THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOPEKA KS 68612
VOL.101.NO.8
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1990
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Korean leaders start first high-level talks
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's prime minister, meeting his North Korean counterpart for the first time yesterday, said it was expected to together to "that thaw the thick ice of distrust."
The Associated Press
Their meeting marked the highest-level contact between the hostile Koreans since the war.
By holding formal talks, which start today,
Communist North Korea gives tacit recognition to the legitimacy of the South Korean
downfall, it is needed to recognize for more than four decades
"I am so glad that you have taken the challenge of blazing an unbeaten trail through the thicket to come," South Korean Prime Minister Kang Young Hoon told his North Korean counterpart, Yong Hyong Muk, at dinner.
"If only we build confidence in each other by meeting again and again, we should be able to generate sufficient heat to thaw the thick ice of distrust." Kang said.
"National unification cannot be achieved by forcing ideology and thoughts on others."
The two leaders met informally twice
during the day and spent about 15 minutes alone prior to a Western style hotel banquet. After dinner, the 90-member North Korean group was taken to a movie on Korean cultural sites.
Talks today and tomorrow are to focus on easing military and political confrontation and launching multilateral exchanges — those that will help prevent anything other side wants to talk about.
South Korean officials have cautioned against high expectations, saying the talks are only a first step on a long road toward peace and unification.
North Korean radio urged Seoul to approach talks "with a sincere attitude ... and cease from spoiling the atmosphere of dialogue."
About 200 students yelling anti-government slogans and hurling more than 500 firebombs battled riot police at Seoul's Korea University.
Radicals and dissidents are demanding immediate unification and the withdrawal of U.S. troops, positions supported by North Korea.
Soon after their arrival, the North Koreans asked to visit the families of South Korean
dissidents jailed for illegally visiting the North, but the government indicated the officers had been removed.
The North Korean leader escaped injury shortly after he arrived when the car in which he was riding was involved in an accident with three other cars on the way to the hotel
The accident occurred when a civilian car tried to cut through the motorcade speeding through downtown Seoul. Two North Korean diplomats riding in separate cars behind the prime minister were treated for minor injuries.
Setting sail
Scott Michael, Huntsville, Ala., sophomore and race team captain of the KU Sailing Club, checks the rigging of his sailboat on the front lawn of Strong Hall. The club is recruiting members for its introductory meeting at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
David Naster returns to Lawrence with an award-winning comic act
Comedy is serious business to David Naster.
So far, comedy has taken the former KU student all over the United States and the world. He also has been featured on HBO and Showtime, and owns the title of college comedian of the year. Last night, Naster brought his act to Pizzaz, 901 Mississippi St.
Kansan staff writer
By Jamie Elliott
For nearly two hours, Naster entertained a crowd of nearly 100 at a hyperactive pace on topics ranging from the Pope to sorority women.
Naster let himself be sidetracked often during the show, leaving the stage to work the audience into his act.
"I thought he was very good, especially the humor relating to the stuff about Lawrence," Booth said. "I don't think I am comfortable with the audience was very good."
In an interview before the show,
Naster said he got most of his material from "little things you pick up."
Nick Booth, Tulsa, Okla, senior,
came to Pizazz especially to see
Naster.
"I read all the time, gathering information," he said. "I read the
"I try to find out what's hot on campus. By picking up a local newspaper, I can learn what's going on. Anything that happens at afternoon, that night I can talk about it. I got a job and did his homework. "He like that."
want ads, the classifieds, the advertisements. And I get a lot by just living doing things, experience."
Naster's travels to different regions of the United States have taught him to tailor his act to the audience.
Naster said he knew he wanted to do stand-up comedy even when he was a theater major at KU, from 1971 to 1975.
"I took all that theater experience and went out and started doing it," he said, "I liked the guys on stage. You can talk about what you want to talk about, but I didn't like the script does. But I think that one thing that separates me from other
"It's all knowing who's in the audience, who they are and how to appeal to them," he said. "The big difference in college crowds is just the experience of the people. You can't talk about relationships to a freshman, or being married with children."
Skateboarding accidents cause restrictions at KU
comedians is that I went to college and got a theater background."
"I figured out every avenue I could do comedy," he said. "I worked street corners in Kansas City. But since I've gotten out there, I've had to hardly solicit myself at all. I've been very lucky."
On the way to his current success as college comedian of the year, a title awarded this year by the National Organization of Campus Activities, Naster paid his dues with "sweat, sweat, sweat," he said.
Oroke said he had been receiving complaints about skateboarders for more than a year. Complaints are forwarded to his office because he is in charge of the KU police and of facilities operations on campus.
