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University Daily Kansan, February 11, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Salvadoran soldiers charged with killing American nuns
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Six Salvadoran soldiers, including two new suspects, were arrested in the killings of three American nurses during a 14-month prison sentence.
The six, all of them in El Salvador's National Guard, were flown in U.S. loaned helicopters to Zacatecote, which is near the site where the crash occurred.
women's bodies were damaged.
Witnesses said the six suspects, handcuffed in pairs and dressed in a mixture of civilian and military clothes, were guarded by at least 30 heavily armed soldiers as they were hustled into the civilian courtroom.
The unlawful slayings of the four American women have been cited by the opponents of the ruling civil-military regime as proof of the government's actions.
The judge in Zacatecoluca has until Saturday to consider the evidence and to decide whether further investigations are necessary. One court observer said it could be "weeks or months" before any indictments were handed down in the case.
Six guardsmen were jailed April 29 in the slayings of the missionaries. But two of the suspects arraigned were not among the six originally jailed, military sources said.
Democrats propose altered budget
WASHINGTON—Congressional democrats said they wanted no part of the Republican's 1983 budget plan and they intended to present several other proposals.
Robert Byrd, Senate Democratic candidate, announced he had asked Reagan to withdraw his fiscal 1983 budget based on "phony figures," and he and 18 other Republicans voted against it.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill promised that mainstream House Democrats would present their own alternative soon.
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., a member of Byrd's group, was the first to respond to Reagan's challenge of "put up or shut up." He proposed Tuesday to freeze spending for military and most social programs at current levels for a year and reduce the tax cuts enacted last year.
no hooligans plan got positive reactions from Republican congressmen as well. Senate Governor Leader Howard Baker called the plan 'interesting and important.'
No injuries in Lansing prison fire
LANSWING - A fire that broke through the roofline at two Kansas State Penitentiary findings was under control three hours after it started.
There were no injuries in the fire, which started in the prison chapel and engineer maintenance building area.
Firefighters from Lansing and Leavenworth battled the blaze continuously to keep it from spreading to the "highly volatile" paint and furniture refinishing shop, said Linda Moppin, administrative assistant for the KSP director.
The cause of the fire is unknown, Moppin said, but officials will begin investigating the fire soon.
The prison was in a "lock down" situation to account for all prisoners and to enable KSP officers to fight the fire.
Beagan may ask for missile sales
AMMAN, Jordan—Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said yesterday that President Reagan may ask Congress to permit missile sales to Jordan in what a senior defense official called growing U.S. willingness to make more Arab friends.
In addition to the sale of Mobile Hawk missiles, the official said Weinberger would consider a request by Jordan's King Hussein to buy advanced
The statements by Weinberger and the official, who were traveling in Jordan, signaled that the United States no longer would refrain from selling weapons to Syrian rebels.
weanerglers a three-day visit to Jordan is the third stop on a week-long Middle East tour, during which he secured agreement with Saudi Arabia to establish a joint U.S.-Saiudi military commission, a move likely to cause concern in Israel.
Fed calls for money supply growth
WASHINGTON—Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker said yesterday that the Fed was sticking to its basic money supply target for 1982, a move he called "unacceptable."
In his semiannual testimony to Congress, Volcker said the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee had formally adopted a target for interest rates.
Vulcker said that projected budget deficits could be a threat in economic recovery and he urged lawmakers to reduce the $1.5 billion deficit Reagan promised.
However, Volker took the House Banking Committee that the president, in the fiscal 1983 budget he sent Congress this week, had proposed some
Poland food rations getting worse
WARSAW. Poland—A martial law sentence sentenced four more Solidarity leaders to prison terms yesterday and the military regime warned Poles to stay away from the new attacks.
Solidarity action with slogans such as: "The winter is yours. Spring will be ours. Solidarity."
Reporters returning from the Baltic port of Gdansk said support for Solidarity and hostility toward authorities were evident in much of Poland.
The official Polish news agency PAP said that food shortages were getting worse and that rationing of meat, potatoes and other staples would be more
Kissinger doing fine after surgery
BOSTON - Secondary Secretary of State Henry Kissinger underwent a triple heart bypass operation yesterday to repair blocked and narrowed arteries.
