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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 33 (USPS 650-640)
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Pirates may release 21 hostages
From Kansan wires
BEIIRUT, Lebanon — Palestinian pirates on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro dropped anchor off Egypt this morning and said they were prepared to release 21 hostages, Israel Radio reported.
Israel Radio said the hijackers were negotiating with Egyptian officials, who refused to allow the vessel into Egyptian territorial waters. The ship, with about 420 people aboard, was reported anchored about 20 miles off the port of Alexandria.
The radio report was based on transmissions from the ship intercepted by ham radio operator Michael Gurdus, who monitors broadcast frequencies for Israel Radio.
The broadcast said the pirates had demanded to meet with the U.S. West German and British amateurs. The hostages were prepared to free 21 hostages.
Meanwhile, there was an unconfirmed report that a delegation of top Palestinian officials was heading by boat to the Achille Lauro to persuade the pirates to return to ousting Palestinian territories and begin hostilities to free all of the hostages.
The last word on the hostages,
although unconfirmed, was that all
suspended.
Early last night, a man who said he
Student recalls vacation on ship
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
So the pirating of the Italian cruise liner held special interest for the KU senior from Findlay, Ohio.
Chris Benham remembers the decks of the Achille Lauro as a place where he played shuffleboard and mingled with the crew and passengers, not as a setting for international terrorism.
Benham said yesterday that he and his family had taken a two-week cruise in 1977 aboard the Achille Lauro, the ship pirated Monday in Port Said, Egypt, by Palestinian terrorists.
"It's weird to think that the船 I played hide-and-seek on as a 13-year-old boy is now the center of world terrorism," Benham said. "When you spend two hours there, you must have crew and plank. They must be held hostage right now."
They may be here tonight. They right.
At the time they took the cruise, Benham's family lived in Germany, where his father worked for an oil company.
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Benham said that he and his family were aboard the ship, it launched from Genoa, Italy, and stopped in Naples; Alexandria, Egypt; Port Said;
"On TV, it looked like the hijacked ship was on the same general trip we took," Benham said.
Haifa, Israel; Izmir, Turkey; Istanbul, Turkey; and Athens, Greece.
Bentham said he was surprised when he heard that the shin had been pirated.
When Benham and his family were on the cruise, only minimal security measures were taken, he said.
"I don't remember being nervous about anything," he said. "The only thing we were cautioned about was tension between Egypt and Israel. When we went on the cruise, the Camp Dav accords hadn't been signed yet, and things were really tense between the two countries.
"Before we left on the cruise, the directors told us not to mention that we were going to Israel when we were at Port Said."
Benham said that when the ship docked in Alexandra, passengers had to funnel through security gates.
was the Achille Lauro's captain reported by radio that all aboard were unharmed. The man also pleaded against rescue attempts.
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"In the other ports we just got off the boat, and we were there — kind of like 'Love Boat'. There didn't seem to be any need for security."
In Washington, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane said late last night that he expected "som-
that the pirates, who are demanding that Israel free 50 Palestinian prisoners, had killed two American passengers.
Earlier in the evening, President Reagan told reporters that he had not ordered "any action" and that the United States was "dealing with all the countries involved . . . Italy first of all."
"Please, please, don't try anything on my ship," a man who identified himself as Gerardo de Rossa, the cap-
Italy's defense minister, Giovanni Spadolini, said after a late-night emergency session with Premier Bettino Craxi and Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti that any military move was under consideration all costs. But the three leaders gave no indication of what action they might take.
movement" today in the hostage standoff, but he would not elaborate.
The Palestinian hijackers supposedly have a large supply of explosives. They vowed soon after seizing the vessel Monday night that they would blow it up if military air or naval forces tried to interfere.
tain, shouted into the radio from the Achille Lauro.
have received Flotta Lauro, the shipping line that owns the vessel, said 413 people were aboard, including 313 crew members.
"Everybody is good. Everyone and everybody will be freed in a short time." the man said.
Spadolini said Italy had not established contact with the hijackers and said there would be no negotiations for prisoners "that are not in our hands and over whom we have no power."
