Disguised
Forget about those rubbery green monster masks you bought at the five-and-dime. Costumes once were serious business: Celtic pagans dressed in them to dodge
spirits. Their use is a bit less ghoulish now, but you still can get garb just right for tonight's celebration of the eve of All Saints' Day. See stories, page 3.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 48 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday, October 31. 1984
By United Press International
Two Sikh bodyguards assassinate Gandhi
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated today in a burst of submachine gun fire by two Sikh men on her own security guard, authorities said.
Other members of the prime minister's personal bodyguard immediately opened fire on a security guard.
Gandhi, 66, was rushed to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences but was reportedly dead on arrival. Extensive efforts to revive her failed.
U. C. Tiwari told United Press International.
"It is all over." government spokesman
Some members of the sikh religion rejoiced, calling the slain prime minister "India's Hitler." But grieving world leaders expressed shock and outrage.
Gandhi, a Hindu, had been under heavy
assassination because of
assassination breaches by Sikhs.
An emergency Cabinet session was called to establish a caretaker prime minister, official All India radio said. A special plane was sent to Calcutta to bring Gandhi's son and hand-picked successor, Rajiv, to the capital.
The Press Trust of India announced her death in a news flash saying, "The Prime
Minster, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, is no more."
The assassination comes as India prepared for nationwide parliamentary elections, which by law must be held the third week in January. As the election time approached, there were indications that the opposition was gaining support in its bid to crack Gandhi's ruling Congress Party's hold on political power.
But a spokesman for the World Sikh Organization in Southern California announce-
In Washington, a White House spokesman said President Reagan was notified of Gandhi's death at 3 a.m. and "expressed his deep personal sorrow."
"Justice has been done by God's grace by the shooting down of Indira Gandhi. She was India's Hitler," spokesman Amrig Singh said.
"The whole nation of Sikhs is rejoicing." Singh said.
"Our freedom fighters will win out in the end. This is much like the American Revolutionary War. We will not be treated like slaves," he said.
The two Sikh gunmen — one bearded, in the tradition of the religion, and the other clean-shaven — opened fire on the prime minister in residence to an adjacent office. police said
Gandhi has been the object of threats by
radical Sikhs — an offshoot of Hinduism — who blame her for ordering an Army attack on the Golden Temple.
The temple attack last June, which left at least 600 people dead, was an attempt to halt a separatist terrorism campaign run by Sikh nuns barricaded inside their holiest shrine.
A doctor quoted by the Press Trust of India said Gandhi was struck by at least 10 bullets and was dead on arrival.
"Mrs. Gandhi registered no pulse and her pupils did not react to light," said the doctor, one of three junior physicians on duty in the emergency ward when she was brought in.
Polish priest found dead in reservoir
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland - The body of a pro-Solidarity priest was found in a reservoir yesterday, 11 days after his kidnapping by three national police agents in what authorities charged was a wider conspiracy to undermine the government.
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa called the death of the Rev. Jerzy Popeluskow 'ska-
"What they did to my son they should not
have done," said the priest's mother,
Mariana Popeliuszko.
Polish television said Popieluszko's body was recovered by divers searching a reservoir near the north-central city of Włoclaw on the Vistula River.
The body was taken to "medical experts" for an autopsy, the report said.
THE PRIEST, AN ardent Solidarity supporter whose fiery anti-state sermons drew thousands of Poles to St. Stanislai Kostka church in Warsaw, was abducted from his car Oct. 19 near the city of Torun in northern Poland.
Since his disappearance, nightly masses have been offered at his church, where fences have been hung with wreaths, floral bouquets and photographs. Poles across the country have prayed for him in their own churches.
"The Ministry of the Interior informs that on Oct. 30 in the afternoon, as a result of an intensive search with the participation of police frogmen, the body of Rev. Jerzy Popielusko was found in the water reservoir at a statement on a television news program said.
Wales pleaded for calm in an emotional statement issued from his home in Gdansk and called for talks involving the communist regime, the church and representatives of the trade union, which was banned when martial law was imposed in December 1981.
"ON THE ORDER of the minister of the interior an investigation is going on focused on finding (the people who) inspired the abduction and murder of the priest."
"MAY THE SILENCE of this mourning create the possibility to start a dialogue. . . I hope that everyone decided on continuing a dialogue will take part in the funeral," he said, apparently inviting authorities to attend the service.
Chris Magert/KANSAN
Michael Woroniecki, a traveling preacher from Grand lives at the University of Kansas. Woroniecki carried his Rapids, Mich., tells students that they are wasting their time up the Hill yesterday.
Senate use of unassigned funds questioned
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Nearly $139,000 is sitting idle in the Student Senate's unallocated account.
The account, which the Senate is allowed to use for its special projects, has grown over the past three fiscal years. About $55,000 more was in the account this July, the beginning of fiscal 1985, than in July 1982, the start of fiscal 1983.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, earlier this week expressed his concern that Senate leaders didn't have a plan to use the money.
"Why collect it if you're not going to use it?" he said.
Although Senate officials say they would
like to spend the money, they also say they want to be cautious with the account.
ABOUT HALF OF the money will not be spent when fiscal year 1985 ends on June 30, said Jon Glielchir, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which requires that $70,000 be kept in the account.
