VOL.100,NO.30 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSTAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY OCT.9,1989
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Aides say Bush planned action to seize Noriega
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration was preparing covert action to setze Panamanian leader Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega during a coup attempt last week, but the uprising collapsed before the plan could be executed, top officials said yesterday.
President Bush made the decision at the end of a failed coup Tuesday. Secretary of State James A. Baker III and White House national security adviser Brent Cowcrow said the order was conveyed to Gen. Maxwell Thurman, the commander of U.S. forces in Panama.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said that at the outset of the coup he told Thurman to be prepared to use a nuclear weapon. The Norlage, but the chance never came.
Baker, on the NBC-TV program "Meet the Press," said, "The message that was sent was that if there was an opportunity to do this, without risking bloodshed and significant loss of life, we would have military involvement, then he was free to go ahead. The commander on the ground was free to go ahead."
Cheney, on the CBS-TV program "Face the Nation," said, "After the Panamanianes had contacted us and told us that they had Norigua but that they would not give him to us, I made it clear that our commander on the scene was authorized to get him if he could outuse it using a weapon that he had developed an option or a plan to use military force to get him."
"We never made the decision to use military force; that would have involved going in against the rebels and taking Norica from them. I never thought that was a very good idea, but we told him, to be prepared if they got hurt. So do so. Shortly after that, the coup fell apart." Chenyse said.
The order to prepare non-uni-
formed U.S. forces for a covert
action to grab Noriega was first
reported in yesterday's editions of
The Washington Post.
Although that report did not attribute the decision to the president, S cowcroft said, "President Bush personally was responsible for whatever guidance was sent down. Yes, he personally ordered whatever guidance was sent to General Thurman."
Baker, Cheney and Scowcroft said top presidential advisers thought they acted correctly during the failed coup, despite criticism from Congress that U.S. forces should have helped the rebels or should have intervened to seize Norgiea for trial in the United States on drug charges.
"There is nothing like 20-20 hindsight. Given what we know now about what was actually happening on the ground then, I think I would not change what we did," Scrowcroit said on the ABC-TV program "This Week with David Brinkley."
Almost a week after the incident, it was still not 100 percent certain that the rebels who seized Noriega's headquarters ever had custody of the strongman, Scowcrop said.
Student insurance option eliminated
Kansan staff writer
By Doug Fishback
Students enrolled in one of two student health insurance options will receive notices that their program is active and will be Blue Cross and Red盾. sdidn.Saturday, Friday
State Blue Cross & Blue Shield officials will mail the news today.
Acting upon a provision in the contract signed with the University of Kansas, Blue Cross officials last week dropped the student insurance option after they decided the enrollment was too low, said Mary Betzen, Blue Cross spokesman.
Option two of the Blue Cross plan, which carries a monthly premium of $30 and a $1,000 deductible, enrolled 354, or 2.6 percent, of the 1,502 KU students in the Blue Cross University program, Betzen said.
The Blue Cross contract with KU gave the company the option of dropping either plan if it enrolled less than 25 percent of the total group.
Option two fell 22 students short of 25 percent.
Bezen said the notices would give the option two subscribers instructions for joining option one, which carries a minimum premium of $44 an $100 nonfee.
Raymond Walters, associate director of student health services at KU, said option two had been tailored to provide catastrophic coverage for students who already might have had other health coverage. Option one is a more general health coverage plan, he said.
Walters said Friday that the University's Blue Cross agent for the plans had not notified him of the discontinuation of option two.
"This thing kind of caught us off guard, because we haven't had any contact from him," Walters said.
He said he had learned of the decision from Mike Lambert, chairman of the student health advisory board insurance subcommittee, who visited him through conversations with local Blue Cross staff.
Walters said that Blue Cross was within its contractual rights to drop the plan.
Betzen said the absence of the 22 students needed to make the required 25 percent was enough to make continuation of the program imprudent.
"It's just something that nobody expected to happen," he said. "They were close enough that I thought they might so with it."
She said the risks involved in insuring the group of 354 were too great to allow continued availability of the option.
"It was a close call, but we did have to stick to our original requirements," Betzen said. "We made the 25 percent factor as low as we could in the beginning."
She said she could not predict the effect the decision would have on KU students under the plan.
"It's hard to say. We'll know more after we send out the letter," Betzen said.
See INSURANCE, p. 6
RIGHT: Gus Anneberg, Fort Scott, leads the KU marching band and alumni band during half-time of Saturday's game against Iowa State University. Anneberg, one of the two original KU drum majors, marched for the Jayhawks in 1934. ABOVE: Brian Rodkey, Overland Park senior, shoots Ned Nixon, Wichita senior, with a gooey substance during the Homecoming Parade. Rodkey and Nixon represented the Rock Chalk Revue in the parade on Saturday, which started at Seventh and Kentucky streets and proceeded down Massachusetts Street to South Park. Delta Delta Delta and Delta Tau Delta won the competition for non-moving floats and Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Kappa Alpha won the competition for moving floats.
Leader of the Pack
Jews urged to embrace their traditions
Rv. Jennifer Metz
Kansan staff writer
The service was presented by
Hilary the Lawrence Jewish Com-
munity Church.
Nearly 300 people gathered at Woodruff Auditorium last night to observe the Jewish High Holy Day, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
This was the first time the service was at the auditorium, said David Spizman, Omaha, Neb., senior. The service was moved from the community center to the auditorium to accommodate more people. The service was directed by two members of the Jewish community. A rabbi did not preside over the ceremony.
