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FRIDAY, OCT. 11, 1985; VOL. 96; NO. 35 (USPS 650-640)
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U.S. planes intercept hijackers' jet
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Four U.S. F-14 warplanes intercepted an Egyptian jetliner carrying four Palestinians who hijacked an Italian cruise ship and killed an American passenger, and escorted the aircraft to an air base on Sicily, the White House announced last night.
The pirates, who held 511 hostages aboard the Achille Lauro for two days, were in Italian custody after what sources in Italy said was an argument between President Reagan and Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, in which Craxi prevailed.
Italian diplomatic sources said that Reagan and Craxi argued in a
three-hour series of telephone calls yesterday over which country would have jurisdiction in the case.
White House Spokesman Larry Speaks said in a 10 p.m. CDT White House briefing that the U.S. government would take immediate steps to extradite the gunmen to the United States to be tried for murder.
"This operation was conducted without firing of shots," he said. The aircraft landed ... and was surreptitious by Italian and American troops."
The Palestinians were aboard an Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner with a heavy security guard when several F-14 fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Saratoga intercepted the
plane and diverted to a U.S.-NATO air base in Signonella, Sicily.
Pentagon sources said that four F-14s took off from the aircraft carrier to intercept the Egyptian plane under orders from Reagan. The Saratoga had been on exercises in the central Mediterranean.
"We were able to locate the aircraft, pursue it, persuade it to go to the air base," Speakes said.
Speakes said the United States tracked the movements of the Palestinian hijackers since they left the cruise ship Wednesday.
"I can categorically deny that there was any deal between Egypt and the United States." Speaks said of reports of earlier behind-scenes negotiations outside outward appearances the United States did not know the whereabouts of the blacklists.
"President Reagan has been actively involved in this process," Speakes said.
Speakes said that President Reagan had been assured by the government of Italy that the hijackers would be prosecuted, but
nonetheless would seek to have them brought to the United States to be prosecuted for the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York, an elderly, wheelbound tourist on the ship.
"The aircraft did not leave Egyp
tian air space until mid after
noon. The president approved the general outlines at midday. He approved the specifics back from Chicago," where the president visited a bakery and gave a speech plugging his tax reform program.
Speakes said the plane landed at the Signonella military base with Italian consent.
The plane, he said, appeared to be headed to Tunis, Tunisia — where the Palestine Liberation Organization is headquartered — when intercepted. When asked about the reaction the hijackers displayed on landing at Signonella, Speakes said, "I judge
See SHIP, p. 5, col. 4
Matt Monrad/KANSAN
Some Lawrence area streets flooded yesterday as water levels rose following several days of rain. Flooding forced the closing of Louisiana Street south of 31st Street.
Woes to continue; more rain to come
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
The showers that have inundated Lawrence and other parts of Douglas County with about three inches of rain since Tuesday have affected more than soaked students running to class.
Many area farmers are planting and harvesting crops late because of
"I haven't got a bit planted." Ira Faust, Overbrook farmer, said yesterday. "I'm afraid I won't have any wheat planted. You can't plant unless it is drv.
"We've got up to the first week of November to plant the wheat, and we have to wait at least a week to 10 days before it begins to rain sunshine and wind to dry the ground."
Faunt said he couldn't harvest the millet, beans and corn on his 3,000 square feet.
"It's too wet," he said. "The corn stands up a little better than the rest, but the beans and milo will fall over. They need to be harvested this month."
Heavy rain is an expected part of farming, he said.
"There isn't anything you can do about it." Faust said. "It's just been frustrating because we have a decent crop for the first time in a while this year, and we can't harvest it."
The forecast calls for a 70 percent chance of rain today and the high to be in the mid to upper 40s, a spokesman for the National Weather Service in Topeka said. The extended outlook for Lawrence includes a decrease of showers for Sunday and low temperatures in the 308 by Tuesday.
The spokesman said that the cool weather was due to a cold front that passed through the area about two days ago. The rain is a remnant of hurricane Waldo, which was on the coast of Mexico on Wednesday.
