VOL.101, NO.21
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA
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Iraq threatens attack if U.N. embargo is effective
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — In their most bellicose statement yet, Iraq's leaders have warned the U.S. led forces arrayed against them that they are ready to annihilate them. U.N. trade embargo to strangle the Iran people.
They seemed, for the first time, to be threaten in a first strike and mentioned Israel and Mideart
"America must realize clearly that it is pushing the entire region, in fact, even the whole world
to the brink of a bottomless abyss, from which the region will never see light for dozens of years, the region will be dark.
It was signed by the Revolution Command Council and the ruling Baath Party but bore the rhetorical unprint of President Saddam Hussein — "God will give you souls who would waipes," "evil doors" and "Zoost usurpers."
"We will never allow anybody, whomever he may be, to strangle the people of Iraq without having himself strangled," the communique stated.
It was the latest Iraqi threat of retaliation against the multinational military buildup in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. The U.S. led military group is enforcing a U.N. embargo imposed on Iraq after
its invasion of neighboring Kuwait on Aug. 2.
Iraq said yesterday it would destroy all Mideast oilfields if the Iraqi people were strangled by foreign forces assembling in the Persian Gulf region.
Last week, Iraq's information minister, Latif Nassayel Jassim, told Jordanian reporters that Iraq would destroy the oilfields if Iraq was attacked.
But yesterday's communique, broadcast by state-run Radio Baghdad and monitored in Cyprus, indicated that the crippling effect of an embargo also could prompt an Iran response.
"If we feel that the Iraqi people are being strangled, we will strangle all those who are the leaders of Iraq."
More Gulf coverage
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112 aboard last freedom flight leave London for N. Carolina
The Associated Press
LONDON - A jetliner carrying 112 evacuees from Kuwait and Iraq flied to North Carolina yesterday. It was the last U.S. chartered flight carrying Western hostages to freedom.
The plane took off from London's Heathrow Airport and was heading for the Raleigh Durham Airport in North Carolina. Canadians and 55 evacuates of
other nationalities on board, according to the U.S. Embassy here.
They were among 140 evacuees from Kuwait and Iraq who arrived at London's Gatwick Airfield on October 29, 2015, the rest remained in Britain.
Iraiq President Saddam Hussein has allowed some women and children to leave but he has kept foreign men behind
ABOVE: A Lawrence firefighter holds a hose while fellow firefighters attempt to put out a fire in the Gardener shack on Sunnyside Avenue. RIGHT: A Lawrence firefighter drags a hose into place during a fire at the garden shack on Sunnyside Avenue. The fire happened yesterday afternoon.
Fire damages campus storage facility
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
A fire yesterday afternoon caused extensive damage to the roof and upper floor of a campus storage building, fire department officials said. No one was hurt.
Capt. Donald Beckner, of Lawrence Fire Station No 2, estimated that the fire caused $15,000 to the fire department.
The Lawrence fire department received a report of a fire at 12:59 p.m. at the Gardener shack. The firefighters managed to save
Dole Human Development Center.
Beckner said flames were coming out of the windows and heavy, dark smoke was coming from the windows.
Maj. Robert Coleman, of Lawrence Fire Station No. 2, said the fire department extinguished the fire.
The cause of the fire has not been determined. Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, said the shack was used by facilities operations for storage.
Bales of straw and plywood were stored on the
top floor, he said.
He said the straw, which is used by facilities operations to clean up oil spills, was primarily made from wheat.
Capt. Robert Burton, of Lawrence Fire Station No. 3, said the fire was contained in one building.
No. 3, said the fire was contained in one building. Coleman said the fire department used fire hydrants on Jayhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road.
He said firefighters did not use a fire hydrant on his building because it did not have sufficient water.
Singing the song "In Our Hands" at the KU Students Against Hunger candlelight vigil near the Campanile are: Lari Bilyeu, Wichita junior, left; R.J. Ain, Pittsburg senior; and Karin Denes, Prairie Village junior. The event last night observed the World Summit for Children, and similar vigils were conducted throughout the country. See story, page 3.
Hunger vigil
Soviets adopt free market
The Associated Press
Parliament votes to abandon Communist economics
MOSCOW — The Soviet legislature voted early today to reverse seven decades of Communist-style economics, giving preliminary approval to a rescue plan for switching the Soviet Union to a free market economy.
