THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol. 90, No. 55
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Friday, November 9, 1979
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Delay in delivery of sweaters prompts sorority to file complaint
By AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
One of several KU living groups that have not received sequestered theyttes they were trying to rescue more than two months ago filed a written complaint yesterday with the Baton Rouge Better
Although the bureau has not yet received the complaint, Dale Ramirez, president of the Baton Rouge bureau, said yesterday that an investigation of Fraternity Company began in September after the bureau received several inquiries about the com-
Al least three KU fraternities and sororites ordered sportswear in September from the company's president and KU salesman, Al Williamson. Only one of these groups has received its orders, although all paid in advance—one group with a check for $1,000—and members of one group received an additional three weeks after they placed the order.
Williamson said yesterday that he had filled and mailed all the orders he had taken up to this week, and that because his was a running up to the deadline, they were running a little bit behind.
HE SAID that all the KU groups would receive their orders by next week.
Williamson went to several KU fraternity colleges, where he taught sportswear, in particular imitation cashmere sweaters bears the fraternity or sorority crest, members of the groups
"He told us they would be here in three or four weeks," Casey Vickers, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, said.
The security ordered 40 sweaters at $2.50 each, and gave Williams a check for $1,000. No contract was signed in the transaction.
After six weeks, Vickers said, she called Williamson in Baton Rouge. He told her that he had just completed her order and that the two would go home. But he did her they would arrive within the week.
WHEN THE SWEATERS still had
informed two weeks ago, Vickers called
Williamson several times, but she said each
week they were in the delivery as
to what there was a delay in delivery.
Vickers then contacted both the Lawrence Consumer Affairs office and the Baton Rouge Better Business Bureau. She called Williamson again yesterday, she said, and told him that the sweaters still had waistbands that the sooty members wanted a refund.
She said Williamson again told her he had sent the sweaters out, this time claiming he had mailed them early this week. He told her, Wickens said, that he would trace the ship's route and the shiper's Parcel Post, and tell her the status of the shipment today.
THE LAWRENCE CONSUMER Affairs Bureau contacted the Baton Rouge Better Business Bureau. They were advised to put complaint information, Cynthia Wills of Con-
Mary Rayner, the member of Chi Omega sorority who handled that group's transaction with Williamson, sent a written notice to the University Rouge Better Business Bureau yesterday.
She said she had contacted Williams three times before and still had not received the 12 sweaters Chi Omega members ordered in early September.
On Sept. 11, Rayner said, Williamson her it would take about four weeks for the sweaters to arrive. Three weeks after they arrived, members of the company members received their canceled checks.
RAYNOR SAID THAT one time she contacted Williamson, he claimed that her order was late because he was having trouble getting pink sweaters.
It was not until she had hung up and checked the order that she realized they had not ordered pink sweaters.
The Baton Rouge Better Business Bureau had not received any written complaints as of yesterday, but Ramirez said he had received several inquiries about Prudential.
the first inquiry came in September from a sorority at the University of Texas, Austin, that had paid Williamson $700 and had not received its order on time, Rimer
"THIS INITIATED our investigation," he said. Until this time, he said, the bureau did not know Fraternity Company existed.
Ramirez said Williamson had agreed in September to send someone from his company to the bureau. But Ramirez said neither Williamson nor anyone from the company was available.
After continued attempts to contact Williamson failed, including a personal visit
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Study team
Debra Edgerton, Junction City senior, had to remind Scott Hoacker the teacher is no place to sleep when he should be
Iranians turn down PLO initiative
studying, Hooker, Horrell, N.Y., sophomore, and Edgerton spent most of last evening studying in Watson Library.
RV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iranian students holding the U.S. Embassy in Tehran rejected a bid by the Palestine Liberation Organization to negotiate freedom for the 60 American hostages, Tehran radio said. In Lebanon, an embassy another U.S. Embassy was reported foiled.
Britain's Independent Television Network showed film from Tehran of a woman hostage being freed from the emabss. She was an Iranian working as an interpreter.
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THE STUDENTS, meanwhile, released from the university, embassy correspondence showing that they planned last summer to allow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi into the United States.
In a grisly display of the Iranian students' anti-American zeal, a protester set himself aside the Tibet embassy, Iran's foreign minister, who was later reported near death in a hospital.
