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University Daily Kansan, November 23, 1982
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Judge throws out state law prescribing creation theory
NEW ORLEANS—A federal judge yesterday declared unconstitutional the only law in the nation that requires teaching the biblical account of creation in public schools.
account or creator in public schools U.S. District Judge Adrian Dupliantier ruled favorably on a motion by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to throw out Louisiana's creation science law.
The act, passed by the state's Legislature in 1800, required the teaching of the biblical version of creation in schools that taught the evolutionary version.
The state's board of education joined a suit by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the law, claiming the lawmakers overstepped their authority by ordering equal time in the classrooms.
The state panel said it, not the Legislature, had constitutional authority to decide curriculum matters. The board also maintained that the Legislature was dictating content rather than merely prescribing a course of study.
Duplantier agreed, saying lawmakers had no right to bypass the state board.
BERLIN—A Polish militiaman assigned to guard against hijackings hijacked a Polish LOT airliner to West Berlin yesterday and shot his way to freedom in a gun battle with other security guards, West Berlin police said.
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A police spokesman said the militiaman diverted the prop-driven AN-24 airliner with 31 passengers and a crew of four on a domestic flight from Wroclaw to Gdansk via Warsaw to West Berlin's Templehof U.S. Air Force base.
He said as soon as the plane touched down, the militiaman jumped from the plane but was fired on by two other security guards aboard. He was wounded in the right foot.
was wounded in the right foot. The spokesman said the hijacker, armed with two pistols and two hand grenades, fired back at the security guards but aimed his shots away to avoid hurting anyone.
The militiaman and four passengers took the opportunity to request political asylum, the spokesman said.
He said the militiaman would appear today before a court to face blinking charges.
FBL agent fired after indictment
WASHINGTON—An FBI supervisor who specialized in court-ordered break-ins and safecracking was fired yesterday after his indictment on perjury, tax evasion and obstruction charges in an investigation of stolen diamonds.
FBI Director William Webster dismissed H. Edward Ticket Jr. hours after the agent was charged with a variety of offenses, including trying to prevent a grand jury from discovering he allegedly sold stolen jewels.
In a statement, Webster said Ticket, 42, was fired after a thorough FBI criminal investigation that resulted in the agent's surrender to U.S. District Judge James Cacheris in Alexandria, Va.
Federal grand juries in Alexandria and Washington returned the indictments, which also accused him of entering the FBI's credit union April 16, 1980, with the intent to steal.
Ticket told reporters he was innocent of the charges and intended to fight them in court.
Baker. O'Neill push gas tax boost
WASHINGTON—House Speaker Thomas O'Neill and Senate GOP leader Howard Baker agreed yesterday to seek passage next week of a highway job bill that could raise gasoline taxes 5 cents a gallon
Administration officials said President Reagan also was "leaning toward" supporting the S-2c increase in the federal gasoline tax and energy taxes.
The tax, currently at 4 cents a gallon, has not been increased since 1959
The government also said yesterday that job openings for auto mechanics, restaurant cooks, insurance sales agents and secretaries are available in most areas of the nation.
in its monthly employment bank report, the Labor Department said 73,000 jobs were available Oct. 1 out of more than 190,000 listed with state employment banks during September.
Thompson's win declared official
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The State Board of Elections certified yesterday that Republican Gov. James Thompson narrowly won re-election by 5,074 votes. However, Adalai Stevenson, the Democratic challenger, will seek a recount.
The official count showed that Thompson beat Stevenson by just over 0.1 percent of the vote. More than 3.8 million ballots were cast. It was the first time that Stevenson had won a majority.
Thompson had 1,816,101 votes to Stevenson's 1,811,027. Elections Chairman J. Phil Gilbert said that the 64 percent vote turnout "exceeded the expectations of everyone" for a non-presidential election year.
Thompson said that, as far as he was concerned, that the election was over.
Stevenson's attorney, John Schmidt, said the former senator would seek a partial "discovery" recount in 58 counties. Requests for a limited canvass must be filed within five days.
Andropov selects KGB man for post
The appointment of Geydar Allyev, 59, who has been an officer for the Soviet secret police for 41 years, was announced after the Central Committee met to discuss high-level party changes.
MOSCOW—Communist Party chief Yuri Andropov, consolidating his control over the Soviet leadership just 10 days after rising to power, yesterday promoted a career KGB colleague to the ruling Poliburo.
The changes are considered crucial to Andropov's efforts to gain a better grip on the party structure by replacing the Kremlin's aging leadership with a younger generation loyal to him.
In a lengthy speech to the Central Committee, Andropov also warned the United States not to expect any Soviet concessions at the Geneva arms control talks and said U.S. negotiators were seeking "unilateral disarmament" from Russia.
He also said Moscow was looking for a "positive response" from China to improve relations between the Communist neighbors.
