VOL. 101, NO. 45
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1990
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Hang in there
Jason Mikelson, Naperville, Ill., sophomore, spots 4-year-old Kiley Jewell as he swings on the high bar. Kitley, a Lawrence resident, was taking gymnastics lessons yesterday afternoon in Robinson Center as part of the Kansas School of Gymnastics. The program is sponsored by Parks and Recreation of Lawrence and the KU department of health, physical education and recreation. Kitley has taken tumbling lessons before, but this is his first year of gymnastics lessons. See story. Page 8.
100,000 more troops could be sent to gulf
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing plans to send as many as 100,000 troops to Saudi Arabia, but the expanded building does not signal a U.S. intent to attack Iraq. Secretary Dick Cheney said yesterday.
CIA Director William Webster, meanwhile, suggested a growing S.U.D. reluctance to let Iraq President Saddam Hussein survive the current crisis in power, even if he withdrew from Kuwait.
Webster said that the Persian Gulf region would not be secure unless Saddam was removed from power or "disassociated" from his chemical weapons and from reported efforts to accuse nuclear arms.
On Capitol Hill, there was concern about the administration's course and worry that once Congress leaves town, but might feel less concious of it.
"I am not convinced that this administration will do everything in its power to avoid war," said Sen Boker Kerney, D-Neb, expressing the same sentiment as many of his colleagues have supported the gulf deployment.
Kerley, a Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor winner, said "If ever there was an avoidable war, it is this one."
The Pentagon's disclosure earlier this week that it was considering addroops to Operation Desert Shield, beyond the 240,000 already deployed. It also announced about whether the deployment was being tailored for an offensive.
Cheney, speaking in a series of interviews with the television networks ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, said that the Bush administration had not set an upper limit on troop deployments to Saudi Arabia. He said he wanted to have enough forces there to deal with any contingency.
The defense secretary said that his orders from Bush were to use U.S. forces to deter Saddam from invad-
Fort Riley soldiers prepare for Middle East deployment
The Associated Press
FORT RILEY — About 750 military reservists and 450 other soldiers at Fort Riley are preparing for possible deployment in the Middle East, a spokesperson at the base said yesterday.
Rumors have been circulating that soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley would move to Browne Corp. Divine now in the Gulf.
Fort Riley spokesperson Mark Meseke said that as far as he knew, the 11,500 soldiers in the 1st
Infantry had not been called.
hintly in the heat of the rumors, but they have not been on alert." Meseke said.
The 450 Fort Riley soldiers on standby are not in the 1st Infantry Division
To date, about 375 Fort Bilel soldiers and 35 reservoirs from the Army base in northeast Kansas have been deployed.
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I am not convinced that this administration will do everything in its power to avoid war.
- Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.
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ing Saudi Arabia, to prepare to defend the Saudi kingdom in the event of an attack and to enforce the U.N. sanctions against Iraq.
"We want to have the capability for the president to make the decision to use other options should that become necessary in responses to a provocation, for example," said Cheney, referring to a possible U.S. offensive
Cheney did not provide details of the additional U.S. deployments planned. When asked whether as many as 100,000 more troops might be with Cheney said, "It's conceivable that he end up with that big increase."
The need to expand Desert Shield, already the biggest U.S. military operation since Vietnam, is based in part on increases in Iraq troop numbers in occupation Kuwait since the first U.S. invasion in early August. Williams said
The Pentagon estimates that about 430,000 Iraqi troops are in and around Kuwait now, compared with about 150,000 in August.
Williams said the request for more troops came from Gen H. N. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander in chief of all U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf area. Schwarzkopf met earlier week in Saudi Arabia with Gen H. N. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander in chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss possible additional troop deployments.
Williams indicated that Cheney was considering transferring as many as 50,000 troops from Germany to Saudi Arabia but that plans were incomplete. He did not specify whether the forces from Europe would rotate to Saudi Arabia as replacements for or as additions to the troops that have been there for several weeks.
Manager says Grissom had women's apartment key
Kansan projects writer
By Eric Gorski
OLATHE — A set of keys, three rings and receipts from a money market account.
heard from since June 26,1989.
These items were among the evidence presented yesterday that prosecutors hope will convince jurors that Richard Grismon Jr. is responsible for the June 1989 disappearances of two Lenexa roommates.
Theresa Brown and Christine Rusch, then 22, have not been seen or
Grissom, 29, faces three counts of first-degree murder and nine other charges relating to the June 1989 disappearance of Brown, Rusch and 1987 KU graduate Joan M. Butler. The two women have never been found. Grissom pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison began yesterday's proceedings by calling witnesses co-
nected with items that he, in opening statements last week, said were found in Grissom's brown Toyota, which was recovered June 27, 1989, from a Grandview, Mo., apartment complex.
Evidence also was presented yesterday that indicated Brown or Rusch may have known Grissom before their disappearances.
Judy Rusch, Christine Rusch's mother, took the witness stand first yesterday and examined a ring that
Morrison had presented as evidence. She said it looked like the ring she and her husband, David, had given their daughter as a 21st birthday gift.
Two of Christine Rusch's former boyfriends also identified two rings as ones that looked like rings they had given to Rusch as gifts.
Key fit women's apartment
manager of Trafalgar Square apartments, where Brown and Rusch lived, identified a set of keys as master keys that could open about 60 percent of the complex's apartments, including Brown and Rusch's. In opening statements last week, Morrison said that the master keys for the complex were found in Grissom's car.
Julie Combs, who in June 1989 was
"I had given Richard a master key," she said.
