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Tuesday, February 8,1983 Vol.93,No.93 USPS 650-640
Report clears Begin in Beirut massacre
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — The commission investigating the Beirut massacre cleared Prime Minister Menachem Begin of responsibility in the slaughter at two Palestinian refugee camps last Sempterem, Israel Radio said this morning.
The radio quoted the report as saying that if Sharon did not decide to resign himself, Prime Minister Menachem Begin should consider firing him.
But the report recommended that Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and Military Intelligence Chief Yebushah Saguy resign, the state-run radio reported.
The radio report said several ministers might ask Begin at a Cabinet meeting scheduled for later today to call for Sharon's resignation. But sources said to be close to Begin and quoted by the radio said the prime minister would not do so.
The report also said that Saguy should not remain in his post and that the commander of Israeli forces in Beirut, Brig. Gen. Amos Yaron, should not serve in a senior position for three years.
years.
The commission cleared Begin of responsibility for the Sept. 16-18 slaughter of hundreds of men, women and children in the Sabra and Chatila Palestinian refugee camps by Christian Phalangist forces in West Beirut.
The prime minister could have been found negligent in ignoring the possibility of a massacre when the Phalange, Israel's allies, were allowed in the camps, the panel said.
Begin should not be blamed for failing to foresee the possibility that the militiamen would commit a massacre once allowed in the camps, the radio quoted the report as saying.
Aides to the prime minister said he had pledged to resign if he was found by the commission to be even indirectly at fault for the slaughter.
A resignation by Begin would bring down his government and force him to call early elections. Public opinion poll have shown the prime minister's popularity has not been hurt by
the commission said that because the five-year term of Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
Rafael Eltan would end soon, it was making no recommendations about his future.
Foreign Minister Vilzhak Shamir, Israel's chief-of-staff, and three other officials could be blamed for the massacre by Lebanese Christian Phalaniski gunmen, the state-run radio said.
Philangist gunnem, the statesman of Rutland. The radio, quoting government sources, said the government "can live" with the conclusions of the three-man panel, which handed its findings to Begin yesterday. The radio did not quote directly from the commission report.
The massacre occurred after the Sept. 14 assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Genayel, former leader of the Phalange forces, and was a major factor in Into-Moslem West Beirut to try to ensure calm
"Of the nine men warned by the commission they could be harmed by its findings, the prime minister, the head of the Mossad intelligence agency and (Sharon aide) Avi Dudai were apparently not directly harmed," the radio said.
"That is not the case with Sharon, Foreign Minister Yitzkhak Suramir, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Rafael Eliehan, Northern Commander Maj. Gen. Robert Hammond, United States forces in Iraqi Kurdistan in REPHIL, Brig. Gern. Amos Vaton."
Begin met with Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor and Justice Minister Moshe Nissim after receiving the 180-200 page report, Israel issued a statement shortly after the release of the document.
the three-man commission, headed by Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, could have recommended that top government or military figures resign for involvement in the massacre.
"The committee can only make recommendations, but it is inconceivable that the government won't adopt at least part of them, especially those dealing with various personalities," said Claude Klein, a law professor at Hebrew University.
The massacre began the night of Sept. 16, when Christian Phalangists were allowed into the camps by the Israeli army, with orders to clear out 2,000 guerrillas. The slaughter ended Sept. 18.
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees were killed in the massacre, but officials may never be able to determine an accurate number of deaths. The bodies of 328 victims were recovered, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense Force, but many more were listed as "missing."
A two-story apartment building. 1345 Vermont St., caught fire at 5:43 yesterday morning. See related story on page 3.
New KU telephone system planned for 1985
Re SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is considering changing its phone system, partly because of increasing costs resulting from the American Telephone & Telegraph breakup, William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
The increasing cost of telephone service is one of the reasons that Hogan and members of a telecommunications committee have planned a communications system that will combine telephone, video and data systems, he said.
THE 1988 ant-trust decision, which said that AT&T could not both provide telephone service and sell equipment, stemmed from a 1974 ant-trust suit filed by the Justice Department.
from 30 to 100 percent," he said. "These costs will be passed to the University."
The AT&T divestiture will result in increases
The suit charged that AT&T was monopolizing the telephone systems.
Hogan said he hoped that the plans for the new system would be finished in six months and that the system would be operating at the beginning of 1985.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that the breakup would definitely affect the University telephone system, including phones in residence halls.
"It is a very complicated issue," he said. "Right now students pay their own long distance bills and we take care of the local service. We are under contract for the Centrex system until 1985, but the rates they charge us can still increase if they are OK'd by the Kansas Corporation Commission."
SOUTHWESTERN Bell will request a rate increase for Kansas as early as April or May, George Chaffee, spokesman for Southwestern Bell, said yesterday.
Chaffee said the company would ask for a smaller increase than the $255 million request filed in Missouri last week. If the Missouri HILOWEES report 5
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State legislator wants to stop loan defaults
Staff Reporter
Rv.JEFF TAYLOR
The law also would apply to the children of loan defaulters.
Former students who defaulted on federal loans would not be able to receive tuition grants, and possibly state scholarship money. if a state legislator successfully passes a bill he is still forming.
"We're not trying to stop people from going to school. We're just trying to stop fraud," he said.
State Rep. Lloyd Polson, R-Vermilton, said he had not decided whether to introduce the proposal, or whether it would include state scholarship applicants.
scholarship applause HE SAID HE only wanted to prevent people who had defaulted on a National Direct Student Loan or Guaranteed Student Loan, but who could have paid it off, from receiving state money.
Poison must introduce the bill either today or tomorrow, the last two days that legislators can individually introduce a bill. After tomorrow, bills must be introduced by a committee.
