The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, April 14, 1983 Vol. 93, No.134 USPS 650-640
Bob Smith, Overland Park graduate student, found yesterday's breeze cooling as he forged a steel sword behind KANU Broadcasting Hall. Sword-making has been a tradition in Smith's family.
Walesa back after interrogation
By United Press International
GDANSK, Poland — Crying that the whole world," former Soldierial leader Lech Walesa was haunted from his home by police yesterday in a raid of his meetings with fictive leaders of the banned union.
Reunited with his wife and children late in the day, a smiling Walesa, 39, said he refused to answer any questions about his private activities
The government said Walesa was released "after explanations." But Walesa emphatically denied it saying, "From start to finish I refused to give any answers."
WEARY AFTER HIS ORDEAL, which began with a frantic scene as he was led away by three armed policemen with his children screaming, Wales said his detention and the subsequent government statement implying he cooperated was "a neat trick" to make him look bad.
Witnesses said Walesa's seven children screamed with fright when three armed police officers led their father away from their apartment.
"Tell the whole world they are openly violating
the law," Wales said as he was marched to an unmarked red police car.
The witnesses said the officers threatened to use force if Wales refused to go with them.
Yesterday's incident was the third time since December 1981 that Walesa had been led away from his home in police custody, including his 11-month internment under martial law.
THE CRACKDOWN AGAINST Wales clearly was in retaliation for the union leader's disclosure a day earlier that he had just spent three days at a clandestine summit conference with the leaders of the Solidarity underground, and of the Polish militia's most-wanted fugitives.
In Warsaw last night, several thousand people gathered for a religious service intended to mourn the imposition of martial law exactly 16 months ago. Most were unaware of Walsa's detention, but security precautions were much beavier than usual. Riot police seized identification papers from scores of people in attempt to disperse the crowds.
A similar gathering at a church in Gdansk took place without incident
IN ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT, militia
officers in Lubin, a copper mining area in southwest Poland, announced the arrest of 10 Solidarity 'terrorists' allegedly involved in a bombing of a Communist Party offices and riot police facilities.
Driving off in an unmarked car, they went to the Dgansk militia headquarters, where a police officer said he was on duty.
Walesa was taken into custody in mid-afternoon by two armed militia officers in uniform and one plainclothesman who had a pistol shot toward the waistband of his trousers.
"For 30 minutes we talked about nothing in particular," he said. "Then they left me alone for three hours. Finally they came back with a blank form, ready to take down my answers."
WALESA SAID HE REFUSED to answer any of the eight to 10 questions put to him, all of which centered on his meetings with the underground leaders and what they said.
The government commune about Walesa's detention, read on television and published by the PAP news agency, said he "did not confirm" his meetings with the underground.
"Of course I neither confirmed nor denied them." Wales said. "I didn't answer at all."
Bear's election sign of apathy, students say
By WARREN BRIDGES
Staff Reporter
They said it had begun as a joke. And several officials of McColm Hall saw it still a joke.
"Pookie Bear," a 15-inch, brown teddy bear with beige feet and a beige nose, captured enough write-in votes to win one of two vice-president posts in Tuesday night's McCollium Hall elections, Juan Giraldo, Topeka junior and a resident of the hall, said Tuesday.
"It began as a joke — with a message,"
Giraldo said
"Pookie Bear" declined to comment
Giraldo said he and several other hall residents had organized the teddy bear's write-in candidacy as a political statement against McCollum's hall government.
Slogans were developed, including, "Bears Are People Too" and "Yote for Penguin Bear."
He said he and about 10 to 15 residents had campaigned for several weeks on behalf of the
John Henson, a Prairie Village junior who was elected president Tuesday, said the bear's victory could "point out apathy among students and maybe open some eyes."
Another vice-presidential position was filled by Daphne Butler, Olivette. Mo., junior, who received 150 votes. Henson received 147 votes to get the presidential post.
Giraldo said that two vice-presidents were selected because of the hall's large size.
