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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 56 (USPS 650-640)
Monday. November 12. 1984
Leaflets say class performs terrorist homework
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
A course on terrorism has provoked the distribution on campus of leaflets accusing class members and teachers of terrorist activities.
A member of Praxis, a student group that publishes a left wing journal, on Thursday began posting leaflets charging students in the class with dubious acts — performed as homework assignments — against liberals Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
David Vaughan, Leuwood senior made the charges against the professors and students.
sion and Terrorism in the Modern World,
which is offered jointly, through the anthro-
phileum of Mr. Gaddafi.
MAYNARD W. SHELLY, professor of psychology and one of the instructors in the class, denied the charges, which include the failure to comply with an activity in the Clinical Intelligence Agenda.
"Our point is limiting terrorism, not promoting it," he said.
The leaflet, a piece of yellow paper with black printing, accuses class members of following and threatening Praxis and GLSOK members and of cloaking their harrassment beneath the excuse that such activity is required in the course.
"Who knows what the intentions are here?" Hoeft Voanng said yesterday.
Shelly explained that the course assigned students to hypothetical terrorist and anti-terrorist groups in order for the students to better understand the difficulty of combating terrorism, which he said was becoming a major form of warfare.
Floxi Moos, professor of anthropology and the other instructor in the course, said the class was no different in intent from hundreds of others.
"THE TERRIORIST GROUPS try to pick targets, and the anti-terrorist groups then try to guess what they are." he said. "The purpose is to see how difficult it is to actually try to predict what would happen in a terrorist situation."
"It's like teaching a course on Marxism," he said. "I don't think the professor who
teaches it is advocating going out and practicing Marxism."
Some of the targets students have chosen, their terrorist groups, Shelly said, include Lawrence City Hall and the recently opened Fred B. Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Students also have as an intent in the course to select them, the terrorists might choose to attack, he said.
HUET-VAUGH SAD HE WAS disturbed
to bear that he had been Ruth
bearer of the family. He was persecuted.
"Evidently, one group found out she had a moped and made plans to run her off the road when she was coming home from a meeting," he said. "I can't believe they would place her under sufficient surveillance to discover that she had a moped.
"Wouldn't it make you feel a bit paranoid?"
Lichward, who said she had attended the class after she had learned from a friend that the hypothetical crime had been planned against her, said she had been initially arrested.
"I was very upset when I went to sit in on the class," she said. "But after I heard what they were doing, I saw that the intent wasn't bad
"In fact, I'm interested now in taking the class myself."
LICHTWARDT SAD, HOWEVER, that she didn't approve of class members
Pair travel on horses, see world
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
See LEAFLET n. 5 col. 1
Staff Reporter
A case of wanderlust struck Adman Azzam following his graduation from law school in Syria in 1962
So on Oct. 6, 1982, Azzam set off on an adventure that has taken him to the ancient runs of Greece, the Rocky Mountains — and now across the plains of Kansas.
But his trip has not been by boat, plane or train. Meet of the two years have been spent
Jackie Kelly/KANSAN
Adnan Azzom, from Syria, and Brigitte Vaulta, from France, stopped in Lawrence this weekend on their horseback ride around the world to promote world peace. During their
"I decided to travel by horseback to make it more exciting, more interesting. Azam said,"
AZZAM, 27. A NATIVE of Syria, and his traveling companion. Brigitte VanLanen, 26, from France; have logged hundreds of miles on horseback on an around the world peace mission, which brought them to Lawrence this weekend. They arrived here Saturday afternoon.
stay. Azam and Vandael rested their animals, actually a horse and a mule at the Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E.
Azzam and Vanlaar are scheduled to discuss their journey at 7:30 p.m. today in the lobby of the Bank of America.
"We are not trying to make a record riding on horseback. Azam said. We are just trying to keep it simple."
They rode around Europe and Asia on horseback and left their horses in Spain. Upon arriving in the United States, a New York police officer stopped his horses so they could continue their mission.
The two ride about 20 miles a day. Stopping at schools and churches, they give lectures and slide shows, spreading knowledge about cultures foreign to Americans.
"IT'S A GREAT TIME for us when we are with students," Vanaer said. "We want to
give them this love of travel, of meeting people
Most of their audiences are students.
Azzam said. Many students ask them about
their careers.
"A lot of students ask if we have been to Russia," Azam said.
Azam counts Vanlaar among the friends he has made. When he arrived in France in August 1863, he met Vanlaar, who decided to join him on his peace mission.
VANLAER SAID GOODRYE to her family and left behind a lucrative job.
Since May, Azzam and Vania have unearthed their own gold mines by talking and staying with Americans from all walks of life.
"It was nice for me," she said. "Now I have nothing. But I'm really happy with that, better than before."
"They are friendly with us." Azam said.