Clinton Lake has risen about 3½ feet in the past few days, said Mark Retonde, general manager of Clinton Marina.
"The lake has risen rapidly," Retonde said. "But it's to be expected. I've seen this situation before. It's unusual for it to go up that much in a couple days, and I hope this doesn't get any worse."
"It doesn't matter how fast the water goes up, it's how far up it goes. If it keeps raining, we're in danger, but we've got a long way to go before the lake goes into automatic overflow."
In Liberty, Mo., more than $6_{12}$ inches of rain had fallen by yesterday morning. In Kansas City, Mo., 6 inches had fallen.
Blacks say they'll join in protests
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
See FLOODS, p. 5, col. 4
Blacks Against Aparthid, a campus group formed about two weeks ago, has begun protesting apartheid to let the campus know that black KU students are under racial segregation in South Africa, a member of the group said yesterday.
Aaron Lucas, Chattanooga, Tenn., senior, said he and two other organizers of Blacks Against Apartheid thought it was time KU blacks took a stand against apartheid.
He organized the group with Curtis Keyes, Chicago senior, and Anthony Baker, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
"No longer should we be apathetic to what is going on." Lucas said.
"There were white students out there protesting slavery and injustice toward blacks in South Africa. It was as if blacks had nothing to do with blacks in other parts of this world.
"It was our moral obligation to stand up first as human beings and second as blacks to racism, genocide and fascism."
The group already has more than 75 members, Lucas said, and he expects it to grow.
Kirstin Myers, vice president of KU Democrats, said the new group would help raise campus awareness about apartheid.
"They can add a new voice, a new perspective," she said.
Blacks Against Apartheid and the KU Committee on South Africa have been helping KU Democrats with anti-apartheid activities this week.
The three groups pan to participate in a rally today in front of Strong Hall as part of a national day of protest against apartheid.
Students across the country plan to rally in support of South African blacks and in favor of their colleges and universities divesting from companies doing business in South Africa.
Since Tuesday, students in the three campus groups have set up a table at the Kansas Union to ask
Station was shelter for escaping slaves
See S. AFRICA p. 5. col. 3
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Residents of southwest Lawrence may not know it but their local fire station once was a shelter for slaves as they fled to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
The Grover-Frazier barn, completed 127 years ago this month, became Lawrence Fire Station No. 30 and the building was finished in June 1982.
The barn has had several owners throughout its history, including a Lawrence pioneer family and a celebrated KU professor of art and architecture.
The drama preceding America's Civil War was beginning to unfold at that time and "Bleeding Kansas" was to be the site of its first bloody performances.
Grover, a stanch abolitionist, set up his homestead on a site about two miles southwest of the infant city of Lawrence, near what is now the intersection of 23rd Street and Lawrence Avenue.
The barn nearly was razed in 1978 to make way for the housing development that sprawls around it today. Craig Crosswhite, who was a KU law student at that time, was one of the chief figures in the movement to save it from the wrangling ball.
Lawrence was a wilderness outpost on the banks of the Kaw River when the barn's builder, Joel Grover, arrived here in 1854.
Because of the efforts of concerned Lawrence residents, the barn has been preserved and today is undergoing restoration. 2819 Barn Trench Terrace.
According to documents at Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St., about 300 fugitives found shelter in the barn from 1855 to 1859.
See BARN, p. 5, col
portance, it is also a rare example of the stone architecture once common in this area, Crosswhite said Tuesday.
Besides the barn's historical im-
Crosswhite, who is now Hodgeman County attorney, wrote a paper in 1880 titled, "The Grover Barn, A Proposal for Preservation." The paper chronicles the burl's history and the efforts to save it.
Lawrence pioneers who could remember when the barn played its role as a haven for fleeing slaves are dead now. One of them, Sarah Prentiss, reminisced in a 1929 interview about the night John Brown came to call at the family cabin.
According to Crosswhite's research, Joel Grover was born Aug. 25, 1835 in Springwater, N.Y. In his youth, he travelled, farmed in Iowa and ran pack trains to miners in California's gold fields.
