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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.76
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1992
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Relief efforts begin in Somalia
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The first U. S. Marines to land at Mogadishu's international airport are greeted by a throng of media. The Pentagon expressed dismay over the news coverage of the first landing early morning, saving the use of television lights on the beach put troops 'lives at risk.'
U.S. Marines secure Mogadishu, start flow of aid to starving
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. Marines freed the capital from the grip of warring gummen yesterday and opened the way for air convoys of soldiers and supplies to relieve Somalia's starving.
The first mercy flight to Mogadishu hours after troops stoned ashore brought in powdered formula for famished children and adults.
The Marines' next goal was to seize inland airstrips from bandits so that large U.S. transports could fly in吨s of life-giving grain where it is needed
most. The first of thousands of Army troops were to arrive today, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said.
Amid the sound of chopper blades and the rumble of amphibious vehicles, Somali crowded hillsides and jammed into the airport to welcome the 1,800 Marines who brought Mogadishu one of its most peaceful days since civil war broke out two years ago.
There was no resistance.
The teen-age gunmen and their cannon-mounted jeeps — the terror of the city since President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in Jan-
nury 1991 — appeared to have left town.
But reporters saw youths riding in one pickup truck dismount two machine guns and stow them on the floor as the pickup approached a Marine checkpoint.
Mogadishu was in a festive mood for Marine Landing Day, an instant holiday. Youths perched on stacks of red, white and blue grain sacks to watch Marines die foxholes.
Many Somalis wanted the Marines to disarm gunmen.
"If there's no security, there is no food," said Omar Fafa, a 60-year-old
former policeman.
After seizing the seaside airport and the harbor in uncontested landings at dawn, the Marines — spearheading a force of 28,000 U.S. troops — took up positions at three checkpoints leading into the city.
Three Marines entered the dented iron gates of the deserted U.S. Embassy and hoisted the flag on a rooftop, and a litter of rusting woejewels.
About 300,000 Somalia have died of starvation, disease and warfare in the past year, and 2 million more are threatened with famine.
KU student hopes for peace in India
Bv Muneera Naseer
Kansan staff writer
Amit Kulkarni wants people in his native country of India to forgive history and to stop the violence that began this week.
Riots broke out Sunday in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, in India after a 16th century Muslim mosque was destroyed by Hindus because they considered the site to be the birthplace of their Hindu god, Rama. The angry reaction from both sides has claimed 600 lives nationwide.
The site has been a source of constant tension between the two religious groups. Militant Hindus claim that the Muslim ruler, Babar, demolished a temple on that site to build the mosque.
"You are not forgiving history," said Kulkarni, a Bombay, India, graduate student. "People are trying to right a
wrong that was done hundreds of years ago."
Kulkarni thought that the fighting could tarnish the image of India and of Hinduism, which he called a tolerant religion.
Homammed Wahab, graduate student from Madras, India, thinks that the site should be converted into a public park or property so that people would stop looking into the past. Tension was further heightened Tuesday in India after Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao ordered the arrest and future trial of leaders of the Hindu nationalist opposition party for inciting the Hindu-Muslim violence.
"It shows that people in India are too headstrong when it comes to religion," he said. "As long as religious cooperation is not learned, we are going to face similar problems in the future."
He also announced the restoration
of the mosque and the ban of fundamentalist groups, a move that led the speakers of both houses of Parliament to adjourn sessions until Dec. 16 to allow the tension in the legislative body to die down.
Saud Masud, a senior from Karachi, Pakistan, said that he was shocked at the number of lives claimed and wounded. Bring the Janata Party leaders to trial.
Trouble also spilled over in the neighboring countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh, both predominantly Muslim countries, where angry citizens destroyed Hindu temples and homes. Four people were reported killed Tuesday in Bangladesh and 26 people were reported killed in Pakistan, where the army was called out to restore order.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Riots in India
Securing your messages
Answering machines with mechanical programming capabilities may provide the best safeguards against someone else hearing your private messages.
Source: MacMillan Visual Dictionary, staff research
Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN
Phone users must beware
Communication ties may sacrifice security, privacy for convenience
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
Wendy Peiler remembers a friend in California who wanted to play a prank by leaving a series of beeps on her neighbor's answering machine.
