arrested on Friday. The prison marine was fired at Sunday night but not injured.
envoy Philip Habib and his deputy Morris Draper were in Beirut but not at the embassy at the time of the blast.
Mead said the group wanted "everybody out of Lebanon — all foreigners — so that would be a most likely candidate."
Union
Almost 100 Marine peacekeepers rushed to the area from their base in the south of Beirut and formed a ring around the smoking ruins of the embassy.
The Amal group is the militia of the Lebanese Shites Moslems, the dominant Islamic sect in the southern part of the country.
French peacekeepers and Lebanese army soldiers formed a barrier around the building while a bulldozer came in to lift the concrete rubble from bodies.
Pittsburgh State University is the only Regents school with a chapter, which acts as the governing body of the university.
Griffin said he thought K-NEA could be effective at the university even if it did not.
Skidmore said he thought the KU professors would be more receptive to forming a union now than they would have been 10 years ago.
"If we never get collective bargaining at all, he would still be an extremely useful organizer."
"It could be that they may want to move toward a union," he said. "They virtually have the same rights."
THE TWO PROFESSORS SAID THEY had not heard any official reaction from KU administrators or the Regents about forming a K-NEA shanter at KU.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said he was not aware that an organizational meeting for the K-NEA was being planned and that said Mr. Cobb would be available for or against the formation of a faculty union.
Skidmore said that he hoped KU administrators would support a faculty move toward
Prisoners refuse to free hostages
By United Press International
PITTSBURGH — Two inmates with "nowhere to go" haggled over a handful of surrender demands yesterday with authorities seeking to free two hostages held for a fifth day at a maximum-security prison, authorities said yesterday.
"We have a handful of points that they're interested in getting clarification on and we're hopeful we can eventually get a resolution," said Johnson, state corrections bureau spokesman.
On the record
A BURGLAR STOLE a television, worth $180,
and camera equipment, worth about $380, from a
Lawrence resident's home in the 1100 block of
New Jersey Street yesterday, police said.
A BURGLAR STOLE a cassette player, worth $1500 in cash in case yesterday from Fantasy and 230 low bills.
Ways
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universities is appropriated from the general fund. Generally, the state maintains an ending balance of $1 billion.
An ending balance of $17.2 million would mean the state is essentially broke, Bunten said, which means money might have to wring out of state agencies, including Regents universities.
HAYDEN SAID THE LEGISLATURE might have to trim part of the fiscal 1984 budget.
The state must consider giving itself a "raise" through additional tax measures the legislature will probably consider during the short wrap-up session, which begins Wednesday.
"We will examine such budget cuts that a week ago would not have been considered," he
Included on both chambers' calendars are proposals from Gov. Carlin to increase state income taxes for some high-income brackets. The state's future to resolve state taxation of corporations.
Philadelphia also proposed additional "sin taxes" on alcohol and cigarettes, which are estimated to bring in about $15 million.
And the House Assessment and Taxation Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on a last-minute bill that would tax the use of pipelines for the transportation of coal, oil, natural gas, helium, gas liquids and water.
SPONSORS OF THE BILL HAVE said the tax would generate about $40 million.
Along with tax proposals, both chambers will be working out final recommendations concerning the bill.
The House Ways and Means Committee will begin this morning to rework a proposed state work-study program for students. Carlin asked the Legislature to spend $700,000 for the program, but the House reduced that sum to $562,000 during the regular session.
After the House reduction, the Senate decided to delay a decision on financing the state program and planned to reconsider the proposal.
BUNTEN SAID HE WAS NOT optimistic about work-study finding its way out of committee the second time around. He said some committee members were skeptical of administrative expenses that might be required to run the program.
Bunten said also that the state might not be in financial shape to spend money on a new program.
Bunten said money for the program should not be thrown around in sparse amounts to all universities and colleges, because not enough money is available for a substantial increase in student jobs.
Originally, Carlin wanted the money spent at Regents universities, an idea Benton favored.
During the work-study program's travel through the Legislature, some lawmakers insisted that the program be available to every state university and college.
INITS DISCUSSIONS TODAY, the committee will also haggle over Carlin's recommended 20-percent increase for utility expenses at Regents universities. The House and Senate had delayed discussion on utility increases until the end of the session.
Bunten said he did not know whether the committee's sentiment would be to reduce the governor's 20 percent recommendation.
Flood
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deputy sheriffs attended the meetings to control the crowd. Doege and Lange said.
Theil, who lives near Easton, about 35 miles north of Lawrence, said. "Those were some the damnedest meetings I ever saw. They should have organized the meetings better."
DOEGE SAID THAT SOME opponents of the watershed had rigged the meetings to keep the proponents from speaking.
"They'd put one man in the front and one in the back," he said. "And they would take turns speaking and they just wouldn't shut up. They didn't give anybody else a chance to speak."
But he said that at one time, sentiment against him was so strong that more than 30 farmers filed complaints with the attorney general about his conduct.
"As I recall, many of the arguments involved Doege and the other farmers," he said. "I gave everyone a chance to speak."
Richard New, chairman of the board of directors for all but the last four years of its existence, conceded that the meetings were organized to try to stay neutral and to let all sides have their say.
NEW SAID THAT THE BIGGEST controversy of the program was that the people in the southern part of Stranger Creek were the ones who would benefit most from the watershed, and
The farmers in the north, be said, thought that the south should have been classified as a benefit district and therefore be subject to higher taxes.
the farmers in the north didn't want to give those people their lands without compensation.
as well as taxes and as such.
As it was, all taxpayers were to pay an equal share of the increased taxes that would arise from the construction of the watershed.
The people in the south justified the equal tax hikes by saying that farmers in the north would have the benefit of the small lakes and that their property taxes would go down substantially.
MANY OPPONENTS OF THE PLAN said that a watershed would not work, that the small lakes would fill up with sediment and that other lakes would have to be built to support them.
Lang said, "This plan was the biggest sham that anybody tried to pull off. There was no way this plan could have worked. They came up to these farmers and told them how much fish they could catch out of these lakes, and some people bought the story."
ONE FARMER WHO BOUGHT THE story was Gene Pauli, a 75-year old Easton farmer. Pauli signed a release for three of his farms, nearly 600 acres, for $3 to the watershed district.
By federal law, the water district was not required to pay farmers for the land used in the watershed. However, a $1 filing fee was necessary for the transfer of the farm deed to the district
"These people just wanted you to give your
farms away to protect the people down the creek," Pauli said. "I 'aint got a college education, but I know you shouldn't sell your farms for $3."
Lange said, "I went in to see Gene Pauli in Easton one day, and I saw him sitting there with his face white as a sheet. I said, 'What's wrong Genel,' and he said, 'Man, I've just sold my
BUT PAULI DID NOT HAVE TO sell his farms. Before the watershed plan could come to a vote, the board decided to disband.
New said, "A watershed is like a tree. The upper part is larger, and it had more voters, while the lower part was smaller and had fewer voters." He felt this watershed should have come to a vote.
Lange was on the board at the time it disbanded.
"I was there to stop the watershed," he said,
"and I helped do it."
After the board disbanded, proponents, such as Doege, tried to revive it, but the attendance at the meetings was too low to continue.
Doege said, "There's not a thing we can do. It's just too expensive to try to get some flood damage."
IN THE YEARS SINCE THE attempts to establish the watershed, the farmers in the north farm their lands and keep to themselves, while in the south watch their lands dismease every spring.
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