"They are really open-minded
1 decided to see what was on the other side of the world, the truth. Not what we see on P
During their travels, the two have met the presidents of Syria and Greece, the king of Spain and the governors of California and Kansas. When they arrive in Washington, D.C., next December, they hope to meet President Reagan
They began their trek on the West Coast
and have worked slowly eastward. For three weeks, they have been in Kansas. Tomorrow
AZZAM AND VANLAER, who travel with few personal belongings and live on a bare bones budget, joked that they might discover a gold mine or oil field along the way.
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Reporter
The $172,491,189 budget includes a 5.5 percent salary increase for faculty members and student workers and a 1 percent increase in retirement benefits for faculty and administrators at all Board of Regents schools.
A budget increase of about 6.1 percent from this fiscal year was recommended for the Lawrence campus last week by the state of the budget, state officials said Friday.
David Dallam, principal budget analyst for the state office, said, "This budget is definitely more generous than the budget recommended by the budget director last year at this time. The possibility is remote of a reduction downward, but anything can happen. It is more likely to go up than go down."
LAST YEAR'S RECOMMENDED budget for the University of Kansas did not include any program improvements, Dallam said. Money for program improvements is allocated to individual schools rather than to all Regents schools.
But this year, more than $1 million was recommended for library acquisitions, academic computers, graduate teaching positions and instructional equipment, Dallam
"the revenue estimates were down statewide" he said, referring to estimates of the amount of money the state can expect to take from its sources. "I don't know what that will mean."
Kansas State University would receive a
See Budget, p. 5, col. 4
Spy planes over Nicaragua fuel fear of U.S. invasion
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua said yesterday U.S. spy planes broke the sound barrier twice over the country, causing minor damages and fueling the leftist Sandinista government in fears of an American invasion.
The spp planes, capable of flying at three times the speed of sound, flew over Nicaragua for the fourth consecutive day in January 2016 to provide airlift opportunity for the first time, minor damage.
Within two hours of each other, what the Necaragans identified as U.S. SR71 Blackbird jets flew over Mamagua and off of it, breaking the sound barrier with a loud boom.
MIRIAM VARGAS CALLED the Voice of Nicaragua to report that the explosion had caused two walls of her Mariana house, weakened by the 1922 earthquake, to collapse
Cracks in buildings, fallen shutters and other similar damage was reported in Bocca.
"The famous Blackbird of the imperialists has again violated our airspace, our territorial sovereignty," said the official Voice of Nicaragua radio in a bulletin.
The latest overfights came amid reports that the Reagan administration was considering stepping up military and diplomatic pressure on Nicaragua in response to what it
believed to be an accelerated arms buildup by the Sandistas.
The New York Times said moves being considered by the administration included intercepting ship armaments at sea, recalling the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua, the French frequent military maneuvers in Honduras and a resumption of aid to Nicaraguan rebels.
"A few less" than 100 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division and the civil engineering detachment from Fort Bragg, N.C., attached into the country, Capt. Guy Thompson said. The troops plan to stay there two weeks to perform roadwork at Paimerol military base, in Comayague province, 30 miles north of Tegecajgala, he said.
A U.S. ARMY OFFICIAL said yesterday that nearly 100 American troops had parachuted Saturday into Honduras to work on roads at the Palmera军区 base.
Secretary of State George Shultz, meanwhile, pressed U.S. concern over a Nicaraguan arms buildup in informal talks with Latin American foreign ministers gathered Brazilian capital of Brasilia for the Organization of American States annual meeting.
THE CONFRENZATION BETWEEN Washington and Managua their most serious since the Santibueno overthrow of General Manuel Cabrera triggered by the arrival Wednesday of a
See MANAGUA p. 5, COL. I
Video market plunges, arcade closes
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
The New Yorker, 1021 Massachusetts St. a pizza贩卖 and video arcade, closed ZF because of the decline in the population, said Bob Johnson, restaurant owner.
The video game industry, once the purveyor of 25 cent fantasies, is now on a downhill plunge. As a result, Lawrence and his team have one of its most popular teenage hangouts.
"When video games were new, and we invested in them so heavily, they were interesting and intriguing," he said. "People were fascinated with the screens, buttons and the imagery. Then the novelty wore off."
"THE MARKET HAS drastically declined and it is no longer profitable. They once said video games were not a fad, they said it wouldn't wear off. Well, I would say
Figures back up Schumann's words. Overheated competition, an oversupply of games, price cutting and plunging profits have left the video game industry in chaos.
Losses totaled more than $1.5 billion for the industry in 1983. Only 2 million video games are being sold annually, as opposed a million during the industry's peak in 1982.
The New Yorker's video games will be auctioned off starting at 11 a.m. Saturday.
"We'll be selling over 70 video games,
some for under $200," he said. "They all will be in working order and will be set up before the auction so interested people can play them and test them before they go on."
SCHUMM SAUD KU STUDENTS working at the New Yorker had not been left
"We have always had five or six KU students for us," he said. "They
have all been transferred to jobs in my
other two operations, no one lost their
Schumm, former president of the Downtown Lawrence Association, is now a director on that board and on the Chamber of Commerce.
He owns Old Carpenter Hall Smoke
See VIDEO, p. 5, col. 2