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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 21 (USPS 650-640)
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Mexico death toll soars in disaster's wake Worries over for 1 Mexican student
MEXICO CITY — Rescuers pulled more survivors from rubble yesterday as international aid poured in to help Mexico recover from two earthquakes that killed thousands and left legions of homeless people living in the streets.
Nine Americans were reported missing, in addition to five others killed.
Volunteers searching the ruins of more than 400 collapsed buildings began losing hope of finding more survivors under the rubble. Mexico City Mayor Ramon Aguirre said at least 2,000 people were thought trapped, with little chance of survival.
Agurrre said 1,760 bodies had been recovered, but the figure was disputed by officials at morgues who said many bodies were whisked away by families before they were counted. Other officials put the number of dead at roughly 3,000.
Occasionally, the rescue crews pulled out a child or an adult, still alive after more than three days. Aguirre said that since rescue operations began, 1,011 people had been pulled alive from the rubble.
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
After days of worrying and waiting, Yolanda Langdon finally received some welcome news over the weekend — her relatives in Mexico all survived last week's devastating earthquakes.
"Everybody was fine - thank God," she said.
Langdon, a KU graduate teaching assistant, said yesterday that ham radio operators were able to get messages through from her relatives in Mexico City, and her parents called her Saturday night.
Langdon said she had no contact with her parents until they phoned her Saturday evening. A ham radio operator was able to call her aunt in Chevy Chase, Md., with news that her other relatives in southern Mexico were not injured.
"Everybody was like the thankful crowd." He had hundreds of other buddies who were not as luckily there, extremely awaiting news from relatives and friends in Mexico City, which was ravaged by two earthquakes last week.
"Most of my relatives were in the southern part of Mexico that was not damaged too severely," she said. "We all feel very lucky."
Enrique Espinosa, Mexico City, Mexico, junior, said he had not been able to reach his parents and friends in Mexico because of damaged telephone lines.
"I called the Red Cross yesterday and gave them my parents' addresses and telephone numbers," he said. "They said they would call me before
sending my message because several hundred people were ahead of me on the waiting list."
The Greater Kansas City chapter of the American Red Cross is coordinating ham radio operators' efforts to check on relatives. The Red Cross distributed names of relatives to ham radio operators so they could seek information when they get through to Mexico.
In Lawrence, Catholic Masses were dedicated to the victims in Mexico and to their families and friends, the Rev. Vince Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, said yesterday.
The Masses were held Saturday afternoon at the St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Road, and through the day Sunday in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
without flowers” the El Universal newspaper said.
As rescue efforts continued, funerals were staged for some of the victims already identified in the wake of the quakes Thursday and Friday. A shortage of caskets prevented elaborate ceremonies.
"They are buried in individual shrouds hurriedly prepared, and the ceremony doesn't last more than 10 minutes, without a funeral prayer.
Authorities, worried about the threat of disease, said bodies unclaimed after 48 hours would be buried in mass graves.
"Most of them are unidentified," said Red Cross Lt. Uri Fridman at the Old Seguro baseball park, which was turned into a morgue.
The three had been heard shouting and crying for three days, but workers could not reach them until yesterday, when enough debris had been removed to make the effort safe.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Dan Lawler said the Mexican government had raised the official death toll to 3.461 in
A team of French rescue workers using special equipment yesterday pulled three teenage students, alive, from the rubble of a technical school where they had been trapped for three days.
Thursday's earthquake, which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, and the second quake Friday, of 7.3 intensity, U.S. Ambassador John Gavin estimated 10,000 died and the toll could be double that.
The youths — two boys and a girl — were taken to ambulances, with as one boy mumbling, "Thank you, thank you."
U. S. Embassy spokesman Lee Johnson said five Americans were killed in the earthquake and nine others were missing.
Johnson identified the dead as Mary Elizabeth Vallejo, 34, of Coad, Neb., and her two children, Lise Anne, 8, and Alonso, 5. Also killed were Georgiana Merry Yunes, 31, and her son, Juan Carlos, 10 months. Yunes was originally from San Antonio Tex.
Both women were married to Mexicans. They died when their homes collapsed, Johnson said.
Johnson also said four U.S. search dog teams were in Mexico, and had rescued some trapped victims at the Benito Juarez hospital.