While punching in numbers at random after the machine's recorded greeting, Peeler, a Lincolnshire, III., junior, and her friend heard the whirring of a rewinding tape that stopped their prank cold. The two friends found themselves listening to recorded messages left for the neighbor.
"we heard more than 20 messages on her machine," she said. "We couldn't believe it. We could it was a miracle or something."
It was no miracle. In fact, anyone could have done it.
Electronic advances may have made life with a telephone easier for busy students, but many answering machine messages and cordless phone conversations are not private.
Student buyers should beware: Their messages and even their conversations could end up entertaining people who are eavesdropping. And their cordless telephones could provide hackers with a phone line to free long-distance calls.
Sandra Olivas, a Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, owns a cordless telephone, lives in a sorority house and found out that she had a party line rather than a private connection.
She received a call from her best friend one evening and had difficulty talking to her because of other conversations picked up by the cordless phone.
"I could hardly hear her through
These encounters awakened both Peiler and Olivas to a fact that many students may not be aware of. Private conversations often are sacrificed for the convenience offered by cordless telephones and remote access answering machines.
all of the other people talking on the line," she said.
While some brands of answering machines offer units with programmable and hard-to-break access codes, the more popular—and cheaper—models often come with fixed codes that are preset by the manufacturer. Depending on the brand, these one, two or three-digit access numbers are identical for many units of the same model.
Anybody with a little knowledge can call up an answering machine, guess the code and listen in on the messages.
For example, the stock of six PhoneMate 6000 answering machines at a local store shared the access numbers 22 and 33. Another Lawrence store had nearly 20 units of the Unisonic 8719A6 machines that used the number 6 for their codes and an entire stock of AT&T model 1317 answering machines with the code number 52 for all of the units.
Through comparisons at stores in Lawrence, the numbers 36, 52, 63 and 79 were repeated among AT&T's models 1306 and 1317. Even General Electric's lower end models, which have three-digit numbers, but reptiled codes in their stock, though not as many.
Some local merchants, who said AT&T's 1306 was their best-selling model, admitted that they were
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Chilly performance
Chris McLeroy, Knoxville, Tenn., senior, stripped down to only a G-string outside Wescoe Hall yesterday.
He plans to support himself financially by dancing until he attends graduate school.
McLeroy, who attracted a crowd of about 100 people, used the midday show to promote his new male dance company, Continental Divide.
See story, Page 3.
Telecommunications expansion may move students
Bv Christine Laue
Kansan staffwriter
Before heading home for Christmas break, Bryan Campbell and his two roommates might be taking down more than just the small Christmas tree that decorates their room at Ellsworth Hall.
The freshmen might be taking down the Public Enemy poster, entertainment system, high school memorabilia and everything else that makes their first-floor room so homely.
Student housing about two weeks ago notified the three that they would have to move out before the end of the fall semester because the telecommunications department planned to use the room to exend. the three said.
The director of the department was unavailable for comment about the expansion.
Neb.. freshman, said.
But the students do not know what day they are supposed to leave or even where they will be living next semester. They also are bothered by the fact that the only notification they received came verbally from the residence hall director.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said student
"Dealing with the University, it just doesn't seem official until you get that written notification," Campbell, Omaha,
Housing contracts state student housing's right to make room changes, he said.
Even if the roommates get written notice, they do not want to move out of their room, they said.
"Just the thought of having to leave this floor upset me," Rains said. "I've got a strong relationship with all my friends."
Travis Rains, a Salina freshman and the floor's president, who lives with Campbell, said he and his roommates got along well and liked other people on the floor and their spacious room.
People on their floor like the room, too. It is the congregating place for movies and Nintendo games, Bains said.
When Stoner met with two of the roommates at their request to discuss the situation, Campbell told him that he
The only other three-person room on the floor, currently vacant, also will be used for the telecommunication expansion. So if the three roommates want to room together again next semester, they will have to relocate to another three-person room, which are not common in residence halls.
Israel Bronstein (left), New City, N.Y., freshman, and Bryan Campbell (right), Omaha, N.C., freshman, play nintendo in a room on the first floor of Ellsworth.
planned to transfer to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Stoner said.
Campbell said that he told Stoner he was transferring but that his decision to transfer depended on whether he and his two roommates could remain in the room.
He said that he and his other roommate, Telly Gilbert,
Salma freshman, left the meeting with Stoner a bit unsure
Stoner said he thought the meeting had resolved any questions the students had.