The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, September 27,1982 Vol. 93, No. 26 USPS 650-640
Pumping pedals
Mark Rathz of St. Louis (right) fends off a competitor in a successful attempt at winning a 45-mile race during the KU Crite-
The course for the Criterium,
consisting of eight races yesterday,
ran through parts of the
campus, including etudios at
Friday's (below). The
9-mile course began in front of
Jayhawk Boulevard (below right).
Sweat, wrecks par for bikers' course
Rv KIESA ASCUE
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Drops of perspiration slid down the bicycle's body, causing his tight gold and black uniform to cling to him like a second skin after a female ride in the KI Critter yesterday.
"I'm shot, I'm tired. I don't even want to think about anything now," said Phil Heyen.
Overland Park senior. "I want to go home, get in a bath tub for 45 minutes, open a quart of Coors, then take a nap. I am fried. I am wasted."
Heying, the only member of the Mount Oread Bicycle ClubSundflower Surplus team of Lawrence to complete the Criterium's top category race, said he was satisfied with his seventhplace finish because he had given the race his best effort.
BICYCLISTS CIRCLED the campus 50 times in the maia race of the day on a .9 mile path that led from Sunflower Road down Jayhawk Boulevard, to West Campus Road and then to Memorial Drive.
Several bicyclists wrecked on the corner of Memorial Drive and Sunflower Road, their bodies thudding to the pavement in tangles of arms, legs and bicycle parts.
See BIKES page 5
Schol hall heating will depend on steam-pipe job
planning, said the office had not developed a plan for heating the halls if temperatures should plummet.
Rv. DIRK MILLER
If steam pipe installation at four KU scholarship halls cannot be finished before the weather turns cold, there will be no way to heat the halls, KU officials said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
Although the National Weather Service has predicted that temperatures for fall in the Lawrence area will be lower than normal this year, Wilson said he was sure construction on the
"We haven't anticipated having to set up an alternate plan as of yet." Moida said.
pipe would be completed before temperatures dropped.
THE HEATING SYSTEM is under contract to be finished by Oct. 15 by the Tom Chafee Construction Company of Topeka, said Richard Perkins, associate director of utilities for the company.
Perkins said the pipe would probably be connected and could be used even if the whole
job was not done on time. He said heat should be available by Oct. 15.
The steam pipe that is being replaced heats Battenfeld, Stephenson, Sellards and Pearson scholarship halls.
scholarship halls.
Some students at the scholarship halls were not sure how the lack of heat might affect the halls.
Two Israelis want inquiry into massacre
See HEAT page 5
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — Two Israeli cabinet members yesterday called for a full-scale investigation into the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and to pressure on Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Jim Modig, assistant director of facilities
investigations by israel's aggressive media have been forcing the army and government to disclose more each day about events surrounding the Beirut refugee camp massacre.
A source close to Begin told Israel Radio that the prime minister does not rule out the creation of a board of inquiry, despite his earlier statement that he would be tantamount to an admission of guilt.
THE JERUSALEM POST, in an editorial Thursday, compared Prime Minister Menachem Begin's handling of the massacre with Richard Nixon's handling of the Watergate burglary.
"But this isn't Wategate," Post editor Erwin Frankel said. "The press is doing a good job but it is not creating the impact. The impact has sweet the country."
"I have heard there are other ministers who hold the same opinion."
if n were limited to the press, we wouldn't see what we've been seeing," he said, referring to mounting pressure on Begin's government and the eruption of protests nationwide.
The public outcry for an independent investigation under a state inquiry commission with sweeping powers culminated Saturday night with a demonstration by 400,000 people in Tel Aviv demanding the resignations of Begin and Defense Minister Alif Sharon.
IN AN ATTEMPT to defect criticism last week, Begin asked Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan to conduct a limited investigation of the $175 million paid by people at the Sabra and Chaitra refugee camps.
"After the government approached Kahan and he refused — and on the other hand the defense minister also says there can be a commission of inquiry according to law — there is no reason why this should not come under the Master Joseph Burgold told Radio yesterday.
