The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, August 31, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 7 USPS 650-640
EARL RICHARDSON/Kansan Staff
Weekend washer
With weekend temperatures reaching into the 90's, many people found the time to enjoy the weather and take care of odd jobs. At a car wash in North Lawrence, this man cleaned his motorcycle.
Hit list probed in Fort Scott
By MIKE ROBINSON Staff Reporter
FORT SCOTT—State and local police officials will decide today whether or not to continue an investigation into an alleged assassination "hit list" of city leaders.
Fort Scott City Manager Don Munsel said yesterday that after a week-long investigation, law enforcement officials had been unable to turn up evidence of an assassination plot.
Officials learned of the plot Aug. 22 when Louis Cotton, an inmate in the Bourbon County Regional Correctional Center, told Fort Scott on another plot existed against a local businessman.
Munsell said that the next day Cotton told police the plot also included up to 13 other leading Fort Scott citizens.
Cotton was being held on burglary and theft charges
BUT MUNSELL said that while the first name was confirmed by three psychological stress tests, the other names were not confirmed and details on an extended plot were sketchy.
The list was published last Friday in the Fort Scott Tribune and included Mussell, five city commission members, two judges, two bankers and an insurance company president.
The list also included Tom Eblen, executive editor of the Tribune and a former Gannett professional-in-residence at KU's William Allen White School of Journalism.
Eblen said that he was notified about the
alleged plot by authorities on Wednesday, but that he had not altered his living patterns.
"I'm not behaving differently that I'm aware of." Eben said.
"I was skeptical at first and remain somewhat skeptical that there is real validity about what's done."
See THREATS page 8
Tom Eblen
Students feel effects of cuts in Social Security benefits
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
Social Security benefits are more than just checks that come in the mail every month. For some students they represent the rent, tuition payments or maybe just the food on the table.
But soon these benefits will be only memories, eliminated by the massive fiscal 1982 budget reconciliation bill President Reagan signed Aug. 13.
"No more students will be allowed into the program after May 1982," said Ron Radford, manager of the Lawrence Social Security office. "And beginning in September 1982, and again in October 1983, the amount of the benefits currently being paid will reduced 25 percent of the August 1981 amount."
RADFORD SAID THAT freshmen and sophomores who had just started in the program would be affected most by the cuts.
Benefits are now paid to 18- to 21-year-old students whose parents are dead, disabled or unpaid.
"Seniors will miss the cuts because they will graduate or turn 22 before the phase-out begins."
Radford said. But the younger students will be getting less and less from us the further they go on in their college careers.
The system will save $151 million in 1982 and $10 billion through 1986 by phasing out benefits for the more than 800,000 students who receive monthly checks, he said.
Coupled vilt the yearly 25 percent reductions is the elimination of payments for the months of May through August, regardless of whether the attendance is in full-time attendance. Raafford said
"This cut is especially significant because students attend school during parts of May and August," Radford said. "And some students on Social Security attend summer school.
"The cost-of-living increase is also computed in July, so students will not receive a cost-of-living estimate."
Radford illustrated the often frustrating intricacies of the modified Social Security policy.
"Say you were a 18-year-old freshman who entered school before August 31. Then either your mother or father died in September." Radford explained. "Instead of receiving benefits for the entire time you are in school until you turned 22, you would only receive benefits
through July 1982. Then you would be removed from the program," he said.
RADFORD SAID the cuts were designed to eliminate the overlapping that had occurred when students on Social Security also had loans and grants available for financial aid.
"Unfortunately," he said, "the grant and loan programs are also being cut back."
Most KU students on Social Security are not aware of the extent of the cuts, Radford said. "We received a lot of calls when the cuts were proposed in Congress, but since the legislation has passed we haven't heard from many students."
Jake Murphee, McPherson junior in computer science, said his cuts were cut, but he would not be affected.
Murphure, 20, will continue to receive benefits until he is 22. However, his May through August benefits will be eliminated and in September 1982 benefits will be received for the $270 he is currently receiving each month.
"Social Security has kept me affair," Murphear said. "It pays my tuition, which has gone to almost $1,000 a year, my books and my food. My salary is about $140 a day. Job next year or I won't be able to go to school."
Native says N. Ireland used to riots
By PAM ALLOWAY
See BENEFITS page 5
Staff Reporter
With a thick northern Irish accent and an uncanny resemblance to rock star Rod Stewart, a Londencydery Northern Ireland singer, he is also with an intensity that is impossible to tame.
"If religion has caused this much trouble, it's not worth it," the soft-spoken McClearn said.
'Full of a seriousness and a cool aloofness that is as obvious as his slow smile. McClean
Monday Morning
said that after 12 years of gun-carrying soldiers, bombings and armored military vehicles on constant patrol, the people of Northern Ireland had built up an immunity to the violence that had become a part of their everyday lives.
