KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, August 24, 1982 Vol.93, No.3 USPS 650-640
Guerrillas leave Beirut; PLO threatens attacks
By United Press International
Another 1,000 guerrillas left Beirut Monday but Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat's top aide vowed to unleash attacks on Israel "in the very near future."
The new threats of violence against the Jewish state came from Arafat's second in command, Salah Khalaf, known as Abu Iyad, who said "the main lesson we have learned in Lebanon is that armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.
estimate.
"The world will see, in the very near future, actions in the occupied territories that will make Bein's hair stand on end," Abu Iyad said.
Meanwhile a spokesman said Monday that Secretary of State George Shultz is committed to the Camp David accord as the basis for peace in Syria. He said the United States thinks the language is open to interpretation.
Prime Minister Menachim Begin said Sunday that "there will be no negotiations on any proposals whatsoever which deviate" from the framework of the accorcs.
framework of the accords.
But there is growing concern in Israel that
Shultz may go beyond the 1978 guidelines to support creation of a Palestinian state.
support creation to a 14-member Shults has spoken of the right of the Palestinians to participate in the system under which they will live.
State Department spokesman John Hughes said Shultz has described the Camp David document "as one that provides great latitude. He has talked of the question of interpretation and made the point that it leaves a lot of room for negotiation."
negotiation.
In Lebanon, the departure of a third contingent of PLO guerrillas went relatively smooth Monday, while fellow fighters fired their machine guns into the sky and civilian supporters danced and threw flowers.
But on the other side of the capital, a Palestinian jet flew was blown up near the PLO headquarters in the Fakhani quarter, witnesses said. An undetermined number of guerrillas died in the blast, thought to be caused by a PLO land mine planted months ago.
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At Limassol, Cyprus, the luxury ferry boat Sol Phyrine carrying 92 Palestinian fighters who were evacuated Sunday to Tunisia docked Mon-
See LEBANON page 5
by JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
FBI and Douglas County officials still are searching for two men who robbed the Capital Federal Savings and Loan in Lawrence yesterday day of an undisclosed amount of money, Max Geiman, special FBI agent, said yesterday.
Richard Holmeister, vice president of the Iowa Street branch, said that one of the skim-masked robbers, carrying what appeared to be a 45-caliber pistol, ordered employees to the floor after the men entered the south door of the building about 9 a.m.
The armed man then ransacked the teller drawers while the other robber remained in the lobby area, he said.
After exiting from the same door they entered,
the suspect drove away in a vehicle police said.
could have been a car found abandoned yester day morning in Hillcrest Shopping Center.
day morning in Hoboken,
Gelman said the abandoned car was later identified as one stolen from behind a sorority house near the KU campus.
"I think everybody handled the situation real well," Holmkeister said. "And the alarm system worked. The robbers were here only a few minutes and the police were there a few minutes."
after that.
EIGHT EMPLOYEES and a customer were the only people in the building when the robbery occurred, he said.
JoAnn Kappelman, bank secretary, said the men entered through a door about six feet from her desk while she was helping a KU foreign student with his account.
"I don't think the student understood at first," I think the man kind of pushed him down." Kappelman said. My heart was pounding. I pretty well crawled under my desk.
See ROBBERY page 5
Weather
If will be partly cloudy and warm today, with a 20 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
The high today will be near 80; the low tonight will be in the low 60 under
clear sales The extended forecast calls for pleasant temperatures and a continued chance for thundershowers.
Homeward bound from new classes, this couple clasps hands on a day of transition. For these and thousands of others, Monday not only brought a change from summer vacation to the fall term, but also from a soggy, overcast morning to a bright, sunlit afternoon.
Lawrence volunteers battle elements to warn city of approaching tornadoes
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Summer soon will fade away, but the black storms that rocked Kansas in May and June will not be forgotten.
not be forgotten.
In the face of six straight weeks of heavy weather winds, she spawned tornadoes and dangerous winds, there was a group of volunteers in the Lawrence area that did not turn away, but rather headed into the wind to scan the sky for killer clouds.
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The stormy morning of June 7, torso-spotted Dr. Paulmann of SKYWARN, a volunteer spotters organization in Lawrence, sat in his Dodge van a half mile north of Clinton Dam.
It was an hour before sunup, and the wind was raging.
"These storms are two that have come in together," Plamann said, staring into the darkness. "You can tell by what the lightning is doing."
into the mike. "We're still picking up wind girds of 90 to 150 miles an hour. It's still on its way in, ah, the heaviest part of it probably just passed over my head."
doing."
