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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCT 8, 1985 VOL 96 NO.32 (USPS 650-640)
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Violations may cause evictions
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Little progress was made yesterday to improve "life threatening"building code violations at Pinecrest Apartments, the city's chief buildinginspector said.
Owners of Pinecrest Apartments have until 5 p.m. tomorrow to correct the violations, Gene Shaughnessy, the inspector, said. If correction of the violations does not progress according to an agreement between the city and the owners, the tenants — including several KU students — will be evicted.
The violations at Pinecrest Apartments, 265 Redbud Lane, include faulty gas lines, furnaces and hot water heaters; deficient or nonexistent flues; poor hallway lighting; and stairways without hand railings. Shaughnessy said.
"We have not seen a whole lot of progress," he said. "An electrician commenced work, but the things we wanted them to do first have not been started."
Nicholas Ventola, general partner of Pinecrest Investors Limited Partnership, Kansas City, Mo. which owns the apartments, said no progress had been made yesterday because of scheduling conflicts with contractors.
Representatives of the building inspection office will wait until tomorrow to see whether the improvements have been made at the apartment complex. Shaughnessy said.
"If things are in the same place they are now" he said, "we'll have to pull the meters."
"You can only get workers to work when they can work." Ventola said. "You can't vank them off another job to do your job. That's not fair."
If city electric meters are pulled from the apartment complex, the tenants will be evicted, he said.
Ventola said improvements on the apartment complex, which were begun in July, had taken so long to complete because the company had rebuilt the inside of the apartments "from scratch."
"It it takes a long time to do these kind of improvements," he said. "We should have started in June, but we didn't get our loan until July."
Stephen H. Sherwood, president of Anchor Properties, the company that became Pincerst's managing agent yesterday, said he and his company would do everything possible to meet the city by tampering its deadline.
"There is an excellent chance of getting done by Wednesday night." Sherwood said. "We can't talk about the completion of the improvements now. But in two days we hope we'll be able to satisfy Mr Shaughnessy."
Shaughnessy said that if there was a valid reason for the slow progress of building improvements, the tenants would not be evicted.
Sherwood said construction crews would try to work on the apartments "morning, noon and night" to make the improvements
"We don't want the residents to be hurt and we certainly don't want the property to be hurt," Sherwood said. "Once the panicky things are done, then we start on the punch list. The property manager and myself will go
Palestinians take over Italian ship
From Kansan wires
PORT SAID, Egypt — A seven-man Palestinian commando team took over an Italian cruise liner with more than 400 people aboard yesterday and threatened to blow it up unless Israel freed six Palestinian prisoners, port officials reported.
State-run Italian television said 28 Americans were aboard the Achile Lauro, which was commanded about 30 miles out of Port Said.
An Egyptian security official who asked not to be identified said the pirates threatened to kill the hostages one by one, but they set no deadline for Israel to meet their demands.
No one was reported injured in the takeover
The Italian Foreign Ministry said 70 to 80 passengers and 340 crew members were aboard the ship when it was hijacked. Another 664 passengers, including 72 Americans, were on a side trip to Cairo and were safe, the ministry said.
Italian news agencies and Defence Minister Giovanni Spadolini placed him in charge.
Port Said officials said the ship had been bound from the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandra to Port Said, entrance to the Suez Canal, and beaded out into the Mediterranean Sea after the hijacking, its destination unknown.
The Foreign Ministry said the commandos were led by a man identifyi ng himself as "Oman" who said the group belonged to the Palestine Liberation Organization. An Egyptian security identified him as Omar Mustafa.
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Nabil Amr: PLO spokesman in Amman,
Joedan, said he knew nothing about the ship hacking.
Palestinian sources in Nicosia, Cyprus, said Giulio Andreotti; the Italian foreign minister, had appalled to Yasser Arafat to ensure the
The sources, who spoke on conditions of anonymity, said the PLO chairman was consulting anes at PLO headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia.
Other Egyptian security sources in Caraïd soared the seven man Palestinian commando team boarded the ship as it approached the island of Suez Canal, northern entrance of the Suez Canal.
An SOS was sent when the hijackers made their move and was picked up by an amateur radio operator in Sweden, said ANSA, an Italian news agency.
ANSA said the commands had locked the passengers and crew members in their cabins and Italian Embassy officials in Carro said they were threatening to blow up the building if Israel did not meet their demands.
Egyptian correspondents said the captures specifically demanded the
The report of yesterday's big injury came six days after eight Israeli tighter jets attacked PLO headquarters near Tunis. Tunisia, killing at least 73 people and wounding about 100 others.
release of an imprisoned Palestinian named Samir El-Koatiary reportedly responsible for a guerrilla attack in the late 1970s at Nahariya in northern Israel.
Israel said the widely condemned attack was in retaliation for the slaying a week earlier of three Israel citizens on Vom Kippur, the most solemn Jewish holy day, on aacht in Cyprus by three Palestinian gunmen.
Woodard to trot globe as first woman on team
Kansan file photo
Lyette Woodard, former KU assistant women's basketball coach, was named happy about her selection, but she said that she would Lawrence and the yesterday as the first woman Harlem Groebner. Woodard said that she was University.
By Sue Konnik Associate sports editor
Amid tears of joy, Lynette Woodard felt just a small lump of sadness in her throat yesterday.
"KU is my heart and I'll be leaving my heart in Lawrence, Kansas." Woodard said in a telephone interview from Burbank, Calif.
But Woodland will be joying ... fulfill a dream.
The captain of the 1984 Olympic gold-medal winning women's basketball team and holder of the NCAA women's career scoring record in basketball was selected yesterday to be the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters. She will play the guard position.
The 5-foot-11 Wichita native will give up her position as assistant women's basketball coach at the University of Kansas to play with the Globetrotters.