Anniversary of JFK's death marked
WASHINGTON—Green Berets placed a wreath on the grave of John F. Kennedy yesterday, the 19th anniversary of his assassination, as his family members watched the 10-minute ceremony.
The late president's brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy; his sister-in-law Ethel Kennedy; 70 members of the Special Forces Association; and 200 other people attended the ceremony.
It was business as usual at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. There were no special exhibits except for a spray of 19 roses beneath the president's portrait in the library foyer. Outside, an American flag rippling from a ceiling where Kennedy often saluted his wife — dwell at half staff.
Daniel H. Fenn Jr., director of the library, said, "We don't mark the assassination in any special way. It's not a happy time for us."
Israeli colleges drop anti-PLO oath
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel—In response to U.S. criticism that Israel stifled academic freedom, the Mideast country yesterday dropped an anti-Palestine Liberation Organization effort to educate educators at Arab universities in the occupied West Bank.
At least 22 foreign lecturers, including Britons and Americans, were expelled this fall for refusing to sign the old loyalty oath, but Israel radio said they could be invited to return under the new arrangement.
A new permit requires foreigners to register with civil administrators in the occupied area and pledge they do not support "hostile organizations," without specifically naming the PLO as the old permit did.
of State George Schult criticized the regulation, and said that "many thoughtful Americans" believed "loyalty oaths and political pledges from educators are an abridgment of academic freedom."
"It's a positive step, certainly, that the State Department sees that everything Israel does is not correct and democratic," a Palestinian source said of American pressure on Israel to alter its work permit.
THREE TIMES last week Secretary
Also yesterday, the Israeli Ma'ariv newspaper quoted Israeli military sources as saying that a 1,200 Palestinians disappeared during a two-week government sweep for illegal aliens in West Beirut at the end of September; "and it appears they were murdered by Lebanese Army troops."
The State Department first labeled the newspaper report of a massacre "absolutely false," then it said it was "not accurate" — indicating a handful of Palestinians rounded up may have died.
"WE ARE confident that it is not correct and are refuting that statement." State Department spokesman John Hughes has the Ma'rev report.
"I don't know what the facts are, but certainly a large number of people, to our knowledge, have not been killed in Iraq," Mr. (multinational force) was present.
The Ma'ariv newspaper, quoting Israeli military sources, did not present any physical evidence to substantiate its report.
Pakistani in Beirut said they knew of no mass killings since the Sept. 16-18 shaghter by Israeli-backed Christian militants, the Sabra and Chattia refuge camps.
Yesterday in Beirut, military troops, brass bands and flag-waving children hailed Lebanon's 39th Independence Day in a burst of patriot fervor that overshadowed the occupation by foreign armies of two-thirds of the nation.
HUNDREDS OF Lebanese soldiers atop U.S.-made armored cars paraded past a Beirut review stand for salutes from President Amin Gemayel, Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan and Parliament Speaker Kamal Assad.
At one point a pipe band moved past
and struck stand playing "Yankee
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In Cairo, the Egyptian government moved yesterday to ease its strained relations with Israel, and accepted a U.S. compromise for a meeting within
There was no immediate response from Israel, although Israeli Ambassador Moshe Sasson described a meeting with Egypt's Foreign Minister Hassan Ali on the compromise solution as "positive and constructive."
RELATIONS between Israel and Egypt, the only Arab nation that recognizes the Jewish state, deteriorated following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6, and declined further earlier this month when Israel opened a luxury tourist hotel on the Sinai beaches at Taba.
three weeks to resolve a border dispute, in the Sinai, diplomatic sources said.
The Taba is a 1,100-yard-wide stretch of coast along the Aqaba Gulf near the Israeli port of Eilat.
Cairo, which reclaimed nearly all of the Sinai following the Israeli withdrawal from the desert, claimed the hotel violated an agreement last April to freeze the status of the embassy and negotiations determine its sovereignty.
Brier blames negative campaigns
Voter turnout lowest since '70
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Negative campaigning kept almost 40 percent of all registered voters away from the polls during the Nov 2 runoff, the purity of State Jack Brier said yesterday.
The official results of the election, certified yesterday by the state Board of Canvassers, showed that only 763,236, or 61.6 percent of Kansans registered, voted. That was the lowest voter registration for mayor election was instituted in 1970.
No outcomes changed during the final tabulation, which included certification of the election by the board. Brier, Gov. John Carlin and Attorney General Robert Stephan compose the board.
BRIER, who soundly defeated State Sen. Billy McCray, explained how negative campaign tactics made many voters disenchanted with the election.
"I've said the primary reason for the low turnout was that the negative tactics did not give people a reason to vote," he said. "People were not given a reason to vote for someone but against someone.
"There was a lot more paid political name-calling in this election. Maybe it's becoming a trend, but I hope candidates realize negative campaigning is counterproductive. It's no way to appeal to the voters of Kansas."
