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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday September 2,1987 Vol.98,No.9
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
U.S. requesting U.N. sanctions against Iranians
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The State Department called yesterday for the drafting of United Nations sanctions against Iran if Teheran did not agree by the end of the week to comply with a cease-fire ordered by the U.N. Security Council in its war with Iraq.
But a Soviet deputy foreign minister called for more time for U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez Cuellar to pursue diplomatic overtures to Iran. The official, Vladimir Petrovsky, also urged the United States withdraw its Navy warships to reduce tensions in the Persian Gulf.
State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said Iran's failure to reply to the cease-fire resolution, which was adopted unanimously July 20 by the Security Council, was unacceptable.
"Iran has to give a response," she said.
The sanctions probably would include an arms embargo against Iran. Iraq has agreed to comply with the cease-fire order and to negotiate an end to the seven-year war, which has claimed an estimated 1 million casualties and threatened oil shipments from the region.
"In our view, the Iranian response to the secretary-general this week must be a definitive one," Oakley this is not an open-ended process.
"If the Iranian response is negative concerning their readiness to accept and comply with (resolution) 598, or if they continue to give no definitive response to the resolution, then we believe formal drafting of a second resolution calling for enforcement measures . . . should begin immediately thereafter — in other words, early next week."
Oakley said Iran had promised to give its reply by Friday and that Perez de Cuellar would report to the Security Council early next week.
Despite an apparent disagreement on when to apply sanctions, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed that the resumption of Iraqi oil exports in the Persian Gulf had heightened tensions.
Twice earlier, U.S. diplomats managed to persuade Iraq to hold its fire. But Saturday, a U.S. official said, Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon turned down an appeal for further delay.
Apprehensive that the Iraqis were ready to strike, Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy called Hamdon to his office. But the official, who spoke on condition he not be identified, said the ambassador reiterated his public statements that the Iraqi moratorium worked to
See GULF, p. 6, col. 1
Kick off
Scott Meschke, Hutchinson freshman, practices soccer kicks while other members in his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, play football behind Robinson
AIDS cases scarce here, officials say
Staff writer
By BRIAN BARESCH
In the past 12 months, 42 AIDS cases were reported in Kansas, as many as had been reported in all previous years, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta said yesterday.
But local health officials say few cases have been reported in Douglas County.
As of Monday, 84 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome had been confirmed in Kansas since 1982. In addition to the cases public affairs specialists at the center,
Individual totals were available only for counties with more than 10 residents.
The AIDS virus, which attacks the body's immune system, is spread by infected hypodermic needles or through exchange of body fluids, usually during sexual contact.
the kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka. Only Johnson, Wyandotte, Shawnee and others may have more or more confirmed cases, he said.
results.
Victims can carry the virus and infect others for years before the disease appears. There is no known cure: the disease is invariably fatal.
Anyone wanting to be tested anonymously can go to the Lawrence-Douglas County Law Enforcement Station. Test cost $28 and take about a week for
Anil Ahlor, a health department counselor who works with AIDS testing, said requests for confidential tests increased sharply in February and slightly slowed down again about June 1. About 160 tests have been done in February, she said. Before this year, about 11 tests were done a year.
Through June, she said, about 2 percent of this year's tests had been positive. Last year, 11.8 percent were positive. The changes, Ailor said, were due to more people in low-risk groups being concerned about the disease and being tested. Ailor did not know how many, if any, of the positive results were from KU students.
Watkins Hospital tests for AIDS, but requires that patients give their names, said chief of staff Charles Yockey. Watkins Hospital started testing in May because an AIDS test is required for entry into ROTC and the Peace Corps, he said.
Yockey said that no one had tested positive since testing started, but that the staff was being educated to recognize symptoms anyway.
"We probably won't have anybody die of AIDS at Watkins," he said. Watkins no longer keeps patients longer than 24 hours.
Testing is also done at the
See CASES, p. 6, col.1
Senate at dead end over highway plan
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - The Senate was unable yesterday to come up with an alternative to Gov. Mike Hayden's highway proposal that could garner enough votes to pass.
During 10 hours of debate, members heavily amended a plan put together by the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee. However, they then rejected their work, 14-22, on an unrecorded vote, forcing the chamber to convene Wednesday for more debate.
Philip Huntsinger, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, is writing the script for a film about how not to get AIDS.
KU prof is writing AIDS video script
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
Staff writer
Phillip Huntingser, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, the working title of the video, which is scheduled to be released in March, was "Precautionary behavior in the Avoidance of AIDS."
Huntsinger is writing the narrative script for the video for IBT, a Merriam film company. Huntsinger also teaches an AIDS education class at KU.
Preventing AIDS could become a subject of even greater attention at KU now that a KU professor is taking part in making a video on how not to contract the disease.
Ron Aupperple, sales and marketing manager at IBT, said the 20- to 25-minute video would be nationally recognized by health officials and the armed forces.
