The University Daily
KANSAN
Tuesday, November 4, 1980 Vol.91, No.52 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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KU Libyans fear native government
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Libyan students at the University of Kansas have good reason to be concerned about a recent assassination attempt on a Libyan student in two of the Libyan students at KU said yesterday.
A politically motivated killing, such as the one attempted at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, could conceivably occur at KU, accused of killing a student. It could be identified for reasons of personal safety.
"A lot of people have been trying to get it (the Colorado incident) public, but there's only so much they can do," he said. "Eat, something could happen here. I expected it a long time ago."
THE STUDENT SAID the Libyan at KU were well aware of the OAIT. 14 shooting of Faisal Zagallah, a Colorado State graduate student who shot two police officers in their group that supports the Libyan government.
Zagallai was shot twice in the head at his home in Fort Collins, but he survived the attack. He was known to have criticized Col. Moammar Khadify, Libyan head of state, and had said he would not return to Libya after completing his studies.
The KU student said reports of "death squads" being dispatched by the Libyan government to kill its opponents living abroad were "100 percent accurate."
KEN COMBS/Kansan staff
Of the 03 Lilyan students enrolled at KU, three or four might be dangerous in some way or cause harm to others.
"Other than that, everyone seems to be OK," he said.
The student said he thought three or four students reported on all the Libyan students at KU and sent the information to a secret people's library, which forwarded the information to Libya.
Although a few KU Libyan students denied having any knowledge about the attack, the second student said he was sure they all had heard about it.
Another student, who also requested anonymity, said that an FBJ agent had called him several days after the shooting in Colorado, telling him to be careful and not to go out alone.
more about the situation, but that he would not feel safe if he revealed much more.
He said he was upset that the U.S. media haven't given the Colorado incident more attention and that either the U.S. government or the FBI was trying to keep the story quiet.
THE ORDERS FOR "hits" on Libyan students in the United States come from the Libyan government, but they are based on its contacts with such committees, he said.
The student said that he wished he could say
IN A PRESIDENTIAL election year, they don't want any trouble. he said.
Also, the United States still gets 10 percent of its oil from Libya and doesn't want to risk losing
"What they're saying is, 'We don't care what you do inside your country, just cut off our contact.'"
Both students said they had no intention of returning home when they completed their
CLARK COAN, DIRECTOR OF Foreign Student Services, said that he had heard about the shooting in Fort Collins, but that he had not been contented to by it any of the Libyan men in the KKK.
"I don't plan to go to home ever again; I wish I
didn't leave the student." "I don't know
what would happen to me."
"The student concern could very well have been there, however," he said. "The grapevine among the students is very good, I'm sure. They may have known about the incident right after it happened, maybe even before it was in the paper."
Haskell Springer, chairman of the University Senate Committee on Foreign Students, said his committees probably would not take any action in shooting or its possible implications for KU.
"Of course, the idea that there may be hit squads in the country attacking students is a very important issue," he said. "But the community can also be involved in shooting, and that would be basically ineffective."
Daniel Klinknutt, 13, 1500 Indiana, rides high on the rolling horse that recycles from a pommel horse. She is flirted with 2010 Clarka in an attempt to hop a shopping cart bass, provides her dog, Jax, a mother's gift that he has built things for his employee.
Eldredge says Berman violated finance laws
Staff Reporter
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Reporter
Republican Jane Eldredge yesterday castigated state Sen. Arnold Berman, her Democratic opponent in the 2nd District state Senate race, for not wanting to divulge the source of his contributions and for abusing campaign financing disclosure laws.
Eldredge said she was upset at the failure of Berman's campaign treasurer to file campaign contribution and expenditure reports before today's general election. The deadline for filing the budget requests was Kansas Secretary of State's office reported yesterday that Berman's reports had not been filed.
"Obviously, he has a lot of special interest money that he doesn't want to divulge before the deadline."
MARCIA FOSTER, Berman's campaign treasurer, said yesterday that she had mailed the report from Seattle on Wednesday, the day it did so. The report was at the KU accounting office where she works.
"I was out of town all week and haven't talked to Berman," she said.
Berman denied any intentional failure to file and said he did not know whether the report had
"I don't know if my treasurer is in town yet. I certainly hope it has been filed," he said.
"That's been the problem; she has been out of town since Monday and I haven't heard from her."
According to law, Foster would be liable for any penalty if the state attorney general decides to file charges against Berman's campaign because of a late or intentionally delayed report.
"It is absolute unadulterated nonsense," Berman said in response to Eldredge's charge the delay was intentional. "It is absolute absurdity."
Because of a grace period allowed by the 1974 Campaign Finance Act, candidates can delay filing their reports until after the election. According to Marshall Whitlock, executive director
HE SAID THAT he would gladly list all contributions' names he could remember, and would give them.
of the state Governmental Ethics Commission, abuse of the law has been widespread this year.
"Over 60 candidates have not turned their reports in on time, but they have been filtering in," Whitlock said. "Many were slowed up by the mail."
THE COMMISSION oversees the filing of the reports, and makes sure they are turned in on time. The reports must be completed and must follow guidelines for listing contributions.
Whitlock can initiate complaints against candidates whose reports are filed late.
If reports are not in the secretary of state's office on the next day, Oct. 30, the candidates are notified by mail that a complaint will be filed with the commission against them. The candidate is then given a five-day grace period before a fine is levied.
"It if it is a situation where the report was made, then, it will be deemed as acceptable," he said.
