VOL. 100, NO. 11 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY SEPT. 11, 1989
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U.S. troops may fight war on drugs
Bennett denies secret directive
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration was willing to send military advisers to Peru and Bolivia to help in the war against narcotics, drug czar William J. Bennett said yesterday.
Bennett, however, denied published reports that the administration had a secret plan to send U.S. Special Forces on drug-fighting mission combat zones in the two Andean Mountain neighbors of Colombia.
"We see in Colombia the presence of American trainers working with the Colombians, giving them advice, training them on equipment," Benedict said. "The kind of thing we would anticipate is Peru and Bolivia take the stans."
Bennett was responding to a report that President Bush had signed a
secret National Security Decision Directive including new rules of engagement for U.S. Special Forces in the three Andean countries.
He would not deny specifically that Bush had signed the directive but insisted the administration did not impose troops into combat in Latin America.
About two dozen members of the U.S. Special Forces based in Panama have been rotating into Colombia and have also trained forces there for about two years.
The directive Bush signed apparently would expand that detail. Details of the plan would be worked out in greater detail over the next two weeks, the Washington Post reported.
A secret section of the plan would authorize the U.S. Special Forces to accompany military patrols into so-called "safe areas" in the three nations, including Peru's Upper
Huallaga Valley, the report said.
The proposed step drew mixed reviews from Democrats in Congress.
"I can say that I do not dismiss the notion of using U.S. troops in certain circumstances in the Andean effort," said Joseph R. Biden, D-Del.
The idea of involving U.S. ground troops in the war on drugs drew immediate fire from another Democrat, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who represents Harlem, a section of New York City that has been hit hard by drug-related violence.
He said the administration had not given him a report on the role of the military in the drug war.
"It outrages me to think that every time there is an international problem we have to talk about the introduction of American troops," Rangel said. "And anyone who knows anything about Latin American politics would know that the worst thing to do to embarrass any Latin American leader is to say that American soldiers are going to resolve the problem."
National organization pushes for legalization of marijuana
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Across the street from where drug war director William Bennett sits at his desk in a two-story suite, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws carries on its own quest from a small, warren-like office.
NORML, which in 1970 opened its first office in a run-down section of Washington, is emerging as one of the most vocal critics of President Bush's anti-druse campaign.
"The simple question is whether marijuana should be included in the war on drugs." NORML's incoming national director Donald Fiedler told reporters last week after Bennett outlined the Bush plan.
"If it is," he said, "the price of a drug-free America is an America
that can no longer be free."
NORLM wants legalization of marijuana but supports continued prohibition of cocaine.
In its early days, NORM gained attention by defending youngsters facing years in prison for smoking marijauna. Its efforts sparked decriminalization moves in many state legislatures.
The Libertarian Party's contention that the government should interfere as little as possible with individual rights meshes with NORML's stance on marijuana, although the two organizations differ on some other issues.
They part company on some things, however. The Liberarians favor repeal of all laws prohibiting drug use, but NORML seeks to legalize only marijuana.
Audio-visual demand tops KU supply
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
Instructors already having problems getting audio-visual equipment for class use may meet additional obstacles, Breck Marion, director of media services, said.
While the number of pieces of audio and visual equipment has decreased during the past two years, the demand by teachers, administration and other customers has increased
The needs are just so enormous that we can't fill them all," Marion said.
He said that there was too little equipment available to meet current demand and that much of it was outdated.
"For example, national standards say that a 16-millimeter projector has a life of eight years. Other universities might use that same projector 10 years. The projectors on this campus are 17 years old."
"First there are the national standards, which say how long a piece of equipment should be used," he said. "Then the more realistic standards might be how long other colleges use a particular piece of equipment."
Media services received 7,109 requests for various types of equipment during the fiscal year 1989. Marion said media services, a division of continuing education, which supplies the University with audiovisual materials, had to turn down 500 of those requests.
"You don't make much of an impact when you have that kind of refusal." Marion said.
Two years ago, he said, media services' budget was increased to $26,000. Although the budget so did the requests for equipment.
Marion said he thought the biggest demands were for overhead projectors, slide projectors and television equipment.
He said an overhead projector would cost $350, a slide projector would cost $650 and a video package (a 25-inch television, a video tape recorder and a projection cart) would cost $3000.
"We need $100,000 for three years," Marion said. "That's just to replace the outdated and worn equipment. That's not even to buy more
Agony of victory
P. B. Keviar, Johnson County Community College sophomore, peels off his wetsuit for a speedy transition from swimming to
bicycling. Keviar won the under-25-year open category of the Jayhawk Triathlon on Sunday at Pomona Lake. See story. p. 10.
See AUDIO/VISUAL, p. 6
Refugees pour into the West East Germans cross border after 28 years
HEGYESHALOM, Hungary — Thousands of East Germans, crying, laughing and shouting with happiness, poured into Austria from Hungary early today en route to freedom in West Germany.
The Associated Press
They began driving across the border at midnight as Hungary removed the frontier barriers to allow more than 7,000 East German refugees to escape to the West.
It is the largest mass migration of East Germans to West Germany since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stem the flow across the border.
Hungary, in a decision announced yesterday, was the first Eastern bloc government to help the citizens of another Communist country to freely leave their homeland.
"The Hungarian government has chosen to illegally allow East German citizens to travel to West Germany in violation of international treaty," the East German news agency ADN said.
East Germany promptly attacked the Hungarian decision, saying Budapest had "directly interfered" in East Germany's internal affairs
It said that Hungary, "under the guise of humanitarianism, had engaged in the organized smuggling of human beings."
