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University Daily Kansan, June 24, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
New fighting strikes Mideast as Syria pummels Israelis
TEL. AVIV, Israel—Israel said Syrian artillery opened up at dawn today in a new outbreak of fighting east of Beirut. The United States closed its embassy and ordered an emergency evacuation of Americans from Lebanon.
After a quiet night following a day of savage exchanges, the Israeli army said Syrian artillery began pounding Israeli forces in the central sector and the southern sector.
of presentness; a technician leaders had made a last-ditch effort yesterday through U.S. mechanic Phil Habib to spare Briret from an Israeli assault as Israel launched a huge air and ground assault against the Syrian army east of Beirut.
Lebanese officials said the Palestine Liberation Organization accepted Habib's suggestion that it give control of West Beirut to the Lebanese army, but added that PLO leaders wanted a U.S. guarantee that Israel would not invade the capital.
The officials who met with Habib were pessimistic.
"Irael is still determined to do what we fear, an catastrophic as that may be," said Saah Salam, former Lebanese prime minister, who is an interlocutor for the UN.
State-run Damascus radio said, "Syria will continue to fight Israeli forces until airborne from Lebanon."
Youth rape trials opened to press
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday that states could not judge judges to automatically shut court doors to the press
Settling a sensitive conflict of constitutional rights, the justices struck down a Massachusetts law that had ordered criminal court judges to close their courtrooms whenever victims of sexual assault under 18 were on the witness stand.
The ruling was a victory for the Boston Globe, the newspaper that challenged the statute as an unconstitutional restriction on First Amendment rights.
In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote that rulings could result in a television audience* watching young rape victims in states where rape laws are unenforced.
U.S. may lift Argentine sanctions
WASHINGTON—A White House official said yesterday that Argentina's position on a formal end to fighting in the Falkland Islands would be a determining element in the decision to lift U.S. sanctions against Buenos Aires.
Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, said there was a thorough review under way on the economic and military sanctions imposed on Argentina by Washington April 30 in the wake of the South Atlantic dispute. But, he said, no decision has been made.
"Obviously, one element in our review is the position taken by the Argentine government following the Falklands crisis," he said.
Argentina has not formally announced an end to the battle for the Falklands.
A senior American official said the United States was firmly in support of U.N. resolution 922, which calls for a cessation of hostilities in the Falklands.
Voting Rights Act sent to Reagan
WASHINGTON—About 100 civil rights marchers rallied at the foot of Capitol Hill yesterday, while Congress passed and sent to President Reagan a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, the civil law rights credited with opening the polls to millions of minority citizens.
Final action came when the House accepted State amendments to a bill that the House earlier had passed.
The marchers, pushing for the extension, ended a 3,000-mile trek through five states to rally in Washington just as the House was approving the bill.
The marchers were welcomed on the outskirts of town by 100 more people, and were greeted at the Capitol by Del. Walter Faintroy, D-D.C., who told them, "Your marching feet have set the cadences for the whole nation . . . There are many, many miles to go." Faintroy is board chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the group that sponsored the march.
President Reagan has strongly endorsed the final version of the bill and is expected to sign it next week.
Fire in Amtrak sleeper car kills 2
GIBSON, Calif. — A sleeper ear caught fire on an Amrak train carrying 288 passengers through the Cascade Mountains of northern California early yesterday, killing two people and sending 57 others to a hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation.
The pre-dawn sleeper on the Seattle-to-Los Angeles coast Starlighter destroyed one sleeper and damaged three other cars on the 10-car train. The
Passengers removed from the train's two sleepsers were taken to Mercy Hospital in Redding, Calif., where five people were admitted and 32 others.
Both victims who were killed in the fire had been in the sleeper, which was already engulfed in flames when rescue crews arrived at the Sacramento station.
Man gets award for rescue effort
WASHINGTON—A government sheet metal worker who dived into the icpy Potomac River in an attempt to save survivors of January's Air Florida plane crash received the Health and Human Services Department's highest award yesterday.
Roger Olian, the worker, wore his customary green cap and workman's clothes as he accepted the $5,000 Distinguished Award and gold medal from HIHS Secretary Richard Schweiker at departmental ceremonies. The seven-year government veteran got a standing ovation.