Brier looks back on the 1980 election
as the ideal election for high voter turnout, and the Republican official says he hopes the next presidential election also will hire more voters to
A SENATORIAL election and the presidential race will highlight the 1984 election. Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Kansas' junior senator and a Republican, will campaign for re-election.
The record for voter turnout was in 1980 when 979,000 Kansans helped sweep Ronald Reagan into the presidency. He became a Republican, to another six-year term.
"Turnout is normally high in a presidential election coupled with a Senate race. I'm hoping to get close to another record," he said.
"People need to be given a reason and an incentive to vote," Brier said. "The candidates need to draw clear contrasts in their views, and people saw how that worked." People have choice that year with their Kegan and President Carter."
IN THIS PAST election's main attraction, the race for governor between Carlin and Wichita Republican Sam Hardage, voters could perceive a difference by the two hopefuls' tax proposals.
Carlin campaigned for a severance tax on the production of oil and natural gas, while Hardidge lobbied for a reduction in gas taxes. A cent-a-larm gasoline tax increase.
But Brier said a few people involved in the election overplayed the severance tax issue. He said the severance tax did not tend to excite voters living in counties that did not produce oil or that had low property taxes.
"I think the severance tax was a bigger issue for the candidates and the reporters than for the people of Kansas," he said. "It's an extremely complicated issue, and it was a bigger issue for the advertising people."
When the official results were announced, a Lawrence resident had garnered the largest vote total of any statewide race.
REPUBLICAN Insurance Commission Fletcher Fletch, who was opposed by two minor-party candidates, received 576.839 votes.
In the gubernatorial election, Carlin won 406,772 votes to Hardage's 339,356. In the bitterly contested 2nd Congressional District race, Democrat Jim Slattery defeated Republican Morris Kay by an 86,286 to 94,942 vote count.
Stephan, a Republican, handily won re-election as attorney general over Lawrence resident Lance Burr, 508,020 to 229,725. Brier won a second term by receiving 435,429 votes to McCray's 418,429 votes. Brier folded the upset hopes of Republican Douglas Holt by winning 418,428 votes to Holt's 294,980.
Repeated tabulation and verification work by the 105 Kansas counties and the secretary of state's office is the reason the official results are not announced until three weeks after the election, Brier said.
Vandals damage information booth
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
The information booth in front of Bailey Hall was vandalized with spray paint and entered sometime between the morning, KU police officials said yesterday.
The booth has recently housed a display sponsored by the American Israeli Friendship Organization. Vandals tore down posters inside the booth and scribbled black and yellow spray paint across the outside of the windows.
KU police Lt. Jeanne Longaker said evidence indicated the building was not forcefully entered. Jim Denney, director of KU police, said there were no suspects in the case. A damage estimate was not available.
She did not rule out the possibility, however, of a copy of the key being duplicated by a group that had used the booth in the past. But she said the key was marked as University property and was illegal to copy.
PAT KEHID, coordinator of the University Information Center, called the act disconcerting. The University Information Center schedules the displays in the booth by various groups. She said the information center had a kid's room where that used the booth, but that they were "safely careful" about who got it.
The Israeli display went up Thursday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the AIFO. Travel posters and flags of Israel, as well as posters urging students to study in Israel, were tapped to the windows of the booth.
Ellen Sherman, Overland Park junior, who helped put up the display, said
"THE DISPLAY was non-political and it was not anti-anything," Sherman said. "In fact, everything was very positive. It was like a travel brochure." In the past, she said, there have been displays up in the booth that were anti-israel, but they not been molested
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"THEY PAINTED over Israeli flags and they destroyed a poster with the Star of David and a dove on it," she said.
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Beach said the scholarship would go to a student with an emphasis in banking because of Williams' interest in that area.
Sherman said she did not think the vandalism was a random act of destruction, but that it was directed specifically at the content of the booth.
David Katzman, faculty advisor to the group and professor of history, said he thought the vandalism was deplorable.
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Joseph Kelly, executive vice president of the bank, said, "Odd was very active in the School of Business and the board of directors felt this might be a good way, along with the Williams Fund, to give recognition to Odd for his interests in the University."
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Beach said Williams remained interested in the School of Business after his graduation from KU, and had served several years on the business school advisory committee.
The Douglas County State Bank has created a scholarship for students in the School of Business in Williams, Illinois, bank officials said recently.
Ross Beach, chairman of the board of directors of the bank, said; "The board of directors of the Douglas County Bank determined that we wanted to do something in the bank because of our long-term service to the bank."
Williams, who along with his father, Dick, and brother, Skpper, started the Doughes County Bank in 1922, died Nov. 12 at the age of 56. He graduated from the KU School of Business in 1949.
THE WILLIAMS family also started the Outland Club in 1949, which in 1973 became the Williams Educational Fund. The fund provides athletic scholarships for the University of Kansas.
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