THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 100, NO. 51 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY NOV. 6,1989
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Lebanese pick new president, plan for peace
The Associated Press
KLEIAT, Lebanon — Lebanese lawmakers yesterday elected a Christian president and approved a peace plan designed to end 14 years of civil war, despite threats by a Christian general to punish them for "conspiracy."
Parliament elected deputy Rene Mouawad, a 32-year veteran of Lebanese politics and a 64-year-old Maronite Christian. Legislators first stripped the president of some power, giving more authority to Muslim leaders.
Fifty-two of Parliament's 73 surviving lawmakers voted for Mouawad in a second ballot of the special session. Six members abstained.
Lebanon has had no president since Sept. 27, 1988, when President Amin
interim Cabinet until a new president could be named, rejected Mouawad's election.
Aoun rejected the Arab League-brokered peace plan, first approved by the lawmakers at a session last month in Saud Arabia because it failed to guarantee a withdrawal of the 40,000 Syrian troops who control much of Lebanon.
He considers the Syrians an occupying army and fought them for six months until a cease-fire was called Sept. 22 by the Arab League. Police say 930 people were killed and 2,744 wounded, most of them civilians.
The general declared Saturday that he had dissolved Parliament. Most legislators declared his move illegal, noting that under Lebanon's constitution, only the president can simply be Parliament.
Drive for memorial kicks off
By Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
The ROTC units kicked off a fund-raising drive on Saturday to collect money to build a Korean War Memorial at the University of Kansas.
Cadets and midshipmen from the three ROTC branches took donations after the Kansas-Oklahoma State University football game to raise money for the memorial.
The fund-raising kickoff was part of KU ROTC Day, which also included a fly-by of four F-16 fighter planes before the game, a pre-game march and rifle队 demonstration by the three ROTC branches.
"Our goal is to try to have a memorial in place within two years on Veterans' Day Nov. 11, 1911," said Capt. Todd Renner.
A look at the Big Eight Conference:
Colorado Buffaloes
For a team that went 7-21 overall and 2-12 in the Big Eight, there is nowhere to go but up and Colorado should, for the first time in Coach Tom Miller's four seasons, move out of the Big Eight basement.
How far the Buffaloes go will depend on last year's Big Eight newcomer-of-the-year, Shaun Vandiver, as well as three other returning starters.
"I feel really good about this team," Miller said. "This is the closest team I've had and we're having more fun this year than the three previous ones."
Vandiver, who averaged 18.2 ppd and 10.5 rebounds per game, will be expected to do just as well this year if the Buffaloes are to improve.
"We're a very young team." Vandiver said. "Everybody knows their roles on this team and we know that the sky is the limit."
Colorado also returns its guard combination of Reggie Morton and Steve Wise, who combined to average 20.4 pp last season against Buffaloes an effective inside-outside threat.
"Morton and Wise, at the end of last year, played as well as any guard combination in the conference," Miller said. "They found their stride and they complement each other very well."
"We just have to try and stay loose," Wise said. "We can be in the top four of the conference if we just come and play every game. Last season, it was a matter of not concentrating on the road."
Iowa State Cyclones
For a team that has consistently finished
in the middle of the Big Eight Conference, last season's 7-7 conference record came as no surprise. This season may be different.
With first-team all-Big Eight player Victor Alexander, the Cyclones have a large part of last season's nucleus returning.
Alexander, a 6-9 center, averaged 19.9 ppg., and 8.8 rpg., last season and Coach Johnny Orr is expecting even more out of him this season.
"Alexander is a hell of a basketball player," Orr said. "He's playing superbly for us right now. He is going to score, there's nobody who can guard him. He was firstteam all-Big Eight last year and he's even better this year."
In addition to Alexander, the Cyclones return 5-9 guard Terry Woods. Woods was second in the conference with 158 assists last season in addition to averaging 8.9 ppg.
"Things are definitely looking up." Woods said. "Coach Orr is having fun and we're having fun. We just need to get more consistency this season. We need to win on our home court and get a few more road wins."
Orr's main concern is that after Alexander and Woods, there is little experience and 10 new players this season.
Iowa State will have to have contributions from these players early to be competitive until forward Mark Baugh, who is ineligible this semester, returns in January.
"This is the first time since I've been at Iowa State that we've ever had any junior college players." Orr said.
Baugh was the second leading scorer last season with 13.3 ppg., and led the team with 41 steals.
Kansas State Wildcats
Kansas State return just one player who started more than half its games last season, but that one is a pretty good one.
Steve Henson, picked as the preseason Big Eight player-of-the-year, averaged 18.5 ppg last season leading the Wildcats to a 19.1 mark and their third straight NCAA tournament appearance.
Henson, who has started 85 consecutive games for the Wildcats, made a few changes to his game this year off the court.
Henson, after getting married in August,
has let his trademark crew cut grow out.
"She had a lot to do with it," Henson said.
"She didn't like it very much, but I have noticed that school is going better, so hopefully basketball will."
Kansas State opponents, though, are not worrying about Henson's hair.
Henson comes into this season having hit at least one three-pointer in 19 games and has scored in double figures in the last 21. He also led the Big Eight in free-throw percentage (92 percent) for the second year in a row and would have led the nation for the second year in a row had he not missed on his final attempt of the season.
The Wildcats lineup, though, doesn't start and end with Henson. The Wildcats also return four players who average about five points per game last season, but that will be expected to fill the scoring gap left by Fred McCoy (15.4 ppg) and LaKeith Humphrey (12.6 ppg).
Six-foot-5 forward Lance Simmons started 14 games last season but averaged just 5.3 points a game. Other returnees include 6-6 forward Reggie Britt (5.5 ppg).
Billy Ray Smith (5.3 ppg), and 6-8 Tony Massop, last season's leading rebounder with 5.6 per game, who will be counted on to play both center and forward.
"We'll have an interesting combination of old and new," Coach Lon Kruger said. "We have only five players with Big Eight experience."
Kruger's main concern will be finding another backcourt player to take some of the pressure off of Henson.
Right now, the leading candidates seem to be two freshmen, Patrick Sams, 6-3, and Askia Jones, 6-5.
"Sams and Jones are doing very well," Kruge said. "I would not be surprised at all to see them playing early for us."
Missouri Tigers
Missouri lost four of its top players from last season's 29-8 team, but as Kansas coach Roy Williams said, "They had the most gold nuggets to lose."
Despite the losses, the Tigers return an experience group of players, including 6-9 forward Nathan Buntin (4.6 ppg), 6-1 guard Lee Coward (12.2 ppg), 6-4 guard Anthony Peeler (10.1 ppg) and 6-10 Doug Smith, who will see action at both center and forward this season.
Smith, who last season averaged a teamleading 7 rpg., to go along with 13.9 ppg. This season, Smith will be counted on to score more points with the loss of Byron Irvin to the NBA. Along with Irvin, the Tigers also lost 7-1 center Gary Leonard and forwards Greg Church and Mike Sandbothe.
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