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University Daily Kansan, September 15, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
New Lebanese chief killed in Beirut bomb explosion
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Lebanese President-elect Beshir Gemayel was assassinated yesterday in a bomb explosion that demolished his Phalange Party headquarters and plunged Lebanon into a deep crisis.
At least eight people, including other senior Phalange officials, were killed in the explosion, which carried a force equivalent to nearly a million pounds.
Government sources said the 34-year-old Christian leader, scheduled to be sworn in as president Sept. 23, died about six hours after the blast outside the East Beirut building where he was meeting senior officials of his party.
Government sources said outgoing President Elias Sarkis had the option of calling new elections before Sept. 23, when his term expires, or appointing a Presidential Council, an emergency cabinet that would be led by a Marathon Catholic and would rule until it decided elections
An extension of Sarkis' six-year term would require a change in the Lebanese constitution.
Arafat's trip to Rome angers Israel
ROME—Yasser Arafat's imminent arrival in Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul II plunged relations between the Vatican and Israel to a historic old yesterday and set back Israel's attempt to discredit the guerrilla chiefain.
Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was to arrive early today at Rome's Campino military airfield for a two-day visit.
Arafat was invited to Italy to attend the Interparliamentary Union conference as part of a Palestinian delegation. He was to address the council on Wednesday.
His visit set off a bitter confrontation between the Vatican and Israel and drew charges from several parties that Arafat's planned meeting with Israel had been an attack.
Soviets renew bombing of Afghans
NEW DELHI, India—Soviet warplanes have leveled most of the villages in a strategic Afghan valley in a new campaign of saturation bombing, aerial strikes and aerial firefight.
The diplomat told a news conference that, for several days, Soviet warplanes sent out on hundreds of sorties had bombed villages during daylight hours in an effort to crush Islamic guerrilla forces in the Panjishir Valley.
The bombing raids were said to be the central element of an "autumn offensive" begun in August to flush anti-communist rebels out of the city.
Despite the bombing, Islamic militants continue to harass Soviet and Afghan government convoys on a highway that runs past the valley and links the Afghan capital of Kabul with the Soviet Union, diplomatic sources said.
Chrysler, UAW extend present pact
DETROIT—Just 20 minutes away from a midnight strike deadline, Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto Workers agreed last night to a 24-hour extension of the present contract. Bargainers said too many problems remained for a quick settlement.
UAW President Douglas Fraser said locals were advised of the extension 31 minutes before the pact was to expire. He had warned the union's 60,000 members at Chrysler to be ready to strike if there was no new contract.
Bargainers worked through yesterday in an effort to beat the deadline, but negotiations on top issues for both sides remained to be wrapped up.
"There are a lot of problems," Fraser said when the extension was announced, ending a virtual information blackout on the negotiations. "We're not very close, but there is sufficient reason we might settle" by 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.
Anti-abortion rider may be set aside.
WASHINGTON—Senate Republican Leader Howardd Baker, R-Tenn., impatient with the failure of conservatives to force a showdown on anti-abortion legislation, said yesterday he might have to set it aside to pass a required debt bill.
The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., is a rider to the debt bill. It would stop federal funding and insurance coverage of abortions and would allow Congress and the states to restrict or ban abortions.
Sources said Helms had lost as many as 10 votes because of his tactics in bringing his proposal to the floor last month.
Despite heavy support from President Reagan, the conservatives are about 10 votes short of the 60 required to close debate on the proposed legislation, which would then end the liberal's filibuster of Helms' proposal. A third clout vote is scheduled in the Senate today.
WASHINGTON—The first edition of USA Today, a national daily newspaper to be published coast to coast, was set to roll off the presses
USA Today's first edition printed
The new venture in American journalism is the brainchild of Allen Neuharth, president of the Gannett newspaper group, who is betting that a lot of Americans will pay a quarter for what he calls "the nation's newspaper."
Although 45 daily newspapers went out of business in the United States last year, Neuthart said he expected USA Today to be profitable while continuing its operations.
The newspaper faces it first test in the Washington-Baltimore market. By early next year, plans call for it to be published Monday through Thursday.
USA Today is designed with lots of color and graphics and will emphasize sports, weather and business.
Portable satellite receiver unveiled
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—A collapsible "earth station" that can be tossed in the back of a station wagon and can pick up any of 105 American television channels relayed via orbiting satellites was unveiled yesterday.
The $3,000 system, developed by Gillaspie and Associates, consists of an 8-foot metal fabric dish antenna that folds like an umbrella, a battery-operated satellite receiver and a 5-inch television set.
The station can provide nine to 10 hours of television before the station have to be recharged, said Harry Harp, spokesman for the company.
The system originally was developed as test equipment to bring news and education to people living in remote areas of the world, Harp said, and it has now been used extensively.
