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University Daily Kansan, November 3, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Iran, Iraq resume warfare; both claim victory in battle
Iran said yesterday that it had launched its second major offensive in a month against Iraq, recapturing 100 square miles of territory, oil wells and strategic outposts seized by Iraq at the start of the 26-month-old Persian Gulf War.
Iraq said it crushed the assault and was punishing Iranian troops in dozens of air strikes.
Iraq said its fighter planes were controlling the skies and had run 187 raids without losing a plane. The air strikes were part of a counteroffensive that killed 4,660 Iranian soldiers, most of them in a battle west of the Iranian town of Doful, the Iraqi News Agency said.
Iraiq President Saddam Hussein accused of making "another desperate attempt to invade Iran."
In Washington, the State Department said the United States "continues to urge negotiated settlements based on each country's respect for the principles of territorial integrity and freedom from interference in internal affairs."
Guatemalan troops scatter refugees
MEXICO CITY—Guatemalan troops crossed into Mexico and raided a refugee camp, forcing terrified Guatemalan refugees to flee into the jungle, a Catholic priest said yesterday.
A group of immigration agents also accused their superiors of ordering them to harass Guatemalan refugees until they left the camps or the country, a violation of Mexico's official policy of harboring the refugees.
Guatemala has repeatedly charged that Guatemalan guerrillas use refugee camps in Mexico's southernmost Chapas state, about 500 miles from the capital.
The priest, who asked not to be identified, works with the local archbishop's refugee commission. He said refugee workers told all the Guatemalans in the Santiago El Vertico refugee camp to flee into the dense jungle when they learned that 100 Guatemalan soldiers were preparing to cross the border just three miles away.
Louisiana creation law battle begins
NEW ORLEANS—A legal battle over Louisiana's creation science law begins today and an American Civil Liberties Union spokesman said the decision might affect school curriculum policies in 34 states.
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has asked U.S. District Judge Adrian Duplianter to throw out the law. The board, joining a suit filed by the ACLU, says the Legislature should have enforced when it ordered schools that teach evolution to also teach creation science.
However, in written arguments, state Attorney General William Guste Jr. said courts had previously ruled that legislators could prescribe courses of study.
Louisiana is the only state with a creation science law. A similar Arkansas law was declared unconstitutional earlier this year by a federal judge.
Hall wills most of estate to charity
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Joyce C. Hall, who overcame poverty and lack of a formal education to become a millionaire and the most widely known figure in the greeting card industry, willed most of his estate to charity.
Hall, 91, founder and chairman of the board of Hallmark Cards Inc., died last week in his sleep at home in Leawood.
The will, filed yesterday in Johnson County District Court in Olathe, named Hall's son, Donald Hall, executor of the estate. Hallmark attorneys estimated that the estate was more than $100 million.
The will stipulates that most of the estate is to go to one or more nonprofit organizations selected by Donald Hall and preferably should be limited to the Hallmark Educational Foundation of Kansas, established in 1954.
Texas evangelist dies in plane crash
NORMANGEE, Texas - Evangelist Lester Roloff, who gained national attention in his battle against state licensing of his homes for girls, was killed yesterday with four other people in the crash of a light plane.
Leon County Justice of the Peace Tedy Rodell said Roloff and four women — a staff member and three residents of one of his homes — were killed when the plane crashed in a pasture three miles north of Normanlee, midway between Houston and Dallas.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman George Burlage said that no cause had been established for the crash but that there had been thunderstorms in the area at the time of the crash.
Irene Patterson, a secretary at Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises of Corpus Christi, said Roloff, 68, was going to Kansas City, Mo., for a speaking engagement.
speaking engagements, Roloff, a fundamentalist preacher, drew national attention during an eight-year fight against state licensing of his three south Texas homes for delinquent children.
McDonald's recalls Playmobil toys
OAK BROOK, Ill. — McDonald's Corp. announced yesterday that it was recalling all Playmobil toys in its "Happy Meals" promotion because tests showed the toys could be dangerous to children less than 3 years old.