But Kahan said he could not accept the task until two lawsuits pending before the high court are resolved. Begin's critics have demanded a state inquiry because it gives investigators powers that a limited investigation would not have.
A SECOND CABINET member, Minister without-portfolio Mordechal Ben-Porat, said in a separate radio interview that it was good to work with the committee to conduct even a limited investigation, and that was too long.
"The situation cannot remain as it is now and we believe the government Tuesday will have to take action."
The ministers said they would ask for a state commission during tomorrow's cabinet meeting.
commissar
The Israeli Parliament will also be called into session Thursday for a debate on remarks by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon apparently linking Israel army officers to the 1976 massacre of Palestinians at Tel az-Zatar in Lebanon.
The military command yesterday announced Israeli troops would complete their withdrawal from West Beirut by Wednesday and turn over positions to the Lebanese Army.
BEIRUIT INTERNATIONAL Airport, the announcement said, would be put into the control of "representatives of the Lebanese government who will make every effort to get it operation
Seven hundred Italian soldiers landed in Beirut yesterday, but full deployment of the international peace-keeping force was delayed until at least tomorrow because of Israel's refusal to withdraw immediately from the international airport.
U. S. Marines, part of the multinational peacekeeping force, have refused to enter Lebanon until the Israeli pull out of the airport, where the American troops will be deployed.
arabist troops continued to pull out from most of Moslem West Beirut, their tanks lined up on the coastal road leading south from the city. But their continued presence elsewhere was creating problems for the American, French and Italian peace-keeping force.
See MIDEAST page 5
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the low 70s, according to the National Weather Service. The wind will be from the southeast at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow will be cloudy, but warmer than chance of showers. The high will be around 8.
Tonight will be cloudy with a chance of showers. The low will be between 50 and 55
Branson backs severance tax in bid for second House term
Editor's note: This is the 12th in a series of 13 interviews with candidates for local, state and national offices. Today's interview is with Democrat Jessie Branson, who is seeking to be Florida's new House of Representatives. Branson is opposing Republican Bob Schalte in the Nov. 2 election.
Branson, who was first elected to the Legislature in 1868, is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Nursing. Before her election, Branson served on the governor's committees for Mental Retardation and Mental Health, Health Planning and Nursing Homes.
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Passage of a severance tax on oil and natural gas could help spur an increase in research and development projects at Kansas universities, which could in turn stimulate economic growth, said State Rep. Jessie Branson in a recent interview.
Kansas Legislature, said stepped-up research and development could lure high-technology industry to Kansas to create new jobs and expand the state's tax base.
"I can only see the state mustering up money for research through the enactment of a severance tax," Brannon said. "I believe a large number of our workers are in this institution we could enact at the present time."
explore the store tax can funnel into coffers for research and development, she said, a new tax source would have to be tapped.
Branson, who is seeking a second term in the
ALTHOUGH MOST proponents intended to earnarm severance tax funds for public education in secondary and primary schools, the University of Kansas also would benefit.
"We know the severance tax is not a panacea," she said. "If the severance tax was used to finance public schools and lower-income families, we freed him for higher education and highways."
In rebating charges of "irresponsibility" by her opponent for supporting the entire severance
tax package, Branson said her action was in line with a bipartisan majority in the House.
Branson's opponent, Republican Bob Schulte, accrued her of abandoning the University by supporting an attempt to transfer money from the state's general fund to the highway fund. The University receives a large chunk of its budget from the general fund.
from the general team.
BUT BRANSON said her opponent failed to realize that many GOP leaders had aligned themselves behind the entire package.
Besides the severance tax, Branson said the Legislature might have to pass other tax measures to pull the state out of a multimillion dollar deficit.
"the severance tax was a package of bills sponsored by the Republican Speaker of the House, with full cooperation of Democrats and Republicans in the House," she said.
"I do see the possibility of raising small amounts of revenue from other sources, such as cigarettes and gasoline," she said. "But we will
See BRANSON page 5
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Jessie Branson