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University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1983
News Briefs
From United Press International
Syrians kill Israeli soldier as Beirut violence returns
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian troops shelled east Beirut yesterday for the first time since they withdrew from the city five months ago and gunmen ambushed an Israeli army patrol on the edge of west Beirut, killing one soldier and wounding four others.
The renewed violence was the city's worst since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer.
Lebanon last summer.
The overnight shelling of predominantly Christian east Beirut covered an area stretching from the heart of the sector to a half-dozen suburbs. Lebanese police said.
saboros, Delemas police said Lebanese officials said the barrage left no casualties, but the French Embassy said a 70-year-old French priest died when a church in the wealthy Ashrafiyah neighborhood was hit.
The ambush of the Israeli patrol took place near the zone patrolled by Italian troops of the multinational peacekeeping force.
Italian officers said gunmen fired at least five rocket-propelled grenades at the Israeli patrol, hitting an armored personnel carrier and decapitating an Israeli soldier.
Man being sought in Olathe murder
OLATHE — A young man is wanted for questioning in the beating death of a 12-year-old girl, the serious injury of her brother and the apparent abduction of their older sister, police said yesterday.
apparent association of Robert Patterson, media officer, said that there were no suspects in the incident and that no motives or leads had been established. The man is wanted for questioning, not as a suspect, he said.
Services for Janeline Kelly Rea Duffield, whose body was found in her bedroom at the home early Friday, were scheduled for today. Her 17-year-old sister, Kelly Duffield, remained missing yesterday, Patterson said.
Paul Duffield, 15, was listed in serious condition yesterday at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in nearby Merriam but was expected to be moved out of the intensive care unit. The boy, who was severely beaten, underwent brain surgery Friday.
Vietnam conference to open today
LOS ANGELES — The largest group of experts on the Vietnam War ever publicly assembled will gather this week to determine what lessons can be learned from the long and bitter conflict.
More than 85 journalists, government policy-makers, veterans, former spies, Army generals and anti-war protesters will participate in "Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons from a War," which opens today with film and photo exhibitions.
fair and good Exhibition.
"The idea of having a conference has been talked over among correspondents for several years," said Harrison Salisbury, former correspondent for the New York Times, who helped plan the meeting. "Many people have had a feeling that there were a lot of lessons which could be learned."
The conference will cover many aspects of the war, including its origins, the role of the press and the war's effects on the armed forces, veterans and the American and Vietnamese people.
Cops seize fugitive after dinner date
LONDON - A dinner date with a girlfriend led to the recapture of Britain's most wanted criminal in a subway tunnel 200 feet beneath London, police sources said yesterday.
Police tracking murder suspect David Martin for 36 days had followed a series of wrong trails and gunned down an innocent man in a street ambush in the hunt for Martin.
Martin was trapped after he phoned the girlfriend for a dinner date at a fashionable London restaurant Friday night. He used the codename "Pete" and did not mention the meeting place, but police knew it was the restaurant.
Police were waiting at the restaurant and Martin dashed into the subway where he was trapped. He was due in court today facing charges of burglary. When he escaped he was awaiting trial for the attempted murder of a policeman, robbery and firearms charges.
Bush savs allies will back arms plan
BONN, West Germany — Vice President George Bush arrived in Bonn yesterday on what he called a mission of peace, confident of winning Western European backing for U.S. nuclear arms policy toward the Soviet Union.
"For nearly four decades we and our NATO allies have kept the peace in Europe . . . by being committed to genuine arms reduction," Bush said on arrival in Bonn. "That has been our policy and that remains our policy today."
Bush, arriving on the first leg of a 13-day, seven-nation tour, said he was confident his discussions would affirm the unity among the allies in the region.
yesterday as he held an international conference and celebrated his birthday will visit four Asian countries, the chief aim of the trip is to develop ties with Peking.
Letter says pope will visit Poland
The letter, which ended speculation that the trip might not occur, was also released in Rome. The letter did not say how long the pope's visit would last or to what cities he would travel.
WARSAW, Poland — Pope John Paul II, considering it his "right and duty," will make his second visit as pontiff to his homeland June 18.
Polish bishops confirmed yesterday in a letter read in churches throughout Poland.