Plamann, assistant coordinator of SKYWARN,
works at Hallmark Cards when the weather is
good.
The storm was intensifying all around his van that day as he grabbed the mike of his CB radio.
THE RADIO squawked an unintelligible response as lightning exploded across the sky.
at day as he glooms 'right in here,' he said
"This thing is haulin' right in here," he said
sphere as it was rocking like a boat when the wind suddenly shifted from the west to the north. Plamann changed the position of his vehicle so the wind would not hit broadside
"In the five years I've been doing this, I've left my car twice," Plannah said.
my car twice. I amasha
"The first time there were 70 mph winds and golf-ball-sized hail. It was raining so hard I couldn't see my hand in front of my face."
I manum pointed into the wet, gray morning. "If we have to, there's a ditch right over the door."
As the darkness receded, the size of the storm became apparent. To the south, massive anvil-shaped clouds appeared, towering above the blues behind Clinton reservoir.
blowing. Soon the front of the storm had passed the van and the rain was reduced to a trickle. Plamann's eyes scanned the sky above the field to the west, when we need to watch." he said.
"Now's when we need to water."
Plamann said funnel clouds formed in the cloud base behind the rain. He said the first sign of a funnel was a wall cloud, a segment of the
thunderhead that began to drop like a freight elevator, slowly rotating.
"Ninety percent of the time, you sit out here and get wet and waste your gas and time." Plamann
"BUT THAT ON"
The winds continued to rip across fields and bridges as the car went by.
highway; even them said straight winds such as these were more dangerous than tornadoes, because they came out of nowhere and were impossible to see.
This past spring was the bustiest season ever for the SKYVM MN organization, which has been
During that run of heavy weather, the 38 SKYWARN volunteers took up pre-assigned positions around the city 25 times, relaying information to a command center in the Douglas County Law Enforcement building. From this information a decision on whether to blow the warning sign
From Plamann's position north of the dam, the storm could be seen churning eastward, leaving wisps of clouds dancing in the morning air.
NO FUNNEL CLOUDS were spotted, and Plamann signed off the radio. It was nearly 7 a.m. Driving back to Lawrence, the dying wind
See STORM page 5
Cynthia McClure, a Consumer Affairs Specialist at the Consumer Affairs Association office, 819 Vermont St., displays the informational pamphlets available at the office.
Office to reopen soon
KU consumer affairs group to expand student services
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
The campus consumer affairs office, a cubicle in the Kansas Union tightly packed with consumer brochures, was closed much of the time last semester.
The office opened last fall, but officials from the Consumer Affairs Association in Lawrence had a hard time getting reliable volunteers to staff the facility.
To make sure the service is more available to students this semester, the association has set up a coordinator's post to run the campus office, Cynthia McClure, consumer affairs specialist for the organization, said yesterday.
McClure, who works out of the association's main office at 819 Vermont St., said the student office would be open 20 to 24 hours a week this semester.
Although she did not know the exact office hours, McClure said the facility would open within a week.
BOOKS OF COURTWORK
Besides hiring a coordinator, the organiza
The office is bulging with brochures covering a variety of topics including energy, housing, car buying and consumer rip-offs. The office's proper way to rid houses of cockroaches
THE ASSOCIATION DEALS largely, with tenant-landlord disputes, McClure said, but the campus office is more for educating students about consumer affairs.
tion now has a steady pool of volunteers, unlike the beginning of last semester, McClure said.
"The problem is getting people to stay up there and keep the office open," she said.
IN THE PAST, volunteers often would not show up for work when scheduled or they would initially show enthusiasm in consumer work but later lose interest. McClure said, "But I can understand that; they're not
"but I can understand that; they're not being paid."
belling patio
The consumer organization originally opened the campus office to make the service more accessible to students. McClure said, in 1973, he had been in
The association was established in 1972 by the Student Senate. Funding for the organization came from various sources including the Senate and city and county revenue sharing.
The organization also was receiving federal money but lost the funding because of federal budget cuts. As a result, the association received $8,500 two years ago to $28,900 last year.
DESPITE THE CUTBACKS, the office still kept two staff members working at the downtown office, she said.
town office, she said. McClure said more people in Lawrence were starting to show interest in consumer affairs.
affairs.
But "I still would like to see students become more educated," she said.
Students are often unfamiliar with the landlord-tenant laws. But landlords are guilty of the same thing, she said.
"All people must realize they have responsibilities as well as rights."
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