At this frontier town 120 miles northwest of the Hungarian capital, border guards gave only cursory checks to East Germans.
As the first groups crossed, hundreds of others waited in their cars, forming growing lines at the main border crossings.
Eight of 18 lanes at the Hegysha-lom crossing were open as the jubilant East Germans drove through. They honked their horns, cheered and whistled, releasing emotions pent up by days and weeks of waiting for a decision by Hungarian authorities. Some refugees waved bottles of foaming champagne from the car windows.
The fate of the refugees had been discussed for weeks by East and West Germany, with Hungary insisting it was primarily a bystander interested in seeing a solution. The communique said, "The talks between East Germany and West Germany ended in failure." It did not elaborate.
Greek systems work toward integration
By Cory S. Anderson, Holly Lawton and Jennifer Metz Kansen staff writers
Greek chapters at the University of Kansas might be taking strides to achieve greater understanding between the two Greek systems, one predominantly white, the other Black.
This weekend; members took one such step toward further integration during the annual Greek Endeavor, an informal conference for members from both systems. The conference was conducted in Linwood.
"There is a lot to be learned from both sides," said Todd Fowler. nresi-
Jewish culture is part of some greek houses
By Jennifer Metz Kensan staff writer
Students choose a predominantly Jewish sorority or fraternity more for a cultural bond than a religious bond, said the president of the Alpha Epialon Pi fraternity.
"The house itself is a social organization, not a religious organization," Mark Epstein said. He open to have a common culture."
Although working together is an important goal of both systems,
dent of Interfraternity Council. "We need to be able to help each other."
There are two predominantly Jewish fraternities on the Lawrence campus, Zeta Beta Tau
and Alpha Epsilon Pi, and one predominantly Jewish sorority, Sigma Delta Tau.
Dawn Aronoff, Sigma Delta Tau member, that membership in one of the Jewish sororities offered
members agree that integration, if possible, will not happen overnight
'Integrating fraternities and sororites is a newer concept, and there
See JEWISH. p. 6
will be some adapting," said Derek Locke, vice president of IFC.
The differences in each system's focus is a primary reason for the
"Black Panhellenic's main focus is in leadership and academic excellence," Bonds said. "It is a way for students to be involved and to serve themselves as well as the community."
separation, said London Bonds,
Black Panellinic adviser.
Fowler said IFC's main focus was more socially oriented, with mem- trials being used.
"It becomes a network. Living in the houses can be a common bond," he said.
Erik Dickinson, president of Black Panhellenic, agreed that the major
Voyager paves way for more detailed study of space
See GREEK, p. 6
By Travis Butler
Kansan staff writer
The beep from Voyager 2's radio beacon will be fading away as the probe sails out of the solar system, signaling the end of an era of planetary exploration.
But now a new era in solar system exploration is beginning, heralded by NASA probes Magellan and Galileo.
"Magellan is a radar mapper," said Tom Craven, associate professor of physics and astronomy. It was designed to orbit Venus and use it to accurately measure the planet's motion and man than had been possible.
Magellan was launched this spring on a mission to Venus, the second planet from the sun.
Other instruments would measure infrared
The greenhouse effect is a condition where a high concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to higher temperatures on a planet's surface. Craven said scientists in the greenhouse effect was responsible for the high surface temperatures on Venus.
radiation and temperature, Cravens said, and would help scientists study the greenhouse effect.
By studying the greenhouse effect on Venus, scientists could try to determine the effect's possible relationship to conditions on Earth, he said.
"It's a testing bed for stuff that could be applied on Earth," Cravens said.
Gallieo was designed to study Jupiter.
"Galilee will be launched between October 12 and the end of November, depending on
when the stubble can go up," said Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy.
Armstrong is working with NASA to help interpret data coming from Voyager 2, and he will be working on the information from Galileo when it reaches Jupiter.
Once Gallioe is launched, it should reach Jupiter in about five years. Its lengthy, roundabout course was necessary to compensate for Gallioe's late launch, Armstrong said. It was originally scheduled to be launched in 1968, but the Challenger disaster grounded the shuttle program.
Once Galileo reached Jupiter, it would orbit the planet while making its observa-
Because of this, it should gather more information than the Two Voyager probes did.
Armstrong said, "Gallileo should orbit Jupiter from 1998 to 1997 at least."
Craven's said the Voyager probes flew straight by Jupiter, each spending less than a day close to the planet.
He said that during Galileo's stay at Jupiter it would fly close to Jupiter's moons and would drop a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, close to the equator.
Magellan and Galliee are the beginning of NASA's plans for the 1900's. Several other missions are either in the planning stages or have been approved and funded by Congress.
Armstrong said Ulysses was a probe designed to study the area between the planets and around the sun. It is a joint effort between the European Space Agency and the United States and is scheduled to be launched in October 1980.
The second mission, Mars Aeronomy Observer, is a tentative mission designed to study Mars' upper atmosphere and how it reacts to the solar wind.
Cravens said that two missions to Mars were planned. Mars Observer is designed to study the surface and meteorology of Mars. It has been approved by Congress.
Cravens is looking forward to the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby, or CRAF. He said CRAF would pass close to an asteroid and then join CRAF's main target, a comet, somewhere near the orbit of Jupiter.
Which comet is chosen will depend on when the mission is launched.
Finally, Cassini, another mission to Saturn, is planned. Like Gallileo, it will orbit its planet, giving it a more thorough survey than the Voyagers could perform.