The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Tuesday, September 1, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 8 USPS 650-640
Rash of bombings
KU Iranian reaction varies
BY THERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Reactions of KU Iran students to the recent explosion that killed Iran's president and its prime minister vary widely. Some call Sunday's bombing "a natural response to some evil," others label it "a barbary action of imperialist puppets."
"Americans have been trying to overthrow the Kohmini regime for a long time because they have such an interest in this region," according to Cyrus Nasseri, spokesman for the Muslim Student Association (Persian Speaking Group).
Nasseri said that his group might plan a demonstration to protect the "United States" indirect involvement" in the explosion. But, he said, "True, we have given up with our government's involvement of their government's involvement."
The U.S. news media give implicit approval to anti-Khomeini activity,he said.
A former student of the dead President Mohammed Ali Rajaf and member of the Muslim Student Association said he was deeply upset.
"You can pick the fruits off the tree, but the tree will always be there to make more," said Reza Zoughi, a senior researcher at the University of Oslo.
"It is a sin to lose your hope when you are a Moslem," he said.
Mohammad Mocarrami, another member of the association, said the killings were not an internal political issue.
"This bombing was the result of imperialist puppets," he said.
On the opposite side, Shahrok Azedi, spokesman for the KU Iranian Student Association, attributed the explosion to an Iranian grassroots movement.
"The imperialist countries are actually closely tied to Khominii's restime." he said.
Most Iranian people support the explosion and are waiting for the day to celebrate the toppling of Khoumi's regime.
Describing his group as a democratic organization against repression, Axsai said the moment was in his final years. "In the last few months I have been a
days and would soon be pushed out by the Iranian people. A KU student from Tehran, who asked to remain anonymous, said that were "very news" and that "people should be allowed to express their feelings without fear of being executed."
The student said that he had not been home in four years because it was "too dangerous" and that he would not go home until the government changed.
"There is no way to live in that society . . . you don't have any rights," he said.
Homa Ferdosi, a junior in visual communications, said she too was against Khemni's Islamic cuisine.
"I am Moslem, but I don't think religion can work with government," she said.
"I hope this regime is gone before I leave for home," Ferdowsi said.
U.S. increases precautions
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—The State Department, on the heels of what one official called "a bizarre weekend" of bombings around the world, repeated yesterday it was taking precautions to protect American diplomats and citizens
Two of the bombings—in Lima, Peru, and Ramstein,
diplomatic or military installations.
A series of powerful explosions exploded Lima around 1 a.m. yesterday, damaging the U.S. Embassy, the ambassador's residence, a Bank of America office, a Coca-Cola plant and aération Milk distribution firm and a Ford Motor Co. plant.
The blast in West Germany went off in the parking lot outside Kraków. Babe about midnight CDT, injuring 15 people in Sharp's driveway.
In other incidents, a bomb in Tehran killed Iran's president and prime minister, and grenades were thrown by terrorists, identified as Arabs, at a Jewish religious ceremony in Vienna, Austria.
Iranian President Mohammed Ali Raji and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Baharon were killed Sunday while meeting in the prime minister's office. Millions of Iranians chanting "death to America" and beating their chests surged through Tehran yesterday in an emotionally charged firework for the two leaders.
Pope John Paul II sent a telegram to the Ayatollah Rohmeini yesterday, expressing his condolences for the despairing victims.
Tehran police have arrested three people in connection with the assassinations—one a leftist Mojahideen guerrilla.
Two died and 20 were wounded in a terrorist attack on a Vienna synagogue Saturday. Yesterday, more than 2,000 mourners marched across Vienna in an emotional funeral tribute to those killed.
One State Department official dealing with counterterrorism called it a "bizarre weekend" but said that there was no evidence of any pattern or that the events represented a new campaign of terrorism against the United States.
In Los Angeles, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said President Reagan was notified of the attack in Peru during his regular morning national security briefing.
"We are watching the situation closely," Speakes said. As for the bombings in Iran and at the American base in Baghdad, Speakes said. "We deplore violence in any form. We are certainly concerned about the spate of new violence."
State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said, "Clearly, we deplore a climate that lends itself to this kind of behavior."
He said there was no indication that the bombings were part of a coordinated effort by international terrorists. He said no groups had claimed credit for the bombings of U.S. Air Force B-17 aircraft residing in Lima and the U.S. Air Force B-18 at Ramat Gan.
See TERRORISTS page 8
EARL RICHARDSON/Kansan Staff
Keepin' Dry
Umbellaresc nested in like mushrooms on the KU campus Mondav as heavy rain showers set in during the late morning and continued through the evening.
Fall enrollment shows gains in technical areas
Staff Reporter
By SHARON APPELBAUM
More students are enrolled in architecture, engineering and special studies this fall, while enrolment in the School of Fine Arts has fallen off, according to a head count from the first day
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, presents the figures at a staff meeting with the department.
He said, however, that those first-day figures were unofficial and that the totals that mattered would be used to determineuses to determinate. University funding would be tabulated Seventh, 18, the 20th day of classes.
"It is an arbitrary day the state picked to take a snapshot of how many students are enrolled."
Although some students will drop out before that date, be predicted an overall increase in enrolment. Last fall more than 2,000 students enrolled late.
"It's a dynamic figure. The very next day, it will be different."
This year's first-day figures show the largest increase is in the University special programs division.