NORTHERN IRELAND was placed under British rule when the Republic of Ireland became an independent country in 1921. Since 1969 the rolling, green countryside of Northern Ireland has been tainted with frequent violence.
McClean calls himself British and says he doesn't mind being frisked for weapons by him.
the army is there to protect me, so I don't mind it," he said.
McClearn said he was neither Protestant nor Catholic, though his parents were Protestant. He attended Protestant schools as a child.
At 16, McClearn chose not to attend any church.
"Religion is very hypocritical there," he said. "Christianity in Ireland is a political thing—tribal. The people are the most tragic people. They violate their own decrets."
"People don't want to bury the hatchet; it's an inbred hatred."
McCLEAM SAID the Catholic Church was responsible for the continued segregation between Protestants and Catholics. He said Irish Catholicism was mystical and priests were very powerful. Whatever the priests say, the parish does, he said.
Although sporadic violence has been a way of life in Northern Ireland since its separation from the Republic, the explosive situation has been accentuated by hunger strikes by the Irish Republican Front.
McClean angrily accuses Catholic priests or supporting army strikes, which are against him.
"It's suicide and by condoning it, the priests
McCleam's father, a car dealer, has had his business blown up several times but refuses to pay him.
McCleam has two older brothers who live abroad and a younger brother who works with their father. McCleam said he and his older brothers wanted their younger brother to get out of the country to "see what ordinary people live like."
AS A CHILD, McClearn he was in
the fights "just because I was
Protestant."
Schools in Ireland are kept strictly segregated. McClearn attended a Protestant primary school in a Catholic neighborhood. Neighborhood Catholic children verbally abused the Protestant school children every day, McClearn said.
After leaving secondary school, McClearn went to the University of Ulster in North Ireland but left because of the hypocrisy that he said was standard throughout Northern Europe.
He then attended Sterling University in Scotland. After studying English and broadcasting at the University of Kansas this fall, Clem will return to Sterling for his final year.
Segregation has become a way of life in every aspect, including one's social life, he said. Before a night on the town, McCleam said, one must know the "right" places to go. Pubs and discos are segregated along the narrow lines as the schools and churches.
The first thing people will say to you in a pub if they don't recognize you, "What are you?" he said. If your religion is different
Andy McLean, an exchange student from Northern Ireland, relaxes in his room at Stephenson Scholarship Hall.
Weather
Second blast in 3 months devastates government
Today will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain and a high in the mid-90s, according to the National Weather Service in Toneka.
Explosion kills Iran's president, prime minister
The low tonight will be in the mid-80s with a $3 percent chance for rain. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with the high in the mid-80s.
ANKARA, Turkey—Iranian President Mohammed All Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar were killed in a fire bombing of the prime minister's office yesterday and an emergency presidential council took power in their place, the official Tehran Radio
By United Press International
"President Rajal and Prime Minister Bahonar have joined the army of the revolution's martyrs," Tehran Radio quoted the presidential council as saving.
The blast was the second in less than three months to kill leading members of the country's military.
At an emergency Cabinet meeting, held
following the blast yesterday morning and chaired by the speaker of the Majlis, Iran's parliament, Hashemi Rafsanji, a resolution demanding that he be a "last-ditch effort by American mercenaries."
Tehran Radio reports monitored here did not indicate when the presidential council was formed, but government opponents reached by telephone said Rafsani jianed the provisional ruling body at the Cabinet meeting held 3 hours after the 5 a.m. CDT blast.
The "incendiay bomb at the prime minister's office (ws) ordered by criminal America," the radio quoted the presidential article as saying, "The unholly alliance of left- and right-wing hypocrites has robbed the Iranian nation of these two revolutionary Muslims."
The official Pars News Agency said at least
Funeral services for Rajaj and Bahonar will begin today in Tehran in accordance with Islamic custom, which requires the burial of a "believer" within 24 hours of his death, the radio
four other people were killed and 17 others were wounded in the "powerful explosion" and raging fires.
Rajal and Bohan had assumed power two months ago, shortly after Iran's leadership was devastated by a bomb June 28 at the headquarters of the ruling Islamic Republic.
A revolutionary guard, who was at the scene of yesterday's blast, said Rajal was carried out on
That blast killed 74 people, including Ayatollah Ruhullah孔顺仑's closest ally, Ayatollah Ibrahim Khamenei.
a stretcher. The Times of London reported that Rajal had lost both his legs.
A statement issued by the Mohaidheen Khalq exile headquarters in France, said the latest bombing was a "very natural response of the Iranian people to the crimes of Khomeini and to the executions of the Jojahideen (people)." The group was accused of setting the June explosion.
Former president Abdahassan Bani Sadr, now leading an oposition campaign from exile in Paris, said last week in an interview with the New York Times, that his followers could topple Khomeini's regime by killing five men, including Rajal, Bahonar and Rafsanjani.
Rajai, 48, was elected president July 14 and was sworn in Aug. 3 to replace the ousted Bani-Sadr.