Under Senate rules, the unallocated account may be used to finance new groups. Senate or group activities and special projects.
"Who knows when something will come from Gilchrist said, 'I'd rather be prepared than die.'"
Gilchrist said, "It can be used for anything within the rules and rules. We can't just throw them."
Last October, the Senate allocated $10,000 from the fund for the construction of a
campus Vietnam Memorial. In April, seni-
sors gave Legal Services for Students about $18,000 to add an attorney to its staff in fiscal 1985.
IN THE PAST few years, Amber said, he has urged student leaders to develop a philosophy for spending the money in theallocated account — whether it be from year to year or after a large accumulation
At the beginning of fiscal 1983, the unallocated account held more than $83,000; at the beginning of fiscal 1984, it held more than $206,000. Then, began the account had more than $140,000.
Each fiscal year, more than $8,400 goes into the account from the activity fees paid
See MONEY, p. 5, col.1
Kansas poll says Reagan is far ahead
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Reporter
A poll released on campus yesterday says President Reagan is holding a lead of nearly 34 percentage points over Monday Mondale among Kansans.
In the poll, conducted by the Center for Public Affairs, nearly 63 percent of Kansans surveyed said they planned to vote for governor and about a quarter of percent said they planned to vote for Mondale.
Other polls have shown similar levels of support for the two candidates in Kansas. Nationally, the difference between Reagan
★ ELECTION '84
Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, said Kansas resembled most of the rest of the United States in its choice of Reagan.
and Mondale is smaller, although Reagan leads in most national polls by at least 15 points.
THE SURVEY ALSO indicates that 64.8 percent of Kansans polled said they voted for a political candidate based on the candidate's position on the issues.
However, results from this poll indicate that Kansans said they supported Reagan although they do not agree with many of his positions.
For example, 69 percent of the respondents who said they planned to vote for Reagan said they supported increased spending for education. Reagan has said he doesn't support additional federal outlays for education.
By contrast, 86 percent of Mondale's supporters advocated increased spending for education. In the entire sample, about 74 percent of respondents increased educational spending.
Among Mondale's supporters, 75 percent said they advocated a woman's right to have an abortion — 58 percent of Reagan's supporters said they favored abortion rights.
ABOUT 21 PERCENT of the residents surveyed said they approved of Mondale's policies but disliked him personally. About 23
See POLL, p. 5, col. 2
Officials say human lives come before baboons'
By DAN HOWELL
Staff Reporter
Friday's transplant of a baboon's heart into a 15-day-old girl in California raises ethical questions but is mostly a step forward in medical research, several KU and local officials said yesterday.
Donald Marquis, associate professor of philosophy and a specialist in medical ethics, said he supported efforts to save human lives if those efforts had a solid basis in animal experiments and medical knowledge.
The infant, known as Baby Fae, was slightly premature at birth and the left side of her heart was severely underdeveloped; a wound that usually proves fatal within a few weeks.
"Sure, it's progress," he said. "People can live who otherwise couldn't."
decision, made with the infant's parents, to perform the transplant.
YESTERDAY, BABY FAE broke the record for survival after an animal heart transplant and was upgraded to serious condition. Of four adults who have received primate hearts, a South African man lived the longest time, $3\frac{1}{2}$ days.
Mark Morelli, a spokesman for University Relations at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said doctors there were concentrating on the human heart transplant program, rather than cross-species transplants.
Doctors at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California have defended their
MORELLI SAID CHARLES H. Hincher Jr., 43, who on Saturday became the Med Center's third transplant recipient of a human heart, was upgraded from critical to serious condition yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, he got out of bed, sat in a chair and talked with family and staff members. Morelli said.
Marquis said codes of research ethics set standards for experiments with humans. Those standards require use of accepted scientific principles and enough background studies and relevant scientific literature to assure the value of the human experiment.
"I get the impression there hasn't been very much successful work done on heart transplantation."
He said that a reported 165-day survival by a goat implanted with a lamb's heart was not
Humans tend to assume that their own right to life is greater than that of animals, he said, although they sometimes have trouble finding reasons for making that distinction.
a long enough span, nor did the operation involve species close enough to humans
WHEN ANIMAL RIGHTS activists criticize the sacrifice of the baboon's life, Marquis said, they raise the difficult question of an animal's right to life.
Three local officials in animal care said they could offer personal views about the transplant but could not speak for their organizations or other members of them.
Al Smith, director of laboratories for the animal care unit in Malott Hall, said he generally supported the California doctors' use of the benefit transplants could bring.
"Everywhere that medical research is done, there's a time it must be taken out of it."
Dick Ketterman, director of the Lawrence Humane Society, said he agreed with the operation because it preserved a human life.
ALTHOUGH HE SHARES some views of animal rights activists, he said, they fears the potential for harm.
When people see a lot of statements that
you should let the baby die to let the baboon live, they may have some backlash. he said.
A member of the local humane society's board of directors, Michael Henderson, said the baboon transplant was not much different from killing animals for other medical
purposes and for food.
Some information for this story was supplied by United Press International.
Henderson, also associate professor of linguistics, said he was just beginning to contemplate the operation.
Some information for this story was supplied