Spizman said the service was unique because it was a culmination of the three major expressions of
Jews observe Yom Kippur
Sundown Sunday marked the beginning of the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur.
By a Kansan reporter
Laura Cohen, secretary of Hillel,
an on-campus Jewish organization,
said that during Yor Kippur,
observant Jews would fast from
sundown Sunday to sundown Monday
to atone for their sins.
Yom Kippur is the highest of all Jewish holidays and starts 10 days
after Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish Year. Originally, Yom Kippur was the only day the Jewish high priest could enter the inner sanctuary of the temple to offer sacrifice. A goat, the scapegoat, which symbolically carried the sins of the people, was then driven into the desert.
Judaism: Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism.
Hillary Weitz, Chicago senior,
said that part of the reason for
fasting was to feel the suffering
of all the Jewish people.
Steve Jacobson, Morton Grove, Ill..
junior, and member of Hillel, was one speaker at the service last night. He said the biggest threat to Israel was not the Palestinians, the Palestine Liberation Organization or bombs. He said the biggest threat was indifference from U.S. Jews. He said that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
He said older people remembered what it felt like to be a people without a homeland, but Israel was now the Jewish homeland.
David Katman, professor of history, also smoke at the service.
- Katzman spoke of the need for charity and the United Jewish Appeal, a fund-raising organization.
He said if a person did not have money, then time or services could be devoted for the Jewish people.
Yom Kippur services will be conducted today at 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive.
Non-greek groups sign up for Rock Chalk
By Holly Lawton
Kansan staff writer
For the first time two non-greek groups have signed up to participate in Rock Chalk Revue.
Ned Nixon, director of Rock Chalk Revue 1990, said one group of combined scholarship halls and one group of combined residence halls had submitted ideas about two weeks ago.
The participation of groups from
resistance halls and scholarship halls would add a positive aspect to the show, members of greek and non-greek groups agree.
"I think it will help the campus become much more united," said Tamara Plush, a Rock Chalk organizer for the scholarship halls.
Eric Engel, co-director of Rock Chalk activities for Sigma Nu fraternity, agreed. "It would be nice to have other people in Rock Chalk besides the greeks," he said.
"Our turnout has really been improving," said Steve Drum, an organizer for the residence halls.
Greek members traditionally get involved in Rock Chalk activities, with most Greek houses pairing up and participating.
Nixon said the residence halls taking part were Oliver, McCollium, Lewis, Ellsworth and Gertrude Sellardds Pearson-Corbin halls. All the scholarship halls have combined to submit a notebook, he said.
After the notebooks are submitted, each group will make a short presentation of its show to the judges, Nixon said.
The notebooks, which contain plot summaries, music, and set and cost designs, are due Nov. 3, said Pat Kehde, Rock Chalk faculty adviser.
The judges will make their final decisions by Nov. 21. Nixon said.
The money raised from the show will be donated to the United Way.
Student jailed after taking police car for joy ride
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
When Erik Cubbage, Andale sophomore, heard the squealing tires of a car approaching his truck Friday afternoon in the parking lot of Battenfeld Scholarship Hall, he guessed that something was up.
When he saw a teen-age driver fishtail a police car past his parked truck into the lot, he knew it.
Lawrence police records describe what happened. The driver of the police car, a KU sophomore, had taken the car moments earlier while under the influence of alcohol. A
Cabbage said he was driving his pickup truck out of the hall's parking lot at 1425 Alumni Place when he heard the car approaching. The car's side flashes were blinking, he said, so he pulled his truck to a stop in the driveway.
Lawrence police officer had left the car unattended at 4:30 p.m. while he wrote parking tickets near 14th and Ohio streets.
The car was going northeast on Alumni Place, Cubbage said, and turned left into Battetfiel's lot, pass that way. "We were then that Cubbage the driver."
"There was this kid driving the
car," he said. "He looked like a high school kid at first. His tires were sneaking all the way.
"We said, 'What's wrong with this picture?' "
Mark Denney, Battiefen resident,
said he saw the student race the
police car into Battiefen's lot. He
pulled through the lot, Denny said,
neighboring lot at Sprague Apartments for
retired KU faculty
"It swerped around there and squealed into a really fast stop there," he said. "He took off up the hill after that."
Denney said the student left the car
"I saw it was a kid, and Cubbay and I started chasing him," he said.
Denney and Cubbage were not able to catch the student, they said, but they did find his KUID, which he had apparently dropped, on the hill.
and sprinted up a wooded hill by Sprague Apartments toward the main campus.
"I was tripping out," Cubbage said. "I just couldn't believe, we found it. We were giving high fives all the way."
Denney said the student returned moments later to look for his KUID and other identification cards.
"He was begging, literally," he
said. "He just wanted the ID and to get the hell out of there. He would have been gone if he hadn't dropped it."
Denney said he threw the IDs to Cubbage to prevent the student from taking them. Denney said.
"For the next five minutes, he was going around to all of us," he said. "He kept it all day and that he had stolen it for a joke. We just said 'Bad joke, dude.'"
By this time, other hall residents had gathered. The student tried to convince the group to give him his IDs. Cubbage said.
Cubbage said police officers
arrived and handcuffed the student. Police records indicate the student was jailed at 5:15 p.m. Friday for taking the police department's 1988 Dodge Diplomat valued at $15,000.
As of this morning, Wilson was still in Douglas County Jail. An initial hearing in the case is scheduled for 11 a.m. today.
Lawrence Police Department policy states that officers should not leave their vehicles unlocked, but officers can use their own discretion if they think leaving a vehicle is necessary.
Kansas reporter Rich Cornell con-
tributed information to this story.
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