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News Briefs From United Press International
Government puts employees on furlough to cut expenses
WASHINGTON—The government began putting thousands of workers on
WASHINGTON—The government began putting thousands of workers on farmlough yesterday in response to President Reagan's order to cut expenses. Tens of thousands of government workers will be affected in the administration's budget squeeze.
ticipate serious difficulties in carrying out the workload.
In effect, federal employees will take a 10 percent paycut because they will not be paid for one day out of every two weeks, when they are off on furlough. The action is expected to last 20 weeks. Officials said they did not animate serious difficulties in carrying out the workload.
Jim German, head of public information at the U.S. Census Bureau, said about 800 census cases he had been put on for burglary in the past year and about 3,500 cases he had not.
A spokeswoman for the Office of Personnel Management said between 3,000 and 4,000 employees would be put on furlohurg nationwide beginning March
The furloughs, necessary because the agency faces 16 percent budget cuts, affect everyone including secretaries and heads of departments.
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Agency said that furloughs at the FAA would begin during the first pay period in April. He said about 30,000 employees could be affected.
Williams offers apology for 'ordeal'
WASHINGTON—Sen. Harrison Williams apologized to the Senate yesterday for causing the "turnoff, torture and ordeal" of an expulsion trial and said that his true personality was one of compassion for the downtrodden—not one of reed.
Williams, a 62-year-old New Jersey Democrat, is battling to keep his Senate seat after his conviction on Abscarn bribery and conspiracy charges. He said he would not resign and had not ruled out running for a fifth term in November.
His chief accuser, Malcolm Wallop, Senate Ethics Committee chairman, said Williams' conduct was "ethically repugnant" and would disqualify him.
The Senate adjourned after Wallop's remarks, but it could be late in the week before the final vote comes on Williams' expulsion.
Reagan's Parliament date clouded
LONDON—The United States apologized to Britain yesterday for prematurely disclosing that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had invited President Reagan to address a joint session of Parliament—a rare honor. The choice drew objections from the onionisation Party Labor.
Michael Foot, Labor party leader, who learned of the invitation through a radio broadcast, met with Thatcher to object that Reagan was unworthy of the honor. He called a meeting of Labor leaders tomorrow to decide whether to boycott Reagan's speech.
Only one head of state, France's Charles De Gaulle, has ever addressed both houses of Parliament.
Business schools need professors
A spokesman for Thatcher said details of Reagan's trip were still not complete, and in light of the controversy the U.S. embassy declared to say "no" on Thursday.
PITTSBURGH—About 10 percent of faculty are vacant at business schools across the nation, according to the results of a study released
"An average of nine positions are open at each business school in the country," said Robert Kaplan, chairman of a Carnegie-Mellon University task force that studied the situation for the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools in Business.
"That's the opposite situation facing doctoral students in the humanities today," Kaplan said. "Academicians are the decay that there are 10
Increases in business school enrollment and greater emphasis on faculty who can do research are factors causing the shortage, Kaplan said.
Khadafv: Americans safe in Libva
NEW YORK—Col. Moamarth Khadafy said in an interview broadcast that he told Libya's Lilia were 'our guests' and safer 'than they would be in their own country.
Khadaf, interviewed on the NBC Today Show, also accused Saudi Arabia and the United States of working together to reduce the price of oil, something that he could bring the demise of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Asked whether he would like to see the Saudi royal family overthrown, Khadifa said. "If they do not change their policies, it would be better for them."
Khadafy denied charges that he had camps in Libya to train terrorists and also denied reports he sent assassination squads to the United States to kill them.
The 150 delegations to the conference will discuss a complex, 328-article legal code that was drafted after painstaking, eight-year-long negotiations. The code was opposed last year by the newly inaugurated Reagan administration.
U.S. wants maritime code changes
UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea opened its 11th session yesterday, with the United States presenting new proposals that could undo eight years of negotiations on new maritime legal regulations.
Third World countries were skeptical about the counterproposals and urged the conference to press ahead with the current code with or without
religion and the legalization of prostitution, gambling and drug use.
and mailed the necessary filing fee and would personally file the required 60 documents.
Author makes bid for Senate seat
LOS ANGELES—Gore Vidal, whose best-selling novels and rapier wired him made him world-famous, said yesterday he would challenge Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by S.I. Hayakawa. "I told him his platform included drastic cuts in defense, taxation of
An author of dozens of books, essays and plays—including "Myra Breckendrige," "Burry" "1851" and "Creation," "Vidal is the third king of Windsor."
Fraternity suspended for hazing
MINNEAPOLIS- Members of a fraternity, suspended from the University of Minnesota for one year for allegedly stripping and taping two pledges
Joe Pascau, one of the pledges, protested that the members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity abused him during a pre-initiation incident last November.
Pasquale said fraternity members took him to a room and forced him to remove his clothes. He said they taped him on top of another naked pledge, but the other group was unable to do so.
