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University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1981
News Briefs
From United Press International
Suspended guards seek help as state asks for dismissals
LANSING, Kan.-Nine suspended prison guards and sympathetic coworkers are looking for an official ear into which to pour their troubles.
"I think we're goers," said Bill Pointer, one of the suspended guards who met Saturday in Porter's home to discuss whether they would appeal their arrests.
BARRICK, who was not among those suspended, said he would try to get State Sen. Ed Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth, to arrange a meeting with state legislators. Barrick was unable to comment yesterday morning on the progress of his efforts. He had gone to work at the prison.
The guards were suspended Friday morning because they refused to obey a direct order to work on the 4 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift after guard Ken Lincoln Jr.
Lincoln received minor injuries when he was stabbed Thursday evening by an inmate who allegedly reached through the bars of his cell with a knife.
Disgruntled workers were quick to point out that the stabbing occurred in the same cellhouse in which another guard, Robert Hurd, was stabbed to
Gordon Hetzel, deputy director of programs, and Dallas Wetzel, deputy director of operations, Friday morning suspended the guards and recommen- dated their termination.
Nixon claims executive immunity
Patrick McManua, secretary of corrections, said notes of termination sent to the guards were the first step toward firing them under Civil Service
WASHINGTON—A lawyer for Richard Nixon will try today to convince the Supreme Court that the former president is shielded from lawsuits
The historic dispute, one of the widest issues facing the high court this term, pits Nixon against former Pentagon official Ernest Fitzgerald, who contends he was fired in retaliation for blowing the whistle on aircraft cost overruns.
Nixon claims he enjoys blanket immunity from having to pay money damages for any actions he took as chief executive.
Fitzgerald's damage suit seeks $3.5 million from Nixon. The high court last June agreed to delay trial of the case while it considered the presidential
The case stems from testimony by Fitzgerald concerning $2 billion in cost overruns on the C-SA transport. At the time that he made the disclosure, he
Habib takes peace plan to Mideast
BEIRUT, Lebanon—U.S. Presidential Envoy Philip Haspah arrived on his fourth mission to the Middle East yesterday in an attempt to shake the shaky peace process.
Habib, whose last trip produced a cease-fire that ended fighting between Israel and the Palestinians, carried with him the outline of a plan for peace. He met with Gaza leaders in the occupied West Bank on October 28.
Amid growing concern that renewed fighting in Lebanon would undo what progress had been made toward peace, President Reagan announced last week he would send Habib back to the Middle East on an "open-ended trip" to include Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. plan for "national reconciliation" in Lebanon is believed to center on strengthening the Lebanese government and army as a major step toward peace.
Habib was scheduled to meet today with Lebanese Prime Minister Chefk Wassan, Parliament Speaker Kamel Assad and Foreign Minister Fund Ali Moussa.
Bomb blast kills 64 in Damascus
DAMASCUS, Syria - A powerful bomb planted in a car exploded outside a mall in Damascus, killing 15 people and wounding 138 in the fourth attack, the Syrian Navy said.
The government quickly blamed the attack on the underground fundamentalist Moslem brotherhood Organization, which is opposed to the Islamic State.
A government statement a few hours after the morning blast said the bomb was planted in a car parked in front of the headquarters of a cadet company.
In Beirut, news agencies received claims of responsibility for the blast from a group calling itself the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners, an organization which has said it has been involved in recent bombings in Lebanon.
The group, suspected to have rightist leanings, had never before claimed involvement in action outside Lebanon.
Actress Natalie Wood dies at 43
AVALON, Calif —The body of actress Natalie Wood was found floating yesterday in a shallow lagoon off Santa Catalina Island, where she was spending the holiday weekend with her husband, actor Robert Wagner, authorities said.
County lifeguards said the actress apparently drowned, but coroner's officers were on route to the island to determine the exact cause of death.
Wood, 43, was found fully clothed in shallow waters at the base of a small cliff, officials said.
The actress and her husband had sailed to the island 26 miles off the coast of Los Angeles on their yacht and had been celebrating the holiday weekend
Wood wandered off by herself Saturday night, witnesses told authorities. Wagner and their friends became concerned and notified lifeguards shortly before the incident.
Firm's sales to Libva investigated
Tencom Corp. Northbrook, operated by Nedim Sulyak, 29, a Turkish citizen who attended school at the University of Illinois-Chicago circle campus, is under investigation for allegedly shipping spare parts for American-built C-130 military cargo planes to Libya.
CHICAGO—A federal grand jury is trying to determine whether a small suburban farm is guilty of selling military plane parts to Labya, an attorney
Under U.S. law, domestic firms must get special licenses from the State and Commerce departments each time they ship 'war materials' such as
In 1978, the year Sulvak founded his company, the federal government banned all sales of potential war materials to Libya on the grounds the items were dangerous.
ERA supporters intensify campaign
WASHINGTON—The National Organization for Women, noting there are only seven months left to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, declared this
Beginning today, ERA supporters were to take to the street corners in major cities to pass out leaflets and wallet-size cards containing the text of
The amendment has been ratified in 35 states, but three more states are needed by June 30 for the ERA to become part of the Constitution. If it is not ratified by that date, it must once be approved by two-thirds of both houses in the Congress and ratified by 38 state legislatures.