Combs said also that she had hired Grissom as a paint contractor in March or April 1989.
Combs said that a man named French or Frenchy had begun working with Grissom in May 1989. During cross examination by Kevin Mortary, one of Grissom's courtroom assistants, Grissom's co-worker could have used the key. However, during redirection by Morrison, Combs said that the
See GRISSOM, p. 14
Watkins' HIV test policy raises concern
Bv Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
The age group of the KU student population is among the highest risk for being tested HIV positive, said Ann Ailor, a Douglas County Health
But members of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas have said that some students may avoid being tested at Watkins Memorial Health Center because of its policy against anonymous testing.
Anonymous and confidential HIV testing are two different concepts
And confusion about test policy has raised some concerns.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said that at the center, students must write their names on a request form for an HIV test.
"The records are totally confidential and cannot be released without the consent of the patient," Yockey said.
plotted the form requesting HIV tests, they knew what the test was and that their names were added to the form for student health records
Testing positive for the HIV antibody indicates that a person is susceptible to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
But confidential records are not enough for some students who want an HIV test.
Marcia Epstein, director of headquarters, a community crisis center, said that people who wanted an HIV test would not take it if they thought there was a possibility that someone could find out who they were.
He said that when students com-
"There is no question about the fear," Epstein said. "There is a
possibility of discrimination. People connect the fact that you have had a test, whether you test positive or with sexual activity or street drugs. You can think they are even think they are at risk, then they have done something wrong."
Voyckey the fee for an HIV test at Watkins was $17.50, which covered the lab fees. He said identification on a prescription was important for some students.
"Some students have to have their
See HIV, p. 2
'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' writer at KU
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Through song and poetry, Poet Maya Angelou brought her blend of love and literature to the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
"This is your life," she said. "It is not your mama's. It is not your papa's. It is not your sister."
She sang her first words of the presentation,
"it open my mouth to the Lord, and I won't back no more." She closed her presentation with
the same words.
Angelou, who first came to KU 20 years ago as a scholar in residence, performed a potpourri of lecture, poetry and history filled with melancholy. She read poems by Black women and lingered herself.
Angelou, the author of a variety of poems and novels, including the novel, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," was greeted by a standing arm in her face. The book floated from floor and lined along the sixth-floor balcony.
Angelou said jokingly. "In 20 years you've
invited many people. Since it's taken so long for you to invite me back, I thought I take the next four or five hours. I hope you brought everything you need."
She urged students to visit libraries on campus to check out works by Black authors and said that it was a necessity for all students to read books written by Black poets such as Lannett Huthes.
"You can laugh and joke," she said. "But no play. There is a reason for you being here."
"All you need to know is that someone has been there before you," she said. "Someone has been desperate before you. Someone has been left alone." And that's Black or Native American . . . this is real now."
She told students in the crowd that the reason they were at an institution of higher learning was because it was a college.
Angelou received a standing ovation as she left the stage. The crowd succeeded in bringing her back.
During the encore, Angelo told the audience not to miss the "I Dream a World" exhibit at the
Spencer Museum of Art. The exhibit features photographs of influential Black women. Angela D. Tatum, curator, has exhibited at the museum.
Angelou, who appeared in the television miniseries *Root*, recently was a guest on "The Voice."
"Arsenio is calling me and asking me to be on the show," Angelo said. "I kept telling him, 'You're not ready for me, your audience is too young' and went on the show and did a poem. I loved it."
She told last night's audience that it was the responsibility of the young to end sexism and be unbiased.
"We are all victimized by ignorance," she said. "But we are more alike, my friends, than you."
Dorothy Pennington, professor of African and African-American studies, introduced Angelou.
"Years ago while reading 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' it was so compelling, so moving, I couldn't put it down," Pennington said.
About 120 people, including faculty members, administrators and students, attended a discussion at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union that revolved around predictions made at KU 24 years ago.
As part of the University of Kansas' 125th anniversary celebration, four panelists took a look back at the future last night.
125th year celebrants review 1966 forecasts
Kansan staff writer
By Karen Park
Karen staff writer
Judge Deanell Tacha of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Dolph Simons Jr., editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World; Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor; and James Gunn, professor of English, discussed past predictions and the present and future of issues ranging from genetic research to the future of energy resources.
- There would be a serious depletion of oil and greater air pollution from automobiles.
- Humans would establish a permanent base on Mars.
- Universities such as the University of Kansas would have enrollment limits.
In last night's program, "Looking Back at the Future: Revisiting Forecasts Made at KU's Centennial in 1966," the panelists were asked to compare the world in 1990 with predictions that were made by participants in the 1966 Inter-Century Semi-par.
Some of the predictions made in 1966 were:
Tacha told last night's audience that KU had been a leader in a variety of fields, including women's studies.
Many women in the late 1960s thought they were limited to becoming teachers or nurses, she said.
She said Emily Taylor, former KU dean of women, brought a group of about 200 women together in 1964 to teach them that women could do more with their lives than just have children.
Shankel made his own predictions about the future after saying he would do so because science was unpredictable.
Individuals will continue to be concerned about environmental issues, and recycling and conservation are more popular in the future. Shankel said.
He said preventive vaccines for diseases such as AIDS also would be developed within the next 25 years.
Gum warned the audience about the dangers of prophecy, but he chose to make three of his own, including the prediction that cheaper and more plentiful energy would be available in the future.
He would not predict how the energy would be obtained or why it would be more inexpensive.
Simons said that it was impossible to predict the future but that it was important for universities and companies to consider the possibilities of the future so they could be prepared for change.