Pasquale said he wanted to join Kappa Sigma because the fraternity had a clean-cut image and members had won prizes for musical performances.
Dan Biersbont, president of the tracerity's alumni corporation board, said, "I understand it's just a guy who has a grudge against the house."
Sounding of alarms not a problem at KU
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
Once a month, facilities operations officials test the 35 fire alarm systems on the KU campus.
sometimes they use call uside. At 10:36 a.m., Friday, Feb. 26, KU police received two calls reporting an alarm sounding in Fraser Hall.
Sometimes they get outside help.
"Someone had tripped the alarm," Jim Denney, director of KU police, said vestday.
According to Robert Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, accidental sounding of fire alarms was not a big problem.
But money, or lack of it, might be.
"We have asked the Senate Legislature for $160,000 to put systems in four buildings." Porter said.
The four buildings were Hoch Auditorium, Military Science building, Strong Hall and the post office building at 645 New York Avenue that is used for Kansas University Endowment Association activities.
These alarms would help contain elevator fires in buildings like Green, Learned, Snow, Strong, Lincoln, Wescoc and Hawthorns.
The University also has requested $56,000 to place fire alarms on elevator access controls, Porter said.
Instead, when the fire melted the panel buttons, the elevator stopped and opened on every floor, pouring smoke into the lobby areas.
PORTER SAID this type of alarm would have helped contain the fire at Naismith Hall last semester.
"If there had been a fire alarm access on the Naimshm elevator, the doors would've shut," he said.
on every floor with elevator control," Porter said. "These elevators can only be operated manually."
"The doors wouldn't have opened
Elevator access controls were just one of a variety of fire alarms used to keep KU students and faculty safe.
"There are all kinds of systems," Porter said. "The Simplex system is the one predominantly used on campus.
"The systems are basically the same."
MOST OF THE systems utilize break stations, or alarms behind glass boxes.
Other systems used are Protronics, Edwards, Honeywell and Ademco.
"When the glass is broken, it releases a switch behind it that sets off a series of alarms," Porter said.
Also used were ion detectors, which detect fire before it can be seen and smoke detectors.
"We also use rate of rise indicators," Porter said. "These are heat sensor units.
He said the temperature control could be set higher in places where the normal temperatures might always be 135 degrees, like power plugs.
"If the temperature rises rapidly above 135 degrees, it would melt a link that would set off an alarm."
Denney said that the different types of indicators were either integrated or used throughout entire fire alarm systems on campus.
AUTHOUGH THE fire alarm bells are muted when facilities operations test the systems, when people in buildings are ill or when an entire system goes off, Denney said.
"But if you've got a fire, it will get hotter than that rapidly." he said.
Budget cuts, high costs stifle Soviet bloc studies
Despite the need for government and business experts on Soviet and East European countries, U.S. research and scholarship on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is in deep decline, according to a recent report by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) in New York.
By DEBBIEDOUGLASS
Staff Reporter
Jaroslaw Piekaliewicz, KU professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies, said recently that the reporter declined was the result of difficulty and expense in training top-notch scholars in this area.
"The prospective student must master several of the languages, unlike doctoral candidates in other programs who must demonstrate writing proficiency in only two. This means that you will need to be nearly every day." *Pekhlewicz said*.
He said that for KU students in Soviet and East European studies the work load was demanding.
Piekaiwicz was the University of Kansas was considered to have one of the nation's top four Soviet and East European studies programs, along with Columbia, Indiana and Michigan universities.
BESIDES A heavy emphasis on languages, a student must do work crossing into several areas such as history and anthropology, he said.
"The Soviet Union in the 1980s is not the same as it was in the '70s or '80s. You can't experience the changes of the past, you can't live there, and this costly," he said.
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Government funds to organizations such as IREX, which sponsors U.S. scholars who study in foreign countries. Students who study abroad with U.S. cues are accepted. Pleikakiewicz said.
This would drastically reduce the much-needed research and study in the already declining area of Soviet and East European studies, he said.
According to IREX's report, only about 1,100 schools in U.S. universities and government and private organizations are involved in work related to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, while a minimum of 1,700 are needed.
Plekakiewicz said, "The federal government has an obligation to support the training of scholars in these fields, and it is also the government benefits greatly by it."
THE RESEARCH board's report also indicated that during the 1980s, the number of Soviet and Eastern European scholars may be reduced even further because of the retirement of older researchers.
The economic actions of both the United States and the Soviet Union affect international markets, Piekalkiewicz said.
With respect to trade, the United States needs specialists who can deal effectively with Soviet bloc countries, he said.
The expertise of scholars such as Riyyu Laird, KU professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies, who is an expert on Soviet agriculture, is invaluable to Kansas agribusiness, he said. Laird forecasts Soviet crop production and estimates the extent of the grain imports they will require.
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