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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A man with a long spear in hand.
FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 30 (USPS 650-640)
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American reportedly executed
From Kansan wires
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Islamic Jihad terrorists said they executed U.S. Embassy official William Buckley, one of six American hostages in Lebanon, to avenge Israel's deadly air strike on a Palestine Liberation Organization camp, a Beirut newspaper reported today.
Under the headline "Islamic Jihad: We Executed Buckley," An Nahar, the newspaper, quoted the shadowy group as saying Buckley would die after An Nahar was published.
Buckley, 57, was abducted outside his home in West Beirut on March 16, 1984. The Medford. Mass., man has
been in captivity the longest of six Americans kidnapped in Lebanon over the past 19 months.
The Islamic Jihad's statement could not be confirmed independently, and it was unclear whether it was a bluff to pressure the Reagan administration to release Islamic Jihad members held for terrorist crimes in Iraq.
"We've seen the news reports of the execution) but we have no independent confirmation," White House spokesman Larry Speakes said in Washington.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in East Beirut said the mission also could not confirm the report.
If the Islamic Jihad claim is confirmed. Buckley, a bachelor with few
family ties in the United States, would become the first of the kidnapped Americans to be killed by his Lebanese captors.
An Nahar reported that Islamic Jihad, or "Holy War," said the execution would avenge Israel's long-distance air strike Tuesday with U.S.-made F-15 warplanes on PLO headquarters near the Tunisian capital of Tunis. The jets demolished the PLO camp and killed at least 73 people.
"We declare a revenge for the blood of the martyrs by announcing the execution of the CIA agent in the Middle East and the first political adviser at the American Embassy, the spy William Buckley, after
publishing this statement," the Islamic Jihad's statement said.
The statement was hand-delivered to An Nahar, one of the most respected newspapers in the Arab world.
Islamic Jihad reiterated PLO charges that the United States allowed the attacking Israeli jets to refuel on American warships in the Mediterranean Sea on their 3,000-mile round-trip flight from Israel to Tunisia.
Besides Buckley and the five other Americans, four Frenchmen, three Britons and an Italian are thought kidnapped in Lebanon.
Islamic Jihad, a loosely connected network of Shite Moslems linked to Iran's fundamentalist, anti-
American regime, has said it was holding the American hostages.
The group has demanded the release of 17 Shites in prison in Kuwait for a string of terrorist bombings in December 1983.
the Islamic jihad statement sent to An Nahar said of Buckley, "Now that he has been tried showing the proof of his participation in the global American intelligence crimes, we will publish some of his confessions and some of his documents that were with him at that time."
In its statement, signed "The Islamic Jihad Organization," the group said, "We will dedicate his body to the families of Moslem and Tunisian martyrs who were killed.
See BUCKLEY, p. 6, col. 1
Divestment, budget occupy U. Council
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
A resolution calling for the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest immediately from companies doing business in South Africa was approved yesterday by the University Council.
At the same meeting, Chancellor Gene A. Budig told the Council that the University needed more financial help from the governor and the Kansas Legislature.
The resolution on South Africa, introduced by Grant Goodman, professor of history, questioned the safety of the Endowment Association's investments.
"In the judgment of this council, KUEA's prudence is seriously in question as the political and economic situation in South Africa deteriorates.
"The University Council wishes to express its profound concern about KUEA's continued insistence on investing in companies with South African holdings. Therefore, in accordance with KUEA's self-professed, unflinching adherence to the Prudent Man's Rule, University Council recommends immediate divestment of KUEA's holdings in all companies that do business in South Africa."
The Prudent Man's statutes say that those who handle other people's money must consider the "probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital."
The Endowment Association has repeatedly said that divestment from companies doing business in South Africa would violate this law.
Steve Menaugh, director of public relations for the Endowment Association, said the resolution would not affect any decision to divest.
"This doesn't,' at this point, change anything," Menaugh said.
"I don't think it's any different than what's been going on all along.
"Until the legal question is solved, this policy will remain intact."
Attorney General Robert Stephan is examining Prudent Man statutes in an attempt to determine how they apply to investments made by the Endowment Association.
Sidney Shapiro, professor of law and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday the Endowment Association's investments in South Africa were not consistent with the statutes.