Mike Hutchins, Winfield senior, who was in charge of tabulating the votes, said that in addition to the president and vice president, he also had a senior junior. The junior, had been elected treasurer with 145 votes.
Hutchins said that "Pookie Bear" had
hitches 52 votes, more than the 45 needed for a
poll.
Butler said the bear's victory was "sad because it reflected the apathy of the residents of town."
"It's typical of the people who want to sit back and complain." Butler said.
Carl Kulczyk, resident director of the ball, said the bear's election was completely a joke.
"What can you say? You can't treat it as serious." he said.
Although positions for secretary and a chairman were also on the ballot, no candidates or write-ins received the necessary 46 votes to have a valid victory. Hutchins said.
He said the president would appoint students to those positions with the advice and consent of the hall's executive board. The appointee would then have to be approved by the hall's senate, which comprises the executive board and one representative from each of the hall's wings.
Commission advertises new vacancy
He said that he thought the new president would have to select another student to fill the position.
By NED STAFFORD
Staff Reporter
Help Wanted: City Commissioner. Applicant should enjoy controversy and be willing to give up Tuesday evenings for the next two years. Television experience helpful, but not essential. Pay is $83 a month.
Commissioner Barkley Clark announced at Tuesday's City Commission meeting that he would resign from the commission May 2. Now the other four commissioners must choose a successor for the remaining two years of his term.
AT THE SUGGESTION OF Commissioner Ernest Angino, the commission instructed the city staff to print a legal notice in local newspapers announcing that the city would accept applications until 5 p.m. April 22 for Clark's seat on the commission.
The application should list the candidate's qualifications and include a signed statement by the candidate.
However, City Manager Buford Watson said
yesterday the commission would not be required to select the successor from the list of appointees.
Angino said he could vote for someone who did not apply, but added, "If they are not interested enough to put in an application, I would wonder how interested they are."
He said he was looking for a person who had integrity, knowledge of city government, and would be willing to work with the commission as a team to accomplish city business.
ANGINO SAID HE DID not "think it was
the commissioner from the field of primary care."
"I got the feeling last night that the three of them are of a mind," Shontz said of newly elected commissioners Angino, Mike Amyx and Chris Lloyd. "And someone who represents another point of view."
Commissioner Nancy Shontz, who will be the only incumbent on the commission, said she had no one in mind at the moment, but said the person should be well-known in the community and someone who would "round out" the commission.
Asked what their point of view was, she said,
"I'm not sure what that is vet."
Shontz said that since two businessmen, Longhurst and Amyx, were already on the commission, Clark's successor should not be a businessman.
ANGINO AGREED, SAYING, "I think it ought to be someone who represents a different segment of the community."
But Longhurst said, "I wouldn't exclude anybody because of occupation. That would be like excluding males or females or people who wear glasses."
He said, however, that he wanted someone who was not connected with the past commission
"You're looking for a fresh perspective, a clean start," he said.
Amyx said he would support someone who could work well with the other commissioners.
HE SAID IT WOULD NOT have to be someone who saw eye-to-eye with him, but someone who did not represent the views of the past commission.
Weather
Today will be windy and cold with possible snow flurries and a high in the upper 30s to low 45s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the northwest at 15 to 30 mph. Tonight will be clearing and cold with a
Tonight will be clearing and low in the mid-28s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the lower 36s.
Chairman traces her career in oil for KU audience
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
Forty-nine years ago, in the middle of the Depression, Mary Hudson, a 21-year-old widow with an 18-month-old daughter, borrowed $200 from her father toLEASE a closed service station at 25th Street and Broadway in Kansas City, Mo.
That venture made Hudson the first woman in the United States to establish an oil company. From there she went on to become the chairman of the company, and independently owned oil company in the country.
"My story may sound like the American dream of 'rags to riches.'" Hudson told about 80 people at the Burge Union yesterday. "Many people say they're afraid to bend what a person who owns a company must
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Police respond cautiously to domestic disturbances
By DON HENRY
Staff Reporter
Susan Hadl, Lawrence police officer, hears screaming as she approaches the door. She knocks. When the door opens, she looks inside and sees a bruised and crying woman.