Oilan, acting sheet metal shop foreman at St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital, witnessed the crash of the jet while driving home across Washington's
The crash, which occurred shortly after takeoff from National Airport, killed 74 people on the plane and four on the bridge. Four passengers and a
The citation on Olian's award read: "In recognition of his immediate need in needed an emergency situation and his valor in performing that action."
Ollan, then 34, tied a rope around his waste and headed toward the wreckage in the ice waters of the Potomac, swimming within five feet.
Burglars steal French tapestries
NEW YORK—Burglaries stole two 17th century French tapestries valued at $200,000 that were on loan to New York University from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
John Ross, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Museum, said the tapestries were worth $100,000 each. One is 9 feet by 7 feet and the other is 9 feet by
The tapespires were removed from the NYU Institute of Fine Arts at 1E, 78th st, sometime late Tuesday or early yesterday.
"These can be positively identified rather easily." Toss said, "so even though there is generally a market for tapestries, these will be almost
Police said they had no suspects.
City takes step to halt builders
By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter
City commissioners took the first step toward downzoning two-thirds of the East Lawrence Neighborhood when they voted 5.9 Tuesday to place the issue on the agenda of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
Staff Reporter
The downzoning, which would lower the number of housing units built in the area, would put the neighborhood in more stable shape. The Neighborhood Plan, prepared in 1979.
Mark Kaplan, East Lawrence Improvement Association president, said Sunday that the group was proposing the downzoning to ensure that the city would not become more crowded and "to deter purely speculative redevelopment."
KAPLAN SAID that as the economy grew tighter, land developers began to build more rental houses in the older woodlands, where taxes were generally lower.
Some developers have even begun to put two houses on one lot or to build one
Ed Dicksondismon, a local builder and real estate developer, said yesterday he was appealed to the downward because "it would reduce the value of the lots by about 10 percent."
"The issue is density, as far as I'm concerned," Kaplan said. "Our people want a little breathing space."
in the back yard of an existing home, he said.
"I'm not going to buy old houses to tear them down and then build a single-family house on the lot," he said. "It costs too much."
Edmondson has built 10 rental units, including duplexes and four-plexes, in the past few years in East Lawrence.
He said downzoning would reduce the value of the neighborhood's older homes, many of which should be razed.
Harry and Mildred Tryon, 1334 Pennsylvania St., are East Lawrence residents upset by the increasing number of lots with two houses built on them.
Last April, when they saw a Caterpillar tractor digging up the neighboring house's back yard and workers laying a foundation, they became worried.
When the tractor left a pile of rubble
and rock in front of their back gate, preventing them from getting out of their back yard, they became furious.
So the Tryons called the city building inspector, Gene Shaughnessy, who told them the building was legal.
Even more furious after that, the drove to Commissioner Don Binn's home and brought him over to see the house. Mrs. Tryon said Bins, equally shocked, asked the staff to recheck the answer, but the answer was still the same.
"It really irritates me that you can build two houses on one lot," Mr Tryon said. "The zoning needs to be changed. You don't see this in West Lawrence."
The Tryons pointed out six duplexes and houses in a one-block area around their house that Edmundson had built in the past few years.
The Tryons, who have lived in their home for almost 40 years, fear that Edmondson is trying to get control of more lots around them.
"He told our neighbor she wouldn't have to mow her lawn anymore if she sold her property to him," Mrs. Tryon said.
BUT EDMONDSON said he had not
bought any new property in the neighborhood for some time and would not be interested in any if the downzoning passes.
Edmondson also said he had improved the part of the neighborhood he had built in.
"I've taken down dilapidated property and replaced it with nice, clean rentals," he said. "I've always taken over the documentation the other people in the area."
The Tryons took their concerns to the ELIA's May meeting. The group appointed a committee to study the issue. At the June meeting, they recommended rezoning the area south of Ninth Street from RM1, multiple family zoning, and M-2, industrial zoning, to RS-2, a single-family designation.
THE NEW ZONING would allow existing duplexes and apartments to remain but would prevent the building of new ones. Only single-family houses
Kuplan said he felt fairly positive the planning commission would agree to the downsizing, he said many of the members of the commission were ready rezoned for single-family housing.
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