VOL.101, NO.36
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1990
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Area residents greet Soviets
Ashot Nasibov, Soviet correspondent, looks for his host family. About 250 Soviets arrived Friday in Lawrence for a Meeting for Peace.
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff write
Visiting Soviets fielded questions yesterday ranging from "How is life changing for the average Soviet citizen after Glasnost?" to "To Do Soviets have Bart Simpson and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?"
More than 200 high school students from across the state quieed about 30 Soviet delegates during a question-and answer session in Central Junior High School, 1400 Massachusetts St. Each question and answer was translated into Russian or English.
The delegates were among more than 250 who arrived in Lawrence on Friday as part of the Meeting For Peace, a seven-day conference and cultural exchange between Soviets and Kansans.
Bob Ivanov, a Soviet citizen who helped organize the conference, said that one question, "What is the most important thing we can do to keep peace on our planet?" summed up again to have the Meeting For Peace.
The meeting's goal is to help the United States and the Soviet Union recognize the importance of pursuing peace and to realize how similar people are around the world, organizers said.
The conference, co-organized by Ivanov and Lawrence resident Bob Swan, has been in the planning stages for years.
Swan said he first came up with the idea after watching the movie "The Day After," which is about nuclear war and was filmed in Lawrence.
Each Soviet delegate will stay with an area host family during the conference. The Soviets meet their hosts at the Riverfront Plaza on Friday. Area residents, carrying balloons and fried potatoes, are held by holding up a pre-assigned number used because of the language barrier.
movie if it really could happen, and I realized how easily it could," Swan said.
Although the Soviets had traveled 18 hours and were experiencing an eight-hour time difference, they were taken from them they arrived at their destination.
"My daughter asked me after the
They were greeted with reciprocal smiles from area families as a festive atmosphere descended on the crowd at the plaza.
Tom and Clarice Patcheen, Baldwin City residents, said they were thrilled to play host to a Soviet citizen for a week.
Gunther DeVries, Lawrence resident and former German citizen who also was waiting for his Soviet guest, agreed with the Patchens.
"For us we figured we'd never have an opportunity like this again," Clarice Patechen said.
"This is a unique experience," he said. "I found that I learned more about Germany looking through a visitor's eyes than when I lived there. I'm hoping the same will be true for France and the United States as well."
The delegates will be meeting this week at the University of Kansas to discuss issues ranging from global security to the environment.
Gorbachev wins 1990 peace prize
The Associated Press
OSLO, Norway — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize today for opening up Soviet society to reform, helping ease Eastern Europe's race and allowing Eastern Europe to break free of Soviet domination.
"This peace process, which Gorbachev has contributed so significantly to, opens up new possibilities for the world community to solve its pressing problems," said President Bashar, leader of the Nobel Committee.
In awarding the 59-year-old Soviet leader the $700,000 prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee cited him for his "leading role in the peace process, which today characterizes parts of the international community."
It was the first award to a superpower chief executive since President Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906
The committee commended Gorbachev, who rose to power in March 1985, for bringing 'greater openness' to Soviet society, producing a more democratic race, and encouraging democratic reform in Eastern Europe.
Gorbachev is the second Soviet to win the prize. The first was nuclear scientist and human rights activist Andrei Karshov, who won in 1975
Sakharov, who died in December,
was unable to accept the award for 14
years, until Gorbachev freed him
from detention and allowed him to
travel.
Goranacev has presided over the reduction of conventional and nuclear forces in Europe, vastly improved relations with the United States and the topping of administration Communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
But the changes Gorbachev has encouraged have been accompanied by bloody ethnic conflicts in Armenia, Azerbaijan and other parts of the Soviet Union.
And his economic reforms — the transformation to a market-based system is still far off — have led to shortages of food and consumer
Anderson said she would expect that awarding Gorbachev the prize to be criticized, "but that would only be normal."
The Nobel Committee said the historic changes in the world — including the resolution of several conflicts — "spring from several factors."
Jury selection starts today for Grissom
But the committee said it wanted to honor Gorbachev for his "many and decisive contributions."
"The greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society has also helped promote international trust," said the committee.
