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MONDAY, NOV. 25, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 66 (USPS 650-640)
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50 feared dead in raid on hijacked jet
From Kansan wires
VALLETTA, Malta — Egyptian commandos stormed a hijacked AirGirl jeliner in a burst of gunfire yesterday and battled grenade throwing Arab terrorists in a 10 minute firefight that left up to 50 people dead. Maltese officials said.
The plane erupted in flames after the grenades were detonated, filling the cabin with smoke that billowed from the aircraft in one of the bloodiest conclusions to a bijacking in history.
For the second time in a month the Boeing 737 served as a stage for terrorists. The jetliner was the same one forced down by U.S. fighters after the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. At the time the
plane was spiriting the Palestinian pirates responsible for the ship hijacking to freedom.
The dead left in the wake of yesterday's raid included at least one of the three Americans aboard, a 20-year old woman who the pilot said was "executed" Saturday by "first-class killers." Her name was not immediately released.
Officials also said all eight children aboard the plane were killed.
Malta's state-run television said about 80 people were on the jetliner when the commandes attacked. It said 28 wounded people were taken to hospitals.
At 8:15 p.m. the commanders crept up to the airliner after the lights were extinguished on the LUga airport on the southern end of Malta, said government information director
Paul Mifsud. They blew in the cargo door and stormed into the plane firing automatic weapons, he said.
Realizing an assault was under way, the Arabs pulled the pins on grenades and hurted them at their captives. Mifsud said.
"The hijackers threw three hand grenades at the passengers and the grenades started a fire that filled the plane with flames and smoke. They (the commandos) fired with automatic weapons as they went in." he said.
One of the hijackers tried to kill the pilot, Captain Hani Galal, during the assault and fired a shot that grazed his head. Galick picked up an ax and struck the hijacker with it.
"I don't know why he decided to kill me," the pilot told sait at a news conference, his
head wrapped in a white bandage. "Perhaps for the fun of it."
The commandos and terrorists battled for 10 minutes before the gunfire stopped, Mistud said.
Mifsud told a news conference that "about 50" people were killed in the assault. All of the hijackers, thought to number four or five, were thought to have died, he said.
Mifsud and the State Department said no Americans were thought to have been aboard the plane during the commando assault. It was not immediately clear how many passengers had died at the hands of the hijackers before the raid. Reports ranged from one dead to as many as eight.
The pilot said that the 20-year-old American woman was "executed" by the hijackers Saturday night and that the hijackers shot five other people during two gun battles with Egyptian sky marshals aboard the plane — one shortly after the hijacking began and another while the surrounded plane was on Malta.
"I can't describe to you how I felt seeing my passengers being killed in cold blood," Galal, the pilot, said.
"If I had to describe the hijackers, I would say first-class killers. They were desperate. They would not hesitate to blow up the whole plane. I did not think I would survive. I hated every minute of it."
Mifsud said Prime Minister Carmelo Mifus Bonnii authorized the assault because "the situation was getting out of hand."
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Cold seat
Sharon Mayo, Topkea, tries to stay warm in the Memorial Stadium stands during the KU Missouri football game. She said she went to Saturday's game, the
last of the season for both teams, because she originally was from Missouri. The Jayhawks beat Missouri 34-20 to even their season record at 6-6.
By Jill White
Of the Kansan staff
A planning oversight that scheduled basketball games on the same nights as performances in the Chamber Music Series and Concert Series has caused problems, the director of the series said last week.
Jackie Davis, the director, said she was able to reschedule the Feb. 11 performance of the Canadian Brass for March 31, but the Waverly Consort's "A Christmas Story" would have to compete for audience members and parking space with the KU-Southern Illinois University game Dec. 3.
"To say it's caused major problems is putting it mildly," Davis said. "I tried to change the Waverley Consort, but it was impossible. Unfortunately we have many patrons who have tickets to both events and will have to choose between the two events."
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, blamed the conflict on the rescheduling of Big Eight Conference games late in the summer and on his being new to the job. He was appointed as an assistant athletic director in July.
"This year, due to conference readjustments, practically every team in the Big Eight was rescheduling games as late as this summer." Hunter said. "Everyone was trying
to readjust for everyone else in the conference, and I was not aware of the conflict at the time."
Hunter said he discovered the conflict when Davis called in mid-August and asked whether the department knew there was a schedule problem.
Davis said the Concert Series and Chamber Music Series performances already had been made final.
Hunter said the Big Eight schedule was being adjusted as late as August. The final schedule set the Southern Illinois game for Dec. 3 with the Waverley Consort and the University of Missouri game on Feb. 11, the date of the Concert Series performance by the Canadian Brass.
After Davis informed him of the
conflict, she and Hunter attempted to remedy the problem by designating certain parking areas soley for persons attending Waverly's Chamber Music Series performance, Hunter said.
Parking spaces for persons attending the Waverly Consort have been reserved in Lot 3, behind and west of Strong Hall; Lot 18, along the service drive behind Hoch Auditorium and Wesco Hall, and in Lot 33, south of Lindley Hall. Open parking will be available in Lots 91 and 94, south and east of Memorial Stadium.
Free shuttle bus service will be available from the stadium lots
See CONFLICT. p. 5. col. 1
Unity helps Majority may end discord in Senate
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
When the votes were counted Thursday night in the Student Senate elections, the Common Sense Coalition had won at least 44 of 58 Senate seats, giving it at least a 75 percent majority in student government.