He said the portable satellite receiver should be available on the market within a month.
Speaker says the arts born of free will
Only .001 percent of human behavior can be left to individual choice, said a speaker in the KU Humanities Lecture Series last
But the lecturer, Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and dean of the graduate school, said this choice is one that has great possibility and was a link between humanism and behavioral science.
Horowitz told the audience of about 350 in Woodruff Auditorium that behaviorism and the humanities were not necessarily incompatible.
"HUMANITIES can play a functional role in the laws that control human behavior," said Horowitz.
This differs from the hard deter-
ministic view that all human behavior
is controlled in that it allows a
small amount of free will, she said.
unlimited amount of free will, she said.
"In the margins of precision the universe wavers." Horowitz said.
universe wavers, Horowitz said.
She said that to believe in hard determinism was to lay to waste studies of literature, art and music.
AT PRESENT, she said, the empirical evidence did not point toward a hard deterministic view of the world. Man knows very little of how human characteristics are formed, though, and as he learns more he reduces his free will, she said.
"If determinism is true, it's harder to justify these pursuits," she said.
The next lecturer will be Joseph Kitagawa, professor of history of relations at the University of Chicago. He will speak on "The Religious Ethos of Present-day Japan" at 8 p.m. Oct. 5.
Horowitz is one of four lecturers the Center for Humanistic studies has scheduled for 1982-83.
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Officials say Watkins needs changes in operating expenditures next year
Watkins Hospital has not kept up with inflation, and if changes are not made, the hospital will not be able to operate. She is looking for a lieutenant for student affairs, said yesterday.
The changes that are needed could be significant for students officials said.
By DEBORAH BAER Staff Reporter
By DEBORAH BAER
Next year, Watkins Hospital may not be open 24 hours a day, every day, as it is.
Services that are now offered at rates considerably lower than those of other hospitals might become more expensive.
AND MARTIN WOLLMANN, director of health services, said it might not be feasible in the years ahead to allow a visit for an urgent access service without an additional charge.
"Should we provide all the services that we provide now? Of course it's desirable, but if you've only got $10 to spend, where are you going to put that $10?"
"I know the person who comes 50 times in a semester needs it," Wollmann said, "but is it an economic possibility?
Because money is becoming an increasingly difficult problem for the health services department, the services provided at Watkins and the fees charged for them need to be reworked, Wollmann said.
Also, Wollmann would like the hospital to change from one that primarily provides medical care to one that provides a more educational education to the healthy, he said.
"It all comes about because of cost," Wellman said.
Wollman said the health fee, which is tacked on to tuition at enrollment, had increased about 4 percent a year since 1974. This year, the fee was $51.00.
"We've been facing that for a number of years, but we've reached the point where we need to move on."
DURING THAT TIME, however, the prices charged to students for services for which there are additional fees have not increased, he said.
Amber said closing the hospital on weekends was a possibility, but added that she had not seen any injuries.
"If we cut down on the hours of operation, how do we then provide enquiries?"
The hospital offers unlimited doctor visits, out-patient lab tests, diet and weight control counseling, most emergency visit services, and observation without additional charge.
Students pay an additional cost, called a user fee, for overnight stays, medications X-rays and physical examinations and home health services, after the first four visits.
But the price for those services is much lower than at other hospitals, Wolff.
FOR EXAMPLE, a room at Watkins,
private or not, costs $23. At Lawrence
Memorial Hospital, a semi-private
room costs $133. Lawrence Memorial
provides television and phones in the
rooms; Watkins does not.
Wollmann said that possibly the charges should be raised to a little more than $1,000.
However, it will be difficult to know how much to raise the price if the decision is made to do that, he said.
The increase can't be so big that it
will keep people from getting health care," he said.
He said that any adjustments in price or services offered would not go into effect. He said the hospital will be able to tight, the hospital will be able to function as usual this year, he said.
But if the increase is too small, it won't be worth the billing costs, he said.
WHIETHER PRICES for some of the services are raised or whether the hospital will offer fewer services, those only temporary cures, Wollmant safety.
"I Ultimately, I don't want to see patients. I want to see participants," he patients.
To really adjust to the problem of rising medical costs, Watkins should become a place not only for cures but for information. Wollmann said.
He said that although the potential of preventive care had been overrated, the need for medical care and consultancy was growing. The knowledge available were used.
THE PREVENTIVE knowledge Wollmann would like others to learn includes items such as how to get the attention of the operator when reporting a medical emergency, how to know when a cut deserves the attention of a nurse and when it can be taken care of at home and how to avoid bicycle accidents
He is working on flow charts that will tell people through a series of yes-no questions they ask themselves whether a question is correct, and whether they need a tetanus shot.
"I'm talking about health education that lets you make informed judgments about whether you need medical help," he said.
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