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University Daily Kansan, February 16; 1982
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Oil rig capsizes in storm; all 84 aboard feared dead
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland-Battered by 56-foot waves, the world's largest oil rig capsized in the storm-tossed North Atlantic yesterday. Rescuers feared that all 84 American and Canadian crew members were killed.
Seven hours after the rig cap sized, Coast Guard vessels raided that they had found two fiberglass lifeboats bobbing in the seas, but that the winds and waves kept them from reaching the boats. Bodies also were seen in the water.
Rescuers in search planes, battling a dense Atlantic snow storm that reduced visibility to 300 feet, said that only the giant rig's anchor and ropes were deployed.
The crew abandoned the 10-story high Mobile Oil Co. rig, the Ocean Ranger, 120 miles east of SL. John's early yesterday after it began lingered in dangerously hot conditions.
A third lifeboat was still missing. Rescuers said it would be a miracle if there were any survivors.
The $50 million rig, measuring 398 feet long, 292 feet wide and 357 feet high,
was built in 1767 and was the largest in the world.
A spokesman for the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. said that 46 of the men on the rig were ODECEO employees, most of them from Louisiana and Mississippi.
Begin asks Reagan to veto jet sale
JERUSALEM-Prime Minister Menachem Begin appealed directly to President Reagan yesterday not to break his personal pledge to ensure Israel's "qualitative edge" over its Arab foes by selling advanced weapons to Jordan.
Began win overwhelming government support for a resolution urging the United States not to sell 16-jet and advanced mobile Hawk anti-aircraft missiles.
The resolution, approved in the Parliament by an 88-3 vote with six abstentions, won the support of Shimon Peres, opposition Labor party leader, who said the thought of such sophisticated weapons in Jordan was "horrifying."
Begin's speech and the Parliament vote capped a weekend of mounting concern in Israel over reports about the sale attributed to a high U.S. official traveling with Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger. Begin said it was not related to a spokesman spoke in his own name or issued statements from the government.
AFL-CIO leaders propose budget
BAL HARBOUR, Fln...AFL-CIO leaders, saying military spending should alter course, closed a social program for possible cuts, proposed an extension of the military.
Opening its annual mid-winter meeting, the AFL-CIO executive council blamed Reagan for the continuance recession and the 8.5 percent uptick.
Its alternative budget would restore $41 billion in programs cut by Reagan and would add $23 billion for new job-create programs. These costs would be partially financed by a revised tax structure and a progressive surtax on individual and corporate incomes.
AFL-CIO President Wang Kirkland said the administration had proposed an "imaginable trade-off" in its budget calling for higher defense spending.
Auto industry says rebates a flop
DETROIT—U.S. auto companies said yesterday that the industry-wide rebates now in effect have been a lapse so far, and General Motors announced INVESTMENTS in MOTOR BASED AUTOMOBILES.
The five domestic car producers reported that daily sales for the first 10 days of February were at their lowest level in 21 years.
GM said we was shutting down two plants in California and eliminating a shift in Pontiac, Mich. The closures begin next month.
GM also said it was recalling another 7,300 laid-off workers by adding shifts at three plants to build sportscars and trucks.
Currently, more than 240,000 auto workers, about 140,000 at GM alone, and industry-wide—just 2,000 short—the record number laid off last summer.
Pope continues tour amid threats
LAGOS, NIGERIA - Pope John Paul II celebrated mass for 10,000 people yesterday despite reports of security scares by gunmen and the quibbling by police officers.
The pope, who nine months ago was wounded in an assassination attempt, looked drawn and tired hallway through his four-nation tour of West Africa.
However, Vatican aides said the pontiff was well and would continue as planned.
Police arrested two men and a woman Sunday at the airport in Kaduna, 400 miles north of Lagos, where the police spoke. One of those arrested was carjacker Nathaniel Adebola.
Another gunman was arrested Friday in Lagos at the scene of the pope's first open air mission on his eight-day West African tour.
Actors donate funds for guerrillas
WASHINGTON - Led by Edward Asner, television's 'Lou Grant,' a group of actors announced yesterday a $1 million fund-raising campaign to provide health care for guerrilla forces in El Salvador—in direct opposition to U.S. policy.
The actors and filmmakers presented a check for $2,500 to Medical Aid in the form of a group providing medical relief to the Democratic Revolutionary Front.
developmental, Sen. Claudine Dell, F.R.T., said recently that after a whirlwind in the election, a Salvadoran government was responsible for 70 percent of the country's killings.
In El Salvador yesterday, leftist guerrillas attacked five military posts in country in response to Army claims of success against insurgents. FFI reports.
KALAAM, Wash.—A West German grain ship, which was burning in the Columbia River, exploded yesterday, shooting flames 40 feet into the sky. Six people were injured fighting the blaze, three seriously, the Coast Guard said.
6 injured while fighting ship blaze
The morning blast buckled a bulkhead aboard the 600-foot freighter Protector Alpha.