Polson said that he did not have the bill's specific elements organized, yet and that he would not introduce the bill until he had a chance to analyze all the possible alternatives.
He did not say whether his proposal would include former participants of the college work-study program, which allows a student to work at an approved part-time job on campus while receiving federal subsidies.
a student's academic qualifications. Taution grants are available to anyone who plans to attend a private school.
Polson said he had several co-sponsors who were backing the proposal. But he would not say how many, or who they were.
STATE SCHOLARSHIPS would be the only state money that would affect KU students.
say how many, or who they are.
He said the federal government had run into problems in recent years trying to collect its loans. But he said Kansas was far below the national average for the number of delinquent loans.
money that is used for the granting of state scholarships is based on
THE NATIONAL rate for default on federal loans is 10 percent last year.
NDSLs and GSLs are federal loans available to KU students for school-related expenses.
to KC students.
Under the NDSL program, students borrow money from the federal government through their schools. Under the GSL program, students may borrow money from a bank or savings and loan association.
Watson soaked by broken attic pipe
Lawrence firefighters and university personnel mop up water from a broken water line in Watson Library. The fifth floor of the library was closed yesterday because of the soaking, but will be open today. Tod Meygeldi/KANSANAT
DARLA PERRY, Ranz's secretary, said water started dripping from the ceiling of the fifth floor study area about 1:30 in the afternoon.
A frozen fire sprinkler pipe streamed water from the attic to the third floor reference desk
Watson Library was drenched from a burst pipe in the attic yesterday, soaking carpets, ceiling tiles, and about 50 books, said Jim Runz, the dean of libraries.
Anderson said the leak was eventually stopped by shuttling off the water to the sprinkling system.
The broken pipe set off a fire alarm, which brought the Lawrence Fire Department.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said three facilities operations workers had been sent to the library at 10.15 a.m. and no evidence in the attic of leaks in any pipes.
brought the leak followed a report Perry made at 10 that morning about a small amount of water dripping on a desk in the fifth floor study area.
system
The SMD that in case of a fire, the sprinkler system would still go on, but that fewer sprinklers would be operating. The system will be requaired today.
Firefighters from the Lawrence Fire Department, library employees and facilities operations workers spread green canvas tarpaulins over the wet carpet on the fifth floor. The water was sucked off with wet-dry vacuums.
On the fourth floor, six rows of periodicals were heavily covered with clear plastic sheets.
wet inside.
Chairs Getchell, reference librarian, said some books on shelves behind the reference desk on the third floor got wet when water trickled through the ceiling.
through the ceiling.
Two and a half hours after the leak, Ranz said,
most floors of the library were open again, but
the fifth floor would remain closed until today.
Anderson said that the carpet was not permanently damaged, but that some sections of ceiling tile would have to be replaced.
Director seeks remedies for overcrowded prison
Staff Reporter
By JEFF TAYLOR
The overcrowding of the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing is forcing prison officials to hospital more than 150 mentally ill inmates with more violent prisoners, the director of the prison said yesterday.
Moreover, the state mental hospital in Laredo, where people with severe mental illness often are sent, has no bed space for the prisoners, Gary Rayl, the director, told members of the joint legislative Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
"If we send one, we get another one back," he said.
said.
HE SAID THE Department of Corrections needed to look to the state's eight state hospitals for bed space for mentally ill prisoners.
Hayl said some of the mentally ill prisoners were locked up in the adjustment and treatment area of the prison, an area of the prison that he described as a jail within a jail for hard-core inmates.
injured, in factally ill prisoners who be isolated from the general prison population because of such problems as throwing defecation at guards and smearing it on cell walls, he said.
Some of the aggressive prisoners who are not mentally ill are housed in the adjustment and treatment area for such offenses as felonies, striking guards and disobeying orders, he said.
srking guards in the cabins Raial said also that other buildings might need to be constructed for future prisoners who did not have severe mental illness.
HE SAID THAT moving inmates from the women's prison to another prison would provide additional housing for men. The women's prison is next to the men's state penitentiary.
Rayl testified yesterday before the committee about progress that the state penitentiary had made since last year, when the prison's administration changed.
admission rather than a tumultuous period in 1981 because of a seven-inmate break-out and prisoner violence.
Rayl replaced Robert Adkins last February. Adkins was fired by Gov. John Carlin because of security problems at the prison.
security problems at the prison Rayal said that overcrowding remained critical at the prison and that the prison population would grow in the future.
grow in the future.
"There certainly has not been a letup yet in the number of people being incarcerated." he said.
"I think that people are demanding of the courts that second- and third-time offenders be incarcerated."
Of the 1,200 prisoners at Lansing, he said, 800 live two to a cell.
RAYL SAID THE state needed to estimate future prison populations by examining the growth in the prison populations of other states. The prisons at Lansing, he said, 800
He said the practice was popular among most inmates, because it provided company.
However, other prisoners object to having a cellmate, he said.
"Eventually you reach a point where you have to start forcing people, and, of course, we're past that point." he said.
To occupy the inmates' time during the day, Rayl said, they are not in their cells but out in the ward or at work.
yard. If you don't have activities and you continue to push those people together in small, confined areas, then, of course, you're going to have problems," he said.
NEARLY 300 prisoners do not have jobs in the prison, he said.
some prisoners mow grass or work in the brickyard, an industrial compound or on the 1,600-acre prison farm, he said. However, new kinds of educational and vocational programs are needed.
Committee chairman Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, commended Rayl for his job during the last year as prison director and said that Rayl had improved the administration of the prison.
Yet Rey said that he was not yet satisfied with the prison's progress and that he needed to improve attitudes among the staff and prisoners.
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Weather
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Tomorrow will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of freezing drizzle or light snow. The high will be in the low 30s.