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Monday, September 20,1982 Vol.93, No.21 USPS 650-640
Marines' return to Lebanon unlikely, aides say
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan and his top diplomatic and military advisers conferred yesterday on U.S. options in the Lebanon crisis, officials said. "We are very concerned of the Marines to Lebanon" "highly unlikely."
The president met for 75 minutes in an emergency meeting in the White House Situation Room with Cabinet-level advisers yesterday afternoon. Then last night, after the aides met in smaller sessions, the advisers returned to the White House.
The meetings were called as a result of the massacre during the weekend of hundreds of Palestinians in refugee camps on the outskirts of West Beirut by Christian militants. A senior official of the United Nations agreed to let the militants into the camps to ostedeal Liberation Organization guerrillas, but that "nobody dreamed" they would perpetrate a massacre. Israel denied taking any part in the shaughter and said its forces stopped further carriage.
MEANWHILE, world leaders yesterday joined thousands of Israelis in condemning the massacre in protests across Israel, people called for an end to the violence. Bastin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon resign.
In an emergency meeting last month, Israeli government rejected calls for its resignation but agreed to allow more U.N. observers to enter West Beirut and said it was withdrawing from the Lebanese capital in stages.
Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger attended both meetings in Washington, Middle East negotiator Philip Habib arrived in Washington from his California home late yesterday and attended the second session.
Before driving to the White House, Shultz and Habib met privately at the State Department and apparently reviewed the latest cables from U.S. diplomats in Beirut and Tel Aviv.
Aides said redeployment of the multinational peace-keeping force that included U.S. troops was "highly unlikely," but deputy press secretary Linda Krug said as at one of several options under consideration.
THE MULTINATIONAL force included U.S. Marines and Italian and French troops. They were withdrawn from Lebanon earlier this month after assisting in the evacuation of PLO fighters pinned by Israeli forces who invaded Lebanon June 6.
Both the Italian and French governments said they were willing to return troops to Lebanon if the Marines went back in, and the Lebanese government called for the force's return.
Allin underlined U.S. support for moving some of the 7,000 U.N. peace-keeping troops in
Lebanon from the south to Beirut. He also said the United States would prefer to beef up the force of U.N. observers in Beirut but, "We'll take a look at the other options if necessary."
Reagan made his strongest criticism yet of the Israeli government Saturday as he expressed a desire to re-engage in the war.
HOLDING ISRAEL ultimately responsible for the violence. Reagan demanded immediate Israeli withdrawal from West Beirut, and had called on Israel's ambassador Moeh Arem to the State Department.
Early yesterday, the U.N. Security Council agreed unanimously to reinforce U.N. observers in West Beirut, the site of the Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza and the Iraqi soldiers from South Lebanon to the capital.
Allin also said U.S. officials had visited the two refugee camps where the slayings occurred. "We're focusing on what happened," he said, "and where we go from here."
In Israel, a lengthy Cabinet communique, issued after a 3 1/2 hour emergency meeting, ignored calls by the opposition Labor Party for a vote on the bill, which launched a vehement attack on its critics.
It said charges that Israel was directly or indirectly responsible for the massacre were a "false" accusation.
'The government rejects them with the contempt they deserve,' it said.
ASKED ABOUT Reagan's demand that Israel leave Beirut immediately, a senior official said, "it is being carried out. We've turned over the camps to the Lebanese army."
The Cabinet again said that the Israelis entered the refugee camps when they learned of the killings, and that they ousted the "Lebanese units" that perpetrated the massacre.
He said Israel would leave Beirut "step by step."
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Dave Hirschbuehler, St. Louis senior, Leah Edelman, Manhattan junior, and John Kemper, St. Louis senior, paddled toward the point where they traded places with other members of Ellsworth
Hall's Canoe Horde No. 3 team during the annual KU-KSU canoe race down the Kaw River yesterday.
Annual canoe race continues rivalry
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
Rockwood, after all, had good reason to be happy. The 22-year-old Kansas City, Mo., senior had just led his canoe team to a third place showing among residence halls at the hallway point of the annual KU-KState canoe race down the Kansas River from Manhattan to Lawrence.
ST. MARYS-While members of two KU canoee teams sat beside a fire on a sandbar in the Kaw River Saturday night, Wayne Rockwood took pictures, told jokes and laughed at an opposing Kansas State University team 200 yards away.
