VOL. 101, NO. 63
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Walesa pulling ahead in race to lead Poland
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — Lech Walesa, who united Poles in their struggle against communism, was leading in Poland's first popular presidential election yesterday but appeared beaded for a run-off according to
state television nolls.
In a surprising
development,
Prime Minister
Tadeusz Mazewski was in a
close race against Stani-
taw Trawsiak
Twinski
Tyminski, a political unknown until recently, is a businessman who returned to his homeland this fall after 21 years in Canada and Peru.
The second-place finisher will enter a Dec. 9 runoff if the winner fails to gain an outright majority in the first round
Walesa, the leader of Solidarity, had 41 percent of the vote, a 2-to-1 lead over Mazoweicke and Tyminski.
according to the polls. The polls indicated Mazowiecki and Tyminski each had 20.5 percent of the vote, far below the of the remaining three candidates.
It was a stunning backset for Mazowiecki, a former Walsley ally who instituted unpopular economic measures after taking command of Poland's first postwar non-Communist government.
"No matter what the election results are, we created a basis for a broader democratic movement in Poland," Mazowiecki told supporters of the campaign. "We will continue the struggle for a democracy as we want it."
The poll indicated that only 4 percent of the farm vote went to Mazowiecki. Farmers have been angry about the abolition of guaranteed prices for their produce under government's economic reform plan
Mazowiecki also did poorly among workers, according to the poll.
Tyminski nearly tied Walesa in the Silesian mining district, the poll said.
Coal miners there are threatened with layoffs and have staged a series of strikes.
A member of Mazowiecki's campaign, parliament deputy Jan Litynski, said the early exit poll results were "a bit exaggerated." Tadeusz Mazowiecki will undoubtedly reach the second round.
Pro-Mrozowiek newspaper editor Ernest Skalds said that if Tymkins reached the run-off, Walesa would win handily.
Other supporters of Mazowiecki, the East bloc's first non-Communist head of government, seemed convinced that Walesa would win.
"But the very fact that he got to the second round would be a shameful episode in our political history," he said.
"Unfortunately, what we will see with Walesa as president is hyperinflation and chaos," said Mark Dabrowski, a former deputy finance minister who left the government and joined Mawczeki's campaign.
Walesa declined any immediate public statement. Jacek Merkel.
Polish students and professors at KU are paying attention to the first democratic presidential election in 2016.
Kansan staff writer
Poles at KU differ in their opinions about election
Bozena Duncan, associate professor of mathematics and a Polish citizen, would have been allowed to vote in the Polish election, along with other people of Polish descent living in foreign countries.
She did not vote because she did not make arrangements to do so, she said.
She said her family in Poland expected that Lech Walesa, Solidarity chairperson, would win the elec-
"Maybe he will not win during the first election." Duncan said. "It means we have to have a second term."
If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the votes, there will be a runoff vote Dec. 9.
"People want somebody who will change the situation," she said.
Poles were disappointed with Tadeusz Muziewicki, who has been the prime minister of Poland since June 4, 1989, because he did not do as good a job as they expected. Duncan said.
Blanka Bednarz, Poznan, Poland, freshman, is 17 years old and not old enough to vote but, she said, she is the only one.
"I think he is more responsible," she said
Walesa's campaign manager, said Walesa was still awaiting final results. He scheduled a news conference for today.
Tyminski, who promised to quickly cure Poland's economic problems.
Although many people were disappointed with Mazowiecki because he could not make the economic changes he said he would, Bednarz said she understood his problem.
"Nobody can make quick changes," she said. "I bet he that the intelligence would vote for Mazozo."
Walesa made many promises, but he will not be able to fulfill these promises, she said.
However, because people like promises, Walesa will win the election, she said.
Bednarz said she was afraid the government would become communist again because Walesa was supported by workers.
"If he won the election, he would be something like Levin," she said.
Jarosław Piekawiek, professor of political science, was born in Poland but is a U.S. citizen now.
He supports Mazowiecki. he said.
Intellectuals and the business class support Mazowecki because they understand Mazowecki's long-term vision.
However, the working class does not support Mazo- wekiki because it does not understand the long-term consequences of a class system.
declined to talk to reporters after he voted.
"Walisa is claiming that he is going to protect them," Pleikawicz writes. "He doesn't say how, but he knows."
"Tymskii conducted an American-standard campaign, breaking every rule," political commentator Rassidy Sarguzek said on state television.
Seeking the perfect tree
Keith Thorpe KANSAN
LEFT: Leigh Yates, Leavenworth sophomore, examines Christmas trees at the Breakfast Optimist Club lot near Dillons Supermarket, 1015 W. 23rd St. Yates and her companion settled on a 3-foot Scotch pine.
ABOVE: Loren Solezal, Lawrence resident and employee at the lot saw the bottom off of a tree that so its roots can absorb water when placed in a stand. Dolezal said the lot had two types of trees — Fraser firs and Scotch pines. Prices range from $15 to $76, with all profits going to charity.
KU police officer has seen much of school's history
sion. During the campaign he was accused of slander for charges that Mazowiecki had committed treason against the nation. Mazowiecki's government is struggling to create a market economy.