Huntingsaid he was asked to participate in the project while he was teaching an AIDS class at the Regents Center, in Overland Park, last summer.
The video will deal mainly with preventing AIDS because there are many videos on the market that deal with other aspects of the disease, such as rehabilitation, Huntsinger said.
He said that abstinence from sexual activity was the best way to avoid AIDS. But, he said, because abstinence is not a very realistic method today, the video will concentrate on preventive sexual behavior, such as having sex without avoidance of shared bodily fluids and the careful selection of sex partners.
"The video will be educational." Huntsinger said. "It will, for example, explicitly explain the use of the condom and how to put it on."
Students in the KU division of communications and theater, high school students and AIDS victims will perform in the video.
Hunsinger said he would leave out statistical information in the video. "Statistics on AIDS change every year, and we don't want the video to be outdated."
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta predicts that the number of reported AIDS cases will continue to increase, he said. And he said that their predictions have been exceeded every year.
There have been 84 reported cases of AIDS in Kansas, but Huntsinger said there were probably many more unreported cases. "People could have died from pneumonia without knowing they had AIDS."
Special Session '87
Hayden's
Highway Plan
Several other proposals offered throughout the day were rejected, leaving the Senate without a plan that a majority would endorse.
"There are combinations that could go on into infinity," said Senate Minority Leader Michael Johnston, D-Parsons. "I think the situation is so fluid that it's difficult to determine where everyone is."
Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola, was more upbeat about the day's events, saying he thinks the Senate will try to some sort of an agreement today.
"I still think we will be able to get something out of here," Talkington said. "Who it will be and what it will be, I don't know."
The measure now before the Senate would increase the state's gasoline and diesel fuels taxes 2 cents starting Oct. 1 and 2 additional cents starting Jan. 1, 1988. In addition, vehicle registration fees would increase from $35 to $45 for cars and 100 percent for passenger cars. Overall, the increases would raise $282 million over the next nine years.
Of that money, $218 million would be used for new construction, and up to $150 million of those funds could be used for local traffic decongestion projects.
in new construction, and Hayden had proposed $1.71 billion.
Sen. Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, called the size of the proposal the Senate was left with "an embarrassment," and even proposed two amendments to reduce it, both of which were rejected.
Many senators were unhappy with the small size of the construction initiative. The committee originally had proposed financing $1.18 billion
"It has reached the level of the ridiculous," Kerr said.
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— Michael Johnston Senate minority leader
Here are combinations that could go on into infinity. I think the situation is so fluid that it's difficult to determine where everyone is.'
Under the plan, the state would have increased its 4 percent sales tax by a quarter-percent and its vehicle registration fees by between 35 percent and 100 percent, starting Jan. 1, 2018. The state would motor fuels taxes 3 cents on Oct. 1, another cent on Jan. 1, 1988 and another cent Jan. 1, 1989.
The Senate rejected, 29-9, a plan put together by Johnston and Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, chairman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. Fred Kerr called the amended Senate committee measure a "skimpy, do-nothing package."
In addition, the plan would have used a portion of the windfall in income tax revenues the state expects to receive from federal tax reforms in 1986, estimated at $145 per million of the windfall for July 1. The plan would use $140 million of the windfall four years.
In all, the plan would have raised $1.44 billion over eight years, the life of the proposed program, and financed $825 million in new construction.
Allergic reactions leave sufferers sneezing and blowing
By JAVAN OWENS
Staff writer
When James Hartman begins teaching his fall classes, he gets puffy-eyed, his nose begins to run and his voice begins to crack.
For Hartman, associate professor of English and linguistics, the tears that line his cheeks are not because he has become overwhelmed by the subject he teaches. Hartman is just one of many people who suffer from hay fever.
Hartman said that his hay fever had not kept him from the classroom, but had made it harder for him to teach effectively.
"Certainly, the effects of the allergies make concentration and good, smooth work imminent."
Hartman, an asthmatic, said that before this summer he would have classified himself as a mild sufferer. This August, however, his allergic reactions have been more of a hardship than ever.
"Normally, my allergies have been easy to control," Hartman said. "They never interfered with my everyday duties too much. This summer, particularly from early August on, it has been a real struggle."
Hartman is not alone in his suffering. Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital, said yesterday that 80 percent of Americans suffered from hay fever. Twenty-five percent are classified as severe sufferers.
"The term has a interesting history medically." Yockey said. "Almost no one is allergic to hay, and such allergic reactions never bring on a fever. But we still use the
Mysteries still linger about what causes hay fever symptoms. The term hay fever, a misnomer for the allergic reactions of running nose, itchy eyes and throat, was coined by a German physician in the 1800s. The physician thought the symptoms were caused by hay.
The seasonal allergic reactions were renamed "allergic rhinitis" in the early 1900s. Rhinitis was from a Greek root that meant inflamed nose, the most common symptoms.
term today."
Many sufferers acquire the symptoms in spring when many flowers bloom. But others suffer the most in late summer and early fall because the ragged pollen is most prevalent in the air.