THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.14
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 1990
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German unification treaty ends postwar era
The Associated Press
WEST BERLIN — Chancellor Helm
mut Kohl yesterday praised German
unification as the first modern mer
nation without war and are
suffering.
Germans in the East and West hailed the historic signing of the unification pact in Moscow as the end of the postwar era
There was, however, none of the euphoria that greeted the opening of the Berlin Wall 10 months ago.
Most East Germans now are more
The Federation of Expellees hope to one day regain lands forfeited to Warsaw after World War II, and it will to Poland's present western border
A protest also was lodged by a
Jewish leader in Israel who condemned the treaty for failing to mention the Nazi Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed during the war.
The treaty guarantees Germans full rights over their country 45 years after it lost the war.
"World War II is truly over," the ARD television network commented shortly after the signing. These signatories, including a government-saveout of a united Germany,
The four World War II powers that
defeated Nazi Germany signed the treaty with the two German states. It approves of the unification and heralds the return of full sovereignty.
In Bonn, Kohl said that yesterday was "another key date on the way to German unity."
"This is the first unification of a country in modern history that is taking place without war, suffering and death," he said in a written statement. "He said in a written statement
While the recent rush to unification has been amicable, the road has been
long. The division of Germany was filled with world-threatening tensions between the late 1940s and the 1960s.
ARD television showed clips of the German separation, and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 as part of its report on the signing.
The more recent shots showed a smiling Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev chaiting with Kohl.
ARD noted that Gorbachev's policies and the end of the East-West conflict "cleared the way for German unity and the normalization of Soviet-German relations."
Secretary of State James A. Baker III, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevadnadez and their French, British and German counterparts signed the treaty in the plush Oktyabskrava Hotel.
West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gerrich said that the treaty signing was "a day of joy and jubilation" for Germans, but that the victims of World War II and the Nazi terror must never be forgotten.
Chris Wallingford protests a petition asking that ROTC ceremonies be moved off campus.
Petition prompts debate
Kansan staff writer
By Debbie Myers
Kenney staff write
Three students stimulated further debate yesterday about KU's anti-discrimination policy and the efforts of a non-profit agency to policy ban homosexuals.
Chris Wallingford, Leavenworth freshman; Mike Frison, Leavenworth junior; and Paul Krueger, Leavenworth freshman, protested about 1 p.m. at the Kansas Union in front of a petition table sponsored by the University of Kansas Law School Liberties Union, Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas and the Women's Student Union.
The petition asks Chancellor Gene A. Bugid to sign a University Council resolution that would pro-tect students from missioning ceremonies on campus.
The resolution also would prohibit University personnel from participating in the commissioning ceremonies in an official capacity.
Frison said he and his friends were concerned that the petitioners were trying to get the ROTC banned from campus, which would force ROTC scholarships to be taken away. Frison and Walingford said that they were ROTC students, but Krueger was not.
Wallingford said the petitioners should have been taking action against the Department of Defense instead of ROTC.
Charly Bauer, St. Louis senior, who was collecting signatures for the petition, said he thought the three students helped the petition cause by drawing attention to the issue and by being illogical.
"We're glad that they came out, but we're kind of disappointed in the language they're using." Bauer said. "I think they're belittling their point by the language they're using."
Wallingford held a sign that said "No Fags in my Foxhole." After a comment from the bystander, he and replaced it with "fags" and replaced it with "gays."
Shortly after 1:15 p.m., Bill Towns, operations supervisor at the Union, asked the petitioners to move their table outside because they had been blocked by about 50 people who had gathered around the protesters.
Frison's sign said, "The A in Army is not for Analist." He said analyst meant a person who committed sodomy.
See PROTEST. p. 8
Grissom questions procedure
OLATIE — Defense attorneys for Richard Grissom Jr. contended yesterday that their client wasn't read the terms of the agreement agent arrested and interrogated him.
The Associated Press
Grissom is accused of killing three young Johnson County women whose bodies remain missing. Prosecutors say the victim was lightly circumstantial case against him.
Grissom's defense lawyers, Tom Erker and Kevin Moriarty, said a public defender from Dallas would counter the agent's claim that Grissom was advised of his rights and had waived his right to an attorney before the interview.
The FBI agent, Mike Napier,
arrested Grissom and interviewed
him for more than seven hours at
Dallas Port Worth International Air
Judge William Gray ruled that Shumaton could testify next week and continued the motion on the Dallas interview until then. He said he would issue written rulings for all cases once all the evidence is heard.
The testimony came yesterday during a hearing on defense motions to suppress evidence at the trial, which is scheduled to begin next month.
The public defender, Paul Shumatona, will appear in Johnson County District Court on Sept. 20 or 21, the defense said.
agent told him toward the end of the interrogation that Grissom had not been advised of his rights, the defense said.
Shunatona will say that the FBI
Napier denied that he had made any such statement to Shunatona.
Earlier, under questioning by District Attorney Paul Morrison, Napier said the 29-year-old Grissom did not confess to killing the women but said they might be dead and asked about making a deal.
"I told him just the opposite," Napier said under cross-examination by Erker.
"He was saying that he didn't think the girls were dead, that they were just missing. Napier said, "He said that you are missing." And said, "Maybe they are by now."