Bv Debbie Mvers
Kansan staff writer
A recent skateboarding accident has prompted KU officials to erect signs prohibiting skateboarding on campus and to consider recommending that city skateboarding restrictions expand to include campus.
Facilities operations became concerned about skateboarders because
"Ironically, we had started a reviewed court on it in the morning when she was injured in the afternoon," said Rodger Rodeo director of Criminal Justice. Certainly that accelerated our need to get something done about it.
Naster's performance at Pizzaz is the first of four scheduled "Comedy Club" nights at the club. Three more comedy acts are scheduled to appear at the club for the next three Tuesdays.
A 20-year-old KU student was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Aug. 27 after an 11-year old skateboarder rider lost control of his skateboard on a second-floor patio of Wesco Hall. The skateboarder hit the woman who was sitting in a cabinet area below on the back of the head.
Lt. John Mullens of the KU police said it would be easier to enforce skateboarding regulations if they became part of the city ordinance.
Ryan Schierling, Emporia freshman, was riding his skateboard last night in front of Lippincott Hall with his girlfriend. The police officer asked them to leave.
More Westerners leave Iraq
boards, roller skates and other similar devices are not allowed between the sixth and 10th blocks of Massachusetts Street, including a half block east and west of that area, leading to a city ordinance passed in 1988.
Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant facilities operations, said a sign had been placed on both sides of the sidewalk at each campus entrance and near Wescow and Lippincott halls.
Oroke said that if the signs were not effective, expanding the city skateboarding ordinance would be a more substantial measure. Skate-
"I can't really say there is a written document that says there is no skateboarding on campus, but the signs serve as official notice that skateboarding is not allowed." Oroke said.
Mike Wilden, Lawrence city manager, said that Victoria Thomas. University general counsel, had met with city staff last week about expanding the skateboarding at the City Commission's agenda.
"With the ordinance, it would be a traffic citation similar to a citation written for a bicycle ridden on the sidewalk." Mullens said.
Oroke said that KU police, facilities operations and the University General Counsel have been discuss informally what to do about the skateboards since before the tall skateboarder started.
Orok said the KU police had not been instructed about how to deal with skateboarders.
"Lawrence needs a good comedy night club," he said. "Some people say that it's too close to Kansas City to support a comedy club, but that's not true. I think people don't want to have to drive to Kansas City."
"It's understandable, I guess, that it's been banned on campus," Schierling said.
He had previously added concrete bumps to the tops of the planters outside Wescoto to discourage skateboard riders. The surface of a deck would have been lined with mesh and with a grinder, but Broke said these measures had marginal effects.
Although Naster has achieved success already, he said he still had goals and plans for the future.
some steps and three windows at Wescoe have been damaged, apparently by skateboard riders, Oroke said.
"I just want to keep making people laugh," he said. "And gain national notoriety, do TV or movies."
The Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — Scores of Western nationals, including 135 West Germans, arrived in the Jordanian airfield onboard two Iraqi Airwaters jets.
The first flight, which landed at Queen Alai International airport, brought 170 foreigners, mostly Arabs and Asians. There was one English woman among them, Georgina Rose, with her two children, Jemeela, 18 months, and Sheerazadea, 6 months. Rose is married to an Iraqi citizen.
The second plane, which landed two hours later, had 135 West Germans, plus some New Zealanders, Irishmen and some other Western citizens, according to airport officials.
A British embassy official said 45 Britons were expected on a third flight. A U.S. Embassy spokesperson said there also would be a number of
Americans on the plane, but added that he was not sure how many
officials told him that they would leave for Frankfurt, West Germany later in the day on a Lufthansa jetliner.
The arriving Westerners were taken immediately to the airport transit lounge and reporters were not allowed to speak to them. Airport
Earlier yesterday, a British-organized convoy of about 300 women and children left Kuwait to drive across the desert to Western Arabia said a place of load, Westermen
More than 700 Western hostages — women, children and a few ailing men — have left, but the departures of others have been complicated by Iraq's refusal to allow foreign airlines to land in Baghdad and by long delays in processing their exit permits by Iraqi authorities.
Meanwhile, Iraqi authorities said the United States was to blame if captive foreigners went hungry as a result of food shortages caused by the international economic sanctions against Iraq.
Iraq has said that Western women and children trapped by the Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait will be permitted to leave, but Western men are being as human shields to protect Iraq installations against potential attack.
might be allowed to leave for Jordan on a U.S.-chartered Iraqi Airways flight.
David Naster, 1990 College Comedian of the Year and former KU student, performs at Pizazz.