The recall followed a complaint last week from the Empire State Consumers Association that the Playmobil "sheriff" toy barely met federal standards.
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Spokesman Judy Braiman-Lipson said the toy had a small part, a gun,
that met requirements by only one sixty-fourth of an inch and posed a
clear choking hazard to small children.
A McDonald's spokesman said last week that the toys had been tested extensively and were safe. He said samples were sent to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for further testing.
All Playmobil toys have been withdrawn from McDonald's, 5,700 restaurants across the nation, said McDonald's spokesman Bokey Sauer.
Correction
Because of a photographer's error, Phil Rogler, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, was incorrectly identified in a lineout in the Kansas as fulfilling pledge duties by cleaning the gutters of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He volunteered to do the task.
Mayor to sign agreement with developer
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night authorized Mayor Marci Francisco to sign a memorandum of agreement with Sizerler Realty Co. Inc., Kenner, La., for work on the proposed downtown redevelopment project.
The commission approved, with several minor changes, an agreement that had been drafted earlier by city officials and representatives from
That preliminary agreement was made public Friday by city officials.
Sizer must reinforce development to the city by March 6, according to the agreement.
THE PROPOSAL is to be Sizeler's plan for redeveloping the downtown area and is to include a basic project that will provide an alternative, low-cost, preliminary timetable for the project.
COMMISSIONERS also discussed the provision in the agreement for two public meetings.
Commissioner Tom Gleason, however, said that Sizeler should be required to submit a formal proposal and agree to the commission more time to study it.
Sizer also is to specify the location of parking, traffic patterns and any public improvements that might be needed, according to the agreement.
He suggested that Sizeler prepare a proposal to present to the city in early summer.
The March 6 date gives the commission less time to study Sizer's proposal.
Dean Palos, a planner in the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning office, said the first public meeting was designed to be one where Sizer could explain its approach to the project and seek public comment.
The second public meeting, he said, probably will be a working session for Sizerel representatives, the City Commission and the Downtown Improvement Committee, which assisted the commission in its search for a developer.
PALOS SAID that representatives from Sizerle would be in Lawrence today, tomorrow and Friday to discuss and probably to sign the agreement. The changes proposed by the commission will be agreeable to Sizerle, he said.
Sizeel representatives are anxious to start work on the project, Palos said, and may hold the first public meeting Nov. 11.
Representatives of Sizer were in Lawrence several weeks ago to discuss
The commission designated Sizeer
developer of record for the project
DISCUSSIONS on changes in the agreement since then were conducted by telephone, according to city officials.
In other business, the commission authorized the city staff to find an
arbitrator to consider a 1.85 percent rate. The local Fabletic Company, Inc. offers Fabletic Services Co., Inc.
The arbitrating firm, which must be agreeable to both the city and the gas utility, will determine if the requested increase is reasonable.
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The commission has submitted past requests for rate increases to arbitration.
Olin Petish, an attorney representing KPS, said the requested increase would add an average of 93 cents a bill to each natural gas customer's bill.
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Petefish said the increase was being requested solely because of increased food supply.
THE ARBIRTRATING firm generally has allowed rates to increase to cover operating expenses and to produce a 13 percent return for shareholders, said William Salome III, president and general manager of KPS.
"It isn't the most popular thing in the world to stand before any governing body and ask for an increase in rates for utilities," he said. "We have to ask
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The commission must act on the requested rate increase because KPS has a franchise agreement with the city.
for this increase because of our increased costs — it's that simple."
THE COMMISSION also agreed to consider the so-called "lifeline rates" in addition to the rate increase.
Divine Liturgy
The commission agreed to discuss some new information about lifeline rates at a study session 3 p.m. tomorrow at Clitz Hall.
A number of local people have appeared before the commission in recent weeks to request that lifeline teams be trained and handsapped, be instituted.
The commission also discussed the procedure for setting its agenda.
Last week's commission meeting did not end until 1:15 a.m., and commissioners said that was too late.
TO PREVENT such late meetings in the future, Francisco suggested that items the commission can only discuss, on be deferred until the next meeting.
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