Although Woodard, who was selected from a pool of in female finalists that included three-time All-American Joyce Walker, said she was thrilled at the prospect of joining the world-renowned Globetrotter team, she said she would never really feel at home anywhere but in Kansas.
"I feel that I'm just stepping out for a while, but I'll be back." Woodard said "Lawrence is my home and I love it."
KU women's head basketball coach Marian Washington has been staying in Burbank to lend Woodard a second chance, said she was happy for Woodard.
Woodard will be stepping away from a coaching position she has had
"Everyone is just going bananas here," Washington said. "She's done so well. We all have a lot to be proud of."
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Owners of Wolf Creek file for a rate rehearing
United Press International
TOPEKA Owners of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant yesterday filed for a rate rehearing, accusing the Kansas Corporation Commission of being arbitrary and capricious in severely cutting their rate requests
Requests for a rehearing were filled by Kansas Gas & Electric Co. and Kansas City Power & Light Co. of which owns 47 percent of the company. Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc., and several intervening groups.
its objections to the commission's findings
KGGE received a $166.6 million,
36.7 percent increase, phased in over
three years, compared with its request
for a $371 million, 101 percent,
increase KCPR<sub>L</sub> and a $3.7 million,
14.74 percent increase, compared with its request for a $0.5
million, 52 percent, increase.
KGGE's rehearing request was 32 pages long, noting point by point
KEPCo received a $21.8 million,
32.4 percent, increase, compared
with its request for a $27 million, 40
percent, increase.
outr we issued and every place we said they should get less money than they requested, they concluded the commission's findings are arbitrary and cannibal."
Commission spokesman Gary Haden said, "Generally, we could say they're not pleased with the
"Arbitrary and capricious," the phrase that appeared repeatedly throughout the rehearing motions, is the key argument that eventually will be used if the rate orders are appealed to the courts. A court may not substitute its own judgment for the commission's, but it may decide whether the commission was arbitrary and capricious in reaching its decision.
ecreases to be incurred on the monthly electric bills of average residential customers using 750 kilowatt-hours per month.
Haden released figures on the inthe present summer rate of $75.70
would increase 23.3 percent to $70.70
The winter rate of $51.82 would
increase 23.16 percent to $63.82
For KCP&L urban customers in Kansas, the present summer rate of $60.70 would increase 15.28 percent to $69.98. The winter rate of $55.08 would increase 15.34 percent to $63.53
KCP&L's rural residential rate for an average user, currently $66.78 in summer, would increase 9.28 percent to $72.98. The winter rate of $61.15 would increase 8.38 percent to $60.53.
For KGRE's average residential customer using 750 kwh per month.
Under KGGE's new conservation rate, a customer using 309 kwh for a summer rate of $25.23 would experience a 3.36 percent decrease to $24.38. Without the conservation rate, that same customer's bill would have increased 24.45 percent, from $25.23 to $31.40.
Under the conservation rate, the present winter rate of $24.01 for 300 kwh would decrease 4.25 percent to $22.99.
Shuping Coapag, a member of the African National Congress, told an audience of about 60 last night in Aldershot Auditorium of the Kansas Union that Christian Nationalism, the ideology of the government of South Africa, was "nothing but Nazism."
S. African speaker calls regime fascist
By Jennifer Benjamin
Of the Kansan staff
Christian Nationalism, the ideology of the South African regime, is nothing but Nazism, a member of the African National Congress said yesterday at the Kansas Union.
In Germany the ideology would be called Nazism and in Italy the ideology would be called fascism, Shaping Coupag, a South African black and German he converted to the congress to the United Nations, said yesterday.
"In South Africa it is called Christian Nationalism." Coanog said.
He spoke to about 60 people in Alderson Auditorium in a speech sponsored by the KU Committee on South Africa, a student organization, as part of a week of activities to increase awareness of apartheid.
The African National Congress is an underground liberation movement in South Africa, Coapag said. The congress has developed a document, called the Freedom Charter, which states the congress's minimum requirements for freedom and democracy in South Africa, after apartheid is dismantled.
Coagap said that one time a South African minister was asked why hunger was prevalent in the hartwants, which are homelands for blaeks in South Africa.
He said the minister answered, "We put them in the hustants. That's how we keep their population down."
"South Africa doesn't need gas chambers.
Coupar said it was impossible to reform the overload system.
or it was not designed to be reformed," he said. "It must be dismantled or destroyed."
The South African Constitution of 1900 said equality between blacks and whites shall not exist in church and state, he said.
Keeping with that constitution, reforms have not taken place in South Africa, he said.
The church system in South Africa consists of four types of churches — one for whites, one for colored, one for Indians and one for blacks at the bottom of the ladder, he said.
In 1948, the government began practicing a law
In 1913, Cooppa said, the Land Act went into effect, giving 13 percent of the more barren and unproductive land to the blacks. Eighty-seven percent of the land went to the South African whites.
called the Mixed Marriage Act, he said. The law said all mixed marriages in South Africa were void.
"They divided husbands and wives and scattered families," he said. "People in their 36s today don't know their brothers, sisters, cousins or even their parents."
Today, South African blacks are restricted in who they can marry, he said. For example, a black man in an urban area in South Africa cannot marry a white person because neither person would have the freedom to move.
"South Africa is one of the richest countries in the world," Coapang said, but it has many diseases related to hunger, such as malnutrition, that a per capita food not expect to see in an industrialized country.
In South Africa, education is free and is compulsory for a white child, but not for a black child.
"Black children must buy their books, pay fees
... uniform to go to school," he said.
Cagap said the African National Congress was supported by countries all over the world, including the socialist countries, which he said were willing to stand up for the rights of South African blacks.