Four ham radio operators were working around-the-clock at the U.S. Embassy relaying calls to American citizens. About 3,000 calls had already been relayed, Johnson said.
A special demolition crew was
See QUAKE p 8 col 1
Soggy Saturday
Saturday's weather put a damper on Band Day activities scheduled for forced visiting high school bands to play in the stands instead of on the field halftime at the Kansas Indiana State football game at Memorial Stadium. Rain, as planned.
Arms negotiator criticizes
By Bengt Ljung
Of the Kansan staff
The "Star Wars" missile defense system is bringing about the greatest crisis in U.S. Soviet relations ever, a veteran arms negotiator said Friday.
200 attend peace conference p. 5.
The bedrock of arms agreements, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, will be violated and the Soviets will lose trust in the United States if President Reagan insists on pushing for the "Star Wars" system, the arms negotiator, Lawrence Weiler, said in an interview.
Weiler, a 25-year veteran of arms negotiations, was in Lawrence for a conference Saturday on initiatives to stop the nuclear arms race.
"The November summit between Reagan and Gorbachev could be a disaster," said Weiler, a
political science professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Weller worked for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington from 1960 to 1981 and negotiated the telephone "hot line" in 1963 and the SALT I treaty from 1968 to 1972.
Weiler said Reagan had been in office for three years before learning from a conversation with a U.S. congressman that the Soviet Union had most of its missiles based on land. Reagan then understood that his Strategic Arms Reduction proposal had not been advantageous to the Soviets, Weiler said.
Reagan and Soviet party leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, will meet starting Nov. 19 in Geneva, Switzerland.
no arms agreements can be made as long as we have Star Wars," Weiler said. "But maybe Gorbachev can teach Reagan the facts.
"Part of the problem is that we are dealing with a very uninformed president."
'Star Wars'
Judge's call retains players on sideline
"Star Wars," officially named the Strategic Defense Initiative, is in its early research stage. The system will attempt to destroy Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles in flight.
" 'Star Wars' is an appealing wish, like the fountain of youth," Weiler said. "And Reagan is not troubled by the facts."
Weller said proponents of "Star Wars" used it for other purposes. Some hoped an arms race would pressure the Soviet Union to choose between arms concessions and bankruptcy. Others feared that arms control agreements would turn public
the test would still be necessary.
In addition to the technical problems and the damage in U.S. Soviet relations, Weller said, the cost — $1 trillion — was too great.
Weiler said no scientists, except those on the "Star Wars" payroll, said the system would work. But if it stops 90 percent of the Soviet missiles,
Even if it stops 80 percent of the usenet mail the rest will still destroy the U.S.," he said.
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, Rose Marino, associate general counsel, and Del Brinkman, KU's Big Eight Conference representative, filed a motion Friday morning to kill a restraining order that kept KU officials from declaring him an assault player academically ineligible.
See WEILER, p. 5, col. 1
By Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
The judge, G. Joseph Pierson, altered the restraining order Friday by ruling that KU did not have to play the players in the game. The players still were eligible and could practice with the team.
Pierron's decision meant the University did not have to decide between following a court order or
A Johnson County judge helped keep three KU football players on the sidelines Saturday by reversing part of a restraining order levyed against the University on Thursday.
The restraining order had been granted Thursday morning in Johnson County District Court by Judge Larry McClain.
The players, tailback Lynn Williams, offensive guard Doug Certain and linebacker Dane Griffin, did not suit up for Saturday's game against Indiana State.
If the University had not been awarded the alteration, there might have been a possibility that KU could win in contempt of court, Thomas said.
risking fortune of games, in which the players participated.
But, Thomas said Friday that before Pierron altered the restraining order, it did not dictate that the coach use the players in the game.
"The restraining order doesn't say, 'Coach Mike Gottfred must play this player.' The plaintiff would have to prove that coach Gottfred deliberately didn't play the players." Thomas said.
Ineligibility sanctions are dealt with in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's enforcement rules.
She said the University could be subject to irreparable harm if it were forced to play the three players. Even though the players were ruled eligible by Thursday's restraining order, they could be ruled ineligible in the future.
Thomas used a specific section of the NCAA rules in her arguments.