"Under these statutes, the Association has an obligation to consider the safety of the investments in South Africa," Shapiro said. "In light of the current political crisis, I don't think it is still prudent to invest in South Africa."
Africa. Dennis "Boog" Highberger, Pleasant Grove senior and a member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said he was pleased with the council's action.
"I'm glad they've passed this resolution," he said, "although I don't know what effect it's going to have."
On the budget issue, Budig called the University's budget proposal for fiscal 1987, which has already been approved by the Board of Regents, a "thoughtful blueprint for progress." He urged that Gov. John Carlin and the Legislature move toward its approval.
KU's Level C budget proposal was submitted last month and would set the 1987 fiscal budget at $195,526,507. It includes a 7 percent salary increase for classified, unclassified and student employees, and in the Other Operating Expenses fund.
The other proposals, Level A and Level B, would provide a 2 percent salary increases for KU employees. Level B would provide an increase of 1 percent in the Other Operating Expenses Fund, but under Level A, the amount would remain unchanged.
"The initial investment has been made." Badig said. "The University of Kansas is this state's principal asset. We should be used wisely."
Budig praised the Legislature for its support in the past and credited them for enhancing the quality of the University.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Donna Wortman, 30, 1519 Cadet Ave. was killed yesterday afternoon when the car she was driving and a city sanitation truck collided head-on in the 700 block of North Second Street.
Local woman dies in crash
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A 30-year-old Lawrence woman was killed in a head-on collision with a city sanitation truck yesterday in the 700 block of North Second Street, Lawrence police said.
Donna Wortman, 1519 Cadet Ave., was pronounced dead on arrival at 1:30 p.m. at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Wortman was traveling south on North Second Street and swerved to pass a tsi-tractor trailer, police said. The semi was blocking both southbound lanes and entering the northbound lane while trying to leave the Lawrence Asphalt Co., 725 North Second St., according to police.
After swerving around the semi, witnesses said,
Wortman collided head-on with the sanitation truck
William A. Ashburn, 1308 E. 16th St., the driver of the sanitation truck, told police that he was traveling south when he saw the semi blocking both southbound lanes. He said he applied the brakes.
Ashburn said the next thing he remembered was seeing a white car in front of him and then the impact, police said.
Darrrell Ross, Kansas City, Mo. the driver of the semi, said he had unloaded his cargo at the asphalt
pant and was trying to enter the northbound lane of North Second Street, police said.
He made one attempt, backed up and was making a second attempt when he saw Wortman's car enter the inside lane of northbound traffic as he was crossing the southbound lanes, he told police.
He told police he stopped for Wortman's car, turned his head and saw a car in the outer lane of southbound traffic slow to a stop. He turned back to check northbound traffic when he heard the collision, according to the police report.
Sandra Williams, Rt. 6, told police that she was traveling north on North Second Street ahead of Wortman's car. She said she drove around the semi and saw the sanitation truck approaching "very fast," according to the police report.
Williams told police that she heard the collision behind her.
The Douglas County Ambulance Service was called to the scene at 12:35 p.m. according to police reports.
A spokesman for the ambulance service said the first unit arrived at about 1 p.m. and called for assistance.
The second ambulance and the Lawrence Fire Department arrived soon afterwards.
No traffic citations were issued to the drivers of the semi or the sanitation truck.
Federal aid to students decreasing
By Monty Headley Special to the Kansan
Costs of attending the University of Kansas keep rising, but a report released last week says fewer KU students are applying for financial aid
The report includes federal aid such as Pell Grants and National Direct Student Loans, but it does not include University aid such as ioans through the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said last week that the decrease indicated that many students might think they were not eligible for student loans.
The report also indicated that parents were paying a bigger chunk of the bill this year. Parents contributed an average of 10 percent more this year than last, the report said, but the share that students paid staved about the same.
This report does not include Guaranteed Student Loans that go through banks rather than the University. GSLs have a higher interest rate than federal loans but are the choice of many students who are not eligible for federal loans.
Rogers said that one reason for the decrease in federal loan applications was that many students got GSLs without first checking into the lower-interest federal loans.