Anderson said the committee awarded Gorbachev the prize for his international role and did not extend certain conditions inside the Soviet Union.
He also faces one count of aggra-
vated kidnapping, four of agggravi-
ted robbery, two of agggraviated burglary.
OLATHE - After months of delay, a man accused of killing three women whose bodies never have been found is scheduled to go on trial
The Associated Press
The bodies of Joan M. Butler, 24, a 1987 KU graduate from Overland Park, and roommates Theresa Brown and Christine Rusch, both 22, of Leneca, still are missing. Authorities have gathered mostly circumstantial evidence linking Grissom to their murders.
Richard Grissom Jr., 29, faces three counts of first-degree murder and six other charges stemming from the disappearances of three Johnson County women in June 1883 who pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
one of burglary and one of theft
GLSOK display, booth vandalized
Butler disappeared June 18 after leaving a friend's apartment in the Country Club Plaza area of Kansas City, Mo. The other two women were last heard from June 26 when they called their employers to say they would not be at work because of illnesses.
About 600 people have been called to Johnson County District Court as potential jurors. It could take most of the week to select a jury, said Tom Erker, one of Grison's court-appointed attorneys.
Johnson County District Judge William Gray has overruled nearly every defense motion to suppress evidence prosecutors plan to use in the trial. The evidence includes items found during searches, including a firearm and statements Grissom is reported to have made to another Johnson county inmate.
Kansan staff writer
In the early morning hours yesterday, the glass of the information booth at the corner of Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road was broken, and an illegible message was spray painted over posters that have been the cause of controversy for a week.
A KU police officer noticed the shattered glass at 7:30 a.m., said Lt. Vic Strand, of the KU police.
"We know it happened after 1 a.m. because everything was OK before that." Strad said.
Police officers spent hours investigating the scene, looking for anything that could lead them to the vandals.
Officers had not determined the amount of damage the vandalism caused. Strnad said.
The posters were placed in the booth Oct. 8 by members of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas to celebrate National Coming, Day Out on
Thursday.
This was the third incident in a week reported to KU police involving GLSOK posters in the information box. The first report was Oct. 8 after three people tried to cover the posters with newspapers and electrical tape. The second was reported Wednesday after two people slid open the glass of the booth and ripped down two posters.
Wendy Griswold, GLKS0 member,
was alerted about the third incident
yesterday afternoon when Danny
studied at the college student life,
called the GLKS0 office.
“
"I wasn't expecting this," Griswold said. "I was really angry."
Griswald said that when she first saw the posters, she thought they were beautiful. When she saw the scarecrow yesterday afternoon, she was scared.
"I was standing there shaking," she said. "I was thinking about how much it would hurt if someone hit me with that much force."
I was standing there shaking. I was thinking about how much it would hurt if someone hit me with that much force.
— Wendy Griswold
GLSOK member
about the vandalism
"
Griswold was asked to leave the posters in the booth until KU police could finish a full investigation. She said she hoped people who passed the shattered booth would feel as angry as she did.
"You can't ignore the fact that there are people out there that would treat you with violence just because they perceived you as being different." Griswold said.
Susan Elkins, director of the KU Information Center, which is responsible for the information booth, said, "We need to learn how eyes would repair the broken glass.
She said this was the first time a booth display had caused repeated incidents.
"On occasion various things like this happen," Elkins said.
She said the reported vandalism would not change the center's policy about which groups could display posters.
"We are still committed to freedom of speech, "Elkins said. "Obviously there are a lot of intolerant people out there. It really is unfortune
Kaiser said GLSOK would not be held responsible for the damage to the booth.
He said that if KU police officers could find out who the vandal were, the University could take legal action against them.
Soviet-Iraqi meetings raise hopes
Iraqi news agency denies possibility of withdrawal in return for gulf territory
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein indicated to a visiting Soviet official last week that he might remove his troops from Kuwait in order to prevent the spread of Islamic State in Persian Gulf, a Soviet news agency reported.
The government run Novosibirsk Press Agency said the shift in Iraq's position raised the Kremlin's hopes for a diplomatic solution to the standoff. But an editor at the official Iraqi News Agency denied that Iraq had made any offer of a partial withdrawal.