"There are a lot of cases where the commission files a complaint, the candidate is assessed several civil penalties and the commission report is delivered to the attorney general for prosecution." Whitlock said. By that time, however, the candidate usually has filed his complaint. The attorney general's mission thinks the delay was intentional, prosecution is still possible. Whitlock said.
They are fired $10 a day, at a maximum of $300 after the complaint is issued," Whitlock said. Failure to tie a Class A misdemeanor, or maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
WHITLOCK SAID the law was typical of most countries. The main conditions in that there were often grace periods after sales
He said the law was based on the hope that candidates would file in the spirit of the law. It was set up on the "hope, promise and expectation" that candidates would abide by it.
Polls open till 7 p.m.
Polls for today's general election will be open until 7 p.m. the deadline for the sick and unwell. Noon. People may call the Douglas County elections office at 417-700 to find out where to vote.
Algeria named as intermediary in hostage crisis
By United Press International
Iranian militants, who 367 days ago stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostages, agreed yesterday to turn the hostages over to the Iranian government. The government, in turn, named Algeria to act as intermediary in negotiating release of the hostages.
The U.S. government welcomed yesterday's events, but warned that the release would take time. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said, however, much remains to be done."
Muskie said the reports from Iran had been encouraging, but warned they should be viewed as initial steps in a process which would require time, patience and diplomacy.
ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR Redha Malek met for 45 minutes with Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher to discuss Algeria's role in the hostage crisis. A spokesman refused to be interviewed. In the absence of diplomatic relations, Algeria represents Iranian interests in the United States.
Today is the first anniversary of the capture of the hostages, who now begin the first day of their逃离.
A large delegation of the Moslem militants who have held 49 of the hostages in the embassy called on Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhulah Khomeini and volunteered to relinquish control over the sites. Khomeini agreed. The other three hostages are last reported held in the foreign ministry.
In a letter to Prime Minister Mohammad阿曼弘 Rajai the captains said, "We consider it appropriate that the government should henceforth take the responsibility of holding the spy hostages.
"You are therefore asked to introduce your representative to take delivery of the American
IN AN INTERVIEW with Tehran Radio, however, RAI warned that Iran's longstanding threat to try the hostages as spies would be avoided. He said the four conditions set by the Iranian Parliament.
"It is mentioned there (in the Parliament resolution approving the conditions) that if the U.S.A. does not accept these conditions, then the hostages will be tried. . . . Officials should prepare themselves for the trial of these hostages," he said.
The whereabouts of the captives was not known, and the militants themselves flatly refused to comment beyond the contents of their letter to Raial.
"The boatsages are not here," a spokesperson for the Algerian Embassy in Tehran said. "No one but me is there."
The hostages were said to be scattered throughout Iran after an abortive U.S. rescue attempt last April. However, reports since then indicate that the hostages have been returned to the embassy.
ASKED WHETHER THE hostages would be handed over to the Algerians once their release has been arranged, a spokesman for Rajai said, "None of these details has been worked out yet."
He said the Algerians would deal with all matters pertaining to the hostage issue.
Yesterday's rapid chain of events was set in motion by an overwhelming vote by the Majlis, the Iranian Parliament, Sunday favoring release of four prisoners and fulfilled four conditions set by Khomeini Sept. 12.
These were: a U.S. pledge not to interfere in the financial matters of assets held in U.S. banks, the dropping of assets held in U.S. banks, the dropping of
See HOSTAGES page 5
Workers for Bob Madgeet Inc., St. Joseph, Mo., tear down part of a wall on the Bowersock Mill cable car tower. The house tower the motor and
pulleys for the cable that were used to maintain Bowersock Dam. A new tower will be built in the same place.
BEN BIGLER/Kansan stat
Couple's trek across America provides bleak view of nation
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
Two beers and less than an hour after arriving in Lawrence late Friday afternoon, they were left with only the jeans and flannel shirts they were wearing and a few dollars in their pockets.
Bill Clifford and Marjorie Eluceu, Brooklyn, N.Y., residents on a cross-country trip, had lost about $1,000 in cash and camping equipment to the man who offered them a ride from Kansas City, Kan. At present, the couple is temporarily stalled in Lawrence.
Clifford, whose salt-and-pepper beard and balding head made him look older than his 24 years, said, however, that having their possessions stolen was good, because it would make them come to more of a realization of "how little you really needed to survive."
"What we lost is nothing," he said, "compared
What they've seen so far hasn't been encouraging, they say.
to how sick the people in this country are, and what we need to do to turn this country around."
DEPRESSED BY WHAT they were reading in newspapers and hearing on television about the dangers of toxic waste dumps and polluted cities, Clifford and Elceiucci left New York to see whether the rest of the country was in as bad shape as the media were telling them.
"The cities in the Midwest smell just as sick and grimy as New York. In fact, the factory smell of St. Louis is worse than the polluted smell of Los Angeles, but more by carbon dioxide from cars." Cuffert said.
Eleucice, tight, shoulder-length blond hair taming her tired face, said she had waited three years for it.
She said she wanted to see the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon and the redwood trees
See TRAVELERS page 5
It will be mostly sunny and cooler today, according to the KU Weather Web. Winds will be from the northwest up 18 mph with an afternoon high of 66.
It will be clear and cool tonight with an overnight low of 40.
Thursday and Friday will be mostly
faeces in the mid 70% and lows in the mid 40%.