Correction
Due to a reporting error in the Nov. 24 Kansas, the name of the head librarian of the Clendening Medical Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. was incorrectly listed as Bernice Dean Johnson.
The name should have read Bernice Dean Jackson.
Arms talks vital for U.S.-Soviet relations
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland-American and Soviet negotiators prepared yesterday for nuclear disarmament talks that could set the tone for future conflicts.
potential American missile deployments against already emplaced Russian rockets would not be acceptable.
The heads of delegations held a preliminary meeting about ground rules at the Soviet Union's tightly controlled diplomatic compound in Geneva today.
Veteran U.S. arms negotiator Paul Nitzel said he would be "reasonable and tough" in the talks to reduce the doomsday armories of nuclear weapons on either side of the East-West divide in Europe.
THE SOVIET UNION said yesterday it was up to the United States to narrow the yawning gap between the two sides, in a bid to reduce "zero option" proposal to trade
The delegations, including diplomats and military experts on both sides, hold their first full meeting at U.S. disarmament offices on Tuesday.
medium-range weapons systems in Europe that are capable of delivering nuclear bombs and warheads.
The two sides start from diametrically opposed positions, wi the United States seeking an inti agreement curbed intermediate-ran missiles and the Soviet Union look for a much broader treaty covering
This would cover U.S. forward-based aircraft and submarines as well as the independent nuclear forces of France and Britain.
THE FIRST TASK of the negotiators will be to decide just what weapons they will be talking about. The Soviet Union contends there is an existing nuclear balance in Europe, with just under 1,000 weapons on each side. Reagan said the Soviet Union has a six to one advantage of medium-range nuclear systems.
Diplomatic sources said the Geneva talks could set the tone for future East-West contacts, including a resumption
early next year of negotiations to limit strategic nuclear arms.
It will be the Soviet Union's first opportunity to take measure of the tough-talking Reagan administration. The sources said Moscow will be concerned to find out whether the United States will match its hawkish public stance with an unyielding attitude at the conference table.
THE TALKS WILL be low-key and extremely complex, yet few international meetings in recent history have aroused such high expectations—a result of the growing fears of a Sovietship nuclear war that could, as Soviet President Leonid Breznev said last week, travel the continent into a "tombstone."
Fewer occupants predicted for KU halls
By VERONICA JONGENELEN
Staff Reporter
By the year 2000, the University of Kansas has will have finished paying for its eight residence halls, but there may not be enough students left to fill them.
The number of students who live in Lawrence has declined 5 percent in the last six years and there are, for the first time since 1974, empty rooms in the halls, according to a report from the office of admissions and records.
"We are down about 150 students from last year," said Fred McElhene, director of residential programs.
Despite the drop in occupancy and predictions of declining enrollments, KU officials have not planned for the possibility of empty hall.
Wilson, director of housing, said. "There's nothing in writing."
"Plans will be developed once the situation becomes necessary." J.J.
THE PROBLEM of declining enrollment is not always indicative of decreasing occupancy rates, both McEllenie and Wilson said.
According to McElhenie, residency in the past has not increased proportionally to increases in enrollment. Therefore, there is no direct correlation between enrollment and residence rates.
"In the '60s, when occupancy was very low, our enrollment increased, so there was more demand for classroom seats in the '70s in previous years," McEllenan said.
For that reason, he said, Carruth-O'Leary Hall was converted in 1964 from a residence hall to an office building.
plans for the residence halls, Wilson said.
However, that was a one-time occurrence and not a prediction of future
What KU can expect in the future are declining enrollments, according to an enrolment projection report prepared by KU's office of institutional research
THE REPORT SHOWS that by 1989, enrollment will drop to 19,000.
This year's enrollment on the Lawrence campus is down 466 students from last year, when enrollment was at its highest, according to the office of admissions and records demographic data report for the fall semester.
McEhenie said that the reasons for the drop in hall occupancy this year were related to enrollment patterns.
"There may be more people from the community enrolling who already have places to live," he said. "We may have people with disabilities, a traditional kind of students who,
because of their age, choose not to live in residence halls."
MeElhennie added that the future of KS residence halls was not a problem.
"I predict that residency will not decline that much," he said. "In a community like Lawrence, the number of houses being built has decreased alarmingly. The costs of already built houses are astronomical. So, for the whole future, young married people will be forced to occupy apartments.
"I don't see a great number of apartment complexes going up to meet this need, either, so we may have a limited market for apartments. The apartments will be taken up, and this will, in a sense, force students to take up residency elsewhere, such as in residence hall."
You told her you have your own place. Now you have to tell your roommates.
You've been trying to get to know her better since
you've been gifted to get at the beginning of the term. As when she begins in her first room, you said, "My place is nice and quiet. Come on over and study with me!"
Your roommates weren't very happy about it. But after a little persuading they decided the double occupancy at the flat might be worth seeing.
They're pretty special friends.
And they deserve a special "Thanks."
So, tonight, let it be Lowenbrink.
Löwenbräu.Here's to good friends.