A veteran of the Kansas battles of the 1850s, Grover led his own company against Confederate Gen. Sterling Price in 1864. He served in the Kansas Legislature from 1868 to 1869.
Prentiss said that Brown, a fanatic abolitionist who is remembered locally for the Osawatomie Massacre, accompanied 13 black women, and children to her home. The blacks were forced to stay in the city where they stayed several days until safe passage could be made.
When the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, Grover responded to the abolitionists' calls and came to Lawrence. He helped force the abolition of slavery opposition from the onslaughts of proglossy forces.
Recruiters reveal rules of job success
As more than 90 companies visit the School of Business Placement Center this fall, job-hunting seniors sign up for numerous interviews and suit up for favorable impressions.
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Business students seeking to be hired should be aggressive and have the desire to succeed, recruiters say.
Walt Murawski, regional personnel director who is recruiting on campus
for NCR Corp., makes it clear what he is looking for in a student.
"For a salesperson, I look them in the eyes," he said yesterday. "Are they aggressive? Will they achieve?"
"For engineers, I look inside their head. Are they creative?"
Murauwski, who made a presentation yesterday before 40 students, said he consider the two to be the two toy universities of the 10 he visits in his region.
After 12 years of recruiting,
Murawski said, he doesn't need much
time to tell who will be successful.
Success at NCR is measured in sales and profits, he said. He looks for a certain type of person who enjoys selling.
"You have to conform and be good at whatever you're doing," said Talbot, who attended the presentation and will interview with NCR on Monday.
Renee Talbot, Overland Park senior, said the attitude in sales was more assertive than in her major, psychology.
Murawski said students should have their goals set. He said he was looking for well-rounded students with high activity levels and good grades in interviews.
"A good first job is more important for your career," she said.
Catherine Dayton, Overland Park senior, said the salary wasn't the most important consideration.
NCR's interview structure is very formal, said Gordon Duncan, district manager of financial marketing.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Smoking out the sewers will test pipe conditions
The people at the office of facilities planning aren't just blowing smoke. They mean business.
And it was all business yesterday morning at Memorial Stadium as Black & Veach Engineers-Architects, Kansas City, Mo., the company hired by the University, demonstrated the smoke test it will use on the KU sewer system next week.
The engineers blew smoke through sewage pipes to find any leaks in the system. Possible leaks are located at the following locations: covers and other sewer line openings.
But where there's smoke, there isn't necessarily fire.
The thin, white smoke that is used comes from a yellow container the size of a bug spray can. David Egger, design engineer with Black and Veatch, said yesterday that the liquid, called Dial Smoke, is drawn across an exhaust manifold and is heated by a blower. The liquid turns into non-toxic, non-staining smoke and is blown through a 20-foot-long, bright yellow vinyl pipe that the workers connect to the sewage lines.
"Really, the goal of the study is to determine how much rainwater is flowing into the sewage lines." Egger
said. "We just want what is supposed to go in there — not rain. If there are holes, the rain water is getting in there."
Facilities planning has scheduled tests of all of the buildings on the main campus for Oct. 14-23, Joe Waters, assistant director of facilities planning, said at the demonstration.
Workers block pipes connected to the area they are testing with sand-bags. While blowing smoke through the pipes for about 30 minutes, the workers walk around the area being tested and check to see where smoke is escaping. They then draw a diagram of the area being tested and note where any leaks occur, and the diagrams will be submitted with their report to the University.
Egger said, "I want to stress that most people won't even know we're testing. It's normal for smoke to escape through manholes. That's where there should be openings.
But if the smoke seeps inside, where drain traps are dry, poisonous sewer gas can leak into the building, and plumbing repairs may be needed.
"I don't expect to find any leaks inside, because most lines are outside. We expect to see problems where there are older lines that are cracked."
Soggy meeting
Ched DeShazo/KANSAN
Linda Ramerez, left, Ed Lewis, and David Egger, employees for Black and Veatch EngineersArchitects, Kansas City, Mo., discussed the readings they found yesterday while searching for leaks in the sewer system and checking the pressure in fire hydrants on campus.
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