The message from international waters in the Mediterranean, contradicted early unconfirmed reports
rrench and Italian warships shadowed the pirated ship through the day Tuesday as the seven to 12 heavily armed pirates捞 a port
See SHIP, p. 5, col. 6
Paul Goodman/KANSAN
Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet defector, spoke about U.S.-Soviet relations to reporters yesterday afternoon in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. He also spoke to more than 800 people last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Defector says smiles empty
By Gary. Duda Of the Kansan staff
While U.S.-Soviet peace negotiations might be valuable, summit meetings probably won't result in friendly relations between the sunny powers, a high-ranking Soviet keffee and last night in the Kansas Union.
Arkady Shevchenko, former Soviet ambassador and undersecretary general of the United Nations who defected on April 6, 1978, spoke to more than 800 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom about Soviet ideology in his speech, "A View from the Kremlin."
"We shouldn't have this idea that the Soviets could become our sincere friends." he said.
He said the Soviets think that "in inevitably they will win. They will win a confrontation of two opposite political positions."
Shevchenko spoke as part of the J.A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series. The series is sponsored by a gift to the Kansas University Endowment Association in memory of the Vickers Petroleum Company Inc.
For 22 years Shevchenko was with the Soviet Foreign Service and was an adviser to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyky for $2_{1/2}$ years.
Shevchenko said the United States needed to maintain a position of strength with the Soviets: Concessions appear only as weaknesses to the Soviets, he said.
"The Soviet leadership doesn't concede when you make a concession," he said. "The more you concede, the more they think you are a stupid fool."
While the summit talks between Soviet and American leaders will not result in world peace, Shevchenko said, positive results could occur.
"Certain things are important to both the U.S. and the Soviets — the risk of accidental nuclear war," he said.
Shevchenko said nuclear proliferation was negotiable, but when it came to making agreements with the Soviets, the United States could not be sure the Soviet Union would keep its word.
"In the United States, everything will be controlled by the Congress," he said. "You cannot conceal anything in the United States. In the Soviet Union you can conceal. There is no discussion, no debate."
Shevchenko said the United States must maintain its military strength to maintain world peace. As long as the United States maintains a strong military, he said, the Soviets will not use nuclear weapons.
Although many Americans think Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev have different views on Soviet-American relations, Shevchenko said, this is not true.
"There are no grounds to believe
that the man has a different ideological approach," he said. "He spent all his life as a function of the parts in the Soviet Union."
The motivation behind Gorbachev, Shechenko said, was to further the basic ideas of Marxism.
Shevchenko said that the only difference between Gorbachev and past Soviet leaders was Gorbachev's willingness to do something about the poor Soviet economy. He said that to do that, the Soviets' huge military budget would have to be compromised.
"He has to seriously consider the possibility of reallocation of the Soviet resources from the military to civilian sector," he said. "It's impossible in the Soviet Union to continue this level of investment in the military interest and at the same time do something with industry."
Shevchenko said the current system of occasional summit meetings was counterproductive. He said a regular schedule of meetings would be more successful.
"There was a long period of time during which the Soviet and American leadership did not meet," he said. "I believe this is bad. It is really bad."
snevchenko said too much importance was placed on summit meetings.
"I don't think that one has to expect some miracle from one such meeting," he said.
Columbia to divest, board says
United Press International
K. C. police divest funds p. 12.
NEW YORK — Columbia University has voted to sell $39 million in stock within two years in companies that do business in South Africa, becoming the first Ivy League school to join American institutions pulling all their investments from that nation.
The university's board of trustees voted in closed session Monday to sell about 4 percent of Columbia's $900 million stock portfolio, including shares in American Express. Burberry and Oil Spirer, Phillips Petroleum and Slover.
The vote came six months after hundreds of Columbia students staged a three-week sit-in at a campus administration building to protest the school's investments in firms that do business in South Africa.
"Divestment strengthens our condemnation of apartheid," South Africa's policy of racial separation, university President Michael Sovern said. "It is the right course for us at this time and so we are taking it."
The full 24-member board adopted a resolution proposed by a subcommittee last summer to fully divest from South Africa by October 1987. The board also agreed to conduct a periodic review of the policy and to consider "appropriate exceptions" to the divestment policy, such as stock in news media companies with bureaus in South Africa.
Columbia became the 28th university since April to opt for partial or full divestment, said Richard Knight, a spokesman for the American Committee on Africa, a nonprofit lobbying group based in New York. In addition, at least 11 states have announced decisions to divest their portfolios of stock in companies that do business in South Africa.