And his team, Eldsworth Hall's Canoe Hordel
3, was first among KU entries.
BUT ROCKWOOD, the second-year captain of THE Elworth team, said he was not concerned with his teammate.
"Sure it would be nice to win, but it's not a big task," he said, as flames from the fire jumped five feet into the air. "Look at around at the building and then such a scattered group. We've never practiced."
"We're here really for two things — to have fun and to beat the other Ellsworth team."
as it turned out, the Canoe Horde was successful on both counts.
THE CANOE Horde, with rockwood, Donna Kromm, St. Louis, senior, and John Kemper, St. Louis, senior, reached the finish line at Lawrence's Burcham Park shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday. They finished fourth overall and third in the tournament. The State's Haymaker 2 and Van Zile Competition.
Only the River Rats, a St. George-based independent team, finished the twisting 71-mile
Monday Morning
course from Manhattan to Lawrence in less than 16 hours.
"I'm glad I'm not going next year," Rockwood said as he talked with teammates after the race. Rockwood will be ineligible to compete in the canoe race, sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls at both KU and KState, because he will graduate this year.
"I don't even want to say how bad we did," teammate Kemper said.
But this year's trip had to be the finest for the 25-member Canoe Horde team, competing in a race in which KU has consistently done poorly in the past.
THE TRIP is Rockwood's third with the Canoe Horse. On his first canoe race, the Canoe Horse finished sixth among 50 teams. His second year, however, the Ellsworth team didn't I care as
"It's just a good way to spend the weekend," said Lisa Thompson, Cret, Neb., senior. Thompson, who paddled several legs for the Canoe Horde队, also spent much of the weekend running through stubble fields as the hulled members to the canoe every few miles.
"BUT THE paddling part of it was easier than I expected," she said. "I thought to myself, 'This is too difficult.'"
Another Canoe Horde member, Sam Testi, Lawrence, senior, said, "The canoe race is a good way to meet people. I did it as a freshman and just really enjoyed it."
Rockwood agreed.
"When you're in a boat and working with another person, you really get to know them," he
On some legs of the trip, that was especially true.
two hours into the race Saturday See CANOE page 5
Thieves take more than soda from area vending machines
By CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
Candy and soda pop vending machines are often the late night target of hungry students, but recently the machines have been a target for burglary on campus and in Lawrence.
In the past several weeks, $1,213 worth of damage and money have been stolen from vending machines on campus, KU police said recently. Numerous vending machines around Lawrence also have been burglarized, Lawrence police said.
Roger Allen, repairman for Coca Cola Bottling Company of Mid-America, two coke Cane
Lawrence police said $40 was taken from a vending machine at Jayhawk Book Store, 1202
Staff Reporter
KU police said $88 was stolen out of the vending machines in the $88 basement of Strong Hall last week, but total loss and damage was $838. From the vending machines in Wescoe Cafeteria, $64 was taken from two machines, with a total loss of $355.
The amount of damage done to a vending machine usually has been larger than the cost.
vending machines were broken into last weekend at Rusty's Food Center, 23rd and Louisiana streets. Two machines at Rusty's Hillcrest, 901 Iowa St., and one at Rusty's Westridge, Sixth Street and Kasold Drive, were burglarized the week before he said.
The thieves know how to break into soda vending machines, said Forrest Jolly, Kansas Union vending manager, but they apparently did not know how to break into an ice cream vending machine. The ice cream machine in Wescoe Hall was damaged but no money was taken, he said.
From what he has seen, Allen said, he believed the same people were responsible for breaking into the machines.
"They're doing a pretty good job." Allen said. The thieves are using a bolt cutter, a hammer and some type of chisel to open the machines, he said.
A distributing company, such as Coke, has to pay the cost of repairing the machines, but the money stolen is a loss to the store. Allen said
"The damage is usually $40 to $50 a machine," he said.
Weather
Jolly said the recent incidents, occurring almost on a regular weekend basis, had been the only cases of campus vending machineurglaries in the last year and a half.
COOL
Today will be partly cloudy and cool. The high will be around 60. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight will be cloudy with the low temperature in the 8000s to 9000s.
Tomorrow will be a little warmer. The high will be in the mid- to upper-60s.