Ayatollah calls for war
The Associated Press
Iran's spiritual leader offered more support to Tehran's former archemony yesterday, calling for a holy war against Western forces gathered in the Persian Gulf since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that Muslims who died fighting to throw Americans out of the out region would be martyrs bound for heaven. His speech in Tehran came amid reports that Iran had agreed to help Israel embark on Iraq for trading food and medical supplies free Iran oil
to Iraq's Aug 2 invasion of Kuwait, but the condemnation was muffled by his bitter denunciation of the U.S. deployed to deploy Saudi Arabia.
"What has the security of this region got to do with you?" he asked. The security of this region is the business of the nations of this region.
Speaking amid charts of "Death to America," and "Death to Israel!" by an audience of hundreds, Khamenei warned: "Musslim nations will not allow America to set up its security and defense system in the region"
"The struggle against American
agression, greed, plans and policies in the Persian Gulf will be counted as a Jihad (holy war), and anybody who is killed on that path is a martyr," he said in the speech carried by Tehran radio and monitored in Nicosia.
Iran's spiritual leaders often referred to their 8-year conflict with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's secular regime as a crusade. But Saddam last month withdrew troops that have been the focus of fighting in 1988 truce, and he agreed to share sovereignty over the Shattail-Arab waterway.
Additional guif coverage p. 6
Pearson still awaiting repair
By Tracey Chalpin
harvard staff water
Jeff Alex can remember hearing promises of renovation of Pearson Scholarship Hall from the housing department when he was a freshman in Fall 1986.
He's still waiting
"In general, the residents are upset," said Alley. All Scholarship Hall Council housing and contract chairmen.
While three other halls have been renovated in the past 40 years, Pearson is still on the renovation waiting list.
while nine other team have been renovated in the past a year. Pearson is still on the renovation list last week. His team will be scheduled for the summer of 1989, but other projects took priority, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
"I'm hoping it's done this summer." he said.
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Doug Riat, assistant director of facilities planning, said that Pearson's interior needed to be gutted and redone, and that site improvements, including landscaping and a new driveway, needed to be completed. The project will cost at least $500,000.
The building was re-roofed two years ago. Haif said.
He said bids were opened for the Pearson renovation in
1980. The project was not awarded because bids
did not reach the required size. The project could not be completed in the 10, to 12-week
period allotted.
Rail said a new bid for the project probably would be accepted this spring. It will have a more realistic time frame.
He said the plan would have to be released early this spring so contractors would not be forced to pay more.
Riat said contractors probably would accept a bid and charge less if there was less pressure to get the job done
He said the Pearson renovation should be completed in four to five months.
Stoner said the last time he communicated with facilities planning about the renovation was a month ago.
He said that one reason for the delayed renovations was that the original plans were not specific enough, and the plans had not been approved.
Miller Scholarship Hall and Watkins Scholarship Hall received renovations during the summer of 1986, Stoner said. Battenfield Scholarship Hall was renovated in the summer but needed further renovation in the summer of 1988.
Aley said work done at Battelfen in the summer of 1982 was necessary because of mistakes made during the ride.
Fund honors Med Center physician
By Courtney Eblen
Kansan staff writer
Aside from the shelves of medical textbooks and the rows of diplomas and awards, one thing in Kermit Krantz's office indicates his contribution to medicine. His MMK counter.
Propped up on a table, it is the size of a bathroom scale and impossible to miss. The digitally displayed numbers indicate how many Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz surgeries Krantz has performed during his career.
The surgical technique, which Krantz helped develop, is one of dozens of innovations that have earned the University of Kansas an international reputation as an expert physician and researcher.
Kermit Krantz is the first distinguished professor at the Med Center.
The MKM repairs a woman's urinary tract weakness by changing the angle of the bladder, Krantz said. As of yesterday, he had performed 4.875 of them. But he still gets a kick out of adding to the counter.
When Krantz returned to his office last week after a morning of surgery, he punched the counter button, and as the number 4,874 popped onto the screen, a digital music box inside the player played the tune. "How Dry J Am."
Krantz grinned. "Isn't that something? A group of medical students gave that to me." he said.
Yesterday, a KU endowment fund was set up to honor Krantz, said Bob Campbell, vice president of medical affairs for the University of Kansas Endowment Association. More than $630,000 donated by faculty, alumni and friends of the Med Center will be used for research in obstetrics and gynecology.
Krantz, 67, recently was named a distinguished professor by Chancellor Gene A. Budig. He is one of eight KU professors with such an honor, and the first one from the Med Center.
As a distinguished professor, however, Krantz had to relinquish his post as chairperson of the Med Center's department of gynecology and
"It's not a master relationship anymore," Krantz said. "They're around me because I can teach them."
obstetrics, which he has held since he began teaching there in 1959. Krantz agreed to the move because he said he had not been able to time with his patients and students.
Krantz already has received a number of awards for his work in the medical field. He is a Markle Scholar and is the obstetrics and gynecology consultant for the U.S. armed forces, and in 1985 received an Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the U.S. Army.
Krantz said he began working for hospitals as a boy, cleaning morgues and selling newspapers to patients. He also studied the physiology of the kidney
and how it was affected during pregnancy. This research led to the development of the MMK procedure.
Krantz is an outspoken proponent for women's rights and is adamantly pro-choice. Before the Roe v. Wade ruling legalized abortions in 1973, Krantz said he saw the results of botched, illegal abortions.
"I'll never forget the pretty little girl who died that looked just like my daughter," he said.
Krantz said that after 1973, he campaigned for, and won, the right to perform abortions at the Med Center.
"It unfair for me to deny (a woman)," he said. "It's a matter of right. It should be her choice because it's her body. Why should I ask a request for permission to operate on his wife? The decision should be hers."