"This is the first Ivy League school to totally divest," Knight said. "This is very important."
Toronto wins playoff game
It was not what could be called a good night for the Kansas City Revals.
The Toronto Blue Jays took the lead, 20, last night in the second inning of the first American League playoff game against the Royals and didn't stop to look back. They ripped the Royals, 6-1. Toronto pitcher Dave Stieb pitched a three-hitter and struck out eight batters as Kansas City pitchers gave up 11 hits.
The Royals will play in Toronto again tonight.
Business school cancels enrollments
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
For more information on last night's game, see page 13.
About 80 students were disenrolled Monday from their business courses because they did not meet the prerequisites, Corwin Grube, director of the business undergraduate program, said yesterday.
Kurt Unruh, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, who was disenrolled from two business courses, said he thought he had been treated unfairly.
Uunruh received a letter Monday that said the school cancelled his enrollment in Labor Relations, BUS 479, and Organizational Behavior, BUS 656, because he had not yet been admitted to the School of Business. He dropped from BUS 479 and dropped from 18 to 9 and now he is no longer a full-time student.
notified too late to add another class or to get a refund, he said.
"My complaint is that I was
"Why did the University leave me without a choice?"
Grube said, "I'm sympathetic to
The undergraduate catalog and the timetable list the required courses and state that students not admitted are disenrolled in courses above BUS 758.
students. They have very few options now. But I'm not sympathetic because they haven't met their responsibility to enroll properly."
Grube said the school disenrolls students every semester.
"It turns out this semester we weren't able to notify people prior to the expiration date," he said.
John Tollefon, dean of business,
said, "Permitting them to continue
would be inequitable vis-a-vis the
students that have followed the
enrollment procedure.
The last day to add a course was Sept. 27. The letters informing business students that they had been dropped from the classes were mailed this weekend. Grube said.
"We have an obligation to treat all students equally."
See BUSINESS, p. 5, col. 1
Detroit suit may make KU reschedule game
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
The University of Detroit has filed a breach of contract suit against the University of Kansas and is seeking an injunction that would force KU to play a scheduled basketball game this season in Detroit, Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said yesterday.
Thomas said she had received no word on the results of a hearing yesterday in a Michigan state court on the breach of contract suit.
court of Justice. Athletic Director Monte Johnson said that Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, was in Detroit to attend the hearing. Hunter was traveling from Detroit to Lawrence yesterday evening and was not available to comment.
but he was represented by a Grand Rapids, Mich., law firm. The attorney involved in the case also could not be reached for comment.
Under the terms of the contract, KU was supposed to play at the University of Detroit on Jan. 6 as part of series between the two schools. The first game of that series was played at KU last season.
however, KU officials requested that the Jan. 6 game be canceled or delayed until the 1986-87 season so that KU could schedule a proposed game with the University of Louisville on Jan. 25.
National College Athletic Association rules permit a school that participates in a post-season conference tournament to schedule only 27 games. KU already had scheduled 27 games for this season and needed to drop one in order to play Louisville.
When University of Detroit officials refused to agree to a cancellation or a postponement, KU authorities denied the request.
Thomas said the University of Detroit originally filed suit in September against the University and Chancellor Gene A. Budig in the U.S. 6th District Circuit Court, Eastern District of Michigan.
However, Federal Judge Avern Cohn ruled
Thursday that the University of Detroit was prohibited from suing the University of Kansas in federal court, because the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits individuals in one state from suing another state in federal court.
A law clerk for Cohn said that the University of Detroit was a private university, and thus considered, for legal purposes, an individual residing in Michigan. However, the University of Kansas is considered an arm of the state of Kansas, he said.
The clerk said Cohn did not dismiss the suit. Instead he gave the University of Detroit until tomorrow to show why Budig should remain a defendant in the case.
At that time, the clerk said, Cohn expressed doubt that the chancellor could be held responsible, as Budg had played no part in the decision to cancel the contract.
The University of Detroit then filed suit in state court, Thomas said.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Royal blues
A disappointed crowd at the Kansas Sports Bar & Grill, Seventh and Massachusetts streets, watches the Royals lose the first game of the American League Championship Series. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Royals 6-1 last night. See stories on page 3 and page 13.