The deposed shah is willing to leave the
United States in hopes of freeing Americans being held hostage in Iran, but his doctors say the move could kill him, a statement for the shah said yesterday.
THE STATEMENT was released by Robert Arnauer, senior advisor to the shah. Pahlavi. The former monarch is being treated for cancer at New York Hosital.
Attempts to interview the shah were rejected yesterday as they have been in the news. The state's remain in seclusion" said armao Tirso, Chris Duncan on the statement no should be allowed down the statement.
IN BEIRUT, Lebanese security sources said the PLO thwarted a plan by 40 armed Iranians to storm the U.S. Embassy in the Lebanese capital. The sources told The Times that were under house arrest in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
Spokesmen for the PLO and the U.S.
Embassy in Beirut said they had no information on the reported takeover plan,
and it could not be confirmed elsewhere.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED that President Carter, overseeing U.S. efforts to free the hostages, had canceled his planned trip to Canada today and tomorrow.
The rejection of the PLO mission seemed to end one of the best hopes for ending the explosive situation quickly and peacefully.
The students said Ayatollah Rubolhah Khomeini, supreme leader of Iran's Islamic republic, and his secretive Revolutionary Council backed them in rebuffing the twoman PLO mediation team, Tehran radio team in a broadcast monitored in Kuwait.
THEY WOULD NOT "open talks with anybody or accept any mediation," the students said, until the United States met their counterpart and exiled the excited Iran for trial.
office, said Iranian officials "welcome our views" during "extensive consultations in Tehran.
DIPLOMATS AROUND the world continued to work intensely to try to defuse the explosive situation. Secretary of State John Kerry and other governments and others" for their efforts.
Vance, speaking before television cameras in Washington, did not name the PLO, but said the United States was able to guarantee that it would secure their early and safe release."
ALGERIAN SOURCES said its hard-line stance in the efforts, presumably through joint effort, the sources refused to elaborate, saying, "Secrecy is essential if the efforts are to succeed."
At U.N. headquarters in New York, a spokesman said Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim had obtained the help of Pakistan to establish an office in Islamabad and Arab countries to save lives in
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ID distribution to begin Tuesday
Students with student numbers below 25750 should pick up their new identification cards Tuesday and those with numbers of 25750 or higher should pick them on Wednesday. William Kelly, said yesterday of admissions and records, said yesterday.
Students who fail to pick up their new IDs as scheduled may get them at Window 1 of the office of admissions and records in Storlhe Hall.
The Kansan will not be published Monday, Nov. 12 because of Veteran's Day. However, classes will meet as scheduled. The curriculum will resume Tuesday, Nov. 13.
The new IDS will be distributed from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the second floor of the Satellite Union.
No Kansan Monday
Kelly said students scheduled to pick up their IDs TDA also could pick up their IDs Wednesday.
"It it would be to their advantage to pick up the IDs at the designated time," he said.
Students will not have to show their temporary IDs to receive their new cards, but will be required to give their name and student number.
"I would think that the students are interested in getting their IDs," he said. "We are distributing them by student number because that is how they arrived."
Kelly said 30 persons would staff 15 tables to distribute the cards.
Custodian backers to talk with counsel
By PAMELA LANDON
Mike Davis, University general counsel, will meet with members of the Custodian Action Committee support group Monday to discuss the contract American Management Services has with the U.S. Air Force, a University official said yesterday.
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said the meeting would be held at 1:30 p.m. in Davis' office in Strong Hall. The meeting was to have taken place by today, but it will be moved at the group's request, Von Ende said.
Staff Reporter
"The University has agreed to meet with Norman Forer and others to discuss the AMS contract as a legal document," Von Ende said.
Forer is an associate professor of social welfare and a member of the CAC's support group.
"There will be no discussion of matters pertaining to conditions of employment," Von Ende said.
STEVE MILSTEIN, special assistant
to the State Department of
Pat. Hurley, state secretary of
administration, met with CAC members
Wednesday in Topeka at the group's
Mulstein said after the meeting that he had urged the University to talk with the group. However, he said that he knew discussion would have to be limited
because of an agreement between the University and a public service employee union.