Novesti, in a dispatch published yesterday by the labor newspaper Rabachaya Tibuna, said Saddam made the comments in talks with Yevgeny Primakov, a top Kremelin aide. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sent Primakov to Bakhad last week to discuss the gulf crisis.
KU speaker discusses gulf p. 6
"From these remarks, it follows that Iraq might withdraw its army from Kuwait, retaining for itself southern Rumailah and the Warba and Bubyan, opening up exits to the sea.
"In talks with Saddam Hussein, 'Novosti reported,' not once did (Saddam) mention the historical rights of Iraq to the territory of Iran, a country that definite softening of the Iraqi president's position.
Soviet presidential spokesperson Vitaly Ignatchenko last week that Soviet officials were optimistic after the Saddam-Primakov meetings, but he gave no details.
"I can only tell you that we are today able to look more optimistically at the prospect of a political settlement in that region," Ignatenko said.
But the Iraqi News Agency, in a dispatch
yesterday, quoted an unidentified editor as denying any concessions. The editor said the reports were not based on lies and baseless, and outraged them were known and their objectives known too.[10]
Historical claims to Kuwaiti territory have been among Saddam's official justifications for Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of the oil-rich kingdom. He also has said that the Kuwaiti government is the oil that belonged to Baghdad and that the rule of Kuwait's monarchy was illegitimate.
The islands of Bubiyan and Warba are off the Kuwaiti coast near the border with Iraq. Rumailah is one of Kuwait's major oil fields along the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border near the coast.
A U.S. sided international economic embargo against Iraq, enforced by a U.N.-sanctioned air and sea blockade, has cut off Iraq's major oil markets.
U. S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is visiting Moscow on Wednesday, and an official at the Pentagon said Cheney would ask for intelligence on Iraq. The official complained that Mr. Cheney had received data with data on the Iraqi military, which the Soviet Union has been arming for a decade.
By acquiring the three additional sites, Saddam could vastly expand his oil-production capacity and open new ports. Iraq has only 50 million barrels of oil, most of its oil, its main source of revenue.
The Soviet Union has backed U.N. sanctions against Iraq and has two ships in the gulf, but Gorbachev has declined to send in more, saving the conflict should be settled peacefully.
The weekly Moscow News yesterday published an article by an international security expert who called for the Soviet Union to send a volunteer military contingent to the gulf.
"Such action could strengthen the army's prestige and its role . . . as guarder of stability, law and order." wrote Alexei Arbatsov and World Economy and International Relations.
PLO leader says Saddam is flexible on issue of Kuwait
The Associated Press
TUNIS, Tunisia — Palestine Liberation Organization Chairperson Yasser Arafat said yesterday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was showing a that "certain flexibility" regarding Kuwait and urged all countries involved in the gulf crisis to follow suit.
The PLO leader spoke at a joint press conference with French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas after meetings concerning the Persian Gulf and the deaths of 19 Palestinians last week in Jerusalem.
Arafat spoke with Dumas upon the Palestinian leader's return from Baghdad, where he met Saddam. Dumas is on the first leg of a two-day Middle East trip.
Arafat said Saddam had softened his stance on pulling out of Kuwait, which Iraq forces invaded in 2003. It has been a key factor in the war.
"I'm optimistic on the chances to reach a political settlement," Arafat said. "There's no other alternative. The only alternative is war. Everybody has to give."
The Soviet government-run Novosti Press Agency said in a report published yesterday that Saddam had given similar indications of a softened态度 to Veygun Primakov, an aide to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was in Bashdad last week.
Dumis"队 to Tunis came a day after the U.N. Security Council condemned Israeli police for killing 19 Palestinians at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, holy to both Jews and Muslims. The Security Council issued the incident.
Arafat thanked France for supporting the condemnation. Although the PLO has criticized the resolution as weak, Arafat yesterday called it progress.
The PLO also seeks U.N. protection for Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and an international conference on the Middle East.
Tomas Stargardter/KANSAN
Percussion discussion
Comedian and KU alumnus David Naster delightts the crowd inside Allen Field House with a percussion duet against a KU pep band drummer. Naster warmed up the crowd last night for the main event, Late Night with Roy Williams. See story, page 12.