Currently, the interest rate for GSLs is 8 percent, and the interest rate for some federal loans such as National Direct Student Loans is 5 percent.
The federal loans are processed by the University but are financed by the federal government. These loans also require a lower family income than GSLs do.
Congress is considering requiring students that need aid to apply for federal aid before they can apply for GSLs, Rogers said. The federal aid program is cheaper for the government to operate than the GSL program.
Now, anyone with a family income of $30,000 or less is automatically eligible for a GSL, but the government wants to make all GSL awards based on need regardless of family income. Rogers said.
The report also compared KU with a random sample of other universities in the United States.
Parents of KU students contributed $3,569 a year to their sons' or daughters' educations — $1,060 more than the national average, the report said.
The report also indicated that KU students paid a larger part of their costs than the national average.
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Jed Smock, a traveling evangelist from Terre Haute, Ind., preached to passere-by in front of Stauffer Flint Haiti yesterday. "They're not ready for the Gospel," Smock said of the crowd. "I don't see any desire for them to be saved."
Students heckle perennial visitors
Evangelists try to save souls
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Following in the tradition of the old-fashioned tent revivals, a group of traveling evangelists yesterday gave KU students a little taste of that of' time religion.
Jed Smock, a traveling evangelist from Terre Haute, Ind., his wife, Cindy, and four colleagues, have returned to campus once again to urge students to repent and to accept Jesus Christ — or be damned.
A crowd of about 200 paused to watch as Jad and his fellow evangelists preached on the grassy area north of Stauffer-Flint Hall. They intend to preach again today.
Many of the students heckled and jeered during the preaching.
Jed said he was encouraged by this response because it meant that his message was making students think.
"This is like a Sunday school class, compared to the University of San Francisco or Berkeley." Jed said yesterday.
Other students talked with the evangelists, because they were confused by the things that they had heard.
"I didn't hear the message other Christians preach," said Beverly Hatfield, Chicago junior. "I don't hear, 'God loves you' — just judgment."
Hatfield said she told Jed she was willing to accept his message and be saved, but he refused her.
"He told me I did not qualify," she said. "I don't think God would say that."
Several of the onlookers came to Hattfield's defense.
"I told her she did not qualify because she's a hypocrite," Jed told the crowd. "She had the authority to interrupt me."
She said that the students' reaction to them was typical and really didn't bother them.
Many in the crowd shouted in dismay at this response and Jed read a quote from the Bible that said women should be subservient to men as Sarah was to Abraham.
"We came here to deliver a message, and we're not going to let a little ridicule stop us," she said.
Cindy said that their approach to evangelism was a good one.
"Do you think we're going to get anyone to listen if we said, 'Smile, God loves you?' " she said.
"We came here to warn the wicked. If they continue in their sins, they'll go to hell. Their only hope is to turn to Jesus."
"it used to be one of the mockers," she said,
but I became convinced that I needed to remember.
Cindy said they represented a non-
denominational group, Campus Ministry
U.S.A., Lexington, Ky. The group, including
the Smock's 14-month-old daughter,
Evangeline, will move on to campuses in Iowa,
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
According to a book Jed wrote, "Who Will Rise Up?" Cindy was converted through Jed's ministry in December 1977. She was a student
at the University of Florida, Gainesville, at the time and said she was a "disco queen."
Harvey Stafford, Wichita junior, said he was one of the first people to arrive when the evangelists began to speak.
"I was amazed by the whole thing." Stafford said. "They actually get out here and call people liars and think they can win an argument by screaming louder than everyone else."
As the evangelists spoke in turn, they were flanked on each side by members of their group holding banners with religious slogans, Bibles and American flags.
Bob Bible, pastor of the Christian Brothers Church, Los Angeles, was one of them. He said he met the Smocks last week in Dallas at the Second Annual Street Ministers Conference, and he decided to travel with them this week.
"I don't have to gain anything." Bible said.
"I just hope to give some information to the students on this campus that there is a judgment coming."
The evangelists, often shouting with emotion, warned students against the evils of drugs, drink, rock'n' roll music and promiscuity. Jed said his message yesterday focused on the Old Testament, particularly the Ten Commandments.
"They're not ready for the Gospel," he said of the crowd.