"We didn't order the meeting. We facilitated the meeting," Millstein said.
University officials have said they could not meet with the CAC because of their insolvency and the Service Employees Union Local No. 1422. The agreement says that he union is the sale bargaining agent for the custodians, and other classified University employees.
DAVIS SAID yesterday that he and his staff would be discussing what he said knew what would be discussed at Monday's meeting, but that wages and working conditions would definitely not change.
CAC support group members have said that since the union does not represent them because they are not custodians, the University should be able to meet
Members of the CAC's support group include social agencies, community service organizations, faculty and students.
However, the University has also been unwilling to meet with the support group about wages and working conditions.
"We had every reason to believe they want to discuss the very matters which the union has the legal right to discuss," Davis said.
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JANE LANGA/Staff Illustrator
Instability afflicts Latin America
SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
The professors attributed the two most recent military coups in Bolivia and El Salvador to Latin America's history of imperialism, and the militaries plagued with insurmountable problems, were overthrown alternately by the right and left as both sides failed to institute reforms.
Staff Reporter
"The military governments have been in power for the last 10 to 15 years and they are very worried about the possibility of problems," said Charles Stanisier, associate professor of Latin American study.
Latin America's 22 countries, wracked by economic and social problems, will continue to face the same challenges military government, several KUF professors of Latin American studies said.
"They're increasingly willing to turn the government over to the civilians," Stansifer said.
Robert Tormasek, professor of political science, said that although Bolivia's military coup Nov. 1 was a shift to the right, its repressive governments was subduing.
"WE'RE MOVING INTO a cycle where
the military wants to give up power. Economic difficulties seem so irresolvable that they're willing to hand them over to civilians, "Tomasak said."
Joining Colombia and Venezuela on the list of civil-raned governments, Ecuador inaugurated an elected president in August. Peru has scheduled presidential balloting next year and El Salvador fell in line with a preliminary junta Foll. It 10 that prompts
Although in the case of Bolivia the military made a new grab for power, previous economic reforms leading to Tomasik. He said liberalization of land laws and nationalization of tin mines, which occurred in the 1960s, had not been revoked by the
"Bolivia has such a decentralized, disparate political system that it is hard for any one faction to consolidate power," Torresak said.
HE SAID BOLIVIA, which has a history of continual coups, was a good place for President Carter to apply economic and military pressure.
"Carter has some leverage because Bolivia's dictator, Al. Alberto Natusch, isn't powerful." Tomaske said.
Civilian protest and divided military support may bring Natusch down, he said.
But Stansifer said the United States had no business shaping revolutions in Latir
America. He said Latin Americans should be free to choose for themselves.
"What we do in Latin America does not work . . . we never seem to learn," he said.
wark . . . we never seem to learn, " he said. He said that overcoming American attitudes of superiority was one main hurdle in improving U.S.-Latin American relations.
STANSIFER SAID unhealthy economies in Latin America led to unstable political systems.
However, Robert Oppenheimer, assistant professor of history, said Latin American countries had political stability.
"We say that we are a civilized democracy and add 'Look, ha, ha, they are having their 25th coup—the must be something wrong with the Latin American people."
"We are very fortunate in the U.S. To have a long tradition of resources that render economic problems solvable. That is a luxury," Stansifer said.
"The Latin American system is stable; they just do not change presidents by elections," Oppenheimer said.
He said that civilians had never held the reigns of political power in South America.
"In countries where the military is not exactly in control, it can step in any time," Oppenheimer said. "Civilian rule exists only because the military allows it."
Tomasek said this usually took the form of benign neglect by the United States.
THE PROFESSORS agreed that the U.S. role in the war of war between civilian and military factions was one of self-inflicted.
"Most of the time Latin America is relegated to last place in U.S. concerns," Tomaska said. "The U.S. is more concerned about South Africa."
Sanister said only coups that posed the threat of Soviet domination shook the United States into action.
"It is totally wrong for the U.S. public to get excited when coups happen." Stansifer said.
"Latin American problems are so great that nobody can solve them—no individual and no political party." That includes the Soviet Union, he said.
IT MAY BE healthy if some more countries attach themselves to the USSR; then the Soviets can be blamed for Latin America's problems." Stainsaid say.
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