The operation at Massachusetts General Hospital lasted four hours. Kissinger was sedated afterwards and was not expected to wake until this morning.
"We are all very pleased thus far," said W. Gerald Austen, the hospital's chief of surgery. "I think we agree the major risk is over with the surgery
In bypass surgery, new sections of blood vessel taken from elsewhere in the body are grafted on the old, blocked ones to free up blood flow.
Kissinger served as national security adviser to Richard Nixon and secretary of state to both Nixon and Gerald Ford.
U of I official being tried for theft
MOUNT VERNON, III.—Four women testified yesterday that a former administrator accused of embezzling more than $600,000 from the University of Illinois wined and dined them and paid them thousands of dollars for evenings that sometimes included sex.
Robert N. Parker is accused of embezzling $00,000 from the university and its fundraising arm, the U of F Foundation, to a dormant third account, Mr. Parker said.
He admitted that he took the money, but he pleaded not guilty to 157 counts of felony theft and is expected to present an insanity defense.
Parker, a top financial administrator at the university, resigned under pressure last June.
Computer proposal may be unnecessary
Bv ANN WYLIE
A policy recommended by the Academic Computing Committee to make computers equally available to students in all University departments may not be necessary, the committee chairman said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
"Maybe the committee was wrong. Maybe we were fooling ourselves," Dean Lebesky, chairman of the committee, director of geological survey, said.
"I know of no student who was denied access to the computer system if they asked. We weren't responding to a request." "We were responding to a policy question."
Students in some departments, such as English and the romantic languages, may not know that word processing is available. Lebeshtky said.
"I THINK the problem is that there was no defined policy."
The policy would make University computers available to all students to use for word processing or papers, theses, and dissertations, but the students would have to pay for using them. Lebestv said.
Students whose departments used computers, such as science departments, would know that word processing was available and would be able to get funding for it from their departments. Lebesky said.
Word processing for these could cost between $150 and $80, Ernest Angio, chairman of the University Senate and president of college of geology and civil engineering, said.
The committee decided that the problem with word processing was a "have-have-not" situation, Lebestky said.
Lebesky said the English department probably would not have a large computer budget and its students might not know about word processing.
STUDENTS IN other departments would not know about word processing nor have access to it if they did want to use it, because their departments received little computer funding, he said.
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But the English department is not having that problem, Jack Oruch, associate professor of English, said.
Departments receive computer budgets of between $200 and $25,000 a year. Angino said.
THE ENGLISH department has had five people ask for the receive funds for word processing. It has $2,500 allocated for computer use, and word-processing a thesis from beginning to end costs about $800. Orchid said.
Two years ago, a student asked Orchut about word processing for her dissertation. He arranged to get funds through the associate dean of the English department and announced the need for students learning to all graduate students in English.
"We have never had a problem getting enough money. We have also never had many people involved (inressing for their thesis)." he said.
Since then, every graduate student in the English department who has asked for computer funding has received it, Oruch said.
The recommended policy will prevent students in the English department from using a computer for their theses, rather than make the computer more available to them, Orchuck said.
"It will be too bad for us if it will mean that there will be a charge for using word processing," he said.
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"I DON'T know how much it would curtail. I'm sure fewer people would
Students in departments that have high computer funding, such as the department of physics, are also worried about the policy.
"I was hoping to be done before they passed something like that," Leland Herder, Oblong, Ill., graduate student, said.
Herder said he couldn't for疼助 to pay up to $500 for process his thesis out of the salary he received as a research assistant.
BREecca Pyles, Lawrence graduate student, said she thought the proposed policy was unfair.
You're taking about the research that University of Kansas, Kansas State students, especially in computer science, write articles in the
She said graduate students needed the advantages that a word-processing thesis would give.
and send them to national journals." she said.
OTHER COLLEGES and universities in Kansas have different policies on student use of university computers for word processing.
Kansas State University doesn't charge students for word-processing theses on the university's central computer, but does charge them for paper, Tom Gallagher, director of K-State's computing center, said.
Emporia State University does not have the word-processing function available on its computers, Lloyd Edwards, director of Emporia's data processing and educational measurements department, said.
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