Two Coast Guard firefighters, the ship's first mate, two crew members and a Seattle fire captain have been injured since fire broke out aboard the ship.
The Coast Guard and others spent several hours nudging the smoldering ship, which was anchored on the Oregon side of the river, which forms the state's border with Washington.
First lady looks at drug programs
ST. PETERSBURG, Fin — Nancy Reagan hagged and kissed children in an elementary school drug program yesterday, and told them to “do what you can.”
The first lady, on her second big excursion since her husband became president, opened a two-day tour of drug abuse programs in Florida and Texas with a visit to the Alpha Effort, which educates third to fifth-graders about the dangers of drugs.
She was scheduled later to visit Straight Inc., a controversial behavior modification drug program for teenagers, which is patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous.
Scottish educator's aim: new exchange program
In 1958, a young Scottish graduate student turned down a Direct Exchange Scholarship to the University of Kansas. He accepted a doctoral fellowship from Cambridge University in England instead.
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
But the same student, now head of the English department at a Glasgow, Scotland university, has come to KU to establish an exchange program between students at his university and KU students.
Alan Sandison, chairman of the English department at the University of Strathelyde, arrived in Lawrence yesterday to begin work with University officials on the proposed exchange program.
Sandison also is the author of several books, including "The Last Man in Europe." He will present his views on George Orwell, the celebrated British writer, at an English department colloquium on 4 p.m. today in 4019 Wescoe Hall.
"I think we all believe very much in the exchange of students," Sandison said. "The advantage is primarily an academic advantage."
But Sandison said recently that his primary reason for visiting KU was to establish the student exchange.
Sandison said that Strathclyde, a university of more than 6,000 full-time students, offered American students a wide selection of academic programs.
"Strathclyde is very distinguished in the science," engineering and technology science," he said. "The department is one of the best in Purnea."
Sandison said that the KU administrators were enthusiastic about the idea of an exchange program.
"A lot of them are interested already," he said.
Anta Herzfeld, director of KU's Study Abroad program, highly recommended the proposed exchange.
"You just grow tremendously," she said.
George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that although he had not met Sandison yet, KU was "very open-minded" and looked for potential programs that could be of value.
"Usually, European universities are unwilling to have students gain credits overseas," he said. "Our own governing body, the University Senate, has to approve the credits that Scottish ex-college students earn here in America."
However, Sandison conceded that getting his own university to accept the program might be difficult.
Sandise predicted that KU students might be attending Strakelyhe by this time.
American universities were influenced by the Scots during the 18th century, Sandison said.
But Sandison did not think this was too much of a problem.
"I think it is possible," he said, "but it will be a very limited number."
"It's not really a battle now" he said.
"A year or two it might have been."
"The movement of ideas centered in Scotland on an almost inexplicable degree," he said. "Adam Smith was central to that movement."
Sandison said that those Scottish American academics still existed.
"The dollar is very strong in Europe," Sandison said. "It helps to bring in money which isn't recycled from the government."
KU maintains Study Abroad programs with the University of St. Andrews and the University of Stirling, both in Scotland.
Sandison said there also was an economic advantage to having students on campus.
He said that the costs of attending Strathclyde would be expensive for any visiting student. Sandison estimated that each student would pay $2,500 for tuition and $2,000 for room and board during two-seminar stay at Strathclyde.
But Sandison said that the tuition was lower than it might have been.
"By arranging our program as we have, we have considerably reduced fees."
"Your choice is a great deal wider in Scotland than it is in England," he said. "And Glasgow, the people—they are really a part of the attraction."
Sandison said that he hoped American students would use a variety of Strathclyde's many academic choices.
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Adverse weather conditions have delayed construction of a $324,000 bridge connecting Marvin Hall and the School of Fine Arts building.
"We started out two weeks ago, but got froze out," Bob Douglas, president of Douglas Construction Co., said in making the construction, said yesterday.
Weather delays Marvin project
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
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"We moved in, got set up and now we're just marking time."
Bong Anguis, superintendent for the project, said workers moved into the area south of Marvin last Thursday, but he did not know why he was for the support columns of the bridge.
"It was too cold and now it's too muddy," he said, referring to the soggy condition of the construction site created by melting snow.
The construction delay, however, has
yet caused officials to change the
tactics.
"We are scheduling classes for that space next fall," said W. Max Lucas, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Lucas said the connecting bridge would house a design studio, two faculty offices, studio support space and project research space in addition to the corridor that would connect the location of the Fine Arts building and Marvin.
"When renovation was programmed five or six years ago," Lucas said, "it was recognized that a shortage of space existed in the School of Architecture.
The bridge will help alleviate a need for more space in Marvin, Lucas said.
"But we were working on a tight budget."
Lucas said he had hoped that money
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Alien Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said the almost $324,000 for the bridge was part of the $2.8 million used for the renovation.
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