Because of this large majority, many victorious Common Sense candidates say dissent in the Senate will be reduced and efficiency of the government will be increased.
David Epstein, new student body president, said that he had not anticipated winning so many senatorial seats but that he was happy about it.
"It will drastically cut down on the infighting," Epstein said yesterday. "The 44 that ran together know about each other and know where everyone stands. We'll know where everyone is coming from when we walk in the Senate door."
Amy Brown, new student body vice president, agreed with Epstein.
"These are 44 people that already know each other and know they can work together," Brown said. "That'll be a huge advantage in the Senate."
Brown said Common Sense Coalition had held meetings on the past six or seven Sundays, even if there had been no important coalition business to discuss.
"It's important just to get the people together," she said. "There's a good team spirit already built."
Amy Varney, re-elected Nunemaker senator who ran on the Common Sense Coalition, said she thought the weekly meetings had helped the coalition members know each other better. But she said disputes would never be avoided.
"Whenever you have a senate, you have people with different viewpoints
See ELECTIONS. p. 5, col. 1
By a Kansan reporter
Committee receives election complaints
Two appeals have been filed with the Student Senate Elections Committee about this year's coalition campaigns, and two or three appeals have been filed about last week's elections, the committee's chairman said yesterday.
But David Day, the chairman, said no action would be taken on the appeals until after Thanksgiving break.
Decisions on seven unfilled Senate seats also will not be made until after Thanksgiving, Day said. The seats — one law, one business, one journalism, two graduate and two special student — were left unfilled, pending confirmation of tie-breakers and the status of write-in candidates.
The new officers of student government will meet in a joint session with the former officers Dec. 4 in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
Day would not say who had filed the complaints, what the complaints were or exactly how many had been filed.
Milton Scott, Chrysalis presidential candidate, said neither he nor Ruth Lichtwartd, Chrysalis vice presidential candidate, had filed appeals concerning the election or the campaign. He also said the Chrysalis coalition as a whole had not filed any appeals.
Scott and Lichtwardt lost the presidential and vice presidential election Thursday to David Epstein and Amy Brown of the Common Sense Coalition.
One appeal about the campaign was filed by Charles Munson, a victorious Chrysalis candidate for fine arts senator.
Munson said he filed an appeal
job as nanny brings joy, sorrow
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
See APPEALS p. 5 col. 3
Mary Poppins would be proud.
Although women don't carry black umbrellas or fly over rooftops, their job is essentially the same. They are KU students looking for a change in their lives. They are naniples in every sense of the word.
Entertaining the children, walks in Central Park and light housework are all part of the job that some KU women choose for a summer or even a year. Most travel to East Coast states to live with families and take care of the children for a weekly salary, room and board.
"It was the most valuable experience I have had in my whole life." Katie Barmettler, Omaha, Bnj. junior, who was a nanny last year for an 8-year-old hyperactive and neurologically impaired boy, said, "I don't regret missing school during that year at all."
Barmettel said she was responsible for waking, dressing and feeding her charge, and for driving him to and from school.
"Depending on what day it was, we'd play in Central Park, take bike rides or go to the library," she said. "Some days I would take him to his recreational program or go to the
an agency, or like on pet books. Barmettier who is an education major and babyss often, said yesterday that she interviewed briefly over the phone with her employers after reading about the job on a bulletin board in Strong Hall. She said the family advertised in the Midwest because they thought Midwesterners were easygoing and had better morals than people from other parts of the country.
Bronx Zoo, on a ferry ride or on a picnic. Their summer house in Long Island was two blocks from the beach, and we went there all the time."
Some of the families hire through an agency, or take out personal ads.
"They were just like my own family," she said. "I got to do so much with them. I was able to travel with them and take classes in New York. It was difficult for me to get back into school here."
Barmettet said she got very close to the family she worked for.
Barmettet said she was able to see things she normally wouldn't have.
"I saw a lot of famous people," Barmettler said. "Mick Jagger lived across the street from us. I saw John Travolta when he was filming a movie two blocks down the street, and I kissed Dustin Hoffman when he was getting in his limo."
"I cried on the plane the entire three hours home," she said. Becky Robinson, Lawrence sophomore who was a nanny in Walden, N.Y., for eight weeks last summer, said she wasn't as happy with her job. She said she also cried the entire plane ride home, but because she was so happy to be returning.
"I answered an ad in the Kansan because I thought it would be fun to work with kids and get away from Lawrence," Robinson said. "The family just wasnt what they seemed to be in the phone interview.
Barnettler said the time she worked in New York was the best year of her life.
"The mother had a rough life, and she was difficult to work for. I didn't quit, though, because I felt I had contracted to do this and I was going to see it if it killed me."
Robinson said that she enjoyed taking care of the 11-year-old boy and the 5-year-old girl and that she learned a lot about people.
"It was a valuable experience," she said. "I'm not sorry I did it, and I would do it again for someone I knew or who came highly recommended." Many families hire nannies.
See NANNIES, p. 5, col. 2
M'Lias Bullock/Special to the KANSAN
Turkey trotters
Runners awaited the shot of the starting gun to begin the Turkey Trot at 8 a.m. Saturday in the soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. The 3.5-mile run around West Campus was sponsored by KU Recreation Services and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department.