Although some would call 10-97s lovers' quarrels, Lawrence police do not. They realize that they must respond quickly and effectively to domestic disturbances, because lovers sometimes kill each other.
LAWRENCE POLICE OFFICERS have responded to about 150 calls for assistance in domestic disturbances since the beginning of this year. Ron Olin, the assistant chief of police,
Hadi is responding to a 10-97 — a domestic disturbance.
Three Lawrence police officers, Dan Affalter, Don Gardner, and Hadl, agreed that domestic disturbances demanded skills that most people did not associate with law enforcement.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's 1981 crime report said that 1,700 people killed their spouses that year. That represents 8.6 percent of the 20,053 murders committed in 1981.
"When dealing with domestic disturbances, officers act as crisis counselors, though they wouldn't call themselves that," said Mark Brothers, the Lawrence Police Department's crime analyst.
Domestic disturbances are a routine part of the job, the three officers said. The officers are
IN THE EMOTION-PACKED and volatile situation of a domestic disturbance, police officers must analyze and attempt to remedy dangerous problems in only a few minutes. Professional counselors and psychiatrists do the thing, but they do it in months, not minutes.
But what really sets police officers apart from counselors is that police officers get killed trying to find a suspect.
Of the 91 officers killed in the United States in 1981, 19 died responding to disturbances. The FBI has not yet released its figures for 1982.
ALL THREE LAWRENCE OFFICERS said domestic disturbances were among their least
"I certainly don't look forward to them."
Gardner said. "It's always in the back of my mind that I should have the man for me."
Affalter, Gardner and Hadi all said they had been slightly injured in domestic disturbances, receiving cuts and bruises. But none had ever been hospitalized as a result of domestic violence.
The FBI Crime Report showed that more police officers lost their lives responding to disturbances than to any other call. Those disturbances include problems such as bar
These officers' lack of injury is a result of the extreme caution they use in dealing with people who have been injured.
Domestic disturbances are complicated, police say. If the man does not attack the officer, the woman often will. The officers all said that they had been confronted with someone toward the officer because they looked at
the officer as an intruder in their personal matter.
"There are a lot of instances where a police officer cuffs a husband who's been beating on his wife." Affairt said, "and then the jumps up on him." The man was being punished on him because he is mistreating his bimind.
BARBARA SMITH, A CO-COORDINATOR for the Women's Transitional Care Service, which operates a shelter for battered wives, explained that women sometimes protected their mates
because the women feared harsher retaliation from the man if he was arrested.
"They fear for their lives and for the lives of their children." Smith said.
Women also defend their husbands because they still have feelings of loyalty or love for them, she said.
"No matter what the man has done to her, an attack on him brings out the defensiveness in her," she said.
Smith has keen insight into this problem because she put up with harsh beatings from her husband for six years.
"I never called the police until he damn near killed me," she said.
The law sometimes prevents the arrest of one of the parties in the disturbance.
PROTECTING THE FIGHTING COUPLE and stopping violence is the first concern of the police officer, the officers said. If the officer does not succeed in reconciling the parties, other options are limited.
If one spouse beats the other with a part of his or her body, police cannot make an arrest unless the victim诉cases a complaint with the Douglas County district attorney's office, Affalter said. This limits the power that police have in dealing with domestic violence. Assault with a part of the body is legally classified as misdemeanor assault.
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Gardner said he would like to be able to make an arrest in every instance of domestic violence. But unless he sees the violence, he said, he is powerless to make an arrest.
Smith said, "There is a problem in the policy. Police have to see the crime being committed. This makes it difficult for the woman because she would have to press charges herself."
"If the police could make arrests without seeing the crime, it would relieve some of the emotional pressure on the woman."
IF THE OFFICER DOES NOT see the assault, he or she can make an arrest only if a weapon is involved, which makes the crime a felony assault.
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