Ambler said he and Gli Dyck, dean of admissions and records, thought the 65.8 percent increase might be caused by the new dismissal policy of the College of Liberal Arts and Scien-
More than 500 students were forced to leave the college last spring because their grade point averages did not meet the minimum 1.8 standard.
Special enrollment increased from 284 in 1980 to 470 this fall.
Amber said few appeals were granted, so they had to attend courses to show their college-level skills.
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He said that his explanation was only speculative and that Dyck would have to examine the statistics of the students enrolled in the program before a definitive answer could be given.
Effects of Pill debated in studv
By JANE NEUFELD
The poster shows a white rabbit surrounded by many little rabbits.
The caption advises, "Don't forget to take your pill."
Some women on campus, with the approval of their doctors, are following that advice. But while oral contraceptives, or birth control pills, have definite advantages in preventing unwanted pregnancies, the short-term and long-term risks of the pill are still being debated.
But a recent study suggested the pill's risks do not end when women stop use the pill. The study reported women in their 40s who had taken birth control pills a decade ago had two to three times the usual number of heart attacks for their age group.
The study was conducted at Boston University Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Pill use by 558 women who had heart attacks was compared to the pill use of a randomly selected group of 2,068 women of the age 37. The longer a woman used the pill doctors found, the greater the threat of heart attack.
"The risk is really very small, particularly in the young population," said Dennis Dahl, family counselor at The Church of Jesus Christ.
For women in their 40s still using the pill, the attack rate was three to four times above normal.
In addition, he said, there were problems in knowing the pill's exact effects because researchers often could not be sure the results would be directly linked to using birth control pills.
Dahl said although the pill was statistically safe, the slight percentage of people who did suffer bad effects probably didn't take any comfort in that fact.
"No one questions the data they gathered. But the meaning of it is not clear," Dahl said. "We can't see what happened."
"It is so difficult when you're dealing with human research to be sure that you're measuring what you think you are. While you may demonstrate possible correlation, to demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship between two things can be very difficult."
Among the more serious problems associated
with taking birth control pills are increased chances for heart attacks, high blood pressure, gall bladder disease and cancer of the vagina, liver and cervix. The pill can also increase the risk of developing bloodclots, which may travel to the brain and cause strokes; to the heart and cause heart attacks; or to the lungs and cause pulmonary embolus. All three can be fatal.
Factors that increase the risk of the pill are cigarette smoking and the user's medical history of susceptibility to blood clots, cancer, heart failure or strokes. Risks increase with the age of the user.
However, the patient information included with birth control pills warns. "Without any risk factor's present, the use of oral contraceptives alone may double the risk of heart attacks."
A federally-sponsored study contradicts the warnings about the pall's dangers. Reports from the Department of Health say that
Medical Center at Walnut Creek, Calif., last year said that the pill had negligible risks for young, middle-class Americans, and the study found an increased risk of chronic heart disease only among smokers who were current pill users.
However, the Walnut Creek study has been criticized for using women who had stopped taking the pill during the course of the 12-year study and for accepting $149,000 from five pill manufacturers to finance a part of the project that the government had decided to drop.
Although the pill's effects are not fully known, Dahl said he thought more KU women were opting to take the pill's risk in exchange for its convenience and effectiveness.
"It depends on the person," he said. "It depends on how much freedom from pregnancy they deny."
See BIRTH CONTROL page 5
boxes of birth control pills line the shelves of a local pharmacy. A recent study has found that women over 40 who took the pill as many as ten years ago are still two to three times more likely to suffer heart attacks.
Staff Reporter
Book offers political cooks exotic dishes
By PAM ALLOWAY
There's something cooking in Blake Hall, and it's not political science.
The cookbook, titled "Political Science Cookery" has a special section that earns its title. The section includes such delectable dishes as "How to Make French Cakes of Federal Housing" and "Civil Service Salad."
Office personnel and faculty in the political science department have put out a recipe book that has everything from "Grandma's Chicken and Rice Casserole" to "Doe-Killer Chili."
"About every afternoon, we always talk about food," Lisa Berry, office manager and coordinator of the cookbook, gave as the reason for the publication.
Laird contributed "Serbian Salal," a common lidr recipe found in Yugoslavia, where he and his wife were born.
Contributor Roy Laird, professor of political science, said, "In my point of view, this cookbook has something few other cookbooks have. A lot of us who contributed have traveled abroad and have picked up recipes from nations we visited."
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, donated a recipe for Russian cucumbers. Ketzel got the recipe from friends at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
Laird contributed another recipe that a graduate student at University of Wakefield taught.
From Leavenworth, Ketzel acquired another cucumber recipe from a student who was a military officer. Ketzel taught in Leavenworth a few years ago.
"Political Science Cookery," which sells for $1, can be purchased in Blake's administration office and will be featured at a political science conference. It is also the drive-draiser for PhD Sir Alma Alba at bonafemi society.
Both office personnel and faculty contributed to the cookbook.
Faculty members received complimentary copies of the cookbook as a reward for their
Just in case you're wondering how to make "Eggplant Moussaka" or "Ol' Em' Beef Stew." Berry says, there are plenty of cookbooks left.
Weather
Skies will become partly cloudy this afternoon with a high in the 80s, according to the KU Weather Service. Skies will clear towith a low
Skies will clear tonight with a low around 55.
North winds from 10 to 15 mph will become light and variable tonight.
The outlook for tomorrow includes partly cloudy skies and a high in the upper 80s.