Members of the Supreme Soviet voted 323-11 to endorse a blueprint for making the economic conversion within 500 days. It was not immediately clear when the program would begin.
The program would reverse the basic aim of the Bolshevik Revolution and Stain's brutal collectivism, whose legacy is an inefficient economy where food rots on its way to market and consumer shortages now
The lawnmakers then began debating the resolution clause by clause. They were to vote on possible amendments later today.
There was no applause or other display of emotion when the electronic vote result was announced, not even by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev sitting alone on a raised stage in the chamber.
Fifty-six legislators abstained from the historic vote.
include bread.
It would create a federation of republics with economies built on private businesses, individually owned farms and stock markets trading shares in competitive companies.
The program marked a significant change in Gorbache's tactics. His perestroika program had been aimed at restructuring centralized socialism but now is moving toward destroying it.
Lawmakers had been scheduled to vote on the program Friday but failed to master a quorum and had to adjourn until today.
Gorbachev had expressed frustration Friday, saying there was no more time to "talk, think, try and experiment."
The resolution endorses Gorbachev's compromise economic program but also states that the more conservative recipe drafted by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov should be incorporated into it.
A third, more radical plan, has been adopted by the Russian Federation, the largest of the 15 Soviet republics with half the country's
people and three-quarters of its territory.
Previous attempts to merge the conflicting proposals have failed because they are so fundamentally different.
Today's resolution states that a final detailed program should be presented to the Supreme Soviet by Oct. 15. It is to be developed by legislative committees and the authors of the various programs.
The Soviet public has become increasingly disappointed in Gorbachev's handling of the economic crisis, and dozens of protesters chanted at lawmakers as they arrived for the morning debate.
"The people don't trust Gorbachev, about a dozen demonstrators shouted outside the Kremlin's Spasskite Group. They held signs that read 'a president — not an emperor' and accused the enemy of battles against democracy."
Gorbachev on Friday requested sweeping new emergency powers to implement the economic program and restore law and order. The Supreme Soviet was expected to vote on his request later today.
Educators appeal to state committee for 100 percent tuition waiver for GTAs
Kansan staff writer
By Yvonne Guzman
TOPEKA — KU will suffer if it cannot compete for talented graduate teaching assistants by offering them full tuition fee and millsyskens, dean of liberal arts and sciences.
Muyskens was one of several administrators and graduate students from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Emporia State University to appeal to the Legislative Educational Planning Committee on Friday for an increase in the GTA
tition fee waiver from 75 percent to 100 percent.
One-third of those responding to a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences questionnaire to GTAs who decided not to enter KU graduate programs said they would have attended KU if it had offered a better financial package, Mukksens said. Of those students, more than half said the university they chose instead of KU offered a 100-percent tuition waiver.
According to a memorandum submitted to the committee by the Kansas Legislative Assembly, the House is considering legislation to
institutions offer 100-percent tuition waivers and three waive the GTAs' non-resident status when assessing tutition. KU waives 75 percent of Kansas-resident tuition for both resident and non-resident GTAs. Non-resident students given resident status when assessing tuition.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said KU could not handle its enormous undergraduate enrollment if it could not rely on GTAs to teach.
GTAs teach about 25 percent of student credit hours offered at KU, according to the
State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, vice chairperson of the committee, said that he thought GTAs deserved 100-percent tuition fee waivers but that he was not sure whether it would be possible to increase the waiver.
Muyksens said during the hearing that
KLRD memorandum. The average nine-month stipend for a GTA at KU is $7,256.
He said it would be more likely for GTAs to get the 100-percent tuition fee waiver if the change was incorporated as part of next year's Margin of Excellence proposal.
when kU received Margin financing during the 1988-89 and 1989-90 academic years, GTA stipends were increased in the same proportion as faculty members' salaries.
State Sen. Lana Oleen, R Manhattan and member of the committee, said that she supported most of what was said in support of full tuition waivers for GTAs. But she said that she was troubled by the tendency of students to pursue education at the university where they received their last degree to avoid what administrators at the hearing termed "inbreeding."