CBS News, however, reported that Polish authorities dropped a request to review in advance the speeches that the pope planned to deliver in Poland. The pope dropped a trip to Gdansk, the birthplace of the now-outlawed Solidarity trade union, from his itinerary. CBS said.
Despite the letter, the Vatican has issued no confirmation of the trip and Poland has not yet issued the pope's final invitation.
China says food shortage possible
PEKING - Chinese officials admitted for the first time yesterday that their country would run short of food and clothing by the end of the century if a campaign to reduce the size of its population failed.
century it is a campaign in Peabody. A front-page article in the Peoples' Daily, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, said that if the population grew at the rate it had in the past 30 years, a comfortable middle class standard would not be attainable and keeping the country fed and clothed would "once again constitute a problem."
Chinese authorities, anxious to stem the births that already tax the nation's resources, have prohibited couples from having more than one child. The law is backed by forced abortions.
A census last year showed China's population at more than 1 billion, compared with 583 million in 1962.
Inspectors suspended bv city
Article stirs investigation
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eighteen building inspectors named in a newspaper article alleging the employees falsified work reports were suspended yesterday, without pay, by City Manager Bob Kipp
The Kansas City Star in its editions yesterday said that several city inspectors, including two assigned to the Hyatt Regency Hotel during its construction, regularly lied about their work hours and falsified work and mileage records. The Star reported that none of the inspectors, they following the work he did." Some of the inspectors spent the time they were supposed to be at work in restaurants and bars.
KANSAS CITY has been the site of two of the most spectacular structural failures in the nation — the collapse 18 months ago of two skywalks at the Hyatt Regency that resulted in 114 deaths and the 1981 cave-in of the roof of the empty Kemper Arena in which no one was hurt.
The newspaper said the information came from results of a two-month investigation involving surveillance of 18 of Kansas City's 46 building code inspectors from the Public Works Department. The investigation lasted from late November to last week.
"I am dismayed and upset by the shocking disclosures in today's Kansas City Star," Kipp said yesterday. "Such gross misconduct and disregard of public trust are to totally unacceptable to me and to the large majority of conscientious employees. Furthermore, these activities reflect a serious failure on the part of responsible supervisors."
to ensure building safety after the Hyatt disaster, but the Star said the findings of the newspaper cast serious doubts on that effort.
Mayor Richard L. Berkley said Kipp's action yesterday was not enough, that a thorough investigation of the Public Works Department should be conducted and all those involved in criminal acts should be prosecuted.
HE SAID STEPS were being taken to include in the investigation the city and state auditor's office, the FBI, the police department and a grand jury investigation.
"I am outraged by the dishonest and negligent action by the inspectors," the mayor said at a news conference. "Being a building inspector is a law enforcement responsibility, yet these men have abused this responsibility. They have acted without regard, likely by literally stolen money by taking sales for work not done, and they have very possibly risked people's lives."
The Star said its reporters followed the inspectors on multiple occasions.
All but one of those inspectors, the Star said, "spent time in restaurants or bars, repaired their cars or simply went home when they were supposed to be working. The exception was an inspector who also falsified his time sheets but who could not be followed for an entire day."
Kipp said he had directed that Jack White, codes administrator, be removed from his position immediately and that Myron Calkins, the director of Public Works, assume direct responsibility for all activities of the division.
HE SAID CALKINS would interview those inspectors named in the article, automatically suspended without pay, and the city's director of personnel would review the alleged misconduct to determine what actions should be taken.
The Star said that both Jack T. Pulman, the city's lead inspector of the Hyatt, and Dominic A. Serrone, the other inspector of the hotel's construction, repeatedly filed false daily work claims and claimed to be working when they actually were at home or in restaurants, the article said.
The newspaper said inspectors regularly gathered in groups of two or three for breakfast on work time and many inspectors falsified mileage or parking expense vouchers and reported spending time at building sites on days they were not near the sites.
Man attacks KU woman on campus
A woman was raped last night behind Spooner Hall and Doathart Scholarship Hall, a KU police officer said yesterday.
NO AMBULANCE was dispatched to the scene.
LI. Vie Sternad, the officer, said the rape occurred between 9 and 10 p.m.
The woman, a KU student, was not seriously injured physically, he said, but was taken to Watkins Hospital for examination.
Police searched the area for a suspect Early this morning, police still were investigating the crime, and no suspects had been identified.
The attack was the first rape reported on campus this year.
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