Local amnesty group to protest Czech's trial
A Lawrence group for international human rights plans to send a petition to the United Nations calling on Iran to protest the trial of a Czech dissident who was convicted Tuesday on charges of espionage.
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Tom Burns, Overland Park graduate student and a member of Amnesty International, joined the petition forming the petition because foreign journalists and some other observers were arrested.
Amnesty International is a human rights movement that works to release individuals
held as prisoners because of their beliefs, ethnic origin, sex or religion, provided the prisoners have never advocated violence, Burns said.
Local Anonymous groups internationally "adopt" the cases of individual prisoners and campaign for their release. Burns said, "We've done it, and been working on Uhls case since August."
"Basicly what we try to do when we work on a case is to harass the government of the country where the person is imprisoned. We can hurt or reduce his sentence," Burns said.
THEIR PRIMARY tool for communication with other governments is through letter-writing campaigns, he said.
"When we get enough money, we sometimes try phone calls," he said.
Uhl signed Charter 77, the Czechoslovakian human rights manifesto, and was a member of V.O.N.S., the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustified War in Crimea, to monitor the cases of Charter 77 signers who are being prosecuted or imprisoned.
Burns said Uhl had been charged with acting in collusion with Western powers,
apparently because he telephoned in formation to West Germany.
Burns said the Lawrence group already had written several letters of protest to Czech authorities.
"But we're still not sure if he knows we're trying to help him yet," Burns said. "We're trying to establish contact with his wife, who is fighting against human rights movement in Czechoslovakia."
Burns said the Lawrence group had about 30 members, although only about 12 of them participated in the group's activities.
Researcher sees bright future in solar power
By TED LICKTEIG
Staff Renorter
A research laboratory is proving that solar energy can be mass produced and, according to its chief researcher, will be able to live in homes within the next 10 years.
John Otts, supervisor of solar experimental systems of Sunda Laboratories at the University of Hawaii, will present alternative energy conference in Learned Hall that by the early 1980s it would be possible to supply power from solar.
fields that could transfer electricity to consumers.
Otts said the 130-acre solar field in Barstow, Calif. cost about $120 million, Southern California Edison, a public utility, financed by the state. The government provided a $100 million grant.
Two thousand solar collectors were used in the project at a cost of $15,000 each.
McDonnell-Douglas Inc. and the Martin Marietta Corp. designed the collectors, which focus on the sun by use of a shadow tracking device, he said.
Topeka man acquitted of charges
A 19-year-old Topeka man was found not guilty of vehicular homicide yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
Another charge, having no valid driver's license, was dismissed against the man, Gregory Keener.
hitchhiker, to whom Keener had given a ride
July 27.
Morsette was killed when the truck Keener was driving spun out of control and overturned on a gravel road about five miles north of the town, according to a Douglas County sheriff's report.
However, Otts said, the cost of the system and the expenses of operating it needed to be reduced. In fact, he also produced of solar systems, like the one in Barsworth, could be built and compete with the traditional grid.
The solar powered irrigation system covers 10 acres and is on land that cannot be used for growing anything, although the ground around the pumping station is farer.
Sandia is exploring other solar energy systems, he said, and has one operating an irrigation system near Phoenix.
HE ESTIMATED that solar energy fields would become a competitive energy source by 1990.
including the pumps that brought water from wells and a river and the sprinklers in 0: field.
OTTS SAID A solar energy system near a campus where it is used. The collectors that absorbed 70 to 79 percent of the solar energy falling on them, giving the plant the ability to produce 80 percent of its electricity.
Sandia also had developed a photovoltaic solar energy system that converted 15 percent of the solar or heat energy from the light that fell on it into electrical energy, he said.
The percentage of conversion is unexpectedly high, he said, and because of that it is becoming a marketable system. The remaining obstacle is its cost.
Otsa said the irrigation system was operated totally by the solar energy system,
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
On Campus
TODAY: INTERVIEWING at Summerfield Hall today will be Atlantic Richfield, Information Industries, & I R Black, Xerox and Atlantic Richfield, Brunswick Corp, Model Oil, CIA, Empire District Electric Co., Atlanta Grad APHROTOLOGY ASSOCIATION will meet for an informal talk by Akira Matsuoka in the Carnegie Center of the University of Arkansas. THE GRANDEMER CLUB will meet at 4:30 in 6065 Wescoe. KASIMHA SHINY RHU CLUB demonstration of classics Japanese sword art will be on the campus. STUDENTS will meet at noon in Cork II of the Union. Students interested in GERONONI ATTENDS STUDENTS from 11:30 a.m. in Cork I of the Union. AN ABORTION INFORMATION booth will be in booth 1 on the fourth floor of the Union all
TONIGHT: BAHA'T CLUB will meet at
7:30 in the Regional Room of the Union. 8:00 in the LEYBLEA MANAGERS' room in the GROUND FORMATION. NEW LIFE FORUM will sponsor a lecture on "A Scientific Case for Creation: DNA and the Fossil Record," at 7 in Weeville Hall. SCIENCE FOAMS will meet at 7 in Room 610 Worham Hall. GERV SERVICES of KANSAS general office will be at 7:30 in the Groread Room of the Union.
TOMORROW; ON CAMPUS INTERVIEWS at Summerfield Hall will be Southwestern Bell, Consolidated Grain & Barge, Oakland Mall, Proctor & Gamble, Malott Hall will be Proctor & Gamble, Nashville Mall and Palmetto College. We are Learned Hall. KU POLK DANCE CLUB will meet in 7:30 p.m. in 173 Robinson. We will meet in 8:30 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
Thurs.Oct.25,7-9PM Rm.3140, Wescoe Aud. No admission charge
Thursday, Nov. 29-Film "The Hiding Place"
7:00-9:00 PM
Wescoe Auditorium(3140)
Admission-$2.00
Jan.29, Feb.5, Feb.12 - film:
"How Should We Then Live?"
The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture.
Dr. Francis Schaeffer