Section 10 of the rules says the NCAA can penalize a college that plays a student athlete who is eligible under terms of a restraining order but subsequently ruled ineligible
78,000 brave rain wind for FarmAid
The Associated Press.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Flanked by huge banners reading "Keep America Growing." Willie Nelson and dozens of other music stars sang, fiddled and strummed through a windy, rain-soaked Farm aid concert yesterday, raising millions to help the country's struggling farmers.
Local farmer calls for more aid p. 5.
"Thank you very much for coming to the concert for America," shouted Nelson, the driving force behind the 14-hour concert featuring about 50 stars of country music, rock and blues.
As a crowd of more than 78,000 filed into the University of Illinois football stadium, Nelson and Neil Young teamed up to sing "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" Nelson then brought cheering fans to their feet with "Whiskey River."
Nelson said a nationwide television and radio audience was calling pledges in at a rate of $500,000 an hour. Singer Brenda Lee, who enceved the program for cable television, said about $3 million was pledged by late afternoon. That was in addition to $4 million promoters said was raised before the concert began.
Nelson has said the concert's purpose was to raise money to help needy farmers and to increase public awareness of farmers' problems.
"We want everyone to call in from 'Surf City' or wherever," lead singer Mike Love of the Beach Boys told the audience.
Music styles ranged from the rock of the Blasters to the country of George Jones and from the blues of B. B. King to the classics of Roy Orbison. Carole King played a white piano on the front edge of the stage with the FarmAid curtain as a backdrop.
As darkness approached, John Fogerty — formerly of Credence Clearwater Revival — had the audience clapping and dancing, and told them, "Next time you sit down to a meal, remember it didn't come in a cellophane bag from Safetay. Some farmer put his whole life into growing that food."
Some concert-goers covered themselves with sheets of clear plastic, while others huddled beneath umbrellas or hooded raincoats.
A steady rainfall began shortly after the concert opened at 10 a.m. The rain stopped in the late afternoon, and an overcast sky greeted the evening performances carried live on 156 television stations.
"A once-in-a-lifetime thing like this, how could you miss it?" said Ken Lewis of Bloomington. Ill. "What's a little rain? We'll dry out tomorrow."
Students say cartoons are fun way to relax
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Some college students push aside their Saturday morning sleep or hangovers just in time to tune in "Tom and Jerry" or the "Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes Comedy Hour."
The cartoons, students say, animate some otherwise dull hours
spent in front of the tube.
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"It releases tension." Heiid Burge, Dodge City freshman, said yesterday. "I like to watch 'Tom and Jerry' when Tom smashes the little mouse. It releases tension and it's entertaining. I get a kick out of it."
She said she thought more college men than women watched cartoons.
Dan Green, Overbrook sophomore,
said he had watched cartoons since
childhood, and they also provided an
afternoon study break for him.
When the fall prime time television season premiered last week, some
"It's better than soap operas," Green said. "I watch whatever's on in the afternoon, and it gives me a break from studying because I don't have to think.
"I don't like soap operas, and cartoons are on the same low intellectual level. They are about the only thing I watch on TV besides PBS."
new cartoons also appeared, said Brian Bartlett. Wichita freshman.
Bartlett said the "13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo," which replaced "Scary Scooby Doo Funnies," involved the 13 most evil ghosts in the world that were locked in a box in a small town in Switzerland. Before they were locked in the box, however, the ghosts had put a curse on the town — causing all the people in the town to turn into werewolves at night.
Now Sooby Doo and Shaggy have accidently let the ghosts out of the box and are chasing them all over the world.
Bartlett said his favorite cartoon was not shown in Lawrence.
"In Wichita, the first thing I'd do when I came home from school was turn on 'Dangermouse' and do my homework," he said.
"Dangermouse has a black patch over his left eye. There is a hampster with no brain named Pinfold who provides the comic relief and a green frog who is the mastermind of all evil."
Bartlett said he enjoyed watching cartoons because they were unrealistic.
"They are kind of an escape," he said. "Nothing in cartoons really happens anywhere else. Anything can happen in a cartoon."
Green said he watched the cartoon "Dungeons and Dragons" every Saturday morning because he played the game Dungeons and Dragons.