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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 6, 1990
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Shuttle launch delayed again after fuel leaks found on ship
NASA scrubbed the launch of space shuttle Columbia yesterday after discovering a leak as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen were being pumped into the fuel tank.
The decision was made after unacceptably high concentrations of hydrogen were found in the shuttle's aft compartment, said space agency spokesperson Lisa Malone.
The launch crew immediately began trying to isolate the leak. No new launch date was set.
The shuttle's launch was scrubbed in May because of a hydrogen leak and again last week because of communication problems with one of the shuttle's instruments.
Israeli wiretapping scandal rocks government and media
JERUSALEM — A scandal dubbed Israel's Watergate eclipsed news of the Persian Gulf crisis here yesterday, featuring accusations of the Iranian government of the propriety of wetting wrapping under Jewish law.
It rattled nerves in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's narrow-based coalition Cabinet and renewed tension between Israel's two main communities — Sephardic Jews from Africa and the Middle East and Ashkazim of European origin.
The scandal began last week with reports that five people were held on suspicion of bugging the telephone of investigative reporter Mordechai Gilat of the newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
A recorder was found on a motorcycle outside Gatil's home, with wires running through his phone. The device is used to monitor the car.
Koreas in meetings
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea today proposed that the two Koreas officially recognize each other's governments, but the communist North was not likely to accept.
The Associated Press
South Korean Prime Minister Kang Young-hoon initially made the offer yesterday at the first talks ever between prime ministers of the hostile nations, but the proposal was not acted upon.
Their final closed-door session started today with the seven official delegates of both sides sitting across from one another at a conference table in a hotel ballroom.
North Korea has steadfastly refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Seoul government, maintaining that such a policy would perpetuate the division of the peninsula, split in 1945.
South Korea thinks mutual recognition would be practical and would allow both nations to coexist until unification of the peninsula could be achieved.
Moreover, the South says the North has given tacit recognition by agreeing to hold the historic talks, the highest-level contact ever held between the nations.
South Korean spokesperson Kim Hyung ki said in a briefing that mutual recognition is "necessary
to ease mutual distrust and improve relations' between the countries.
He also said that 10 North Koreans, including Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk, would visit South Korean President Rob Tao-wee later today at the presidential mansion.
That meeting would mark the first time the leader of South Korea has received an official representative of the rival communist North Korea, and since separate governments were formed in 1948.
During yesterday's meeting, about 1,000 radical students marched through Seoul, shouting anti-U.S., anti-government slogans and hurling rocks and firebombs at riot police.
Riot police fired tear gas to block the students from marching off campus. Several students and police were injured, and at least five students were arrested.
During yesterday's meeting, North Korea demanded that South Korea release jailed dissidents and stop joint military exercises with the United States. The North also demanded that the United Nations enter to enter the United Nations separately, saying that to do so would perpetuate national division
U.S. hostages come home
International Airport, and passengers had to spend at least an hour passing through U.S. Customs before they could leave the airport or catch connecting flights.
The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — Twenty four Americans held hostage in the Persian Gulf arrived in the United States yesterday, weary from a 20-hour flight but thrilled to be back.
"I'm happy to be home," said Tailbub Tabl, 15, of Davenport, Iowa, who has been visited aunts and
"We welcome these people home," Lucinda Florio, wife of Gov. Jim Florio, said while presenting yellow roses to Nthal George, who was
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KU graduate writes book on Quantrill
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
William C. Pollard, a 1929 KU graduate, is a statistical researcher and programmer by trade. But he has been praised for maintaining a lifelong interest in writing that has resulted in the recent publication of his first book, *The Scientific Method*.
The book, a non-fiction, comprehensive account of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence in 1863, required years of research.
Pollard, 36, graduated from KU with a master's degree in journalism. He said a terrible job market forced him to go back to school to study computer science and accounting.
"But I always had a big interest in writing, and planned to do something with it in matter what I majored in," he said.
"Dark Friday" focuses on the historical significance of the raid and the criminal charge against Clarke Quantrill and his band of Confederate marauders. Close to 200 people were killed in the raid and more killed in the town was burned to the ground.
"The raid is obviously important from an architectural point of view, as it involved many buildings were destroyed, more遗憾less of life," said Dale Walz, director of sites, preservation for the Kansas State Historical Society.
Pollard said he chose to write about Quantrill after he attempted to
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research the raid and found no comprehensive account.
Pollard began his research in 1984, balancing it with a full-time job at the Kansas Department of Transportation in Topeka.
"It makes it so it takes years from start to finish," he said. Pollard said he did most of his work at the
Topika Public Library, the Kansas Historical Society and the Spencer Research Library at KU. He also read his readings by taking walks
"After I read the accounts, it helped just to walk around Lawrence, trying to figure out how things would have looked," he said.
Movies
"We haven't really figured that out ourselves," Griffith said. "It had we'd all be rich. But comedies and lighter stuff usually go over well. Some foreign language films do very well too."
Griffith said he could be selective as to what movies Liberty Hall showed since it is an independent theater. Currently, the theater is showing Spike Lee's "Mo Better Blues" and David Lynch's "Wild at Heart," which are drawing large numbers of students.
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"We don't try for the big releases, like the 'Rambos,'" he said. "The chains get all those."
Lawrence has two six-screen theater Dickinson, 2339江山 St., and Hillcrest, 2150 Main St., mainly to big releases. Though both are interested in attracting student business, neither has much say in what will be shown at the theaters.
"Student business is enough to make a difference," said Hircestel how you take 27,000 students, it's got to effect on any business. The movies are allocated by the film companies. Students see what whatever suits them.
Harwood said that at Hillcrest, "Ghost" and "Darkman" were currently the biggest student draws.
Peter Haxter, assistant manager at Dickinson College, said his client was struck by the estimate that about half of Dickinson's customers were stu-
"We noticed a pickup right about the time they opened up the dorms," she said. "We were there, they'd come here to see a movie before going out — or those that were behind it."
compared to last year, Haxton said Dickinson sold 4,639 tickets the week of July 27. During a good week, Dickinson played in 15,000 to 17,000 people in its 15,000s.
Haxton said students were showing the most interest in "The Exorcist III" and "Pump Up the Volume."
Business is running a little slow
Student tickets at Dickinson and Hillcrest are $3.50.
The Varsity Theater is currently showing "Presumed Innocent," which manager Rance Blann said was attracting a lot of interest.
"Lawrence is a good show town," Blann said. "Lawrence is slightly sophisticated, and sophisticated, intelligent pictures do well here. If you have a good movie, people come see it."
For students low on cash, the Cinema Twin Theater, 31st and Iowa streets, charges only $1.50 for admission. The movies, however, usually have already been shown at larger theaters.
"We get them two weeks to six months down the line," said manager Mark Bontz. "Right now, we have Young Guns II and the Jungle Book. The distributors decide which movie to move into discount houses."
Theaters may depend on students for a big chunk of their business, but what happens when students leave town for the summer?
Effects aren't as bad, though, as some might think.
"Take 20,000 students, plus some professors and other people who leave town for the summer, and they will effect on everybody," Griffith said.
"Some of our record weeks occur during Christmas vacation and summer, when the students are gone." Harwood said.
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