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
A wooden cabinet in Lt. T. Mullens' office on the third floor of Carruth-O'Leary Hall shelters several from KU police's past.
accordion-like camera once used at accident scenes and of the leather-bound clock once used by campus accessors when they made their rounds.
Mullens can tell a host of other tales. He has witnessed almost every significant event at the University of Kansas in the past 23 years, first as a graduate student and then as an officer who made his way through the KU police ranks. Mullens has been
He can tell about patrolling campus on a bicycle, by stopping former Chancellor Archie Dykes for speeding on campus and about the conversation he once had with a Muslim representative to the United Nations who spoke at KU and gave him an Arabic version of the Koran.
Each has its own story, and Mullens, 41, can tell the tales of the 1950s handcuffs that once had to be removed from a patrol officer's wrist with soap and water because there was no key. He can tell of the
the community services division commander since January.
during the years that has made his work enjoyable, he said.
It is the variety of duties Mullens has performed and people he has met
"I could not see myself being in an office all the time, and even though that's what my job is primarily, I am probably out of it almost constantly." Mullens said in a slow, thoughtful way, "It's like today I had a whole day's worth of paperwork ahead of me, and it still sits.
"The people you meet, whether it's staff people, whether it's faculty,
whether it's the guests or visitors to the University, are extremely interesting. And you've got an opportunity probably to learn and continue to learn in an environment like that, but you wouldn't have any place else."
Mullens' interest in associating with people of every race, nationality and occupation partly comes from
See MULLENS, p. 8
U.S. seeks support for gulf force Baker to ask U.N. for Jan.1 deadline
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The United States will seek U.N. approval this week of a resolution authorizing military force against Iraq if it does not get out of Kuwait by Jan. 1, U.S. officials said yesterday.
One official said that Secretary of State James A. Baker III had been talking about this deadline during his recent globe-trotting campaign to win support for a U.N. resolution authorizing force.
The official emphasized that while the Jan. 1 goal was not locked in concrete, it was in the written version of the agreement with France, China and the Soviet Union.
Another administration official said that the resolution being circulated combined the administration's intent to threaten force with the Soviet Union's interest in prolonging d i p l o m a c y.
That official said the draft was a compromise that Baker expected to be adopted by Thursday — one not authorizing immediate action, but cutting in half the two-month period Soviet President Mikhail G. Sorbachev has suggested should be allowed for diplomatic moves to show results.
The formula was adopted as a way of ensuring the United States would get a force-threatening resolution passed in one form or another.
U. S. officials have said they did not expect the Soviet Union and China to block a resolution on force but that the two might seek gentle language than the United States would prefer. U.S. officials said the two Security Council members with veto power — were expected to back a resolution authorizing force.
Protesters oppose gulf buildup p. 3
Bv Yvonne Guzman
Council to give foreign students chance to voice concerns
KU's 1,870 foreign students will have a voice in University governance Saturday when representatives meet in the meeting of International Council.
Kansan staff writer
Martin Shrironshita, president of the International Students Association, said that the council would attempt to examine concerns that seemed fairly widespread among students and faculty unaddressed by the administration.
"They're always saying, 'We don't hear any complaints from foreign students.' " he said
But many foreign students do not
know where to go if they have problems or concerns while at the University of Kansas, Shironoshta said. And the administration never has had an official body or spokesperson for foreign students' positions and needs.
The International Students Association, which is establishing the council, provides social and cultural programming, but it cannot function as a mouthpiece for foreign students because it does not have representatives for all of KU's foreign students, he said.
The council will comprise representatives from the Chinese Students Association, the Malaysian
Students Association of KU and other representative groups, he said. Membership also will be granted to Mike Schreiner, student body president, and Gerald Harris, director of the office of Foreign Student Services.
Fernando Aracena, chairperson for international student affairs for the International Students Association, said the council's 30 members would be divided into three committees: the Academic Committee, Student Senate, and the student body.
One of the first things the council will do is take a stance on whether foreign students should be considered minority students, Shironosha said.
Shironshitoa said a proposal earlier this semester to consider students from South and Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Mexico as Hispanics, and Black students from Africa as Black Ameri-
The proposal, which was defeated, overlooked that many differences exist between foreign and minority students. he said.
"Foreign students have totally dif
Foreign students, unlike minority students, are in the United States as visitors, he said. They come to the United States to study but eventually intend to return to their own country and culture.
Another issue the council probably will address is that of housing for foreign students. Shironohita said.
The council also may examine ways in which the Applied English Center can be improved. Shiro
ferent goals, different beliefs, different views,” Shironchoa said. “There’s no way you can compare a Hispanic with a Native American from Los Angeles.
"We come here as guests. We see our hosts struggling and we just kind of stay back."
Many foreign students live in residence halls, he said. When the halls close for breaks, foreign students frequently have no place to stay.
noshita said
The center is one of the best in the country, he said. But concerns about various aspects of the courses and are questioned by foreign students.
"That will be a very,very complex issue." he said.
Aracena said another concern that might be raised in the council was whether the University could be a student's academic requirements.
Because most foreign students intend to return to their home countries to work, they might not need courses required for U.S. students.