Prof says grad assistants upset with pact changes
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
Changes made last summer in the graduate assistant contract at the University of Kansas may trigger an exodus of graduate students from the University, a KU professor said yesterday.
The professor, Anthony Genova, chairman of the philosophy department, said students soon might start turning to other universities because of the fact that the contract did not provide enough job security.
Three or four graduate students in the philosophy department already have told Genova that they would start writing to other universities, he said.
And more students, especially the sharper ones, may follow suit as they realize the changes in their world.
The point of controversy is a one-paragraph addition that was made last summer.
IT SAYS, "All appointments of student employees are contingent upon available funding. The appropriate dean, director or vice president is required for an appointment if funding is not available."
However, the notice of cancellation must be given at least 30 days before the termination date.
"I think the whole idea is a severe mistake," he said, adding that he did not blame graduate students for not using proper grammar.
Genova does not agree with the changes, though the University administration made the change.
"It's understandable that they start looking at other institutions. I hope it doesn't happen, but I can see where it's very likely. Why should they be there? Or why shouldn't the universities deliver school without the threat of termination?"
KU ALREADY is at a disadvantage with competitive schools, he said, because KU offers a nine-month contract compared to the multi-credit courses to teaching assistants at many other universities.
David Cannatella, chairman of the Graduate Executive Committee, said both the quality and the quantity of graduate students might dip because of the changes.
"It's going to be hard to continue to get good people," said Cannatella, who estimated that there were 4,500 to 5,000 graduate students at KU.
Aynd Ward, a 36-year-old graduate student in philosophy and computer science, is one of the students who has started checking out graduate programs at other schools.
Ward has a wife and a child and needs he more job security than KU's graduate assistant.
"IF YOU'RE single, it's probably not that difficult," he said.
"If we're terminated in December, we're just
heard," he said. "In my case I just couldn't afford to
pay."
Although Ward said he liked KU and Lawrence, the prospect of losing his position during through the year had forced him to write a book such as Stanford and Princeton, for information.
"THE GRADUATE students don't have specific guidelines for termination of a contract," he said.
Teaching assistants are not eligible for unemployment benefits when they lose their positions and the Lawrence economy would not be as strong as it was before the decline of unemployed graduate students. Ward said.
Cannatella said the wording of the contract addition was too ambiguous.
A committee composed of teaching assistants will draw up a list of guidelines and present them to the administration before the end of the semester, Cannatella said.
The 30-day notice period also is not enough time, he said.
Many graduate students said they were angry because the change in the contract was not announced before the contracts came out this fall.
Administrators also did not notify the Graduate Student Council of the changes until the first quarter.
Schulte says funding needed for research projects, salaries
Today's interview is with Republican Bob Schulte, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Jessie Branson for the state representative seat in the 44th District.
Editor's note: This is the eighth in a series of interviews with candidates for local, state and
Schulte is a morning announcer for KLWN radio in Lawrence and also works for Gene Cochrane.
Schulte, seeking his first job in public office, was unopposed in the August primary. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Kansas, receiving a bachelor of science in journalism.
could cause a sharp downturn in Lawrence's economy. Schulz said.
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
ONE TYPEOf incentive that Schulte said he opposed was the merit pay system, because of potential inadequacies in determining who deserves an additional salary raise.
Stepped up funding for research projects and faculty salaries at the University of Kansas will be a chief aim of Bob Schulte if he is successful in his bid to win the nomination. Nov. 2, the Republican candidate said recently.
By bolstering budgets for research and salaries, Schulte said Saturday, KU's academic standing and Lawrence's economy would be strengthened.
"It can be a system where those friendly with the boss are going to get the raise. So this can lead to more problems than it's worth," Schulte said.
To finance expanded support for KU, and to pull the state's budget out of a multimillion
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To ensure that enough money is funneled into coffers for research and salaries, Schulte said, a delay in future construction projects at the University may be warranted.
"THE PHYSICAL plant is not necessarily as important as the quality of education," he said. "If cuts had to be made, we could hold off on them until they are corrected to teach teachers, research and the libraries."
The Republican hopeful, who vowed to oppose any future move to slice KU's budget, said attempts to discourage the departure of professors would improve the local economy.
He said a further exodus of professors to more innovative jobs in education or private industry was necessary.
Bob Schulte